Origins Festival

21/03/2026

Everyone at Border Crossings and the ORIGINS Festival is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Rhoda Roberts: the visionary Bundjalung cultural leader and activist. Rhoda's extraordinary foundation and curation of the Dreaming Festival inspired us in so many ways. We could never have undertaken the managing of an Indigneous Festival in London without her extraordinary example. She will be remembered with profound gratitude and love.

02/02/2026

This March!

For six nights only, Border Crossings brings an urgent new interactive play to the stage.

Across Europe, displacement is framed as a threat rather than a human reality—while the voices of the voices of refugees themselves remain unheard.

Developed through a month-long collaboration with Syrian refugee women in Turkey, the performance centres first-hand accounts of displacement.

Tobi King Bakare, Vlad Gurdis and Albie Marber lead audiences through a contemporary reimagining of The Suppliants, Aeschylus’ 2,500-year-old play about asylum and democracy.

And each night, the audience faces a decision:
Should the Suppliants be welcomed into our city?

That’s not all…

🫶An exhibition of visual art by artists from refugee backgrounds frames the show.

🎶 After each performance different local refugee choirs incl Counterpoints Arts Sounds Like Home choir, Pan Intercultural Arts Amies Freedom Choir and Syrian musicians incl Rama Alcoutlabi and Rihab Azar take to the stage.

📍 Hoxton Hall
📆 Tue 3 - Sun 8 March
🎟️ https://hoxtonhall.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173671430

10/01/2026

Email: [email protected] by 10 February!

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We’re inviting artists from refugee backgrounds to exhibit their work at Hall , a historic theatre and creative hub in East London.

Selected artworks will be shown as part of ARRIVING, BECOMING, BELONGING, an outreach project running alongside the new multimedia performance SUPPLIANTS OF SYRIA (3–8 March 2026).

SUPPLIANTS OF SYRIA explores what it means to seek asylum, flee war and persecution, and build a life in a new land. The exhibition will be open to performance audiences and daytime visitors of Hoxton Hall.

How to apply
Please send:
• A photo of your artwork
• Dimensions
• A short text about you and the work

📧[email protected]
📅Deadline: 10 February 2026

Please share with artists and communities who may be interested.



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