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.

Join Aliaskar Abarkas and All the Whistlers for a workshop exploring the power of non-verbal language.

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

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

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!

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

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.

Home is a feeling, not an address.

Migration Matters Festival proudly presents our 2025 headliner: Nadine Shah

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

A live music performance exploring lullabies from different cultures across Sheffield, led by Vilk Collective.

Accessible to families & children.

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.

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!

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?

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

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.

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…

"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

A drawing workshop for migrant organisers and migrant culture workers

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

A writing workshop exploring personal and cultural histories through food

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.

Child Migrant Voices: Readings, films, discussion and music

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

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

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

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