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A special event for holders of a Changing Britain day pass for 2nd May at Southbank Centre. To what extent have the various moments of migration to the UK shaped the cultural fabric of the nation?
The Southbank Centre and Counterpoints Arts are pleased to invite you to join us in celebrating our brand new exhibition: Adopting Britain - 70 Years of Migration
Counterpoints and Index on Censorship present Whose Story Is It Anyway?, a night of writers, discussion and refugee representations. Join us at Richmix to hear about the representation of refugees in novels and plays.
Adopting Britain: 70 Years of Migration exhibition - presented by the Southbank Centre in partnership with Counterpoints Arts
An interactive IPortrait researched, designed and produced by Counterpoints Arts, Moving Lives is an online platform and living archive of migrants' stories.
The Everyday on Canalside project is launching its participatory arts website. The project is a portrait of a place and its people and has been up and running for the past year.
Event for museum and gallery professionals interested in connecting with refugee and asylum-seeker organisations.
Join us for a day of information sharing, workshops and talks about Refugee Week and how to support it for 2015.
We are living in the midst of huge demographic shifts and unprecedented levels of human displacement. More than ever before, we need bold and imaginative interventions to help us make better sense of the global yet very local experiences of migration. And who better to do it than artists and cultural practitioners who are engaging [...]
To mark Refugee Week 2014, Counterpoints Arts teamed up with BFI to organise a small film programme, which included the screening of 'A World Not Ours' – an intimate and unusual documentary about three generations of exiles in a Palestinian refugee camp in Southern Lebanon. The screening was followed by a panel discussion featuring A [...]
Produced by Counterpoints Arts, Celebrating Sanctuary is a landmark event that plays a crucial role in promoting Refugee Week to London and the whole of the UK. Because of the sheer size, variety and vibrancy of the events, the breadth of refugee cultures, communities and art forms that it promotes and its locations, Celebrating Sanctuary London [...]
The two day Conference on arts and refugees was held in Manchester and was full of interesting workshops and inspirational speakers from across the UK and internationally. The artistic programme (including the first ever Platforma Festival Fringe) was superb! Many thanks to our main partners for the Festival (Community Arts North West and Martin Harris [...]
As part of the 2013 Refugee Week, Counterpoints Arts commissioned Natasha Reid’s The Embassy for Refugees. A site-specific piece, it allowed art practice, architecture, design, human rights advocacy and participatory methods to be interwoven in Reid’s deliberate re-construction of the ‘typology’ of the Embassy building. In creating an organic hybrid, Reid questioned and extended the application [...]
Produced by Counterpoints Arts, Celebrating Sanctuary is a landmark event that plays a crucial role in promoting Refugee Week to London and the whole of the UK. Because of the sheer size, variety and vibrancy of the events, the breadth of refugee cultures, communities and art forms that it promotes and its locations, Celebrating Sanctuary London [...]
Counterpoints Arts hosted the Casablanca event at the Victoria and Albert Museum inspired by the screen classic Casablanca and the film’s themes of flight, refuge, identity, Morocco, North Africa, and piano music. The event featured an acoustic music fantasia, with three reincarnations of Sam in Rick’s cafe on three pianos placed around the museum – featuring Jewish [...]
