Events for June 17, 2026

As part of Refugee Week, join us for a 6-week creative programme exploring the theme of Courage through art and storytelling! This is a relaxed, friendly space to make art, […]

This exhibition brings together the creative work of refugees and asylum seekers who took part in a six-week photography workshop in 2025. Through the art of photography, they explored how they see themselves — not through the lens of circumstance, but through the richness of personality, culture, and lived experience. First exhibited in Kilkenny Refugee […]

Faces & Stories is an exhibition of 29 portraits and written text highlighting the stories of people now living in Kilkenny, running in MacDonagh Junction during Refugee Week. It is a living, evolving project that brings together voices from different backgrounds, united by a shared desire to connect, to be heard, and to understand one […]

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Pilgrimage is a photo exhibition created by Fellipe Lopes. Fellipe is a Press member of The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and an immigrant from Brazil based in Ireland for the last 14 years. Fellipe is a Photojournalist with a focus on Human Rights, Environmental Issues, Education, and Art Projects. Either because of unnecessary wars, […]

Join us throughout Refugee Week for a series of welcoming community events designed to bring people together, share experiences, and celebrate the diversity that enriches our community. Our programme includes: 🔹 Drop-In Clinics: Support & Guidance – A friendly space to access information, ask questions, and receive practical support. 🔹 Movie Night – An opportunity […]

As part of Refugee Week 2026, LGBT Ireland would like to invite you to join our upcoming online Rainbow Refugees Awareness Session on Wednesday, 17 June, from 12:00pm to 1:00pm. […]

Join us for a screening of Infancia Desterrada at Thurles Library on Wednesday, June 17, at 12:30. Description: Each year thousands of children are forced to flee their countries alone, […]

Join us for a screening of Aziza. This short film tells the story of Ayman, a Syrian refugee in Lebanon. Ayman teaches his wife how to drive the car as […]

Join us for a screening of Hayat.   Description: Rahma, an Eritrean migrant living in Australia, faces isolation and daily struggles as she works to keep her four young children […]

Join us on Wednesday, 17 June at 2:30 pm for a special Refugee Week event in the Thurles Library This screening, organised by the Library and the Local Authority Integration […]

You are warmly invited to join us for a special Refugee Week event in a welcoming and relaxed atmosphere. 🗓 Wednesday, 17 June 🕝 2:30 PM – 5:00 PM 📍 […]

Join us for showings of Migrants, which tells the story of polar bears being driven from their habitat by climate change. How will they adapt to unfamiliar territory?   Wednesday, June […]

This 2017 animated film tells the story of Parvana, an eleven-year-old girl who lives in Kabul under the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan just as the war on terror is […]

Watergate Theatre Kilkenny will host a film screening of Souleymane’s Story on 17th June at 7pm Souleymane is an asylum seeker from Guinea living in Paris, forced to join the […]