15/06/2026
It’s Refugee Week - the world’s biggest arts and culture festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary. 🌍✨
This global festival creates space for people with lived experience of displacement to share stories, creativity and perspectives on their own terms, helping communities connect beyond labels and better understand displacement and sanctuary.
The theme for Refugee Week 2026 is courage.
Courage isn’t always loud and bold. It can be found in simple acts:
🚪 Opening your door to a neighbour
🍽️ Trying a new food
🎥 Watching a film that changes your view of the world
These simple acts are everyday actions we can all do to stand with refugees, make new connections in our communities and be part of a global movement taking small steps to create big change. 💛
Illustrations by Quentin Blake for Refugee Week .