Migration Matters Festival

Otis Mensah at Migration Matters 2019

In 2007 Sheffield became the UK’s first City of Sanctuary – a place that welcomes asylum-seekers and refugees, that offers a hand to people in need of safety. Held around Refugee Week each June, Migration Matters Festival is a celebration of diversity and the positive impact migration and refugees have in Sheffield.

The festival launched in 2016, the year of the Brexit referendum and Syrian refugee crisis. Each year the Migration Matters programme brings communities together over fantastic, globe-spanning variety of theatre, music, dance, workshops, exhibitions, and more.

See our guide to 2024 Migration Matters programme highlights.

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Drama Studio

A beautifully converted church on the University of Sheffield campus, hosting student theatre, festival events and new performance.

Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood

Thu. 24 October 2024 — Sun. 19 January 2025

Millennium Gallery

An exhibition plunging into the joys and heartaches, mess, myths and mishaps of motherhood. With modern and contemporary work by artists including Bobby Baker, Marlene Dumas, Tracey Emin, Susan Hiller, Chantal Joffe, Claudette Johnson and Paula Rego.

Theatre

Chris Bush

The playwright behind the Park Hill-set musical Standing at the Sky’s Edge talks about tackling big ideas through theatre, and finding honest human stories that an audience can connect with.

Make a Maze workshop

Sat. 16 November 2024

On The Brink, 90 Osbourne Road, Nether Edge, S11 9BB

Join artist Lisa Watt to make your own game, just in time for Christmas. The aim of the game is to get the marble from one corner to the next without falling down a hole, so tilt the game on your lap to let the marble roll and avoid those traps.

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