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The Canoe Race
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.
Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination: Creative Exchange 2025
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.
Community Takeover @ Jerwood DanceHouse
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.
Leaving Were The Ones Who Could Not Stay
Platforma 2025 (Letchworth): Broadway Gallery presents a new exhibition featuring the work of Beverley Carruthers, Bettina Furnée, Olga Jürgenson and Idit Elia Nathan.
You Never Asked My Name
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.
Palestine: Peace de Resistance
Edinburgh Fringe: A historical collage of conflict, colonialism and clowning from multi-talented Sami Abu-Wardeh.
Displaced, Disabled & Dynamic
Platforma 2025 (online): Featuring Hamzeh Al Hussien and Amy Golding discussing the experiences, triumphs and challenges touring their play Penguin.
Grow Your Digital Reach
Platforma 2025 (online): A guide for freelance artists with Samia Malik and the Digital Culture Network.
Sabrin Hasbun @ Norwich Book Festival
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.
Penguin @ The Garage, Norwich
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.
Penguin @ Cambridge Junction
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.
Sudan, Remember Us
PopChange Film Club presents an extraordinary documentary that bears witness to a lost revolution and unearths a tribute to the power of creativity as a tool of survival and resistance.
Platforma Festival 2025
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.
Leaving Were the Ones
Beverley Carruthers, Bettina Furnée, Olga Jürgenson and Idit Nathan present a 'work in progress' event ahead of an exhibition as part of the Platforma festival in October.
Theatres of Sanctuary Away Day
Platforma 2025 (Norwich): Counterpoints and City of Sanctuary bring together theatres and theatre companies from across the country at Norwich Theatre.
V&A: Threads of Joy and Community
A day of family friendly activities celebrating Refugee Week including performances by Isaac Ouro-Gnao and workshops by Community Arts Box.
