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SUMMARY:Makers & Creators 2024 Showcase
DESCRIPTION:TERN & Counterpoints Arts are delighted to invite you to witness the launch of more than a dozen new refugee-led ventures into London’s arts & creative sectors! Expect an evening of inspiration\, connection\, and celebration as a new wave of creative founders pitch their businesses and showcase their work. \nJoin fellow creative industry professionals and art lovers to support these emerging creatives by sharing your valuable feedback\, ideas\, and opportunities. \nRegister for a free ticket via Eventbrite \nEntrepreneurs will pitch\, display and demo their offerings in the following categories: \nEvents & Performance\, including Olena Nesterenko\, mind-blowing bubble artist & founder of L Show\, and Racqueline Changunda\, balloon garland stylist and founder of Meracqui Events. \nFashion & Products\, including Anil Qasemi\, activist\, writer\, and founder of wonderful hat retailer Hatopia\, and Oksana & Oleksii Chauin\, founders of Light Craft Family\, a range of lovely oak LED nightlights manufactured in Ukraine and assembled by hand\, with love\, here in London. \nCreative Communities\, including Ravi Rasaiah\, founder of Payanam and creator of a new photography course for refugees & asylum-seeking artists\, and Khrystyna Oryschak\, curator behind print shop Artists Against War. \nFine Arts\, including painter Karina Kucherenko\, and multimedia artist Mariia Besuza. \nCounterpoints are working alongside curator & TERN Alumni Tasala Seifi\, to design a one-off exhibition showcasing original pieces by the fine artists. \nEnjoy refreshments & live entertainment alongside the art\, products\, and pitches. \nTERN’s Makers & Creators is the UK’s first creative sector incubator for refugee artists\, designers and makers. Over 5 immersive months\, programme members develop their business\, venture or brand. Starting with creating a roadmap to launch\, cohort members build assets\, develop their stories\, and access targeted business support and opportunities that can lead to a sustainable creative career. The programme culminates with the Showcase event\, where entrepreneurs pitch & demo their offerings to the public. \nMakers & Creators is offered by TERN – The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network. TERN is an ambitious social enterprise on a mission to enable refugees to thrive through the power of their own ideas.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/makers-creators-2024-showcase/
LOCATION:Museum of the Home\, 136 Kingsland Road\, London\, E2 8EA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Craft & Design,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Sudafest: Hope and Healing (Bristol)
DESCRIPTION:Sudafest will make a return for Platforma on 22 October! Alongside some old favourites including drumming\, basket weaving and creative writing workshops and youth theatre performance\, Sudafest will spotlight the current turbulent situation in Sudan using storytelling\, live performances and music. No need to book\, just turn up. \nCome along to watch Malkat Aldar\, a show performed by young women telling the story of a Sudanese self-taught novelist and women’s rights activist Malkat Aldar Mohamed. There will also be some lovely traditional Sudanese food available to attendees\, all vegan. Full programme and timings to be published soon. \nA taste of what you can expect here\, Sudafest Evening with Ebo Krdum & Mustafa Khogaliand in the video below: \n \nSudafest: Hope and Healing will take place on Sunday 22nd October\, 12-6PM at the Faithspace Community Redcliff\, Prewett St\, Redcliffe\, Bristol BS1 6PB. \nFor more info contact Hiba at info@sudafest.org and check out the Sudafest website here: sudafest.org \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\nPart of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/sudafest-hope-and-healing/
LOCATION:Faithspace\, Prewett St\, Bristol\, BS1 6PB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Craft & Design,Music,Platforma,Theatre
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SUMMARY:V&A Drop-in Design: Stitching Borders
DESCRIPTION:Part of Refugee Week and The Great Exhibition Road Festival. \nCome together to share stories and notions of migration as we collectively create a hand-embroidered tablecloth border. Bring along trinkets\, swatches or buttons to add to our collaborative creation! Led by artist Aya Haidar\, this free\, drop-in workshop is an opportunity for all ages to share and make together as part of Refugee Week and the Great Exhibition Road Festival. \nThis event is free and supported by Art Jameel. Found out more at the V&A website. \nImage: Soleless series\, Aya Haidar\, 2018
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/drop-in-design-stitching-borders/
CATEGORIES:Craft & Design
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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
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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
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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
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SUMMARY:Coronaquilt Silhouette
DESCRIPTION:An Art Refuge Initiative \nArt Refuge uses art and art therapy to support the mental health and well-being of people displaced due to conflict\, persecution and poverty\, both in the UK and internationally. \nFollowing the success of their Coronaquilt Initiative\, Art Refuge in collaboration with artist Aida Silvestri and Counterpoints Arts are creating ways of engaging with how people are feeling during the coronavirus crisis. \nTogether we will offer art and word as a thread to initiate a dialogue in connecting people across the globe and to identify their current state of mind. We hope to promote collective and individual shared experiences by targeting this current situation that is common for everyone. \nCoronavirus has put the world on hold and people across the globe are in isolation. Many charities that usually support vulnerable people have either had to reduce their service\, move online or temporarily shut down. \nHow are vulnerable people coping with this added stress? What are the added challenges during this crisis? What are the concerns? \nWe are inviting individuals across the UK and internationally to take part in the Coronaquilt Silhouettes Initiative. We are also reaching out to charities and organisations both in the UK and internationally who work with people who have been displaced by conflict\, persecution or poverty\, and with people who are isolated for whatever reason\, including the Covid-19 pandemic. \nWe would like you to describe your mental health state during coronavirus with a word or a brief sentence/poem that summarises your feelings\, challenges and concerns around the current situation. As well as text\, we would also like you to submit either a profile silhouette or a profile picture. These components will be used to create a Coronaquilt Silhouette piece by the artist. Ultimately\, the smaller pieces will be stitched together to create a larger piece and printed onto a fabric. \n​What is a coronaquilt? \nThe Corona pattern is a traditional pattern\, a bit like a crown\, made up of triangles and squares\, which are then sewn together to make a patchwork cloth. \nWhat is the Silhouette Portrait? \nSilhouette portraits were popular during the Victorian era\, before the invention of photography and during its early years. The traditional method of creating silhouette portraits was to cut them out from a dark lightweight card and mount them on a pale or white background. Today\, they can be drawn\, painted or taken from existing profile photographs. \nWhat to do? \n\nTake a side profile picture against a pale or white background with your mobile phone\nDescribe your current state of mind with one word or a short sentence/poem.\nPlease tell us what is your heritage\nAdd location: City\, Country\nAdd: Date\nEmail it to: projects@artrefuge.org.uk\nWe can also arrange for Aida Silvestri to take your side profile image via Zoom or Whatsapp call.​\n\nWhat is next? \nOnce your picture and text are received\, the artist Aida will create a Coronaquilt Silhouette with your image and text. Ultimately\, the smaller pieces will be stitched onto a larger piece and printed onto fabric to create a large tapestry. \nNote: \nWe value your privacy and we will not share your profile photograph to the public. Please be aware that your silhouette and text/poems will be shared on different platforms and hopefully shown in an exhibition space soon. All contributions will remain anonymous on the final artwork. \nFacebook and Twitter @artrefugeuk \n\n\n\n\nImage: Coronaquilt Silhouette\, © Courtesy of Aida Silvestri & Art Refuge 2020 \nCheck out the free online workshop led by Art Refuge and Aida Silvestri for Refugee Week
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/coronaquilt-silhouette/
CATEGORIES:Craft & Design,Film and Photography
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