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Sheba Arts

We connect communities through vibrant, innovative arts and culture. NPO & GMCA portfolio organisation.

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04/06/2026

🕊️ The Migrant Bird – Theatre Performance by

📅 19 June
🕕 6–9pm
📍 Longsight Art Space

Join us for a powerful evening of theatre, storytelling and reflection.

“The Migrant Bird” by Noushin Afshar is a moving solo performance that explores migration, identity, loss and transformation through theatre and movement.

A poignant and deeply human story about resilience, survival and the lasting impact of displacement.

⚠️ Content Advisory: This performance explores themes of migration, loss, trauma and honour-based violence. Some scenes may be emotionally intense and may not be suitable for all audiences.

🎟️ Book your tickets below:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/theatre-concert-day-tickets-1988626447236?aff=odcleoeventsincollection

03/06/2026

🎭 Asking a Masc Le***an to Open a Jar (Performance by .rasool and .jack.jackkk)

📅 18 June
🕓 7–9pm
📍 Longsight Art Space

Join us for a witty and thought-provoking short play-in-verse exploring colonial and decolonial ideas of gender through humour, storytelling, and poetry.

Blending comedy with reflection, this performance celebrates the many ways people have expressed themselves across cultures and generations. Through playful encounters with ancestors from the past, it challenges colonial assumptions about masculinity and femininity while embracing the power of laughter as a form of resilience.

Funny, insightful, and full of heart, this performance invites us to reflect on identity, heritage, and the freedom to express ourselves beyond imposed boundaries. ✨

🎟️ Book your tickets below:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-play-music-tickets-1988899528028?aff=odcleoeventsincollection

02/06/2026

🌊 The Last Words Before 1997: Whisper from the Sea 2.0 - Performance by Max Lee, James Tsz-Him Cheung and Ka-Yan Ip.

📅 13 June
🕓 5–9pm
📍 Longsight Art Space

Join us for an interdisciplinary performance that continues the story of Lo-ting and the Tanka — Hong Kong's indigenous seafaring community.

Through live music, dance theatre, storytelling, and multimedia projection, Whisper from the Sea 2.0 explores Hong Kong's transformation from fishing villages to a thriving global city during the 1980s and 90s. As Lo-ting and the Tanka step from sea to land, they navigate changing identities, cultural adaptation, and the uncertainty surrounding the 1997 handover.

Blending Cantonese and English, the performance draws on oral histories, migration stories, archival imagery, and reimagined Tanka melodies to celebrate resilience, hope, and collective strength across generations 🌊✨

🎟️ Book your tickets below:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheba-festival-launch-event-tickets-1988615312933?aff=odcleoeventsincollection

29/05/2026

🎨 Create a Community Banner with Tina Ramos Ekongo ()

📅 14 June
🕓 11am–1pm
📍 Longsight Art Space

Join Tina for a vibrant and inspiring workshop celebrating women’s voices, creativity, and connection.

Together, we'll create a collaborative community banner exploring themes of identity, resilience, empowerment, and belonging. Through mixed media and creative expression, participants will have the opportunity to share stories, connect with others, and contribute to a collective artwork that reflects the strength and diversity of our communities ✨

No artistic experience is needed — everyone is welcome, and all materials will be provided 🎨🧡

The finished banner will be proudly displayed as a symbol of collective creativity and community-led community spirit.

A wonderful opportunity to get creative, meet new people, and celebrate community through art 🤝

Please book your place via Eventbrite.

28/05/2026

🫖 Craft Your Own Tea Blend — Herbal Workshop with The Community Patch CIC from Wigan ()

📅 14 June
🕓 11-1pm
📍 Crowcroft Park, Orchard Garden

Together, we’ll explore the memories and traditions connected to plants, cooking and herbal remedies from across our communities.

What herbs remind you of home? What dishes bring back memories of family gatherings and shared meals? 🍵🌱

Create your own herbal tea blend to take home using herbs and spices grown in Wigan or locally. You will also join a guided walk around the park to discover the everyday plants growing around us and their uses for food and medicine.

A beautiful opportunity to slow down, connect with nature, and share stories through taste, smell and memory 💚

Please book your place via Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-crafts-tea-in-crowcroft-park-tickets-1988622944760?aff=odcleoeventsincollection

27/05/2026

📝 The Time We Gathered To Eat — Poetry Workshop with Jack So
🕓 4-6pm

This creative and reflective workshop explores themes of food, family, and migration through guided writing exercises, readings, and discussion. Together, we’ll connect personal memories with sensory experiences and storytelling.

Please bring your favourite childhood snacks to share 🍬

🎤 From 7:00pm onwards, you’re also invited to share your work at our open mic performance.

📍 Longsight Art Space�
📅 18 June

Please book your place via Eventbrite. We’d love to gather, listen, write, and share with you 💫

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-workshop-the-time-we-gathered-to-eat-tickets-1988622180474?aff=odcleoeventsincollection

22/05/2026

"Suspended Invocation"

Haleema Aziz is a mixed-media artist whose practice explores themes of migration, displacement, and belonging through intimate material narratives. Rooted in oil painting but expanding into woodwork, textiles, and sculptural installation, her work examines how personal and collective histories travel across borders and become embedded in objects, gestures, and everyday rituals.

Suspended Invocation emerged through a collaborative workshop with refugees and migrants, where participants gathered to share stories, memories, and moments of resilience. During these conversations, one theme returned again and again: faith.

One participant held up his prayer beads and said, “This is all I need.”

That moment became the foundation of this piece.

Each engraved bead carries drawings made by participants. Fragments of memory, devotion, comfort, family, and home, transforming the piece into a living archive of collective resilience.

Experience this work at our Festival Launch and hear Haleema speak about her creative practice.

📅 13 June
⏰ 5–9pm
📍 Longsight Art Space

🎟️ Book your tickets:
https://shebafestival2026stillwerise.eventbrite.co.uk

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20/05/2026

“Threads in Between”

Smriti Rai is a Nepali-British, Salford-based mixed-media artist whose practice is shaped by her background as a therapist. After stepping away from art to pursue a career in creative marketing, she returned to it during her counselling training as a form of self-care.

Drawing on expressive arts therapy, her work explores emotion, memory, and experiences beyond language, focusing on identity, belonging, migrational grief, and cultural memory.

Threads in Between explores disenfranchised grief in migration, drawing on the Dual Process Model, where loss and renewal exist side by side. Inspired by the Nepali ceremonial scarf Khata, the piece uses colour to express this emotional tension: white for loss, red for restoration, and blue for the “third space” where new identities are formed.

The work also incorporates voices from the Nepali diaspora, with participants sharing what they have lost and gained through migration, represented through coloured threads suspended within the installation.

Experience this work at our Festival Launch and hear Smriti () speak about her creative practice.

📅 13 June
⏰ 5–9pm
📍 Longsight Art Space

🎟️ Book your tickets:
https://shebafestival2026stillwerise.eventbrite.co.uk

19/05/2026

“Threads of Becoming: Mapping Our Resilient Stories”

Blessing Wheto Ogunjimi (she/her) is a visual artist and socially engaged creative practitioner whose work explores healing, memory, cultural identity, and collective empowerment through mixed media, painting, textiles, and community collaboration. With over a decade of experience across Nigeria and the UK, her practice bridges studio art and socially engaged creativity.

Threads of Becoming is a mixed-media painting meditating on memory, migration, resilience, and belonging. Through layered paint, textiles, and found materials, the work reflects on rupture, repair, and the quiet strength of carrying stories across generations. Each layer becomes a trace of survival, transformation, and becoming. Rising against all odds.

Come and experience this work at our Festival Launch event, where you'll also hear Blessing () speak more about her work and creative practice.

📆 13 June
🕑 5-9pm
📍Longsight Art Space

Book your tickets:
https://shebafestival2026stillwerise.eventbrite.co.uk

14/05/2026

Sheba Festival 2026: Still We Rise ✨

A week of exhibitions, performances, workshops, music, food, and community connection in the heart of Longsight.

Join us for four days of events featuring live performances, creative workshops, and a week-long exhibition celebrating artists, collaboration, and shared experiences.

💫 4 days of events
💫 Week-long exhibition
💫 7 performances
💫 3 workshops

Tickets available now — book early as places are limited.

https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/sheba-festival-2026-4839334?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=creatorshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=odclsxcollection&utm-source=cp&aff=escb

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Thursday	9:30am - 5pm
Friday	9:30am - 4pm

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