Welcome people, we are Solidarity Hull CIC

Solidarity Hull CIC is a growing community of people in Hull, who come from many different countries of the world. We dream of becoming a rich mix of people with talents and skills, learning together to live good lives here in Hull (and the UK). We want to make Solidarity Hull a place where young people and young adult from all over the world work together to make a second home in an atmosphere of equality and belonging; a space where we are free to make mistakes and learn from them, where we build the confidence to dream our dreams, discover our talents, share our skills, our stories and support our families in Hull (and the UK).

We aim to:

  • Make spaces where we treat each other as we want others to treat us
  • Learn to work together to bring about change for all people of all nations through the use of popular education and creative arts.
  • Learn to use our imaginations, share our skills and talents, and show others in Hull, in the UK and in the world, who we really are.
  • Support our families to settle in Hull (and the UK).

If you want to join us please follow links in Contact us page of this website.

 

This summer has been dead busy for us at Solidarity Hull. Some of us participated in the Action Research Network of the Americas (ARNA) conference in Cartagena , Colombia, with our colleagues from Nation of Migration Awakening the Diaspora (NOMAD) and  the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience of  Coventry University.   We spent a week in Cartagena learning about the colonial history of the city as well as actively participating in the conference where we delivered a workshop on the educational philosophy of Paulo Freire.  We also took a trip to south Colombia to visit a Campesino community where we learnt about their way of life and shared ours.

20170613_113534
20170615_101349
IMG-20170627-WA0162
20170616_135215
20170624_090838
20170623_180252

Solidarity Hull also took part in Refugee week, in preparation we run a session where we discussed what it means to be a person of refugee or migrant background living in the UK, as a result we made a placard that expressed this and exhibited it at Queen’s Garden, where we had a picnic and took the opportunity to outreach by handing out flyers with all our weekly activities.

IMG_1602
IMG_1607
IMG_1599

In August we travelled to London to be part of our sister organisation NOMAD’s launch event where we experienced an amazing event full of music, art and important discussions. We also enjoyed some sightseeing in London.  At the end of August, as part of our Yes2Youth project, Nomad and Solidarity Hull met for our joint residential at Braich Goch, our centre in Wales. There we reflected upon the journey of this project using different participatory techniques to evaluate our progress; what we learnt, the challenges we encountered and our plans for the future.

20170818_191200
20170818_140248
IMG_1822
IMG_1861
IMG_1962
IMG_1864

We also took part in Leeds West Indian Carnival as we were invited by our other sister organisation Leeds Dynamics. It was a wonderful event full of colour, music and dance where we mingled with hundreds of other carnivaliers.

IMG_2214
IMG_2294
IMG_2262
IMG_2168

Right now we are preparing for Mad Pride carnival. For the past few weeks we have been having masks and costumes making workshops as well as dance and theatre workshops in preparation for the parade.   We are all very excited!!

20170912_190007
20170907_190057
20170908_203331