Taste
Carlota Matos & collaborators
25 June | Time: 17:00 | Venue: St Andrews United Reform Church Hall
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ABOUT THE EVENT
Step into TASTE, a multi-sensory, participatory performance celebrating food, culture, and community.
Audiences move freely between stations to explore spices, fruits, sound-making, embroidery, and playful movement, contributing to a shared creative experience. Expect live music played with kitchen utensils, a collective embroidered tablecloth, and gestures that gradually bring the space to life.
Largely non-verbal and designed for all ages and abilities, TASTE invites participants to shape the performance together, celebrating the tastes, traditions, and rhythms that migrant communities bring to Sheffield.
“It is very rare to have a space for people only to connect, especially with anything other than words. So it was very soothing and eye-opening to experience.”
- Audience Feedback
TASTE was originally created with migrant women in Bristol, in partnership with refugee charity Borderlands, and local migrant practitioners. For Migration Matters Festival, TASTE will be adapted and developed in collaboration with Sheffield-based artists, a local Chef, and migrant support charities/organisations.
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TASTE is led by Carlota Matos, a theatre and performance artist working internationally with a focus on social change, with current projects in the UK, Portugal, and France. Her practice explores questions of identity, migration, and mental ill-health, in the form of documentary / experimental / participatory performances. She frequently collaborates with charities, artists from different disciplines, young people, communities, and people who are not necessarily trained or experienced performers.
Carlota is the co-founder of Refugee Week Portugal. She has directed and facilitated for companies such as Local Learning, Firebird Theatre, Many Minds, and Travelling Light, and has been commissioned by Projekt Europa and Counterpoints Arts. Previous residencies include CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva, Staatstheater Mainz, and Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg. She also works as a consultant in creative access and the ethics of participatory arts.
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TASTE is co-created with Ania Varez, a Venezuelan dance artist and community worker based in Bristol. Ania makes experimental and collaborative performances, working with other artists and with people who may not identify as artists yet. They graduated with honours from the London Contemporary Dance School and have worked as a performer, maker, movement director and teacher since.
Ania's show Guayabo toured internationally as well as in the UK, including SPILL Festival. Ania was awarded a Leverhulme Scholarship from the Bristol Old Vic in 2019. They are a proud member of Interval, an artist support network in Bristol.
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TASTE is produced by Weronika Dwornik, a Polish-Belarusian theatre-maker, producer and facilitator based in London, working in devised, socially engaged performance & documentary theatre.
They are a co-founder and lead producer of Coin Toss Collective, creating collaborative work presented at venues including Bristol Old Vic, Pleasance, and VAULT Festival. In 2025 they were the guest curator of Migration Matters Festival’s Gather strand, which placed creativity at the heart of community building. The programme featured participatory art experiences, musical explorations of migration and heritage, and projects such as UTOPIARIUM and It Happened Here, inviting audiences to imagine personal and collective utopias.
As a producer, Weronika develops projects co-created with communities, including TASTE, a multi-sensory participatory performance by Carlota Matos exploring food and migration, and MotoBR, a documentary theatre project by Gustavo Dias Vallejo created with Brazilian delivery workers in London.
EVENT INFO
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£8 | £6 | £2
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Doors Open: 16:45
Running Time: 17:00 - 18:30 -
Accessibility Information to be updated soon.
If you have any questions about your access needs in the meantime, please contact info@migrationmattersfestival.co.uk using the subject line ‘Accessibility at the festival’
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Age Guidance: All Ages
Content Warning: There are no content warnings for this event
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Embroidery: Sherien Elsheikh
Photography: Edward J Felton