Migration Matters Festival returns to Sheffield for 2024
Glastonbury stars join Sheffield’s celebration of sanctuary, enjoyed by 13,400 people last year: The Yorkshire Post
Migration Stories - Tchiyiwe Chihana
MIGRATION STORIES - TCHIYIWE CHIHANA: My heart dances to a more complex rhythm of identity which I gloriously embrace
Migration Stories - Saziso Phiri
It excites me to see 1st and 2nd generation migrant children embracing their culture from a young age with the help of a much more positive media representation.
Migration Stories - Leonie Sloots
Migration Matters Festival is a wonderful place to break through these worries and not feel so alone with them, it’s a place to address the flaws in our system
Migration Stories - Sam Holland
To me, Sheffield has always been a place of compassion, welcome, and friendship, and I feel incredibly privileged and fortunate to have grown up in such a place.
A new children’s festival launches in Sheffield this month - bringing an energetic mixture of events chosen by young people themselves to the city.
Amina Khayyam Explores the Artistic Challenges Faced by Migrant Communities and Advocates for Embracing Migration
Livia Barreira's Path to Joining the Migration Matters Team as Audience Development Manager.
Acts from around the globe will star in a growing Sheffield festival hailed as a ‘cultural sanctuary’ amid national anti-migrant rhetoric.
The Migration Matters Festival is the biggest UK festival of its kind - with 12,000 people taking part in 2022 - and runs this year between June 16 and 24.
Guest Curator Howl reflects on a challenging and unusual year, and asks ‘Where do we go from here?”
We are so excited to announce our first batch of amazing artists and organisations who will be taking part in our online festival this year with performances, workshops, gigs and theatre with plenty more still to be announced!
Magid talks to us about everything migration, art and politics in this incredibly candid no-nonsense interview