Creating Space for Welcome
Artist Belén L.Yáñez reflects on bringing her new work, Welcome, to Colchester and Great Yarmouth for Platforma 2025
Sleeping Under Clouds
Reporting back from a workshop run by poet Sue Wallace-Shaddad and artist Sula Rubens at Moorland Primary School, Ipswich.
Carry the Shadows Home
Published by 62 Gladstone Street and Pendle Press this new collection from 11 visual artists explores deep diasporic threads of memory, identity, and belonging.
Maria Proshkovska: Making Oddkin
Maria Proshkovska reflects on her two parallel exhibitions: at OUTPOST Gallery in Norwich, UK and at the Centre for Contemporary Art in the frontline city of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.
Displaced, Disabled and Dynamic
Transcript from a learning event featuring Hamzeh Al Hussien and Amy Golding discussing the experiences, triumphs and challenges touring their play Penguin, plus Alia Alzougbi and Matt Burman
Intercultured Festival in Bradford
Mussarat Rahman, the festival's founder and director, reflects on the story so far.
Unstable: Exhibition by Mohammad Noureddini
Reflections on a recent exhibition in Cambridge presented at Cambridge Artspace in association with Counterpoints Arts.
We Are Here
Sarah Wood reflects on Leaving Were The Ones Who Could Not Stay, a new exhibition at Broadway Gallery in Letchworth featuring the work of Beverley Carruthers, Bettina Furnée, Olga Jürgenson and Idit Elia Nathan and presented as part of Platforma 2025.
Edinburgh awards for Sami and Alaa
Comedians Sami Abu Wardeh and Alaa Shehada have won awards at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Etaf – Hey Habibi
Hey Habibi is the new single from Etaf, with a video directed by Riffy Ahmed that has been commissioned by Counterpoints Arts.
My Summer with Counterpoints
My name is Madeleine (Maddy) Roberts, I’m a fourth year [...]
Moomin X Refugee Week – The Door Is Always Open
Our collaboration with Moomin Characters for Refugee Week, marking the 8oth anniversary of Tove Jansson’s first Moomin book.
What Will We Do Without Exile – artist statement
A text from Basel Zaraa for the opening of his new project if in Bowling Park, Bradford, 31 May 2025
Counterpoints & Climate Spring Launch Climate-Focused Development Fund
e’re looking for projects across genres, sci-fi, romance, thrillers, comedies that imagine new futures shaped by climate and movement.
Alnwick Gardens visit
The first activity for To Own Both Nothing and the Whole World, a project by Henna Asikainen and Roua Horanieh.
Reflecting diversity: Graphic design in Voice Notes
Ganna Bielcheva introduces her design work for the Voice Notes project.
