People of the Earth aims to strengthen UK communities by practising hospitality and nurturing connection and understanding between local peoples, and people with an experience or history of displacement.
'Being a Refugee is an experience not an identity' - Mohammad Badran
This programme focusses on designing and co-creating events that bring people together across diverse cultures, faiths and traditions. In recent years we have co-created and collaborated on events with a number of partners, including: Freedom from Torture, Paiwand Afghan Association, Camden Community Engagement, City of Sanctuary, Migrateful and Islington Centre for Refugees and Migrants.
At Home in Nature invites people who are new to London or the UK, and anyone seeking connection with others, to slow down, step outside, and find a sense of belonging in the living world. Over six weeks, this outdoor, nature-connection programme brings people together in one or more of London's green spaces. This is a chance for participants to pause, breathe, and pay attention; to notice the changing season, share stories, and build friendships. The programme creates a supportive environment where people can feel part of a community and at home in the natural world around them. 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.