No Time To Say GoodbyeMask & Physical Theatre dual facilitated performance and workshops for Refugee Awareness No Time to Say Goodbye was developed as an educational tool for Refugee Week, but can be performed at any time. This performance tells the story of a refugee family, focusing particularly on the daughter and her journey from Iraq to London, a new school, new set of friends and a new life.
Hana's Kurdish family live under great pressure in Iraq. Her brother is fighting with the Pesh Murgas and her father is shot and wounded, suspected of helping them, and the family flees. They travel in great danger across the border into Iran and finally try and make a new life in England.In exploring their fears, hopes and feelings, we aim to encourage pupils to empathize with the plight of refugee families. In our performance we try to help them understand what refugees may have had to face and to increase their acceptance of the need to grant asylum. Workshops Follow on workshops explore the issues raised by the performances and provide a stimulus for further work within the school. They promote tolerance and understanding, dispel some of the myths and stereotypes that exist with regard to refugees and asylum seekers and celebrate diversity within communities. Workshops are dual facilitated, offering the possibility of an intense pupil experience and of a level of pupil interactivity. Suitable for: Key Stage 1 and 2 Curriculum
This programme focuses on PSHE and Citizenship and can also be used to support the English curriculum as a vehicle for the development of pupil ability and to research and debate these issues. In addition, follow on workshops examining the family's journey, could be used to support the Geography curriculum.
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