Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Swansea as a City of Sanctuary

City of Sanctuary is a national movement committed to building a welcoming culture of hospitality, especially for refugees seeking sanctuary from war and persecution. To celebrate, in 2020 local artists and asylum-seekers and refugees co-created a series of public art works on the theme around welcome, home and safety. These serve as a legacy of the 10th anniversary and show how proud Swansea is to be a City of Sanctuary. Swansea artist, Mary Hayman, as part of her community artwork with Glynn Vivian gallery, is supplying local people with a hexagon of fabric which they decorate at home to celebrate City of Sanctuary. These will be incorporated into a canopy for the gallery garden and possibly also flags or bunting. Hanan Beko, a local tailor, is working on the cutting, hemming and sewing together. 

This material is part of the Covid Chronicles from the Margins project, funded by The Open University and the International Institute of Social Studies in the Hague. The project aims to highlight the impact of the pandemic on refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants. 
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庇护城市（City of Sanctuary）是一项全国性运动，致力于打造包容好客的文化氛围，尤其面向那些为躲避战争与迫害寻求庇护的难民。为纪念该运动，2020年当地艺术家、寻求庇护者与难民携手共创了一系列以“欢迎、家园与安全”为主题的公共艺术作品。这些作品既是十周年纪念的传承载体，也展现了斯旺西（Swansea）以成为庇护城市为荣的姿态。斯旺西艺术家玛丽·海曼（Mary Hayman）作为与格林·维维安画廊（Glynn Vivian Gallery）合作的社区艺术项目的组成部分，为当地民众提供六边形布料，供民众在家中进行装饰创作，以庆祝庇护城市活动。装饰完成的布料将被整合至画廊花园的顶棚中，或也可用于制作旗帜与装饰旗串。当地裁缝哈南·贝科（Hanan Beko）负责此次创作的裁剪、锁边与缝制工作。

本素材隶属于由开放大学（The Open University）与海牙国际社会研究所（International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague）资助的“边缘新冠纪事”（Covid Chronicles from the Margins）项目。该项目旨在揭示新冠疫情对难民、寻求庇护者以及无证件移民造成的影响。

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