Making It Work: Migrant Q&A Panel

Are you a migrant artist curious about founding or running your own ensemble, collective or company?

Or a fellow freelancer wondering how you can better support your migrant collaborators? Join us for a panel discussion and Q&A exploring how migrants can ‘make it work’ and thrive in theatre and performing arts. 

Our expert panelists will discuss their experiences with working in collectives, from logistics to day-to-day management to creating collaborative environments. They’ll look at the biggest challenges and opportunities available to migrant artists, as well as offer practical advice. This panel features a Q&A portion where you can ask your most burning questions. After, we will host an ‘artist speed dating’ session where you can network with fellow migrant artists. 

Panelists include Emma Clark (Head of Programme, New Diorama Theatre); Diana Feng (Artistic Director, Big Kun); and Anna Oggero (Executive Producer, Projekt Europa).

Making It Work is an initiative aiming at building support networks with and for new migrant artists in the UK. It was started in 2023 by Ensemble Not Found and Halfpace Theatre, two migrant-led theatre companies based in the UK. Making It Work encourages migrant work in the UK by providing free and low cost workshops, mentorship, community-building events, scratch nights and showcases for migrant work. Most importantly, Making It Work is about envisioning a space in which new migrant artists in the UK feel supported and seen.

Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, with additional support from Unity Theatre Trust.

The Company

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Founded in 2022, Ensemble Not Found (ENF) is a London-based theatre collective of five interdisciplinary, first-generation ESEA migrant artists. Our work is ensemble-led, visually driven, and made through a non-hierarchical process of research, improvisation, and iteration. Across our practice, we’re interested in how private feeling becomes public structure, how bodies, language, images, and institutions shape one another—working with movement, text, sound, audiovisuals, food, and found materials as we search for the right form and voice.

www.ensemblenotfound.com | @ensemble_not_found___

Halfpace Theatre is an award-winning, migrant-led interdisciplinary theatre company. Our work is visually distinct and emotionally charged, powered by an international ensemble. Through devising, we interrogate the relationship between embodied storytelling, design, audience and space, creating pieces which are physical, atmospheric, dynamic and unexpected. Alongside our artistic work, we are fiercely dedicated to supporting marginalised artists. Our community engagement branch includes free workshops, panels, producing support, networking opportunities, paid trainee roles and new work development opportunities in partnership with organisations across the UK.

www.halfpacetheatre.com | @halfpacetheatre