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SUMMARY:The Body As Data: People On The Move
DESCRIPTION:Thanet\, Dover\, Folkestone\nKent based dance artists Sidonie Carey Green and Tom Tegento are excited to announce the successful funding of its participatory performance project The Body As Data\, working with local communities and artists to explore personal narratives and experience of borders. \nThrough a series of creative movement workshops\, site specific walking events\, and filming using surveillance technologies\, a film will be created exploring how the ‘body-as-data’ can draw its own border by re-imagining the potential of drone technology and the power of walking practice. This project will connect local communities who have experienced forced migration and we will come together to mobilise the border of the Kent coast from Margate to Folkestone. \nThe Body as Data workshops and walks are set to begin on Saturday 1st June in Margate and will run through to Sunday 30th June in Folkestone. Attendees are invited to join by the location they live at\, and are very welcome to join the locations at Margate and Folkestone. \nFull details: www.thebodyasdataproject.com \nCounterpoints Arts is one of the co-commissioners of the project\, which is supported by Arts Council England.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/the-body-as-data-people-on-the-move/
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Performance & Dance
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SUMMARY:“My Home\, My Voice” – Post Detention Support Conference 2024
DESCRIPTION:Samphire’s Post Detention Support Conference 2024 is on the 13th of June\, and this year\, we are taking part!\n\nArt and creativity can positively contribute to improving our mental health and wellbeing. From having fun and accessing joy\, art can also help foster greater resilience\, increase confidence and create a sense of community and belonging. \nAlongside artist and theatre maker Debora Minà\, we will be co-facilitating a workshop titled ‘Play & Imagination: How creativity can support our wellbeing’ for members from Samphire’s PDSP network. \nThis practical and fun workshop\, offers the chance to try out some creative exercises to access your creative voice and to share your reflections. It is also an opportunity to find out more about our latest report titled\, ‘Creatively Minded and Refugees – Arts\, refugees and mental health’. \nYou can find out more about the conference here.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/my-home-my-voice-post-detention-support-conference-2024/
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Mental Health
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240617T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240622T220000
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SUMMARY:When community is HOME\, at Yorkton Workshops
DESCRIPTION:When community is HOME is a week-long exhibition and a programme of workshops\, performances\, networking\, supper clubs\, podcasts\, kite-flying and communal singing — curated by Counterpoints Arts\, supported by Pearson Lloyd design studio. Counterpoints brings their network of collaborators to Yorkton Workshops to respond to the theme of Our Home through an exploration of the intersection of displacement\, climate justice and wellbeing. \nWe feel privileged to be working in the beautiful gallery. The curated programme is full of opportunity to participate\, meet the artists\, witness talks and performances and eat delicious food… and gather at a time when creatively connecting with friends and strangers feels like an act of self-care and support for others. \nThe creative programme is a set of collaborations with artists\, collectives and organisations. Some are ‘old’ friends and partners\, and others are new to our ever growing network. \nWe are working with: \nClimate Outreach \nUnbound Philanthropy \nEtaf \nNour Alsholi \nAditi Jaganathan \nZafeerah Heesambee \nTasnim Mahdy \nJohn Hunnex \nIn The Mix \nCompass Collective and Sarah Jackson / Nottingham Trent University \nKim Chin \nZhvan Theatre Company \nBosla Arts \nKites in Solidarity \nBint Mbareh \nand others! \nWe will see you at Yorkton Workshops. The programme runs from 17th to 22nd June. Ticketing info for some of the activities will follow shortly. \nImage: Bosla Arts\, The Art Persists podcast\, Yorkton Workshops\, 2023 © Paul Gilbey \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/when-community-is-home-london-refugee-week-at-yorkton-workshops/
LOCATION:Yorkton Workshops\, 1-3 Yorkton St\, London\, London\, E2 8NH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Multi-Art Form,Refugee Week
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240618T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240618T140000
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SUMMARY:Hope as Discipline: Ritualising Collective Liberation
DESCRIPTION:How do we hold onto hope in dark times? Join us as we gather with Dr Aditi Jaganathan to moor ourselves in possibilities of hope as we organise for collective liberation\n  \nAs babylon crumbles; its architectures of oppression fall\, in Gaza\, in Haiti\, in Sudan\, in the Congo\, in the heart of empire. In this brokenness\,  spirit speaks; spirit calls on us to reach into otherwise possibilities\, otherwise ways of being in the fold of our collective being. \nWe gather as an offering of refusal\, refusing the structures which refuse our complex personhood\, refusing the suppression of rhythms of liberation. Leaning into this spirit of refusal we figure out ways to relinquish control and lean into our shared vulnerability; to orbit around ways of being moored in possibilities of hope. It is in the matter of being together\, as ritual\, that our tethering to hope as possibility emerges.  \nThis event invites organisers\, cultural workers\, creatives as well as dreamers and schemers who are affected by the passing of the Rwanda Bill and are organising in the wake of ongoing violence\, whether that be in the UK or beyond. We hope that by gathering we can thread together our interconnected struggles and hold space to resource ourselves through ritual and by centering our collective liberation. \n  \nDr Aditi Jaganathan is a thinker and creator\, writer and dreamer. \nHaving worked at the intersections of law\, culture and politics in various capacities\, Aditi is motivated by a politics of refusal\, living in rupture as rapture; turning away from hegemonic worlds of oppression and tuning into something different\, beyond the world we live in and moving to the rhythms of an elsewhere. It is this compulsion which guides her pedagogy in the education work she does. Riffing off education for liberation\, she creates spaces of  (un)learning as a site of radical praxis\, using tools of music\, film and visual culture\, to unpack the ways in which ideologies of oppression and liberation travel through cultural production. She teaches her own course\, Rhythm\, Race\, Revolution as well as courses at different London-based academic institutions. \nWith a particular interest in creativity as decolonial praxis\, she situates the imagination as a radical site of refusal and resistance. Her research work examines the different ways in which Black and Brown cultural production has activated autonomous modes of meaning-making and self-determination in London\, through contesting racialised norms and (re)imagining racialised postcolonial subjectivities. And it is through an ethic of jazz that Aditi curates this work. \nReserve your free spot for this session here. \nImage Credits © Carmel King
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/hope-as-discipline-ritualising-collective-liberation/
LOCATION:Yorkton Workshops\, 1-3 Yorkton St\, London\, London\, E2 8NH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,London Refugee Week,Mental Health
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SUMMARY:Love letters to home by zafeerah heesambee
DESCRIPTION:When Community is Home. What does this mean to you\, and where do you find your sense of home?\nJoin us for ‘Love Letters Home\,’ a lino printing workshop hosted by artist Zafeerah Heesambee in collaboration with Muslim Sisterhood\, in celebration of UK Refugee Week on Tuesday\, June 18th 2024. Connect with others as you learn the art of lino printing and create your own pieces inspired by this year’s theme. Your creations will be featured in a collective zine\, showcasing the talents of the Muslim Sisterhood network and the Yorkton Programme community\, as part of UK Refugee Week 2024. \nTickets for this workshop is free\, but capacity is limited so grab a space while you can! \nReserve your free spot for this session here. \nWe are fundraising for Palestine and Sudan\, and would appreciate £5 donations to support medical teams on the ground. Any donations from this workshop will go towards Medical Aid Palestine and Sudan Relief Fund.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/love-letters-to-home-by-zafeerah-heesambee/
LOCATION:Yorkton Workshops\, 1-3 Yorkton St\, London\, London\, E2 8NH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,London Refugee Week
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240619T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240619T150000
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SUMMARY:Cyanotypes - archives and markings of home by Tasnim Mahdy
DESCRIPTION:This workshop explores the Juliana Anicia Codex through cyanotype printing. Participants will reflect on personal connections to home and migration\, making visible the intangible marks of their histories.\nJoin us for a workshop where we will delve into the Juliana Anicia Codex\, an ancient manuscript featuring important Arabic and Persian botanical illustrations\, in collaboration with John Hunnex. We’ll start with a discussion on the cultural significance of the Codex\, focusing on how naming practices reflect identity and migration. What was left out of the archive. Participants will then get hands-on with cyanotype printing\, a photographic technique that uses sunlight to create distinct blue-toned prints. They will incorporate botanical elements and personal symbols to create prints that tell their own stories – mythology\, and connections to home. The workshop will highlight the idea of mark-making\, where the fleeting and invisible aspects of personal histories are made tangible. Participants will actively create artworks that reveal unseen narratives\, transforming intangible experiences into visible forms. This process not only encourages personal reflection but also fosters a shared space for community storytelling and cultural expression. \nThis workshop is part of an on-going research collaboration between Tasnim Mahdy\, John Hunnex and Hanouf Al-Alawi\, centred on The Codex Vindobonenis. \nThis is a free workshop. \nImage credit: Tasnim Mahdy.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/cyanotypes-archives-and-markings-of-home-by-tasnim-mahdy/
LOCATION:Yorkton Workshops\, 1-3 Yorkton St\, London\, London\, E2 8NH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,London Refugee Week
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SUMMARY:In The Mix
DESCRIPTION:‘Laughter is the brightest in the place where the food is’ – Irish proverb. Come and join us for an evening of Eritrean\, Sudanese and Yemeni food to celebrate London Refugee Week. \n“One day I will cook for you”. A phrase many Refugees and Asylum Seekers have said over the years\, as they live in limbo\, with no access to proper kitchen facilities. The IN THE MIX project was a direct response to this phrase and it was surprising how easy and quickly it came together. Working in collaboration with Granville Community Kitchen\, we set up a Supper and Social club for people who live in and around the South Kilburn Estate. We are now expanding our wings\, sharing our food\, and encouraging people to join us. \nA community based project devised by artist Matilda Velevitch where refugees cook their favourite dishes and invite local residents to come for a group dinner each week. \nTickets can be bought HERE! \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/in-the-mix/
LOCATION:Yorkton Workshops\, 1-3 Yorkton St\, London\, London\, E2 8NH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240620T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240620T210000
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SUMMARY:Voice Notes Exhibition London Launch: Free Workshop & Live Performance
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with Counterpoints Arts\, Voice Notes will be exhibited at Yorkton Workshops in Hoxton from 17 – 22 June. \nWorkshop: \nOn Thursday 20 June we will be hosting a free workshop for 2pm – 4pm to celebrate refugee voices from around the world! \nSign up to Voice Notes Creative Writing Workshop here. \nLaunch event \nLater in the evening\, we invite you to the London launch event of Voice notes with live performances on Thursday 20th June 7-9pm to celebrate refugee voices from around the world. \nWith a special welcome from project lead\, Sarah Jackson\, and live performances from Compass young people\, come and meet the team\, enjoy some refreshments and immersive yourself in the sound experience. Open to all 16+.  \nSign up to the launch event for free here. \nAbout Voice Notes \nVoice Notes is an international art project exploring the role of the telephone in experiences of exile. Featuring recorded phone calls left by young refugees and asylum seekers from around the world\, the exhibition investigates displaced voices\, creative networks\, transnational communication\, and different modes of talking and listening across cultures. \nThis exhibition has been co-created with young people who have fled war\, violence\, conflict and persecution and yet who continue to offer stories of solidarity and hope. At the heart of the installation are multidirectional ultrasonic speakers that are positioned to create a network of intersecting telephone messages. As visitors move around the gallery\, they tap into stories of home and belonging\, landscape and loss\, and communication and connection. In turn\, visitors are invited to shape new ways of thinking about sanctuary by contributing their own voice notes as part of our evolving telephonic soundscape. \nVoice Notes is funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council. Led by Nottingham Trent University\, the project is produced in collaboration with Compass Collective\, Counterpoints Arts\, Hardi Kurda\, New Art Exchange\, Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature\, Refugee Roots\, Slemani UNESCO City of Literature and STEP. \nReserve your free spot for this session here. \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/voice-notes-exhibition-london-launch/
LOCATION:Yorkton Workshops\, 1-3 Yorkton St\, London\, London\, E2 8NH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,London Refugee Week
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SUMMARY:Threading layers of Home by Kim Chin
DESCRIPTION:Artist Kim Chin invites us into a reflective setting\, to inspire a clearer understanding and vision of what “community” means to us. We do this by ‘visiting’ layers of ancestral\, environmental and embodied home. \nWe will explore rituals\, sharing readings and exchange thoughts while the group embroiders and collages onto fabric. \nThe intention of the workshop is to initiate a restorative sense of grounding and belonging. Through collective making we will activate a space of multi-vocal wisdom and hope that can be threaded into our daily lives after the event. \nWe will also share grounding and aftercare resources. \nNOTE: We will be sharing reflections and our knowledge. Bring readings\, definitions and objects to share with the group\, on what “home” and community mean to you. \nMaterials and refreshments will be provided. \nFree workshop. Sing up HERE! \nImage credit: Kim Chin. \nAbout the Artist: \nKim Chin (she\, they) is an artist and community mobiliser. Through creative learning and social engagement practices\, Kim amplifies transnational and intersectional East and Southeast Asian narratives as part of\, and in relation to\, wider British narratives. \n\n\n\n\n\nKim co-founded ESEA unseen with Sue Man in 2023 – an art-making\, curating\, and cultural producing duo who leverage textiles\, hospitality\, dialogue\, and neurodiverse adaptations to transform unawareness & trauma into a site for connection and collective agency. \nProjects have been showcased in collaboration with various art\, cultural\, and community advocacy organisations in England and the Philippines. \n\nProject Credit x Paradise Row\, a hybrid event cohosted in England | Germany | Trinidad | Cayman Islands\, Fondation Gallery\, Philippines\, and in London; Migration Museum\, Coin Street Community Builders\, Camden Chinese Community Centre\, Kakilang Arts\, Greenpeace\, Southbank\, and the Museum of the Home.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/threading-layers-of-home-by-kim-chin/
LOCATION:Yorkton Workshops\, 1-3 Yorkton St\, London\, London\, E2 8NH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,London Refugee Week,Mental Health
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240622T150000
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SUMMARY:Flying Kites for Palestine by Zafeerah Hessambee and Kites in Solidarity
DESCRIPTION:Kites for Palestine – A global kite-flying day in solidarity with the children of Gaza. Gazan children broke the world record for the most kites flown simultaneously across the Gaza strip in 2011\, with over 12\,000 kites flown. \nOn Saturday 22nd June we will join the global movement from London to fly kites for Palestine. This will be a two- part day. In the morning\, we will host a workshop with a community group/ individuals creating kites (25 participants). This will be facilitated by Zafeerah and volunteers from KIS. Then\, in the afternoon\, we will congregate in the local park (location TBC) and fly kites collectively. We will have a short welcome\, thank you and poetry reading of Reefat Alareer’s poem ‘You must live to tell my story’ before flying kites with the public. \nInfo on how to join TBA. \nZafeerah is a Creative Producer\, Visual Artist\, and founder of Paintbrush&Co. After graduating with a BA in Law\, she has gone on to work with leading organisations to produce cultural projects\, public art and work with communities across the UK. Using her multi-disciplinary art practice\, Zafeerah developed Pb&Co to curate creative spaces that centre and celebrate the global majority. Zafeerah’s art explores themes of love\, grief and community through fine art and digital mediums. In her current developing project ‘All the things we have loved’\, she combines illustration\, lino printing and ceramics as a method of archiving and storytelling memories and joy. Previously\, her work from the project ‘Searching for you\, searching for me’ has been published and exhibited on billboards nationwide. \nKites in Solidarity is a grassroots movement of volunteers which was founded in 2023 in response to the ongoing siege of Gaza. The movement was inspired by the 2011 world record for the most kites flown simultaneously\, which was achieved by children of the Gaza Strip.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/flying-kites-for-palestine-by-zafeerah-hessambee-and-kites-in-solidarity/
LOCATION:Yorkton Workshops\, 1-3 Yorkton St\, London\, London\, E2 8NH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,London Refugee Week
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240623T140000
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SUMMARY:Kitchen Conversations: Brunch by Sonia Uddin and Olga Macrinici
DESCRIPTION:What makes us feel at home? A taste? Smell? Colour? Sound? What does it mean to be displaced in our own home or land? \nRepresenting the heart of our homes\, the kitchen is a space where some of the most meaningful\, life-changing conversations take place. We want to replicate this experience and create a platform for dialogue between all members of our community: artists\, writers\, organisers\, comrades and friends. \nMany of us will have our stories of home\, migration and displacement related to food and its preparation. Over the past months we’ve been shown Palestinians preparing meals with the ingredients they have to hand whilst under siege\, narrating their culture and heritage\, as acts of both survival and resistance. Weaponising food and using famine as a method of control in occupied territories\, has been historically used by oppressors all over the world. We are witnessing it now in Gaza and Sudan. We want to acknowledge this\, in solidarity and as artists and organisers. \nIn the hope of food bringing folks together in kitchen conversations\, we invite organisers\, comrades and friends to a brunch\, offering a space to meet and find joy in conversation. \nJoin us in the simple act of sharing a meal and bring a dish you’ve made related to home to share together with comrades and to regroup. Register for the event HERE. \nThis is a free event. If you are able to donate\, we would be grateful if you could support the following charities: \nThe Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund via THIS donation link. \nAnd/or \nSudanese charities HERE. \n* As we’re sharing home-made dishes\, please bring a full list of ingredients. Thank you! \n  \nAbout the Artists: \nSonia Uddin is a visual artist with a social\, collaborative\, interdisciplinary practice. Her current research engages with themes around social architecture\, housing activism\, resistance\, migration and the voices that emerge during times of community struggle. Working across film\, performance\, collage and print\, archives and social histories inform a documentary approach to storytelling. She is currently undertaking a commissioned project for Counterpoints Arts that explores: social housing\, activism and migration; through archives\, interviews and storytelling workshops around housing struggle. \n  \nOlga Macrinici is a migrant\, queer and disabled theatre artist from Moldova. They work at the intersection of theatre and social change\, combining performance\, community projects and writing. Olga is currently based in Liverpool\, making interdisciplinary work\, from writing and directing to running workshops with and for the migrant community and performing on the local drag scene.\n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/kitchen-conversations-brunch/
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,London Refugee Week
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SUMMARY:Family Workshop: Journeys from Home by Art Refuge
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Refugee Week in this creative workshop inspired by journeys from home. \nJoin Art Refuge artists Aida Silvestri and Bobby Lloyd for a multi-generational art and making workshop at The Community Table. Be inspired by maps from the British Library collection\, as well as your own lived experience of travelling\, routes and journeys\, using postcards to share\, create and connect as a community. \nEveryone is welcome and there is no need to book. \nPresented in partnership with Counterpoints Arts and Art Refuge\, as part of London Refugee Week. \nArt Refuge is a UK based charity that uses art and art therapy to support the mental health and well-being of people displaced due to conflict\, persecution\, poverty and climate emergency\, in the UK and internationally. \nCounterpoints Arts is a national arts organisation working in arts\, migration and cultural change. Counterpoints coordinates the national Refugee Week\, the world’s largest arts & culture festival celebrating the contributions\, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary. \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/family-workshop-journeys-from-home-by-art-refuge/
LOCATION:British Library\, 96 Euston Rd\, London\, London\, NW1 2DB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,London Refugee Week
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SUMMARY:Room for Dinner & 3EIB Presents: Room for Us
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with London Festival of Architecture and soon to be opened Palestine House\, Counterpoints’ Room for Dinner reimagines the dinner party.\nFood is often intimately tied to the memories of those who have left their homes due to forced displacement and are challenged with having to forge a new life\, while preserving their culture and connections to their origins. An expanded supper club\, collaborative sewing project and popup store hybrid commissioned by Counterpoints Arts will see 3EIB\, Palestinian artists and Hiba chefs envision a convivial space for the interdisciplinary intermingling of culture and heritage that investigates the roles of host and guest. \nOn the evening of Friday 28 June\, a special dinner cooked by Hiba will be served amidst a collaborative sewing project by Ramallah based Nöl Collective. Guests will engage in a sensorial experience which will reframe and personalise the Palestinian experience of displacement and resistance through the eating of cuisine steeped in history against the backdrop of art\, embroidery\, storytelling and performance with contributions from artist Bint Mbareh\, writer Sarin Hasbun and others. Doors open at 6:30pm and the dinner party will commence at 7pm. \nThis event is part of a weekend-long collaboration with Palestine House and 3EIB – 3EIB Presents: Room for Us. On Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th June\, Palestine House will be open from 12 – 6pm. \nThe free\, drop-in weekend programme presented by 3EIB will feature a Palestinian marketplace with home and lifestyle shop el Bustan\, Palestinian independent fashion brands and Arabic literature from bookshop Maqam. View Nöl Collective’s collaborative sewing project and listen to an accompanying soundtrack born of Palestine’s rich sonic history. Play games from Culture Mocktail and enjoy food and drinks from Hiba and Saffron and Honey. \nJoin us for the following workshops:  \nSunday\, 2-3pm:\nChildren’s Poetry writing with Tasneim Ziyada  \nSaturday and Sunday\, 2-5 pm:\nTatreez workshop facilitated by Susan Al-Safadi. \n——————————————————— \nRoom for Dinner is for anyone who supports the Palestinian cause and presents an opportunity to imagine a microcosm of an inclusive and collective future for humanity. It is part of Counterpoints’ London Refugee Week. \nFriday: All proceeds from ticket sales will go towards supporting Palestine House – backed project of supplying safe\, sterilised water in Gaza. \nBOOK YOUR TICKETS HERE. \nSupported by Choose Love. \nSaturday & Sunday: Free entry. \n \nAbout the Collaborators: \n3EIB is a platform showcasing independent fashion brands from the SWANA region founded by Dania Arafeh\, a Palestinian British curator. @_3eib_ \nCounterpoints is a leading national organisation in the field of arts\, migration and social change. \nHiba is a family-owned and run business which brings London the tastes of Palestine & Lebanon. @hibaexpress \nBint Mbareh is a sound artist focussed on the power of communal vocalising. Her research centres on  Palestinian folklore and its current potential for liberatory narratives\, especially in the two fields of mourning/lamentation music and music used to summon rain and to praise water resources.  @BintMbareh \nSabrin Hasbun is a Palestinian-Italian transnational writer. She has always had to mediate between cultures and every day for her is a journey across borders. @SabrinHasbun \nMaqam is a locally owned independent youth-led specialist bookshop and community space in London. @Maqam \nNöl Collective is a fashion label working with family-run sewing workshops\, artisans\, and women’s cooperatives to produce garments in Palestine. @NolCollective \nSusan Al-Safadi is a writer\, community organiser\, tatreez artist and embroiderer\, and a baker. Susan runs Saffron and Honey Bakery. \nPalestine House is a new dynamic home for art\, advocacy\, thinking\, community and conversation in the heart of London. \nChoose Love does whatever it takes to provide refugees and displaced people with everything from lifesaving search and rescue boats to food and legal advice. @chooselove \nLondon Festival of Architecture is a month-long celebration of architecture and city-making\, taking place every June across London. The Festival’s mission is to open up discussions around architecture\, test new ideas and uncover and promote new talent. @londonfestivalofarchitecture \nRefugee Week is the world’s largest arts & culture festival celebrating the contributions\, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary. @RefugeeWeekUK \nThis event is organised by Dania Arafeh\, Kristine Tan and Dijana Rakovic. \nImage credit: Tomasso Serra. Osama Quashoo and Meskele Sereke Mesgna with the symbolic wooden key at the heart of Palestine House.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/room-for-dinner/
LOCATION:Palestine House\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,London Refugee Week,Multi-Art Form
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