Past festivals

Journeys Festival International began life in 2013. Follow the journey of the festival below from a two day music stage in Leicester to a dynamic, European wide, celebration of refugee and asylum seeker artists.

Explore the stories of past artists, the past projects and the festival year by year....

A dancer leans with one leg lifted as he holds a red smoke flare against a smokey background.

Leicester 2022

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3 people are silhouetted in the foreground against a background of an illuminated art installation.

Three cities - 2021

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A digital illustration shows 5 images of the same man and each image looks in different directions.

Digital Festival 2020

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An image of a small boy is projected against the wall of a house.

Portsmouth 2019

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A woman in a green hijab is holding and looking at some flowers.

Manchester 2019

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A woman wearing a blue hijab cups illustrated birds in her hand.

Leicester 2019

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A man wearing a red cap and a yellow vest is walking by a graffiti painting of a refuse collector.

Portsmouth 2018

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Two musicians are singing on stage, one is holding a microphone and pointing at the crowd.

Manchester 2018

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Three musicians wearing traditional Ethiopian clothing lean against a white wall.

Leicester 2018

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Six dancers leap in the background and in the foreground three dancers make a twisted shape.

Portsmouth 2017

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Two men are on stage wearing flat caps and Hawaiian shirts, one is singing and one plays a guitar.

Manchester 2017

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A man in a purple blanket stands in the wind holding a rose in his hand.

Leicester 2017

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A variety of children's toy doll style people are helping others out of a boat.

Portsmouth 2016

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A shipping container has been graffiti in the shape of a woman's face painted on it.

Manchester 2016

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A man stands on a boat looking at a marina.

Leicester 2016

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