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Platforma Festival - Ismail is seeking a new life... Leeds Studio in association with West Yorkshire Playhouse presents Nine Lives by Zodwa Nyoni
Image: Everyday on Canalside, Marcia Chandra, 2015 Date: Thursday 5 November – 2015 Time: 11:40 – 1:00 pm Location: De Montfort University, Leicester LE1 9BH The 2015 Budget painted a very partisan picture of the parsing of the public purse with harsh everyday effects for diverse communities of place. Can we credibly claim to engage in socially [...]
Platforma Festival - Award-winning theatre company Transport returns with a multi-media sea saga at the Y Theatre in Leicester.
Platforma Festival - The 3rd Platforma Conference will take place 5-6 November 2015 in Leicester. Plus Platforma International 4 November.
Platforma Festival - Internal Terrains by Natasha Davis is a participatory performance that explores life as a choreography of decades.
Learning Lab focuses on the social and cultural value of craft as a form of place-making when produced by migrant and refugee women.
The Tricycle Theatre and Counterpoints Arts invite you to take part in a conversation about the value of the arts for young EAL learners.
Talk with Mary Mitchell, poet George Szirtes and Syrian musician Maya Youssef - in collaboration with The Continuum Ensamble.
It’s your story too! – Refugee Week family event organised in partnership with the V&A Childhood Museum
Special performance for Refugee Week 2015, bringing together singer-songwriter Josephine Oniyama and members of the UK-based Heritage Survival Band from Harare.
The Queen of Mbira Music from Zimbabwe plays a rare London gig at Just Festival Westminster, as part of a short UK tour celebrating Refugee Week
In association with the Migration Museum Project 16 June: 3:30 – 6 pm The Ditch, Shoreditch Town Hall, 380 Old Street, London Artists are often astute observers of the intricate – idiosyncratic – processes of place-making. They are able to document the everyday minutiae shaping the cultural diversity of local places. Yet artistic practices of [...]
A week-long programme of events, featuring over 40 artists responding to global demographic shifts and unprecedented levels of human displacement.
A car loaded with personal possessions turned into a living space – an impossible home for a “modern nomad unable to belong and grow roots”. This personal yet universal piece by German-Syrian artist Manaf Halbouni speaks of his transient life in exile from Damascus. It also stands as a moving testament to loss, resilience and [...]
The awe-inspiring images of photographer Sebastião Salgado are celebrated by director Wim Wenders.
