Liverpool’s annual Africa Oyé music festival took place on the 22nd and 23rd June with a very colourful, fun and lively Oyé Active Zone! A free, fun and vibrant celebration of arts and culture, Africa Oyé is a festival that takes place every year in Sefton Park, Liverpool and attracts thousands of people from all […] read more
Author: Penny Caffrey
Everybody Dance Now Autumn 2024
Everybody Dance Now, Again! We’re massively grateful to Quartet Community Foundation for awarding funding to our Filwood Family Sessions, Everybody Dance Now. With Quartet’s support, we can deliver another term of our free to access weekly dance and craft activities with our fantastic Filwood families. Sessions re-commence on Thursday 26 September, 6 – 7pm at […] read more
South Gloucestershire Refugee Festival
For the third year running, Movema, The Nest At Bean Tree Cafe and South Glouchestershire Race Equality Network hosted ‘Celebrate With Me’ – a day of festivities with global music and dance performances, family crafts and food tasters, helping to create a place of welcome for local refugee communities. We were treated to a beautiful […] read more
Dance Artist Training Survey
We are running a short survey to see what everyone’s training needs might currently be. It’s a very short survey (we promise!) of tick boxes and 3 text boxes for written answers, and we will keep this open until 20 May 2024. The survey has three sections – one on management and facilitation skills; one for art form skills and one for Equalities, Diversity […] read more
World Fusion Bristol Information Page
Dance around the world with Movema and guests at our weekly World Fusion classes in Bristol. World Fusion is a high-energy dance class packed full of music & moves inspired by various modern and traditional styles from around the globe such as; Carnival, Dancehall, Bollywood and Latin styles. We celebrate diversity and provide an energising […] read more
People’s Postcode Lottery
Enabling community participation in the arts Between August 2022 to February 2024, Movema’s programme was supported by a Neighbourhood Trust grant from People’s Postcode Lottery.Read more about People’s Postcode Lottery Good Causes. The grant helped delivery our Core work is categorised in the following 4 key areas over 18 months. Cultural Communities: providing broad engagement […] read more
Wildfire Rising Bristol
Wildfire Rising is an arts development programme that aims to remove barriers of inequality by investing in and supporting Global Majority Dance Artists to make way for the rising of their artistry, representation and development. Associate Artists As part of the Wildfire Rising programme, Movema will support three dance artists from the Bristol area who […] read more
Administrator – Post withdrawn until further notice
AS OF TUESDAY 6TH FEBRUARY 2024 we have withdrawn this post until further notice. We apologise for any inconvenience. Job Description The Administrator provides a comprehensive range of office administration and services across the Movema team ensuring the efficient running of the organisation. This post will work closely with Movema’s Executive team and Artistic Programme […] read more
Everybody Dance Now Winter 2023-24
We are continuing into our 4th year of running community dance and arts activities in Filwood Community Centre, Knowle West for children and their families.The weekly sessions now run on Thursdays 6-7pm and are free to all. During January and February 2024 the group are celebrating the Lunar New year and welcoming the year of […] read more
Wildfire Rising end of project
We are celebrating the second year of Wildfire Rising, an artist development programme that remove barriers of inequality by investing in and supporting Global Majority dance artists. The project was led in collaboration with Cheshire Dance & funded by Arts Council England. The Wildfire Rising Associate Artists on the 2022-23 Year 2 programme are: Ruth […] read more