“So amazing and very moving.”

“A gift to be a witness to the Sand Mandala being made, a Holy moment. Thank you.”

“Wonderful event - thankyou!”

“Really enjoyed this. Thanks for filling in at the last moment.”

“Never knew this place exists. One of the hidden ‘jewels’ in Bristol. Keep up the good work!”

“Very Good!”

“Excellent! Thoroughly enjoyed it. Keep it up! Many thanks”

“A very good experience.”

“Thank you all for this excellent work you are doing.”

“Wonderful evening – more please.

“BRILLIANT!”

“Very impressive Kyon – well done!”

“Well done Kyon! It was very enlightening!”

“Very informative and very friendly… enjoyable too!

“All very interesting and informative.”

“Very interesting and important to hear. More talks about Islam should take place among non-Muslims.”

“Brilliant. Much understanding and peace. Thank you very much.”

“Broadened my understanding, with thanks and peace.”

“I really enjoyed – it was very lovely.”

“Very good Very good Very good!”

“Fantastic evening – well organised and opened my eyes to a lot of interesting issues. Brilliant venue, thank you all (& Kyon)!”

“Absolutely brilliant, exciting, interesting and educating.”

“There is room for improvement.”

“More music would have been good.”

“Fantastic evening. The talks were very interesting. Definitely interested in contacting the talkers. Kyon’s organisation was very good. Milad and Aris were fantastic – More music.”

“I thoroughly enjoyed the evening, well planned and well delivered. Inspirational. A side of Islam we don’t often see.”

“Wonderful evening – fantastic venue – keep up the good work!”

“Very enjoyable, instructive and a good opportunity to make contacts. Let us repeat it!”

“Amazing surroundings with greater people inside. Peace!

“It was amazing.”

“It has been an amazing experience and a beginning to a wonderful and exciting journey in the next stage of my life.”

“It’s been an amazing evening, especially the act and the poem were very moving, well done Kyon!”

“Very interesting exhibition – good that there was a lot of information available to take away and read later.”

“Wonderful diversity in the Art exhibition. Tom Stoddart’s work very inspirational. Thank you Pierian Centre.”

“Thoroughly enjoyed the music. How about a concert?”

“A fascinating evening of insight.”

“Lovely evening – Well done Monica and all the musicians.”

“A very beautiful heart-warming evening.”

“Monica, that was absolutely wonderful.”

“Great evening, Monica, thanks.”

“What a moving evening.”

“Wonderful, you deserve the success, well done!”

“Fantastic, really enjoyable.”

“I have enjoyed it very much. I loved the songs and stories.”

“Best talent ever.”

“Thank You for an uplifting and reflective evening. Best wishes for your book sales, Monica.”

“Lovely venue, great book and amazing performances.”

“Lovely everything. Very special. Nice mix of talking and performances. Bigger space next time?”

“Fantastic and moving evening – thank you to everyone involved.”

“Very emotional experience. Thank You”

“Fabulous evening, lovely place. Bizarre – is it a house?, Superb music, wonderful people and heart-filled. MORE PLEASE.”

“Very special evening – we were privileged to these peoples’ lives and music. Thanks, Monica.”

“Magical moments of sharing love, happiness and the things we all have been through. Great evening Monica, we treasure your gift of bringing people together.”

“It was fantastic, keep it up. One world one dream peace with prayers.”

“Beautiful, interesting, thought provoking and inspiring. I am so happy I came and I am going to try so hard to do my bit for society. Thank you Monica – I am very grateful to you and to all the singers and peoples’ stories! The Zimbabwean story made me cry.”

“What an inspiring evening!”

“Brilliant spirit and harmony. Thank You Monica and Pierian Centre and music/dance.”

“A Thought provoking and deeply moving evening of sheer emotion!!!”

“A very moving evening. Thank you.”

“It has been a wonderful night of bringing people together. Monica has done a wonderful thing. And the setting was perfect!!”

“I thought it was good but some of the food was not that nice.”

“Absolutely gorgeous and heart-filled event- and gracious hosting as ever!! Thank you.”

“Everybody helping, present and performing added to a pile of positive energy. Thank you!”

“What a lovely and moving evening. I am so impressed.”

“The hostess with the mostest……heart.”

“Thank you.”

“Thanks for an energising evening.”

“We have been made so welcome. Thankyou.”

“Thanks so much for nourishment of body and soul.”

“Very enjoyable. It would be good to see new plays reflecting local situations around asylum to make it real for more people.”

“Very interesting experience.”

“Inspirational and generous.”

“Very moving, inspiring. I want to see much more work like this and see our society change.”

“Extremely enriching, inspiring, wonderful.”

“I am so glad I visited the Pierian. THANK YOU.”

“Well done ‘Floating Doors’ – an illuminating evening.”

“Amazing multi-cultural performance, thank you.”

“Thank you everyone.”

“Fantastic talk, our loss that we missed half of it!”

“Found exhibition informative. Everyone friendly. Photos thought provoking.”

“They say a picture tells a thousand words! That’s certainly true for the iWitness exhibition. Very moving.”

“Wonderful welcome to us. Thank you.”

“Extremely impressive.”

“This exhibition is very moving and is good because it gives people an awareness they would not otherwise have. It is beautiful and tragic at the same time, I know when we take time to love ourselves and to care then everyone in the world will feel more loved. This is it, the buck stops here, peace comes from within, in the moment we can all make a difference. Thanks again for caring.”

“How thoughtful to have tissues in the room with iWitness.”

“Awesome sand mandala – I hope the exhibition makes a difference.”

“Mandala brilliant!!”

“Good to see photos of local performers after such harrowing photos upstairs and beautiful mandalas downstairs. Wish the facts in the film were shown more slowly to be able to take in the information about Tibet. Couldn’t read it all in time. Thank you for a very powerful event.”

“Beautifully presented, deeply thought provoking. Some parts simply harrowing other parts uplifting and inspiring. Thank you.”

“It was a real pleasure to be part of Refugee week and to have the opportunity to work with fantastic groups of children. I do hope feedback from the schools is positive and a couple of comments reflected their enjoyment of the day:

'stories really got the children engaged. They got so excited, on their knees. They love the story'

'they can't wait to make their own story'

'amazing, I thought it was entertaining, creative and so fun to watch'!”

“Well rescued! Lovely man – great food – pleasant company.”

“Very entertaining evening, very enjoyable.”

“Really good evening.”

“Lovely food and Mohammed was cracking!”

“Tom had a lovely time doing sand art.”

“Great fun and a calming experience playing with the sand at the mandala.”

“A very moving experience. Congratulations! I especially liked the photographs, very painful and beautiful but such an important record of what’s happening in the world, thank you.”

“Really interesting.”

“It was a brilliant day. Friendly, well organised. The displays, exhibitions and Peace film excellent. I really enjoyed the gumboot dance! Thank you.”

“Thank you for a meaningful afternoon for Zimbabwe.”

“Very interesting talk and discussion.”

“Great night. Come again.”

“Good atmosphere.”

“Brilliant atmosphere.”

“Well organised and a very inspirational and exciting discussion and debate. Delicious, succulent food. Compliments to the chefs!”

“Fab workshop – bringing new meaning to rhythm… and enjoyable fun!!”

“A really interesting workshop that was really informative and exciting!”

“An amazing experience that brought to life the konnakol.”

“Konnakol an unexpected delight. Great place, great coffee!”

“The ceremony was awesome.”

“The ceremony was awesome, shame about the photographer.”

“A totally inspirational experience, thank you.”

“Very beautiful and moving ceremony. Thanks.”

“Thank you for the mandala ceremony. It was beautiful.”

“Thank you – a wonderful event.”

“Lovely mandala and ceremony. Thank you. Nice to think Bristol has had some healing.”

“As usual – another amazing, awakening event – thank you.”

“Powerful and encouraging.”

“Amazing and moving.”

“Very good and enjoyable.”

General comments from the whole week:

“Ricky Romain’s pictures are powerful.”

“More poetry – please.”

“Thank you for this week, it has truly inspired me, made me feel more alive than ever, and has brought back this spark and drive to help and change things which I thought I’d lost. Please let me know what I can do around the community on a voluntary basis.”

“Thank you for sharing and connecting us as one people and broadening our understanding that we are not alone.”

“Thank you – its all deeply inspiring.”

“The sheer scope and scale of the coverage leaves me lost for words, lost in humble admiration and gratitude for all the work put in by so many people to bring this great project of Refugee Week to fruition. Thank you for remembering everybody.”

“This week was great and interesting to learn about peoples’ backgrounds. How they came to England. The word should be spread. The story telling is a great way of telling the stories. Thank you.”

“Fantastic venue, incredibly welcoming staff – THANK YOU.”

“Wonderful, thank you very much!”

“Very poignant exhibition – made me realise how much I take for granted!”

“Amazing opportunity to find stillness, community and real energy in middle of city!”

“Very peaceful and inspiring time. A lovely welcoming environment.”

“Eye opening – brilliant.”

“Very interesting – good to see again – went last year and enjoyed it!”

“Awesome! Even better than last year.”

“Tremendously moving and well-presented in a beautiful setting – thank you.”

“A place of peace and the best of humanity.”

“The centre is great – thank you.”

“Powerful and very moving. Thank you.”

“Some harrowing photographs and some optimistic ones – an amazing spectrum of work, images, ideas, facts, deeply affecting.”

“Good, straightforward, clear photographs. Very informative of culture.”

“Thank you – the photographs (portraits) and snippets go well together. The entire exhibition creates the sense of diversity and unity all at the same time. Aim achieved?”

“Great to see familiar faces here in these photos and to hear a bit of their story.”

“Keep going.”

“Very good. Interesting. Lovely art.”