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Stand-up has gone online! Join us for 60 minutes of lockdown comedy with No Direction Home, the comedy collective produced by Counterpoints Arts featuring a brilliant mix of new stand-up talent. For a free ticket please email hello@counterpoints.org.uk Age: 16+ No Direction Home is led by Tom Parry and co-created by Counterpoints Arts with Camden [...]
Join us to explore how arts, culture, education and the media can bring communities together and help change the conversation about refugees. To reserve a free place email tom@counterpoints.org.uk Please let us know if you need support with travel, childcare or in any other way. The Kent Refugee Week Conference is an afternoon of inspiration, networking [...]
No Direction Home is a collective of stand-up comics from refugee and migrant backgrounds, created in 2018 by Counterpoints, Camden People's Theatre and award-winning comedian Tom Parry. Join us at the Migration Museum's new venue in the heart of Lewisham Shopping Centre for a night of hilarious comedy hosted by Tom Parry with special guest [...]
After the smash-hit success of its debut season, and a sell-out gig at Southbank Centre, come join us for more laughs from the latest recruits to our talented team of stand-ups.
The Refugee Week Conference is a day of inspiration, workshops and discussion in preparation for Refugee Week (15-21 June), which for 2020 has the theme ‘Imagine’.
Join us for a conversation with artist, Zehra Doğan, in relation to her installation and recent publication, Li Dû Man (Left Behind).
A three day programme of talks, workshops and performances, bringing together an international network of arts organisations working with participatory methodologies to connect the arts, environment, migration and working with young people. Counterpoints Arts is a collaborative partner. With Riera Studio/Cuba, Most Mira/Bosnia and Auranitis Lifeline/Jordan. The Project's team includes Agnes Czajka (The Open University), [...]
After the smash-hit success of its debut season, and a sell-out gig at Southbank Centre, come join us for more unexpected laughs from our talented team.
Image credit: Chris Constantine Join us for a week of participatory workshops, conversations, screenings and talks as part of a Turner Contemporary takeover by Platforma Festival. The programme (coordinated by Tom Green and Dijana Rakovic at Counterpoints Arts) reflects upon several of the themes showcased in the work of the Turner Prize nominees, such as [...]
#platforma 5 As part of our 5th Platforma festival we are co-curating a week of events at the Gulbenkian in Canterbury. The programme includes: 21-22 October: Pop culture / Young People / Migration & Social Change – Pop Culture and Social Change is a pioneering project from Counterpoints Arts exploring how the power of pop [...]
#platforma5 21-22 October 2019, Gulbenkian, University of Kent, Canterbury A 2-day ‘retreat’ as part of Platforma 5 Introduction Pop Culture and Social Change is a pioneering project from Counterpoints Arts exploring how the power of pop culture can be harnessed to shift the way we talk, think and feel about migration and displacement. As part of Platforma 5, [...]
The Arts, Migration and Food Platforma 5 event, part of Something Held in the Mouth, a four day festival of food, migration & the poetics of food, organised by Custom Folkestone. 14:00 to 16:00 Interdisciplinary artist Dana Olărescu and social designer Paulina Sidhom are working with a food bank organiser in Peckham, examining the system from how [...]
#platforma5 Custom Folkestone presents: Something Held in the MouthA four day festival bringing together artists and creative practitioners to present a diverse programme of art, events, workshops and talks about the poetics of food, the politics of its migrations and the ways in which our bodies hold these stories. The festival convenes dialogues around the way food [...]
Image: Guy’s Map of Cork 1893 Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody. Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities A well-crafted city can be repaired, and a poorly crafted [...]
Image: Tania Bruguera's Hyundai Commission, Turbine Hall launch (2018). Credit: Kirsty O’Connor PA. We are pleased to collaborate with our partners CREATE in Ireland in the context of a Networking Day for Collaborative Arts. Other partners include Crawford Gallery Cork and the Cork City Arts Office. The Networking Day promises to open up a space to [...]
