Bumi Thomas
Bumi Thomas is a contemporary British Nigerian - Afro Brazilian singer-songwriter and a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores transcending cultural and ideological boundaries.
Jade Montserrat
Jade Montserrat works through performance, drawing, painting, film, installation, sculpture, print and text.
Farhad Berahman
Farhad Berahman is an Iranian photographer whose work focuses on memory and displacement.
No Direction Home
Since autumn 2018 we have been running the No Direction Home stand-up comedy programme of workshops and live gigs for aspiring comics from refugee and migrant backgrounds.
Aida Silvestri
Aida Silvestri creates work concerning culture, ethnicity, identity, health, politics and the urban landscape. Her work explores new and unique approaches to documentary photography to raise awareness, give voice to voiceless and to promote acceptance within communities.
Manaf Halbouni
Installation artist whose work includes Nowhere Is Home.
Sung Im Her
Contemporary dancer and choreographer working in South Korea, the UK and across the world
Maya Youssef
Award-winning Syrian Qanun player from Damascus
PSYCHEdelight – Borderline
Innovative theatre company that made "a comedy out of a tragedy"
Kayo Chingonyi
Award-winning poet who was our first artist in residence
Natasha Davis
Creating poetic and challenging interdisciplinary material exploring body, memory, identity and migration.
Olivier Kugler
Reportage illustratation from Iraqi Kurdistan, Greece, France, England, Germany & Switzerland
Halifax Stories
Bringing people together from new and established communities to build connections and understanding through creative workshops.
Mohammed Yahya and Sashwati Mira Sengupta
Compilation album co-curated by Mohammed Yahya and Sashwati Mira Sengupta. Produced by Counterpoints Arts for Refugee Week's 20th anniversary
Bern O’Donoghue
On-going project, an installation bearing witness to the thousands of migrants and refugees who have died and continue to die whilst attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea
There There
Participatory installation based on traditional village fête games, allows participants to play the immigration game: steal jobs, indulge in health-tourism, scrounge on benefits and dodge the British citizenship
