This year the theme for World Refugee Day is togetherness:
Togetherness to make sure everyone is safe during this pandemic.
Togetherness in friendly competition through sport, not warandconflict.
Andtogetherness through music, because if it’s one thing everyone in Latin Americaandthe Caribbean knows how to do, it’s bringing plenty vibes to a fiesta!
Movie Night!
UNHCR partners with ttff on human rights edition of Watch A Movie On Us!
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is excited to partner with the trinidad+tobago film festival to present the human rights edition of its popular #WatchAMovieOnUs online streaming series! In commemoration of World Refugee Day, join us for two days of online film screenings. The film series explores the lived experience of refugees and asylum seekers in Trinidad and Tobago and Central America.
When?
Starting 19 June, films will be available to viewers anywhere for 24 hours each, FREE from midnight to midnight, at ttfilmfestival.com/watchamovieonus
Saturday 19 June ‘Lifted’, directed by Miquel Galofré + ‘With Love from Central America’, directed by Diana Diaz
Sunday 20 June, ‘Casa en Tierra Ajena (House in a Foreign Land)’, directed by Ivannia Villalobos Vindas
Trinidad + Tobago Film Festival #WatchAMovieOnUs Human Rights Edition
Steel and String: A Trinizuelan Lockdown Jam
This year the theme for World Refugee Day is togetherness...
Togetherness to make sure everyone is safe during this pandemic. Togetherness in friendly competition through sport, not war and conflict. And togetherness through music, because if it’s one thing everyone in Latin America and the Caribbean knows how to do, it’s bringing plenty vibes to a fiesta!
Music transcends borders and language. It is a celebration of life. And while we may not always understand words, we can understand the feelings – of joy, euphoria, nostalgia, pride and love – that just a few notes can elicit.
We're performing Alma Llanera, the soul of the plains, an iconic Venezuelan composition so beloved it’s considered the country’s unofficial national anthem. And what better way to show togetherness and cultural unity by playing Alma Llanera on the national instruments of both Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela – the steelpan and the cuatro. We’ve also added a bit of parang, which, while usually played during Christmas time, is the perfect blend of Venezuelan influence on Trinidad and Tobago’s culture.
So, join us on this musical voyage (the only kind most of us can take during lockdown anyway) that will take you from the hills and plains of Venezuela to beaches and streets of Trinidad and Tobago with just the beat of a steel pan and the strum of a cuatro.
Because if it’s one thing that can bring us together, it’s music.
