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A brilliant week of starting with the body.IMMERSION LAB #2 brought together Ewa Emini, Lucinka Eisler, Ingrid Mackinno...
12/10/2026

A brilliant week of starting with the body.

IMMERSION LAB #2 brought together Ewa Emini, Lucinka Eisler, Ingrid Mackinnon, Amit Lahav and Ayse Tashkiran for five days of movement, experimentation, play and making, each bringing their own approach to generating performance through the body.

Across the week we moved between physical improvisation, movement scores, embodied practices, choreographic tools, ensemble work and new ways of creating scenic material.

Huge thank you to our five workshop leaders for sharing their practices so generously, and to everyone who joined us for making the week so open, curious, playful and supportive.

We loved seeing artists take ideas, try things out, follow unexpected directions and learn from one another.

📍IMMERSION LAB is about creating space for artists to experiment, exchange practices and find new ways into their work. We’re grateful to everyone who helped make this week possible — and excited to keep building the series with artists.

✨ What would you like the next IMMERSION LAB to explore? Drop your ideas in the comments — a practice, a process, a material, a question, anything you’d like to spend time exploring with other artists ⤵

📸 the multi-talented Ewa Emini

06/10/2026

A new trailer for DESIRE MAPS 🎥

We’re getting ready to take DESIRE MAPS to Shanghai next week, where we’ll be sharing the work with programmers, artists and presenters from across Asia and beyond.

Created and performed by artists with lived experience of migration, DESIRE MAPS is a performance about memory, movement and speculative futures.

Three performers, a live illustrator and eight audience volunteers draw a map together — creating a space for imagining both what has been, and what could be.

Different every night, shaped by the people in the room.

Since its premiere at Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg this summer, we’ve been thinking about where this work might travel next, and what new maps might emerge in different places.

We’re excited to be in Shanghai for ChinaSPAF next week to begin those conversations.

If you can imagine DESIRE MAPS in your city - get in touch ✨

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A weekend of generosity, curiosity and exchange in sunny Margate. ☀️We had the best time bringing together migrant artis...
06/10/2026

A weekend of generosity, curiosity and exchange in sunny Margate. ☀️

We had the best time bringing together migrant artists and art educators from the UK and Germany for Cultures of Giving — a two-day exchange organised by PROJEKT UTOPIA and edugrapes | studio

Through conversations, creative exercises and shared experiences, we explored generosity, care, reciprocity and exchange — not just as ideas, but as creative practices. We thought together about what we carry between places, what we inherit from one another, and the gifts and complexities of giving and receiving through the lens of migrant experience.

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us, bringing your curiosity, openness and generosity to the exchange. And thank you to Natalia and Christopher from edugrapes for the inspiration, and to Cultural Bridge for making this UK–Germany collaboration possible.

We’re looking forward to meeting again in Leipzig for the second workshop, continuing the exchange and connecting participants across cities and generations — and seeing what might emerge when these different experiences and imaginations meet again.

Because grapes only grow together 🍇

📸 the amazing Ewa Emini

02/10/2026

How did you get here?

DESIRE MAPS is an interactive map making performance for three actors and eight audience volunteers.

Combining live projected illustration, video design, headphone sound and physical performance, this participatory format invites audiences to reimagine the geographical journeys of their ancestors.

A project about maps, migration and memory, using imagination as a way of exploring both the past and the future.

A co-production between PROJEKT UTOPIA and Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg.

Available for touring from 2027 onwards.

02/10/2026

Sometimes research gives a name to something we’ve been carrying for years.

For migrant artists, these ideas can help us understand the messy, complicated, sometimes joyful experience of moving between cultures, identities and places.

At PROJEKT UTOPIA, we’re interested in what happens when we take those experiences into the creative process.

We make performances, develop artists, bring migrant communities together and create spaces to explore memory, belonging, identity, migration and the future — through the eyes and imaginations of migrant artists.

Our work starts from a simple belief:

Migrant imagination is not a problem to be solved.
It is a creative force.

Explore our work and find out what we’re making next.

CULTURES OF GIVINGWhat do we give each other — as artists, as communities, as people who have moved between places?What ...
30/09/2026

CULTURES OF GIVING

What do we give each other — as artists, as communities, as people who have moved between places?

What happens when we think about generosity, exchange, care and reciprocity not just as ideas, but as creative practices?

On Sunday 4th October, PROJEKT UTOPIA and the German organisation edugrapes are bringing migrant artists and art educators from the UK and Germany together in Margate for two days of conversation, creative exploration and exchange.

We’re looking for migrant artists based in Kent who are curious to join us, share their perspectives and spend time with other artists working across borders, cultures and disciplines.

🌏 Come and be part of the conversation 🌏

📍 ARK Cliftonville, Margate
🗓 4 October 2026
⏰ 10am–3pm
🎟 Free to participate

Interested?
Email [email protected] to find out more!

Part of Cultural Bridge.

22/09/2026

LAST CHANCE TO BOOK!

Our second IMMERSION LAB is coming up 5–9 October at Toynbee Studios, London — and there are only a few places left ✨

This week-long workshop series brings together five exceptional migrant artists, each leading a full-day session exploring the body as a starting point for generating performance.

Learn from .emini and 💥

Expect physical improvisation, movement scores, embodied practices, choreographic tools, ensemble work, task-based performance and different approaches to creating scenic material through the body.

The week is designed for directors, performers, devisers, choreographers, movement artists and interdisciplinary makers looking to experiment, share practices and discover new ways of making.

Previous IMMERSION LAB participants described the experience as:

“A stimulating week of artistic enquiry in a safe space and a treasure trove of different compelling approaches…”

“A brilliant, tiring week of playing with material and ways of making. Inspiring, hopeful, nourishing.”

📍 London
📅 5–9 October 2026
⏰ 10am–6pm
👥 Maximum 22 participants

A few places remain — book now to join us!

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us last Thursday for Reimagining Impact: Measuring What Matters in Migrant-Led A...
22/09/2026

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us last Thursday for Reimagining Impact: Measuring What Matters in Migrant-Led Arts at Oxford House in London.

It was a day of generous, honest and thoughtful conversations about how we recognise and evidence the kinds of change that are often hardest to measure: belonging, trust, agency, creative confidence, relationships built over time, cultural exchange, and the ability of communities to create culture on their own terms.

Thank you to everyone who brought their experiences, questions and ideas into the room, and to those who helped us hold and document the conversation.

Thank you to Katie Boswell for facilitating the day so beautifully, and to Lilli Geissendorfer for chairing our panel conversation. And thank you to our wonderful panel speakers Rei Kanemura, Naomi Chapman and Natalie Smith for sharing their experiences and perspectives so generously.

A special thank you also to Gustavo Dias-Vallejo, who captured the day through his notes, and Somang Lee, whose visual notes gave us another way of seeing and remembering the conversations.

And thank you to Jennifer Shea for helping us shape the day, to Arts Fundraising and Philanthropy for making the event possible, and to all at Oxford House for hosting us.

There was a real sense that this conversation needs to continue — not simply about how migrant-led arts organisations can evidence their impact, but about how we might collectively reshape the systems that determine what counts as impact in the first place.

Thank you to everyone who was part of the beginning of that conversation. ❤️

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