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World Refugee Day 2019 in Greece

World Refugee Day 2019 in Greece

On World Refugee Day, held every year on 20 June, we commemorate the strength, courage and perseverance of millions of refugees.Around the world, communities, schools, businesses, faith groups and people from all walks of life are taking big and small steps in solidarity with refugees.This World Refugee Day, we challenge everyone to join together and take a step with refugees in Greece.

Find an event near you in Greece and #StepWithRefugees

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Athens

Joint event with refugee communities, local authorities and partners including screenings, discussion about photojournalism and parallel activities organized for children, alongside with a photo exhibition. Greek/Syrian street food within the Cooking #WithRefugees Festival.

We create together - We live together

20 June 2019, at 19:00

Refugee/migrant communities, NGOs, International Organisations and local authorities

Athens

The Greek Refugee Forum, refugee communities and partners are organizing a fashion show, a theatre performance, refugee art exhibitions, and thematic workshops/roundtables on three pressing issues -- integration, entrepreneurship, and homelessness.

You, me and those that came after – We are all citizens

22 June 2019, at 18:00

Greek Refugee Forum, Refugee/migrant communities, NGOs, International Organisations and local authorities

Athens, Ioannina, Thessaloniki, Lesvos

To mark World Refugee Day, Greek chefs and refugee cooks will team up between 18 and 22 June to serve their favourite dishes and fixed menus in selected restaurants in Athens, Thessaloniki, Ioannina, and Lesvos island. Greek, Syrian, Afghan, Iraqi, Iranian, Congolese, and Moroccan gastronomy will delight visitors to thirteen restaurants which either belong to refugee cooks or are opening their kitchens to refugee cooks living in Greece for the Cooking #WithRefugees festival organized by UNHCR and partners.

Cooking #WithRefugees Festival

18-22 June

UNHCR and ARSIS, ASB, Melissa Network for Migrant Women, Caritas Hellas, Intersos Hellas

Athens

Inauguration of ANKAA Center in Athens in the presence of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr Jean Asselborn - Musical performance by a trio of musicians from the OPL

ANKAA inauguration

19 June, 2:30 pm

Embassy of Luxemburg in Greece, ANKAA

Thessaloniki

Cine Forum at Pavlos Zannas, Olympion w/ films 4,1 Miles & My name is not a refugee

Cine Forum

18 June, 20:00-22:00

UNHCR, REACT, YMCA

Thessaloniki

An interactive workshops based on "Passages", the UNHCR simulation game putting players through the experience of refugees. The workshop is addressed to the public and NGO workers

Passages simulation game

19 June, 18:00-21:00 , YMCA building

UNHCR, TENet-Gr, YMCA

Thessaloniki

200 lanterns will be lit at the Roman Agora under the sound of percussion musical groups

Lantern Lighting

20 June, 20:00-22:00, Ancient Agora

UNHCR, Municipality officials, partners

Thessaloniki

• Ceramics Workshop for kids

• Traditional dances from Greece & the Middle East

Kids Paper City

20 June, 18:00 - 20:00: at YMCA Square

UNHCR, YMCA, REACT

Livadeia

Football tournament with local and refugee teams.

Discussion about the photographic work of Anna Pantelia.

Screenings of short films within “Home New Home” project by StoryDoc.

World Refugee Day 19 June, 20:30 at Wemplay

20 June, 21:00 at Astradeni café

Municipality of Livadia, KEDIL, UNHCR

Kos island

A two-day cultural event at the Folklore Museum of Chani on Kos island will include among others live performances and exhibitions by the students of the UNHCR-supported non-formal school "KEDU", a arts and crafts exhibition by a group of asylum seeking women named "Women on a waiting list" and other musical and dance performances. Projection of the awarded film "Capernaum" and of the film "The boy and the World"

Celebrating WRD 2019

19-20 June, from 19:00-22:30, Folklore Museum of Chani

UNHCR, ARSIS, METADRASI, KILEKO

Leros island

Poems, songs and traditional dishes by the families and students of the non-formal education school "LEDU" will be presented during an event hosted at a local restaurant on the island of Leros

Festivity for the refugee and local community

20 June, at a local restaurant

UNHCR, ARSIS

Leros island

Projection of the film "The boy and the World"

"The boy and the World"

21 June, LEDU

UNHCR, ARSIS

Chios

Community event with film screening, music performance by locals/refugees and food/ treats made by refugees

World Refugee Day on Chios

20 June, Cine Kipos

UNHCR, partners

Lesvos

Friendly football match between Cosmos FC and local professional team Aiolikos (mixed teams). Excursion with unaccompanied children to the Refugee from Asia Minor Museum of Loutra. Screening of the awarded film "Capernaum". Cooking with Refugees (Nan and Reem restaurants).

Take a Step with Refugees on Lesvos

20 June, at different locations (Moria and Loutra villages & Mytilene city)

UNHCR, METAdrasi, RIS

Samos

Irida Cinematography Festival (University of the Aegean), Screening of the documentary Human Flow, Refugee Children Photo Exhibition, Local Children Arts Exhibition

World Refugee Day on Samos

21-22-23 June TBC, University of the Aegean-Library

University of the Aegean, Still I Rise, UNHCR

Ioannina

Creation of participatory sculpture from recycled materials with the support of the renowned sculpturer Theodoros Papagiannis and the participation of locals and refugees. Parallel activities and workshops for children.

Participatory Sculpture

20 June, Silversmithing Museum, 11:00-17:00

UNHCR, ARSIS,Iliaktida, Second Tree, INTERSOS Hellas, ΚΕΑΝ, PH4K, ASB and Solidarity Now