SHARED MOMENTS OF IMAGINATION

The Wave & World Refugee Day

June 19 & 20 2025

During hot hazy weather and backdropped by ongoing border tensions and intense disturbance internationally, we have continued to explore the Refugee Week theme Community as a Superpower.

On Thursday early evening, our team joined The Wave, @wavelengthprojects by artist @claudiajanke - alongside local people, friends and passersby as they gathered at Abbot’s Cliff Sound Mirror near Folkestone. At the same time, local people, volunteers, young refugees and passersby gathered with us on the cliff top at Le Petit Blanc Nez near Calais, supported by @calais.exilessc. Both settings were intensely beautiful in the warm evening air, looking out across glistening water.

At a given moment, the two groups were invited to wave simultaneously to each other across the English Channel in shared moments of imagination, solidarity, friendship and human to human connection.

We also brought The Community Table to support The Wave both in underpinning the thinking and in real time, with a parallel drawing using cliff chalk found near Folkestone and Calais. Music accompanied both sides as the event drew to a close and people processed back along the respective cliff paths.

Today on World Refugee Day we took The Community Table into @calais.exilessc to accompany the Concert Musical, a joyful celebration of world music co-produced with the refugee and local community.

Once again we saw how shared moments of Imagination can open up possibilities, which in turn allow for hope.

Words by Bobby Lloyd & Miriam Usiskin.

with Thomas Etheridge & Katie Miller in Kent