Seeking Asylum in St Albans is a reflective and thought-provoking exhibition of artworks made by a group of asylum seekers from the Noke Hotel in St Albans. Following a display in St Albans Cathedral in February 2023,St Albans Museums will be sharing the artworks for Refugee Week 2023.
Seeking Asylum in St Albans has been underpinned by a strong and heartfelt wish to increase community awareness of asylum in St Albans and around the world. Through a varied array of artworks, writings and music used together as a storytelling tool, visitors will embark on a journey in the authors’ lives, experiences and hopes for the future.
Originally designed to be partially interactive, with a dedicated website including extra digital content, this exhibition features traditional and new media to cast light on the crisis and challenges that millions of people around the world face every year, every minute, when they are forced to begin anew in a foreign country – in a strange land.
Many thanks to the St Albans Cathedral Education Trust and all the people who made this project possible.
Letter to the Hebrews, 13:2‘Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.’
