MIGRATION MATTERS FESTIVAL OPENING PARTY

Millicent Chapanda

Join Millicent Chapanda in an incisive participatory and inclusive gathering. Mbira musings is a celebration of Shona culture that calls on the ancestral spirits rising through the trance of cascading sound of the mbira and the pull of the voice to the outer worlds.

Sidney and Matilda

Colectiva

One of the most soulful and vibrant nights of the year. That’s right! It’s the Migration Matters Festival opening party!

With delicious food from Open Kitchen Social Club, Milli Chapanda’s mesmerising Mbira and feverishly fun jams from Colectiva that will make your soul dance before DJ Disorientalist sees the night out with beats from a borderless world.

Crafting thoughtful arrangements rooted in the sonorities of Africa, Latin America and the diaspora, they have birthed a sound affectionately dubbed jazz tropicaliente (hottropical-jazz), rich in bold horn lines, jazz harmony and Afro-Latin groove.

Anti-hierarchical in arrangement and structure, COLECTIVA exist as a vessel and a platform in which women instrumentalists come together through their love of and appreciation for Afro-Latin and Jazz genres, to compose collaboratively, in the spirit of sisterhood.

Sheffield One World Choir Songs from Around the World

With members from all over the world, this community choir of refugees, asylum seekers and other local people is a diverse family of singers. Bringing songs from different cultures, including original compositions, they express our shared humanity through vibrant and spirited performances.

June 17-19