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Thursday, June 8, 2006

Living Like a Refugee, It’s Really Not Easy

Posted by on June 8 at 10:11 AM

Those words are the understated lyrics of the Refugee All-Stars, a band whose members are the moving subjects of the eponymous documentary about them showing at SIFF (Neptune Theatre) on Saturday at 4:15 and Tuesday (June 13) at 9:30. These are people who turn their own horror stories into catchy songs, and transform the words “We are the clients of UNHCR” (the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) into singable lyrics. They’re well worth your 80 minutes.

And if you like them in the movie, they’re coming to Seattle to do a benefit concert July 13 at Neumos for the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project.