For Refugee Week we are joining with Gloucestershire Libraries to celebrate Refugee Stories. We will be holding an event at the main Cheltenham Library on Monday 17 June 2024 at 5:30pm to start off Refugee Week thinking about what makes up the refugee experience and celebrating the many and varied refugee voices.

We’ll be reading extracts of some of our recommended reads and discussing what to bear in mind when reading refugee literature.

We are excited to be joined by Jude Emmet from Gloucestershire Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers. GARAS has collected 25 traditional stories from their refugee and asylum seeking clients from all over the world to mark their 25th birthday. They are aiming to turn these into a book. A selection of their stories will be performed as part of our Reading Refugee Stories event on 17 June.