BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Counterpoints - ECPv6.16.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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:20150329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20151025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20160327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20161030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20170326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20171029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20180325T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20181028T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201028T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201028T193000 DTSTAMP:20240709T145416Z CREATED:20201028T090117Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145416Z UID:10000218-1603908000-1603913400@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Launch: Digital City of Refuge DESCRIPTION:A panel discussion on the digital representation of the city and its actors’ voices in the context of migration. \nJoin us for the launch of Digital City of Refuge: a collection of visual stories mapping the city of refuge as experienced and imagined by its actors in Athens\, Berlin and London. \nBooking via Eventbrite \nPanellists: \nMyria Georgiou (Professor\, Media@LSE)\nMarcia Chandra (Photographer\, Counterpoints Arts)\nDeena Dajani (Researcher\, IIED)\nRenée Ghammashi Abul-Ella (Founder and director at Al-Dar\, Berlin)\nAbdulrahman\, (Presenter of Beit-UK\, a video series supporting refugees\, London)\nMuhammad Ali Madanieh\, (Teacher\, husband\, father\, Syrian\, Athens)\nNatasa Vourna (Teacher\, activist\, Athens) \nThis visual storytelling project is associated with the project Resilient communities\, resilient cities? Digital makings of the city of refuge\, led by LSE in creative partnership with Counterpoints Arts and Proboscis. \nThe research project focuses on three urban neighbourhoods that received newcomers following the 2015-16 “migration crisis”: Athens (Downtown)\, Berlin (Neukölln) and London (Haringey). Through conversations\, focussed workshops and ethnographic storytelling walks\, the research explored the role of digital technologies and connectivities in mediating and managing the city of refuge by exploring three critical questions: \n— How are welcoming and inclusive cities constituted and communicated? \n— What are the obstacles to the city of refuge and how is it denied to those who need and desire it? \n— How is the city of refuge imagined and communicated as a sustainable\, and hopeful project? This event will launch the website\, digitalcityofrefuge.com\, which forms part of the wider research project Resilient communities\, resilient cities? Digital makings of the city of refuge. The project was funded through the LSE’s Institute of Global Affairs (IGA) as part of the Rockefeller Resilience Programme. \n‘Digital City of Refuge’ is produced by The Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Counterpoints Arts with photographer Marcia Chandra. \nRead more about the project’s research methodology\, results and publications. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/launch-digital-city-of-refuge/ CATEGORIES:Film and Photography,Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/digital-city-refuge.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201027 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201031 DTSTAMP:20240709T145415Z CREATED:20201027T051852Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145415Z UID:10000224-1603756800-1604102399@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Black Heroes & Sheroes DESCRIPTION:This Black History Month we celebrate some of the black artists we work with\, who have either experienced displacement and/or make work that speaks of the interconnected themes of migration and racial justice. We’ve invited the artists to tell their stories through their work\, and tell stories of their own heroes and sheroes\, of contributions and histories that are an integral part of the culture and history of this country. \nOur Traces Project has two new profiles published to mark the Month. Mohammed Yahya is a Mozambican rapper who has performed internationally and has a socially engaged practice using music to build and inspire young people. Read Mohammed’s profile here. \nLucky Moyo\, musician\, dancer and storyteller has his own profile published on the Traces Project timeline\, and he also performs a vibrant Facebook live set on Wednesday 28th October\, at 7:30pm. \nThe final performance is by the brilliant British-Nigerian singer songwriter Bumi Thomas. At 6pm on Friday 30th October Bumi will present a set of her own songs and those of her heroes\, recorded in the iconic London Oval Theatre. Head over to our Instagram for this very special performance. Performance filmed by Hossam Fazulla. \nImage: Bumi Thomas. Credit: the Artist. \n  URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/black-heroes-sheroes/ CATEGORIES:Learning,Multi-Art Form,Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Bumi-Thomas-Press-2019.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201020 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201021 DTSTAMP:20240709T145416Z CREATED:20201006T065518Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145416Z UID:10000228-1603152000-1603238399@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Arts Council Project Grants - information sessions DESCRIPTION:Hear the latest from Arts Council England about Project Grants. Presented by the Network for Arts and Social Outcomes. Book now for one of two free sessions: \nSession 1: 2-3pm \nSession 2: 3.15-4.15pm \nArts Council England (ACE) recently announced that it is reopening applications for its National Lottery Project Grants. \nACE has pledged to make the new fund more responsive to the needs of smaller independent organisations and individual practitioners during Covid-19. \nThe Network for Arts and Social Outcomes is delighted to be joined by: \n\nRichard Ings\, the NCJAA’s Relationship Manager at ACE and the London Area champion for Arts in Health\, Wellbeing & Criminal Justice.\nJohn McMahon\, ACE lead for Arts and Health.\n\nPlease join us if you are interested in learning more about Project Grants and the overall ACE Let’s Create strategy. \nThis event is intended for indviduals and non-NPO organisations. A separate event for NPOs will be announced shortly. \nIf you have a question for ACE (or any questions about the event) please email: hello@counterpoints.org.uk \nLive captions will be available. \nSpaces at this event are limited\, so please sign up to one of the sessions via Eventbrite if you would like to attend. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing a link to the Zoom address for the event. Please do not share this Zoom link – anyone attending will need to register on Eventbrite. \nSession 1: 2-3pm \nSession 2: 3.15-4.15pm \nThe event is being presented by a new network of “hub” organisations working across Arts and Social Outcomes including Arts & Homelessness International \, National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance\, LENS (Lived Experience Network)\, Music in Detention\, Counterpoint Arts/Platforma\, Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance \, Graeae\, Age of Creativity \nPhoto: Marcia Chandra/Counterpoints Arts \n  URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/arts-council-project-grants-information-sessions/ CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/MCH_WhoAreWe2019_087_┬®MarciaChandra.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200603T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200603T120000 DTSTAMP:20240709T145419Z CREATED:20200520T105424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145419Z UID:10000250-1591182000-1591185600@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Running arts workshops online DESCRIPTION:What are the best ways to run arts & cultural workshops online? Ideas and tips ahead of Refugee Week 2020. \nIn the past few months lots of new work has been happening online . But how best can we engage with participants\, particularly refugees and asylum seekers? What technologies seem to work best and what activities and approaches? \nIn the run-up to Refugee Week 2020 this free seminar on Zoom will share learning from practitioners who have been working with groups online and remotely including: \nAmy Golding (Artistic Director\, Curious Monkey) \nJude Haste (Reading Refugee Support Group) \nLaila Sumpton (Poet and facilitator) \nWe will also invite participants to share their own experiences. \nFree booking via Eventbrite \nImage courtesy of Curious Monkey \nPost-event notes \nAttendance: 45 \nFeedback and evaluation via Auidence Finder URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/running-arts-workshops-online/ CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/curious-monkey.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200202T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200202T000000 DTSTAMP:20240709T145419Z CREATED:20200113T150749Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145419Z UID:10000263-1580601600-1580601600@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Refugee Week Conference DESCRIPTION:Join us to explore how arts\, culture\, education and the media can bring communities together and help change the conversation about refugees.\nThe Refugee Week Conference is a day of inspiration\, workshops and discussion in preparation for Refugee Week (15-21 June)\, which for 2020 has the theme ‘Imagine’. \nWe’re delighted to be holding two national conferences for 2020 – click the links for more information\, and to book your place: \n1. Refugee Week Conference London\nAmnesty International Human Rights Action Centre\, 10 February 2020 \nView the programme \n2. Refugee Week Conference Bristol (in partnership with Bristol Refugee Festival)\nTrinity Centre\, 13 February 2020 \nWhether you’re involved in arts and culture\, sports\, education\, activism\, media\, community work and/ or are from a refugee background yourself – and whether you’re a Refugee Week veteran\, or getting involved for the first time – all are welcome! \nIf you are a Refugee Week regular\, why not help us grow the movement by passing on an invite to someone who hasn’t been part of Refugee Week before? \nThe Refugee Week Conference is held in partnership with Platforma Arts and Refugees Network\, and produced by Refugee Week UK Coordinators Counterpoints Arts. \nLook forward to seeing you there! \nImage: Chefs from Welcome Kitchen and friends at Refugee Week Conference 2019 (c) Ambrose Musiyiwa URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-conference-3/ CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/RefugeeWeekConferenceLondon-c-Ambrose-Musiyiwa-CivicLeicester-48-1024x681-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200123T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200123T000000 DTSTAMP:20240709T145419Z CREATED:20200114T163403Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145419Z UID:10000260-1579737600-1579737600@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Li Dû Man Installation with Zehra Doğan: A Counterpoints Arts' Learning Lab Roundtable DESCRIPTION:Location: Southwark Room\, Tate Exchange\, Tate Modern\, Bankside\, London SE1 9TG \nDate: 23 January 2020 \nTime: 2:00 – 4:00pm \nJoin us for a conversation with artist\, Zehra Doğan\, in relation to her installation and recent publication\, Li Dû Man (Left Behind).    \nThe Li Dû Man installation and publication was co-produced for the Who Are We? 2019 programme by Counterpoints Arts with The Open University and Tate Exchange in association with English PEN\, PEN International and Index on Censorship. \nLi Dû Man: As a journalist covering the clashes in Kurdish cities in Turkey\, 2015 – 2016\, Doğan took the small objects she found in the debris\, as testimony of a war no one was talking about. The Li Dû Man installation told the stories of those who fled or were killed\, via what they left behind –  inviting the audience into a conversation and to participate in the crafting and performance of stories about place and displacement. Li Dû Man also housed an experimental\, participatory press room where Zehra and her collaborator\, writer and activist Ege Dundar\, along with others wrote content and co-produced with visitors a newspaper for artists and activists imprisoned in Turkey. \nThe Li Dû Man publication reflects on the installation and the participatory letter-writing campaign together with Zehra’s journey as an artist\, activist and journalist.  It offers insight into the current situation in Turkish prisons\, where a number of writers\, academics and writers – many of whom are Zehra’s friends and collaborators – still remain. It also provides a practical and participatory case study on ‘artists at risk’ with a first-hand account and commentary from Zehra. \n\nContributors to the Learning Lab include\, among others: Zehra Doğan (Artist and Activist)\, Ege Dundar (Writer and Activist)\, Jo Glanville (Writer and Producer)\, Dan Gorman (Director\, English PEN)\, Jane Wells (Programme Manager\, Tate Exchange)\, Sahar Halaimzai (Communications and Campaigns Manager\, PEN International)\,  Dijana Rakovic (Producer\, Counterpoints Arts)\, Cat Lucas (Writer at Risk Programme Manager\, English PEN)\, Umut Erel (Senior Lecturer in Sociology\, The Open University)\, Hossam Fazulla (Director of Freedom of Artistic Creation Programme\, AFTE)\, Chrissie Tiller (Writer and Researcher)\, Aurelia Dondo (Europe Programme Coordinator\, PEN International)\, Monique Grimwade (Fellowship Officer\, Index on Censorship).    \nModerated by Áine O’Brien\, Co-Director\, Counterpoints Arts \nZehra Doğan is the founding editor of the all-female news agency Jin News Agency (JİNHA)\, one of the many media outlets to have been closed in Turkey in the wake of the failed coup in 2016. Doğan was among the journalists to be arrested and imprisoned\, serving almost three years in prison in Turkey on charges of ‘propagandising for a terrorist organisation’. She was finally released from prison in February 2019 and arrived in London in March 2019.  In April Doğan won the Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award for Arts and is currently Artist in Residence at English PEN. \nFor more information\, dijana@counterpoints.org.uk \nCredit: Tony Cenicula\, The New York Times Banksy’s mural in Manhattan\, New York\, displayed Zehra Doğan’s artwork in protest of her arrest. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/li-du-man-installation-with-zehra-dogan-a-counterpoints-arts-learning-lab-roundtable/ CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2020-01-14-at-13.57.49-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191021T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191021T000000 DTSTAMP:20240709T145419Z CREATED:20191014T110114Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145419Z UID:10000266-1571616000-1571616000@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Platforma 2019 at Turner Contemporary DESCRIPTION:Image credit: Chris Constantine \nJoin us for a week of participatory workshops\, conversations\, screenings and talks as part of a Turner Contemporary takeover by Platforma Festival. \nThe programme (coordinated by Tom Green and Dijana Rakovic at Counterpoints Arts) reflects upon several of the themes showcased in the work of the Turner Prize nominees\, such as migration\, displacement\, human rights and the politics of listening\, citizenship\, popular memory and contested histories. \nThe Platforma Festival for the arts\, refugees and migration brings together artists\, organisations\, funders and others for discussions\, workshops and the chance to share practice and showcase new work. The 5th Platforma Festival takes place across Kent & Medway. \nPlatforma Arts is produced by Counterpoints Arts\, a national charity working in the field of art\, migration and social change. \nAll activities are free and many of the workshops are suitable for families. \n#Platforma5\n\nMONDAY 21st \nRich Wiles\, Ongoing Journeys \nInteractive video based work – 12.00 to 17.30\, Monday 21st to Friday 25th \nOngoing Journeys is an intimate\, collaborative photographic exhibition and accompanying interactive multi-media web platform. It explores the idea of ‘family’ through the story of Rami\, Ruba and their children as they attempt to rebuild their lives in Yorkshire following their displacement from Syria. \nBringing together documentary photographs produced in the UK with family archive images and WhatsApp ‘still life’ images – the project probes ‘identity’\, ‘home’ and ‘resettlement’ and examines the notion of family and its fragmentation\, as experienced by millions of people today. \nRich Wiles is a socially engaged documentary photographer. Wiles returned to the UK in 2016 after more than 10 years based in Palestine (including 6 years living in a Palestinian refugee camp) and is currently trying to navigate through the UK’s immigration minefield with his wife\, herself a Palestinian refugee.  \n  \nAida Silvestri\, Why Margate? \nWorkshop – 12:00 to 16:00 \nQuestion: Why did you choose Margate as your home? \nInvitation: Transform Margate’s postcards with embroidery by adding your personal touch to produce fun\, colourful and alternative results. \nPlease note: You are welcome to bring your image\, but it has to be Black & White A5 image printed on a card. \nAida Silvestri is a UK based artist who creates work concerning the sensitive issues of culture\, ethnicity\, race\, identity\, health\, politics\, and the urban landscape. She holds a BA (First Hons) in photography from the University of Westminster\, London.  She has experience of coordinating photo-shoot sessions\, running workshops and public speaking. Her work explores new and unique approaches to documentary photography to raise awareness\, give voice to the voiceless and to promote acceptance within communities. \nSilvestri’s work has been shown in Folkestone at the Brewery Tap and Sassoon Gallery\, in London at Autograph ABP\, Photographers’ Gallery\, Saatchi Gallery\, Roman Road Gallery\, Mall Gallery and in France\, Greece\, Luxemburg\, Taiwan and Reunion Island.  She was voted one of the British Journal of Photography’s two ‘Best of Show Winners’ at the Free Range exhibition\, London in 2013 and was shortlisted for the 2017 Arendt\, European Month of Photography awards. \n\nTUESDAY 22nd \nAnna Ray and People United\, Home \nCrafting workshop – 12:00 to 16:00 \nIn 2018 over the course of seven months\, textile artist Anna Ray ran a series of workshops with a group of women in Ashford\, including recently resettled Syrian women. The workshops explored the ways in which ‘home’ can be represented. The aim of the project was to bring a new community together to discover commonalities and celebrate differences. \nThis group continues to make artwork together as friends\, meeting regularly to embroider and try out new skills learnt during the commission \nJoin the artist and some of the participants in a ‘making together’ workshop at Platforma 2019 alongside the original pieces made by the participants and Ray. \nHome was commissioned by People United\, the Diocese of Canterbury and Ashford Borough Council in 2018 and funded by Arts Council England. \n  \nSawt of the Earth\, Sawt of Margate \nField Sound Recording Workshop – 12:00 to 16:00 \nPlease join us in a workshop with Sawt of the Earth in collaboration with sound artist\, Mark Gergis. \nGergis will share some of his field recording works and explain how this process of capturing sound can be used in a variety of ways. The art and social and political power of field recordings as a means to capture the sonic traces of people\, landscapes and locations will be discussed. Workshop participants will have the chance to capture their own recordings of the sonic environment of Margate and will be shown how to edit these sounds and weave into stories. \nSawt of the Earth are a collective experimenting around the convergence between sonic memory and social collaboration\, exploring the practice of using acoustics as a plane of radical exchange between people\, time and space. \n\nWEDNESDAY 23rd \nAdam Chodzko\, A Hostile Environment 2019 \nConversation with the artist – 12:00 to 13:00 \nInternationally renowned Kent based artist\, Adam Chodzko\, presents his past and current work engaging with questions of displacement\, belonging and citizenship. Adam will be in conversation with Almir Koldzic\, Co-Director of Counterpoints Arts. \n  \nLocal Network: Creating an Archive \nNetworking event\, open to public – 14:00 to 16:00 \nExploring the history of arts\, refugee and migration projects in Kent. How might we work collectively to bring this archive to life? Led by local artists Julie Neville and Douglas Noble. \nAll welcome. To reserve a free place contact julie@jneville.co.uk \n  \nFarhad Berahman\, Memory\, Slow Portraiture and the Afghan Camera Box \nWorkshop -12:00 to 16:00 \nThe Afghan Camera\, or ‘kamra-e-faoree’ is still used as a traditional method of capturing memories by veteran street photographers in Afghanistan and Iran. The hand-made wooden camera acts as both the camera and darkroom\, thus working as a ‘2 in 1’ machine. This enables capturing and instant printing of photographs\, an individual copy handed to visitors upon processing of the image. This process of taking a photograph creates a space for exchange and conversation. \nJoin Berahman in the photographic process and in a hand colouring activity\, a technique of treating images dating back to the early 19th century. The production process underpinning ‘Afghan Camera Box (kamra-e-faoree)’ can also be seen in Marcia Chandra’s short film\, Conversation: Afghan Camera Box. \n  \nUmama Hamido\, On Akka’s Shore \nPerformance and screening 16:00 to 17:30 \nUmama Hamido is a Lebanese artist who is currently based in the UK. Through performance\, film\, sound and text she explores experiences of loss\, yearning\, and remembrance. Her work unearths the ever-present human threads of resistance within seemingly insurmountable structures of power. \n\n\n\n\n\nOn Akka’s Shore is a 60min cinematic performance combining film\, text\, soundscore and rap. The piece is concerned with the chaos of memory in relation to personal and collective history; a meditation on a past\, present\, and future that has been continuously disrupted. Hamido has developed this work with her old friend Jaz\, writing fictional memoirs based on Jaz’s experience of hallucinations and her own dreams\, which mirror and blend into one another\, to speak of a collapsing world\, out-of-body experiences and superpowers. They slip between Akka\, Jaz’s city of origin in Palestine\, a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon where he was born\, Beirut – Umama’s birthplace\, and London where they both currently live.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n‘Yesterday I dreamt that I was flying over the streets of Beirut. I was my camera\, my body and my eye and all of me was one with the lens. You asked me how it was. I told you\, the feeling resembles everything in it. Do you think places get stuck in time when we leave them?’  (Umama Hamido)\n\n\n\n\nOn Akka’s Shore was originally commissioned for SPILL Festival 2018: On Time. Supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation\, Pacitti Company and Artsadmin. \n\nTHURSDAY 24th \nFarhad Berahman\, Memory\, Slow Portraiture and the Afghan Camera Box \nWorkshop – 12:00 to 17:00 \nThe Afghan Camera\, or ‘kamra-e-faoree’ is still used as a traditional method of capturing memories by veteran street photographers in Afghanistan and Iran. The hand-made wooden camera acts as both the camera and darkroom\, thus working as a ‘2 in 1’ machine. This enables capturing and instant printing of photographs\, an individual copy handed to visitors upon processing of the image. This process of taking a photograph creates a space for exchange and conversation. \nJoin Berahman in the photographic process and in a hand colouring activity\, a technique of treating images dating back to the early 19th century. The production process underpinning ‘Afghan Camera Box (kamra-e-faoree)’ can also be seen in Marcia Chandra’s short film\, Conversation: Afghan Camera Box. \n  \nJillian Edelstein\, Transitional Portraits\, Photography and Displacement \nArtist talk and photographic workshop – 12:00 to 17:00 \nJoin us for a combined talk and participatory workshop with photographer\, Jillian Edelstein. Edelstein will present photographs from her forthcoming book Here and There: The Search for Great Aunt Minna\, which tells the story of her own family history of displacement. \nMixing photography with writing Edelstein often uses Instagram as a format to curate stories online – with images from Lesvos and Calais\, to meeting Venezuelan refugees in Colombia\, visits and post war trips to Rwanda\, Kosovo\, Bosnia\, El Salvador. And the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa. \nUsing mobile phones and a selfie printer to produce instant images\, the workshop will invite participants to explore a number of themes mixing writing with photography:  the familiarity of culture\, food\, clothing\, music; the fabric and texture of a known\, comforting\, familiar life and how that contradicts with one of non/unfamiliarity; exploring the same themes – music\, food\, culture\, a way of being and new and different rules – lending towards feelings of being ’the other’ and what emotions that stirs up. \n\nFRIDAY 25th \nHenna Asikainen\, Foraging ‘Omens’ Walk \nForaging ‘Omens’ Walk:  – 11.30 to 13.30 \nJoin Asikainen as she guides us on a foraging pathway from Turner Contemporary to 101 Social. \nAsikainen is a mixed-media artist\, born in Joensuu\, Finland.  Her work explores questions surrounding environmental justice\, climate change\, migration\, human relationships with nature and the interplay between social\, cultural and ecological issues. \nMany of Asikainen projects have a site-specific element with communal and social experiences and have been created with the participation of displaced peoples’ communities and especially migrants with a refugee background. \nMeet at front desk\, at 11.30am. \n  \nHeadway London\, Submit to Love Studios \nGallery talks\, sound installation and workshop – 12:00 to 16:00 \nSound Installation: 12 brain injury survivors share their stories in a sound installation. Listen to stories about their cultural\, geographical and physical displacement in an ever-changing world. Drawing on some key themes from this years’ Turner finalists\, these conversations provide a platform to unheard communities with intersecting identities and experiences. Project run by charity Headway East London. \nWorkshop: Led by the artists of Submit to Love Studios as they explore identity and model-making in response to Turner nominee Oscar Murillo’s work. \n10-Minute Talks: Talks will take place in the Turner Prize galleries\, at lunchtime\, please ask for the exact timings. Two members of the Headway group will reflect on the works in the Turner Prize exhibition – Lobna will reflect on the work by Lawrence Abu Hamdan\, and Chris on Oscar Murillo’s projects. \nHeadway East London is a charity supporting people affected by brain injury. They offer specialist support and services to survivors and their families\, whilst also campaigning for greater awareness. They also make art\, music\, food and culture at their Hackney hub. Their vision is to create a community where people with brain injury are valued\, respected and able to fulfil their potential. \n Submit to Love Studios is home to a group of mostly self-taught artists who have all survived brain injuries. They work collectively in an open environment and help bring out the best in each other. Their mission is “discovery through art”\, and the studio is based at charity Headway East London in Hackney. \n  \nJuan del Gado: Drifting Narratives \nScreening of Fleches Sans Corps (8 min\, 2003) – 11.30am to 12.30pm \nScreening of excerpts and a work-in-progress presentation by del Gado\, in relation to his current multi-screen project In the Shadow of the Midnight Sun. \nFollowing a refugee from Damascus in search of answers to his identity in Sweden\, In the Shadow of the Midnight Sun explores displacement\, global warming and belonging via a journey through the vast landscape of the Arctic. \n  \nA Counterpoints Arts’ Learning Lab in partnership with Plymouth College of Art \nThe Art of Networking and the Platforma Festival \nLearning Lab – 13:30 to 15:30 \nA map of the Platforma Festival 2019 spans across the edges and centres of local areas\, neighbourhoods\, arts venues and cultural organisations in Kent and Medway\, resulting in a rich range of creative connections and co-productions. It shows that the art of building networks lies at the very heart of the commissioning and co-curatorial process of the Festival. These are the networks that aspire to be collaborative and cooperative\, are often fluid and thrive on negotiating relationships\, mutual exchanges and the sharing of resources. \nJoin us for a reflective conversation before the Platforma Festival ends to help capture some of the concrete forms and potential legacies of these evolving networks. The dialogue will address questions emerging from the event\, how we move forward to develop tangible projects and what the implications may be for the institutions and organisations that we interact with. This conversation will include several of the artists\, cultural activists\, curators\, producers\, educators and participants who have helped shape and have fed into the reciprocal architecture of the Festival as well as invited participants including: Aida Silvestri (Artist & Community Organiser); Gurvinder Sandher (Artistic Director\, Cohesion Plus); Stephen Felmingham (Plymouth College of Art); Julie Neville (Platforma South East Coordinator); Tim Butcher (Department for People and Organisations\, OU); Tom Green (Counterpoints and  Platforma Coordinator). \nModerated by Áine O’Brien\, Co-Director Counterpoints Arts \nhttp://learninglabeditions.org/ \nhttps://www.plymouthart.ac.uk/ \n\n  URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/platforma-2019-at-turner-contemporary/ CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Mooch-Photo-Chris-Constantine-PM-v3-A4-scaled-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190927T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190927T000000 DTSTAMP:20240709T145420Z CREATED:20190912T202709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145420Z UID:10000273-1569542400-1569542400@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Learning Lab: Art\, Cultural Democracy and the City DESCRIPTION:Image: Guy’s Map of Cork 1893 \nCities have the capability of providing something for everybody\, only because\, and only when\, they are created by everybody.   \n                    Jane Jacobs\, The Death and Life of Great American Cities \nA well-crafted city can be repaired\, and a poorly crafted city can’t be…. I’m interested in this question of how can we build something that’s open  enough that it’s adaptive or resilient\, rather than something that completely serves a specified purpose? That’s my idea of the open city. \n                     Richard Sennett\, Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City \n  \nJoin us for a conversation focusing on who and what makes a city? \nCork city is facing a range of exciting\, overlapping developments with nonetheless physical and infrastructural possibilities and pressures. \nWhose interests and passions actually fuel and shape the current vision for the city? And how might we imagine – from the perspective of 2019 – Cork city in 2050? \nThis Learning Lab will take the form of a ‘think and do’ session bringing civic actors\, artists\, residents\, planners\, small business people\, activists and researchers to think and work together. \nOur aim is to collectively draft a creative ‘blueprint’ for the city\, to be adapted and used as a stepping off point for further conversations. \nQuestions guiding and framing this conversation include (among others): \n\nWhat are the current challenges facing the city and how might socially engaged art and culture be the catalyst for both immediate and slow change?\n\n\nHow is Cork becoming a welcoming city responding to a growing\, diverse demographic?\n\n\nHow might we work together around a common purpose and vision for the city\, even if personal and organizational needs appear to be differently aligned?\n\n\nWhat central role might young actors and new citizens play in the imagining and shaping of the city?\n\n\nWhat can we learn from self-organising and cooperative methods – through which citizens actively choose to navigate power differently? Who is already doing what and where in the city?\n\n\nHow do we create cross-sector coalitions and ways of working – forging pragmatic and creative alliances between small businesses and cultural and civic actors – where decision-making stems from the realities and experiences of diverse neighbourhoods and communities?\n\n\nHow do we avoid a growing disconnect and lack of trust between citizens’ vision on the ground and official policy and how might city planners and elected representatives liaise and learn from grass-roots projects?\n\n\nHow might cross-sector learning result in more powerful communication\, conversation and collaboration between city residents\, planners\, cultural and civic actors and activists and businesses?\n\n\nWhat are the challenges and opportunities on the horizon for Cork post-Brexit?\n\n\nWhat comparative learning can we gain from collaborative initiatives in other port cities?\n\n\nIs it possible to identify a shared city narrative that citizens and dwellers can\, in turn\, make their own?\n\nThe Learning Lab on Art\, Cultural Democracy and the City forms part of a two-day event with Create and partners Crawford Art Gallery (Cork)\, Counterpoints Arts (London)\, Cork City Arts Office and Heart of Glass (St Helens) in the context Create’s 2019 Networking Day for Collaborative Arts. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/learning-lab-art-cultural-democracy-and-the-city/ CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/cork-LL-Screen-Shot-2019-08-30-at-11.11.57-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190926T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190926T000000 DTSTAMP:20240709T145420Z CREATED:20190912T202221Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145420Z UID:10000274-1569456000-1569456000@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Networking Day in partnership with CREATE Ireland DESCRIPTION:Image: Tania Bruguera’s Hyundai Commission\, Turbine Hall launch (2018). Credit: Kirsty O’Connor PA. \nWe are pleased to collaborate with our partners CREATE in Ireland in the context of a Networking Day for Collaborative Arts. Other partners include Crawford Gallery Cork and the Cork City Arts Office. \nThe Networking Day promises to open up a space to ask a shared and urgent question: how can collaborative forms of arts practice – engaging with the embodied experiences and knowledge of citizens – initiate and implement civic agency and significant momentum for social change? \nWe will begin the day looking at the role of the arts institution as constituent museum\, with a central focus on socially engaged artist Tania Bruguera’s work on the Tate Modern Turbine Hall Hyundai Commission. Bruguera will be joined b Cara Courage\, Head of Tate Exchange; Jane Wells\, Programme Manager of Tate Exchange\, and Tate Neighbours Natalie Bell\, Shamus Dark\, Debra Reis and Charles Yassin. This session will be chaired by Áine O Brien\, Co-Director Counterpoints Arts. \nFor more detail on the day\, the full range breakout sessions and parallel workshops\, see here. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/networking-day-in-partnership-with-create-ireland/ CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/2-tania-bruguera-turbine-hall.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190521T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190521T000000 DTSTAMP:20240709T145422Z CREATED:20190508T071103Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145422Z UID:10000292-1558396800-1558396800@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Who Are We? Project at Tate Exchange DESCRIPTION:Move across Tate Exchange through commissioned installations\, symposia\, and participatory workshops exploring living archives\, the power of popular culture and crossing borders; migration\, mobility and citizenship; and the politics of cultural policy\, language diversity and translation. \nTake part in Learning Labs focusing on the increasing restrictions on artists’ rights and freedom of expression\, the political potential of the neighbourhood-led co-operative commission\, and the local/global re-building of arts/culture and civic infrastructures. \nThroughout the week\, we’ll choreograph conversations with artists\, cultural activists\, academics and cultural hubs across the UK – with guest partners and participants from Beirut\, Berlin\, Casablanca\, Dublin\, Istanbul and Madrid – to explore the comparative processes of cultural democracy and new models for artistic production and collaborative\, socially engaged practice. \nWe look forward to continuing our collaboration with Tate Neighbours; and partnering with the British Council\, Plymouth College of Art\, English PEN\,  Index on Censorship\, and the design and branding agency\, TEMPLO. \n The programme includes four commissions/installations: \nInstallation: Recognise\, Risk\, Reimagine\, Rebuild\, Redistribute \n12:00 to 18:00 (Tuesday – Saturday) \nWhat might real social change look like in practice and where are the viable blueprints? Who Are We? invites sixteen artists to make a collective\, collaborative response to re-imagining cultural democracy.  How do we recognise the most urgent issues? What kinds of strategic/creative risk might be involved in owning them? And how might we begin to lay the foundations to rebuild our infrastructures and redistribute power and funding? With visual\, live art\, spoken-word artists and dramaturges: Isabel Lima\, Gil Mualem-Doron\, Selina Nwulu\, Stephen Tiller\, Juan delGado\, Hamdi Khalif\, Natasha Davis\, Richard DeDomenici\, Zia Ahmed\, Bern O’Donoghue\, Farhad Berahman\, Edin Suljić\, Hassan Mahamdallie\, Marcia Chandra\, Shay D and Laila Sumpton. \n  \nInstallation: Li Dû Man (Left behind) \n12:00 to 18:00 (Tuesday – Saturday) \nWars take away a lot from people. But sometimes they take away the people and leave their belongings behind. As a journalist covering the clashes in Kurdish cities in Turkey\, 2015 – 2016\, Zehra Dogan took the small objects she found in the debris\, as testimony of a war no one was talking about. This installation tells the stories of those who fled\, via what they left behind. It also invites you into a conversation and to participate in the crafting and performance of stories about place and displacement. \n  \nInstallation: SoundShapes \n12:00 to 18:00  (Tuesday – Saturday) \nSoundShapes invites you to walk through and experience the sounds and shapes of languages. Combining digital content\, sound\, embroidery\, film and photography\, it will take you on a linguistic and cultural journey exploring the everyday realities of diversity and cultural difference. Challenging you to rate different languages depending on how familiar you are with them and whether you ‘like’ their sound or not. The Open University researchers Inma Alvarez\, Carlos Montoro and Mara Fuertes-Gutierrez build upon the AHRC project Language Acts and Worldmaking and ‘A Stitch in Time’ (which was featured at Who Are We? in 2018)\, to collaborate in 2019 with branding and digital agency\, TEMPLO. \n  \nInstallation: As Far As Isolation Goes  \n12:00 to 18:00 (Wednesday – Saturday) \nA performance by musician and street artist\, Basel Zaraa\, and live artist\, Tania El Khoury\, about the health experiences of refugees. This builds upon a previous collaboration As Far As My Fingertips Take Me\, in which El Khoury commissioned Zaraa to record a rap song inspired by the journey his sisters made from Damascus to Sweden. In the newly commissioned As Far As Isolation Goes\, Zaraa creates a song inspired by conversations with friends and colleagues who have recently claimed refuge in the UK.  It uses touch\, sound and interactivity to bring the audience in contact with those faced with inhumane detention centres and a mental health system that disregards people’s political and emotional needs. \n  \n Instagram Series: Tales of Precarity (17 – 25th May) \nAn Instagram based storytelling project ‘Tales of Precarity’ by The Open University researcher\, Tim Butcher\, in conversation with seven artists from Counterpoints Arts’ network. ‘Tales of Precarity’ will run from 19 – 25th May with a ‘story’ a day featuring an artist’s portrait and drawing upon the question ‘How do we create meaningful public dialogue about the precarities of artists who risk?’ Discover these ‘stories’ and the portraits via @whoarewe_tex \n  \nTuesday 21st May \nSymposium Part 1: Migration and Identity \n13:30 – 18:00 \nSymposium Part 1 – programmed by Umut Erel and Agnes Czajka – brings together a dynamic mix of Open University projects presenting a series of interdisciplinary conversations between the social sciences and the arts: focusing on ‘movement and identity through experiences of migration’; the ‘politics of citizenship’; ‘models of participation in the context of climate change’; ‘creative interventions into citizenship’ and ‘solidarity with refugees across a range of geographical and political landscapes’. \n  \nWednesday 22nd May \nWorkshop: 20:20 – Curating in Public with Salusbury World and Partners \n12:00 – 18:00 \n‘Salusbury World’ is a truly unique and visionary school-based refugee charity in North West London\, which over the past twenty years has supported refugee children and their families. Salusbury World is about to embark on the co-production of an archive telling the stories of the early years of this school. This workshop will bring together some of these young people and families together with artists\, designers and policymakers to explore the impact of the service and the potential architecture of an archive built upon multi-layered oral histories\, visual artefacts and other intergenerational and cross-sector memorabilia. It is delivered with the project partners at London College of Communication and its students. \n  \n2 Workshops: Polyglots\, Language Teachers and Learners \n13:00 to 15:00 and 16:00 to 17:30 \nLanguage learning appears to be in crisis in the UK. Yet there are plenty of language ‘super-learners’\, a thriving polyglot community and multiple languages being spoken in local communities. Open University researcher\, Tita Beaven\, brings A-level students\, language teachers and polyglots – Richard Simcott\, Lindsay Williams and Olly Richards – into two workshops with live artist\, Natasha Davis\, and poet\, Laila Sumpton. Together they will explore why there’s disconnect between the so-called decline in languages in schools and universities\, in marked contrast to the enthusiasm and dedication of polyglots. If being ‘plurilingual’ changes how you see yourself and the world\, how can we inspire more people to learn more languages? \n  \nThursday 23rd May \nSymposium Part 2: Movement and Identity   \n12:00 – 17:00 \nSymposium Part 2 – programmed by Umut Erel and Agnes Czajka – brings together a rich range of interdisciplinary research projects and creative collaborations from The Open University: including themes about ‘movement and immobility’; ‘Catalan political prisoners and exiles’; ‘desire lines – a dialogue on movement\, belonging and the law’; ‘tales of precarity’; ‘home on the move – the changing notions of ‘home’ through poetry\, translation and film art’. \n  \nWorkshop: Building the ‘City of Refuge’ Archive \n14.30–16.30 \nDigital makings of the City of Refuge is a comparative project exploring the ways in which urban communities – established and new – mobilise and manage change in the city after refugee and migrant arrivals. Building upon photographic footage and ethnographic stories across three neighbourhoods of Athens\, Berlin and London\, this workshop will explore the ways in which field research might be translated\, transformed and re-narrated in a digital format for a public archive. City of refuge researchers\, filmmakers and visual practitioners will join the branding and digital agency\, TEMPLO\, in this conversation. Digital makings of the City of Refuge is led by the Department of Media and Communications\, LSE\, in collaboration with the Department of Sociology at the LSE\, and with Proboscis and Counterpoints Arts; it is funded by the Rockefeller Foundation ‘Resilient Cities Programme’. \n  \nFriday 24th May \n Learning Lab 1: Cultural Democracy and New Models of Art Commissioning \n12:00 – 17:00 \nJoin us for a conversation about how we might shift the axis of power within the decision-making and shaping of public art commissions and influence cultural policy. How might we ground the commissioning and curation process more deliberately within the diverse yet explicit needs of our neighbourhoods and in new communities of place and interest? What might this mean in practice?  Can active collaboration and co-creation between artists and citizens generate work that has the potential to be truly transformative: culturally and socially? With comparative case studies from Concomitentes\, Madrid\, coculture\, Berlin\, Ettijahat\, Beirut\, Create\, Dublin\, Platforma\, UK and more. This conversation takes place as part of Counterpoints Arts’ Learning Lab Programme. \n  \nWorkshop: Popular Culture and the Black Archive \n15:00 – 17:00 \nBlack music – from Jazz\, the Blues\, Reggae\, Hip Hop through to Grime – has dominated popular music and culture for the last century. But do we know what’s in the UK’s archive collections about Black popular culture?  Who’s responsible for collecting this material\, framing it and what are its sources? Where are the gaps and the buried and lost artefacts\, and is this a fundamentally devalued and fragmented archive?  Who has the right to collect\, shape and re-frame the Black archive for the past\, the present and the future? Why is this an urgent question for communities\, artists and activists\, and national and regional cultural organisations? What role can digital media play in making archives more accessible and to whom? This conversation takes place as part of Counterpoints Arts’ Pop Culture and Social Change Strand. \n  \nSaturday 25th May \nLearning Lab 2: Artists who Risk and Artists at Risk \n12:00 – 16:00 \n There is a very fine line between artists who risk and artists at risk. This line is increasingly blurred as artists repeatedly step into risky territories in their practice\, becoming political actors\, activists\, agitators and cultural agents. With artistic freedom threatened and restrictions on freedom of expression and state censorship on the rise\, what ethical responsibility do art and civic organizations – large\, medium and small – have in defending and protecting the rights of artists they have commissioned? Especially those working with more vulnerable communities. Where are the local and global lines of solidarity between artists\, arts organisations\, advocacy\, audiences\, cultural policy\, funders and grassroots communities?  A number of international artists and organisations whose work has involved them in different kinds of risk will be joined in person and via Skype by a range of actors working in this field: English PEN\, Index on Censorship\, International Rights and Arts Advisors and Artists at Risk Connection.  This conversation takes place as part of Counterpoints Arts’ Learning Lab Programme in partnership with Tate Exchange. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/who-are-we-project-at-tate-exchange/ CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WHOAREWE_490_┬®BrionyCampbell2018.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190314T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190314T000000 DTSTAMP:20240709T145422Z CREATED:20190312T143220Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145422Z UID:10000301-1552521600-1552521600@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Refugees of Rap - Speaking Truth to Power DESCRIPTION:The brothers\, Yaser and Mohamed Jamous\, practiced their art in the Palestinian Yarmouk camp in Damascus until 2013. Their lyrics boldly speak out against the Syrian regime and other forms of repression. Faced with having to leave because of the war\, they currently live in Paris having received refugee status. Their third and most recent album is produced in collaboration with veteran French producer\, Limotef. \nJoin us for a conversation with Yaser and Mohamed on what it means to be a displaced artist – ‘who both risks and is at risk’. How the brothers have navigated the excesses of State censorship. We’ll also talk about the power of words to challenge repression\, and the potential of rap and pop culture to transform pain into cultural production – to create personal and social change. \nCounterpoints Arts invites London based artists\, with lived experiences of displacement and/or music making as an act of speaking to and challenging ‘power’ to join this conversation\, including: \nShay D – Raised on a diet of Garage\, Grime and Hip Hop\, North London Hip Hop artist Shay D carries a fiery young woman’s persona. Influences of Persian poetry through to 90s rap can be heard in her content and delivery and she’s an authentically underground artist who tells it like it is. Her journey of gritty music and philanthropy can be heard in her music with social commentaries of growing up in the city and a passion for encouraging a positive mentality in her message to her listeners. Shay D is currently on her UK tour. \nMohammed Yahya – Mohammed Yahya is an award winning Mozambican born bilingual Rapper\, Spoken-Word artist\, Workshop Facilitator and Event Organiser.  Born in Mozambique in 1980 during the civil war\, Mohammed Yahya was forced to flee his country at the age of 2 and take refuge in Lisbon\, Portugal where he experienced a lot of racism. These experiences inspired him to start writing poetry which eventually turned into rap.  Mohammed is an Interfaith Programming officer regularly curating a variety of educational\, social action and arts events to remove stereotypes and encourage community cohesion. \nHodan Yusuf – Hudan Yusuf is a poet and writer. She is also a mediator and trainer in conflict resolution. Hodan has spoken at and read her poetry at many events and festivals including Oxford University\, IHRC\, York University\, University of East London\, Muslim Institute\, BareLit Festival\, Parliament for International Women’s Day 2018\, British Library\, Amnesty International and others.  Hodan is currently working on her debut collection of poetry. \nConversation chaired by Sashwati Mira Sengupta\, Counterpoints Arts Music Curator. \nThis event is organised in partnership with Plymouth College of Art as part of Counterpoints Arts’ #MusicforSocialChange PRSF funded project\, and Plymouth’s Tate Exchange. The recorded version of this conversation will be available via Counterpoints Arts and Plymouth University websites and social media channels. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugees-of-rap-speaking-truth-to-power/ CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/RoR4up.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181111T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181111T000000 DTSTAMP:20240709T145457Z CREATED:20181105T165156Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145457Z UID:10000308-1541894400-1541894400@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Learning Lab with Open University DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a Learning Lab focusing on the theme ‘Who are We?’. The Learning Lab will draw on the collaborative work between the Open University and Counterpoints Arts as part of Tate Exchange. The UK-wide ESRC Festival aims to open up social science research to new audiences by showing how such research has an influence on our everyday lives. \nWhat contribution can art make to how we think about identity\, belonging\, migration and citizenship? Come along to our Learning Lab where we will look at how participatory arts can raise public awareness of issues such as migration\, displacement\, placemaking\, citizenship and the production of social democracy. \nThe workshop will look in particular at how the art and activism of migrants and refugees are challenging notions of democratic citizenship. Artists are audaciously inserting themselves into\, and pushing the boundaries of controversial political debates\, challenging dominant interpretations of the parameters of citizenship and belonging. \nThe Learning Lab will draw on the collaborative work done between The Open University and Counterpoints Arts as part of the Tate Exchange. Counterpoints Arts is a leading national organisation in the field of arts\, migration and social change\, supporting and producing art by and about migrants and refugees\, seeking to ensure that their contributions are recognised and welcomed within British arts\, history and culture. The Learning Lab will enable participants to explore some of these interventions\, and the contribution they make to creatively and radically reimagining the map of democratic citizenship in the UK. \nVenue\nThe MAC Belfast\n10 Exchange Street West\nBelfast\nBT1 2NJ URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/learning-lab-with-open-university/ CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/behjat.working-1-788x605-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181017T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181017T000000 DTSTAMP:20240709T145457Z CREATED:20180920T134807Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145457Z UID:10000314-1539734400-1539734400@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Pop Culture and Social Change Retreat DESCRIPTION:Counterpoints Arts is bringing together a select\, invited group of around 50 individuals from the worlds of the visual and performing arts\, broadcast media\, entertainment\, advertising\, fashion\, social media\, philanthropy\, charity and policy sectors. \nPopular culture is a potent catalyst for social change\, especially in times when people feel increasingly less connected. We are creating this reflective space in order to facilitate new cross-sector collaborations and to explore ways of representing the lived concerns and experiences of diverse audiences through the prism of pop culture. \nArtists\, creatives and activists are engaging with the field of popular culture to imaginatively re-shape narratives around migration and global displacement. Recent examples of this include: The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla; Michelle and Barack Obama setting up a new production house in partnership with Netflix; Warsan Shire featuring on Beyoncé’s album Lemonade; and a former Counterpoints Arts’ artist in residence\, Kayo Chingonyi\, recently receiving the Dylan Thomas award – all pointing to increasing forms of popular crossover and social justice genre-mixing. \nThis year we are delighted to welcome Bridgit Antoinette Evans\, Executive Director of the recently launched Pop Culture Collaborative in the US\, to share learning and successes from their influential grant-making programme. \nOver the two and a half days we will present a programme of inspiring work by a range of artists and cultural producers\, short inspirations and provocations\, organised walks\, workshops\, public events (film screening and a hiphop gig) and plenty of informal networking and shared meals. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/pop-culture-and-social-change-retreat/ CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/CounterPointsArts_LowKey_24Jun18-2-©Jose-Farinha-e1538748548377.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180314 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180320 DTSTAMP:20240709T145458Z CREATED:20171220T132349Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145458Z UID:10000194-1520985600-1521503999@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Who Are We? DESCRIPTION:Art\, migration and the production of democracy: Join us for a week of experimental production \nJoin Counterpoints Arts\, Loughborough University\, The Open University and Stance Podcast for a week of experimental production in partnership with the University of York Migration Network and many other collaborators. \nDrop in to activities spanning the visual arts: film and photography; design and architecture; digital cultures; the spoken and written word and Live Art. \nExamine connected questions around housing\, dis/placement and place-making; labour and inequality; and citizenship and the production of social democracy. \nEngage with the production of solidarities and of neighbourhoods and cities. Look into issues relating to knowledge and the commons\, and local ecologies and climate change. Investigate the production of communities\, identities and belonging\, public spheres\, and the transformative power of art and pop culture in tumultuous times. \nAs well as joining our drop-in activities at Tate Exchange\, engage with additional off-site activities happening in locations across the UK and beyond (alongside partners across Europe). Our off-site projects will be transmitted to Tate Exchange and our activities at Tate will be transmitted to our off-site collaborators. \nThis event is programmed by Counterpoints Arts\, Loughborough University\, The Open University and Stance Podcast Tate Exchange Associates. \nFor more information visit the Tate website URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/who-are-we/ CATEGORIES:Learning,Multi-Art Form ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/behjat.working-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20171019T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20171031T000000 DTSTAMP:20240709T145459Z CREATED:20170420T113951Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145459Z UID:10000329-1508371200-1509408000@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Platforma Festival 2017 DESCRIPTION:The 4th national Platforma Festival for the arts by\, about and with refugees and migrants will take place in Newcastle\, Gateshead\, Stockton and Middlesborough 19-31 October 2017.  \nThe main event is the 2-day PLATFORMA CONFERENCE in Newcastle 27-28 October. \nFor more information contact tom@counterpoints.org.uk \nThe Platforma Festival 2017 is produced by Counterpoints Arts in partnership with Freedom City 2017\, Northern Roots\, ISIS Arts\, ARC Stockton\, Art and Christianity Enquiry\, the Platforma network and a range of other venues\, organisations and networks. Commissioned artists include Isabel Lima (pictured below)\, Henna Asikainen\, Juan DelGado\, Natasha Davis and Katia Kameli. \n \nThe FREE programme includes: \n19 October: As Free As A Bird!\, Tyne Theatre\, Newcastle (13.30-14.30) \nChildren from three east end primary schools in Newcastle have been hard at work in their schools\, singing\, dancing and rehearsing to put together a performance of a brand new musical As Free As a Bird! by Grumpy Sheep Music for the start of the Platforma Festival. See their first performance at Tyne Theatre! More details \n19 October: “Connecting Communities”\, ARC Stockton (14.00-19.00) \nA day of performances and conversations about how the arts can bring people together around issues relating to refugees and migration. Featuring a performance of Borderline by PSYCHEdelight\, and a new work by Natasha Davis. Plus a screening of Queens of Syria (directed by Yasmin Fedda) and contributions from United Voices. \nFull details and free booking here: http://arconline.co.uk/whats-on/community/connecting-communities-%E2%80%93-platforma-festival-2017 \nBorderline\nPSYCHEdelight facilitated art based workshops in Calais Jungle throughout 2015 -2016. Sophie Besse\, a theatre director and art-therapist\, witnessed among the refugees an eagerness for comedy as a way to contrast and express their tragedy. This experience gave her the impulse to create Borderline in collaboration with Frank Wurzinger\, a professional clown practitioner. The show is the result of 6 weeks devising period with an ensemble of European and refugee performers altogether from 7 different nationalities : Uk\, France\, Syria\, Afghanistan\, Chile and Sudan. It has played to packed houses in the past 12 months across the UK and internationally. (Borderline photos by Jose Farinha) \n \nQueens of Syria\nQueens of Syria (directed by Yasmin Fedda) tells the story of fifty women from Syria\, all forced into exile in Jordan\, who came together in Autumn 2013 to create and perform their own version of the Trojan Women\, the timeless Ancient Greek tragedy all about the plight of women in war. What followed was an extraordinary moment of cross-cultural contact across millennia\, in which women born in 20th century Syria found a blazingly vivid mirror of their own experiences in the stories of a queen\, princesses and ordinary women like them\, uprooted\, enslaved\,and bereaved by the Trojan War. \n \nT-Shirts by Natasha Davis \nWhat is your favourite t-shirt? Tell me a story about it… When did you get it\, was it a gift or did you buy it? Are there any special occasions you wore it for? Has it travelled with you across borders? Using t-shirts as the playful start of an exchange\, the performance choreographs memories into a visual poem\, with t-shirts becoming the link to vivid and faded colours in our lives\, stains and scars\, people and places we love\, and the choices we make when we can take very little with us on our journeys. A multi-media encounter with time and memory\, with losses and liberations of living in transit – from Natasha Davis\, an artist whose own performances and t-shirts have been crossing borders on five continents through the past decade. \n \n\n19-26 October: From Syria to Gateshead\, Shipley Art Gallery \nAn artistic and musical exploration of belonging among refugee-background Syrian young people living in Gateshead.  Over a three-month period\, the fourteen young people represented in this exhibition participated in research interviews and workshops with professional artists and musicians to produce works that reflect their ideas and experiences of belonging. From Syria to Gateshead is a partnership between Durham University\, GemArts and Gateshead CouncilFrom Syria to Gateshead is a partnership between Durham University\, GemArts and Gateshead Council with support from Shipley Art Gallery. Full details: http://www.platforma.org.uk/pf_events/from-syria-to-gateshead/ \n \n\n21 October: Gresham Wooden Horse (11.30-14.30\, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art) \nIsabel Lima will introduce her latest project made with the community of Gresham in Middlesborough and commissioned by MIMA and co-commissioned by partners including Counterpoints Arts. There will be an opportunity to see an exhibition about the project\, to join a community lunch\,  and to take the short walk from the gallery to see the horse itself in Gresham. For full details contact tom@counterpoints.org.uk \n \n21 October – Private View – Ritournelle (once more\, from the top) by Katia Kameli (14.00–16.00 St John the Baptist Church Grainger Street\, Newcastle NE1 5JG)\nRitournelle (once more\, from the top) is the result of Katia Kameli’s artist residency  with Art and Christianity Enquiry at St John the Baptist\, Newcastle\, which has been programmed in collaboration with Platforma. In response to the invitation to consider themes of residency\, migration and belonging within the context of this medieval church\, Kameli has produced new site-specific artworks. More information \n21 October – Screening: Place I Call Home (18.00-19.00\, New Bridge Project\, Newcastle) \nPlace I Call Home is a film about the migration of people to Hartlepool by Maxy Bianco & Students of Hartlepool Sixth Form College. In little over 150 years the population of Hartlepool has grown from thousands to tens of thousands\, over 160 nations have roots in our town. This film asks the question\, where do we come from? Produced by Jo Hislop and made by Maxy Bianco and students\, Anthony Graham\, Phoebe Hay\, Ely King\, Katie Kennedy\, Ruben Gonzalez\, Lydia Balmforth and Hayley Briggs. As part of a recent project with Hartlepool Youth Services the film was funded by HLF. A selection of other short films will also be shown. \n \n\n25-26 October: Counterpoints Arts strategic session (Newcastle / Gateshead) \nFollowing on from their first arts and social change “retreat” in Dartington last year\, Counterpoints Arts (the charity that manages the Platforma network) will be running discussions and workshops for invited guests on themes including popular culture and European networking. Feedback from this session will be presented as part of the Platforma Conference. \n\n27 October: PLATFORMA CONFERENCE Day 1 (Newcastle\, various venues): 10.00-18.00 \nJoin us to share practice\, ideas and inspiration with artists and organisations from across the North East\, the UK and internationally. This first day of the Conference will focus on new work commissioned for the Festival\, providing hands-on engagement with some of the most important issues relating to the arts by\, with and about refugees and migrants. All events in this programme are free and open to all (unless otherwise stated). \nTo reserve a place at the Conference please email tom@counterpoints.org.uk \n10.00-11.30: Conference launch at St John the Baptist Church\, Grainger Street\, Newcastle NE1 5JG\nFeaturing a new installation\, Ritournelle (once more\, from the top) by artist Katia Kameli (pictured below)\, a French-Algerian artist commissioned as part of the Platforma Festival by Art and Christianity Enquiry\, the leading UK organisation in the field of visual art and religion. Almir Koldzic and Áine O’Brien\, co-directors of Counterpoints Arts\, will introduce the Conference and outline the main themes attendees will be invited to explore. \n \n12.00-14.00: Art In The Park: Forage and The Big M\, Nuns Moor Park\, Newcastle NE4\nFrom the church we will walk about 30 minutes together to the park (alternative transport provided if required) where\, in partnership with ISIS Arts\, we present a new work by Henna Asikainen\, Forage. Produced with participants from local communities in Newcastle\, and with the co-operation of the National Trust\, the work will be made on the day from a collection of foraged materials. More details here: https://counterpoints.org.uk/artist/henna-asikainen-forage/ \n\n \nISIS Arts will also be presenting work curated by Juan Delgado in their unique inflatable gallery\, The Big M. \n \nPlus  there will be free food\, music\, and discussion around aspects of the work displayed. \n15.00-17.00: Parallel seminars  \n1) Counterpoints Arts’ Learning Lab: The Art of Self-Organising\, New Modes of Networking and Cross-Border Solidarities (venue & full details to be confirmed) \nSelf-organising has a long history in the arts and cultural sector influencing diverse methods of production and participation. Borne out of creativity\, politics and necessity it has to date produced a rich range of practices and ways of working. Join us – artists\, curators\, producers\, programmers\, activists\, educators\, critics – in this open forum to explore a timely re-thinking of how self-organisation today moves beyond the somewhat limiting labels of ‘non-profit’\, ‘artist-run’ or ‘alternative’. With visiting contributors from across the UK\, Europe and the US we will share initiatives exploring new models of governance\, new platforms for cultural participation and active citizenship plus innovative and strategic cross-border networking. Our discussion will be framed by a keynote from Adnan Abdul Ghani\, initiator of the autonomous Support Group Network (SGN) at Restad Gard Asylum Centre\, Sweden. This Learning Lab forum is a collaboration between Counterpoints Arts\, University of York Migration Network and the Cultural Significance of Place Research Group\, University of Newcastle. \n\n2)  Displacement and art in the age of hostility – Hatton Gallery\, Newcastle\n \nThe filmmaker Marusya Bociurkiw and the performance practitioner Elena Marchevska will discuss their most recent projects and will engage in a discussion with the audience about the ethical implications of creating work about displacement and migration. The session will start with a screening of an excerpt of the movie: This Is Gay Propaganda: LGBT Rights and the War in Ukraine\, the most recent documentary by Marusya Bociurkiw . This will be followed by a short presentation of The Study Room guide on The Displaced and Privilege\, project that Elena Marchevska developed this year in collaboration with Live Art Development Agency and Counterpoints Arts. Full details \n \n \n3) Broken Chords Can Sing A Little – Isabel Lima; ISIS Arts\, 5 Charlotte Square\, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4XF \nThis seminar will critically reflect upon the process of developing Gresham’s Wooden Horse\, a participatory project developed with disparate communities living in Gresham\, Middlesbrough. Inspired by the myth of the Trojan Horse\, this project uses its symbolism to stimulate collective action among Gresham’s populations. Many of Gresham’s grids of terraced houses have been demolished or boarded up in recent years. Its population is diverse\, including British workers and asylum seekers. Social deprivation discourages local people from finding mutual commonalities and reports suggest that different communities rarely interact with one another. Gresham’s Wooden Horse sets up an informal forum for cultural exchange. The project is a vehicle for residents of Gresham\, old and new\, to establish a sense of ownership of their neighbourhood\, enabling a collective process of reimagining the area’s identity. This session will focus on the ethics of engagement; collaboration; stakeholders and sustainability of artist-led participatory artworks within communities. \n17.00-18.30: Hatton Gallery special viewing \nAn opportunity to see the “Kurt Schwitters: Collage & Assemblage”  exhibition at the newly refurbished Hatton Gallery. Schwitters\, who fled Germany in 1937 for Norway and then England\, is one of the most important figures in post-War art. Schwitters: Collage & Assemblage focuses on Schwitters’ pioneering career long use of collage\, a significant development in 20th century art practice. Fascinating dialogues exist between these works and those of the Independent Group and early pop artists on display in Hatton Gallery’s “Pioneers of Pop” exhibition and Schwitters’ Merz Barn Wall\, permanently displayed in the Hatton Gallery. \n18.00-20.00: Stranger Tales\, Settle Down Cafe\, 61-62 Thornton St\, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4AW \nCapacity limited – first come\, first served. \nStranger Tales is an intimate storytelling experience that will take you across the globe\, traversing time and distance\, travelling from Siberia to a UK city street\, bringing you stories that have never been told before. Created by theatre maker Stella Barnes with two professional performers and the input of 20 members of the public who shared their stories\, Stranger Tales is part of Stella’s ongoing work in the field of arts and migration. She has a special interest in the notion of hospitality and how it relates to arts practice and attitudes to migration. The work is a frame for exploring complex and sometimes conflicting perceptions and offer a ‘performance’ of hospitality. The word hospitality has its roots in the word ‘host’ which has two origins: the Latin for stranger or enemy\, and conversely guest. Stranger Tales is presented as a work in progress in collaboration with The Southbank Centre\, Counterpoints Arts and idle women. This event is not suitable for small children. \nImage (below) by Candice Purwin \n \n\n28 October: PLATFORMA CONFERENCE Day 2 – 10.00-16.00 \nNewcastle City Library\, 33 New Bridge St W\, NE1 8AX\n \nThe second day of the Conference will be a chance to hear about a range of different projects and artistic interventions from around the country and internationally. There will also be a chance to reflect on work seen on Day 1 and elsewhere in the Festival. We will then be inviting attendees to consider a range of questions about their own approaches and what they have seen elsewhere\, working towards ideas for a new Platforma Manifesto on the arts by\, with and about refugees and migrants. \nInspirations will come from artists including: \nManif Halbouni & Farhad Berhaman\n \nWorkshop sessions will be led by Stella Barnes and David Nguyen. \nAll welcome\, regardless of previous experience in this work and whether you are able to attend on the 27th or not. Please email tom@counterpoints.org.uk to confirm attendance. \nAt 3pm we will present a performance of the brilliant Borderline by PSYCHEdelight\, the acclaimed “comedy about a tragedy” made collaboratively by a company of young refugees and European actors and a sell-out hit at venues across the country. \n \nPlus there will be a performance by dance and choreographer Tim Rubidge and Afshin Emam drawing on work done for the Make/Shift dance project. \n \nAttendance is free and open to all\, whether you are able to attend Day 1 or not. Please email tom@counterpoints.org.uk to reserve a place. \n8pm: Borderline at Gosforth Civic Theatre \nAnother chance to see the acclaimed show from PSYCHEdelight developed with and performed by refugees who lived in the Calais camp on their way to the UK. “High Comedy amidst the Poignancy. Powerful. Important.” Huffington Post. Booking: https://www.gosforthcivictheatre.co.uk/borderline \n\n31 October: Migration Museums Network event\, Main Hall at Discovery Museum \nThis is an event to bring together and share learning from the pilot of the Migration Museums Network. This network is aiming to increase and improve outputs associated with migration and related themes in museums and galleries across the UK. The event in Newcastle will be a practical day. Full details to come. \n \n\nThe biennial Platforma Festival brings together artists\, organisations\, funders and others for discussions\, workshops and the chance to share practice and showcase new work. The first three took place in London (2011)\, Manchester (2013) and Leicester (2015). \nPlatforma arts and refugee network supports and develops arts by\, about and with refugees and migrants from marginalised communities. It brings together groups and artists / performers of any background or political status (e.g. refugees and non-refugees)\, whose work examines the varied experiences of refugees and migrants both before and after they arrived and settled in their host country. Platforma is managed by Counterpoints Arts in partnership with organisations across the country.  \n \nCounterpoints Arts is a leading national organisation in the field of arts\, migration and social change. Our mission is to support and produce the arts by and about migrants and refugees\, seeking to ensure that their contributions are recognized and welcomed within British arts\, history and culture. \nAbout Freedom City 2017 \nThe Platforma Festival is being presented as part of Freedom City 2017. On 13th November 1967\, Newcastle University awarded Dr Martin Luther King an honorary degree\, the only UK university to do so in his lifetime. On accepting this award\, Dr King made what was to be his final public speech outside of the US before his assassination in April 1968. In a moving address\, he called for us to join him in the ongoing struggle against war\, poverty and racism. Freedom City 2017 brings together international artists\, musicians\, filmmakers\, academics and community groups to inspire a new generation to contribute towards tackling the issues that Dr King spoke of in his acceptance speech. \nOn Sunday 29th October a great drama will engulf NewcastleGateshead\, inspired by Dr Martin Luther King Jr. and epic civil rights struggles from across the globe\, both past and present. Out of the buildings and through the streets of NewcastleGateshead will come a unique afternoon of theatre\, music\, dance\, circus and art to celebrate the courage and sacrifice of those who have led the long march for civil rights. Starting from different locations across the city\, the stories from Alabama 1963\, India 1919\, South Africa 1961\, Manchester 1819\, and Tyneside 1936 will be woven together in a unique immersive performance featuring a local cast of hundreds that will develop throughout the day. As night falls\, an uplifting climax will bring the city to a standstill for a memorable moment of light\, sound and theatre. \n  URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/platforma-festival-newcastle-the-north-east/ CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Borderline_Show_SB-2-cropped-870x350-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170719 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170721 DTSTAMP:20240709T145459Z CREATED:20170712T100312Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145459Z UID:10000227-1500422400-1500595199@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Learning Lab on Migrant Mothers and Daughters – Participation Arts and Social Action in Research DESCRIPTION:This two-day Learning Lab focuses on Migrant Mothers and Daughters – Participation Arts and Social Action in Research at a pivotal stage of its development. We will critically re-examine film footage shot throughout the Migrant Mothers and Daughters research\, collectively reflecting on the collaborative process enacted across ‘walking methods’ and ‘participatory theatre’\, together with listening and learning from participants and diverse contributors to the project. \nInvited artists\, researchers and performers\, Jane Arnfield and Natasha Davis – whose respective work explores and challenges the boundaries of (auto)biography\, identity\, memory\, citizenship\, belonging and participation – will engage in comparative dialogue with the Migrant Mothers and Daughters’ research team and with participants\, creative contributors and project advisors. \nA central focus of Learning Lab is to probe the overlaps\, differences and conceptual tensions between social science–led PAR (Participant Action Research) and the participatory methodologies conducted across the field of visual arts and performance practice. A key goal will be to inform the shaping of an online toolkit providing training tools for social science researchers. \n2-Day Learning Lab Programme \nTaylor Digital Studio\, Tate Britain \nWednesday 19th 2017 \n10:00 – 10:30: Intro to research team and other learning lab participants \n10:30 – 11:30: Conversation with research team – reflecting on process to date \n11:30 – 1:00: Invited artists\, Arnfield and Davis\, present and explore comparative methodologies and practice – auto/biography\, participatory practice through performance \n1:00 – 2:00: Lunch \n2:00 – 3:00: Arnfield and Davis continued \n3:00 – 5:00: Film workshop examining/commenting on three streams of research footage – the process of making a ‘living archive’ \nThursday 20th 2017 \n10:00 –1:00: Reflecting and listening to feedback from participants and advisors \n1:00 – 2:00: Lunch \n2:00 – 4:00: Film workshop continued \n4:00 – 5:00: Final reflections and actions \nIndicative Learning Lab questions include (among others): \n\nWhere are the potential methodological exchanges between the above fields\, PAR and visual arts and performance?\nHow is co-production of knowledge and content understood and practiced in both?\nWhat emerges when a camera is introduced into the research process?\nWhen is filming ‘participatory’\, ‘collaborative’ and ‘observational’; when is it ‘documentation’?\nHow do we unpack the differences between modes of documenting and participatory storytelling?\nHow might the methodological values of PAR a priori shape post-production of outputs;\nWhat might emerge and be discovered through the retrospective editing process?\nHow best to identify the ‘change’ and ‘transformative’ moments in the footage and documentation?\nWhat are the ethical challenges of PAR when working with and alongside vulnerable subjects?\nWhat supports need to be in place for both subjects and research teams when navigating difficult revelations and emotions?\nHow is ‘well-being’ understood and practiced in PAR and within the visual arts and performance?\nWhat is the fault line between ‘data’ and first and second person storytelling?\nHow do we join the storytelling arc between PAR and policy-practice?\n\n Migrant Mothers and Daughters – Participation Arts and Social Action in Research is a collaborative project led by Umut Erel\, Open University with Tracey Renolds\, University of Greenwich\, Maggie O’Neill\, University of York\, Research Fellow\, Erene Kaptani and filmmaker\, Marcia Chandra. \nThe project is structured across three integrated strands: (i) participatory methods with migrant parents’ and young people on intergenerational communication (ii) participatory methods with families with no recourse to public funds in conversation with policy-practice; and\, (iii) …developing training tools for social science research in collaboration and consultation with Counterpoints Arts… and the Runnymeade Trust. \n Migrant Mothers and Daughters – Participation Arts and Social Action in Research is funded by the ESRC/NCRM \nLab is now full. \nModerator: Áine O’Brien\, Co-Director Counterpoints Arts \nCo-Producer: Nelli Stavropoulou\, Counterpoints Arts URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/learning-lab-on-migrant-mothers-and-daughters-participation-arts-and-social-action-in-research/ CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Walking-Maggie.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170713T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170713T160000 DTSTAMP:20240709T145459Z CREATED:20170628T105552Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145459Z UID:10000226-1499940000-1499961600@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Learning Lab: Unlearning the Role of the Artist: Part 2 DESCRIPTION:This Learning Lab\, Unlearning the Role of the Artist: Part 2\, is framed by the interdisciplinary methodologies and comparative arts practice of London-based artist\, Eva Sajovic. \nPrior to the launch of Eva’s exhibition at the MediaNox Gallery in Maribor\, Slovenia\, Learning Lab invites artists\, curators\, activists\, educators and interested practitioners to partake in a day of critical debate and co-production.This will include critical panels\, co-production workshops\, and the preparing of food and eating together. \nEva’s work pushes the boundaries of participatory and collaborative arts\, challenging the dynamics of power and assumptions made by artists when working with and alongside communities of place and dis/placement. Her participatory photography and social portraiture to date will guide our conversation\, specifically focusing on work produced during a recent two-part residency on climate change and displacement at Darat Al Funun Foundation in Amman\, Jordan. \nLearning Lab will facilitate critical dialogue and a questioning of participatory photography as a tool of agency and emancipation.We will also explore how different types and practices of citizenship can be enacted through photographic practice\, and how natural plants and ecology act as catalysts for new modes of citizenship and community. \nWe aim to convene a co-production workshop and invite participants to bring photographs of plants and people relating to issues of migration\, climate change\, and displacement. Our aim is to layer the photographs with aural and written statements collated through our conversations and to transform and/or re-contextualise the images to communicate a collectively forged/defined narrative. \nThis methodology is based on the model of the tape slides medium\, largely used by community photography groups in the UK in the 70s\, as a means of creating alternative modes of communication. \nLearning Lab builds upon an ongoing\, collaborative conversation between artist\, Eva Sajovic\,Agnes Czajka (Open University) and Áine O’Brien and Dijana Rakovic (Counterpoints Arts) initiated at the Who Are We? project at Tate Exchange London. It is co-produced with Terra Vera\, Slovenia. \n \n  \n  URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/learning-lab-unlearning-the-role-of-the-artist-part-2/ CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Learning-Lab-Photos-Slovenia.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170617T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170617T190000 DTSTAMP:20240709T145500Z CREATED:20180306T161718Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145500Z UID:10000220-1497697200-1497726000@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Learning Lab: The Politics of People and Place DESCRIPTION:Venue: Taylor Digital Studio\, Tate Britain\, London SW1P 4RG \nThis Learning Lab reflects on three place-based projects – each forming part of a Paul Hamlyn ‘Explore and Test’ programme run by Counterpoints Arts. \nDeveloping new partnerships/collaborations between local arts and civic organisations in addition to community groups and wider networks\, the three projects below engage in different ways with the impact of austerity policy on local communities\, specifically in areas of high migration and/or with low access to the arts. \nTom Molineaux: Blackburn with Darwen \nTom Green’s Tom Molineaux works with theatre and playwriting to forge links between local boxing clubs and arts and community organisations in areas of high migration. In collaboration with Kerry Tuhill and a team of volunteers at Blackburn-based arts organisation Action Factory\, the project ran workshops with boxers from diverse backgrounds\, refugee groups and schools. It did so through highlighting and staging the life story of American boxer\, Tom Molineaux\, who came to the UK in 1810 as a freed slave and ended up fighting for a national title in front of 20\,000 people. With a methodological mix of creative writing\, producing\, theatre and youth workshops\, Tom Molineaux taps into young people’s feelings about sport\, identity and the local communities that they live in. The project was supported by funders including Arts Council England. \nGresham’s Wooden Horse: Gresham\, Middlesbrough \nIsabel Lima’s Gresham’s Wooden Horse\, is set in the Gresham area of Middlesborough in a diverse community that has experienced a stalled re-generation of housing scheme. Through a series of workshops led by Lima and her collaborators (including the artists TILT)\, and a group of local people\, Gresham residents crafted a giant wooden horse. This site-specific and co-producing methodology offers a vehicle for residents of Gresham\, both old and new\, to establish a sense of ownership of their neighbourhood – enabling the collective process of re-imagining the area’s identity via informal cultural exchange and skills sharing. The wooden horse was wheeled through the streets in a procession from Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA) to Gresham. Gresham’s Horse has kick-started a process of community activity that will include gardening and football. The project was part of a commission for MIMA with funders including Arts Council England. \nForage: Newcastle & Northumberland \nDeveloped during an ISIS Arts research residency\, Henna Asikainen’s Forage is set in the rural landscape close to Newcastle. With the support of free-access to National Trust land\, newly arrived refugees and asylum seekers\, local ramblers and other community members walked together and simultaneously engaged in conversations about ‘belonging’\, dis/placement’\, the right to visit state-funded cultural institutions\, the concept of ‘roaming’ and the ‘commons’. Implementing a mix of walking methodologies and storytelling\, the project enabled refugee and asylum groups to form relationships with local residents and vice versa\, to share comparative stories\, knowledge and skills related to the natural environment and to access long-term settled locals’ experiences and knowledge of their communities. During the walks\, participants gathered foraged materials\, which were transformed into an installation on the bandstand at Nunsmoor Park during Platforma Festival in October 2017. Funders for the project included Arts Council England. \nLearning Lab will combine a series of artist presentations and open discussion with contributions/feedback from project participants\, partners and invited respondents and evaluators. Discussion topics will include: building new ecosystems and creative infrastructures through participatory arts; the power dynamics and challenges of place-based\, durational work; working with unusual allies and sustaining community connections and co-production; understanding the importance of securing local legacy and cross-sector collaboration and cooperation. \nModerated by Áine O’Brien\, Co-Director – Counterpoints Arts URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/learning-lab-the-politics-of-people-and-place/ CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/GrenichHorse.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170530 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170601 DTSTAMP:20240709T145500Z CREATED:20170515T131853Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145500Z UID:10000217-1496102400-1496275199@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Learning Lab: Support Group network-SGN & Re:Act\, Valand Academy\, Kultur i Väst\, Outgrain\, and Counterpoints Arts\, London DESCRIPTION:We wish to invite you to a Learning Lab scheduled for 30/31 May 2017\, inspired by the self-organising\, cooperative arts and culture work of the Restad Gård ‘’Support Group network-SGN & Re:Act project of Save the Children’ in different refugee camps and municipalities across Sweden and Europe. \nThe specific aim of the Learning Lab is to explore the dynamic methodologies of cooperation enacted by SGN & Re:Act and to simultaneously connect and engage artists\, activists\, educators\, civic leaders\, policy and decision makers. \nLearning Lab partners include Support Group network-SGN & Re:Act\, Valand Academy\, Kultur i Väst\, Outgrain\, and Counterpoints Arts\, London. \nThis Learning Lab is driven by a series of interconnected questions: \n• What can the self-organizing arts sector learn from the deep cooperative arts and culture work at Restad Gård? \n• How might the SGN Restad Gård model be a force for social change offering an inclusive and resilient model of cultural and social integration? \n• How might the creative networking methodologies at Restad Gård shed light on new ways of organizing\, new forms of knowledge\, pedagogy and civic participation? \n• What role does arts and culture play in the creation and sustaining of social and political equality and new modes of citizenship? \n• How might we come together – across silos – to exchange ideas\, ways of working and create meaningful change in relation to integration and civic inclusion? \nThe ethos of the Learning Lab method – which is directed by Counterpoints Arts – is to bring diverse actors and creative practitioners together; to learn through doing\, to collectively reflect in order to make change. To this end\, Learning Lab will comprise workshops\, film screenings\, case studies\, roundtables and an open forum allowing for a rich range of activities and peer-to-peer interaction (see here: http://learninglabeditions.org/). \nA central goal for the Learning Lab on 30/31st May is to co-design conceptual and practical actions in the form of a shared manifesto toward strategic cooperation and collaboration across the arts\, culture\, civic\, educational and policy sectors. \nVenue: Valand Academy \nTimetable: \nTuesday 30 May: 9.30-10.00 (Registration and Teas/Coffee) – 17.00pm (with additional cooking and eating together from 17.00 to 20.00pm) \nWednesday 31 May: 9.30-10.00 (Teas/Coffee) – 17.00pm \nPlease RSVP to Áine O’Brien\, Co-Director\, Counterpoints Arts: aine@counterpoints.org.uk \nMore details on the program to follow once the full list of participants are confirmed. \nFeatured photograph credits: ©Jose Farinha 2017 URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/learning-lab-support-group-network-sgn-react-valand-academy-kultur-i-vast-outgrain-and-counterpoints-arts-london/ CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/piano.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170314T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170314T180000 DTSTAMP:20240709T145501Z CREATED:20170308T115151Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145501Z UID:10000153-1489507200-1489514400@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Learning Lab: Unlearning the Role of the Artist with Eva Sajovic DESCRIPTION:Southwark Room\, 5th Floor of the Switch House at Tate Modern\, London \nUnlearning seems like a daunting task. How willing are any of us – arts practitioner\, academic or activist – to peel away received ways of thinking\, methodologies\, or secure sets of knowledge? \nJoin us for a Learning Lab with artist\, Eva Sajovic\, when she practices the art of ‘unlearning’\, whilst posing questions about the politics of representing others in an age of global displacement. \nSajovic: \nArtists often speak from the position of the privileged. They have the means to move\, look\, collect and display stories\, metaphors\, and visuals\, often conferring on them an obligation to act. But are the stories artists tell the ones subjects want to tell? Whose voice is being heard? To whom are these stories told and what can they achieve? How can artists support subjects and work to affect change through participatory practice; what are the limitations? \nThese are urgent questions when engaging with displaced communities through the lens of participatory arts practice. \nWhat is the role of artists using participatory practice when working in areas of displacement? \nWhat methodologies can artists use to create platforms for subjects to represent themselves\, acknowledging that artistic work is always a translation and that change of context might change the perception of the work? \nWhat support can artists expect from commissioning organisations when using participatory methodologies\, knowing that the boundaries between the artist-as-professional and artist-as-friend in process-based participatory work is fluid\, blurred and prone to misinterpretation?   \nWhat modes of representation might challenge stereotypes and activate audiences to see the world as an interconnected entity? \nLearning Lab will take the form of a performed auto-ethnography by Sajovic\, together with contributions from critical respondents\, rapporteurs\, lively open debate and the collective/creative production of a ‘manifesto for unlearning’. \nRespondent: Agnes Czajka\, The Open University \nRapporteur: Ele Belfiore\, Loughborough University \nTo register for this Learning Lab\, please contact dijana@counterpoints.org.uk\n \nEva Sajovic is a socially engaged artist photographer. In her work Sajovic explores the drivers of global displacement such as regeneration\, poverty\, trafficking\, culture and climate change. \nHer practice includes Participatory social action projects (for example\, a skills exchange project\, The People’s Bureau\, based in Elephant & Castle) and Photographic social portraiture\, where she collaborates closely with subjects to construct images. \nSajovic exhibits internationally and has had her work commissioned by the Tate\, Whitechapel Gallery\, The National Archives\, Fotogallery\, the Cuming museum\, 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning\, 47/04\, PARC\, Siobhan Davies Dance. She has been supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation\, Joseph Rowntree Foundation\, the Heritage Lottery Fund\, Arts Council England\, the European Commission\, Darat Al Funun Foundation\, University of The Arts and the Ministry of Culture Slovenia. \nShe is an Associate Lecturer at UAL’s Central Saint Martins and Theory Lecturer at Chelsea College of Art. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/learning-lab-unlearning-the-role-of-the-artist-with-eva-sajovic/ CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/eva4-e1488973761134.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170308T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170308T140000 DTSTAMP:20240709T145501Z CREATED:20170308T115504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145501Z UID:10000155-1488974400-1488981600@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Learning Lab: How To Do Rights With Things: Art and Politics DESCRIPTION:We citizens should pay attention to the artists and push back against politicians who are trying to hold us back into 19th Century fantasies about who “we” are. (Francois Crepeau\, Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants). \nWho Are We? at Tate Exchange was a jam-packed week of installations\, performances and workshops – exploring the contested terrain of rights\, migration\, identity\, citizenship\, belonging and displacement. At the end of this full-on week\, Learning Lab explored how artists are currently navigating the everyday reality of rights\, alongside and in collaboration with audiences and publics.  How are rights performed and activated through the arts? How are rights enacted through the  materiality of things\, bodies\, sound\, and movement? How can art and civic activism be forged in creative collaboration with advocacy and academia? To what end? Where are the critical fault lines? Who is safeguarding the rights of those artists who are putting their bodies on the line\, persistently posing and proposing tough questions in what are tumultuous and precarious times? \nLearning Lab reflected on a week of creative exchange and public engagement\, taking the form of an open table with a range of contributors – including artists\,  activists\, academics and voices from the field of advocacy. \nCoordinated by Lizzy Willmington. \nModerator: Áine O’Brien\, Counterpoints Arts \nImage credit: Behjat Omer Abdulla working on ‘From a Distance’ at Valand Academy\, University of Gothenburg\, Sweden (Photo: Andreas Engman) URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/learning-lab-how-to-do-rights-with-things-art-and-politics/ CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/behjat.working-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161005 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161008 DTSTAMP:20240709T145502Z CREATED:20160923T130444Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145502Z UID:10000171-1475625600-1475884799@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Arts and Social Change retreat DESCRIPTION:From 5-7 October 2016 Counterpoints Arts travelled to Dartington Hall for a retreat dedicated to the Arts and Social Change\, with a special focus on Migration and Displacement. \nDuring the retreat Dartington became home to a diverse group of people drawn from the arts\, activism\, advocacy\, philanthropy and education. \nThis was a timely retreat tackling an urgent topic through the lens of arts and culture. Mixing lively workshops\, presentations\, performances and screenings from an exciting line-up of artists\, the retreat aimed to connect people and organisations\, to enable them to think and creatively imagine new ways of working and co-producing in increasingly challenging times. \nThe arts and its ability to translate the essence of the human story was at the very heart of this retreat. It featured a screening of Yasmin Fedda’s award winning film ‘Queens of Syria’; a conversation between Devon-based poet\, Alice Oswald\, and the passionate new voice of Kayo Chingonyi; a magical collaboration between Syrian ney musician\, Louai Alhenawi and members of the indie band Revere\, plus a performance by the virtuoso Syrian kanun player\, Maya Youssef. \nThe performances were preceded by a bold and moving installation\, camped on the grounds of Dartington\, called ‘Refugees Welcome’. Performance artist and activist\, Alketa Xhafa-Mripa\, used her own memories of receiving a warm welcome as a Kosovan refugee to the UK in the 1990s\, to draw people into a public conversation about the nature of ‘welcome’ in the UK today. \nWe were delighted to be working with Dartington Hall. The place\, the surrounding landscape and its identity is very special\, not least because of its long history of giving refuge to the globally displaced and its enduring passion for socially engaged arts. We were also pleased to be joined by the members of the local Beyond Borders Totnes group\, who have been working tirelessly on welcoming asylum seekers and refugees to their community. \nThe retreat was presented in association with and support from Unbound Philanthropy and the Social Change Initiative. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/arts-and-social-change-retreat/ CATEGORIES:Learning,Multi-Art Form ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dhall-1024x576.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160504 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160505 DTSTAMP:20240709T145505Z CREATED:20160420T113804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145505Z UID:10000129-1462320000-1462406399@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Screen Stories of Conflict\, Migration and Place DESCRIPTION:Screen Stories of Conflict\, Migration and Place was part of the Platforma North West Hub Learning Lab\, delivered by Community Arts North West (CAN) in partnership with Counterpoints Arts and Highlight Arts under the Moving Worlds Film Programme. \nVenue: HOME\,  2 Tony Wilson Place First Street Manchester M15 4FN \nDate: 4 May 2016 \nThis daylong event focused on the changing nature of digital storytelling and film production in the context of the Syrian civil war and other places of conflict. What motivates screenwriters\, filmmakers and producers to engage in creative storytelling in the middle of a violent conflict? Or when experiencing and/or witnessing dramatic human displacement? What are the new methods of capturing and re-imagining stories of everyday life for people and places undergoing transition because of conflict? \n2. Morning Workshop – Filming Syria \nThe civil war and scale of human displacement in Syria is one of the most YouTubed of conflicts. Despite Syria being a media-controlled territory before 2011\, filmmakers\, creative storytellers\, journalists and eyewitnesses have against great odds produced and communicated extraordinarily moving screen stories. \nThis workshop focused on films made in or about Syria\, exploring the notion of ‘home’ through the lens of first and second-time filmmakers. We looked at films produced within and against the backdrop of the civil war\, discussing recurring themes and film language and approach. Clips were screened  from films using low-budget mobile technologies that are reaching local and global audiences through social media\, including entries from Syria’s Mobile Phone Film Festival\, 2015. \n2. Workshop themes include: Place-making and ‘home’ though film; film in conflict; Syria captured through a particular lens; creating a vision of a place through film; displacement; violence versus non-violence. \nWorkshop questions include: What kind of storytelling matters? What equipment matters? What different form or process does it take to make these films; Are they reactions to a situation or the emergence of a new aesthetic? \n2. Afternoon Workshop – Widening the Lens \nIn the afternoon\, we explored how the morning’s workshop themes related to everyday and local experiences of migration\, displacement\, conflict and home. \nThis was a practical workshop in which participants developed a short story idea from the first person perspective. Participants developed an understanding of the digital storytelling process. They explored the power of self-representation; digital storytelling as a self-advocacy tool; models and tools for constructing and telling a digital story; and the ‘how to’ and ethics of digital distribution. \n3. Final session \nIn the final session\, we explored together the future needs of the Platforma North West Hub in the context of building sustainable platforms for digital advocacy\, storytelling\, and arts for social change. \nEvening Screening \nQueens of Syria Director\, Yasmin Fedda | Jordan/UAE/UK | 2014 | 70 mins \nWhilst the conflict in Syria continues and thousands have been displaced\, Yasmin Fedda’s powerful documentary ‘Queens of Syria’ follows a group of women living in exile in Jordan as they prepare to perform Euripides’ tragedy\, The Trojan Woman. Though separated by two thousand years and more\, the uprooting\, the enslavement and the bereavement suffered by the fictional queens of Ancient Greece mirrors the modern suffering of these ordinary\, yet extraordinary women. \nPost-screening Q/A  \nAine O’Brien\, Co-Director Counterpoints Arts in conversation with Yasmin Fedda\, Director of Queens of Syria \nFor more information\, please contact: \nAt CAN\, Manchester: sara@can.uk.com; katherine@can.uk.com \nAt Counterpoints Arts\, London: aine@counterpoints.org.uk URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/screen-stories-of-conflict-migration-and-place-2/ CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/screen-stories-conflict-1-scaled.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160426T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160426T183000 DTSTAMP:20240709T145505Z CREATED:20160420T210600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145505Z UID:10000132-1461686400-1461695400@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Sampling as a Kind of Writing – An Interactive Lab with Kayo Chingonyi DESCRIPTION:kayoVenue: RichMix\, 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd\, London E1 6LA \nDate: 26th April 2016 \nTime: 4- 6:30 pm \nPlease join us for a Learning Lab with Kayo Chingonyi\, where we’ll explore\, through discussion and practice\, the idea of ‘sampling’ and writing as acts of migration. In particular\, we’ll look at the potential for ‘creative revision and activism’ when artists play with the texture of a word\, sound\, or image. \nDuring the Learning Lab we’ll also look at various kinds of disembodied language (content that has no explicit author). We’ll work with ‘found’ text and content to make new writing. \nAhead of the Lab\, we’d like you to record (in audio or visual format) some examples of words being used in this way. Some examples: leaflets\, signs\, train station announcements\, etc. \nPlease send one image or one short audio recording (10 – 15 seconds or so) tok.chingonyi@gmail.com by midnight April 24th with ‘sampling as a kind of writing’ in the subject field. Preferred format for audio is wav\, mp3\, or aac. \nLinks for further reading/inspiration:\n\nhttp://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2011/01/mess/ (an article by poet and performer\, Douglas Kearney) \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDGO6BrYNXQ&list=PLUjRLqgT2VpVK9Y5zhaOkF9J85XwTH9vb (A playlist exploring the role of sampling in Hip Hop and in particular the oeuvre of James ‘J Dilla’ Yancey). \nhttps://vimeo.com/112424063 (A collaborative performance incorporating poetry and sampling) \nhttp://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/audio/speaking-out-spoken-word-artistic-practice-audio-recordings (Audio from a symposium held at the Tate re: Cathy Lane’s book Playing With Words – which collects writing from a range of artists who use the spoken word in their practice). \nKayo Chingonyi is a fellow of the Complete Works and the author of two poetry pamphlets\, Some Bright Elegance (Salt\, 2012) and The Colour of James Brown’s Scream (Akashic\, 2016). He has held residencies with First Story\, the ICA\, and Nuffield Council on Bioethics and is currently Poet-in-Residence for Counterpoints Arts and Royal Holloway\, University of London. \nTo register and for more information\, contact Tom Green: tom@counterpoints.org.uk \nThe Lab is part of Kayo’s ongoing residency\, a collaboration between Humanities and Arts Research Centre\, Royal Holloway and Counterpoints Arts: https://artsmigration.wordpress.com/ \nA related event featuring Kayo will take place at RichMix that evening from 7.30pm: Literature and Activism – bringing refugee experiences ‘home’. The event is presented in association with Pereine Press in the run-up to the publication of breach\, by Olumide Popoola and Annie Holmes \nDetails and tickets: https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/literature-and-activism-bringing-refugee-experiences-home/ \n  URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/sampling-as-a-kind-of-writing-an-interactive-lab-with-kayo-chingonyi/ CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/kayo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160426T073000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160426T093000 DTSTAMP:20240709T145505Z CREATED:20160111T154031Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145505Z UID:10000105-1461655800-1461663000@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Literature and Activism - bringing refugee experiences 'home' DESCRIPTION:The refugee ‘crisis’ has dominated the media in recent months and public engagement with the issue has never been higher.  Across TV\, radio\, newspapers and social media\, all aspects of the crisis are exhaustively discussed. So what role if any does literature play in helping to deepen our understanding? \nThe event will launch a highly anticipated new book\, breach\, by Olumide Popoola and Annie Holmes\, who were commissioned to engage with and bring back “home” the experiences of refugees and migrants in Calais. Coming from his unique poetical perspective will be the multi-talented spoken word artist\, Kayo Chingonyi\, who is currently doing a residency around the issues of migration. \nHosted by an author and experienced immigration expert\, Tim Finch\, the event will question whether literature can really move us to act and engage with experiences of refugees. And what can writers add to the efforts of their journalist colleagues. \nDrinks will be available from the bar. Kayo will also play a few tunes from his eclectic record collection. \nFeatured writers include: \nOlumide Popoola is a Nigerian German writer. Her publications include poetry and essays\, the novella this is not about sadness (2010) and the play Also by Mail (2013). She lives in London\, where she lectures in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths.  www.olumidepopoola.com \nAnnie Holmes is a Zimbabwean writer and film-maker\, now London-based. In addition to publishing short fiction\, she has co-edited two volumes of oral narratives in the McSweeney’s Voice of Witness series\, Underground America and Hope Deferred. Twitter @AnnieHolmesLit \nKayo Chingony is the author of two poetry books\, Some Bright Elegance (Salt\, 2012) and The Colour of James Brown’s Scream (Akashic\, 2016). He has been widely published in journals and anthologies and has delivered lectures and readings at venues and events around the world. He was awarded a Geoffrey Dearmer Prize and is currently a resident artist of Royal Holloway\, University of London and Counterpoints Arts\, engaging with issues around migration and activism. \nTim Finch\, author of The House Of Journalists (“A savagely funny broadside aimed at the industry of suffering” Metro “[An] effective mixture of often-light comedy and often-brutal reportage from the front line against tyranny” Daily Mail) and former Director of Communications at the Refugee Council. \nManveen Rana is a journalist for The World At One on BBC Radio 4. Last year\, she spent a few months following one Syrian family on their arduous journey from Turkey to their final home in Germany. Along the way they met people smugglers\, walked through forests at night\, got caught up in riots at the Macedonian border and spent nights sleeping on Serbian streets. Her reports of the family’s journey and their subsequent experiences of trying to forge a future in Frankfurt have been collated in a successful podcast series and a documentary. “A New Life In Europe: The Dhnie Family” has been shortlisted for both the Peabody Awards and the One World Media Awards. \nOrganised by Counterpoints Arts in collaboration with Peirene Press and Royal Holloway\, University of London \nTickets are £6 and can be booked on the Richmix website. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/literature-and-activism-bringing-refugee-experiences-home/ CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/CounterArts_AKALA__©Marcia_Chandra_0052.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160419T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160419T170000 DTSTAMP:20240709T145505Z CREATED:20160420T105512Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145505Z UID:10000128-1461074400-1461085200@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Everyday On Canalside Community Event\, Saturday\, April 9\, 2016 DESCRIPTION:Counterpoints Arts and the Canalside Residents’ Association co-hosted a ‘Learning Lab’ at the Whitmore Community Centre \nThere was lots of hands-on creative activities\, including: \n* Radio podcasting with Social Broadcasts\n* A photographer  taking portraits for Humans of Canalside \n* Your histories\, ideas\, stories and knowledgewere shared through maps and posters \n* The Canalside gardening group met and talked about summer activities \nThere was also sharing of ideas and planning for the BIG Canalside Street Party in July! \nThoughts on activities\, music\, performance\, food\, art was all shared. Residents and local businesses met and shared with each other the diverse cultures and skills that exist in Canalside. \nMore info: Email info@everydayoncanalside.org or contact the Canalside Residents’ Association URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/everyday-on-canalside-community-event-saturday-april-9-2016-2/ CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/canalside-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160401T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160401T133000 DTSTAMP:20240709T145505Z CREATED:20160223T125709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145505Z UID:10000109-1459506600-1459517400@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Beyond Borders DESCRIPTION:Young Vic\, 66 The Cut\, Waterloo\, London SE1 8LZ \nCounterpoints Arts/Platforma and the Young Vic invite you to a free event looking at theatre and performance with and by refugees and migrants. \nA chance to hear about the Young Vic’s work with refugees and and asylum seekers and their future plans. \nAnd an opportunity to discuss themes including:\n– How participatory work can link to main house production\n– Connections between work in the UK and overseas\n– Pathways for artists from refugee and migrant backgrounds\, from their first engagement to career development. \nThe half-day session builds on an event held by Counterpoints Arts/Platforma and The Tricycle theatre July 2015\, bringing together organisations\, artists and others working in this field. \nTo reserve a place email Sharon Kanolik: sharonkanolik@youngvic.org\nIf you have any questions please contact Tom Green: tom@counterpoints.org.uk URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/beyond-borders/ CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/young-vic1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160226T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160226T170000 DTSTAMP:20240709T145506Z CREATED:20160222T160756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145506Z UID:10000108-1456495200-1456506000@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Refugee Week Conference EXTRA DESCRIPTION:Image by Ambrose Musiyiwa \nDue to unprecedented demand for the Refugee Week Conference\, we are holding a special extra event on 26 February 3pm-5pm at Rich Mix in Bethnal Green\, London. \nThe mini-conference will be an opportunity to enjoy some of the highlights of the Refugee Week conference\, witness inspiring performances and speakers\, and share ideas with organisers and supporters from across the country in preparation for Refugee Week 2016. \nClick here for details and to book your free place. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-conference-extra/ CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/RW-Conference-team-photo-c-Ambrose-Musiyiwa.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160223T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160223T220000 DTSTAMP:20240709T145506Z CREATED:20160208T182755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145506Z UID:10000106-1456254000-1456264800@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Migration Lab @ Design Museum DESCRIPTION:Going behind the headlines\, Migration Lab focuses on the ‘on-the-ground reality’ of forced migration\, inviting you to put yourself in the shoes of those who are creating solutions by making\, doing\, sharing\, and debating. \n\nWhat Can you Expect: \nThe Design Museum and the Learning Lab at Counterpoints Arts are collaborating to create the Migration Lab – an evening exploring the potential of design to build collective futures in the face of the daunting physical\, social\, and cultural challenges triggered by global population displacement. \nParticipate in a ‘bodging’ session led by artist and designer\, Jasleen Kaur. Using everyday and found materials and low-tech processes\, find out how to repair and make objects ‘built for how we do things\, not for how we should be doing them’. \nMeet some of the volunteers who have been working for StartupAid’s ‘Marhacar.com’ project\, distributing first aid items on the island of Lesbos. The ‘operations zone’ reconstructs Lesbos and its different camps and warehouses in miniature across the museum\, so that you can take part in simulated operations\, organising missions which use coordinated design and collaborative action to help as many people as possible. \nWatch a screening of The Architect by Muajhid Attar\, 2016. The Architect was supported by the Syria Mobile Film Festival training workshop. It explores a young boy’s dream to re-design and re-build his beloved city of Aleppo. \nEngage in a discussion led by Engin Isin\, author of Citizens Without Frontiers\, on diverse practices of mobile creativity across borders and the urgent realities of new modes of global citizenship. Engin will be in conversation with Joanna Theodorou\, Ismail Einashe\, Shahed Saleem\, Yasmin Fedda\, Paula Schwarz and Jasleen Kaur. \nMore about Speakers \n\n\n\n\nEngin Isin is Professor of Politics at The Open University\, UK. He is Chief Editor of the journal Citizenship Studies and author and editor of fifteen books in the field\, including Being Political and Citizens Without Frontiers. Engin is particularly interested in the history and practice of population exchange and the role of creative arts and design in recognizing the ingenuity of new modes of global citizenship. \nJasleen Kaur  is a Scottish-Indian artist based in London. Jasleen engages with the malleability of cultures and how social histories are embedded in materials and objects. Jasleen is a visiting lecturer at The Royal College of Art\, exhibits worldwide and was awarded the Jerwood Makers Open in 2015. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Royal College of Art and the UK Crafts Council. \n\n\n\nStartupAid was launched at the Global Economic Forum in January 2016 and is the initiative of social entrepreneur\, Paula Schwarz\, and her team. StartupAid connects humanitarian and creative entrepreneurs\, designers and NGOs through the ‘Harbor’ Internet – where users exchange knowledge and develop tools to solve problems together that refugees\, volunteers and NGOs face on a daily basis. \nPaula Schwarz – StartupAid studied Investment Management in Stanford and at ALBA University in Greece. She mentored for the Venture Bus in East Africa and founded the first carpooling community in Kenya (Jambocar.co.ke). She is a trained Investment Manager and worked for the private fund of Philipp Schindler (Google Global Head of Operations) in the Middle East. \nJoanna Theodorou – StartupAid specializes in Cultural Diplomacy and founded the NGO ‘Reload Greece’ in 2012. She is project leader for the social entrepreneurship programme of the municipality of Athens and is a grant officer for the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. \nIsmail Einashe is a freelance journalist\, researcher and associate editor at Warscapes. He writes for Prospect\, Index on Censorship\, African Arguments and Welt-Sichten\, and has published in The Guardian\, Internazionale and The Mail & Guardian. Ismail presented on BBC radio on Four Thought\, The Cultural Frontline and From our own Correspondent’. Born in Somalia\, Ismail lived in Ethiopia before arriving in Britain as a child refugee. \nShahed Saleem teaches at the University of Westminster School of Architecture\, and is senior researcher on the Bartlett’s Survey of London project. Shahed’s The British Mosque is a social and architectural history and the first comprehensive account of Muslim architecture in Britain. Shahed’s work engages with processes of making community and religious spaces\, negotiating discourses of planning\, migration and visual cultures. \nYasmin Fedda is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose films have focused on a range of themes from Edinburgh bakeries to Syrian monasteries. Her films have been BAFTA-nominated and screened at numerous international festivals. Films include Breadmakers (2007)\, A Tale of Two Syrias (2012)\, Queens of Syria (2014). Fedda has also made broadcast films for the BBC and Al Jazeera. \n\nTickets include entry to the Designs of the Year and Designers in Residence exhibition before the activities begin. Doors will open at 18:15. Events begin at 19:00 and last until about 22:00. \nAdults £12 / Students £9 / Members £6 \nTo find out about other similar learning platforms\, visit our Learning Lab project site. \n\n  URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/migration-lab-design-museum/ CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/e288c187-4e43-44cb-90aa-0c8f47865a4d.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160215T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160215T170000 DTSTAMP:20240709T145506Z CREATED:20160108T175102Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145506Z UID:10000103-1455534000-1455555600@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Refugee Week Conference 2016 DESCRIPTION:The one and only Refugee Week conference\, featuring inspirational speakers\, networking opportunities and workshops to help organisers and supporters across the country prepare for Refugee Week 2016. \nThe conference is free (lunch provided) and open to all – newcomers especially welcome. \nFull programme to follow at www.refugeeweek.org.uk \nWe have a small travel budget for people from refugee and asylum seeker groups and communities who would like to attend the conference. These funds are allocated on a first come first served basis\, to apply please contact Refugee Week UK Coordinator Emily Churchill Zaraa on emily@counterpoints.org.uk or 0207 012 1761. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-conference-2016/ CATEGORIES:Learning ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/RWConference3-e1450204160333.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR