BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Counterpoints - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Counterpoints X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Counterpoints REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20170326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20171029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20180325T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20181028T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20220101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230624T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230625T000000 DTSTAMP:20260526T152346 CREATED:20220517T103829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144959Z UID:10000071-1687564800-1687651200@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Alter: Brought to Life DESCRIPTION:Members of the public will be invited to interact with Alter\, an exhibition of seven sculptures featuring movement\, light and sound.\n  \nAlter has been co-commissioned by the Southbank Centre and Counterpoints Arts for the Southbank Centre’s public spaces during Refugee Week 2022. \nThe work consists of seven interactive\, movable sculptures featuring light and sound. As the sculptures are manoeuvred by both performers and the audience\, the space of the Southbank Centre is permeated with traces of sound and colour\, representing stories of migration. \nThe piece is created by Paria Moazemi Goodarzi and Francisco Llinas Casas\, and was inspired by the rich history of the Southbank Centre and notions of refuge and displacement. \nApproximate run time: 15 mins. Run times may vary by up to 20 minutes as they can be affected by last-minute programme changes\, intervals and encores. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/alter-brought-to-life/ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/CA.DigitalSketches-1-03-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230620T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230620T150000 DTSTAMP:20260526T152346 CREATED:20230518T113601Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145000Z UID:10000022-1687262400-1687273200@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Arts\, Refugees & Mental Health - report launch DESCRIPTION:Counterpoints Arts has been commissioned by The Baring Foundation to write the latest in a series of research reports about arts and mental health\, this time looking at the provision for refugees and asylum seekers. \nCreatively Minded and Refugees – Arts\, refugees and mental health will be launched at Yorkton Workshops in London on 20th June as part of Refugee Week in an event running from 12 noon to 2.30pm. \nThe report features case studies of 12 organisations running arts programmes for refugees and asylum seekers that have a focus on mental health\, along with some key learning and suggestions for further research. \nA copy of the report will be available on the Baring Foundation website from 20th June. \nThe event is invite only but if you are interested in finding our more about the event and possibly attending please contact hello@counterpoints.org.uk \nImage courtesy of Art Refuge. \nLaunch event supported byPearson Lloyd URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/arts-refugees-and-mental-health-report-launch/ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/ArtRefuge_TheCommunityTable_typing-scaled-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230619T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230624T050000 DTSTAMP:20260526T152346 CREATED:20230522T085225Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144959Z UID:10000013-1687176000-1687582800@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Afghani War Rugs Reimagined DESCRIPTION:“Afghani War Rugs Reimagined\,” a thought-provoking visual art exhibition by artist Ghafar Tajmohammad will run at the Yorkton Workshop in Hackney from June 19th until June 24th\, commissioned by Counterpoints Arts\, supported by Arts Council England and partnered with Afghan Association London Harrow. \nThe exhibition invites visitors to explore Ghafar Tajmohammad’s personal reinterpretations of Afghan War Rugs. Through a unique blend of art and oral history the exhibition showcases expanded paintings\, handwoven rugs\, and engaging audio and text narratives that go beyond the pictorial symbols of conflict and violence\, to examine instead the lived migration elements of the Afghan diaspora in the UK. \nDelve into the rich tapestry of Afghan culture and gain insight into the experiences of the multigenerational Afghan diaspora living in the UK. \nThis exhibition serves as a response to the recent events surrounding the Fall of Kabul in August 2021\, aiming to preserve memories and encourage dialogue between cultures. \nAbout the artist \nGhafar Tajmohammad is a visual artist who works primarily in painting\, but extends beyond the conventional practice and into the realm of expanded painting; allowing the artwork to exist as installation pieces. This approach allows the artist to stress the inherent textile materiality of raw canvas and connect with the rich culture of textiles and carpet weaving. Within the artwork\, recognisable motifs\, imagery\, and geometry fuse to form narratives suggestive of dual identities from lived experiences.\nConceptually\, the artistic practice reflects upon the idea of home for migrant communities. It express the abstract search for belonging and the experiences of those made to relocate. As a British Afghan who was displaced as a child\, Ghafar’s work is community-orientated focus and in his first solo exhibition chooses to advocate for the Afghan diaspora voices so often unheard. \nThe exhibition is part of Refugee Week 2023 which has the theme of “Compassion”. \nGhafar Tajmohammad on living in the UK during the ‘Fall of Kabul’ on August 15 2021: \n“The news headline THE FALL OF KABUL was displayed in the digital billboard at Charing Cross station just above the entrance for platform 1. \nSeeing that broke me. \nUntil then\, I kept maintaining to everyone that I was okay and that my family was okay. I shrugged off a comment a few days ago by a visitor calling me ‘whitewashed’ for not being angry enough. I nodded understandably as a charity that worked on the grounds in Afghanistan\, told me that we would have to cancel our part time design project due to the growing turmoil. I ignored messages of support from friends. \nBut seeing that headline brought me right back to my 9 year old self who knew little about the war\, but even less about his home.” \nTom Green\, Senior Producer at Counterpoints Arts says: \n“We’re so excited to have been involved in commissioning this new exhibition from Ghafar Tajmohammad. He’s a thoughtful and innovative artist who brings a much needed perspective on connections between Afghanistan and Britain\, in the context of displacement. We can’t wait for people to have a chance to see this new work and to share their responses to it.” \nVisitors can participate in four special events – reserve free tickets via Eventbrite \nWorkshop: Conflict Textiles \nDate: June 19th\, 11:00-15:00 PM \nDescription: Conflict Textiles curator Roberta Bacic will facilitate a ‘hands on’ textile workshop linked to the Afghani War Rugs Reimagined exhibition and Refugee Week. \nPrivate View: \nDate: June 22nd\, 6:00-9:00 PM \nDescription: Join us for an exclusive Private View of “Afghani War Rugs Reimagined” exhibition. This event offers an opportunity to explore Ghafar Tajmohammad’s captivating artworks until late hours\, accompanied by refreshment. Experience the exhibition in a lively setting and a chance to meet and hear from the artist. \nDrop-in Rug Weaving Workshop: \nDate: Throughout the exhibition period \nDescription: Engage with the interactive installation of a large loom during the Drop-in Rug Weaving Workshop. Witness the transformation of the artwork as the loom gradually becomes more complete over the course of the exhibition. Join artist Ghafar Tajmohammad in this immersive experience where you can actively participate in the weaving process. Visit the workshop during gallery hours to be part of this unique artistic endeavor. \nPanel Discussion on Afghan Art and Artists featuring Lazo Studio: \nDate: June 24th\, 1pm \nDescription: Join artist Ghafar Tajmohammad\, Hedieh Wojgani and Naseer Yasna for a stimulating Panel Discussion on Afghan Art and Artists. Hear from active members of the Afghan creative community about the cultural significance of Afghan art in this bilingual event\, provided in English and Dari. Gain insights from Ghafar Tajmohammad for his reinterpretations of Afghan War Rugs\, and discover the artistic vision of Lazo Studios\, an art\, design\, and wood crafting atelier founded by Hedieh and Naseer who worked in Afghanistan. Limited tickets are available for this talk\, which will feature catered traditional Afghan food. \nFor media inquiries and further information regarding this exhibition\, please contact: \nGhafar Tajmohammad\, Artist\nGhaf.taj@gmail.com\n07923886395 \nTom Green\, Senior Producer\, Counterpoints Arts\ntom@counterpoints.org.uk\n02081673501 \nFor more information about the artist\, please visit:\nWebsite: Ghafar Tajmohammad\nSocial Media: Ghaf.™ \nHigh-resolution images and additional press materials are available upon request. \nNotes For Editors\nWhere and When\nYorkton Workshop\,\n1-3 Yorkton St\, London E2 8NH\nJune 19th to 24th 2023 (not 20th)\nOpening hours and admission \nThe exhibition is open from Monday 19th to Saturday 24th (not 20th) from 12 noon – 5pm\, with the exception of Private View which opens until 9pm. Supported by Pearson Lloyd. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/afghani-war-rugs-reimagined/ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Visual Arts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/AWR2-02.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230526T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230526T203000 DTSTAMP:20260526T152346 CREATED:20230523T125735Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145000Z UID:10000019-1685131200-1685133000@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Tate Late: Art Chat\, with AWATE and Matt Foot DESCRIPTION:In the context of Tate Modern’s new commission\, The Embassy by Richard Bell\, the upcoming Tate Late celebrates art\, activism and protest. \nIn one of the Art Chats\, we present rapper and filmmaker Awate Abdalla in conversation with human rights lawyer Matt Foot. \nJoin us in person\, or in a live stream at Tate’s Youtube\, from 8pm. \nSee HERE for details of the Tate Late full programme. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/tate-late-art-chat-with-awate-and-matt-foot/ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Screenshot-2022-06-14-at-11.50.00.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230520T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230520T120000 DTSTAMP:20260526T152346 CREATED:20230517T182754Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145000Z UID:10000023-1684584000-1684584000@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Canalside Neighbourhood Annual Spring Community Party DESCRIPTION:Image credit: Briony Campbell\nCounterpoints is again working with our partners\, Canalside Residents Association (CRA)\, on a plan for a Phase 2 of our Everyday on Canalside neighbourhood project. \nFirst event of the Phase 2 is a Spring Party at the Community Centre on Philipp Street\, a day of creative activities including families ‘crafts workshops\, street ‘placemaking’ drawing workshop\, Brasilian music band and also a Cockney Sing-a-long\, face and henna painting\, free food by the local restaurant\, Humdingers\, and more. We are also supporting the dedication of a space at the Community Centre to Terry Downey\, the previous CRA Chair and all round beautiful human who we worked with on so many elements of the project. Terry died during Covid-19 and his neighbours will be reflecting on his legacy. \nArtist Dana Olărescu joins the project with her collaborative practice of co-creating with communities around the themes of identity and climate justice. Dana will be running a workshop\, bringing together the project archive and new conversations and post-Covid world thinking. \nJoin us! URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/canalside-neighbourhood-annual-spring-street-party/ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/©brionycampbell2016_CRA_253.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221112T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230305T000000 DTSTAMP:20260526T152346 CREATED:20221124T114709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145000Z UID:10000040-1668211200-1677974400@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Internal Landscapes by Dima Karout DESCRIPTION:Image: Monoprint by Dima Karout. Details from the art book cover.\n  \nInternal Landscapes is a collective art exhibition curated and produced by Dima Karout. It is a creative investigation into Lewisham’s meaningful places and how they inspire and shape its people. \nDima invited local people to a series of curated conversations where they explored how the places we inhabit imprint themselves on our personal and collective identities. This display\, and the Internal Landscapes art book\, are inspired by these encounters. \nThe project \nIn January 2022\, arts curator and creative director\, Dima Karout took up residence at Lewisham Council and communities\, as part of the Mayor’s London Borough of Culture\, co-commissioned by Counterpoints Arts. \nDima engaged in conversations with policy makers and local organisations\, explored the connections between migration and democracy\, created new partnerships and produced a community-building programme. Her project focused on inclusion and engaged with Lewisham’s vision as the UK’s first Borough of Sanctuary. \nHer creative conversations\, printmaking and writing workshops were produced in partnership with Crofton Park\, Corbett\, Manor House and Sydenham Community Libraries and Lewisham Local. Inspired by these encounters Dima produced the Internal Landscapes art book and this collective exhibition. It contains reflections from locals on their experiences within their neighbourhood\, and glimpses into new connections fostered by the project. \nWorkshops \nDima invites you to explore your creativity in a friendly\, open and inclusive setting. Meet other people in a small group and learn about Internal Landscapes art project. \nParticipants will share their connection to their neighbourhoods\, explore how the places we inhabit contribute to our evolving identity and take part in exciting new conversations. \nPlaces are limited. Booking is essential to reserve your place. More info and for booking: \n\nFriday 9 December at Crofton Park Community Library. 6 – 8 pm \n\n\nSaturday 10 December at Manor House Library. 11 am – 1 pm \nTuesday 13 December at Corbett Community Library. 5 – 7 pm \n\nDima Karout \nDima is an arts curator and creative director with multicultural education background and 20 years international experience in designing art projects and learning programmes. She specialises in contemporary art and its potential for expanding ideas\, building creative communities and initiating social change. \n  \nFull details: https://www.horniman.ac.uk/event/internal-landscapes/ \n \n\n\n\nPart of We Are Lewisham\, the Mayor’s London Borough of Culture 2022. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n  \nSupported by Arts Council England. \n  URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/internal-landscapes/ LOCATION:Horniman Museum and Gardens\, 100 London Road\, London\, \, SE23 3PQ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Dima-Art-Book.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221110T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221118T000000 DTSTAMP:20260526T152346 CREATED:20221021T114547Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145000Z UID:10000041-1668038400-1668729600@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Gresham Wooden Horse DESCRIPTION:Gresham Wooden Horse is an art project co-created over several years by the artist\, Isabel Lima\, with residents and community stakeholders in the neighbourhood of Gresham\, Middlesbrough. \nThis exhibition translates the collective actions and ways of working throughout Gresham Wooden Horse – the paths taken\, challenges met and project milestones – into a gallery context. \nLima’s work is mediated through a decolonial lens. The exhibition space is curated via a series of interconnected themes reflected in her practice: themes of ‘openness’\, ‘vulnerability’\, ‘commitment’\, and ‘time’. \nIn choosing to bring a neighbourhood project into the space of the gallery\, Lima invites a wider audience to step into a re-enactment of Gresham Wooden Horse. To take part in a conversation around the complexities of place-based work and what it might mean to do socially engaged practice in a neighbourhood\, like Gresham. \nhttps://www.visitnca.com/exhibitions/gresham-wooden-horse \nThis exhibition has been supported by Counterpoints Arts and Arts Council England URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/gresham-wooden-horse/ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Learning,Visual Arts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/HorseforrightsideimagewithLogos3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220709T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220709T163000 DTSTAMP:20260526T152346 CREATED:20220517T115948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145001Z UID:10000058-1657377000-1657384200@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Which Story\, Whose Histories? by Elena Cecchinato DESCRIPTION:Free two-part workshop hosted by artist Elena Cecchinato is aimed at refugee children and adults. \n  \nParticipants will learn to rework a vintage photograph\, giving new life and narrative to it by a stitching and weaving process that will spark new visual conversations with time and memory. Bring an old photo that means something to you. All materials will be provided. The second part of this workshop will take place at Garrett Anderson secondary school. \n​​Over two hours\, the artists will facilitate participants in exploring fabrics\, image making and archiving. This educational session includes: \n\nDemonstration of different stitching techniques on paper\nLive artwork making with photographs and thread or with fabrics\nLive Q&A for students to ask the artist and the curator questions\n\nBoth images and clothes\, with their signs and meanings\, are necessary to our sense of space and charge our reality. They are vehicles and mediums to unite and conceive reality\, working between the ‘I’ and the world\, the interior and the exterior\, the knowing and the doing. They allow an opportunity for us not to be subdued by the world\, but rather interact with it\, transforming it always into new narratives. As in a laboratory participants will explore their imaginations and memory via a “re-weaving” / “re-imaging” exercise. By learning how to embroider old photographs\, we will directly experience how perception and memory itself is about change\, reworking\, reweaving. \nElena Cecchinato works in different mediums\, primarily drawing\, from a diverse range of sources including music\, philosophy\, economics\, science and religion.  From these she creates densely layered imagery that both repeats and creates something entirely new. Recently her focus has been on the themes of invisibility\, transformation and abstraction. \nCecchinato was born in Venice\, Italy. She learned Korean and Chinese painting at Korea University in Seoul before obtaining an MA in the History of Art of Africa and Asia from SOAS\, University of London. Her work has been shown internationally\, as well as in London at the Westbourne Studios\, Area 10Ps\, and The Rug Factory. She has worked with the Royal Hospital for Integrated Medicine and the Warwick Festival of Literature and Spoken Word. The Museum of Everything has also featured Elena’s works\, as part of its exhibition#2 at Tate Modern. Most recently she has shown Transpadovano at Palazzo Moroni\, Padova\, in Italy; Turf at Cutlog NY\, USA; and has collaborated with the Roundabout.Lx Collective and the River of Thoughts Residency hosted by Olho du Boi\, both in Lisbon\, Portugal. \nPresent as part of Velvet Society\, an exhibition displaying the creative acts of survival in fashion and fabric of two Syrian women\, civil engineer Raghad Mardini and artist Heba Al-Akkad. Project by Litehouse Gallery. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/which-story-whose-histories-by-elena-cecchinato/ LOCATION:P21 Gallery\, 21 Chalton St\, London\, NW1 1JD CATEGORIES:Community & Participation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Picture1-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220626T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220626T000000 DTSTAMP:20260526T152346 CREATED:20220517T114306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145001Z UID:10000060-1656201600-1656201600@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Healing through Sport: The power of women's sport for integration and inclusion DESCRIPTION:shado magazine assembles a group of inspirational sportspeople to discuss this year’s Refugee Week theme\, healing\, and how it relates to sport.\n  \n\nshado is a lived experience-led community of artists\, activists and journalists united in the fight for social justice. \nThey believe those with lived experience of an issue or injustice are best placed to advocate for meaningful change within that space. Their most recent project has involved the production of a short documentary in collaboration with Liverpool-based women’s football team Comfort Angels\, to explore the power of football and community inclusion for refugees and women seeking asylum. \n\n\nThis Refugee Week\, shado will be exploring the power of sport as a method of healing; as a way of breaking stigmas and barriers for women; and for creating safe spaces and community. \n\n\nDuring the event\, attendees will hear from: \n\n\n~ Hane + Ellie\, footballers from the football team Comfort Angels; a football team created by and for people seeking asylum. It exists to provide much-needed support by bringing communities together and offering a safe space for women to express themselves freely. \n\n\n~ Tasneem Tawil\, former Football Officer at Amnesty and professional Taekwondo athlete. Tasneem will be taking about her experience of breaking down stigmas surrounding women in sport and its place in providing community. \n\n\n~ Third panelist TBC \nIn this event panelists will discuss the role that sport has had in all of their’ lives; the barriers faced by women in sport; the importance of grassroots sports in fostering community; how each of the panelists are creating change in their communities and what more can be done to break down barriers and stigmas facing women in sport. \n\n  \nFree. Approximate run time: 45 mins. There will be 15 minutes at the end for an audience Q&A URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/the-power-of-womens-sport-for-integration-and-inclusion/ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Refugee-Story-05.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220625T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220625T173000 DTSTAMP:20260526T152346 CREATED:20220620T092712Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145003Z UID:10000044-1656162000-1656178200@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Celebrating Sanctuary: Lewisham Refugee Week Festival DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate Refugee Week at the Horniman\, with partners from across Lewisham. \nCelebrating Sanctuary will be an afternoon of live music and dance\, storytelling\, workshops and more\, all by people newly arrived in Lewisham from around the world. Community organisations have joined together to create a programme that will be taking place across the Horniman Museum and Gardens. \nTaking place across the beautiful Horniman Museum and Gardens\, this mini-festival has been developed in partnership with Create Without Borders and We Are Lewisham\, London Borough of Culture 2022\, to mark Lewisham’s status as the UK’s first Borough of Sanctuary. \nFor all ages unless otherwise stated. Workshop numbers will be limited on a first come\, first served basis\, so get there early to grab your spot! \nProgramme for the day: \nConservatory\nAll day\nInformation stall. Come and find out about local groups and how you can get involved\nin upcoming projects and campaigns. \nAll day\nLewisham Fostering Team. Information about fostering unaccompanied refugee children and young people. \nAll day\nArt exhibition. A showcase of paintings from Create Without Borders. \nAll day\nMessages from the Heart – Hope in the Heart X LRMN. This exhibition is a rich collection of images\, personal narrative and more\, created by people with Lived Experience. \nAll day\nHealing Together. A collaborative artwork inspired by the paintings of Abel Rodríguez.\nAll day Sanctuary banner. A giant welcome banner created by Year 5 and 6 students with artist Ghafar Tajmohammad as part of the Migration Museum’s involvement in the Walk With Amal project at Deptford. \n2-5pm \nHealing pods. Exploring the notion of Healing through Design\, this project unites people across London and Athens as part of Refugee Week through a virtual experience in a place without borders. \n1-2pm and 3-4pm\nWellbeing session. Head/hand massage\, reiki (sign–up). \n3–4pm\nTea and biscuits with Refugee Café \n3–4pm\nWellbeing session. Head/hand massage\, reiki (sign–up). \nOutside\n2–2. 30pm\nKids Yoga. Introducing fun ways to incorporate mindfulness and balance \n  \nBandstand\nAll day Stall.\nAffordable art\, coffee\, clothing\, preserves and other tasty treats from a collective of refugee artists and organisations. \n1pm\nOpening address from Councillor Campbell \n1.05–2pm\nFashion Show.\nA showcase of traditional clothing from around the world. \n2.15–2.45pm\nDance Performance. A mix of dances from Latin America with Asociación de Madres y Padres Latinoamericanos and LAF Community Salay UK. \n3–3.45pm\nThe Flotsam Orchestra. An incredible global roots ensemble. \n4–4.30pm\nOpen Mic. Readings\, spoken word and comedy. \n4.45–5pm\nE–S–K–I–S–T–A. Learn traditional Ethiopian dance. \n5–5.30pm\nClosing the day. Music and dancing. Music gallery performance space. \nAll day\nSonic Minds. An interactive sculpture co–produced with children and young people who have experienced displacement. \n1–1.30pm\nSafe HAVEN. Join Usman Khalid for a screening of the film Safe HAVEN and audience Q&A. \n2–2.30pm\nFlotsam music workshop. Learn an Afro–Colombian song with Jenny Parra and the Flotsam Orchestra! \n3–3.45pm\nComedy workshop. An interactive workshop with comedienne Ola Labib. \n4–5pm\n#NoticeUs. Healing through taking action together. Online performance and discussion on the campaign to improve temporary accommodation. \nEducation Centre (1)\nAll day Photo exhibition. An exhibition of photos taken of the 2021 Migrant Connections Festival. \n1–1.45pm\nMindfulness photography. Connect with nature through photography. This session will include a walk through the Horniman Gardens. \n2–2.45pm\nMarco’s Miracle Mountain – family cookie decoration. Join Refugee Café to decorate\nEcuadorian biscuits and bread. Fun for all the family! \n3.15–4pm\nMessages from the Heart. Arts and crafts –visit the exhibition and then create your own ‘Message from the Heart’. \n4.15– 5pm\nCalligraphy workshop. Using traditional and modern Persian letters and words – create a drawing to take home. \nEducation Centre (2)\nAll day Photo exhibition. An exhibition of photos taken of the 2021 Migrant Connections Festival. \n1.50–2.50pm\nLondon Must Act workshop. Find out ways to support our campaign fighting for a humane migration policy for all. \n3.10–4.10pm\nWhat makes a good migrant festival? This workshop\, hosted next to Migrant Connections exhibition space\, explores what makes a good migrant festival. \nHands on base\n1–1.20pm\nThis London. Short performance following the journeys of migrant women arriving in the UK. \n1.30–2.30pm\nStorytelling with object handling. Share and create your own story with museum artefacts. \n2.45–3.45pm\nThis is London. Short performance following the journeys of migrant women arriving to the UK and workshop on building a Borough of Sanctuary. \n4–5pm\nDesta (Happiness) Workshop. A wellbeing workshop using creativity\, discussions exploring our journey and hopes for the future. For adults and children 10+. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-festival-celebrating-sanctuary/ LOCATION:Horniman Museum and Gardens\, 100 London Road\, London\, \, SE23 3PQ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Multi-Art Form,Music,Theatre ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/download.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220625T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220625T173000 DTSTAMP:20260526T152346 CREATED:20220518T142747Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145003Z UID:10000322-1656162000-1656178200@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Celebrating Sanctuary - Lewisham Refugee Week Festival DESCRIPTION:Taking place across the beautiful Horniman Museum and Gardens\, this mini-festival has been developed by a partnership of local community organisations in partnership with Refugee Week and We Are Lewisham\, London Borough of Culture 2022\, to mark Lewisham’s status as the UK’s first Borough of Sanctuary. \nThe event builds on Lewisham’s proud history of using culture and food to make positive change\, to celebrate our identities and to demonstrate a unique welcome to visitors to the borough. \nThe day is curated by Create Without Borders in collaboration with Horniman Museum\, Flotsam Sessions\, Refugee Café\, Azmari Bet\, Lewisham Refugee & Migrant Network\, Counterpoints Arts\, Shelby X Studios\, Asociación de Madres y Padres Latinoamericanos\, Haven Coffee\, Ekō magazine\, Sonic Minds\, Migrant Connections Festival\, Creating Ground\, London Must Act\, Hope in the Heart. \nFree\, drop-in. Detailed programme coming soon. \n  URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/celebrating-sanctuary-lewisham-refugee-week-festival/ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220625T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220625T130000 DTSTAMP:20260526T152346 CREATED:20220517T115329Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145004Z UID:10000059-1656154800-1656162000@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Coming Together by Farah Azrak DESCRIPTION:Free workshop hosted by artist Farah Azrak is aimed at children and young people. \nFarah Azrak\, born and raised in Damascus\, Syria is a multidisciplinary artist\, performer\, and Somatic Movement and Voice practitioner currently living in Beirut\, Lebanon. Her work converges on the body as a main gateway\, and diverges in multiform mediums to reiterate relationship to self\, other\, and the environment. Her works were exhibited in London\, Paris\, Milan\, Yerevan\, and Beirut. Alongside her artistic practice\, she works as a creative psycho-social support facilitator in various communities in Lebanon. \nAzrak will offer a workshop to explore the theme of healing and coming together through a collective canvas of stories in collage form using different materials and media available. The workshop will focus on releasing the imagination of the participants and collectively coming together to create a work that embodies dreams and longings as a form for healing memory. \nThis workshop is part of Velvet Society\, an exhibition displaying the creative acts of survival in fashion and fabric of two Syrian women\, civil engineer Raghad Mardini and artist Heba Al-Akkad. Presented by Litehouse Gallery. \nNote: This event has been changed. The original artist Heba Al-Akkad is unable to travel. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/coming-together-by-farah-azrak/ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/FA-Headshot.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220625 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220627 DTSTAMP:20260526T152346 CREATED:20220616T135848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145001Z UID:10000045-1656115200-1656287999@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:I.A.M. THESE PEOPLE DESCRIPTION:A participatory nomadic street cafe in Cliftonville\, Margate created by Dipesh Pandya; reclaiming public space to explore sonic cultures of [im]migrant and refugee trajectories. \nFree. \nOrganised by hands.up.if.you.re.brown and supported by Counterpoints Arts. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/i-a-m-these-people/ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Multi-Art Form ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image0-1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220410T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220410T000000 DTSTAMP:20260526T152346 CREATED:20220406T134414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145006Z UID:10000079-1649548800-1649548800@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:PopChange Salon Series X Now Play This Festival: Stories of Displacement in Video Games DESCRIPTION:Can video games change our understanding of what it means to be a refugee? \nWith displacement as a guiding theme\, this will be an exploratory conversation looking at different ways in which video games can diversify our understanding of refugee experiences. The discussants will each be talking about some of their own projects — including the popular text-based game Bury Me\, My Love — while exploring the values and challenges of bringing lived experience into game development\, platforms for experimentation and cross-sector collaboration\, and opportunities with interactive forms such as AR/VR. This will be an inspiring conversation for game designers\, storytellers\, art-ivists and narrative change-makers. \nThe discussion will be facilitated by Jennifer Estaris\, Game Director of ustwo games (known for Monument Valley and Alba: A Wildlife Adventure) in conversation with:  \n\nSindi Breshani – Co-founder of Episod Studio which is currently developing ‘Race for the Arctic’\, a documentary game built with indigenous communities.\nFlorent Maurin (via live feed) – Founder of The Pixel Hunt – a games design studio focused on reality-inspired games\, including Bury Me\, My Love\, produced in collaboration with a Syrian refugee. \nMalath Abbas (via lived feed) – Founder of Biome Collective\, and currently producing ‘Hope’\, a playful experience that documents his own journey as a refugee to the UK.\n\nThis event is presented by Counterpoints Arts as part of its PopChange Salon Series in collaboration with Now Play This (8-10 April 2022) — a festival of experimental game design held at Somerset House. This year’s theme explores the relationship between game design and democracy. \nThe PopChange Salon Series — presented by Counterpoints Arts’ Popchange initiative — are curated exchanges with change makers\, storytellers and the entertainment industry to explore opportunities for harnessing pop culture for real social change. The Salon Series focuses on areas with momentum for narrative change in the UK — TV/film\, gaming and comedy — with particular reference to themes of racial justice\, migration and displacement. \n********* \nLinks & More Info: \nGet tickets to the Festival (£6.50-9) via Somerset House website: https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/now-play-2022  \nIf you are interested in joining\, we have a limited number of free tickets available. Get in touch with marcia@counterpoints.org.uk. \nWatch online: https://twitch.tv/nowplaythis \nImage credit: Bury Me\, My Love © The Pixel Hunt URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/popchange-salon-series-x-now-play-this-festival-stories-of-displacement-in-video-games/ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Digital,Gaming,Pop Culture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/burymemyloveheader.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211102T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211102T123000 DTSTAMP:20260526T152346 CREATED:20211018T182704Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145007Z UID:10000150-1635850800-1635856200@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:LEARNING LAB X PLATFORMA 6 // STITCHING TIME AND PLACE: POSTCARDS ACROSS THE RIVER DESCRIPTION:This Learning Lab — hosted as part of Platforma 6 Festival — will facilitate a conversation around the Postcards Across the River project led by Clapham Park Creative Co-op and produced by Counterpoints Arts.\n\nDate: Tuesday\, 2 November 2021\nTime: 11am to 12:30pm\nCost: £ Free\nWho: For anyone interested in textile art\, community-based practice\, local culture/history and community resilience\nSpaces: Limited spaces\, booking required.\nLocation: Online on Zoom (recording will be available online at a later date)\nHosted by: Counterpoints Arts and Platforma 6 Festival\n\n\nAbout the Learning Lab\n\nPostcards Across the River is a durational\, cross-borough collaboration between two community groups on either side of the River Thames: Clapham Park Creative Co-op (Lambeth) and East London Textile Arts (Newham). Facilitated by the textile artist\, Sonia Tuttiett\, with input from story collector and Clapham Park resident\, Thérèse Mullan\, and commissioned and produced by Marcia Chandra\, at Counterpoints Arts. The fabric postcards and accompanying stories of Postcards Across the River weave memories of home together with the interpersonal\, cultural imaginaries of a post-Covid world. The embroideries tell stories of the past\, the present and the future\, merging complex temporalities through intricacy and detail.\n\nWe invite you to join us in this conversation with participants as they reflect on the neighbourhood journeys that they have taken in Postcards Across the River – exchanging knowledge\, skills and know-how.\n\nWe are delighted to also be joined by Deirdre Figueiredo\, Director of Craftspace\, a leading craft development organisation creating opportunities to see\, make and be curious about exceptional contemporary craft.\n\nQuestions to explore together \n\n How might the everyday skills of embroidery be used to chronicle and document a place or a neighbourhood?\n How can this work create ‘living archives’ – especially as we move cautiously out from Covid 19?\n How might this slow\, collaborative work help us re-learn the values of creative/social exchange\, interconnection\, interdependency\, mutual aid and collective care?\n How might this form of everyday creativity be a critical catalyst for more sustainable cooperative public art commissions\, re-connecting people within and between neighbourhoods and places?\n\n\nDiscussants\n\n Marcia Chandra\, Counterpoints Arts\, commissioner/producer\n Sonia Tuttiett\, commissioned artist\n Thérèse Mullan\, Clapham Park Creative Co-op Community Producer and commissioned writer\n Participants from both Clapham Park Creative Co-op and East London Textile Arts\n\nWith special guest\, Deirdre Figueiredo\, Director of Craftspace\n\n\nModerated by Áine O’Brien\, Counterpoints Arts\nOrganisers\nClapham Park Creative Co-op is a neighbourhood initiative exploring community change through creative conversation\, and is produced by Counterpoints Arts. It works in partnership with and is supported by the Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing Association. \n\nPlatforma arts and refugee network supports and develops arts and culture by\, about and with refugees and migrants. Platforma is managed by Counterpoints Arts in partnership with organisations across the country. Every two years we run the Platforma Festival in a different part of England. Platforma 6 will take place in Yorkshire and online in October 2021 with a special focus on textiles. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/learning-lab-x-platforma-6-stitching-time-and-place-postcards-across-the-river/ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Craft & Design,Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_168899689_131989282460_1_original.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211030T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211030T160000 DTSTAMP:20260526T152346 CREATED:20211001T120641Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145007Z UID:10000152-1635591600-1635609600@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Stories from the 'roads' of empire - with London South Bank University\, artists Dana Olarescu and BLKBRD Collective DESCRIPTION:Stories from the ‘Roads’ of Empire is a new collaboration with London South Bank University and artists Dana Olarescu\, and BLKBRD Collective\, and explores the stories of catastrophe\, displacement\, and subsequent renewal and contestation associated with empire and its metropole by engaging with two different archives: Imperial War Museums\, and memories of London residents. \nMigration narratives are often told by those who have not experienced them. How do we reclaim the lived complexities of our stories when they are told on our behalf by institutions? \nJoin us for a group workshop led by Romanian migrant\, Londoner\, and artist Dana Olarescu\, with BLKBRD Collective. We will reimagine Imperial War Museums’ archives\, by looking at a number of Archive pieces in relation to your stories and memories of displacement and personal renewal. The workshop forms part of a London South Bank University project\, Stories from the ‘Roads’ of Empire\, in collaboration with Counterpoints Arts. \nFor more information and to reserve a place\, email roadsofempire@gmail.com by 28 October. Places are limited\, so we advise early registration. \nParticipants will receive £40 for their time\, and lunch will be provided. Children are welcome. \nWorkshop conversations will inform an artwork to be showcased in a public-facing event at Borough Road Gallery\, London South Bank University\, on 16 November\, as part of the Being Human Festival. \nStories from the ‘Roads’ of Empire was initiated by London South Bank University academics Ozan Kamiloglu\, Elian Weizman and Henry Redwood. \n  URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/stories-from-the-roads-of-empire-with-london-southbank-university-and-dana-olarescu/ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Stories-from-the-Roads-of-Empire_image-without-text.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211001 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211030 DTSTAMP:20260526T152346 CREATED:20210726T142420Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145008Z UID:10000162-1633046400-1635551999@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Autumn School - Create and Counterpoints Arts DESCRIPTION:Participants at the 2018 Summer School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice\, held in Carlingford\, Co. Louth. Photo: Aoife Herrity\n  \nCreate and Counterpoints Arts are pleased to announce the 2021 School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice for up to 12 artists. Due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions and social distancing\, we will host the 2021 School virtually over five days: 1\, 8\, 1\, 22\, 29 October. The Autumn School is an initiative of The Arts Council of Ireland’s Artist in the Community (AIC) Scheme\, managed by Create. \nAbout the Autumn School \nThe virtual Autumn School is shaped by global and translocal practices. It is fundamentally informed by the diverse life experiences and creative practices of participants\, and the work and mentoring of visiting facilitators. The focus of learning in the School is enabled by an exploration of the critical space between the lived realities of cultural diversity and the connective methodologies and collective actions underpinning collaborative practice. \nThe School is interdisciplinary in its curriculum and composition of participants\, presenters and facilitators. Together we will explore what cultural diversity means in practice – in people’s intimate lives\, in neighbourhoods and within communities of place and interest. Lines of inquiry include the following questions\, among others: \n\nThe concept of cultural diversity is often narrowly (sometimes stereotypically) read through the lens of policy\, but how does the practice of cultural diversity resonate as an intersectional and dynamic part of everyday life? And by extension how might the language around cultural diversity be challenged and repositioned?\nHow might the experience of cultural diversity be enacted in the context of collaborative arts practice and vice versa?\nHow can cultural diversity and working cooperatively form an intrinsic part of the artistic\, socially engaged process\, acting as a powerful driver for social change in both local communities and within arts organisations?\nHow to understand the critical intersection of cultural diversity and collaborative arts practice in the context of decolonisation and the urgency of global racial justice movements?\n\nThe 2021 School will take the form of a five-day virtual residency enabling a ‘think and do’ collaborative approach\, utilizing creative workshops\, critical and comparative case studies\, a creative group challenge\, one-to-one mentoring\, international guest artists including curators\, policymakers and activists. \nThe deadline for submission to be part of the School is the 30 August 2021\, 5pm. You will find guidelines and an online application form linked on this page: Autumn School \nDirected by: Dr Áine O’Brien – Curator of Learning and Research and Co-Founder\, Counterpoints Arts \nCo-Facilitator \nIsabel Lima\, Independent Artist and Director of The Gresham Horse project \nVisiting artists and facilitators include: \nDana Olărescu\, Independent Artist and Cultural Activist \nIsmail Einashe\, Investigative Journalist and Cultural Activist \nNike Jonah\, Executive Director of PACE (Pan-African Creative Exchange) \nDominik Czechowski\, International Curator\, Researcher and Writer \n  URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/autumn-school-create-and-counterpoints-arts/ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Learning,Multi-Art Form ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/SSCD_WEB_COL_0640-640x480-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210916 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211126 DTSTAMP:20260526T152346 CREATED:20210608T140520Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145007Z UID:10000175-1631750400-1637884799@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:taking pArt - A COLLABORATION BETWEEN COUNTERPOINTS ARTS AND ART REFUGE DESCRIPTION:Counterpoints Arts and Art Refuge return with the online art project\, taking pArt\, running every Thursday\, 1-2.30pm (BST) on Zoom. Through a series of participatory art workshops we welcome you to take part in playful art-making activities & games around The Community Table. \nThis project is a response to requests from our networks for a regular\, safe\, welcoming art making space for creativity and wellbeing. \nFor a mixed group of people aged 18 and over with lived experience as refugees\, people seeking asylum\, support workers\, foster-carers\, friends\, neighbours\, charity workers – all welcome. We also invite artists & cultural workers who would like to experience ‘making’ with others and as part of an Art Refuge series of workshops. \nWe will use easily accessible materials and domestic objects\, and groups are welcome to join together. You can use a computer or a phone to join in. \nThe workshops will be led by Art Refuge with guest artists from Counterpoints Arts. For further information and/or the Zoom link please email Dijana Rakovic\, Counterpoints’ Producer – dijana@counterpoints.org.uk with taking pArt in the subject line. \nArt Refuge uses socially engaged art and art therapy to support the mental health and wellbeing of people displaced due to conflict\, persecution and poverty\, in the UK and internationally\, alongside training\, education\, exhibitions and research. Its freelance team of artists and art therapists includes a growing number of artists with lived experience as refugees. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/taking-part-a-collaboration-between-counterpoints-arts-and-art-refuge/ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Digital ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/taking-pArt.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210616T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210616T193000 DTSTAMP:20260526T152346 CREATED:20210529T052759Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145414Z UID:10000179-1623866400-1623871800@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Together\, We Care - an evening of sharing & storytelling\, led by the Giant Dolls' house Project DESCRIPTION:A box made by a member of the Giant Dolls’ house community. Credit: Dolls’ house Project. \n  \nAn event produced in collaboration between SCAN\, SBSBE*\, the Giant Dolls’ House Project and Oxfam GB \nAn evening sharing stories contributed through the Giant Dolls’ House Project\, stories of hope\, community\, and family told by Syrian playwright Anan Tello. Members of SCAN also made dolls’ houses reflecting on their Syrian heritage. \nFollow this link to book your ticket to the event. \nThis event showcase the Giant Dolls’ House Together\, We Care exhibition and the stories that created it. By asking refugee and non-refugee families to make a doll house that tells their stories of home\, community and belonging\, the project attempts to create solidarity and understanding across the political and socio-economic divide. \nMake your contribution to the Giant Dolls’ house exhibition ahead of the event. \nThis event is part of Refugee Week and the London Festival of Architecture. \n*SBSBE: Syrian British Society of the Built Environment \nAbout the Giant Dolls’ House Project \nThe Giant Dolls’ House Project is an inter­na­tion­al col­lab­o­ra­tive arts project. It engages local com­mu­ni­ties and rais­es aware­ness for home­less­ness and refugees. The aim of the project is to make peo­ple aware of the impor­tance of a home and com­mu­ni­ty for all and to cel­e­brate a unit­ed diversity. \nSince its start in Octo­ber 2014 the project has been to Dubai\, North Car­oli­na\, Goa\, Jor­dan\, Bournemouth and has been part of the Lon­don Fes­ti­val of Archi­tec­ture for five con­sec­u­tive years. The instal­la­tions cre­at­ed can be used as con­ver­sa­tion pieces\, to tell sto­ries\, or just to look at. Each instal­la­tion is very depen­dent on the dif­fer­ent col­lab­o­ra­tors over the years and demon­strates the diver­si­ty of groups involved in the project. We found that the dolls’ house can be used to explore ideas of iden­ti­ty\, both shared as well as per­son­al\, and that the dolls’ house project is always a good reflec­tion of the dif­fer­ent peo­ple who have cre­at­ed it. \nFur­ther­more\, the idea of ​‘just mak­ing’ has been a great suc­cess. What could be called casu­al craft; find­ing out by mak­ing\, tin­ker­ing\, using your hands and every­day mate­ri­als\, has been an impor­tant theme in the dif­fer­ent instal­la­tions. Think­ing through craft and mak­ing has res­onat­ed with the wide range of par­tic­i­pants who have par­tic­i­pat­ed in the project. \nThe project is the ini­tia­tive of Cat­ja de Haas who has con­duct­ed research into minia­ture and the home as part of her PhD by design. The project is run as part of her archi­tec­tur­al practice. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/together-we-care/ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Craft & Design ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/example-2.1-VGDH21_11AnanBL.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210612T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210612T120000 DTSTAMP:20260526T152346 CREATED:20210528T162747Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145414Z UID:10000180-1623493800-1623499200@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Giant Dolls’ house project: Together\, we care. Dolls’ house making workshop with Archimake DESCRIPTION:A dolls’ house making workshop with Archimake for the 2021 Virtual Giant Dolls’ House installation ‘Together we care.’ We invite you to engage creatively with your experiences of this last year\, or of those close to you\, in solidarity and together with the 79.5 million displaced people\, through creating of your own dolls’ house. We will assemble all dolls’ houses into a Giant Dolls’ house. The larger the final installation\, the more we show that ​‘together we care’. The installation is in collaboration with Oxfam. \nBook your place for this making collective workshop via Eventbrite. \nThe deadline is June 14th and you can submit a picture of your dolls’ house anytime through the Giant Dolls’ House website. \nThe Giant Dolls’ House project is a social arts project that asks participants of all ages to make a dolls’ house in a shoe­box to engage them with their personal experiences and shows that all people are equally idiosyncratic. \nArchimake runs educational architecture and design workshops for young people encouraging creative\, independent thinkers and positive communicators. \nSee also the event of sharing stories contributed through the Giant Dolls’ House Project. – event link. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/giant-dolls-house-project-together-we-care-dolls-house-making-workshop-with-archimake/ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Craft & Design ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/VGDH-Installation20-Thank-You-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210204 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210312 DTSTAMP:20260526T152346 CREATED:20201217T135034Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145415Z UID:10000210-1612396800-1615507199@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Refugee Week 'Slow' Conference DESCRIPTION:A series of free online workshops exploring arts and culture for change ahead of Refugee Week 2021 \nJoin us to gain new skills\, grow your networks and reflect on our work and practice\, in preparation for Refugee Week 2021 (14-20 June). \nWhether you’re involved in arts and culture\, sports\, education\, comms\, community organising\, a faith community\, social enterprise (or something else!) or are just interested in finding out more\, everyone is welcome! \nSee the full Slow Conference programme here\, and click ‘register’ to sign up to your choice of workshops. \nThe Slow Conference will kick off with a launch event on Thursday 04 February sharing everything you need to know to get take part in Refugee Week 2021. Sign up for the launch event here. \nRefugee Week is an annual festival celebrating the contributions\, creativity and resilience of refugees\, in which anyone is welcome to hold an event or activity. Refugee Week 2021 is 14-20 June\, and the theme is ‘We Cannot Walk Alone’. \nWhether you are new to Refugee Week\, or an experienced organiser\, this event will help you understand the theme\, learn about existing plans\, get inspired and make new connections. \nImage (c) Ambrose Musiyiwa URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-slow-conference/ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/rw.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201023T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201023T201500 DTSTAMP:20260526T152346 CREATED:20200914T122016Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145416Z UID:10000233-1603479600-1603484100@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:RE:seeding\, in correspondence Performance to Camera by Jade Montserrat DESCRIPTION:Online Premiere of Performance to Camera Commission + Q&A \nPart of performingbordersLIVE20 \nFriday 23 October / 7pm- 8.15pm \nFree tickets & English live captions: click here \nRE:seeding\, in correspondence is a new performance to camera suggesting that there is a connection between ourselves and the earth and that this line\, or connection\, like our communications with one another\, is drawing. \nDeveloped with film-makers Webb-Ellis\, Jade seeks to visualise these exchanges of energy\, the lines\, the communications\, and with that\, consider\, maybe on a global scale\, stewarding of our spaces. \nRE:seeding\, in correspondence documents processes of making virtual connections with a local community of people who have refugee status or are seeking asylum. Jade’s research topics on ownership\, body and land\, explored through a workshop with participants from MAFWA Theatre – an organisation in Leeds who make theatre with sanctuary seekers in Burmantofts\, Lincoln Green and Mabgate – included an exchange of materials: charcoal\, a sketchbook\, herb seeds and materials to grow them in with the intention of locating commonality through shared connection to earth\, soil\, and growth. \nA development of ‘Drawing as Contagion’\, a text and workshop devised in response to exhibition Instituting Care (Bluecoat; Humber Street Gallery) RE:seeding\, in correspondence extends Jade’s central idea that drawing is a mode of being or a mode of operating\, allowing further exploration of the question: What does it mean to survey and reclaim ‘environments’\, our relationship to space\, and where are potentials for reclamation or belongings? \nPerformance to Camera Collage by Jade Montserrat and Webb-Ellis \nEngagement and Project Management by Helen Moore \nThe online screening will be followed by a conversation between Jade Montserrat and Chandra Frank and a Q&A. \nCommissioned by performingborders\, East Street Arts and Counterpoint Arts for performingbordersLIVE20. Supported by Live Art Development Agency\, with funding from Arts Council England. \nBios \nJade Montserrat is an artist based in Scarborough\, England. She is the recipient of the Stuart Hall Foundation Scholarship which supports her PhD (via MPhil) at IBAR\, UCLan\, and the development of her work from her black diasporic perspective in the North of England. Jade works through performance\, drawing\, painting\, film\, installation\, sculpture\, print and text. Jade Montserrat is the recipient of the Stuart Hall Foundation Scholarship which supports her PhD (via MPhil) at IBAR\, UCLan\, (Race and Representation in Northern Britain in the context of the Black Atlantic: A Creative Practice Project) and the development of her work from her black diasporic perspective in the North of England. She was also awarded one of two Jerwood Student Drawing Prizes in 2017 for No Need for Clothing\, a documentary photograph of a drawing installation at Cooper Gallery DJCAD by Jacquetta Clark. Jade’s Rainbow Tribe project – a combination of historical and contemporary manifestations of Black Culture from the perspective of the Black Diaspora is central to the ways she is producing a body of work\, including No Need For Clothing and its iterations\, as well as her performance work Revue. Jade was commissioned to present Revue as a 24 hour live performance at SPILL Festival of Performance\, October 2018\, a solo exhibition at The Bluecoat\, Liverpool\, (Nov – 10 Mar 2019) which toured to Humber Street Gallery ( July-sept 2019) and was commissioned by Art on the Underground to create the 2018 Winter Night Tube cover. Iniva and Manchester Art Gallery have commissioned Jade as the first artist for the Future Collect project (2020). \nChandra Frank is a feminist researcher and independent curator who works on the intersections of archives\, waterways\, gender\, sexuality and race. Her curatorial practice explores the politics of care\, experimental forms of narration\, and the colonial grammar embedded within display and exhibition arrangements. Chandra earned a PhD in Media\, Communications and Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths\, University of London. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and exhibition catalogues\, including Feminist Review\, the Small Axe VLOSA catalogue\, The Place is Here publication and the collection Tongues. She recently co-edited a special issue on Archives for Feminist Review. Her curated exhibitions include Re(as)sistingNarratives(Amsterdam/Cape Town)\, Fugitive Desires(London)\, and Proclamation 73 (Durban) (co-curated with Zara Julius). Chandra curated the 2016 Archives Matter Conference at the Centre for Feminist Research at Goldsmiths. Currently\, Chandra is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Charles Phelps Taft Research Centre at the University of Cincinnati. chandrafrank.com \nFeatured image credits: Screen shot courtesy of Jade Montserrat. \nUPDATE \nWatch the performance online  \nWatch the post-performance discussion between Jade Montserrat and Chandra Frank URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/reseeding-in-correspondence-performance-to-camera-by-jade-montserrat/ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Multi-Art Form ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/re-seeding.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201003T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201003T123000 DTSTAMP:20260526T152346 CREATED:20200922T115453Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145416Z UID:10000231-1601726400-1601728200@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Over The Line : Compass Collective DESCRIPTION:Compass Collective present a new online exhibition ‘Over-The-Line’. \nIn the past few months Compass Collective has been working with talented young refugees and asylum seekers to deliver an interactive website showcasing the immense talent these young people posses. \nThey have been meeting weekly on Zoom\, offering young people the option of joining music\, acting or writing breakout rooms. \nNow these rooms are being opened up and you are invited to  watch\, listen\, experience their fantastic work. \nCounterpoints Arts will be hosting the online launch\, so join us at 12pm on Sat 3rd Oct for the live launch and to hear directly from some of our young people as well as some of the coders involved in the project. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/over-the-line-compass-collective/ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Digital ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/compass.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200901 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210101 DTSTAMP:20260526T152346 CREATED:20200924T065809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145415Z UID:10000229-1598918400-1609459199@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Go Tell The Bees DESCRIPTION:Planet Earth is in crisis. Digitally\, we are more plugged in than ever before\, yet so many of us talk of an increasing sense of disconnect from others and the natural world around us… \nThe idea of sharing important community and family news with bees is rooted across the folklore and mythological traditions of Wales and across the world. The story goes that\, whenever we fail to do so\, the bees will leave their hives and disappear from our area… \nOver the last four years the National Theatre of Wales TEAM has been embedded in the communities of Pembrokeshire\, exploring the key things that matter most for the people of the county. \nHaving decided on climate change and the environment as the most urgent issue\, Go Tell The Bees is the community’s co-created response – a bold new work that redefines the way in which theatre is made while telling a universal story of our human connection to nature and to each other. \nAlmir Koldzic\, Counterpoints Arts Director\, has been working with NTW as an Associate Artist and CO-Creator on the GO Tell The Bees project\, including helping to design a special Simple Acts programme – see the video below. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/go-tell-the-bees/ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/title-frame.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200607 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200622 DTSTAMP:20260526T152346 CREATED:20200511T154843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145416Z UID:10000255-1591488000-1592783999@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Together Workshops online DESCRIPTION:For Refugee Week\, Counterpoints Arts has commissioned three special online Together Workshops from theatre company PSYCHEdelight on the theme of Imagine. \nImagine a bunch of people from different ages\, cultures and languages coming together from all across the UK (and abroad\, why not!) to dream and have fun together for an afternoon. What would happen? \nDates: June 7th\, 14th & 21st (4.30-6pm) \nMore information and to express an interest visit the Facebook page \nAll welcome! No experience necessary. \nPSYCHEdelight is Theatre Company of Sanctuary shortlisted for the Community Integration Awards. They create socially engaged theatre and provide drama workshops as a place of expression and integration. Previous productions have included Borderline and Welcome to the UK. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/together-workshops-online/ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/together.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191021T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191021T000000 DTSTAMP:20260526T152346 CREATED:20190923T070852Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145419Z UID:10000268-1571616000-1571616000@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Music\, poetry & screenings @ Gulbenkian DESCRIPTION:#platforma 5 \nAs part of our 5th Platforma festival we are co-curating a week of events at the Gulbenkian in Canterbury. The programme includes: \n21-22 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 culture can be harnessed to shift the way we talk\, think and feel about migration and displacement. (Invitation only) \n21 October: Pop culture\, arts & activism – 18.00-19.00: A free session open to all\, linked to our pop culture retreat. Followed by: 19.30pm Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. – a 2018 biographical documentary film about English rapper\, artist & activist M.I.A.. Directed by Steve Loveridge \n22 October: Popjustice scratch!\, 17.00:\nA free performance\, open to all\, by participants in the pop culture retreat. \n23 October: Tongue Fu\, 19.30\nTongue Fu is one of the UK’s leading spoken word shows. It is a riotous experiment in live literature\, music\, film and improvisation. Featuring top poets Anthony Anaxagorou\, Rachel Rose Reid\, Julian Knxx. Hosted by Francesca Beard \n24 October: No Direction Home stand-up comedy with guest headliner\, 19.00\nAfter a sell-out gig at the Southbank Centre in London\, and guest headliners including Nish Kumar and Romesh Ranganathan No Direction Home bring a hilarious line-up of comedians from refugee & migrant backgrounds to Canterbury for this one-off gig. Special guest headliners to be announced! \n25 October: The Last Tree\, 19.00\nA new feature film\, written & directed by Shola Amoo. Presented as part of Black History Month by Kent University Union. \n26 October: Platforma Family Day\,  from 10.00\nArtist and performer-led workshops\, performances and fun for the whole family\, around themes of home\, identity and migration. \n26 October: Rafiki Jazz – Up Close!\,  20.00\nAcclaimed by Songlines magazine as ‘The best of British’\, Rafiki Jazz bring their diverse and eclectic sound to Kent for a unique Platforma 5 performance. A collective based in the north of England\, comprising musicians from around the world\, their latest album\, ‘Har Dam Sahara’\, draws on the beauty and poetry of Pakistan & Senegal’s mystic Sufi traditions and ancient Middle Eastern Coptic\, Arabic & Hebrew roots. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/music-poetry-screenings-gulbenkian/ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/rafiki-jazz1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190923T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190923T000000 DTSTAMP:20260526T152346 CREATED:20190915T195417Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145420Z UID:10000272-1569196800-1569196800@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Platforma 5 : Kent & Medway DESCRIPTION:Image: A Hostile Environment 2019\, Adam Chodzko \n  \nThe biennial Platforma festival for the arts by\, with and about refugees and migration is produced by Counterpoints Arts. It brings together artists\, organisations\, funders and others for discussions\, workshops and the chance to share practice and showcase new work. \nThe 5th Platforma festival will take place across Kent & Medway this autumn. \nFor more information contact tom@counterpoints.org.uk \nPLATFORMA 5 : PROGRAMME \nSeptember/October: No Direction Home \nStand-up comedy workshops & performances in Gravesend & Sittingbourne  – Counterpoints Arts in partnership with Ideas Test\, Woodville Theatre\, Cohesion Plus. No Direction Home is produced by Counterpoints Arts & Camden People’s Theatre. \nSeptember/October: Hiphop and spoken word workshops with young people \nLed by Oliver Seagar with Pie Factory\, Music for Change and Counterpoints Arts. \nSeptember-October: Worse Things Happen At Sea\, Ramsgate\, 10.00-22.00 \nThis art installation by Mooch is a Morse code soundtrack within the Ramsgate lighthouse listing over a thousand names of vessels lost on the Goodwin Sands. Imagine how it feels to be lost in a storm at sea as the Morse distress call reminds you of the perils beyond the harbour walls\, over many centuries\, to the present day. \n14 September-13 October: Home – The Beaney House of Art & Knowledge\, Canterbury \nAn exhibition of artwork created by textile artist Anna Ray and a group of mothers living in Ashford ­ long term residents and recently resettled Syrian women. Over the course of seven months\, Anna worked with the group to explore the theme of ‘home’. The aim of the commission was to bring a new community together\, to discover commonalities and celebrate differences. Through weekly workshops\, the participants worked with drawing\, painting\, print\, felt­making\, weaving and stitch. As they made artwork together\, the women shared stories of their home­lives\, speaking of the joys of motherhood and the challenges they face. Since the project drew to a close last year the group have continued to make artwork together as friends\, drawing on the skills and confidence gained from this unique project. Home was commissioned by People United\, The Diocese of Canterbury and Ashford Borough Council\, funded by Arts Council England. (picture credit: Anna Ray) \n3-5 October: Music After Detention: Dover Residency \nMusic in Detention (MiD)\, in collaboration with musician Oliver Seagar are running a 3 day residency in Dover\, with musicians they worked with whilst incarcerated in the UK’s Immigration Detention System. Until 2015 there was an Immigration Removal Centre in Dover\, sited in Dover’s Western Heights Nature Reserve. Some of MiD’s musicians were held there. Includes: 5 October Music After Detention Gig @ The Lighthouse in Deal 20:30 – 23:00 \n3-6 October: Custom Folkestone presents: Something Held in the Mouth\, A 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 crosses boundaries and creates connections across the world\, as well as exploring the intersections between art\, food and local markets to forge new alliances through geopolitical conversations. Events include\, 5 October\, Community Meal with menu designed by Lucky Moyo + music from Lucky & friends. \n7 October: Platforma 5 Launch event at Kent County Council\, Maidstone 17.00-18.30 \nA special event in partnership with Kent County Council for the official launch of Platforma 5 – contact tom@counterpoints.org.uk to reserve a free place \n9 October: No Direction Home at Woodville Theatre 19.30-21.00 \nStand-up performance featuring local people who have attended the workshops\, plus special guest headliners. From Counterpoints Arts in partnership with Cohesion Plus & Woodville Theatre. \n11 October: Building Partnerships\, Huguenot Museum\, Rochester 13.00-16.00 – How can museums and heritage organisations engage sustainably with refugees and migrants? \nA free seminar from Counterpoints Arts in partnership with the Huguenot Museum and The Migration Museum Project. \n11 October: Swale Festival of Light in Sittingbourne\, with Cohesion Plus \nFollowing workshops local schools to create lanterns around core values of respect\, excellence\, friendship and equality led by artists commissioned for Platforma 5\, a parade as part of a colourful community festival. \n13 October: No Direction Home at Ypres Tavern\, Sittingbourne 19.30-21.00 \nStand-up performance featuring local people who have attended the workshops\, plus special guest headliners. From Counterpoints Arts in partnership with Ideas Test \n15-30 October: Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children Art Project\, Sittingbourne Library \nYoung refugees and asylum seekers have created an art exhibition inspired by their journeys to Kent and hopes for the future. \n16-27 October: Why Folkestone? by Aida Silvestri\, Folkestone \nA new exhibition for Platforma 5 by the internationally-exhibited photographer Aida Silvestri. Presented alongside her whose previous workEven This Will Pass. \n18-25 October: Lilacs In Bloom by Joy C Martindale\, Jarman Building – University of Kent \nA participatory artwork made in collaboration with survivors of modern-day slavery and human trafficking. \n18 October – 8 November: Platforma 5 @ 101 Social Club\, Margate \nAs part of their Autumn/Winter programme\, 101 Social Club in Margate presents a series of installations\, screenings and talks \n21-25 October Platforma 5 takeover at Turner Contemporary & 101 Social\, Margate \nA week-long programme of artist-led engagement & talks linked to 2019 Turner Prize exhibition. Co-commissioned and co-curated by Counterpoints Arts and Turner Contemporary. \nIncluding: 23 October – “Creating an Archive” : Exploring the history of arts\, refugees and migration projects in Kent. How might we work collectively to bring this archive to life? Led by Julie Neville and Douglas Noble. \n21-26 October: Platforma 5 at Gulbenkian\, in partnership with Counterpoints Arts \n21-22 October: Pop culture / Young People / Migration & Social Change – retreat\, Gulbenkian 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. (Invitation only) \n21 October: Pop culture\, arts & activism – Gulbenkian 18.00-19.00: A free session open to all\, linked to our pop culture retreat. Followed by: 19.30pm Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. – film screening\, Guklbenkian\nA 2018 biographical documentary film about English rapper\, artist & activist M.I.A.. Directed by Steve Loveridge \n22 October: Popjustice scratch!\, Gulbenkian 17.00:\nA free performance\, open to all\, by participants in the pop culture retreat. \n23 October: Tongue Fu\, Gulbenkian\, 19.30\nTongue Fu is one of the UK’s leading spoken word shows. It is a riotous experiment in live literature\, music\, film and improvisation. Featuring top poets Anthony Anaxagorou\, Rachel Rose Reid\, Julian Knxx. Hosted by Francesca Beard \n24 October: No Direction Home stand-up comedy with guest headliner\, Gulbenkian.\nAfter a sell-out gig at the Southbank Centre in London\, and guest headliners including Nish Kumar and Romesh Ranganathan No Direction Home bring a hilarious line-up of comedians from refugee & migrant backgrounds to Canterbury for this one-off gig. Special guest headliners to be announced! \n25 October: The Last Tree\, Gulbenkian\nA new feature film\, written & directed by Shola Amoo. Presented as part of Black History Month by Kent University Union. \n26 October: Platforma Family Day\,  Gulbenkian\, from 10.00\nArtist and performer-led workshops\, performances and fun for the whole family\, around themes of home\, identity and migration. \n26 October: Rafiki Jazz – Up Close!\, Gulbenkian\, 20.00\nAcclaimed by Songlines magazine as ‘The best of British’\, Rafiki Jazz bring their diverse and eclectic sound to Kent for a unique Platforma 5 performance. A collective based in the north of England\, comprising musicians from around the world\, their latest album\, ‘Har Dam Sahara’\, draws on the beauty and poetry of Pakistan & Senegal’s mystic Sufi traditions and ancient Middle Eastern Coptic\, Arabic & Hebrew roots. \n26 October: They Came In Crowded Boats\, Tom Thumb Theatre\, Margate\, 13.30 \nThe Margate Film Festival presents a selection of short films that explore the motivations\, challenges and perceptions of global migration and refugee stories. \n26 October: Shiva Nova presents Romany Diamonds\, Quarterhouse Folkestone\, 19.30 \nThree generations of one traditional Gypsy Roma family playing acoustic magic with fire and soul; amazing audiences with back-to-front violin playing and soul-searching ballads followed by musical Gypsy mayhem. Plus: The World in a Tent Roma exhibition will be in the foyer all day hosting workshops in Roma music from 4pm-5pm and dance from 5pm-6pm for everyone to join in! \n27 October: Platforma 5 presents …. Quarterhouse\, Folkestone \nA series of presentations from artists who are part of the Platforma network in Kent and across England\, followed by discussions and networking. \n\nBackground \nPlatforma arts and refugee network supports and develops arts by\, about and with refugees and migrants from marginalised communities. It brings together groups and artists / performers of any background or political status (e.g. refugees and non-refugees). Platforma is run by Counterpoints Arts in partnership with organisations across the country \nPlatforma 1 took place in London (2011)\, followed by Manchester (2013)\, Leicester (2015) & Newcastle and the North East (2017). URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/platforma-5-kent/ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Chodzko.-artwork-for-Platforma-final-tiny-1-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190211T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190211T000000 DTSTAMP:20260526T152346 CREATED:20181121T084321Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145422Z UID:10000305-1549843200-1549843200@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Refugee Week Conferences 2019 DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to announce the dates for TWO Refugee Week Conferences in 2019! \nDue to the long waiting lists Refugee Week Conference has had in recent years\, we’ve decided to double the seats on offer by holding two conferences in February 2019. \nWe’re thrilled that the new conference will be held at Coventry Cathedral\, in partnership with Positive Youth Foundation and other partners in Coventry\, which will be European City of Sport in 2019 and UK’s City of Culture in 2021. \nAs usual the London Conference will be at Amnesty International Human Rights Action Centre in Shoreditch\, thanks to our national partners Amnesty International. \nThe dates for your diary are: \nRefugee Week Conference COVENTRY (Coventry Cathedral): Monday 11 February\, 10am – 5pm \nRefugee Week Conference LONDON (Amnesty International Human Rights Action Centre): Friday 15 February\, 10am – 5pm \nThe two conferences will have the same core programme\, so you only need to attend one! \nThe Refugee Week Conference is a day of inspiration\, learning and networking in preparation for Refugee Week\, the UK’s largest festival celebrating the contributions\, creativity and resilience of refugees (17-23 June 2019). Whether you’re a Refugee Week veteran or interested in getting involved for the first time\, all are welcome. \nProgramme and booking details will be released soon. \nWe’d love to hear from you about the workshop or discussion topics you’d most like to see at the conference. Is there a particular tool or skill that would really benefit your Refugee Week activities? A relevant issue you’d like to explore with others? Let us know via this quick Google form. \nHope to see you in February! \nImage (c) Ambrose Musiyiwa URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-conferences-2019/ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/refugee-week.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181120T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181120T000000 DTSTAMP:20260526T152346 CREATED:20181115T145839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145457Z UID:10000306-1542672000-1542672000@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Learning Lab: Dead Reckoning with artist Bern o'Donoghue DESCRIPTION:On 20th November drop in and participate with artist Bern O’Donoghue and Counterpoints Arts in the making of Dead Reckoning\, an immersive installation bearing witness to the huge loss of life along the Libya/Italy and Greece/Turkey migratory routes. O’Donoghue turns data collected by the International Organisation for Migration into human centred affective content. Participants are encouraged through a collaborative process and through conversations to consider not only the experience of migrants and refugees\, but also to think about how those of us living more secure lives might engage supportively with refugees. \nDead Reckoning engages visitors at Tate Exchange\, inviting them into the process of making the artwork: each tiny artifact transforms the abstract statistics and data into something embodied and human. The co-production of this work is dependent on encounters facilitated by O’Donoghue asking questions\, exchanging stories\, dispelling myths – literally bringing the media and policy narratives into shared ground through collective action. \nThis participant-based installation draws upon Tania Bruguera’s Hyundai Commission 2019\, a community-driven response to the global migration crisis and is in conversation with the Lost in Europe project. \nJoin us for a day of participation\, debate\, feedback and collective reflection. \nOn 21st November we will also curate a Counterpoints Arts Learning Lab focusing on the installation and participatory visual arts practice of the artist. This Lab will explore O’Donoghue’s unique methodology and her ‘artivist’ work as both facilitator and educator. As O’Donoghue puts it: It is in the small and the simple where human scale may be found\, where one mind is changed\, and we begin to change the world.  \nLearning Lab will include a presentation by O’Donoghue followed by a conversation between invited artists\, activists\, curators\, producers and academics together with participants from the Tate Neighbours’ programme. \nImage by Marcia Chandra. \n  URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/learning-lab-dead-reckoning-with-artist-bern-odonoghue/ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Bern.TEX-image-scaled-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180307T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180307T170000 DTSTAMP:20260526T152346 CREATED:20180220T165256Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145459Z UID:10000242-1520433000-1520442000@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Juan delGado’s Living Room: Crossing Thresholds in Wakefield DESCRIPTION:A Learning Lab focusing on the participatory and social engagement work of Juan delGado – as seen through the lens of his two-stage ‘Living Room’ project set in the cultural and social landscape of Wakefield and at Art House. \nJuan conceived Living Room as a ‘welcoming’ space within Art House aiming to open up access to different groups from the local community. This resulted in the establishment of a Sanctuary Studio (at Art House) dedicated to supporting artists seeking sanctuary or whose status is currently defined by ‘no recourse to public funding’. \nLiving Room incorporates a range of conversations between civic agencies and individuals in Wakefield including the accommodation centre\, Urban House\, City of Sanctuary\, Wakefield Council and AxisWeb\, among other groups. Living Room also questions the concept of ‘validation [for artists] outside the gallery…system’ (Validation Beyond the Gallery\, AxisWeb). \nLearning Lab will critically re-frame the Living Room project\, bringing together a range of artists\, activists\, curators\, programmers\, evaluators and policymakers to listen and feedback to Juan as he reflects and maps out the second and crucial stage of this work. \nLiving Room is commissioned by Counterpoints Arts as part of a Paul Hamlyn Foundation ‘Explore and Test’ grant. \nRespondents: Artists\, Brian Weston Temboman Mucheriwa and Mohammed Barrangi; AxisWeb Director\, Mark Smith; Evaluators\, Chrissie Tiller and Susanne Burns. \nModerator: Co-Director Counterpoints Arts\, Áine O’Brien URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/juan-delgados-living-room-crossing-thresholds-in-wakefield-2/ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Visual Arts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/juanimage.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR