AMADOU & MARIAM

One of the most soulful and vibrant nights of the year is back. It’s the Migration Matters Festival opening party!

Voices from within the queer asylum seeking community

Local Foreigners is a collection of personal stories and portraits of immigrants in the UK

Czech and Slovak Roma women’s stories of life, health and illness

An exhibition of drawings by Venezuelan children exploring their experiences of forced migration and the asylum system.

Through visual art, sound, documentary and augmented reality this installation looks at how social frontiers affect life in Rotherham.

Experience tradition and innovation in "close up, up close". Watch as artist Nuz intertwines ancient henna techniques with contemporary creativity, adorning a live model with mesmerising designs.

If Henna Could Speak elevates non-Western works of art by women and non-binary people to their rightful place as a legitimate artistic practice.

un)interrupted tongues: sharing partition stories through zine-making

Getting creative with multilingual stories.

Bring your own phone with internet & headphones! Tune into an audio walking tour of Harcourt Road and have our memories recorded in a collective drawing.

Bring your Glamour, Glitz and Grace and come together in a fabulous celebration of self-expression.

Capturing Sheffield's untold stories of heritage and food.

Germa Adan, blends Haitian influences into borderless music, shaped by her journey from Haiti to the US and UK. Her second album 'Borderlines & Bloodlines' delves into ancestry, and reflects on identity.

A durational performance scratch challenging and interrogating national identity

longerr inheritances (curated by Otis Mensah) explores notions of jazz experimentation and what it means to bend genre and artistic expression as Black and artists of Colour.

A humorous new show celebrates the power of imaginary play.

Gathering: Women of Colour Writing on Nature brings together creative and fierce essays by women of colour which broaden conversations and horizons about our living world.

Talk, ESEA, Exchange, Discussion, Arts, Producing, Curating.

Listening and time-sharing session for human and more-than-human world

MigMat Social Club is a space for everyone to come and get to know each other. It is for artists to meet artists, audiences to meet artists, the festival team to meet everyone.

Migration Matters Festival presents Hamsaz Ensemble & Manasamitra

Join us for an open company class with Company Scheherazade in Sheffield!

The 2024 exhibition launch event. Meet and listen to the artists exhibiting work in this years programme with nibbles, drinks and music!

Amadou and Mariam’s story is one of the most inspiring tales in the music world; a love affair that propelled two veterans of Mali’s music industry….

Join us on a journey to find HOME.

A collective walk exploring our relationship to the landscape around us, near and far.

En evening of short films that examine journey and stagnation where the desires and wants of a better life encounter obstacles and barriers which keep them tied to new places.

Exploring sanctuary in the local and global context

Making thrilling new future-folk music from Welsh ancestors’ migration stories