• Words of Welcome: In conversation with Marjorie Lotfi and George Szirtes

    Great Yarmouth Library The Place, 37-39 Market Place, Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom

    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.

  • Think Tank: Music and Displacement

    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.

  • Theatres of Sanctuary Away Day

    Norwich Theatre Theatre St, Norwich, United Kingdom

    Platforma 2025 (Norwich): Counterpoints and City of Sanctuary bring together theatres and theatre companies from across the country at Norwich Theatre.

  • Penguin @ Cambridge Junction

    Cambridge Junction Clifton Way, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    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.

  • Penguin @ The Garage, Norwich

    The Garage 14 Chapel Field North, Norwich, United Kingdom

    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.

  • Creative Writing Workshop with Amanda Hodgkinson

    The Hold Ipswich, United Kingdom

    Platforma 2025 (Ipswich): Join award winning writer Dr Amanda Hodgkinson for a creative writing workshop taking inspiration from stories of arrival, community, and belonging.

  • Sami Abu Wardeh – Palestine: Peace de Resistance

    The Ballroom No 8 Marketplace, Diss, United Kingdom

    Platforma 2025 (Diss): A historical collage of conflict, colonialism and clowning from multi-talented Sami Abu Wardeh.

  • DIASPORA

    Artworks and Artspace 5 Green's Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Platforma 2025 (Cambridge): Cambridge Black Creatives present their annual exhibition.

  • Roots & Rhythm: An Afro-Jazz and Poetry Workshop

    Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery 51 Priestgate, Peterborough, United Kingdom

    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!

  • Slidefest

    Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery 51 Priestgate, Peterborough, United Kingdom

    Platforma 2025 (Peterborough): 62 Gladstone Street presents Slidefest: a workshop featuring four photographers whose powerful visual storytelling explores first-generation migration.

  • Hearts, Bodies & Words: Migration Stories with Sulaiman Addonia 

    National Centre for Writing Dragon Hall, 115-123 King Street, Norwich, United Kingdom

    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.

  • Embers of Care by Yayen

    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.