On Saturday mornings, a choir family of refugees and asylum seekers meet at a church crypt in Hackney to sing songs that echo the beauty of their homelands.
Mothers come with their young children, while others travel long distances to be here. On this particular Saturday, one member arrives despite feeling ill.
“I can’t not come,” she says, explaining how the group fills her with an indescribable sense of belonging as a refugee.
That group is Woven Gold, a choir made up of refugees and asylum seekers who have fled persecution…
On Saturday mornings, a choir family of refugees and asylum seekers meet at a church crypt in Hackney to sing songs that echo the beauty of their homelands.
Mothers come…
