A multi-stranded exhibition at The Impressions Gallery in Bradford presenting an intimate perspective on the lives of displaced people: one in which displaced people themselves tell their own stories. #Platforma6 Read More...

Online: "Suitcases: Telling Textile Travels" is an online exhibition which will incorporate over 20 international textiles from the Conflict Textiles collection focused on global displacement, both historical and current, its multiple impacts and the experiences of refugees both before and after they arrive and settle in their host country. #Platforma6 Read More...

Commissioned by Counterpoints Arts for the sixth biennial Platforma Festivial, four poets will work with participants across Yorkshire to create new work for local performances. #Platforma6 Read More...

Compass Collective joins Leeds Playhouse and the British Red Cross to deliver an exciting new project. Over the course of a month, Compass will bring two groups of young people seeking sanctuary together in Leeds to develop a dramatic audio piece. #Platforma6 Read More...

Mafwa Theatre's first cohort of Associate Artists will be each developing and delivering a digital version of their work as part of Platforma 6 with support from Counterpoints Arts. #Platforma6 Read More...

Online: Sharing practice, ideas and questions about connections between the arts and ESOL. #Platforma6 Read More...

Online: Transforming with Poetry presents a free online poetry translation event open to all, that seeks to build bridges in a divided world. #Platforma6 Read More...

Online: A free seminar led by Anna Nyburg exploring the contributuon of refugees, primarily Jewish, to the British textile, fashion and design industries in the 1930s and beyond, with a particular focus on those who settled and worked in Yorkshire. #Platforma6 Read More...

Online: A free seminar for organisations wanting to move to a more sustainable long-term fundraising strategy. #Platforma6 Read More...

Tea, Textiles and Time by Kate Dunn and Matilda Velevitch - presented in Harrogate as part of #Platforma6 Read More...

Join Rich Wiles and artists Taysir Batniji, Ala Buisir, Gohar Dashti and Andrew Jackson, as well as writer Anan Tello and Raghad Mardini, founding director of Litehouse Gallery, for an international symposium inspired by In Which Language Do We Dream? #Platforma6 Read More...

Join Tatiana Hernández-De Ceapóg in Leeds for free textile-making workshops, inspired by the Chilean textile art form of creating ‘Arpilleras’. #Platforma6 Read More...

Online. Ismail Einashe engages with a city riven with layered histories that are being reshaped by contemporary arrivals from outside Europe. Presented live from the 2021 Autumn School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice, an initiative of Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts (Ireland) and Counterpoints Arts’ Learning Lab (UK). #Platforma6 Read More...

Rafiki Jazz are a group of musicians and singers from Africa, India, the Middle East, South America and Europe, bound together on a mission to share their borderless music. #Platforma6 Read More...

Opera North’s very first Theatre of Sanctuary Open Mic Night, a celebration of collaboration and connection featuring musicians from around the world who are now based in the region, plus a special performance from Stone Flowers. #Platforma6 Read More...