On Friday 20th June, Ammi's Kitchen will be hosting a delicious Community Lunch 12-2pm at Common Ground Community Centre. Anyone is welcome to come and try authentic food cooked by local migrant women, strengthening our community resilience as we taste flavours from around the world. 

What would Migration Matters Festival be without our usual fare of opening party madness!

Meet new people at the Migration Matters Festival Connection Brunch

Join Annie Anthony Mays and the Sanctuary Artists for an arts and crafts workshop at the Sanctuary.

Crafting connection beyond borders.

A hands-on ceramics workshop exploring migration, displacement, and belonging.

A Two Course meal, with a side order of Theatre and Fun!

Have you ever wondered what your area looks like through someone else’s eyes?

QTIBPOC Cinema Club invites you for a moving film screening and community meal at Gut Level, open to everyone.

‘Lingua Franca' by Isabel Sanodva, follows the story of Olivia, a trans woman with undocumented immigration status living in Brooklyn, working as a caregiver and searching for love and security. The screening will be followed by a community meal and optional group discussion. There’s a beautiful upstairs garden balcony for socialising and reflective time.

An evening of queering and decolonising Arabic dance.

Earthing & Embodying Liberatory Futures

A huge celebration of creativity and community in Hillsborough Park

Nearly one in five of NHS staff report a non-British nationality. What exactly happens to nurses and doctors who migrate to the UK? Registration by the stage@leeds Young Company tells the human stories behind the paperwork. Registration explores migration, stigma, and the complex issue of who can register to be a healthcare professional in the UK.

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What would your Utopia look like? What would you bring and what would you leave?

Sacred Music of the world to bring peace and harmony

A Morning in the Flower Garden

Cultural cooking for social change

A panel on how we say the unsayable with food.

Join us for an evening of exploration across art, photography and more as we meet the artists behind a wide array of inspiring pieces exhibiting at this years festival.

We proudly present this exceptional lineup of the UK’s most exciting comedy talent: Fatiha El-Ghorri, Esther Manito, Seeta Wrightson, and two Special Guests still to be announced.

A series of films made by creatives from Film Beyond Borders in collaboration with City of Sanctuary, U-Mix, SOS for Sudan, One World Choir, Sheffield Hallam University and RAAH.

Indulge in a line-up of local poets who will explore themes of food and community, inspired by a taste of home, whether your home is 10 minutes or 10 hours away.

Please bring a home cooked dish and enjoy the pot luck!

Be Proud. Be who you are. Be more penguin.

Mapping stories, celebrating cultures, connecting Sheffield through shared creative roots.

Reimagining migration through film, sound, and dialogue on belonging.

Legendary UK band Asian Dub Foundation is celebrating its 30th Anniversary this year!

Child Migrant Voices: Readings, films, discussion and music

50 years ago, Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge leading to the Cambodian genocide. Artists, Dayanny So, Charles Fox, and Komarine Romdenh-Romluc, reflect on experiences of the conflict and reckoning with its aftermath. The audience is also invited to join a workshop led by Dayanny So, using Cambodian textiles.

A writing workshop exploring personal and cultural histories through food

Routes to Routes is a powerful multi-arts performance featuring South Asian voices from Bradford, Sheffield, and Croydon. Using creative workshops, the project explores themes of migration, heritage, and identity to make performances, film, and art.

Come and see the premiere of our short film Routes to Roots: The Story of the Madras Jazz Group.

www.mayaproductions.co.uk

"THIS JUNGO LIFE" takes us deep inside the hidden lives of young refugees and asylum seekers from Sudan and South Sudan, living and sleeping rough on the streets of Morocco.

Produced in collaboration with the refugees themselves, this film provides a raw and unfiltered glimpse into the human spirit and innate drive for survival, as they fight for a better life for themselves and the families they left behind.

www.thisjungolife.com

Dig Where You Stand invites you to our latest community gathering. Our panel of presenters and performers – all women of colour - will share their experience of exploring local archives, the stories they discovered, and creative responses they produced. This will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.

Hailing from North Manchester, Meduulla is a 25 year old Zimbabwean-born Rapper and DJ.

Join Stand & Be Counted Theatre’s ‘Soap Box Collective’ and fashion designer Kazna Asker for an immersive celebration of global threads and the clothes that make us. Expect live music, storytelling and seriously good style, this alternative catwalk platforms the transformative power of fabric to connect communities and alter ego…

Ghost and John weave a captivating narrative from the ephemera of home, dancing nimbly with their green babies across the colder voids of displacement and struggle, following the urge of all life to thrive and flourish.

Is this a migration story? A gay love story? An ecology story?

Join us for a relaxed afternoon exploring nature’s connection to Sheffield. With support from the Dysbiosis Collective, create a personal response to the theme and collaborate on a group installation, showcased at the Migration Matters Festival. No prior experience required—just bring your creativity and curiosity!

Ammi’s Kitchen will be cooking a tasty takeaway on Friday 27th June.
Pre Order by 9am on Wednesday 26th June before we sell out!
You can choose to have the takeaway delivered to your house or collect it from Common Ground Community Centre between 3 and 6pm.

Home is a feeling, not an address.

Join us for an evening of ‘Solo Journeys’, exploring identity and belonging through Dance and Film.

Migration Matters Festival proudly presents our 2025 headliner: Nadine Shah

Design, create, and express yourself through fashion, art, and community.

This workshop is designed to be most suitable for children aged 5-11.

Garden Gremlins, play, learn and explore together.

Join us at the Millennium Gallery for a celebration of our multicultural city.

We’ve got food at home! Zine Fest is a celebration of our beautiful global cuisines that we cook and eat in our homes everyday. We’ll have a pop-up foodie zine library, local zinesters sharing their work, all-day zine-making workshop table where we'll be encouraging you to create your own foodie zine pages!

Football Shirt Customisation Workshop - Join us for a hands-on workshop where you can customise your own football shirt!

Echoes of Exile is a creative workshop led by Mozambican-born artist and IMIX Refugee Ambassador MoYah.

In the Cut is a pop-up Black barbershop and hairdressers to raise awareness about Black mental health and celebrate these shops as healing spaces.