As an effort to create awareness about the challenges of the refugees and other forcibly displaced people, through inspiring people by the music and other forms of arts, Turquoise Harmony Institute (THI) hosted a concert for refugees in Johannesburg on June 21st, 2019 a day after World Refugee Day, at Linder Auditorium. THI does feel grateful for the South Africans’ approach to this issue and uniting toward the same goal. The event set a new precedent for social justice workers around the world and the Turquoise Harmony Institute was awarded Pioneers in SDGs Project Stakeholders Award at UNGA Conference in New York in 2019.

The above results were so motivating that in December 2020, a virtual concert was held to mark World Human Rights Day on December 10th which is celebrated to honour the United Nations General Assembly‘s adoption and proclamation, on 10 December 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

The line up consists of:

Kutlwano Masote, Msaki, Lebo Mashile, Pops Mohammed, Neill Solomon, PJ Powers, Rocksteady Dub, Sipho “Hotstix” Mabuse, Thandi Ntuli and more.

A Concert for Refugees is an annual event and this year it will be taking place on Friday, 12 August 2022 at the Linder Auditorium.

For more details, go to: https://refugeeconcert.co.za/about-refugee-concert/