Sanctuary Sunday

Sunday 24th June 2012 @ 3:00pm

Venue: Ipswich Town Hall, Cornhill, Ipswich, Suffolk IP1 1DH

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FREE ENTRY

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FREE BUFFET OF SWEET DESSERTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

Programme

        Intro - Tanesha Wedderburn, Chair of Ipswich Town of Sanctuary

    ·    Ben Gummer MP (Ipswich)

·      Ice and Fire Theatre Company

(Ice and Fire will present an excerpt from Asylum Dialogues, along with a new testimony from a Congolese man who found himself destitute after his claim was refused by the UKBA).

·      Sanctuary, Hospitality and Refuge in World Faiths

·      History of Sanctuary

·    The Rt Revd Louis Muvunyi, Bishop of Kigali, Rwanda

    (The Rt Revd Louis Muvunyi lost many of his family in the genocide, his sister’s life was saved as she found sanctuary in Hotel Mille Collines (the film Hotel Rwanda))

·    Cllr Sandy Martin, Fairer and Greener Ipswich Portfolio Holder

INTERVAL

FREE REFRESHMENTS

PLUS

·      City of Sanctuary Awards Ceremony presented by The Worshipful The Mayor of Ipswich

    (There will be two categories of City of Sanctuary Awards. Category 1: A person seeking sanctuary who has made a contribution to the life of the Town. Category 2: A person who has contributed to making Ipswich a Town of Sanctuary).