Strikers

As part of Assemble, a number of Refugee Festival Scotland 2026 events were hosted.

The Strikers was a new play written by playwright and award-winning filmmaker Javad Daraei. The play explored labour, displacement, dignity, and resistance through stories shaped by lived experiences of survival and exile.

This event was delivered in partnership with U Belong Glasgow. It included a work-in-progress reading of the play, performed by Sanjay Lago, followed by an open discussion with the audience to share feedback at this stage in the play's development, creating space for reflection, dialogue, and shared understanding between refugee communities and the wider public.