Amal is a 3.5 meter puppet. From July to November 2021, representing all displaced children, many separated from their families, Amal travelled over 8,000km embodying the urgent message “Don’t forget about us”.

Since the beginning of her journey in 2021, Little Amal has travelled through over 70 cities and been welcomed at more than 160 unique events, reaching 875,000 people in the 12 countries she has already visited, and millions more online.

In June 2022, one year on from leaving Syria she will take part in World Refugee Week by visiting 10 towns and cities across England meeting old friends and making new ones.” (https://www.walkwithamal.org/)

We’re delighted that Cheltenham is getting the chance to welcome Little Amal to Cheltenham during Refugee Week. She will be arriving in Cheltenham from 2pm on Thursday 23 June 2022.

At The Everyman Theatre she will be given a royal welcome from the Queens of King Henry VIII – the cast of SIX The Musical. Join us there at 5pm!

As Amal walks through the town centre, she will be welcomed by children and their poems of welcome.

She will lay flowers of remembrance for those she has lost.  Amal’s last memory of Cheltenham, the festival town, will be dancing with children of many different nationalities in a celebration of the life that we share together. Find us at our stall in Imperial Gardens from about 6pm.

In partnership with Everyman Theatre Cheltenham, Cheltenham Borough Council, Visit Cheltenham, Cheltenham Welcomes Refugees, Gloucestershire Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers, Lives of Colour and Cheltenham Festivals.

With thanks to Gloucestershire Constabulary and Gloucestershire County Council.