Women and Migration

Join our free 4 creative workshops to celebrate our voices, cultures, and languages through storytelling, writing & photography.

No previous experience needed.

Starting: 20th November 2025

Every Thursday 11am-12.30pm

Venue: Sheffield Flourish, Upper Floor, 4 Windrush Way, Sheffield S3 8JU

To book a place, please email: connectedworlds@sheffieldflourish.co.uk

Part of the Festival of Social Science, funded by the University of Sheffield, Sheffield's schools and hospital settings are busy spending their September decorating fabric patches (called "blocks" in the quilting world) with words that make them feel happy, safe, and welcome. These blocks will be stitched together, and then quilted into a "Quilt of Welcome" by the whole community. Between 31st October and 2nd November 2025, pop by the Millennium Galleries to be part of Sheffield's "Quilt of Welcome". There will be an accompanying programme of multilingual poetry readings, multilingual storytelling, etc. - a full schedule will be added once available.

The Window on Korea in the Western Bank Library, in partnership with our Korean language team, is holding a Korea Culture Day in the Library for senior school students on Saturday 25th October.

Students are welcome to join us for games, a Korean writing class, snacks, a K-Pop dance experience and traditional Korean Hanbok try-on with a photo zone.

Korea Culture Day - Saturday 25th October, 10am-3pm

Window on Korea, Western Bank Library, University of Sheffield, S10 2TN

Sign up using this Google Form 

25 places and First-come, First-served.

The registration form will close once all places are filled.

Join us on 29th October, 10.30-12.30 for this free interactive in-person workshop suitable for families with children in the 4-11 age range in which you will design and make your own multilingual comic strip. The workshop will include pre teaching on how to create a story board and develop characters for the comic.

The event is part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science and funded by Sheffield Hallam University. Through making and creative activities we situate learning in a storytelling context, enabling children to express and reflect on evolving and hybrid identities. Understanding these practices better and building on them in contexts beyond the home seems imperative to understanding the barriers and enablers to a racially just and inclusive society.  

To find out more and book your place please visit: https://festivalofsocialscience.com/events/multilingual-comic-making-c-e-tworzenie-komiksow-wielojzycznych/

Facilitated by Ester Ehiyazaryan-White and Julia Sexton, Senior Lecturers in Childhood Studies at Sheffield Hallam University

Come and celebrate Tanabata Matsuri, the Star Festival, with the Japanese Play Group and Study Club.

Sunday 6th July, 14.00-17.00 hours

Walkley Community Centre

Admissions £2 per person

Join in with a wide range of activities, including Japanese calligraphy, Kimono display and dressing experience, Okinawan-style tea ceremony, Tanabata storytime and songs, making Tanabata decorations, and much more!

Thursday 26th June 2025, 10am-4pm, Sheffield Hallam University

This conference brings together international specialists in the area of multilingualism and translanguaging in education. It showcases pedagogy and practice that benefits all learners with EAL, from beginners to advanced, and makes a vital contribution towards embracing diversity and addressing race equality.

For further information and tickets, please see here.

While not explicitly linked to multilingualism, the Migration Matters Festival is an annual highlight for Sheffield, bringing you performances, community events, hands on workshops, during Refugee Week each year. In 2025, the Migration Matters Festival runs from 20th-28th June - see more info here.

Pint of Science is an annual festival that brings research to the general public. This year, two of the presentations have a language-related focus:

20th May: Thriving for language learners: A beginner's guide - Dr Abigail Parrish

21st May: Traditional Tales, Untraditionally Told: Stories of languages and making - Dr Sabine Little and Saman Qarni

For more information and the full Sheffield Pint of Science Programme, see here.

Heads up about a number of East Asian Events happening around the city in the next few months!

• 02 May: UoS Japan Day , 15:00-20:00@ Octagon Centre

• 7 June: JPS Traditional Japanese culture workshop "The Living Beauty of Kimono Culture (TBC)"  Details to follow 

• 6 July: JPS Japanese Star Festival (Tanabata Matsuri), 14:00-17:00@ Walkley Community Centre

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