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

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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.
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 (Norwich): An exhibition by Shathy Bano exploring cultural influence, identity and belonging in the community.

Platforma 2025 (Ipswich): Kurdish cookery demonstration and food sharing.

Platforma 2025 (online): A guide for freelance artists with Samia Malik and the Digital Culture Network.

Platforma 2025 (Saxmundham): Essex Cultural Diversity Project’s Artist Salons are free workshop and networking opportunities for creative practitioners and community organisers.
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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.