virtual migrants

Digital media and art connecting with race, migration and globalisation. Archive at

[Commonword @cultureword]

Imagine Malcolm X as a Game Designer
with @TariqMehmood000

A presentation of new black consciousness-seeded RPG Game Simulacrum Funk created by Mehmood, @MelvinBurgess & @peterkalu

Participate, watch game play & discuss

Sept 17th at @ChuckGallery1

https://t.co/r1kLqrGpG8

[virtual migrants @VirtualMigrants]

#FutureVisions featuring live poetry that imagines future ecologies and environments with performance from @MayaChowdhry

[Commonword @cultureword]

Cultureword presents Future Visions🎮

September 17th, 6-9pm at @ChuckGallery1 Manchester

💫Gaming/Mapping Literature/ Poetic Re-imaginings of Manchester’s History/Future Ecologies💫

All set against a backdrop of beautiful contemporary African art

https://t.co/r1kLqrFRQA

[Crossing Footprints @crossingfprints]

Linking #climatechange, #migration, and #BlackHistory, filmed in DR Congo end Aug21 by Manchester singer Emmanuela Yogolelo. A short alert as part of her exploration of #climatemigration. @aiucentre @comartsnw @cityofsanctuary @ClimateEmergMcr @TheCCoalition

[virtual migrants @VirtualMigrants]

Strong piece from Nikki Mailer here, filmed and edited by Virtual Migrants member Kooj Chuhan

[Outside The Frame Arts Collective @artsOTF]

Trailer 4 live performance at @HOME_mcr on Jewish diaspora & solidarity with Palestine. June 12th 1.30pm ish alongside musicians and poets. @comartsnw @KoojChuhan @Hafsah_A_Bashir @afshandl @HannahEllisRyan @edwinamc @mcrjewishmuseum https://t.co/peZSWAxFwM

[virtual migrants @VirtualMigrants]

Tuning in. Featuring our @TrayDay111

[Fairtrade Foundation @FairtradeUK]

Create a better world with art and activism. 👊🌍

Join Bridgerton actor @andoh_adjoa and other wonderfully creative people to discuss the role of creativity in climate campaigning.

📆 24 February
⌚ 7:30pm GMT
🎫 https://t.co/DnU4ZSfGTB

#ChooseTheWorldYouWant

[Collective Encounters @CollEnc]

In Chapter Four of our #Digital #Participatory #Theatre series, @MayaChowdhry explores transmedia storytelling and "faction" in @VirtualMigrants Ethical People Movement.

Full video: https://t.co/tVGox25YB6

[Collective Encounters @CollEnc]

MAKING #DIGITAL #PARTICIPATORY #THEATRE

Explore this new video series curated by @MayaChowdhry commissioned by @CollEnc with case studies from @NathanPowell141 @creativehumbleb @agencyofconey @VirtualMigrants @ForestTribe_

https://t.co/tVGox25YB6

[The Racial Justice Network @RaceJustice]

Today Race & Climate Justice is taking a virtual journey to Brazil 🇧🇷✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽🌿🌱🍃

We're talking #13recommendation looking at how slavery & colonial legacies continue to impact.

How can we show solidarity with interconnected struggles & oppressions?

🌿this is a closed event🌿

[The Arts Foundation @Arts_Foundation]

#ArtsFoundationFuturesAward #EnvironmentalWriting Finalist @SelinaNwulu is a writer, poet and essayist, examining migration, race, climate change and social justice through a personal lens. Image credit: Who's Full? Read more: https://t.co/NqZoKt7FTg

[virtual migrants @VirtualMigrants]

@SelinaNwulu @Arts_Foundation Congratulations Selina! 👊🏾🌿

[NUMBI @numbiarts]

Dance your anger and your joys,Dance the military guns to silence,Dance oppression and injustice to death,Dance my people,For we have seen tomorrow And there is an Ogoni star in the sky. ~Ken Saro Wiwa ✊🏾🌻💛🌱
#DanceTheGunsToSilence

[virtual migrants @VirtualMigrants]

Fantastic soundscape throughout from @lauriemmusic

We still dancing

#25yearson
#DanceHealMobilise
#DanceTheGunsToSilence

[Voices that Shake! @voicesthatSHAKE]

To end our memorable celebration and remembrance of the #Ogoni9 #DanceTheGunsToSilence @lauriemmusic shares their soundscape with us all 💚👏🏾#climatejustice

[virtual migrants @VirtualMigrants]

The fight against the extractive industry to protect lives and future of sacred lands on which we depend on... @dallasgoldtooth #DanceHealMobilise #DanceTheGunsToSilence

[Voices that Shake! @voicesthatSHAKE]

DanceHealMobilise : Dallas Goldtooth @dallasgoldtooth speaks to us all during #DanceTheGunsToSilence #Ogoni9
#MOSOP 🙏🏾

[Voices that Shake! @voicesthatSHAKE]

CCCTV CONTINENT REPORTING LIVE:

Performance by @NawiCollective @saimurai @toussainttomove filmed by @voicesthatSHAKE shared during @PlatformLondon #MOSOP #dancethegunstosilence #Ogoni9 #25yrson

[virtual migrants @VirtualMigrants]

CCCTV is birthed...

[Voices that Shake! @voicesthatSHAKE]

CCCTV Continent reporting live: @saimurai captivating performances shared at #DanceTheGunsToSilence

'we will not dance to their beat.. But we will dance the guns to silence'

[BARAC @BARACUK]

Attending @PlatformLondon event #dancethegunstosilence #dancehealmobilise
#25yearson - #liveart while watching created in remembrance of the #Ogoni9 by chair of @BARACUK #ZitaHolbourne

[Voices that Shake! @voicesthatSHAKE]

'Governments do not corrupt themselves' @ilhamsta for FOE Mozambique @JA4change

#DanceHealMobilise
#Ogoni9
#DanceTheGunsToSilence
#MOSOP

[Sai Murray @saimurai]

Had so much fun making this. Missing that @TrayDay111 Zimbabwe flava

Cross continental chop chop continua

#DanceTheGunsToSilence
#ContinentChopChop
#DanceHealMobilise

@VirtualMigrants @MayaChowdhry @KoojChuhan @AidanJolly4 @AmandaHuxtable @JaydevGuitar

[virtual migrants @VirtualMigrants]

🙌🏿👏🏿🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️

[Platform @PlatformLondon]

After that, we had an AMAZING performance with @NawiCollective & others that I cannot do justice to in a tweet - but check back here for a quick look at a video later on!