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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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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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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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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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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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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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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/
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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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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
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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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