Platforma 2025 (Letchworth): Broadway Gallery presents a new exhibition featuring the work of Beverley Carruthers, Bettina Furnée, Olga Jürgenson and Idit Elia Nathan.
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 Platforma 2025 (Colchester): Explore Ghafar Tajmohammad’s thought-provoking collection of paintings and hand-woven rugs, called kilims, reflecting on conflict, home, and the search for hope and resilience. |
4 events,
 Our 8th Platforma Festival will take place in October across the East of England, co-produced with local artists and organisations and also featuring touring work from across the country.
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Platforma 2025 (online): Featuring Hamzeh Al Hussien and Amy Golding discussing the experiences, triumphs and challenges touring their play Penguin. |
5 events,
 Platforma 2025 (Colchester): An interactive, site-responsive performance by Belén Yáñez that invites audiences to reflect on their interactions with people they don't know in new contexts.
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 Platforma 2025 (Norwich): A community event with refugees and asylum seekers in Norwich with a focus on the arts, mental health and wellbeing. |
7 events,
 Platforma 2025 (Peterborough): Following its successful run at French Riviera Gallery in London and the Rich Mix in Bethnal Green, Bridging Landscapes II comes to Peterborough Museum - a group exhibition curated by Aisha Zia.  Platforma 2025 (Norwich) : An interdisciplinary project resented as two parallel exhibitions: at OUTPOST Gallery in Norwich, UK and at the Centre for Contemporary Art in the frontline city of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.
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 Platforma 2025 (Peterborough): 62 Gladstone Street presents a hands-on stitching workshop by Lebanese London-based artist Aya Haidar exploring memory, migration, and material storytelling. |
9 events,
 Platforma 2025 (Cambridge): Jill Eastland brings to life the dark blue tabards typically worn by the lowest paid and most precarious workers, with embroidery and sound.
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 Platforma 2025 (Norwich): Join a collaborative art session with community artist Shathy Bano, inspired by Sainsbury Centre artworks.
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Platforma 2025 (Cambridge): Marion Leeper and Tonka Uzu take you on a timeless journey to a remote atoll in the Pacific ocean to meet Sky Mother and her nine splendid sons.
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 Platforma 2025 (Peterborough): Metal Peterborough presents a reflective session with exhibiting artists Olga Jurgenson and Idit Nathan, part of a long-standing mentoring group. |
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 Platforma 2025 (Great Yarmouth): Join award-winning poets Marjorie Lotfi and George Szirtes in conversation with Peggy Hughes of the National Centre for Writing for an evening of readings and reflection on the idea of sanctuary in poetry. |
9 events,
 Platforma 2025 (Snape): This strategic ThinkTank is being convened by Britten Pears Arts and Counterpoints to explore and address the intersections between music, migration, and displacement.  Platforma 2025 (Cambridge): Full of humour and beauty, Hamzeh Al-Hussien’s extraordinary story takes you on a personal tour of the places he knows best: his village in the Syrian mountains, Za’atari camp in Jordan, Gateshead and inside his mind.
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 Platforma 2025 (Norwich): Counterpoints and City of Sanctuary bring together theatres and theatre companies from across the country at Norwich Theatre. |
8 events,
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6 events,
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Platforma 2025 (Norwich): Full of humour and beauty, Hamzeh Al-Hussien’s extraordinary story takes you on a personal tour of the places he knows best: his village in the Syrian mountains, Za’atari camp in Jordan, Gateshead and inside his mind. |
7 events,
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 Platforma 2025 (Ipswich): Join award winning writer Dr Amanda Hodgkinson for a creative writing workshop taking inspiration from stories of arrival, community, and belonging.
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 Platforma 2025 (Diss): A historical collage of conflict, colonialism and clowning from multi-talented Sami Abu Wardeh. |
9 events,
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 Platforma 2025 (Peterborough): 62 Gladstone Street presents a workshop led by Oloyede Michael: participants will blend improvisation, storytelling, and performance to create original pieces that celebrate us!
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 Platforma 2025 (Norwich): A fascinating in-conversation event about writing the refugee experience with Eritrean-Ethiopian-British novelist Sulaiman Addonia, the acclaimed author of The Seers and Silence Is My Mother Tongue. |
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 Platforma 2025 (online): Embers of Care is a 100-artwork series by Yayen, a nurse, migrant, and artist, dedicated to honouring the journeys, resilience, and contributions of migrant healthcare workers in the UK. |
11 events,
 Platforma 2025 (Norwich): An exhibition by Shathy Bano exploring cultural influence, identity and belonging in the community. 
Platforma 2025 (Diss): An exhibition from the Palestine Museum that strives to inform, educate, and narrate stories of historical locations and cultural practices in Gaza, providing a glimpse into Gaza’s arts, aspirations, and uniqueness—what remains of it in these harsh times.  Platforma 2025 (Peterborough): A new play written by Aisha Zia. A version for Platforma Festival directed by Suba Das, with Musical Direction by Rob Green.
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 Platforma 2025 (online): A guide for freelance artists with Samia Malik and the Digital Culture Network.
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 Platforma 2025 (Saxmundham): Essex Cultural Diversity Project’s Artist Salons are free workshop and networking opportunities for creative practitioners and community organisers. |
9 events,
 Platforma 2025 (Cambridge): An installation made by Emanuela Cusin & Sarah Wood in response to St Peter’s, Cambridge – an ancient church whose history is rooted in the idea of sanctuary. |
10 events,
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 Platforma 2025 (Peterborough): A creative, participatory workshop exploring connections between food, memory, and migration with artist Madhu Manipatruni and Peterborough Presents. |
12 events,
 Platforma 2025 (Cambridge): A show bringing together the work of studio artists based at Cambridge Artworks and refugees in Cambridge.  Platforma 2025 (Great Yarmouth): New work created by artists Tristan Shorr and Rae Champion (CONCRETE) in collaboration with Lomond Campbell, exploring migration, refugees, war and loss through the human voice.
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Platforma 2025 (Ipswich): Join local writer Sue Wallace-Shaddad for a poetry workshop reflecting on the challenges of belonging and consider what makes us who we are, and how our identities are influenced by others.
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 Platforma (Colchester): The No Direction Home stand-up comedy collective comes to East Bergholt for one night only! |
13 events,
Platforma 2025 (Great Yarmouth): An interactive, site-responsive performance by Belén Yáñez that invites audiences to reflect on their interactions with people they don't know in new contexts.
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 Platforma 2025 (Ipswich): A day of sharing and celebration, giving space to artists and arts made by and with migrant and refugee communities across Suffolk and the East of England.
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 Platforma 2025 (Peterborough): Join the Aziz Foundation for lunch and hear about their support for British Muslim communities in the media, the arts, and public life. |
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8 events,
 Platforma 2025 (Norwich): This socially engaged art piece and poem from Ruthie Collins and friends features beautiful butterflies made with children in Norfolk and objects inspired by movement, in heritage and nature. |
9 events,
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Platforma 2025 (Lowestoft): Essex Cultural Diversity Project’s Artist Salons are free workshop and networking opportunities for creative practitioners and community organisers. |
9 events,
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 Platforma 2025 (Peterborough): 62 Gladstone Street presents a session blending sport and creativity that invites participants to reshape narratives with movement and dialogue - led by Maslaha in partnership with British Fencing.
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 Platforma 2025 (Peterborough): Join Makan for a practical workshop designed to help you speak more confidently and effectively about Palestine. |
7 events,
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 Platforma 2025 (Norwich): Sabrin Hasbun, winner of the inaugural Footnote X Counterpoints Writing Prize presents her book Crossing: A Love Story Between Italy and Palestine. |
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 Platforma 2025 (Suffolk): A participatory arts project designed and led by artist Gillian Allard in partnership with Living Grief and Counterpoints.
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 Platforma 2025 (Cambridge): An immersive training day to share insights, reflections and experiences of how creative practices can expand and enrich how we understand belonging. |
