From Tales of Windrush to Slavic Folk

Sunday at Yellow Arch

June 18

June 18

White Voice Singing With Karolina Wegrzyn And Band

White Voice signing is one of the oldest singing techniques that has been preserved in Eastern European rural regions. During the workshop, you will learn folk songs from Poland, Ukraine, and the Balkans. Everyone is welcome, regardless of age, experience or skills.

Birmingham Passage

Germa Adan & Xhosa Cole

Birmingham Passage is an interdisciplinary arts production inspired by layered stories of migration linked to the Windrush generation and the stories, musical passage and origins of the artists who will be presenting this unique work.

June 18

RIGHT 2 HEALING: EMBODYING LIBERATORY FREEDOMS

Peaks of Colour & Right to Roam

Time 11:00 Tickets Free

Meeting Point

Rivelin Park Café

Peaks of Colour & Right 2 Roam invite you to a walkshop exploring the intersections of racial and land justice through the themes of migration, movement, embodiment and belonging. Join them for an introduction to bird watching along the Rivelin Valley Trail, followed by a movement workshop exploring embodied liberation, led by Sym Stelliunm.

Please note: This walkshop is for people of colour only. The event is sold out but you can sign up for the waiting list | 18+ (children must be accompanied by parents)

Walkshop 18+

LIVING IN SHEFFIELD: WRITING OUR JOURNEYS

Event Venue

See Website Time 14:00

Music, Workshop Tickets £7/£5/Free 12+

June

Event Venue

Yellow Arch Studios Time 17:00

Interdisciplinary Performance Tickets £10/£8/Free 16+

EASTERN EUROPEAN & SLAVIC FOLK NIGHT FEATURING MUHA

Karolina Wegrzyn

Event Venue Yellow Arch Studios Time 19:00

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Tickets £12/£10/Free

MUHA offers a new tradition in contemporary Eastern European music, influenced by the multicultural society in the UK.

Combining the melodic beauty of Eastern European folklore, North Indian Kathak rhythms, Cuban beats and original lyrics they mesmerise with a musical feast rooted in the Slavonic tradition but cultured from the world.

Karolina Wegrzyn is an award-winning folk singer, multiinstrumentalist and song-collector from South Poland and UK.

As a folk singer, accordion and hammered dulcimer musician from Poland, Karolina’s music is rooted in the rich tradition of her native villages. She is deeply influenced by the songs of the older generations, which Karolina has had the privilege of collecting and recording through her interactions with elderly village citizens.

Dr Patricia Nabuco Martuscelli & Livia Barreira

Author Livia Barreira and researcher Dr Patricia Nabuco Martuscelli invite you to reflect on, and write about, the journey that brought you to Sheffield. In the workshop, Livia and Patricia will guide you through a writing exercise and art activity to explore your own Sheffield story.

Exhibitions Launch

To mark the beginning of Refugee Week we hear from the artists and organisations behind a selection of this year’s exhibits and installations including Humanising, In a Thousand Silences, Sent North: Afghan Photo Project, Femaledividuality Displacement, Digital Art Exhibition, Family Portrait and Reimagining Home for Refugees and Homeless People.

Rapid Response

Ark Sheffield

June 20

Ark Sheffield is a citywide conversation about the climate crisis that was launched in 2022 with Sheffield Theatres for Together in the City.

How is an ark a way of talking about the climate crisis? The story of people creating a boat to save themselves from a flood resonates across cultures and histories, past and present. In our time of unprecedented climate emergency, the flood is not the same for all people.

For some, it is sea level rise. For others, it could be economic uncertainty or displacement. It could be many things... ‘Rapid Response’ invites artists working in any medium to propose creative works that imaginatively address the questions ‘what would you take with you?’ and ‘what should we leave behind?’

June

YUS KYUN (THREE SUNS) + LEAVE TO REMAIN

UDAGAN + Supermarket Saint

Drop In Day

City of Sanctuary Sheffield

Join City of Sanctuary Sheffield for an Open Day at The Sanctuary and discover how you can make a difference! Connect with their community, enjoy food and drinks, and learn about their work to make Sheffield a place of safety and welcome for all refugees and people seeking asylum.

June 20

Migration Movements

Shobana Jeyasingh Dance

Responding to the theme of “Migration Movements”, and working with Shobana Jeyasingh Dance, young creatives from across Sheffield will premier their new dance performances.

June

Yellow Arch Studios Time 19:30

Event Venue

Tickets

£10/£8/Free

Immerse yourself in the musical journeys of two artists in this exciting double bill

UDAGAN is a musical project created by Saydyy-Kuo Fedorova and Oscar South, based in Sheffield, UK, and inspired by the traditional music, culture, folklore, and shamanic heritage of the Republic of Sakha in North Siberia.

Supermarket Saint consists of the keyboardist Babak Mirsalari and Kevin Clark on drums, followed by the visual artist Nikta Mohammadi’s captivating techniques. The founder, Babak Mirsalari, fuses Southern Iranian rhythm and melodies with electronic music with an unconventional approach to the piano, in which he mixes an upright piano with an analogue synthesiser and drum machines.

Supported by Opera North and Help Musicians.

16+ (under 18s must be accompanied by an adult) music 16+

Event Venue

The Sanctuary Time 10:00

ROUTES TO ROOTS: A SOUTH ASIAN HERITAGE PROJECT

Maya Productions

Routes to Roots: A South Asian Heritage Project is a vibrant multi arts performance piece, sharing reflections on migration, heritage and cultural identity from young people and community groups in Bradford, Croydon and Sheffield.

Event Venue Drama Studio Time 17:00

Theatre,

Event Venue

Barkers Pool Time 13:00

June 20

FROM UKRAINE TO THE UK: WOMEN, WAR AND MIGRATION

Dr Miriam Dobson, University of Sheffield

Join historians Dr Tetyana Zabolotna and Dr Miriam Dobson at this film screening and talk exploring the experiences of Ukrainian refugee women who made Sheffield their home in 2022. The discussion will also examine how earlier generations of Ukrainian women experienced war and migration.

Content Warning: The event concerns the war in Ukraine

Event Venue Soft Ground Time 17:45

Talk Tickets Free 12+