Refugee Week
This year Refugee Week runs from 16-22 June 2025 and has the theme ‘Community as a Superpower’.
Refugee Week is the world’s largest arts and culture festival celebrating the contributions, resilience, and creativity of refugees. Each year, thousands of independently organised events take place globally.
For more information, please see the Refugee Week and Refugee Week Ireland websites.
Community is the incredible everyday. Ordinary and extraordinary. Simple acts of shared generosity. Kindness multiplied to become an unstoppable force!
“We can begin the process of making community wherever we are. We can begin by sharing a smile, a warm greeting, a bit of conversation; by doing a kind deed or by acknowledging kindness offered to us.”- bell hooks
Communities can bring people together. Bridging divides and offering support. Spaces of resilience and places for healing.
This Refugee Week everyone is invited to spend time with friends and build new connections in and beyond our neighbourhoods. From communal meals and open air film screenings, to football matches and music making, let’s share the feelings of welcome and belonging. Listening, learning, laughing together.
It’s amazing what we can do when we move together towards a shared goal. So let’s redefine and rediscover our collective power to shape hopeful futures and begin by practicing, celebrating and rehearsing it every day.
Join us for Refugee Week, 16–22 June 2025, and together let’s unleash the superpower of community.
#RefugeeWeek
#SimpleActs
For updates, sign up to our newsletter, and find us on Facebook, Instagram and X/Twitter. We’ll be posting updates about: Refugee Week poster and resources, we’ll also be hosting our annual Refugee Week conference and network meetings to connect & exchange.
Download all of this year’s free resources here:
- Resource Packs (inc. Children & Young People, Event Organiser Pack and Neighbourhoods Pack)
- Social Media Pack & Public Marketing Folder
- Simple Acts (illustrated by Moomin Characters)