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SUMMARY:Kurdish Cookery
DESCRIPTION:Three excellent home cooks will demonstrate how to make the extremely delicious Kurdish dish of dolma\, which consists many different vegetables stuffed with rice\, lamb\, herbs and spices. \nAfterwards\, you are invited to share the food that has been prepared. \nThe demonstration will begin at 10:00 am on 14 October at the Suffolk Food Hall Cookery School\, and the meal should be finished by 14:00. \nIf you would like to come\, please email rozhgarahmedcook@gmail \nPlaces are limited\, so email as soon as you can. \nPresented with support from Suffolk County Council as part of the Platforma Festival (October 2025) produced by Counterpoints Arts.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/kurdish-cookery/
LOCATION:Suffolk Food Hall\, Suffolk Food Hall Ltd Wherstead\,\, Ipswich\, IP9 2AB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Learning,Platforma
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SUMMARY:Artist Salon Saxmundham
DESCRIPTION:Are you a creative practitioner or professional working\, or wanting to work\, in diversity? \nEssex Cultural Diversity Project’s Artist Salons are free workshop and networking opportunities for creative practitioners and community organisers. Come along to share and develop ideas for art projects which celebrate diversity. There will be hands-on advice about engaging with communities and applying for public funds for community art projects. The day includes a complimentary lunch. \nPresented as part of the Platforma Festival\, produced by Counterpoints Arts\, this Artist Salon will be focussed on intercultural arts provision for migrant\, refugee and asylum seeker communities. \nFree\, but places are limited so booking is essential. \nDate: Tuesday 14 October 11am-3pm\nVenue: The Art Station\, 48 High Street\, Saxmundham\, Suffolk\, IP17 1AB \nFull details: https://essexcdp.com/event/artist-salon-saxmundham/ \nWho Should Attend? \nThe event is open to emerging or more established artists/arts organisations\, or representatives from organisations who want to develop creative projects within diversity settings. \nEssex Cultural Diversity Project’s core mission is to energise diversity in arts and heritage. \n“We know that diversity is different for everyone. Diversity for us means: cultural diversity | different ethnic backgrounds | low socio-economic backgrounds | LGBTQ+ | disability | neurodiversity | or an intersection of these. We often support artists and projects that engage with: deprived communities | marginalised voices | communities with little or no access to the Arts | those who are culturally curious or want to connect with where they live in different ways.” \nGuest Speakers\nAngie Lee-Foster is Programme Manager for Creative Health at Britten Pears Arts. Britten Pears Arts is a pioneering cultural charity which uses music to transform people’s lives\, to bring communities together and enhance daily life. \nTor Cooke is Programme Manager for The Art Station. The Art Station is a dynamic\, ambitious\, arts charity\, developing and supporting culture and creativity in East Suffolk through a free Arts and Learning programme. \nHosts and Partners\nThis Artist Salon is developed in partnership with Britten Pears Arts and Snape Maltings\, with Angie Lee-Foster\, Programme Manager for Creative Health at Britten Pears Arts. Britten Pears Arts is a pioneering cultural charity which uses music to transform people’s lives\, bringing communities together and enhancing daily life. \nThe Art Station is a charity arts organisation providing a new creative hub in Saxmundham\, a rural market town in coastal Suffolk. Having completed a major refurbishment of the first floor of a former 1950’s telephone exchange and post office\, The Art Station’s unique venue has become a base for a dynamic and engaging arts and community programme. They aim to unlock potential and effect real change – enabling people to come together to form communities around the creative industries and tech. By providing affordable creative space for local artists\, makers and tech developers\, alongside exhibition and event spaces\, The Art Station is developing new networks in the region and provides access to unique creative opportunities. \n \n \n                    
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/artist-salon-saxmundham/
LOCATION:The Art Station\, 48 High Street\, Saxmundham\, P17 1AB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Learning,Platforma
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SUMMARY:Artist Salon Lowestoft
DESCRIPTION:Essex Cultural Diversity Project’s Artist Salons are free workshop and networking opportunities for creative practitioners and community organisers. Come along to share and develop ideas for art projects which celebrate diversity. There will be hands-on advice about engaging with communities and applying for public funds for community art projects. The day includes a complimentary lunch. \nPresented as part of the Platforma Festival\, produced by Counterpoints Arts\, this Artist Salon will be focussed on intercultural arts provision for migrant\, refugee and asylum seeker communities. \nFree\, but places are limited so booking is essential. \nDate: Friday 24 October 11am-3pm\nVenue: The Battery\, 119 London Road North Lowestoft\, England\, NR32 1LZ \nFull details: https://essexcdp.com/event/artist-salon-lowestoft/ \nWho Should Attend?\nThe event is open to emerging or more established artists/arts organisations\, or representatives from organisations who want to develop creative projects within diversity settings. \nEssex Cultural Diversity Project’s core mission is to energise diversity in arts and heritage. \n“We know that diversity is different for everyone. Diversity for us means: cultural diversity | different ethnic backgrounds | low socio-economic backgrounds | LGBTQ+ | disability | neurodiversity | or an intersection of these. We often support artists and projects that engage with: deprived communities | marginalised voices | communities with little or no access to the Arts | those who are culturally curious or want to connect with where they live in different ways.” \nAbout the Hosts and Partners\nLed by First Light Festival CIC\, the Battery of Ideas Place Partnership is designed to fire up ideas\, enthusiasm and involvement in the new Cultural Quarter development in Lowestoft town centre\, to grow public awareness and engagement in the Quarter and create a step change in creative production and cultural participation in the town. The Battery is a space for inclusive creative participation and engagement\, co-production\, planning and testing out activity as Lowestoft’s new Cultural Quarter develops. Currently we are testing out a programme of creative health activity\, live performance\, visual art exhibitions and installations in partnership with a consortium of local arts organisations and cross sector partners. The Battery of Ideas project has awarded 34 local creatives enterprise bursaries and art commissions\, including to make work that will be shown in the Battery and at First Light Festival.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/artist-salon-lowestoft/
LOCATION:The Battery\, 119 London Road North\, Lowestoft\, NR32 1LZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Learning,Platforma
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SUMMARY:How to Talk About Palestine – with Makan
DESCRIPTION:From 62 Gladstone Street: Join Makan for a practical workshop designed to help you speak more confidently and effectively about Palestine.\nCo-commissioned and presented as part of the Platforma Festival (October 2025)\, produced by Counterpoints Arts. \nMakan is a Palestinian led educational organisation dedicated to facilitating transformative learning experiences centred around Palestinian liberation and intersectional issues through their workshops\, partnerships\, and accessible online resources. They strive to provide a perspective that captures the history of the Palestinian struggle for liberation and the realities on the ground. Their aim is to support advocates as part of a community that is not only well-informed\, interconnected\, and empowered but also passionately committed to cultivating a future for Palestinians built on freedom\, justice\, and dignity. \nFull details and free booking \nAbout Platforma in Peterborough \nPlatforma 2025 in Peterborough is produced by 62 Gladstone Street\, a community-rooted arts space in the heart of Peterborough with a particular focus on supporting South Asian and MENA artists. Through exhibitions\, residencies\, and public programmes\, it provides a vital platform for underrepresented voices and fosters meaningful dialogue between artists and the wider community. \nPartners: Counterpoints Arts\, Landmark Theatres\, Peterborough Cultural Alliance\, Metal Peterborough\, Peterborough Presents\, Peterborough Museum\, HELP Charity & the Aziz Foundation \nDedication: “Our programme is dedicated to the innocent men\, women\, and children who have lost their lives\, those who have been displaced by war\, and all those seeking a safe place to call home.” \n62 Gladstone Street’s Platforma programme is supported by Arts Council England as and presented as part of the wider Platforma Festival across the East of England\, produced by Counterpoints Arts.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/how-to-talk-about-palestine-with-makan/
LOCATION:Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery\, 51 Priestgate\, Peterborough\, PE1 1LF\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination: Creative Exchange 2025
DESCRIPTION:An immersive training day to share insights\, reflections and experiences of how creative practices can expand and enrich how we understand belonging.\nFrom Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination. Supported by the National Lottery Community Fund. Presented as part of the Platforma Festival (October 2025) produced by Counterpoints Arts. \nCambridge Curiosity and Imagination (CCI) is an arts and well-being charity founded in 2007. They are a creative organisation that works to inspire and enrich communities across the region. Though children and young people are at the heart of all their work\, they design ways for people of all ages to develop their own curiosity and imagination by inviting them into playful environments and giving them the permission to express their own ideas. \nFull information and free booking \nAbout the event\nOn Wednesday 29th October 2025\, Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination will return to Storey’s Field to co-host an immersive\, creative\, training experience that will build knowledge\, skills and understanding of how elements from Artscaping can help us enrich and expand how we understand belonging across our diverse settings. \nWhat is Artscaping?\nArtscaping is an established arts-in-nature programme\, with a growing body of research-led evidence underpinning it\, that supports creative learning\, mental health and well-being. It places creativity and imagination at the heart of a practice that connects children and communities to their local environments and landscapes. The practice has been co-created with artists\, children and young people\, and those who support them by arts and well-being charity Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination. \nAs we all know\, the prevalence of mental health disorders in children and young people has risen from 1 in 9 in 2017\, to 1 in 5 in 2023\, with the mental health gap between the poorest and wealthiest children increasing. Substantial benefits for well-being are derived from contact with nature\, however children now spend less time outdoors and are less well connected to the natural environment. Artscaping goes beyond traditional forms of arts (e.g.\, drawing) towards an experiential connection with nature\, bringing positive impacts for everyone involved – children\, young people and the adults who support them. \n“Don’t worry about starting\, it’s fun and there are friendly people… And don’t worry about not being good at it\, just try. I’ve been surprised because I thought I wasn’t very good at craft.” Tobias\, 6 years old. \n“I got a lot from this work. I felt like we were really caring for families\, not just showing them a website or putting them on a waiting list.” Lynda\, family support work. \n“This has helped me to take a moment for myself.” Jade\, primary school teacher. \nWork with Fullscope and Cambridge Acorn Project\nArtscaping is an integral part of the work of Fullscope\, a consortium of organisations united by a vision of positive mental health for all\, but especially for children and young people in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Parts of the programme have been delivered with family therapy charity Cambridge Acorn Project. Since the programme began in 2016\, we’ve learnt how Artscaping can enable communities to become safer and more supportive places for children\, offering an early intervention strategy for emerging mental health concerns and support for children who may not be eligible for other programs. \n“I spend most of my day thinking where am I going to get help for these children. The need is so high. The link between CCI and CAP is really positive. The parents really notice and appreciate it. They come and thank me and say this is just what their children need. It fills me with joy to talk about it.” Stella\, SENCO lead. \nThis day has been planned to explore ways in which the Artscaping practice might be relevant to colleagues in the wider system supporting children\, young people and their communities. \nThe day\n40 delegates will work in small groups with CCI artists and CAP therapists\, receiving support in designing principles and practical steps to act upon in the following weeks. The evidence base for the work will be highlighted by our academic colleagues\, and a concluding plenary will gather reflections from across the day. \nDelegates will experience and reflect on how creative experiences can open up how we understand and support belonging. \nEach delegate will receive an Artscaping reflective guide and be invited to join a series of follow up work-in-progress webinars for ongoing support and learning. In addition\, delegates will participate in the evaluation of the event\, from which findings will be shared with every participating organisation. \nThis Creative Exchange has been made possible through generous funding from the National Lottery Communities Fund. The support allows us to offer each place at a heavily subsidised rate of £25. Bookings can be made on the Eventbrite platform through this link: \nImage (C) Gabrielle Arenge 2024
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/cambridge-curiosity-and-imagination-creative-exchange-2025/
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