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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
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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/
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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/
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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
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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/
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170314T160000
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160419T170000
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160226T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160226T170000
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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
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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
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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
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SUMMARY:‘Everyday on Canalside’ Year 2: Co-Production and Making Together
DESCRIPTION:Image: Ian Buswell \nVenue: Whitmore Community Centre\, 2-4 Phillipp St\, London N1 5NU \nTime: 6:30 – 8:30 pm \nDate: 21 January 2016 \nA Learning Lab at the Whitmore Community Centre which focused on the second year of ‘Everyday on Canalside’ – a participation and community-arts programme located on the Canalside Estate in Hoxton. \nLearning Lab facilitated the Community Residents Association (CRA) together with residents on Canalside\,  the ‘Everyday on Canalside’ team in addition to partners at Metropolitan Housing in their planning for the programme’s second year. \nRunning from 6:30 -8:30 pm\, we looked back at the ‘Everyday on Canalside’ project and made plans for 2016. \nLearning Lab was followed by a social get-together of residents and invited guests to mark the New Year and what promised to be an exciting programme shaped by collaboration and creative action. \nFor more details re Learning Lab please email: dijana@counterpoints.org.uk
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/everyday-on-canalside-year-2-co-production-and-making-together/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20151105T113000
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SUMMARY:Economics\, People and Place: policy versus participatory arts practice in the context of migration.
DESCRIPTION:Image: Everyday on Canalside\, Marcia Chandra\, 2015 \nDate: Thursday 5 November – 2015 \nTime: 11:40 – 1:00 pm \nLocation: De Montfort University\, Leicester LE1 9BH \nThe 2015 Budget painted a very partisan picture of the parsing of the public purse with harsh everyday effects for diverse communities of place. Can we credibly claim to engage in socially engaged and community-led arts projects without also grappling with the language of economic policy? Do we shy away from such discourse and debate at our peril? \nCan we re-frame economic relations with values of empathy\, care and humanity? What might this do to participatory arts practice? \nAt this Counterpoints Arts’ Learning Lab Round Table at the Platforma Festival 2015\, we explored the critical space between economic policy\, inequality\, participatory arts and communities of place.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/economics-people-and-place-policy-versus-participatory-arts-practice-in-the-context-of-migration-2/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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SUMMARY:Platforma Conference 2015
DESCRIPTION:The Platforma Conference on will take place 5-6 November 2015 in Leicester\, in partnership with De Montfort University and ArtReach as part of the third Platforma Festival. \nA special session for international delegates\, and those based in this country but working in part overseas\, will take place on 4th November. \nThe Platforma arts and refugees network is run by Counterpoints Arts with funding from the Baring Foundation and Arts Council England\, in partnership with organisations across England. \nThe Conference is a chance for artists\, other practitioners and academics to share their experiences and discuss various aspects of work by\, with and about refugees. It covers all art forms and all types of work\, including participatory. \nThe Platforma Festival will run across the first week of November\, with various arts events around Leicester. The programme will be confirmed in summer 2015. \nFull details: www.platforma.org.uk/pf_events/platforma-conference
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/platforma-conference-2015/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20151020T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20151020T160000
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SUMMARY:The Value in Making: Crafting\, Memory\, Migration and Storytelling
DESCRIPTION:Image: ‘Turn Right at the Mango Tree’\, Livstycket \nVenue: The Drum\, 144 Potters Lane\, Birmingham B6 4UU \nWe invite you to a partnership project comprising Counterpoints Arts’ Learning Lab\, Crafts Council UK\, the Embassy of Sweden – London\, Craftspace\, Platforma Arts + Refugee Network\, British Council and the National College of Art and Design\, Ireland. \nFramed by a conversation with the Stockholm-based social enterprise\, Livstycket\, and Birmingham-based enterprise\, Shelanu\, Learning Lab focuses on the social and cultural value of craft as a form of place-making when produced by migrant and refugee women. \nLearning Lab explores the role that crafts and making play in navigating experiences of migration\, including wellbeing and integration. We will also look at the value of craft in creating dynamic and sustainable social enterprises. \nThrough a mix of case studies\, presentations\, workshops and conversations\, Learning Lab reflects on new ways of working and asks fresh questions about the role of craft-making in collaborative learning and collective settings. \nWhat are the threads we can draw out that tell the stories of craft skills through journeys of old to new\, tradition to modern\, old to young? \nQuestions include: \nWhat kind of cultural knowledge and ‘know how’ is produced through the transmission of craft skills amongst migrant and refugee women? \nWhat alternative economic and cultural models prevail in the often precarious\, sometimes hidden process of craft-making? \nHow does craft feed back to and re-imagine through storytelling a more equal\, diverse and inclusive city? \nHow can craft legacies open pathways to education and the labour market? \nHow do the realities of cultural displacement and the use of new technologies facilitate cultural change within craft-making? \nWhat can we learn about migration and the bonds between generations\, through engagement in craft? \nContributors to this Learning Lab include practitioners from Livstycket\, Shelanu and Craftspace in addition to Jessica Hemmings\, editor of the recently published Cultural Threads (Bloomsbury\, 2015); together with a range of arts practitioners\, writers\, researchers and cultural entrepreneurs. \nFor more information contact: Áine O’Brien: aine@counterpoints.org.uk \nFor more on Learning Lab\, see here: http://learninglabeditions.org/
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/the-value-in-making-crafting-memory-migration-and-storytelling/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150710T140000
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SUMMARY:Bridging The Gap
DESCRIPTION:Tricycle Theatre\, 269 Kilburn High Road\, London NW6 7JR \nThe Tricycle Theatre and Counterpoints Arts invite you to take part in a conversation about the value of the arts for young EAL learners. \nThe afternoon will provide a chance for artists\, practitioners and organisations working with asylum seekers\, refugees and young migrants to share experiences of working with new English speakers and discuss the question: \nHow can we work more closely with schools to engage young migrants learning English for the first time? \nSince 2008\, through its Minding the Gap project\, the Tricycle has been using drama and theatre as a tool to help recent young migrants\, asylum seekers and refugees to learn English. We are keen to share some of the work we’ve done and to hear from others working with EAL learners in schools and other learning contexts. \nWe’re also enthusiastic to hear from those who might want to explore working in this area\, or who are looking to build new connections. We hope conversations started at this event will be the start of further discussions at the Platforma Conference in Leicester this November. \nRSVP to kate.young@tricycle.co.uk\, or on 0207 625 0134.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/bridging-the-gap/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150610T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150610T220000
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SUMMARY:The Salt of the Earth + special guests at BFI
DESCRIPTION:The awe-inspiring and overwhelmingly beautiful images of Sebastião Salgado\, the Brazilian photographer and former refugee\, so captured the imagination of acclaimed director Wim Wenders that he teamed up with Salgado’s son Juliano to tell the story of this global wanderer’s life in this award-winning documentary. It’s presented to mark Refugee Week\, a nationwide programme of arts\, culture and educational events that celebrate the contribution of refugees and attempts to counter negative media and public perceptions of them. \nA post-screening discussion will include panelists: \nJanine di Giovanni:  Middle East Editor of Newsweek and a contributing editor of Vanity Fair. Di Giovanni is also a consultant on Syria for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She has won many awards for her reportage\, war reporting and journalism. \nGonzalo Vargas Llosa: Director of UNHCR UK (appointed 2014) after four years as the Refugee Agency’s Representative in the Dominican Republic. He has also served in New York\, Panama and UNHCR’s Geneva headquarters\, as well as on emergency missions in Pakistan\, Darfur\, Sudan and Libya. \nNeil Burgess:  Founding director of Magnum Photos London and bureau chief of Magnum New York. Since founding ‘nbpictures’\, an international photographer’s agency based in London\, he has represented the work of some of the world’s leading photographers\, including Sebastiao Salgado\, Annie Leibovitz\, and Don McCullin. \nPanel Chair: \nPaul Lowe:  Course Director of the Masters programme in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication\, University of the Arts London. Lowe is an award-winning photographer\, whose work is represented by Panos Pictures\, and who has been published in Time\, Newsweek\,Life\, The Sunday Times Magazine\, The Observer and The Independent amongst others. He has covered breaking news the world over\, including the fall of the Berlin Wall\, Nelson Mandela’s release\, famine in Africa\, the conflict in the former Yugoslavia and the destruction of Grozny. He is a consultant to the World Press Photo foundation in Amsterdam on online education of professional photojournalists in the majority world. \nFollowed by a reception in the Blue Room (space is limited\, so please book your place via the bfi box office on 0207928 3232). \nTo buy tickets\, please go to BFI website \nProduced by BFI and Counterpoints Arts in association with FilmAid \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/2249/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150502T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150502T180000
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SUMMARY:Imagining Britain - Southbank Centre
DESCRIPTION:An event for holders of a Changing Britain day pass for 2nd May at Southbank Centre: booking & programme details. \nTo what extent have the various moments of migration to the UK shaped the cultural fabric of the nation? This panel discussion looks at Britain’s post migration through various personal experiences and imagines a future beyond fixed identities and boundaries. This discussion is speech to text transcribed \nThe panel will include poets George Szirtes and Kayo Chingonyi\, writer and historian Andrea Stuart and Sunder Katwala the director of British Future. The host will be the author Tim Finch. \nGeorge Szirtes was born in Hungary in 1948 and came to England as a refugee in 1956 aged 8. He has written several collections of poetry – his poetry collection Reel (2004) was awarded the 2004 T.S.Eliot Prize. He has also edited poetry books and written many works of translation. He is also the author of sixteen plays\, musicals\, opera libretti and oratorios. \nAndrea Stuart was born in Barbados and moved to the UK in the mid 1970s aged 14. An acclaimed historian and writer\, her most recent book\, Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire\, tells the story of slavery and colonialism in the Caribbean from the 17th century on from the perspective of what Stuart learned about her own family’s experience. The New York Times said of the book: “Much of the fiery magic of this book arises from Stuart’s ability to knit together her imaginative speculations with family research\, secondary sources and the work of historians of the region.” \nSunder Katwala is the director of British Future. He has previously worked as a journalist. He was general secretary of the Fabian Society thinktank from 2003 to 2011\, and was previously a leading writer and internet editor at the Observer\, a research director of the Foreign Policy Centre and commissioning editor for politics and economics at the publisher Macmillan.\nFull details  to follow. \nKayo Chingonyi was born in Zambia in 1987\, moving to the UK in 1993. He holds a BA in English Literature from The University of Sheffield and an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway\, University of London and works as a writer\, events producer\, and creative writing tutor. His poems have been published in a range of magazines and anthologies including Poetry Review\, Magma\, Wasafiri\, and in a debut pamphlet entitled Some Bright Elegance (Salt Publishing\, 2012). \nTim Finch is the author of The House Of Journalists (“A savagely funny broadside aimed at the industry of suffering” Metro and former Director of Communications at the Refugee Council. He is chair of Counterpoints Arts \nPhoto of George Szites by Clarissa Upchurch
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/imagining-britain/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150421T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150421T213000
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SUMMARY:Whose Story Is It Anyway?
DESCRIPTION:Counterpoints and Index on Censorship presented Whose Story Is It Anyway?\, a night of writers\, discussion and refugee representations. \nHosted at Richmix\, audiences heard about the representation of refugees in novels and plays. What ethical questions are involved? Is there a responsibility to represent refugees positively? How do you balance reportage with storytelling?  What responsibility\, if any\, does the artistic writer have to represent refugees positively or to tackle negative views? \nFeatured writers included: \nChris Cleave\, author of books including The Other Hand (“A powerful piece of art… shocking\, exciting and deeply affecting.” – Independent). His other novels are Incendiary and Gold. He won the 2006 Somerset Maugham Award and was short-listed for the Costa Book Prize for The Other Hand. \nNadifa Mohamed\, author of Black Mamba Boy (winner of the Betty Trask Prize) and The Orchard Of Lost Souls. (“A haunting and intimate portrait of the lives of women in war-torn Somalia . . . it captures the bleakness of war and the triumph of the human spirit.” —Meenakshi Venkat\, New York Journal of Books) \nZodwa Nyoni\, poet and playwright whose play Nine Lives is set to for a UK Tour later this year (“Nyoni’s interweaving of naturalism and poetry is superb\, and lifts this show far beyond documentary\, into unforgettable solo drama about one of the key experiences of our time.” The Scotsman). Her new play Boi Boi Is Dead also opens in 2015. \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.\n– See more at: http://platforma.org.uk/events/whose-story-is-it-anyway#sthash.sQLpyE1W.dpuf \n\nFeatured writers: \nNadifa Mohamed\, author of Black Mamba Boy (winner of the Betty Trask Prize) and The Orchard Of Lost Souls. (“A haunting and intimate portrait of the lives of women in war-torn Somalia . . . it captures the bleakness of war and the triumph of the human spirit.” —Meenakshi Venkat\, New York Journal of Books) \nChris Cleave\, author of books including The Other Hand (“A powerful piece of art… shocking\, exciting and deeply affecting.” – Independent). His other novels are Incendiary and Gold. He won the 2006 Somerset Maugham Award and was short-listed for the Costa Book Prize for The Other Hand. \n Zodwa Nyoni\, poet and playwright whose play Nine Lives is set to for a UK Tour later this year (“Nyoni’s interweaving of naturalism and poetry is superb\, and lifts this show far beyond documentary\, into unforgettable solo drama about one of the key experiences of our time.” The Scotsman). Her new play Boi Boi Is Dead also opens in 2015. \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. \nPresented by Counterpoints Arts and Platforma Arts & Refugees Network in association with Index On Censorship. \nhttp://www.richmix.org.uk/whats-on/event/whose-story-is-it-anyway/ \n– See more at: http://platforma.org.uk/events/whose-story-is-it-anyway#sthash.sQLpyE1W.dpuf \n\n  
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/whose-story-is-it-anyway/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150225T173000
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SUMMARY:Launch of Moving Lives
DESCRIPTION:Moving Lives – an interactive IPortrait researched\, designed and produced by Counterpoints Arts \nHuman stories frame the face of this production\, with creative documentary leading the viewer to behind the scenes reflection on public campaigns\, strategic litigation\, action research\, advocacy and service provision. \nUnpacking landmark cases\, key methodologies and lessons learned\, this production moves through the transformative power of personal storytelling to explore an advocacy team’s way of working. A living archive of the Immigrant Council of Ireland’s work\, this online platform will also serve as a public research and learning resource. \nThe methods and collaborative approaches narrated are as diverse as the migrants’ stories themselves. Design methodology is aimed to facilitate different levels of access: whether seeking information about relevant issues; delving into content as a fellow-advocate\, legal practitioner\, policymaker; or curious to watch the film stories as a mainstream viewer\, communications and media worker\, interested educator. \n25 February 2015: Royal Hibernian Academy\, 15 Ely Place\, Dublin 2 at 17:30 \nSupported by The Atlantic Philanthropies\, PTools\, EBOW Design and commissioned filmmaker\, Simon Hipkins\, Key Pictures.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/launch-of-moving-lives/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150213T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150213T170000
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SUMMARY:Connecting Museums ...
DESCRIPTION:Connecting Museums with Refugee and Asylum-Seeker Organisations is an event presented by the Horniman Museum and Platforma (run by Counterpoints Arts). \nThe event is especially relevant to museum and gallery professionals who would like to connect with refugee and asylum-seeker organisations or would like to share their experience of targeted projects\, events and ongoing partnerships. \nIn this afternoon symposium we will look at the Horniman’s engagement projects with refugee and asylum-seekers\, drawing on current initiatives such as Crossing Borders\, an event organised every year in collaboration with Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers. We invite everybody attending the symposium to join Crossing Borders\, which will take place on Saturday 7th of February 2015 at the Horniman Museum and Gardens. \nIn the symposium we will focus on the practical implications of building and maintaining relationships with refugee organisations\, by sharing challenges and opportunities encountered on both sides. The symposium also intends to generate key questions that will be further explored at the Platforma Festival in November in Leicester. \nThe symposium is free but places are limited. To book\, please email communitylearning@horniman.ac.uk
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/connecting-museums-with-refugee-and-asylum-seeker-organisations/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150210T101500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150210T163000
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SUMMARY:Refugee Week Annual Conference
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a day of information sharing\, workshops and talks about Refugee Week and how to support it for 2015. \nWe’ll be holding workshops on event planning\, social media and Simple Acts amongst others\, and it’s a great opportunity to meet other organisations and individuals to collaborate with too. \nThe conference is a free event but please reserve your place as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. Book your place via Eventbrite. \nTravel support for refugees and refugee community organisations \nPlease note that the Refugee Week partnership allocates some funding for supporting refugees and refugee community organisations with travel. Please contact Refugee Week UK Co-ordinator to discuss: jess@counterpoints.org.uk; 0207 012 1761.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-annual-conference/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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