{"id":131274,"date":"2025-05-25T18:15:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T18:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/131274\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T18:15:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T18:15:15","slug":"migration-matters-festival-returns-for-its-10th-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/131274\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Migration Matters’ festival returns for its 10th year"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Migration Matters<\/a> Festival in Sheffield will allow migrants and refugees to celebrate their culture and heritage creatively.<\/p>\n

The festival, set up by the charity \u2018Arts on the Run\u2019, will take place from run from the 21st to 28th of June.<\/p>\n

One participant in the festival expressed that it \u2018is a really important part of Sheffield culture because Sheffield was the first city of sanctuary.\u2019<\/p>\n

The talent on display will vary between dance, film, music, art, poetry, and creative writing workshops, which are due to run throughout the event.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Amongst those featuring their creativity is multi-award winning illustrator and performer Madeleina Kay, from London. Her art exhibition, \u2018Kaleidentity\u2019, explores the identity of ten migrants she met on a tour of Europe in 2019, which was funded by the \u2018Democracy Needs Imagination\u2019 grant.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cA lot of the narratives in the media kind of demonise migrants and I really wanted to just celebrate their identities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kay\u2019s oil paintings and lino cut prints depict the individual identities of the migrants she met, and she says that the project was \u2018an act of love\u2019 to them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"Madeleina Kay and participant Lora Krasteva<\/p>\n

\"\"Madeleina with her painting of Lora<\/p>\n

Kay describes herself as being in a \u2018facilitating role\u2019 to the migrants who she has based her exhibition on, describing it as a \u2018co-creation\u2019 between her and them. She says the participants influenced the artistic choices she made.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of her participants, Marcelo, said: \u201cI think it\u2019s more than just an art project and a piece of research, it\u2019s a cosmic gift.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kay now wishes to publish a book detailing the migrants\u2019 lives and experiences alongside her artwork.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Other events include a performance by the \u2018One World Choir\u2019, a choir set up for asylum seekers in Sheffield, and a community lunch at Ammi\u2019s Kitchen<\/a>, where you can try authentic food cooked by local migrant women.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Events will take place across various locations, including The Moor, Common Ground Community Centre, The Art House and Soft Ground, and The Crucible theatre, where comedians such as Fatiha El-Ghorri and Esther Manito are set to perform.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Migration Matters Festival in Sheffield will allow migrants and refugees to celebrate their culture and heritage creatively.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-131274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114569840139752063","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}