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SUMMARY:Move Together x Camps Breakerz
DESCRIPTION:A fundraising event for Camps Breakerz in Gaza. We will be exploring how movement can provide connection\, resilience & hope.\nYou can book your tickets here \nGet set for a packed day of battles\, music\, conversations and performances celebrating Palestine\, activism and hip-hop culture. Join in the 2v2 Breaking – or simply come down and watch! \nThe event will include: \n\nA therapeutic movement workshop led by Camps Breakerz co-founder Ahmed Alghariz;\nA panel discussion with Ahmed and Palestinian dancers & artists;\nLive music and dance performances; DJs\, MCs & rappers;\nA 2v2 Get Down for Gaza breaking competition\n\n\nSCHEDULE\n\n\n2pm-3pm – Trauma Informed Dance Workshop with Ahmed Alghariz (Camps Breakerz) \n3pm – Doors Open \n4pm-5pm – Panel Discussion and Q&A with Camps Breakerz \n5pm-6pm – Live Music and DJs \n6pm-7pm – Dance Showcase and Dance Battle Registration \n7pm-8pm – Battle Prelims \n8pm-10pm – Battles \n10-11pm – Doors close \n\n  \nThis event is a collaboration between Camps Breakerz\, Arcca Magazine\, Rain Crew and Counterpoints as part of Creativity & Wellbeing week.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/move-together-x-camps-breakerz/
LOCATION:Peckham Levels\, 95a Rye Ln\, London\, SE15 4ST
CATEGORIES:Creativity & Wellbeing Week,Mental Health,Performance & Dance
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SUMMARY:No Direction Home presents: New Voices
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Yasmeen Audisho Ghrawi \n7pm\, Hoxton Hall – May Scott Studio\, pay what you can \nJoin us for an evening of fresh stand-up from new comedians. Laughter guaranteed! Family friendly\, presented by Counterpoints Arts and Hoxton Hall as part of Creativity and Wellbeing Week. \nThe No Direction Home comedy collective has been running since 2019 to support new comics from refugee and migrant backgrounds\, featuring workshops\, expert tuition and gigs around the country. \nThe gig will be followed by a discussion about the role of comedy in supporting mental health and well-being\, with audience Q&A. \n\nYasmeen Audisho Ghrawi is a performer and comedian. Her new show From The Daughter of a Dictator is touring the UK in 2025. She leads facilitation for No Direction Home workshops.\n\nNo Direction Home is produced by Counterpoints Arts as part of our PopChange initiative.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/no-direction-home-presents-new-voices/
LOCATION:Hoxton Hall\, 130 Hoxton Street\, London\, N1 6SH
CATEGORIES:Comedy,Creativity & Wellbeing Week,Mental Health
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SUMMARY:Sounds Like Home Choir and friends
DESCRIPTION:The Sounds Like Home Choir warmly invites you to an evening of live music and discussion to celebrate ‘Creativity and Wellbeing Week\, Friday 23rd May at Centre 151\, 7pm – 9pm. \nThe evening will feature:\nThe Sounds Like Home Choir: An open-access community choir of international women\, sharing a variety of songs in acapella harmony that remind us of home. \nHilanderas: Chilean actors\, singers and creatives Stephi Prieto and Valentina Infante perform ‘Voices of the Earth’\, exploring the deep links between women’s subordination and the exploitation of the land. \nMahshid & Dario: Iranian musical duo play a selection of Persian\, Arabic and Hindi songs with voice and guitar\, transcending borders and celebrating cultural connection through music that is both nostalgic and refreshingly modern. \nPanel Discussion\nThe performances will be followed by a relaxed panel discussion to explore the connection between creativity and wellbeing\, featuring some of the performers and hosted by Counterpoints Arts. \nChats and Snacks\nWe will round off the evening with home cooked finger food\, lovingly prepared by members of the Sounds Like Home Choir. Please stick around and have a chat. \n  \nSounds Like Home Choir is currently funded by Arts Council England and is run by Ellen Muriel and Asha Wilson. \nIt was originally commissioned by Counterpoints Arts and has been supported by Old Street Community Pot and Hackney Council. \nMany thanks to Hoxton Hall for hosting weekly sessions and Centre 151 for this performance opportunity.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/sounds-like-home-choir-and-friends/
LOCATION:Centre 151\, 151 Whiston Road\, London\, E2 8GU
CATEGORIES:Creativity & Wellbeing Week,Mental Health,Music
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SUMMARY:Stitch and Care
DESCRIPTION:This half day workshop (1-5pm) on Friday 23 rd May with artists Lynn Setterington & Jill Eastland and Oldham Library and is an afternoon of knowledge exchange around textiles\, displacement and mental health as part of Creativity and Wellbeing Week. \nIt takes place at the Fashion and Textile Museum in the studio where Lynn Setterington’s stitched cloths and quilts are currently on display. The session explores how libraries\, smaller museums\, and community organisations can engage audiences using creative outreach to improve and aid mental health. Using the 5 Ways to Wellbeing\, connect\, be active\, take notice\, keep learning & give\, the event is a partnership with Counterpoints Arts and the Fashion and Textile Museum\, London. \nPlease email tom@counterpoints.org.uk to reserve a free place. The event is open to all\, regardless of previous experience. \n1-1.10pm Welcome\n1.10 – 2.10pm Lynn Setterington’s visual talk showcases some of her key projects and partnership work and details how she uses stitch\, textile archives and folk art to create artworks with and for refugee communities.\n2.10 – 2.40pm – Oldham Libraries staff and volunteers talk about creative community engagement work and the value of Speak English classes\n2.40 – 3pm Tea break\n3 -3.50pm Collaborative stitch session\n3.50 – 4.30pm An interactive\, participatory and performative discussion with artist and activist Jill Eastland.\n4.30 – 5pm Q + A – suggestions /ideas\n5 – 6pm Time to look round the  Art of Mankind exhibition \nLynn Setterington is an internationally recognised textile artist. Her work explores contemporary issues and how stitch can be used to commemorate people and communities. Her quilts and cloths are held in many major public museums including the V&A\, Crafts Council\, IQSC and Whitworth Art Gallery. Born in Yorkshire\, she trained at Goldsmith’s College. Her PhD is from UCA Farnham. She a Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. \nJill Eastland is an activist artist and a survivor of mixed heritage. Her work explores themes of social and climate justice. She favours community based and collaborative working practices. She often employs multiples; to create a more detailed discussion of a theme and she tends to produce open-ended bodies of work\, as well as finished pieces. Her work is often very detailed and can contain elements of realism and abstraction together. Participants will be invited to wear the uniforms of low-paid and precarious workers\, particularly the ubiquitous dark blue tabard. These uniforms mark people out as different and yet at the same time render them invisible. They are often worn by people who are marginalised and discriminated against including Migrants\, Refugees\, Black People\, Women and People who have Disabilities. Together\, we will explore the mental health ramifications of the low pay and poor working conditions that people wearing these uniforms encounter daily. \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n			\n		\n\nTextiles: The Art of Mankind at the Fashion and Textile Museum celebrates the ancient and deep entanglement between textiles\, people and our world. Through the beauty of textiles\, you will encounter human ingenuity that can be traced from pre-history to our digital age.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/stitch-and-care/
LOCATION:Fashion and Textile Museum\, 83 Bermondsey St\, London\, SE1 3XF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Creativity & Wellbeing Week,Mental Health,Textiles
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SUMMARY:The Things We Don't Say - Online Screening and Q&A
DESCRIPTION:SYNOPSIS\nA group of young adults born during or just after the 1994 genocide against Rwanda’s Tutsi people gather to find the courage to break a powerful taboo. Rwanda is one of the few nations in the world providing specialist counselling for children conceived through rape\, who number 10\,000 across the country. Here\, course leader Emilienne\, a mother\, therapist and genocide survivor\, helps the group to imagine a future free from family secrets and societal stigma. In a circle of supportive peers\, they tell their individual stories and face their struggles together\, in the hope their participation will advocate for others facing similar trauma \n  \nABOUT ORNELLA\n“I escaped the Rwanda genocide as a baby. I returned to find many of my generation have buried their pain.”  Learn more about filmmaker Ornella Mutoni here \n  \nThe screening and Q&A will be facilitated by Community Mental Health professional Nzinga Mascall as part of Creativity & Wellbeing week. \nIf you’d like to attend this event please fill in this short form and you’ll receive a calendar invite with link.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/the-things-we-dont-say-online-screening-and-qa/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Creativity & Wellbeing Week,Film,Mental Health
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SUMMARY:Creativity\, Displacement and Mental Health Webinar
DESCRIPTION:In this webinar\, we will hold space for artists\, organisers\, health\, cultural and migrant justice workers to come together to consider the role of art and creativity and its impact on the mental health and wellbeing of refugees and sanctuary seekers. Please book your spot by filling in this short form and you’ll receive a calendar invite with a meetinglink. \nThis event is a collaboration between Norwich City of Sanctuary Health Stream and Counterpoints Arts as part of Creativity & Wellbeing week. \nWith case studies\, guest speakers and discussions\, we are offering an opportunity to reflect on what good practice looks like and to discuss some of the opportunities and challenges that may be faced when developing creative projects by and with newly arrived communities with a focus on addressing mental health needs. \nPROGRAMME \n\nCity of Sanctuary Case Study ‘I Will Heal’ highlighting the potential of creative interventions for ASR health and wellbeing \nA Medics Perspective with Emily Clark\nA Creative Directors Perspective with Simon Floyd\nAn Sanctuary Ambassadors perspective with Lamis Al-Shaibani\n\n  \nDISCUSSION(Facilitated by Counterpoints) \n\nHow can art support those within the asylum process?\nHow can we bring health services and the arts closer together?\n\n  \nThe webinar will be held on Zoom. \n  \n  \nIf you have any questions please reach out to maren@counterpoints.org.uk \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/creativity-displacement-and-mental-health-webinar/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom\, via Counterpoints 128 Hoxton Street\, London\, N1 6SH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Creativity & Wellbeing Week,Mental Health
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