
welcome to #migmat2025
Thank you for joining us on our 10th year celebration of sanctuary in the Steel City. See all our events below!
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Migration Matters Festival Closing Party
We wish the festival could go on forever. We know you do too, so make sure you’re with us so we can celebrate and cap off an incredible week in style!

In the Cut
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.

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

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

Among Good People x Stand and Be Counted Theatre - Football Shirt Customisation Workshop
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
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!

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

Kazna Asker x Stand and Be Counted Theatre - Fashion Design Workshop
Design, create, and express yourself through fashion, art, and community.
This workshop is designed to be most suitable for children aged 5-11.

DisOriental - Migration Matters Special with Beirut Groove Collective
DisOriental: Migration Matters Special ft. Beirut Groove Collective


Nadine Shah
Migration Matters Festival proudly presents our 2025 headliner: Nadine Shah

Solo Journeys: An evening of performances and film
Join us for an evening of ‘Solo Journeys’, exploring identity and belonging through Dance and Film.
Lullabies Project
A live music performance exploring lullabies from different cultures across Sheffield, led by Vilk Collective.
Accessible to families & children.

Ammi's Kitchen Takeaway
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.

Creative Nature Workshop
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!

Two Plant Gaysians
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?

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

Women of Colour in the Archives
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.

Fabric of the World
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 - film screening and discussion
"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

Visual Organising Training With Migrants in Culture
A drawing workshop for migrant organisers and migrant culture workers

Routes to Roots
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

Food for Thought
A writing workshop exploring personal and cultural histories through food

Cambodia: Legacies of Conflict and Resilience
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.


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

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

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