BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Counterpoints - ECPv6.16.5//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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20261025T010000 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:20250226T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250226T130000 DTSTAMP:20250128T134925Z CREATED:20250127T091559Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250128T134925Z UID:10000475-1740564000-1740574800@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Refugee Week online conference DESCRIPTION:Do you want to find out how you can get involved in this year’s Refugee Week? Save the date for the annual Refugee Week Conference. \nJoin us online from wherever you are in the world. Let’s embody Refugee Week’s 2025 theme “Community As A Superpower” and come together to connect and collaborate on this movement. \nReserve your free place here \nRefugee Week UK is a partnership project coordinated by Counterpoints Arts. It is the world’s largest arts & culture festival celebrating the contributions\, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary. \nEstablished in 1998 in the UK\, this annual global festival aligns with World Refugee Day\, celebrated worldwide on June 20th. \nIn 2025\, join us from June 16th to 22nd for a community-powered week! URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-online-conference/ CATEGORIES:Learning,Refugee Week ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2025-Theme-Instagram-copy.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241128 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241130 DTSTAMP:20241217T134930Z CREATED:20240124T164349Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241217T134930Z UID:10000396-1732752000-1732924799@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:International Conference Culture & Mental Health: Refugees DESCRIPTION:The second Culture & Mental Health international conference will take place in Ghent\, Belgium on 28 and 29 November 2024. This conference seeks to promote learning\, discussion and debate around cultural interventions aimed at improving the wellbeing of people recovering from mental health difficulties or people in vulnerable situations. The focus of this edition is on supporting the mental wellbeing of forcibly displaced people through art and culture. \nIn a report in 2022 the EU and WHO call for support for the mental wellbeing of forcibly displaced people through art and culture : “People displaced because of natural disasters\, persecution\, conflict\, generalised violence or human rights violations invariably experience significant loss\, physical hardships and other stressors that can lead to psychological distress. A large body of evidence shows how forcibly displaced people contribute positively to society. This potential can be further enhanced by ensuring that they are in good physical and mental health. Therefore\, according to the report\, it is important to support the arts\, as investing in the field is an investment in the mental\, physical and social health of forcibly displaced people.” \nThis conference wants to bring together individuals from the public\, academic\, third sector and voluntary sectors\, to share experiences\, practices and knowledge about the importance and impact of the arts\, reading\, heritage and creativity on improving mental health\, wellbeing and resilience of refugees. \nCounterpoints is part of the programme committee for the conference. \nFull details\, including call for contributions: https://www.museumdrguislain.be/en/onview-en/culture-mental-health-refugees URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/international-conference-culture-mental-health-refugees/ LOCATION:Dr Guislain Museum\, Jozef Guislainstraat 43b\, Ghent\, 09 39 86 950\, Belgium CATEGORIES:Blog,Learning,Mental Health ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Dr-Giuslan-Museum-Ghent-Belgium.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240906T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240908T160000 DTSTAMP:20240913T113133Z CREATED:20240904T235344Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T113133Z UID:10000459-1725634800-1725811200@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Climate & Displacement Part II: A gathering for womxn artists DESCRIPTION:A collective of womxn* dedicated to addressing the intertwined challenges of displacement\, racial justice\, and climate justice gathers for the second time\, on the Island of Portland. This 3-day gathering is organised during b-side Festival\, connecting to the Festival programme and b-side team and network. \nOur Gathering is a continuation of our shared journey with a group of womxn practitioners that began in November 2023 — one built on connections around collaboration\, creativity\, and radical care. Together\, we will continue to shape this space\, allowing our practices to speak of our own and each other’s work. It is curated in collaboration with socially engaged artist Dana Olărescu. \nOur approach for this Gathering can be grounded in Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown\, which emphasises that profound change begins with small\, intentional actions. We will embrace this philosophy as we engage in intimate\, radical conversations that plant the seeds of transformation. These dialogues—full of insight\, discomfort\, and revelation—hold the power to shape movements that confront and dismantle systems of oppression. \nOur work here is contextual\, deeply tied to the immediate tensions surrounding us\, such as the hostile environment and immigration policies symbolised by the Bibby Stockholm barge and the larger global conflicts like the ongoing genocide in Palestine\, conflicts and emergencies in Sudan\, DRC\, Yemen\, Bangladesh\, as well as countries embroiled within the continuities of colonial legacies and histories. These events are inextricably linked to our explorations of settler colonialism and environmental justice. Our partnerships with the b-side team and Dhaqan Collective\, and through their project House of Weaving Songs\, enrich our understanding of cultural memory and resilience\, particularly within the communities on the Isle of Portland and Somali communities in Bristol and elsewhere. \nA key question we will explore is how we continue to work together and also how to document these radical conversations—capturing their transformative potential in a way that resonates with broader audiences and allies. Our aim is not just to record but to craft narratives that carry forward the energy and intent of our collective work. \nThroughout our time together\, we invite you to fully engage\, rest when needed\, and bring as much of yourselves into this space as you can. Through walks\, meals\, discussions\, and reflection\, let us co-create a space where our practices can be supported and where we can envision new paths forward. \nAs adrienne maree brown reminds us\, “small is all.” Every action\, every conversation is an opportunity to shape the future we want—a future where justice\, care\, and freedom for all are central to our movements. \n*We use this term to include transgender women and nonbinary people. \nOur Programme: \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nJoining: \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nOur growing network includes the following practitioners who were part of the November 2023 gathering: \nAbigail Reynolds\, Artist \nAnnie Hall\, Counterpoints Operations Manager \nCarmel King\, Photographer \nDalia Al-Dujaili\, Writer\, Editor\, Producer \nDeborah Yewande Bankole\, Creative producer\, Strategist\, Researcher \nFarah Ahmed\, Climate Justice Organiser\, Facilitator\, Creative Producer and Curator \nGeorgia Beeston\, Co-Founder of Bosla Arts\, Senior Digital Officer at PEN International \nHenna Asikainen\, Artist \nLara Deffense\, Refugee Week UK Coordinator \nKaajal Modi\, Multidisciplinary Artist and Researcher \nMariana Pinto Leitão Pereira\, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Heritage for Global Challenges Research Centre\, University of York \nNaima Khan\, Counterpoints’ Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees and the Director of feminist\, Muslim organisation the Inclusive Mosque Initiative \nSandy Leong\, artist \nzoë laureen palmer\, Artist\, Writer and Human Ecologist \n  \nThank you to our network\, and to our friends at b-side Festival for their support. \n  \nImage credit: Carmel King. Gathering Part 1\, at Hawkwood College\, November 2023 \n  URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/climate-displacement-part-ii-a-gathering-for-womxn-artists/ CATEGORIES:Learning,Sustainability & Climate Justice ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/20231104_Counterpoint-Arts_388.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240620T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240620T163000 DTSTAMP:20240709T144534Z CREATED:20240530T120958Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144534Z UID:10000423-1718892000-1718901000@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Greengross Global Arts 4 Brain Health Change Makers REFUGEE Conversation DESCRIPTION:There are 110 million people around the world who have been forcibly displaced as a result of persecution\, conflict\, violence\, human rights violations or events seriously disturbing public order\, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Of these\, 6.1 million are asylum seekers (having applied for asylum awaiting decision as to whether they will be granted refugee status) and 36.4 million are living as refugees. Some 404\,000 refugees returned to their countries of origin during the first half of 2023 while 59\,500 were resettled. From the war in Ukraine to ongoing conflict in Syria\, the Middle East\, to climate shocks and economic turmoil in East Africa and Latin America—global instability is increasing. \nTo address the trauma of displacement\, torture\, prevent retraumatisation on entry into even a safe but strange new country\, a remarkable range of organisations offer care and rehabilitative support. Working in temporary hotel accommodation\, day centres\, detention camps\, and with trauma-informed training\, artists and arts therapists are encouraging refugees to connect\, express themselves through participatory arts so as to preserve their heritage and gradually rebuild their brain health and a new sense of belonging. \nWho for? \nIf you are involved with arts practice for refugees\, or if you teach\, study or work in the fields neuroscience\, psychology\, psychiatry involving arts to preserve brain health\, and social prescribing to enable people to access inspirational cultural and creative opportunities to preserve their brain health\, identity and confidence among their new communities. \nA G E N D A (Online: 14.00 – 16.30 BST) \nHOST: Veronica Franklin Gould\, President\, Arts 4 Dementia. \nCHAIR : Alexandra Coulter\, Director\, National Centre for Creative Health. \nChristopher Bailey\, Arts and Health Lead\, World Health Organisation. \nProfessor Cornelius Katona Medical and Research Director of the Helen Bamber Foundation. Royal College of Psychiatrists lead on Refugee and Asylum Mental Health. \nAlmir Koldzic\, Director and Co-Founder\, Counterpoints Arts ‘Creatively Minded and Refugees’ \nPANEL Chair: Professor Cornelius Katona \n\nDaniela Nofal\, Counterpoints Arts – Network\nBobby Lloyd\, Art Refuge\, Community Table\nSheila Hayman\, Freedom from Torture\, ‘Write to Life’\n\nPANEL Chair: Professor Rachel Tribe\, Professor of Applied Psychology at the University of East London \n\nSara Green\, Founder & Executive Director\, Art for Refugees in Transition\, New York.\nDr Hanan Khalil\, Associate Professor of Neurological Rehabilitation at Qatar University. Physical therapy for refugees in Qatar\nLis Murphy\, Creative Director and Ramsey Janini\, Creative Producer\, Music Action International\, Crisis Choirs led by refugee musicians for new arrivals at drop-in centres.\n\nPANEL Chair: Professor Rachel Tribe\, Professor of Applied Psychology at the University of East London \n\nJohanne Hudson-Lett\, Artistic Director\, Hear Me Out\n\n\nPhoebe Shaw\, Communities Programme Manager\, Untold Stories Project\, Artcore\, Derby.\n\n\nKunle Adewale\, Creative technology for refugees in Bosnia\, Ireland and Sheffield\n\nPROJEKT EUROPA Chair: Alexandra Coulter\, Director\, National Centre for Creative Health \n\nMaria Aberg\, Artistic Director\, Projekt Europa.\nProjekt Encounter: Dr Angeliki Varakis-Martin\, Lecturer in Drama and Theatre\, University of Kent\nProjekt Encounter: Dr Francisca Stangel and Tom Tegento\, drama for refugees workshop facilitators.\n\nRSVP your free place to attend here. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/greengross-global-arts-4-brain-health-change-makers-refugee-conversation/ CATEGORIES:Learning,Mental Health ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/https-cdn.evbuc_.com-images-750485569-17518429571-1-original.20240423-162255.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240617T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240617T173000 DTSTAMP:20251001T110809Z CREATED:20240616T234712Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251001T110809Z UID:10000445-1718625600-1718645400@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Shaping the story DESCRIPTION:A strategic day of networking\, research and practice sharing – with arts\, media\, research\, philanthropy\, charity and policy sectors. A collaboration between Unbound Philanthropy\, Climate Outreach and Counterpoints Arts.\n  \n‘Over the last six months we have been mapping the work underway in the UK at the intersections of climate and migration. Whilst we have found that a lot is happening\, there is currently a chronic lack of resource\, capacity and connections leading to limitations in the impact of this important work. It is very exciting to see a rapid growth in grassroots organising\, interest from funders\, and awareness of the importance of this work from NGOs and others. A concerted effort is now needed to make the most of the window of opportunity that exists to influence policies\, politics and narratives on climate-related migration.’ Ruth Grove-White & Ben Margolis\, authors of Building Common Ground briefing\, May 2024 \n  \nImage: Counterpoints’ Women’s Climate Justice and Migration retreat\, Hawkwood College\, November 2023\n—————————————————————————————————————————- \nWe are convening a dynamic group of around 50 individuals from the arts\, media\, research\, philanthropy\, charity\, and policy sectors for a series of critical conversations: \nPanel 1: The Ecosystem \nSetting the stage\, we will delineate priorities and share pivotal insights from the newly commissioned report by Unbound Philanthropy. \nChair: Alice Sachrajda\, UK Programme Officer & UK Head of Cultural Strategy – Unbound Philanthropy \nWith Ruth Grove-White & Ben Margolis\, Unbound consultants and authors of Building Common Ground: Yasmin Halima – JCWI; Alba Kapoor – Runnymede Trust \nPanel 2: How We Talk About Climate and Migration \nThis panel delves into the narratives shaping climate and migration\, exploring strategic communication practices and strategies to dismantle toxic narratives. \nChair: Maryam Pasha\, TEDxLondon and Climate Curious podcast \nWith Fahmida Miah – Climate Outreach; André Dallas\, People and Planet; Sangeetha Iengar – Goldsmith Chambers and University of Oxford \nPanel 3: The Storytellers: Art and Climate Justice \nFocusing on the arts\, this session spotlights artists committed to storytelling and socially engaged methodologies\, engaging themes of decolonization\, intersectionality\, and community collaboration. \nChair: Bonnie Chiu\, The Social Investment Consultancy \nWith Dhaqan Collective\, Farah Ahmed – Julie’s Bicycle\, Nana Bempah – POCC \n—————————————————————————————————————————- \nOur intention is to craft a reflective space that showcases the recent briefing by Ruth Grove-White and Ben Margolis on civil society work at the intersections of climate and migration in the UK. The briefing highlights the need for significant investment from funders\, building cross-sector relationships\, supporting diverse leadership\, committing to intersectional work\, and embedding a vision of systemic change. \nWe aim to foster cross-sector networking and explore innovative ways to represent lived experiences\, supporting collaboration and movement-building at the nexus of climate justice and migration. We also celebrate the practices of artists and activists reimagining storytelling around climate justice and global displacement. \nThis gathering aspires to embody these priorities\, fostering innovative and inclusive approaches to the intertwined challenges of climate and migration. \n—————————————————————————————————————————- \nUnbound Philanthropy is a private grantmaking foundation that works to ensure that migrants and refugees are treated with respect and engage with their new communities. We support pragmatic\, innovative\, and responsive approaches to immigration and immigrant integration in the United States and United Kingdom. \nClimate Outreach is the first British charity to focus exclusively on public engagement with climate change. Every year Climate Outreach helps hundreds of organisations think about how they can tell a different climate story. They do this through research and advice\, workshops and training\, and Climate Visuals. \nYorkton Workshops is a home to the award winning design studio\, Pearson Lloyd. Saved from demolition\, by considering the most sustainable\, socially valuable and creatively interesting paths of working with\, preserving and enhancing the existing building – Yorkton is also a gallery\, event space and location available for hire in Hackney\, East London. \n—————————————————————————————————————————- URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/shaping-the-story/ LOCATION:Yorkton Workshops\, 1-3 Yorkton St\, London\, London\, E2 8NH\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Learning,London Refugee Week,Pop Culture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/LRW-OVERLAY-WEBSITE-11.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240328T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240328T190000 DTSTAMP:20240709T144535Z CREATED:20240116T124719Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144535Z UID:10000391-1711652400-1711652400@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Who has the Right to Speak and Act in the Public Space? DESCRIPTION:Who has the right to speak and act in public space? \nReflecting on a series of public artworks commissioned by Counterpoints Arts in Greece\, the artists Tamara Al Mashouk\, Eirini Linardaki and Adrian Paci engage in a conversation with the co-curators Almir Koldzic and Niovi Zarampouka-Chatzimanou. The artists and curators share insights and experiences relating to the process of artistic practice in the public space; community engagement; implications of the lack of transparent public art policy and strategy; and the social and political reactions generated when contemporary art comes into the urban landscape.  \nThis conversation will also reflect on the questions arising through the public programme that accompanied the commissions. Why is it so difficult to negotiate an artwork’s right to exist? What are the artistic and curatorial responsibilities\, and do we need a public policy for the arts in Greece?  \nAbout Niovi Zarampouka-Chatzimanou \nNiovi Zarampouka-Chatzimanou\, is an independent curator and Co-Director of Counterpoints Arts in Greece\, working on socially and politically engaged art projects relating to themes like national identity\, citizenship\, memory and reclaiming public space. Her curatorial work revolves around the question “Who is the Contemporary Athenian?”\, a project that she initiated as the Director of Victoria Square Project in Athens.   \nAbout Adrian Paci \nAdrian Paci was born in Shkodër\, Albania in 1969. Paci lives and works between Milan and Shkodër. Using his own experience of immigration from Albania to Italy\, and stories of family and friends\, Paci addresses issues such as exile\, identity\, memory and collective history. Paci’s body of work looks back on those tumultuous times\, addressing the radical political shifts of his homeland as it transitioned away from communism to a chaotic free market economy and his subsequent experiences as an artist in exile.   \nAbout Eirini Linardaki \nEirini Linardaki is a visual artist based in New York and Crete. Linardaki is also known for her community-based art projects\, particularly through workshops on accessibility and multiculturalism in several different countries like Liberia and France\, where she lived for more than 20 years. In 2019\, she initiated the “Occupy Art Project\,” a collaborative art research group that involves artists and curators from the US\, France and Greece. Linardaki’s activist work was recognised with the Sing For Hope Artivist Award in 2022. She is mother to two children.   \nAbout Tamara Al-Mashouk \nTamara Al-Mashouk is a London based Palestinian/Saudi artist and organizer. Through multi-channel video\, performance\, and architectural installation\, her work negotiates the relationship between home (both physical and metaphysical); the movement of people across societal and geographic borders; and memory\, with specific focus on the expansion of epigenetics beyond the body into place and matter. As a socially engaged practitioner in her organisational capacity\, she has been producing events for the past ten years. These have included: a BLM poetry night where the stage was the roof of a boat\, a fundraiser for the Lebanese thawra\, and most recently\, gatherings that feature food\, poetry\, music and discussion and carve vital space for connection within the diasporic Arabic communities in London.  \nReserve a spot at this event here. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/who-has-the-right-to-speak-and-act-in-the-public-space/ LOCATION:Hellenic Centre\, 16-18 Paddington Street\, London\, W1U 5AS CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/fokneg_day2_drone4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240313T134500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240313T144500 DTSTAMP:20240709T144535Z CREATED:20240116T142636Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144535Z UID:10000392-1710337500-1710341100@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Publishing into the Hostile Environment DESCRIPTION:This event is organised in collaboration with English Pen\, as part of the London Book Fair. \nAnti-immigration rhetoric is pervasive across all sectors of British society. This panel will discuss this ‘hostile environment’ and how its policies impact writers and creatives from refugee and migrant backgrounds\, how publishers can best support their writers and staff\, and how the books they commission and publish can better represent and platform the diversity of stories and voices. \nThe panel features writers Dina Nayeri and Awet Fissehaye\, and Vidisha Biswas from Footnote Press. The conversation is chaired by our co-chair\, Naima Khan. \nRead more here. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/publishing-into-the-hostile-environment/ LOCATION:London Book Fair\, Olympia London\, London\, W14 8UX\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Learning,Literature & Spoken Word ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/IMG_5337.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240204T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240204T180000 DTSTAMP:20240709T144536Z CREATED:20240124T163011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144536Z UID:10000395-1707062400-1707069600@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:432 NO-MAD'S x Counterpoints DESCRIPTION:Join us at Aspex Portsmouth for an afternoon of poetry performances followed by a panel discussion supporting refugees and asylum seekers focused under the theme of ‘progression’. \nPerformers include: Jackson Davies\, Addy\, DarkStarGraver and Seema. \nThis event is a partnership project between Counterpoints Arts and art collective 432 NO-MAD’S. \nBooking link URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/432-no-mads-x-counterpoints/ LOCATION:Aspex Gallery\, The Vulcan Building Gunwharf Quays\, Portsmouth\, PO1 3BF\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Learning,Literature & Spoken Word ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_673836869_36684856936_1_original.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231212T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231212T130000 DTSTAMP:20240709T144536Z CREATED:20231215T143306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144536Z UID:10000386-1702378800-1702386000@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:'Arts\, Refugees and Mental Health' Roundtable DESCRIPTION:A free online roundtable\, designed and delivered by Counterpoints Arts\, exploring the arts\, refugees and mental health.\nFree registration \nFlourishing Lives and the Anti-Racist Action Group in Arts & Wellbeing invite you to our latest free online workshop exploring anti-racist action and inclusive practice in arts & wellbeing services. \nWe are delighted to be working in partnership with Counterpoints Arts on this roundtable and are immensely grateful to Tom Green\, Daniela Nofal and Lara Deffense from Counterpoints for designing and facilitating the session. \nIn this session we will: \n\nHear insights from people about their lived experience of seeking asylum in the UK\nExplore the arts\, refugees and mental health\nShare case studies that include a range of different approaches\nConsider some of the common themes that emerge\nSet out some of the challenges and opportunities in this work\nShare reflections and connections to your work\nExplore anti-racist actions that you can implement in your work\n\nJoin us to share ideas and advocate for inclusive practice and anti-racist action across the arts and wellbeing sector. \nAbout The Anti-Racist Action Group in Arts & Wellbeing: \nThe Anti-Racist Action Group in Arts & Wellbeing is a group of representatives from arts\, wellbeing and race equality charities – including Flourishing Lives\, HEAR Network\, Race Equality Foundation\, Decolonising the Archive\, and Southwark Culture Health and Wellbeing Partnership – who partner with ethnically and culturally diverse organisations\, facilitators\, community groups\, participants and people to share their knowledge\, expertise\, learning and lived experience to support the wider arts and wellbeing sector to explore anti-racist action\, and develop wider engagement in the arts and mental health. The aim is to facilitate conversations\, deepen understanding and identify opportunities for change. \nThis discussion is part of an ongoing series of workshops and roundtables kindly funded by The National Lottery Community Fund which will support Flourishing Lives and the Anti-Racist Action Group to explore a range of topics\, issues and anti-racist actions over the next 2 years to help advocate for inclusive practice across the arts and wellbeing sector. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/arts-refugees-and-mental-health-roundtable/ CATEGORIES:Learning,Mental Health ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/ARAG-Arts-Refugees-and-Mental-health-v2.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231127T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231127T170000 DTSTAMP:20240709T144536Z CREATED:20231215T124923Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144536Z UID:10000378-1701081000-1701104400@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:London Creative Health City: Building It Together DESCRIPTION:Counterpoints is delighted to be one of the contributors to an event produced by London Arts and Health where we will share the findings from our recent report Arts\, Refugees and Mental Health. \nEvent text: \nCulture has a significant impact on people’s physical and mental health and wellbeing. Through a multitude of organisations\, practitioners\, artists\, creative health workers\, social prescribers\, allied health professionals\, ICS systems and more we see health and culture working together to address health needs across the UK’s capital city. \nHowever\, for too many Londoners these activities are out of reach. \nOn the 27th November we invite everyone interested in the intersections of health and culture to come together to take part in a day of exchange and reflection\, boundary pushing and action planning. Together\, we will imagine London as a Creative Health capital city\, laying the building blocks to see it become reality. \nAn initiative developed and funded by the Mayor of London and Arts Council England\, delivered in partnership with London Arts and Health. \nFull details and booking URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/london-creative-health-city-building-it-together/ CATEGORIES:Learning,Mental Health ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/CH-City-Unconference-Social-Media-1024x1024-1-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231104T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231104T190000 DTSTAMP:20240709T144537Z CREATED:20230918T102415Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144537Z UID:10000355-1699106400-1699124400@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Re-imagine Community Practice: Cooperation Disco + Arty Farty Karaoke (Bristol) DESCRIPTION:What is the migrant arts community?\nA cluster network under specific labels? The act of solidarity over trauma? Or can we take a different approach?\nJoin Bristol-based performance artist Howl Yuan on this social gathering\, featuring friendship\, celebration and joy-making practices. \nDate: Saturday 4th November 2023\nTime: 2-7PM\nVenue: Mill Room\, St. Anne’s House\, St Anne’s Rd\, Brislington\, Bristol\, BS4 4AB \nIn Cooperation Disco\, the group will engage with map making\, games and celebratory dances to build connections and solidarity across people and places in the UK. It’s a seemingly mighty task that we’ll face together with creativity and playfulness! Here everyone has a place. \nArty-Farty Karaoke is a multilingual karaoke practice. It embraces the act of ‘singing along’ and ‘singing with’ as the collective cheerful connection-making method. \nHowl invites migrant artists\, performance makers\, cultural producers and their allies to come and share your need\, support\, voice and joy. \nBook your FREE place by emailing Platforma producer Tasnim Siddiqa Amin at tasnim@counterpoints.org.uk with your name\, your link with Bristol and South West and whether you identify as a migrant performance practitioner (including artists\, producers\, advocators\, thinkers). \nThis event is co-facilitated with Ania Varez. \nLight refreshments will be provided.\nTimings:\n2PM – Welcome\n2.30PM – 4.30PM Cooperation Disco\n4.30 – 5PM Break\n5 – 7PM Arty-Farty Karaoke \nAnia Varez (they/them) is a Venezuelan dance artist and community worker based in Bristol. They graduated with honors from the London Contemporary Dance School. Ania makes experimental and collaborative performances\, working with other dancers\, artists of other disciplines and with people who don’t identify as artists yet. They have worked with Lisa May Thomas\, Laila Diallo\, Terrestrial\, Fair Play Productions and Shotput Theatre. Their own work has toured internationally (Taiwan and South Korea) as well as in the UK\, including SPILL Festival. They are a member of Interval\, an artist support network in Bristol. \nHowl Yuan\, or Yuan Cheng-Po\, is a Taiwanese performance maker/writer/curator/researcher. His interests cross cultural identity\, mobility\, site/place/space and decolonised narratives. His works span different formats but are primarily performance-based\, and are presented in theatres\, galleries\, festivals\, beaches or gardens. \nImage credit: Howl Yuan \nThis event is co-commissioned by Counterpoint Arts and performingborders \nPart of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/re-imagine-community-practice/ LOCATION:St. Anne’s House\, St Anne's Rd\, Bristol\, BS4 4AB\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Learning,Music,Performance & Dance,Platforma ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231103 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231105 DTSTAMP:20240709T144537Z CREATED:20231025T110612Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144537Z UID:10000373-1698969600-1699142399@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Climate Retreat DESCRIPTION:Image: House-of-Weaving Song by Dhaqan Collective © Luke O’Donovan \n  \n“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation\, and that is an act of political warfare.” \n“The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.” \nAudre Lorde \n  \nAs part of this year’s Platforma Festival programme in the Southwest of England\, we have organised a Climate & Displacement mini-retreat\, taking place between 3-4 November at Hawkwood College\, Stroud. \nWith social and environmental issues intensifying\, and general discourse steered towards greenwashing and short-term solutions\, we need new approaches\, ideas and collaborations. With this challenge in mind\, we are organising a retreat that will convene a group of women artists\, who make work about community\, collectivism and solidarity. \nCould co-habiting in this way allow us to share our diverse methods\, processes\, struggles\, and accomplishments? Women have always convened. By giving a platform to women who are already developing work addressing answers to contemporary issues\, the retreat will provide an opportunity to start reciprocal conversations and engage intersectionally with womanhood\, migration and belonging in a self-directed\, non-hierarchical context. \nWe will host around twenty women in a generous\, intimate\, networking space that is about exchanging knowledge\, experiences\, practices and ‘making’ something together. \nThe retreat is co-designed and co-produced in collaboration with socially engaged artist Dana Olărescu. \nThis gathering is inspired by the fact that for the current Platforma Festival we organically commissioned and co-commissioned projects on migration and displacement by women artists\, who will be part of the retreat (artists Kaajal Modi and Dhaqan Collective – co-commissioned with Art Reach; and with Creative Kernow\, artists Sovay Berriman and Abigail Reynolds). This inspired us to want to re-imagine ways of gathering and collaborating led by women artists and activists\, including beyond this retreat. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/climate-retreat/ CATEGORIES:Learning,Sustainability & Climate Justice ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/House-of-Weaving-Songs-Playable-City-Bristol-Jul23-©-Luke-ODonovan-mid-res-26-of-36-e1698231818975.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231028T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231028T113000 DTSTAMP:20240709T144537Z CREATED:20231017T190420Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144537Z UID:10000369-1698487200-1698492600@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:CROWN تاج Workshop (Bristol) DESCRIPTION:Join us for a FREE workshop on Saturday 28th October\, 10-11.30AM. Led by Company Scheherazade Director\, Mario Tarokh with support from Company Musician\, Mario Christofi. The workshop will incorporate basic technique\, movement exploration and learning choreography from the CROWN production. \nFeaturing a fun\, dynamic soundtrack mixing classical Persian music and electronica. Open to all levels and genders. Suitable for 16+. \nTo sign up email companyscheherazade@gmail.com or call Maria on 07709518378. \nFor more information\, visit www.mariatarokh.com URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/crown-%d8%aa%d8%a7%d8%ac-workshop-bristol/ CATEGORIES:Learning,Performance & Dance,Platforma ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Website-Platforma-Overlay-6.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231020 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231022 DTSTAMP:20240709T144538Z CREATED:20230724T175359Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144538Z UID:10000340-1697760000-1697932799@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:The Creative Sanctuary Symposium (Online) DESCRIPTION:The Creative Sanctuary symposium produced by Insiders / Outsiders Festival takes place online 20-21 October telling the story of Dartington Hall in Devon as an important place of sanctuary for refugees from Fascist Europe. Get your tickets on Eventbrite\, £0-35\, concessions available. \nDartington Hall\, established by Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst in the late 1920s as a utopian agricultural and educational experiment\, became a much-needed place of refuge for a significant number of eminent creative individuals\, who because of their Jewish background and/or anti-fascist stance\, were forced to leave Germany (and later\, Austria) after 1933. Spanish Republicans fleeing the Spanish Civil War were also welcomed. \nComprising a lively mixture of illustrated talks straddling multiple art forms (fine and applied arts\, architecture\, dance and music)\, discussions\, Q&A sessions and film screenings\, the programme will be aimed at both a general and a specialist audience\, local\, national and international. \nThe symposium\, which draws on the very latest archival researches by established and early career scholars alike\, will fill a significant gap in twentieth century British cultural and social history. \nFor full details of the programme\, including a breakdown of events and guest speakers\, see the Eventbrite page. \nThe symposium is kindly supported by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art\, Shoresh Charitable Trust\, the Elmgrant Trust and Counterpoints Arts. \nMain image: Hans Keller teaching at Summer School of Music\, Dartington Hall \nPart of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/the-creative-sanctuary-symposium-online/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Learning,Multi-Art Form,Platforma ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231019T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231019T200000 DTSTAMP:20240709T144538Z CREATED:20230823T124141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144538Z UID:10000349-1697740200-1697745600@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Art Works: How Organisers and Artists are Creating a Better World Together
 DESCRIPTION:Ken Grossinger in Conversation\nAuthor and strategist Ken Grossinger joins Fran Panetta\, Director of the new AKO Storytelling Institute and Almir Koldzic\, Director of Counterpoints Arts in conversation\, following the publication of Ken’s new book Art Works: How Organisers and Artists are Creating a Better World Together (The New Press\, 2023). \n\nKen Grossinger has been a leading strategist in movements for social and economic justice for thirty-five years\, in unions and community organisations\, and as director of Impact Philanthropy in Democracy Partners. Among other cultural projects\, he co-executive produced the award-winning Netflix documentaries The Social Dilemma and The Bleeding Edge. \nReviews \n“Art Works tells the complicated and fascinating story of the recent history of activism and the arts and points to new ways in which the arts\, pop culture\, and institutions are aligning themselves to address issues of violence\, beauty\, capitalism\, and justice. Challenging and inspiring\, the book raises many fundamental questions about the purpose of art and its relationship to societal change.” \nLaurie Anderson\, artist and activist \n“Grossinger’s arguments are a corrective to the cliché of ‘art for art’s sake.’ It is a rare manual for those who devote themselves to social change in times of crises\, a reference book about our political reality\, and an insightful signpost.” \nAi Weiwei\, artist and activist \n  \nFurther information: \n\nKen Grossinger\nArt Works\nAKO Storytelling Institute\n\nUniversity of the Arts London \n\nImage credit: Banner Image – Mural\, Stefan Ways\, 2013 \n  \nBooking link URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/art-works-how-organisers-and-artists-are-creating-a-better-world-together/ LOCATION:Central Saint Martins Studio Theatre\, Granary Square\, King’s Cross CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/1692199040579.cropped.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231007 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231029 DTSTAMP:20240709T144537Z CREATED:20230919T140804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144537Z UID:10000360-1696636800-1698537599@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Gwyrdh Glas Workshops (Cornwall) DESCRIPTION:Gwyrdh Glas Workshops\nAS PART OF FLAMM BY CREATIVE KERNOW \nDuring these workshops facilitated by local artist Sovay Berriman we will share thoughts on identity & Cornwall\, and then using the reclaimed materials available such as cardboard\, paper and cloth to make ‘rubbish sculptures’. Through the practical art-making Sovay invites the identity conversations to flow in a slightly different way. We will draw inspiration from the granite forms of carns of Kernow/Cornwall such as Carn Brea\, The Hurlers\, Trencrom and Rough Tor and are titled Gwyrdh Glas – Liwyow a Gernow / Colours of Cornwall. \nWe will paint the rock sculptures in colours that connect to our identities and relationships with the rocks of Kernow\, and we’ll name these colours in Kernewek/Cornish. If a fitting word does not exist\, we will create one through conversation and use of Kernewek/Cornish dictionaries loaned to the project by Kowethas an yeth Kernewek. \nThe colours and their words will be collected in a sample book – Liwyow a Gernow (Colours of Cornwall) which will be added to the MESKLA | Brewyon Drudh archive\, and offered to the Cornish Language Office to contribute to the gelyver kernewek (Cornish Dictionary). The Cornish Language Service will adjust the names we’ve created to ensure they ‘make-sense’ within the linguistic rules of the language. \nBoth the rock-sculptures and the sample book of colours will be included in Sovay’s exhibition Gwyrdh Glas as part of Flamm in Redruth 21st-22nd October. If they agree\, participants names will be included in the details of the project\, and the MESKLA | Brewyon Drudh PEOPLE page. \nWorkshops are sometimes drop-in\, and sometimes bookable\, please see each listing for details. \nSat 7th October | Krowji\, as part of the Fun Palaces weekend \nTues 10th October 11am – 1pm | The Shire Hall\, IntoBodmin for Hospital Rooms’ Cornwall Project \nSat & Sun 21st & 22nd October | Flamm Cornwall open drop-in. Location: Market Hall\, Market Way\, Redruth\, TR15 2AU \nFri & Sat 27th & 28th October | Lowender Festival\, Redruth \nFor more info about Sovay Berriman\, the workshops and events please visit https://sovayberriman.co.uk/MESKLA-workshops \n  \nCORE is being presented as part of a multi-layered programme of exhibitions and events. Supported by Art Night\, Counterpoints Arts\, Creative Kernow\, Cultivator\, Good Growth\, Levelling Up\, Shared Prosperity Fund and Cornwall Council. Part of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/gwyrdh-glas-workshops-cornwall/ LOCATION:Cornwall CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Learning,Platforma,Visual Arts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Website-Platforma-Overlay-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230930T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231001T173000 DTSTAMP:20240709T144539Z CREATED:20230919T133228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144539Z UID:10000359-1696075200-1696181400@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Core: Electronic Music Workshops (Cornwall) DESCRIPTION:Core: Electronic Music Workshops\nAS PART OF FLAMM BY CREATIVE KERNOW\nMake dance music for the mix at Abigail Reynolds’ Core in a quarry on the edge of Redruth. \nCore is an invitation to dance to the rhythms and sounds of a quarry which has been drilled with hundreds of deep holes. The quarry was a test site for the drills used to set dynamite deep inside the stone\, but has been silent for decades. The lost rhythm of the percussive drills will be replaced by loud electronic beats created entirely from recordings made in the quarry. For Core\, sounds from the quarry will mixed by an impressive list of music producers\, solo\, in collaboration\, and through workshops. \nThe workshops are for all levels\, from curious young people and beginners who want to learn how to mix a dance track\, through to experienced music producers. Tracks made in these sessions will be included in the final mix performed in the quarry on October 21st. Three beginners workshops for up to 12 people will be led by Stuart Blackmore and Toby Sadgrove. The workshops are free to attend\, with a suggested donation of £10. \nSat 30 Sept \n12pm-2.30pm                workshop 12+ years \n3pm-5.30pm                  workshop 16+ years \nSun 1 Oct \n1pm-3.30pm                  workshop 18+ years \nLocation: Krowji\, West Park\, Redruth\, Cornwall TR15 3GE \nBook here for the workshops! \n  \nFor Music Producers\nCore is looking for dance tracks\, made from sound samples recorded in the quarry. On Sunday 1st October 4-7pm\, there will also be a share session for music producers led by Martin Pease. This is a masterclass for music producers who have already downloaded the quarry recordings and made a start with their own kit. If you work with music/sound and are interested in creating a track for Core and attend the masterclass. Email coresubmissions2023@gmail.com for information and a link. \n  \nCORE is being presented as part of a multi-layered programme of exhibitions and events. Supported by Art Night\, Counterpoints Arts\, Creative Kernow\, Cultivator\, Good Growth\, Levelling Up\, Shared Prosperity Fund and Cornwall Council. Part of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/core-electronic-music-workshops/ LOCATION:Krowji\, West Park\, Cornwall\, TR15 3GE\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Learning,Multi-Art Form,Music,Platforma ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Website-Platforma-Overlay-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230718T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230718T170000 DTSTAMP:20240709T144958Z CREATED:20151015T135905Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144958Z UID:10000097-1689685200-1689699600@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Performing Migratory Identity DESCRIPTION:Performing Migratory Identity: Performance Research on Displacement\, Belonging and Auto/Bio and Participatory Biography \nLindisfarne Centre\, St Aidan’s College\, University of Durham \n1:00 – 5:00 pm (lunch included) \nCounterpoints Arts’ Learning Lab in partnership with the Centre for Sex\, Gender and Sexualities\, University of Durham\, the Performing Arts\, University of Northumbria\, Platforma Arts + Refugee Network and The Forge\, reflects on the performance\, film and installation work of London-based artist and researcher\, Natasha Davis. \nFrom Rupture\, Asphyxia\, and Suspended\, to her multi-chaptered Internal Terrains and Teeth Show\, Davis imagines and renders intimate auto/biographical architectures of memory\, identity\, migration\, displacement\, trauma and the body. \nDavis’s work is informed by personal experience of enforced migration\, of crossing borders and a temporary loss of citizenship. Her performances – underpinned by longitudinal research – move fluently and fractiously between auto/bio and participatory biographies\, challenging many disciplinary truisms and boundaries. \nInspired by a provocation from Indian dramaturge Rustom Bharucha\, who subverts the question ‘When the play ends\, what remains?’ into ‘When the play ends\, what begins?’ Learning Lab explores the place of performance in engaging publics on the themes of identity\, migration\, memory and auto/biography. \nFollowing a response by performance artist Jane Arnfield (Reader in Arts\, Director of Fine & Visual Arts Programmes\, Northumbria University)\, questions for participants to consider include: how can personal autobiographical material open up and facilitate participatory experiences and insights? What form of knowledge is created and received through Davis’s mix of performance\, visual and live art and academic research? What can be revealed about histories of migration and displacement through using the body and memory as critical\, performance tools? What might performance-led visual and live art bring to the social sciences\, sciences and policy disciplines\, what possibilities can we imagine? \nIn conversation with a range of practitioners from the creative arts\, drama and performance\, and the humanistic social sciences – Davis will present a range of critical methodologies that are central to her work by way of presentation\, excerpts and a public interview. \nOur thanks to St Aidan’s College\, University of Durham for hospitality and support of Learning Lab. \nFor more information contact: \nMaggie O’Neill: maggie.o’neill@durham.ac.uk \nÁine O’Brien: aine@counterpoints.org.uk \nFor more on Learning Lab\, see here: http://learninglabeditions.org/ \nImage: Unrooted\, by Natasha Davis URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/performing-migratory-identity/ CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Unrooted-by-Natasha-Davis_image-for-Learning-Lab.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230625T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230625T160000 DTSTAMP:20240709T144959Z CREATED:20230517T081638Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144959Z UID:10000028-1687705200-1687708800@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Migrant Futurism: Françoise Vergès DESCRIPTION:Presented by Radical Ecology\, Francoise Verges will deliver a key-note presentation in the Purcell Room\, reflecting on the context of the UK’s Illegal Migration Bill and drawing connections between forced migration\, climate breakdown\, gender violence and systemic violence to insist on the need to develop and enhance international solidarity in the face of these interconnected planetary crises. \nFrancoise Verges is a renowned decolonial activist and theorist\, who through works including A Decolonialism Feminism and A Feminist Theory of Violence explores the intersections of race\, migration and gender in the context of 21st century global capitalism. \nThe panel will be moderated by filmmaker\, activist and founder/director of Radical Ecology\, Ashish Ghadiali and will be followed by a Q&A. \nThis event is part of Refugee Week\, and launching Migrant Futurism\, a long-term strand of research and public programming by Radical Ecology and in collaboration with Counterpoints Arts and the Southbank Centre. \nMigrant Futurism is a long-term curatorial project\, led by Radical Ecology\, that interrogates cultural strategies\, in the context of displacement\, for the imagination of just and sustainable futures. \nTickets – £7.50. \nAge recommendation – For ages 14+\nContent Warning – Contains themes of gender-based violence URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/migrant-futurism-francoise-verges/ CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/fran-oise-verg-s.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230625T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230625T140000 DTSTAMP:20240709T144959Z CREATED:20230517T081506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144959Z UID:10000031-1687698000-1687701600@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Migrant Futurism: Kenmure Street DESCRIPTION:This panel brings together community activists and organisers to reflect on the power of the Kenmure Street protest\, two years on. \nThe panel features Mohammad Asif and Pinar Aksu\, who were active throughout the day\, alongside Sami\, an organiser in the anti-raids network. It’s moderated by film-maker\, activist and founder/director of Radical Ecology\, Ashish Ghadiali. \nOn the morning of 13 May 2021\, UK immigration officials conducted a dawn raid in Glasgow Southside’s Kenmure Street\, detaining two Indian nationals in a Home Office van\, only to be met by an organised response from members of the local community who surrounded the vehicle. \nWhat unfolded was an eight-hour grassroots protest\, animated by the spontaneous chant\, ‘These are our neighbours\, let them go.’ \nThe action\, which took place during Eid in one of Scotland’s most ethnically diverse neighbourhoods\, resulted in the release of the two men\, and was celebrated as a symbol of hope and solidarity in the face of the UK government’s ‘hostile environment’. \nHow did it come about? Why was it so effective? What happened after the cameras had gone away? And what can activists and communities learn from the anti-raids movement about organising in response to the Illegal Migration Bill? \nMohammad Asif is director of the Scotland-based Afghan Human Rights Foundation. \nPinar Aksu is a campaigner and development officer at the Maryhill Integration Network which works across Glasgow to facilitate connection between refugees\, migrants and settled inhabitants of the city. \nThis event is part of the launch of ‘Migrant Futurism’\, a long-term curatorial strand of research and public programming led by Radical Ecology\, in collaboration with Counterpoints Arts and the Southbank Centre. \n‘Migrant Futurism’ interrogates cultural strategies\, in the context of displacement\, for the imagination of just and sustainable futures. \nFree event. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/migrant-futurism-kenmure-street/ CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/migrant-futurism-kenmure-street.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230623T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230623T200000 DTSTAMP:20240709T145000Z CREATED:20230602T073254Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145000Z UID:10000018-1687545000-1687550400@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:The Art Persists: Live Podcast and Music DESCRIPTION:Bosla Arts and Counterpoints Arts are hosting the first ever live podcast recording of The Art Persists Podcast\, featuring artists Laura Nyahuye\, Ghafar Tajmohammad\, and Olga Tkachenko\, hosted by Georgia Beeston. \nThe live podcast will draw on Nyahuye’s exhibition\, Resilience: Friend or Foe?\, and Bosla Art’s latest issue Beyond Resilience. Together\, we will examine role of resilience and its limitations in each of the artists’ contexts; from addressing social issues through art\, to the Afghan diaspora experience\, and finally escaping war in Ukraine. The conversation will uncover each artist’s practice and explore solidarity action between countries and contexts. \nThe event will be followed by a Q&A and a performance by Syrian musician USTAVI. After the event attendees will be invited to stay for drinks and a social. \nFull details and booking via Eventbrite \nSupported by Pearson Lloyd \n \n \n  URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/the-art-persists-live-podcast-and-music/ CATEGORIES:Learning,Multi-Art Form ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/3faccf8e-8920-4e5c-b9ac-f8ca9c5f7244-e1686581327737.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230620T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230620T150000 DTSTAMP:20240709T145000Z 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=Europe/London:20230617T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230617T000000 DTSTAMP:20240709T145000Z CREATED:20170609T095334Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145000Z UID:10000324-1686960000-1686960000@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Learning Lab: The Politics of Hospitality and the Refuge City DESCRIPTION:Learning Lab takes its inspiration from artist Alketa Xhafa Mripa’s installation Refugees Welcome\, which will be located in front of the York Minster from 11- 4:00 pm on Saturday 17th June. \nMripa is traveling around the UK with a Luton tail lift van\, called Refugees Welcome\, to engage people in everyday conversations about ‘welcome’. She performs her memories of being warmly welcomed as a refugee from Kosovo in the late 1990s as a prompt for conversations. Is this performance\, agitprop\, site-specic installation or activism? Alketa embraces all these labels and more! \nThe Politics of Hospitality and the Refuge City comprises a series of films\, a public conversation with Mripa and a panel discussion about the role of arts and culture in opening up spaces for civic action\, the values of everyday human rights and urban sanctuary. \nContributors include among others: Maggie O’Neill (Sociology – University of York)\, Simon Parker (Refugee Action York and Politics – University of York)\, Alice Nah (Centre for Applied Human Rights – University of York)\, Jan Haaken (Portland State University)\, Almir Koldzic\, Áine O’Brien\, Nelli Stavropoulou\, Alketa Xhafa Mripa (Counterpoints Arts)\, Emily Riddle (The Art House\, Wakefield) and Paul Wordsworth (City of Sanctuary\, York). \nLearning Lab also includes a poster display and exhibition produced by students from the Departments of Politics\, History\, English and Related Studies and Economics\, University of York. The Exhibition will be open and will include a reception from 5.00 – 5:30 pm. \n\n\n\n\nSaturday 17th June \nRefugees Welcome installation: 11.00-4.00pm\, York Minster \nExhibition and drinks reception: 5.00 – 5.30pm\, King’s Manor Common Room \nLearning Lab on The Politics of Hospitality and the Refuge City: 5.30 -7.15pm\, King’s Manor Huntington Room \nYork Learning Lab Poster Invitation URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/learning-lab-the-politics-of-hospitality-and-the-refuge-city/ CATEGORIES:Learning END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230609T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230609T183000 DTSTAMP:20240709T145000Z CREATED:20230526T153357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145000Z UID:10000012-1686322800-1686335400@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Art\, Community and the Future(s) of Intangible Cultural Heritage DESCRIPTION:Beyond the Now: Socially Engaged Practice in a (Dis) Connected World\n  \n\n\nJoin us on the 9th June at The Box for a conversation about the critical re-imagining of collections and archives in an age of uncertainty and resistance\, together with the increasingly urgent work of recovering and preserving intangible heritage. \nThis event takes place in the context of the Beyond the Now: Socially Engaged Practice in a (Dis) Connected World Programme\, funded by the British Council International Collaboration Fund. Key partners include Ettijahat Independent Culture\,Counterpoints Arts\, Arts University Plymouth and Mozilla Festival (members of the *Beyond the Now collective). \n3:00 – 4:30pm \nSession 1 will showcase artistic interventions linking art and community projects with intangible cultural heritage initiated by the arts organisation Ettijahat Independent Culture (Beirut /Brussels)\, under their Create Syria Programme; together with projects and residencies supported in 2022-2023 by Beyond the Now: Socially Engaged Practice in a (Dis) Connected World. \nPresenters: Basma Baydoun\, Daniela Nofal and Sarah Allen. \nModerator: Stephen Felmingham. \n5:00 – 6:30pm \nSession 2 will explore the potential to reframe/reimagine public collections and archives through the integrated lens of displacement\, socially engaged art practice\, education and community engagement. \nPresenters: Awate Suileman\, Ashish Ghadiali\, Abdullah and Chloe Hughes. \nModerator Áine O’Brien. \n  \nRegister via Eventbrite to join in person. To join us virtually\, register here. \n\n\n\n\n\n  \nBeyond the Now \nBeyond the Now: Socially Engaged Art in a (Dis)Connected World is an international research\, development and cultural exchange focused on the role(s) of socially engaged art in an age of displacement. It includes a programme of mentorships\, residencies\, public dialogues\, commissions\, and other peer-to-peer learning for Syrian and Arab artists working across all art forms in the SWANA region\, Europe and the UK. \nBeyond the Now aims to open up new creative cultural and political affinities/solidarities for a post-pandemic world. We comprise small to medium arts\, civic\, research and digital organizations:; Counterpoints Arts\, (London\, UK: https://counterpoints.org.uk/); Ettijahat-Independent Culture (Lebanon and Belgium: https://www.ettijahat.org/site/index); Mozilla Festival (Holland/UK: https://www.mozillafestival.org/en/); CREATE (Ireland: https://www.create-ireland.ie/); co-culture (Germany: https://www.coculture.org/); in addition to individual researchers and producers working at: Open University (UK: https://www.open.ac.uk/); Arts University Plymouth (UK: https://www.aup.ac.uk/). \nBios: \nNoura Alsouma \nNoura is a Syrian illustrator\, graphic designer\, and printmaking artist\, born in the UAE. She graduated with a Bachelor’s in Graphic Design and Multimedia from the University of Sharjah\, and is currently pursuing her Master’s in Graphic Art (with a specialization in printmaking) at UMCS Poland. As an artist between the Middle East and Europe\, Noura tries to connect different places and cultures\, and holds a special place for the Arabic Language in her art. \nYara Amairy \nYara’s journey with the arts began through music\, where she had the opportunity to participate in various festivals and concerts in and around Damascus\, and work with children ages 6 to 10 as a music tutor. After graduating from the Faculty of Architecture\, she worked in the Consulting Center for Construction and Restoration of Heritage Buildings\, supervising the restoration work in Khan Suleiman Pasha\, and working on the rehabilitation of commercial buildings in Old Damascus. She volunteers as a teacher of architectural design for the first and second-year students in the Faculty of Architecture at Damascus University\, where she has lectured on the history of Syrian art\, and is pursuing her Masters in the restoration and rehabilitation of archaeological sites. \n\n\n\n\nAbeer Sanyour \nAbeer is an architect and Master’s student in Urban and Environmental Planning in Syria. She participated in various trainings around tangible and intangible cultural heritage and renovation\, and has worked as editor for the magazine Twenty-Two\, specialized in architectural concerns through educating\, training\, habitation and culture– spreading. Among their volunteering staff are students\, graduate architects\, and researchers across the architectural spectrum. Abeer has also collaborated with the Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums and is interested in social-spatial cohesion by working and connecting with local communities and their shared heritage.  \nWard Al Khalad \nWard is a Damascus-born artist who works with different artistic mediums such as illustration\, fashion design\, and documentation. After moving to Beirut\, he worked as an illustrator with the Library of Arabic Literature NYUAD. Building on a passion for traditional crafts and design\, he co-founded studio Kunukku\, a multi-disciplinary studio preserving the traditional craft of Syrian block printing. Being its creative director\, he has recently launched its first fashion collection in Beirut and is working on expanding his artistic research through more personal creative projects.  \nBasma Baydoun \nA graduate of Performing Arts (B.A – Lebanese University)\, Theatre Design (B.A – Concordia University)\, and Theatre Directing (M.A – Saint Joseph’s University)\, Basma splits her time between creative and cultural projects\, in addition to being a programme manager with Ettijahat – Independent Culture\, a cultural institution which supports artistic and cultural research and production\, education\, and capacity-building\, in response to the needs of independent artistic and cultural practitioners in the Arab Region. She has worked with various artists between Lebanon and Canada and has collaborated with Director’s Lab Mediterranean to organize its first and fourth editions in Beirut. \n\n\n\n\nDaniela Nofal \nDaniela is a London-based cultural organiser and arts practitioner. Daniela has produced various artistic projects and creative interventions\, sitting at the intersection of art\, arts education and social engagement\, and has collaborated with a number of organisations across the UK and internationally\, including Beyond the Now\, Counterpoints Arts and Ettijahat. Central to her artistic practice is experimenting with forms of organising and collectivising to reimagine forms of assembly and solidarity. Daniela is a member of several arts collectives including Cross Commons Collective\, and Sadaa Sound Syndicate. In 2020 she co-founded Zamakan\, a nomadic arts organisation working with artists from across West Asia and North Africa. Daniela is one of the initiators of SACF\, London’s Syrian Arts and Culture Festival. \nStephen Felmingham  \nStephen Felmingham is an artist and educator with an active research interest in creative pedagogies\, specifically research-led learning and alternative art school models and he leads on projects that work in and for communities\, introducing this into socially-engaged art and education and connecting organisations (artist-led initiatives\, community organisations\, public and philanthropic funders) who are working with the agency of creativity in the social realm. His research outputs have developed over the last three years into outward facing social practice projects\, including work with refugee communities that cohere with the College’s strategic aims of creative pedagogy and social justice\, as a founding partner of Beyond the Now\, a syndicated online platform working in locations across Europe\, the MENA region and the Global South to open new creative\, cultural and political affinities for a post-pandemic world. \n\n\n\n\nAbdullah Al Kafri \nAbdullah Alkafri is an award-winning playwright and theatre director. He has also collaborated with arts organisations including LIFT (UK)\, the Royal Court Theatre (UK)\, IEVP (Norway) and Lark (USA). He also works as a trainer\, strategic planner\, fundraiser and designer for arts intervention initiatives\, working with Culture Resource (Al Mawred Al Thaqafy) and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung among many others in Lebanon\, Syria\, Tunisia\, Yemen and elsewhere. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Arab Council for Social Sciences\, the Artistic Committee of Sundance Institute’s MENA Theater Lab and the board of the 10th Summit on Arts and Culture.In 2014. As a member of Ettijahat – Independent Culture\, Abdullah was chosen to succeed Rana Yazji as Executive Director of the non- governmental organisation. Ettijahat is dedicated to supporting Syrian artists and cultural practitioners and their peers across the Arab region and Europe\, providing capacity-building and educational opportunities to artists\, cultural practitioners and academics\, as well as financial and legal support. He also teaches MA Theatre at l’Université Saint-Joseph\, Beirut\, where he was awarded a PhD in performing arts in 2022.Ettijahat is one of the founding partners of Beyond the Now Collective. \nAshish Ghadiali  \nAshish Ghadiali is a writer\, filmmaker and activist. He is the Founder/Director of Radical Ecology\, a not-for-profit organisation that works across art\, research and policy to advance environmental justice and he is currently working on his first book\, Dart River – a psychogeography of empire set in the landscapes of South Devon for Hutchinson Heinemann. Film works include Planetary Imagination (2023)\, a 5-screen installation for The Box in Plymouth and The Confession (2016)\, a feature documentary for BBC Storyville and the BFI. He is also curator of the multi-artist group exhibition\, Against Apartheid\, which will open at KARST\, also in Plymouth\, in Autumn 2023. \nAWATE \nAWATE is a critically acclaimed rapper\, writer\, producer and performer focused on stories at the intersection of race\, class and surrealism – with a dose of humour. A former Activist in Residence at UCL in 2021\, Artist in Residence at the Tate and British Library in 2020 and 2019. Musician in Residence for the PRS Foundation and British Council working in Brazil in 2018 and Resident Artist at The Roundhouse in 2016 – Awate has produced a wide range of commissioned multimedia works mixing music\, film\, theatre and visual art. Awate’s 2018 debut album\, Happiness was supported by BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra\, Spotify\, Noisey\, MOBO x Help Musicians UK and called a\, “British rap masterpiece” by Trench Magazine. \n\n\n\n\nChloe Hughes \nChloe is a cultural leader who has worked across the creative sector. Chloe joined The Box’s senior management team in 2019\, having previously worked for Cornwall Museums Partnership. Working within museums she specialises in establishing organisational strategy through an EDI lens\, developing partnerships which create inclusive new opportunities and securing funding to enable audience development. She leads The Box’s extensive engagement programme which spans early years through to lifelong learning opportunities\, and whose digital initiative during Covid was shortlisted for the National Lottery Award Project of the Year. She is a member of the Museums Association Decolonisation Collective and an alumni of their Transformers leadership programme. \nÁine O’Brien  \nÁine is the Curator of Learning and Research/Co-Founder at Counterpoints Arts.  Áine has worked across the arts\, education and activism in the US\, Ireland and the UK and was co-director of Counterpoints Arts 2012- 2020. Åine runs Learning Lab\, a platform supporting cooperative (un)learning through socially engaged art (SEA). She directs the Summer School on Collaborative Practice and Social Change (in partnership with Create – National Development Agency for Collaborative Arts). A recent collective learning initiative includes Mutual Affinities 2022 (commissioned by Creative Scotland) and the publication Art\, Migration and the Production of Radical Democratic Citizenship (co-edited with Agnes Czajka\, Rowman International – Frontiers of the Political Series\, 2022). Counterpoints Arts is one of the founding partners of Beyond the Now Collective. \n\n\n\n\nSarah Allen \nSarah is the Director of MozFest– a unique hybrid event that is part art\, tech and society convening\, part maker festival\, and the premiere gathering for activists in diverse global movements fighting for a more humane digital world. Sarah has curated digital and physical art exhibitions and workshops at the festival to help broaden perspectives\, learning and voices as we build a healthier internet and Trustworth AI.  \nMozFest is one of the founding partners of Beyond the Now Collective URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/art-community-and-the-futures-of-intangible-cultural-heritage/ CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Create-Syria-Event-with-Plymoth-University-Instagram-Post-New.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230526T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230526T203000 DTSTAMP:20240709T145000Z 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=Europe/London:20221201T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221201T170000 DTSTAMP:20240709T145000Z CREATED:20221128T233045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145000Z UID:10000039-1669887000-1669914000@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Learning Lab: CATALYSTS FOR CHANGE – ARTS\, CULTURE AND ENGAGEMENT IN LOCAL GOVERNANCE DESCRIPTION:Image: Kas Darley and Mark Stevenson | Teatro Vivo\, and Dima Karout | Arts Curator\n  \nHow are artist-led methodologies and cultural programmes in local government transforming civic participation\, service provision\, policy-making and governance? \nIn this Learning Lab\, we bring together several of The Mayor’s London Borough of cultural programmes\, which have incorporated creative acts of convening\, speculation\, community manifesto-making and collaboration between artists\, council workers\, service users and wider residents. \nAs part of We Are Lewisham\, The Mayor’s London Borough of Culture 2022\, we will engage with the recent Artists of Change Residencies\, co-developed by Lewisham Council and Counterpoints Arts\, highlighting Teatro Vivo’s focus on Lewisham Council’s call to action on Climate Emergency\, and Dima Karout’s engagement with Lewisham’s proud status as the first to declare as a Borough of Sanctuary. \nAlongside this\, we will hear from on-going cultural programmes\, including the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham’s New Town Culture\, which is embedding culture as a core part of social care services\, and the Mayor of London’s commissioned 2.8 Million Minds\, which is exploring how culture can support young peoples’ mental health. \nThis Learning Lab provides an opportunity for collective learning from live case studies and a practical space to workshop commissioning processes. It also aims to evaluate the tangible impact of creative collaborations and community manifestos that connect residents and local authorities in shared conversation and ownership of a borough. We welcome all council teams\, artists\, producers and community organisers. \nReflections from the Learning Lab will be visually documented by Migrants in Culture. \nLearning Lab is a Counterpoints Arts’ programme. \nCatalysts for Change – Arts\, Culture and Engagement in Local Governance is designed in collaboration with Joon-Lynn Goh\, cultural organiser and Civic Futures Fellow 2021/2022 with GLA. \nPart of We Are Lewisham\, the Mayor’s London Borough of Culture 2022. It is funded by Mayor of London with support  from Lewisham Council\, Horniman Museum and Gardens and Counterpoints Arts. \n  URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/learning-lab-catalysts-for-change-arts-culture-and-engagement-in-local-governance/ LOCATION:Horniman Museum and Gardens\, 100 London Road\, London\, \, SE23 3PQ CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/1-1-1024x1024-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221112T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230305T000000 DTSTAMP:20240709T145000Z 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:20240709T145000Z 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:20220626T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220626T000000 DTSTAMP:20240709T145001Z 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:20220626T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220626T000000 DTSTAMP:20240709T145001Z CREATED:20220517T113735Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145001Z UID:10000062-1656201600-1656201600@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:We Are Here\, Because You Were There DESCRIPTION:Get a glimpse of the experiences of Afghan former interpreters working for the British Army who have recently been resettled to the UK.\nImage credit: Andy Barnham. \n  \nTheir presence in Britain reflects the structural and lasting impact of Britain’s military intervention and migration policies. \nHow does it feel when you are an Afghan whose life has been entangled with British politics to still be regarded as a stranger in the UK? What are our moral obligations towards those who worked alongside us? \nThe event offers reflections by Afghan interpreters themselves\, a veteran\, a photographer and an academic expert\, and is an invitation to engage with the people behind last summer’s media headlines of the fall of Afghanistan. \nThroughout the talk\, you can also view artwork created as part of a collaboration between portrait photographer Andy Barnham and researcher Dr Sara de Jong\, who document the experiences of Afghan interpreters through photography portraiture and in-depth interviews. \nThe portraits have been taken and edited in a manner to help anonymise the newly arrived Afghan interpreters who have been at risk and who have family in Afghanistan still under threat. \nThe individual portraits presented are a composite of up to a dozen frames which have each been completely blurred or pixelated and then merged to present a final portrait. \nThis process can also be seen as inflicting trauma on the portraits\, in acknowledgment of events experienced when serving with the British Army and other NATO forces and escaping Afghanistan. \nThe portraits are combined with quotes from the photographed Afghan interpreters\, capturing their motivations\, fears\, losses and hopes. \n  \nFree but ticketed. Ages 16+. Approximate run time: 60 mins. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/we-are-here-because-you-were-there/ CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screenshot-3.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR