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SUMMARY:Onjali Q. Raúf
DESCRIPTION:Author Onjali Q. Raúf will be reading from her award-winning novel The Boy at the Back of the Class. \nShe will also share an activity for young people based on the Refugee Week 2020 theme of “Imagine” \nPresented for Refugee Week 2020 by Countepoints Arts in association with Book Aid International \nIt wll be streamed live on Refugee Week Facebook\, followed by live Q&A with Onjali. \nOnjali Q. Raúf is the founder and CEO of O’s Refugee Aid Team\, a nonprofit that helps frontline refugee response teams across northern France and Greece; and Making Herstory\, which works to fight all forms of domestic abuse and human trafficking crimes in the UK. \n“Inspiring and sweet . . . [The Boy at the Back of the Class] is a beautiful\, open-hearted debut from Onjali Q Raúf that should help children be the best they can be and realise the power of kindness.”–Booktrust (UK) \nAbout Book Aid International \nBook Aid International is the UK’s leading international book donation and library development charity. Every year\, the charity aims to ship around one million brand new books to thousands of communities where people have very few opportunities to access books and read. \nBook Aid International works with an extensive network of libraries\, schools\, hospitals\, NGOs and other partners to ensure that the books it sends are accessible to all. The charity estimates that the books it provides reach over 19 million people every year. \nPhoto: Pål Hansen \nPost-event notes \nFacebook Live video (3.4K views)
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/onjali-q-rauf/
CATEGORIES:Literature & Spoken Word
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SUMMARY:NIGHT & REFUGE - Live Writing Room by Caroline Bergvall
DESCRIPTION:Photo by Thierry Bal \n  \nCaroline Bergvall & Sonic Atlas present:\nNIGHT & REFUGE\nA collaborative poem writing event\nvia Zoom (a link will be sent to the participants on the day of the event)\nRecommended Age 14+ \nFree event\, tickets via Eventbrite \nA unique opportunity to witness the creation of a collaborative poem between five different UK-based poets of very different practices and reputations. \nFollowing a brief set by Bergvall\, the poets will be exploring themes of the night\, of seeking refuge\, and share their processes. This collaborative process is inspired by the tradition of Renga – an ancient and strict rule-bound Japanese form of collective writing. \nThe writing process\, its developments and the conversations between the poets will be visible throughout on a Shared Writing Desk. \nThe Live Writing Room has been developed by visual artist Mays Albeik who will act as the event’s Desk Manager. Sound mixing by Jamie Hamilton. \nThe conversations and the developing lines of the poem will be recorded by the project’s sound artist Jamie Hamilton. He will be editing and recomposing these for the next event: Berlin Poetry Festival\, 9 June. \nPoets filmed by project’s cinematographer Andrew Delaney. \nVahni Capildeo is a Trinidadian Scottish writer working on their eighth full-length book (their fourth from Carcanet Press). Recent collaborations include http://www.lightsitepoetry.com with Andre Bagoo\, linked to Capildeo’s Light Site (Periplum\, forthcoming 2020). Capildeo is Writer in Residence at the University of York and a Seamus Heaney Centre fellow at Queen’s University\, Belfast. \nWill Harris is a poet and critic from London. He has had work published in The Guardian\, The White Review\, the TLS\, and the LRB. He was the co-editor of the Spring 2020 issue of The Poetry Review. His debut collection RENDANG (Granta) is the Poetry Book Society Choice for Spring. \nLeo Boix is a Latinx bilingual poet born in Argentina who lives and works in the UK. Boix has been included in many anthologies\, such as Ten: Poets of the New Generation (Bloodaxe) and Un Nuevo Sol: British Latinx Writers (flipped eye). He is a fellow of The Complete Works Program and the recipient of the Keats-Shelley Prize 2019. Boix debut collection will be published by Chatto & Windus (Penguin/Random House) in 2021. \nNisha Ramayya grew up in Glasgow and is currently based in London. Her debut collection States of the Body Produced by Love (2019) is published by Ignota Books. Other publications include ‘Notes on a Means without End’ (2020) in Poetry Review; In Me the Juncture (2019) published by Sad Press; Threads (2018)\, a critical-creative pamphlet co-authored with Sandeep Parmar and Bhanu Kapil\, published by clinic. \nCaroline Bergvall – (Host-poet of the event) French-Norwegian Anglophonic poet\, sound artist\, and writer\, who works across art forms\, media and languages. Recent book project: Alisoun Sings (Nightboat Books\, NY\, 2019). Awarded a Cholmondeley Award for her book and project Drift (2017). \nDate & Time: 20 May – 6 pm BST for 3 hours. \nThe event will close with a short reading by the poets.\nPart of Festival of Hope by Versopolis. \nThis event was made possible with funding from Arts Council England and support from Cement Fields and Counterpoints Arts.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/night-refuge-live-writing-room-by-caroline-bergvall/
CATEGORIES:Literature & Spoken Word
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SUMMARY:Bards Without Borders at Arcola Theatre
DESCRIPTION:5.30pm\, Arcola Theatre\, 24 Ashwin Street\, London E8 3DL \nPlatforma presents a free performance by Bards Without Borders in support of Nine Lives at Arcola Theatre. \nBards Without Borders (BWB) brings together poets from refugee and migrant backgrounds to create new writing and performance in response to the work of William Shakespeare. Their first gig last month was sold out\, and they are now working on new material for performances throughout 2016 – the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. \nBWB is led by poet/facilitator Laila Sumpton and theatre director Arne Pohlmeier (Two Gents) with support from Platforma / Counterpoints Arts. BWB poets: Freddy Macha\, Tolu Agbelusi\, Shamim Azad\, Alia’ Kuwalit\, Belinda Zhawi\, Edin Suljic\, Lloyd Benjamin\, Haroon O Mahdi\, Barbara Lopez\, Fatima Diriye\, Hamdi Khalif. \n \nNine Lives is a gripping new play from Zodwa Nyoni (Channel 4 Writer in Residence 2014) threading together humour and humanity to tell the real personal story behind asylum headlines. Former West Yorkshire Playhouse Associate Director Alex Chisholm directs Lladel Bryant\, UK Young Citizen of the Year in 2006 and the co-founder of Chicken Shop Shakespeare. \nFull details about Nine Lives\, and free booking for Bards Without Borders: https://www.arcolatheatre.com/production/arcola/nine-lives \nImage by Briony Campbell
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/bards-without-borders-at-arcola-theatre/
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