What We Leave We Carry: Voices of Migration to Britain
Dates and tickets
Brixton Tate Library, London
Tuesday 10 November 2026, 6.30pm - 8.00pm
Free
What do we leave behind when we move to a new place – and what do we carry with us, physically and emotionally, wherever we land?
Here are the voices of people who have come to Britain to make a new life: a Czech-Roma lawyer in Reading, an Iranian taxi driver in Shropshire, a Sierra Leonean actor in Northampton, a Romanian police officer in Edinburgh.
Colin Grant has travelled the country and listened to their stories – foundational tales of arriving in a new land, along with rarely spoken stories of love and loss. Together, these accounts ask questions about assimilation, identity, belonging and the emotional cost of migration in twenty-first-century Britain.
Candid, profoundly human, sometimes funny and always moving, What We Leave We Carry is a chance to listen to Britain – in all its richness and complexity.
Colin Grant is an author, historian and critic. His most recent book, I’m Black So You Don’t Have to Be was a New Statesman Book of the Year. Colin will be joined in conversation by actress, director and writer Anni Domingo and writer Isabelle Dupuy.
