We are excited to be part of Backyard Biennial: East, a free, summer arts festival initiated by Whitechapel Gallery in collaboration with more than 40 local partners across East London.
We are running three free activities during the festival. See below for more information and how to book your place:
Wearing Our Stories: Stitching Identity Through Football
Ahead of the Men’s World Cup final, the Migration Museum will be hosting artist Nicole Chui to lead a participatory workshop exploring football, migration, race, and belonging as part of Backyard Biennial: East at the Whitechapel Gallery.
Drawing on her practice engaging football culture, fashion, ESEA identity, and protest, Chui will guide participants in stitching onto football shirts – weaving in personal journeys of migration. Whilst stitching, we will hold an open conversation about national identity, and what it means to feel at home – on and off the pitch. Participants will be able to take their shirts home and wear them with pride!
Join the Migration Museum team for a walking tour as part of Backyard Biennial and journey with us through the streets of Whitechapel and the East End to discover the lives of people from around the world who have shaped the area. From silk weavers to civil rights activists and market traders, we will walk in the footsteps of countless generations of people who forged lives for themselves, and in doing so, shaped our lives and the East End that we know and love today.
The tour will start and finish at Whitechapel Gallery and will last approximately 1 hour.
Wednesday 15 July – Sunday 6 September Venue: Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX Free – no booking
Do you have a migration story you’d like to share?
Visit our story disc display at the Whitechapel Gallery as part of Backyard Biennial: East and add your story to the Migration Museum’s growing collection of over 10,000 stories.
The Migration Museum wouldn’t exist without people’s stories. This display represents just a few of the thousands of personal migration stories shared with us by visitors over the years.
Your contributions will add to our growing collection ahead of the Migration Museum’s permanent home opening on Crutched Friars, just a 10-minute walk from Whitechapel Gallery, in 2028.
Backyard Biennial: East is an 8-week, free, summer arts festival initiated by Whitechapel Gallery in collaboration with more than 40 local partners across East London.
Titled East and featuring exhibitions, installations, screenings, performances, workshops, residencies, walks, open studios and special events, this first iteration of Backyard Biennial will celebrate the unique historic, cultural and creative identity of the East End, and pay tribute to its many diverse communities and industries.
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