a community arts festival
foregrounding 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.
FESTIVAL PROGRAMMe
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Creative Workshop: Mapping Our Roots
July 27th 2025, 2-5PM
With: Touch Grass C.I.C
Orangery and South Parlour, Queens House, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
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Zine-making workshop
August 2nd 2025, 2-5PM
With: Sold Out Publishing & Plan B
Learning Space, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
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Queer Migrations Live-Art Performance Event
August 9th 2025, 7-9PM
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. BSL Interpreted Event
QUEER MIGRATIONS EXHIBITION
Artists have been invited to explore what it means to move — or be moved — as a queer person. What gets left behind, and what do we carry with us?
The Queer Migrations Exhibition opening celebration, featured Live Music performance by STAND!BACK (Jo Fraser & Chris Clarke).
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.
Queer Migrations Exhibition is open till August 9th, Firepit Arts & Studios
Tuesday (10AM-5PM), Wednesday (10AM-5PM), Thursday (12-7PM), Friday (10AM-5PM) and Saturday (11AM-5PM)
Free to attend & no need to book!
Access: step free access + accessible toilet, two steps to enter the Red Room, ramp available, please ask at the bar for the ramp to be set up (or dm us that you are coming and we’ll sort it for your arrival)
LECTURE: Painting international law
Queer Migrations Festival opened with a captivating and illuminating lecture and discussion on using art for expressive visualisation of international law, with Professor Dr. Elvira Pushkareva
