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Queer Migrations
Queer Migrations is a community arts festival foregrounding the complex intersections of queerness and migration — how bodies, identities, and stories move across borders, seas, and generations.
Taking place from July 9th - August 9th across Royal Museums Greenwich, Firepit Art Gallery and PARKSfest 2025, the festival centres the experiences of queer people who have journeyed, fled, or resettled, often in search of safety, freedom, or belonging.
By highlighting the resilience and creativity of queer migrants—past and present—Queer Migrations invites audiences and attendees to consider how histories of movement shape queer life today. Through performances, workshops, and community-led events, Queer Migrations asks us to reflect on what it means to move — and to be moved — as queer people in a world shaped by borders.
As a part of the Queer Migrations Festival 2025, Bold Mellon Collective will commission 5 LGBTQIA+ visual artists with a connection to the Borough of Greenwich to exhibit their work at the Firepit Arts Gallery & Studios. Interested in applying? Find our more HERE.
The exhibition will be free-to-attend to the public from July 15th till August 9th, 10am to 5pm Tuesday - Saturday.
Supported by Royal Greenwich Festivals
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Queer Migrations Exhibiting Artists:
April Forrest Lin 林森
Elisia Brown
Elvira Pushkareva
Jae Lim
Lapis Al-Shammaa
Lenka Kalafutova
Misha Zakharov
Nat Sultan
Rishi Khurana
Tasalla Tabasom
Yaya
Current
ROUTIN3S
Curated by Anne-Marie Bickerton, from Bickerton Gallery and Marcus Jake from Firepit Gallery.
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This is a group show of 29 of the best contemporary artists working in their individual fields. Running in Firepit's Main Gallery space from June 19th to Sept 20th
“Routines are the quiet architects of our lives, offering structure and order in a world of chaos. They ease our stress and guide us through the day. But when they become too rigid, routines can shift from being helpful to burdensome.
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Are we truly successful because of our habits, or is success found in breaking free from them? Routines can both empower and limit us. In the space between structure and spontaneity, perhaps we find the freedom to simply be”
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Ci.Ro. Manrique Carol Lucas Armando Alemandar Jonel Scholtz Oscar Clarke Mike Thebridge SOMA Curtis Donovan Jago Riggs Daren Charman Pragya Kumar FREEMAN Sophie Batey Cheryl Sturge Salma bs.art Shahina Deborah Azzopardi Andrea Segura Tamara Jovandic the.artist.k Paul Flanders Nelly K Sergio Carando Maddie Mellon Mia Hawk Mandala By Jenny Chris Constable Nicola J Reid
YOUTH IN RESILIENCE
This exhibit is a visual exploration of the queer youth experience across borders and cultures. Through a collection of photographs, viewers are invited into the intimate lives of queer youth as they navigate the complexities of migration, identity, and belonging. Each image tells a deeply personal story of self-discovery, conveying the journey of realising one-self in unfamiliar spaces and contexts.
There are two parts of this exhibit, with the first one featuring three portraits taken in 2022 right after Russian full scale invasion of Ukraine. The tenderness of the images is contrasted with the raging emotions experienced and by the inability of a person to process such overwhelming fear for their friends, strangers, and loved ones. This collection is about resistance and the resilience to military aggression and state sanctioned violence. How does one remain a person in the face of the dehumanising force?
The second part of the exhibit spans the narrative of complex identities and the search for belonging. It highlights the multiple, ongoing struggles faced by queer youth—where the fight for sexual and gender acceptance intersects with the experience of displacement, both physical and metaphorical. With the increased pressure on immigration in the UK and the abhorrent Supreme Court ruling, images taken in the time period of 2023-2024 are emplaced within the framework of the ongoing struggle.
At its core, this exhibition strives to draw similarities of the shared human experience that connect queer identities across diverse landscapes, showing how shared human experiences of love, acceptance, and vulnerability empower and affirm them.
