'Being a Refugee is an experience not an identity' - Mohammad Badran
People of the Earth designs and co-creates events that bring people together across diverse cultures, faiths and traditions. In recent years our partners have included individuals with lived experience of migration and displacement, and of creating a new home in the UK, and various organisations, among them: Freedom from Torture, Paiwand Afghan Association, North London Recovery College, Camden Community Engagement, City of Sanctuary, Migrateful and Islington Centre for Refugees and Migrants.
At Home in Nature is a 6-week programme bringing people together in one or more of London’s green spaces. It offers participants a chance to pause and breathe, to notice the living world all round us, share stories, and build friendships. The programme welcomes local people, including migrants and those seeking sanctuary or refuge, to come together, slow down, and feel more connected to the natural world. By spending time outdoors together, participants build a sense of community, belonging, and ease in the natural world. Drawing on research, nature-connection practices, and learning from past participants, the programme is facilitated and designed to nurture connection between people, nature and place in simple, meaningful ways.
More than a concert space, ‘Listen to the World’ brings people together across differences of all kinds – on stage and among the audience – for evenings that celebrate cultural diversity and create meaningful encounters in an atmosphere of inclusion and warmth.
Among our vocalists and musicians are performers whose musical roots travel from Nicaragua to Ukraine, Afghanistan to Sudan and everywhere in between. The intimacy of the nave allows for truly magical evenings as performers captivate audiences with their rhythms, their songs and stories, and their engagement with the audience during Q&As and their invitations to participate.
Our audiences are global and intergenerational; young people, adults and families with young children bring their curiosity and joy to the nave, sometimes seated, sometimes dancing – wherever the mood of the music carries them. Some come to experience the richness of London’s diverse music scene, others for the scent of home carried in mother tongues, or the musical traditions and instruments of the performers.