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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Witamy
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Mwaiseni
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Karibu
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Bienvenido • Salut • Privet • Khush Amdeed • Bine ati venit • Yōkoso • Huānyíng • Ahlaan bik • Willkommen • Welcome • Witamy • Mwaiseni • Karibu •
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AMADOU & MARIAM
THE LEADMILL - MON 17 JUNE
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…
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SIRENS OF LESBOS
SYDNEY & MATILDA - WED 19 JUNE
Spanning borders, genres and eras, Sirens Of Lesbos have pinpointed a sound that is unlike any other.
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Roger Robinson
THE LEADMILL - THUR 20 JUNE
Join us for a memorable evening with T.S. Eliot Prize winning poet Roger Robinson who takes us through his collective works in an exploration of home, belonging and the journeys that shape us.
MMF’24 EVents
One of the most soulful and vibrant nights of the year is back. It’s the Migration Matters Festival opening party!
Voices from within the queer asylum seeking community
Local Foreigners is a collection of personal stories and portraits of immigrants in the UK
Czech and Slovak Roma women’s stories of life, health and illness
An exhibition of drawings by Venezuelan children exploring their experiences of forced migration and the asylum system.
Through visual art, sound, documentary and augmented reality this installation looks at how social frontiers affect life in Rotherham.
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: sharing partition stories through zine-making
Getting creative with multilingual stories.
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.
Bring your Glamour, Glitz and Grace and come together in a fabulous celebration of self-expression.
Capturing Sheffield's untold stories of heritage and food.
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.
A durational performance scratch challenging and interrogating national identity
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.
A humorous new show celebrates the power of imaginary play.
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.
Talk, ESEA, Exchange, Discussion, Arts, Producing, Curating.
Listening and time-sharing session for human and more-than-human world
Migration Matters Festival presents Hamsaz Ensemble & Manasamitra
MIGRATION MATTERS FESTIVAL
Celebrating Sanctuary in the Steel City
14 - 22 June 2024
Migration Matters Festival is a 9-day annual celebration of sanctuary, cultural identity and migration in Sheffield. It is the largest Refugee Week festival in hosting up to 60 events each year providing platforms to underrepresented communities particularly people with lived experience of displacement, seeking asylum and forced migration.
72k+
Audience members
424
EVENTS
8
FESTIVALS
840
artists/event leaders supported
Grab A 2024 Festival Pass!
This year you can grab a Migration Matters Festival Pass to see as many of the amazing events as you would like, at no extra cost!
Our Festival Passes are available in four price brackets:
£80 - General
£60 - Low Income
£20 - Unwaged
£120 - Solidarity Pass
We do not ask for proof or evidence of your financial status and ask that audience members make an honest assessment of what they can afford.
Please contact info@migrationmattersfestival.co.uk if you are not in a position to pay for a Festival Pass.
For more information about our tickets, please visit ‘Festival Passes’
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
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