event 19 Jun 2024
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We Gather - Migration Matters Festival 2024

Date 19 Jun 2024
Time 18:00 – 19:30
Venue Soft Ground

Migration Matters Festival is Britain’s largest festival about Sanctuary and refugees. It creates a platform to champion the voices of people who are so often muted, pigeon-holed into labels and rarely genuinely offered a chance to shape in the cultural and artistic landscape of the cities they live in. Dig Where You Stand is proud to have a longstanding relationship with the festival and returned again in 2024.

In the build up to the DWYS summer biennial we put on an evening full of creativity, wisdom and much laughter. It was a true celebration of women of colour in the north, present and past.

We heard from a series of talented artists, Rosa Cisneros, Wemmy Ogunyankin, Asma Kabadeh and Najma Heybe about their process in developing their work and the experience of working within local archives.

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biennial 20 Jul 2024

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There has not been anything like this done in South Yorkshire before, not at this scale. The Biennial is more than an arts exhibition, it is a reclamation. An act of memory recovery and a rennarration of the region’s racial history. Dig Where You Stand is an archival justice movement that has partnered with Sheffield City Archives, The Centre for Equity & Inclusion and Peter & Paul to bring you this powerful and necessary intervention.

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news 19 Mar 2024

Travelling Ayahs Workshop

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For International Women's Day we celebrated the extraordinary lives of travelling Ayahs in Britain

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