What’s on: Monday 16 June
Refugee Festival Scotland is off to a cracking start. Here are six events you can enjoy across the country on Monday, 16 June.
1. Steeped in Time
When: 11:00am – 2:00pm
Where: Finn’s Place, Glasgow
A relaxing get together for women to connect through shared experiences and celebrate milestones while making tea and bread and enjoying a mindfulness session.
To book, contact Anna at anna@ewfc.org.uk
2. Finding Common Ground
When: 11:00am – 4:00pm
Where: Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh
Discover unexpected connections between migration stories new, old, known, hidden and seldom-heard at this walk followed by a hands-on creative writing workshop. This event is free but booking is required.
3. Milestones & Meals
When: 11:00am – 2:00pm
Where: Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow
Join Kinning Park Complex for a joyful celebration of culture, creativity, and community. Enjoy hot food, browse an exhibition of photography, illustrations, and writing, and pick up a beautifully designed cookbook to try the recipes at home. Come hungry and bring your friends!
4. FOSS Words of Welcome
When: 12:30pm – 4:00pm
Where: Falkirk Public Library, Falkirk
Drop-in to enjoy a fun Arabic language taster session celebrating language, culture and community, followed by a delicious Syrian meal.
5. Building Solidarity & Kinship: Creative Conversation with Aminatta Forna
When: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Where: online
Join award-winning author Aminatta Forna for this special online event. Through fiction, memoir, and essays, Forna explores war, trauma, resilience, and belonging — shaped by a life lived across continents, from Sierra Leone to Scotland.
Tune in for a powerful conversation with one of today’s most insightful literary voices.
6. Living Rhythms: Stories and Beats of Resilience
When: 4:00pm – 6:00pm
Where: Inchgarth Community Centre, Aboyne Place, Aberdeen
Explore journeys of resilience through storytelling, as real voices share lived experiences of migration and hope. Then, come together in an engaging drum circle, where rhythm becomes a shared language.
Refugee Festival Scotland 2025 is made possible with support from the National Lottery through Creative Scotland, the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Glasgow City Heritage Trust, and Flutter UKIs Cash4Clubs programme (delivered in partnership with Sported). Many thanks to all our generous funders.
