welcome to #migmat2024
Thank you for joining us on our 9th year celebration of sanctuary in the Steel City. See all our events below!
Bienvenido
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Salut
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Privet
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Khush Amdeed
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Bine ati venit
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Yōkoso
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Huānyíng
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Ahlaan bik
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Willkommen
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Welcome
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Bienvenido • Salut • Privet • Khush Amdeed • Bine ati venit • Yōkoso • Huānyíng • Ahlaan bik • Willkommen • Welcome •
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Festival Opening Party
One of the most soulful and vibrant nights of the year is back. It’s the Migration Matters Festival opening party!
Local Foreigners
Local Foreigners is a collection of personal stories and portraits of immigrants in the UK
In my own words and pictures
Czech and Slovak Roma women’s stories of life, health and illness
Borders of Childhood
An exhibition of drawings by Venezuelan children exploring their experiences of forced migration and the asylum system.
Blurring the Edges
Through visual art, sound, documentary and augmented reality this installation looks at how social frontiers affect life in Rotherham.
Close up, up close
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
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
un)interrupted tongues: sharing partition stories through zine-making
Travel with Harcourt: Soundwalk
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.
Family Catwalk Extravaganza
Bring your Glamour, Glitz and Grace and come together in a fabulous celebration of self-expression.
Root to Table: Exploring Sheffield's Food Heritage
Capturing Sheffield's untold stories of heritage and food.
Borderlines and Bloodlines
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.
Becoming British - Work in Progress
A durational performance scratch challenging and interrogating national identity
longerr inheritances - ACT I
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.
Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature
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.
Space-making in Arts: ESEA Arts Producer Sharing
Talk, ESEA, Exchange, Discussion, Arts, Producing, Curating.
Moving mountains and everything within
Listening and time-sharing session for human and more-than-human world
Hamsaz Ensemble & Manasamitra
Migration Matters Festival presents Hamsaz Ensemble & Manasamitra
Exhibitions Launch Event
The 2024 exhibition launch event. Meet and listen to the artists exhibiting work in this years programme with nibbles, drinks and music!
AMADOU & MARIAM
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….
Walking from the palm of your hand
A collective walk exploring our relationship to the landscape around us, near and far.
STUCK: an evening of short Films at the Showroom
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.
Routes to belonging in higher education: connecting the local to the global context
Exploring sanctuary in the local and global context
Songs from the Tin Tabernacle: A Roots Romance
Making thrilling new future-folk music from Welsh ancestors’ migration stories
Mohand and Peter + Homescreen
Mohand and Peter - A glorious celebration of Sudan & friendship across cultures.
HomeScreen - A virtual home for those who have left theirs behind.
Celya AB: Of All People
Celya is good in a crisis but cries at flashmob videos. See Celya AB’s brand new comedy hour!
Routes to Roots: A South Asian Heritage Project
Routes to Roots: A South Asian Heritage Project is a vibrant multi arts performance piece, sharing reflections on migration, heritage and cultural identity from young people and community groups in Bradford, Croydon and Sheffield.
Dig Where You Stand
Unearthing untold stories about people of colour in South Yorkshire
The Green Room
Witness seven artists from migrant and refugee backgrounds weave music, dance, spoken word and film to explore home, displacement and migration.
SIRENS OF LESBOS
Spanning borders, genres and eras, Sirens Of Lesbos have pinpointed a sound that is unlike any other.
Thousand Papers 千紙
Tell us your never-ending stories, hopes and dreams. So then we can build the Senbazuru of ours.
Touching on Caste
A group exhibition centring anti-caste artistic perspectives from the South Asian diaspora.
Exploring "Home" Through the Anti Racist Archive
What is the experience of "home" for displaced or racially marginalised communities?
Roger Robinson
Roger Robinson is a writer and educator who has taught and performed worldwide and is an experienced workshop leader and lecturer on poetry.
The Death and Life of All of Us
An intimate and true multimedia piece about international family secrets
Food Tour: Hong Kong
A delicious voyage celebrating diversity and satisfying curious palates
Chechnya, Ukraine and Propaganda
In our storytelling event, a group of Chechen and Ukrainian activists will bring you into the most important part of our common history during the last 80 years.
longerr inheritances - ACT II
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.
Welcoming Cultures
Join us at the Millennium Gallery for a celebration of our multicultural city.
Refuge Island
Refuge Island is an exhilarating performance that explores stories of female migration.
Small Park Big Run/Big Sing To Palestine
Join the joyous mass sing sending Palestinians love and solidarity
Between the personal and historical: the Chinese diaspora, chinoiserie and family photography
Film screening and discussion exploring family photographs and their migration histories
Migration Matters Festival Closing Party
Goodbyes are hard, but they’re not so hard when its the Migration Matters closing party!
Migration Matters Festival Podcast
A community leader with a foot firmly in the heritage of her local area explores ways of bridging the gap between the various generations of the culture she represents and what’s become the standard background of the attendees of previous events.