Exhibitions Launch Event
17 June | Time: 17:30 | Venue: Soft Ground
Join us for an evening of exploration across art, photography and more as we meet the artists behind a wide array of inspiring pieces exhibiting at this years festival.
There will be drinks, nibbles, music and more so make sure you nab yourself a free ticket and get involved!
Meet the artists:
5.45pm: Close Up, Up Close performance by Nuz Fatima
6.15pm: If Henna Could Speak curated by Tasnim Siddiqa Amin elevates non-Western works of art by women and non-binary people to their rightful place as a legitimate artistic practice. Through design and symbolic motifs, henna, also known as mendhi or laali, has adorned bodies for millennia.
6.30pm: Local Foreigners by Maryna Sulym
Local Foreigners is a documentary project created by Ukrainian photographer Maryna Sulym to dignify the image of migration.
It is a collection of personal stories and powerful photos of people who chose to make the UK their home.
The project shows the diversity and complexity of immigration.
6.45pm: Free not Free by Jack Owen
Created with people seeking asylum and living in South Yorkshire, Free, Not Free explores partial status at a moment in time, the experience of forced migration and the feeling of life being on hold, opening up new channels for self representation in the campaign against the hostile environment.
7pm: Becoming British by Dr Lora Krasteva
Inspired by her own experience of gaining British Citizenship, Lora Krasteva has worked with a collective of migrant artists to create an installation built live during a 6h durational performance (Saturday 15th June). The work looks at challenging and interrogating national identity, notions of nationality and belonging.
Created by: Lora Krasteva with Christina Tsoutsi, Denis Boyer, Leonor Estrada Franke & Isabella Leung.
7.15pm: In my own words and pictures by Dr Lois Orton and Olga Fuseini
An exhibition of 'visual poems' created by Czech and Slovak Roma women living in South Yorkshire. The visual poems use words, drawings and other materials to explore these women's perspectives on life, health and illness.
7.30pm: Blurring the Edges by Dr Henry Staples, Lora Krasteva, Uzma Rani, University of Sheffield and Life at the Frontier Research Team
A installation exploring ‘social frontiers’ - sharp differences in the demographics of neighbouring communities - produced by Sheffield and Rotherham-based artists. Through visual art, sound, documentary and augmented reality this installation looks at how social frontiers affect life in Rotherham.
Also part of our exhibitions this year is:
Borders of Childhood by Dr Patricia Nabuco Martuscelli
An exhibition of drawings by Venezuelan children exploring their experiences of forced migration and the asylum system.
Accompanying the drawings are analyses and reflections by Dr Patricia Nabuco Martuscelli, whose research examines asylum and migration politics in Latin America.
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Free
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Doors Open: 17:30
Up Close, Close Up - 17:45
Talks: 18:15
Event end: 20:00
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Soft Ground
37-40 The Moor, S1 4PF
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All ages
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Soft Ground is wheelchair accessible
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Coming soon
Monday 17th June, 2024
Tickets: Free Entry