Platforma

The Platforma festival takes place in a different English region every two years, produced in collaboration with local partners to showcase work, build capacity and share learning.

The 8th Platforma festival took place across the East of England in October 2025 and following a series meetings and conversations with artists and organisations to co-develop a programme. An evaluation will be shared soon.

View the Platforma 2025 Programme (pdf)

View Platforma 2025 event listings

Read blog articles about Platforma 2025 commissions and projects:

ThinkTank: Music, Migration and Displacement, in partnership with Britten Pears Arts

Embers of Care: an online presentation by Yayen about his portraiture project exploring migration in the NHS

Platforma in Peterborough: The story of a city-wide festival

We Are Here: Sarah Wood reflects on Leaving Were The Ones Who Could Not Stay, at Broadway Gallery in Letchworth featuring the work of Beverley Carruthers, Bettina Furnée, Olga Jürgenson and Idit Elia Nathan

Unstable: Mohammad Noureddini reflects on presenting an exhibition in his new home town of Cambridge.

Displaced, Disabled and Dynamic: Hamzeh Al Hussien and Amy Golding discussing the experiences, triumphs and challenges touring their play Penguin.

Making Oddkin: Maria Proshkovska on her parallel exhibitions: at OUTPOST Gallery in Norwich, UK and at the Centre for Contemporary Art in the frontline city of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.

Sleeping Under Clouds: Reporting back from a workshop run by poet Sue Wallace-Shaddad and artist Sula Rubens at Moorland Primary School, Ipswich.

Carry The Shadows Home: Published by 62 Gladstone Street (Peterborough) and Pendle Press this new collection from 11 visual artists explores deep diasporic threads of memory, identity, and belonging.

Creating Space for Welcome: Artist Belén L.Yáñez reflects on bringing her new work, Welcome, to Colchester and Great Yarmouth.

The Rainbow Chrysalis: A project created by Ruthie Collins in East Anglia exploring the migratory journeys of butterflies

By focusing on a different region every two years, Counterpoints is able to spend time getting to know a wide range of new partners and to build and understanding of the context. Our co-commissions and overall programme are responsive to that, with a view to capacity building for the longer term and creating collaborations that last well beyond the festival period.

Platforma 2027 will take place across South Yorkshire. For more information contact hello@counterpoints.org.uk

Image: Welcome by Belén L.Yáñez (Great Yarmouth, Platforma 2025)