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SUMMARY:Threading layers of Home by Kim Chin
DESCRIPTION:Artist Kim Chin invites us into a reflective setting\, to inspire a clearer understanding and vision of what “community” means to us. We do this by ‘visiting’ layers of ancestral\, environmental and embodied home. \nWe will explore rituals\, sharing readings and exchange thoughts while the group embroiders and collages onto fabric. \nThe intention of the workshop is to initiate a restorative sense of grounding and belonging. Through collective making we will activate a space of multi-vocal wisdom and hope that can be threaded into our daily lives after the event. \nWe will also share grounding and aftercare resources. \nNOTE: We will be sharing reflections and our knowledge. Bring readings\, definitions and objects to share with the group\, on what “home” and community mean to you. \nMaterials and refreshments will be provided. \nFree workshop. Sing up HERE! \nImage credit: Kim Chin. \nAbout the Artist: \nKim Chin (she\, they) is an artist and community mobiliser. Through creative learning and social engagement practices\, Kim amplifies transnational and intersectional East and Southeast Asian narratives as part of\, and in relation to\, wider British narratives. \n\n\n\n\n\nKim co-founded ESEA unseen with Sue Man in 2023 – an art-making\, curating\, and cultural producing duo who leverage textiles\, hospitality\, dialogue\, and neurodiverse adaptations to transform unawareness & trauma into a site for connection and collective agency. \nProjects have been showcased in collaboration with various art\, cultural\, and community advocacy organisations in England and the Philippines. \n\nProject Credit x Paradise Row\, a hybrid event cohosted in England | Germany | Trinidad | Cayman Islands\, Fondation Gallery\, Philippines\, and in London; Migration Museum\, Coin Street Community Builders\, Camden Chinese Community Centre\, Kakilang Arts\, Greenpeace\, Southbank\, and the Museum of the Home.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/threading-layers-of-home-by-kim-chin/
LOCATION:Yorkton Workshops\, 1-3 Yorkton St\, London\, London\, E2 8NH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,London Refugee Week,Mental Health
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SUMMARY:Sounds Like Home Choir performance
DESCRIPTION:Free event – no booking required. \nJoin the Migration Museum and the Sounds Like Home Choir for a special Refugee Week event\, featuring an international women’s choir sharing songs from the places we call home. \nEnjoy a free performance\, including songs in Yoruba\, Turkish\, Spanish\, Zulu and English. \nSounds Like Home is a community choir project for women living in Hackney. They consist of women of all backgrounds\, ages\, and abilities\, exploring the origins\, language\, and musical genres of the songs that have shaped who they are and where they’re from. Sounds Like Home is supported by Counterpoints. \nFull details here.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/sounds-like-home-choir-performance/
LOCATION:Migration Museum\, Lewisham Shopping Centre\, London\, SE13 7HB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:London Refugee Week,Music
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SUMMARY:The R.A.P. Party @The London Library: Refugee Week
DESCRIPTION:For Refugee Week\, poet and playwright Inua Ellams brings his exhilarating live literature phenomenon\, the R.A.P Party\, back to The London Library for a nostalgic\, no-clutter\, no-fuss\, evening of music and words. We’re bringing you a line-up of poets from across a spectrum of refugee and migrant backgrounds to explore the theme of Refugee Week 2024: ‘Our Home’. And we’ll be playing tunes of their choice to to get you on your feet. Our line-up includes: Ammar Haj Ahmad\, Elmi Ali\, Natalie Linh Bolderston\, Inua Ellams\, Yanita Georgieva\, Sophie Herxheimer\, Adam Kammerling\, Amaal Said\, George Szirtes and more TBC. \nTen writers + a DJ = the best night out you’ll ever have in a library – or anywhere\, for that matter. \n‘A truly fluid literary event not just mingling poetry and music together seamlessly\, but also bringing different tribes of poets: ages\, races\, gender\, styles together. You will be moved in your heart and in your head.’— Roger Robinson \nAmmar Haj Ahmad is an award-winning Syrian-British actor\, dramaturg\, playwright\, poet\, facilitator and director who is currently the Associate Artistic Director at Good Chance. He trained at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus and his directing work includes the closing ceremony for Paris Peace Forum 2023\, The Jungle stage reading in DasDas\, Istanbul and LonDon Quixote and Longing\, both at The Space Theatre\, London.  \nElmi Ali is a writer and performer. He writes poetry\, short fiction and drama. His performances have been received in venues across the country including Westminster\, The Southbank Centre and Contact Manchester. His work has appeared in publications such as the Poetry Review and Scarf Magazine. \nNatalie Linh Bolderston is a Vietnamese-Chinese-British poet. In 2020\, she received an Eric Gregory Award and co-won the Rebecca Swift Women Poets’ Prize. Her poem ‘Middle Name with Diacritics’ was shortlisted for the 2021 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Her pamphlet\, The Protection of Ghosts\, was published by V. Press in 2019. She is now working on her first full-length collection. \nInua Ellams is a Nigerian-born\, UK-based poet\, playwright and performer who has written for the Royal Shakespeare Company\, the National Theatre and the BBC. His latest play was an adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters set in Nigeria\, staged at the National Theatre. The Actual\, his fifth poetry release and first full collection\, was published in 2020 by Penned in the Margins.  \nYanita Georgieva is a poet and journalist. She was born in Bulgaria\, raised in Lebanon\, and currently lives in England. She is a recipient of the Out-Spoken Prize for Page Poetry and a member of the Southbank New Poets Collective and the London Library Emerging Writers. Her debut pamphlet\, Small Undetectable Thefts\, is out now with Broken Sleep.  \nSophie Herxheimer is an artist and poet. Her work has been shown at Tate Modern\, the Thames festival\, the sea-front at Margate and Mrs Beeton’s grave. Her collection Velkom to Inklandt was Poetry Book of the Month in the Observer\, and a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Her book 60 Lovers to Make and Do\, was a TLS Book of the Year and her latest collection is INDEX\, a box of 78 collage poems\, published as a deck of prophetic cards.   \nAdam Kammerling is an award winning poet\, interdisciplinary artist and educator. His most recent works include Seder\, his debut poetry collection\, which was a finalist in the National Jewish Book Awards\, Shall We Take This Outside\, a three-person spoken-word/dance theatre piece that toured nationally\, and Inside!\, a piece of poetry/rave theatre commissioned by Centrepoint and the Saatchi Gallery. \nAmaal Said is a Danish-born Somali photographer and poet. Her photographs have been featured in Vogue\, The Guardian and The New Yorker. She won Wasafiri Magazine’s New Writing Prize for poetry in 2015. In 2018\, her photography was featured in the fourth volume of African Lens and was exhibited in Accra\, Ghana. She is a member of Octavia\, poetry collective for womxn of colour and a former Barbican Young Poet. \nGeorge Szirtes was born in Hungary\, came to England as a refugee and trained as an artist. His twelfth book of poems\, Reel (2004) won the TS Eliot Prize for which he has been twice shortlisted since. His latest is Fresh Out of the Sky (2021). His memoir The Photographer at Sixteen was awarded the James Tait Black Prize in 2020. He is a co-winner of the International Booker translator’s prize\, as well as of numerous others. \nProduced in collaboration with London Library. \nSupported using funding from Fondation Jan Michalski.  \nBooks by the artists will be available to purchase at the event and online through London Library’s partner bookshop Hatchards. \nNB This event will take place in person at The London Library. Please see the Event Access Guidelines before you arrive. Doors (and the bar) open at 6.30pm for a 7.00pm start.  \nLondon Library events are subject to Terms and Conditions. \nBook HERE. Standard ticket £10. For under 30s/underwaged £8. \nImage credit: London Library.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/the-r-a-p-party-the-london-library-refugee-week/
LOCATION:London Library\, 14 St James’s Square\, London SW1Y 4LG
CATEGORIES:London Refugee Week
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SUMMARY:Our Home: Voices from Afghanistan by Magdalena Moursy in collaboration with Ariana Abawe
DESCRIPTION:For Refugee Week 2024\, join Magdalena Moursy and Ariana Abawe at Libreria Bookshop for a special showcase of Voices from Afghanistan – an audio feature that shares different stories from Afghans around the world. \nIn response to Refugee Week’s theme this year ‘Our Home’\, we invite you to sit for a collective listening session that fosters a deeper connection to the Afghan experience with live performances of Afghan Rubab music and poetry. And experience some Afghan hospitality with tea and snacks provided by Ariana’s mother who runs Kulcha Kafe. \nListen to the personal stories of four women – a judge\, a yoga activist\, a fashion activist\, an artist – and a man who is a refugee rights campaigner\, as they reflect on their lives under the Taliban regime\, their experiences of displacement\, and their hopes and fears for the future of their homeland. \nAs we approach 3 years on since the Taliban re-occupied Afghanistan in August 2021\, it feels to many Afghans that the world has turned their backs and gone silent. This event offers an opportunity to gain a deeper and more personal understanding of the complex realities faced by Afghans throughout their lives and today. \nJoin us in support of the Afghan community who continue to show resilience and courage\, hoping and working for a better future for their home\, Afghanistan. Voices from Afghanistan was produced and edited by Magdalena Moursy\, in collaboration with British-Afghan journalist Ariana Abawe\, who supported as research and cultural consultant. This project has been funded by Arts Council England. \nFree event. \nImage credit: the artists.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/our-home-voices-from-afghanistan-by-magdalena-moursy-in-collaboration-with-ariana-abawe/
LOCATION:Libreria Bookshop\, 65 Hanbury Street\, London\, E1 5JL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Audio,London Refugee Week
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SUMMARY:Voice Notes Exhibition London Launch: Free Workshop & Live Performance
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with Counterpoints Arts\, Voice Notes will be exhibited at Yorkton Workshops in Hoxton from 17 – 22 June. \nWorkshop: \nOn Thursday 20 June we will be hosting a free workshop for 2pm – 4pm to celebrate refugee voices from around the world! \nSign up to Voice Notes Creative Writing Workshop here. \nLaunch event \nLater in the evening\, we invite you to the London launch event of Voice notes with live performances on Thursday 20th June 7-9pm to celebrate refugee voices from around the world. \nWith a special welcome from project lead\, Sarah Jackson\, and live performances from Compass young people\, come and meet the team\, enjoy some refreshments and immersive yourself in the sound experience. Open to all 16+.  \nSign up to the launch event for free here. \nAbout Voice Notes \nVoice Notes is an international art project exploring the role of the telephone in experiences of exile. Featuring recorded phone calls left by young refugees and asylum seekers from around the world\, the exhibition investigates displaced voices\, creative networks\, transnational communication\, and different modes of talking and listening across cultures. \nThis exhibition has been co-created with young people who have fled war\, violence\, conflict and persecution and yet who continue to offer stories of solidarity and hope. At the heart of the installation are multidirectional ultrasonic speakers that are positioned to create a network of intersecting telephone messages. As visitors move around the gallery\, they tap into stories of home and belonging\, landscape and loss\, and communication and connection. In turn\, visitors are invited to shape new ways of thinking about sanctuary by contributing their own voice notes as part of our evolving telephonic soundscape. \nVoice Notes is funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council. Led by Nottingham Trent University\, the project is produced in collaboration with Compass Collective\, Counterpoints Arts\, Hardi Kurda\, New Art Exchange\, Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature\, Refugee Roots\, Slemani UNESCO City of Literature and STEP. \nReserve your free spot for this session here. \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/voice-notes-exhibition-london-launch/
LOCATION:Yorkton Workshops\, 1-3 Yorkton St\, London\, London\, E2 8NH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,London Refugee Week
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SUMMARY:Cyanotypes - archives and markings of home by Tasnim Mahdy
DESCRIPTION:This workshop explores the Juliana Anicia Codex through cyanotype printing. Participants will reflect on personal connections to home and migration\, making visible the intangible marks of their histories.\nJoin us for a workshop where we will delve into the Juliana Anicia Codex\, an ancient manuscript featuring important Arabic and Persian botanical illustrations\, in collaboration with John Hunnex. We’ll start with a discussion on the cultural significance of the Codex\, focusing on how naming practices reflect identity and migration. What was left out of the archive. Participants will then get hands-on with cyanotype printing\, a photographic technique that uses sunlight to create distinct blue-toned prints. They will incorporate botanical elements and personal symbols to create prints that tell their own stories – mythology\, and connections to home. The workshop will highlight the idea of mark-making\, where the fleeting and invisible aspects of personal histories are made tangible. Participants will actively create artworks that reveal unseen narratives\, transforming intangible experiences into visible forms. This process not only encourages personal reflection but also fosters a shared space for community storytelling and cultural expression. \nThis workshop is part of an on-going research collaboration between Tasnim Mahdy\, John Hunnex and Hanouf Al-Alawi\, centred on The Codex Vindobonenis. \nThis is a free workshop. \nImage credit: Tasnim Mahdy.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/cyanotypes-archives-and-markings-of-home-by-tasnim-mahdy/
LOCATION:Yorkton Workshops\, 1-3 Yorkton St\, London\, London\, E2 8NH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,London Refugee Week
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SUMMARY:Love letters to home by zafeerah heesambee
DESCRIPTION:When Community is Home. What does this mean to you\, and where do you find your sense of home?\nJoin us for ‘Love Letters Home\,’ a lino printing workshop hosted by artist Zafeerah Heesambee in collaboration with Muslim Sisterhood\, in celebration of UK Refugee Week on Tuesday\, June 18th 2024. Connect with others as you learn the art of lino printing and create your own pieces inspired by this year’s theme. Your creations will be featured in a collective zine\, showcasing the talents of the Muslim Sisterhood network and the Yorkton Programme community\, as part of UK Refugee Week 2024. \nTickets for this workshop is free\, but capacity is limited so grab a space while you can! \nReserve your free spot for this session here. \nWe are fundraising for Palestine and Sudan\, and would appreciate £5 donations to support medical teams on the ground. Any donations from this workshop will go towards Medical Aid Palestine and Sudan Relief Fund.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/love-letters-to-home-by-zafeerah-heesambee/
LOCATION:Yorkton Workshops\, 1-3 Yorkton St\, London\, London\, E2 8NH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,London Refugee Week
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SUMMARY:Hope as Discipline: Ritualising Collective Liberation
DESCRIPTION:How do we hold onto hope in dark times? Join us as we gather with Dr Aditi Jaganathan to moor ourselves in possibilities of hope as we organise for collective liberation\n  \nAs babylon crumbles; its architectures of oppression fall\, in Gaza\, in Haiti\, in Sudan\, in the Congo\, in the heart of empire. In this brokenness\,  spirit speaks; spirit calls on us to reach into otherwise possibilities\, otherwise ways of being in the fold of our collective being. \nWe gather as an offering of refusal\, refusing the structures which refuse our complex personhood\, refusing the suppression of rhythms of liberation. Leaning into this spirit of refusal we figure out ways to relinquish control and lean into our shared vulnerability; to orbit around ways of being moored in possibilities of hope. It is in the matter of being together\, as ritual\, that our tethering to hope as possibility emerges.  \nThis event invites organisers\, cultural workers\, creatives as well as dreamers and schemers who are affected by the passing of the Rwanda Bill and are organising in the wake of ongoing violence\, whether that be in the UK or beyond. We hope that by gathering we can thread together our interconnected struggles and hold space to resource ourselves through ritual and by centering our collective liberation. \n  \nDr Aditi Jaganathan is a thinker and creator\, writer and dreamer. \nHaving worked at the intersections of law\, culture and politics in various capacities\, Aditi is motivated by a politics of refusal\, living in rupture as rapture; turning away from hegemonic worlds of oppression and tuning into something different\, beyond the world we live in and moving to the rhythms of an elsewhere. It is this compulsion which guides her pedagogy in the education work she does. Riffing off education for liberation\, she creates spaces of  (un)learning as a site of radical praxis\, using tools of music\, film and visual culture\, to unpack the ways in which ideologies of oppression and liberation travel through cultural production. She teaches her own course\, Rhythm\, Race\, Revolution as well as courses at different London-based academic institutions. \nWith a particular interest in creativity as decolonial praxis\, she situates the imagination as a radical site of refusal and resistance. Her research work examines the different ways in which Black and Brown cultural production has activated autonomous modes of meaning-making and self-determination in London\, through contesting racialised norms and (re)imagining racialised postcolonial subjectivities. And it is through an ethic of jazz that Aditi curates this work. \nReserve your free spot for this session here. \nImage Credits © Carmel King
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/hope-as-discipline-ritualising-collective-liberation/
LOCATION:Yorkton Workshops\, 1-3 Yorkton St\, London\, London\, E2 8NH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,London Refugee Week,Mental Health
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SUMMARY:BAFTA Short Film Screenings + Q&A
DESCRIPTION:Join us at BAFTA for a special Refugee Week evening of short films followed by a panel + Q&A with the filmmakers. Delivered in collaboration with Counterpoints Arts\, this special event will be followed by an opportunity to network with refugee and asylum seeker creatives and filmmakers. \n\n\n\nThis year\, Counterpoints Arts and Other Cinemas – two organisations who work across intersections of racial justice and migration – have collaborated on a film programme taking place during Refugee Week: June 17th-23rd. \nThe programme\, curated by Other Cinemas\, consists of 3 feature films and 6 short films. \nThese films can be watched across the UK for free; either at home or used for a community screening! No need to get rights or licensing\, they have been arranged for the duration of Refugee Week. They will be available to be screened anywhere in the UK for free! \nIf you would like to gain access to these films to put on a screening or watch the films yourself- please go to www.refugeeweek.org.uk or go to the Refugee Week Instagram page\, to find a Google Form that you can fill out to gain access. \n\n\nLITTLE PYONGYANG by Roxy Rezvany \nWith exclusive access to one of the world’s largest community on North Korean defectors\, this is a tale of one North Korean’s struggle to leave behind the homeland. Joong-wha Choi\, a former soldier in the DPRK\, lives today with his wife and kids in a sleepy London suburb.  Despite enjoying the new found comforts of his British life\, and being emancipated from the pressures of the North Korean state\, his dilemma lies in a desire to return to the land that betrayed him\, but is undoubtedly his true home. \nMOTHERLAND by Ellen Evan \nMotherland speaks to the experiences of the Windrush generation and subsequent generations of Jamaicans navigating the landscape of the UK’s hostile environment. \nA SWING IN ATAYFIYAH by Bediah \nA Swing in Atayfiyah dwells in the memory of homes and friendships left behind in Iraq\, the irrecoverable sense of belonging\, and the dissonance of diaspora. \nI CARRY IT WITH ME EVERYWHERE by Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah \nI Carry It With Me Everywhere draws a line across multiple temporalities and registers of immigrant life\, uniting three different stories of migration in Northwest London through a shared condition of fragmentation. \nHosted by Counterpoints Arts producer Laith Elzubaidi. \n  \nBOOKING LINK HERE.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/bafta-short-film-screenings-qa/
LOCATION:BAFTA\, 195 Piccadilly\, St. James's\, London\, W1J 9LN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Film and Photography,London Refugee Week
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SUMMARY:Voice Notes by Compass Collective and nottingham trent university
DESCRIPTION:Come and experience the ‘Voice Notes’ is an international art project exploring the role of the telephone in experiences of exile. Featuring recorded phone calls left by young refugees and asylum seekers from around the world\, the exhibition investigates displaced voices\, creative networks\, transnational communication\, and different modes of talking and listening across cultures.\n\n\n\n\nThe exhibition has been co-created with over fifty young people who have fled war\, violence\, conflict and persecution and yet who continue to offer stories of solidarity and hope. At the heart of the installation are multidirectional ultrasonic speakers that are positioned to create a network of intersecting telephone messages. As visitors move around the gallery\, they tap into stories of home and belonging\, landscape and loss\, and communication and connection. In turn\, visitors are invited to shape new ways of thinking about sanctuary by contributing their own voice notes as part of our evolving telephonic soundscape.\n\nVoice Notes has been co-created with over 50 young refugees and asylum seekers living the UK and in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The exhibition is curated by poet Dr Sarah Jackson (Nottingham Trent University) in collaboration with acclaimed sound artist and founder of the Space21 international festival Hardi Kurda\, and refugee arts organisation Compass Collective.\n\nThe project is supported by international partners\, including New Art Exchange\, Counterpoints Arts\, Refugee Roots\, Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature\, Slemani UNESCO Cities of Literature and STEP. It is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.\n\nDr Sarah Jackson is Associate Professor in Modern and Contemporary Writing. She teaches on the BA English\, BA Creative Writing\, MA Creative Writing and MRes English Literary Research programmes\, and supervises PhD students working in contemporary literature and creative writing. An award-winning poet and academic\, Sarah publishes widely on 20th and 21st century literature\, literary theory and creative-critical ecologies.\n\nPart of the exhibition curated by Counterpoints Arts\, with the support of Yorkton Workshops.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/voice-notes-by-compass-collective-and-nottingham-trent-university/
LOCATION:Yorkton Workshops\, 1-3 Yorkton St\, London\, London\, E2 8NH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Audio,London Refugee Week
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SUMMARY:Shaping the story
DESCRIPTION:A strategic day of networking\, research and practice sharing – with arts\, media\, research\, philanthropy\, charity and policy sectors. A collaboration between Unbound Philanthropy\, Climate Outreach and Counterpoints Arts.\n  \n‘Over the last six months we have been mapping the work underway in the UK at the intersections of climate and migration. Whilst we have found that a lot is happening\, there is currently a chronic lack of resource\, capacity and connections leading to limitations in the impact of this important work. It is very exciting to see a rapid growth in grassroots organising\, interest from funders\, and awareness of the importance of this work from NGOs and others. A concerted effort is now needed to make the most of the window of opportunity that exists to influence policies\, politics and narratives on climate-related migration.’ Ruth Grove-White & Ben Margolis\, authors of Building Common Ground briefing\, May 2024 \n  \nImage: Counterpoints’ Women’s Climate Justice and Migration retreat\, Hawkwood College\, November 2023\n—————————————————————————————————————————- \nWe are convening a dynamic group of around 50 individuals from the arts\, media\, research\, philanthropy\, charity\, and policy sectors for a series of critical conversations: \nPanel 1: The Ecosystem \nSetting the stage\, we will delineate priorities and share pivotal insights from the newly commissioned report by Unbound Philanthropy. \nChair: Alice Sachrajda\, UK Programme Officer & UK Head of Cultural Strategy – Unbound Philanthropy \nWith Ruth Grove-White & Ben Margolis\, Unbound consultants and authors of Building Common Ground: Yasmin Halima – JCWI; Alba Kapoor – Runnymede Trust \nPanel 2: How We Talk About Climate and Migration \nThis panel delves into the narratives shaping climate and migration\, exploring strategic communication practices and strategies to dismantle toxic narratives. \nChair: Maryam Pasha\, TEDxLondon and Climate Curious podcast \nWith Fahmida Miah – Climate Outreach; André Dallas\, People and Planet; Sangeetha Iengar – Goldsmith Chambers and University of Oxford \nPanel 3: The Storytellers: Art and Climate Justice \nFocusing on the arts\, this session spotlights artists committed to storytelling and socially engaged methodologies\, engaging themes of decolonization\, intersectionality\, and community collaboration. \nChair: Bonnie Chiu\, The Social Investment Consultancy \nWith Dhaqan Collective\, Farah Ahmed – Julie’s Bicycle\, Nana Bempah – POCC \n—————————————————————————————————————————- \nOur intention is to craft a reflective space that showcases the recent briefing by Ruth Grove-White and Ben Margolis on civil society work at the intersections of climate and migration in the UK. The briefing highlights the need for significant investment from funders\, building cross-sector relationships\, supporting diverse leadership\, committing to intersectional work\, and embedding a vision of systemic change. \nWe aim to foster cross-sector networking and explore innovative ways to represent lived experiences\, supporting collaboration and movement-building at the nexus of climate justice and migration. We also celebrate the practices of artists and activists reimagining storytelling around climate justice and global displacement. \nThis gathering aspires to embody these priorities\, fostering innovative and inclusive approaches to the intertwined challenges of climate and migration. \n—————————————————————————————————————————- \nUnbound Philanthropy is a private grantmaking foundation that works to ensure that migrants and refugees are treated with respect and engage with their new communities. We support pragmatic\, innovative\, and responsive approaches to immigration and immigrant integration in the United States and United Kingdom. \nClimate Outreach is the first British charity to focus exclusively on public engagement with climate change. Every year Climate Outreach helps hundreds of organisations think about how they can tell a different climate story. They do this through research and advice\, workshops and training\, and Climate Visuals. \nYorkton Workshops is a home to the award winning design studio\, Pearson Lloyd. Saved from demolition\, by considering the most sustainable\, socially valuable and creatively interesting paths of working with\, preserving and enhancing the existing building – Yorkton is also a gallery\, event space and location available for hire in Hackney\, East London. \n—————————————————————————————————————————-
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/shaping-the-story/
LOCATION:Yorkton Workshops\, 1-3 Yorkton St\, London\, London\, E2 8NH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Learning,London Refugee Week,Pop Culture
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SUMMARY:London Refugee Week: BFI Film programme
DESCRIPTION:Announcing our Refugee Week 2024 film programme at British Film Institute – a brilliant programme screening Talking with Rivers + intro and Q&A with directors Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Hana Makhmalbaf\, hosted by Victor Fraga of Dirty Movies; Io Capitano + intro and discussion; Àma Gloria\, Green Border and Bye Bye Tiberias. More details on each of the films being screened below: \n  \nTalking with Rivers + intro and discussion\n+ intro and Q&A with directors Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Hana Makhmalbaf\, hosted by Victor Fraga of Dirty Movies.\nSunday 23 June 2024 14:00 / NFT2 \nTwo new films from the Makhmalbaf Film House explore the state of Afghanistan\, its historical association with Iran and the terrible plight of its people as a result of colonial wars. \nDirector: Mohsen Makhmalbaf\nWith Mohsen Makhmalbaf\, Jawanmard Paiez\nUK-Iran 2023. 50min\nEnglish subtitles \nA film essay featuring a poetic conversation between two neighbouring nations\, Iran and Afghanistan\, as they consider their shared and troubled history. \nScreening with: \nThe List\nDirector: Hana Makhmalbaf\nWith Mohsen Makhmalbaf\nUK-Afghanistan 2023. 65min\nEnglish subtitles \nFilm director Mohsen Makhmalbaf negotiates with international agencies and embassies for refugee relief in this unsettling portrait of artists attempting to flee Afghanistan following the sudden US and allied withdrawal in 2021.Content warning: Contains disturbing scenes. \nBOOK TICKETS HERE \n  \nIo Capitano\nScreening + intro and discussion 17 June 2024 17:50 / NFT3 \nDirector: Matteo Garrone\nWith Seydou Sarr\, Moustapha Fall\, Khady Sy\nItaly-Belgium-France 2023. 121min\nCertificate 15\nEnglish subtitles \nIn this epic drama from the director of Gomorrah\, two Senegalese teenagers attempt to travel across land and sea to Europe.\nSenegalese youngsters Seydou and Moussa\, keen to pursue a music career\, leave Dakar for Europe. Their journey takes them across a vast expanse of desert\, where they encounter vicious bandits and brutal authorities\, then face the perils of a dangerous Mediterranean crossing. Garrone’s powerful drama was thoroughly researched\, using first-hand accounts of the journey to map out the youngsters’ plight. The heart of the film is Seydou Sarr’s extraordinary performance\, aided in no small part by breathtaking cinematography\, moments of magical realism and a compassion that gives voice to the voiceless.Content warning: Contains scenes of torture.\nIn association with African Odysseys. \nBOOK TICKETS HERE \n  \nGreen Border\nScreening 21 – 27 June \nAs part of Refugee Week 2024\, Modern Films is happy to announce the screening of Green Border\, from three-times Oscar-nominated Polish film director Agnieszka Holland\, on Friday 21st June 2024\, at the British Film Institute\, NFT2\, 5:50pm. \nThe film will be shown at the BFI from 21st June until the 27th June. Don’t miss it! \nIn the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so-called “green border” between Belarus and Poland\, refugees from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach the European Union are trapped in a geopolitical crisis cynically engineered by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko. In an attempt to provoke Europe\, refugees are lured to the border by propaganda promising easy passage to the EU.Pawns in this hidden war\, the lives of Julia\, a newly minted activist who has given up her comfortable life\, Jan\, a young border guard\, and a Syrian family\, intertwine. Through weaving together multiple perspectives\, the film\, shot starkly in black and white\, explores the lives of these varied individuals\, shedding light on the realities and challenges asylum seekers face. \nFollowing its World Premiere at the 80th Venice International Film Festival\, where it won the Special Jury Prize\, GREEN BORDER\, which uses multiple perspectives to look at the refugee crisis in Europe\, opens our eyes\, speaks to the heart\, and challenges us to reflect on the moral choices that fall to ordinary people every day. \n“Agnieszka Holland’s devastating refugee epic reverberates with deep empathy and quiet fury” ★★★★★ Time Out \n“A vital bearing of cinematic witness to what is happening in Europe right now” ★★★★ The Guardian \n“Insists that we not only look but see with clarity what is going on…essential\, urgent and damning”- Eye for Film \nBOOK TICKETS HERE\n \n  \nÀma Gloria\nScreening 14 – 27 June \nDirector: Marie Amachoukeli\nWith Louise Mauroy-Panzani\, Ilça Moreno\nFrance 2023. 84min\nCertificate: 12A\nEnglish subtitles\nA BFI release \nSix year old Cléo spends a final summer with her beloved nanny Gloria\, in this profoundly moving story of chosen family\, duty and innocence lost. Marie Amachoukeli’s solo-directorial debut grabs its audience tightly by the hand\, transporting us back to a child’s world of innocence and turmoil. Six year old Cléo is devastated when the nanny she is devoted to returns to Cape Verde. Granted one last summer in the magical world she has built with Gloria\, Cléo leaves her family in Paris to stay with her nanny and the children she has long been separated from. Newcomer Mauroy-Panzani’s portrayal of the envy\, humour\, delight and darkness contained within Cléo is dazzling\, as she discovers there is a world which no longer revolves around her. Heartbreaking and heartwarming in equal measure\, this coming-of-age tale uses imaginative animation and intimate camerawork to explore questions of class\, culture and race with childlike wonder.Ruby McGuigan\, Programme and Acquisitions \nThe screenings on Sunday 16 June 15:30 NFT4\, Tuesday 18 June 18:30 NFT4 and Thursday 20 June 14:50 NFT4 will be presented with additional descriptive subtitles of non-dialogue audio. \nBOOK TICKETS HERE \n  \nBye Bye Tiberias\nScreening 28 June – 4 July \nDirector: Lina Soualem\nWith Hiam Abbass\nFrance-Palestine-Belgium-Qatar 2023. 82min\nCertificate: TBC\nEnglish subtitles\nA TAPE Collective release \nA daughter’s powerful love letter to her mother and the strength of four generations of a Palestinian family.\nHiam Abbass\, the star of Succession and films ranging from Lemon Tree to Blade Runner 2049\, undertakes a journey back to her native Palestinian village in her daughter Lina Soualem’s tender and award-winning documentary. In her early twenties\, Hiam Abbass left Palestine for Europe in order to follow her dreams of becoming an actor. She left behind her mother\, grandmother and seven sisters. Some 30 years later\, Soualem employs archival footage\, photographs and poetry to excavate her family’s history and four generations of women who each had to make difficult decisions regarding their future. The result\, as Hiam and Lina reconnect with their homeland\, is a moving story of motherhood\, fractured identity and lost homes\, made with warmth and humour. It’s essential and deeply affecting for anyone who has ever wished to understand their mother better. \nThe screenings on Saturday 29 June 12:20 NFT3\, Tuesday 2 July 18:20 NFT4 and Wednesday 3 July 12:30 NFT4 will be presented with additional descriptive subtitles of non-dialogue audio. \nThe screening of Bye Bye Tiberias on Friday 28 June 18:00 will be followed by a Q&A with co-writer Nadine Naous. \nBOOK TICKETS HERE \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/london-refugee-week-bfi-film-programme/
LOCATION:BFI\, Belvedere Road\, London\, SE1 8XT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Film and Photography,London Refugee Week
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SUMMARY:London Refugee Week 2024 by Counterpoints Arts
DESCRIPTION:This Refugee Week Counterpoints has been working with artists\, organisations and partners across London to deliver an amazingly diverse\, dynamic and delicious programme. \nWe continue to work with our long-standing partners\, there are shoots of new collaborations and partnerships and as always we’re supporting artists already in our network as well as introducing new artists we’ve not worked with before. Some of the themes we’ve been working with are climate justice\, Palestine\, wellbeing\, archives\, gender\, mentoring and popular culture. There are events that are all about participation\, others are for families\, a lovely film programme and as always we are reflecting on the Refugee Week theme\, this year that is ‘Our Home’. \nWe will be sharing our final programme and all the detail about the individual projects and activities\, some are ticketed and have limited capacity. Please keep an eye on our updates and socials. \nHere is an overview of the programme\, there are individual event pages with more information: \n13th June – Our Heartbeats at The Jago – our new pilot mentoring programme for young people with sanctuary-seeking backgrounds who will be learning DJing skills\, who want to perform in front of live audiences\, develop opportunities to collaborate and earn. This project is a brainchild of Kensaye Russel and Dijana Rakovic\, and will be supported by DJ Mahnoor\, Compass Collective\, The Roundhouse\, Southbank Centre and a host of guest DJs and mentors. The event at The Jago is a club night (tickets start at £5)\, and these will be an integral part of the project. Also performing are DJs NOUR and KMT Freedom Teacher. \n17th to 22nd June – When Community is Home at Yorkton Workshops – a week-long programme of networking\, workshops\, conversations and podcasts\, theatre and music performances\, supper club\, exhibition… kite flying for Gaza\, afterschool club\, board games… This programme is supported by Pearson Lloyd design studio who own and manage the beautiful Yorkton Workshops gallery. \n17th to 23rd June – film programme at British Film Institute – a brilliant programme screening Talking with Rivers + intro and Q&A with directors Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Hana Makhmalbaf\, hosted by Victor Fraga of Dirty Movies; Io Capitano + intro and discussion; Àma Gloria\, Green Border and Bye Bye Tiberias. \n20th June – R.A.P. Party at London Library – Poet and playwright Inua Ellams brings his exhilarating live literature phenomenon\, the R.A.P Party\, back to The London Library for a nostalgic\, no-clutter\, no-fuss\, evening of music and words. \n20th June – ‘Our Home Voices of Afghanistan’ at Libreria Bookshop – Magdalena Morsy and Ariana Abawe present a special showcase of Voices from Afghanistan – an audio feature that shares different stories from Afghans from around the world. \n21st June – ‘Sounds Like Home’ – Join the Migration Museum and the Sounds Like Home Choir for a special Refugee Week event\, featuring an international women’s choir sharing songs from the places we call home. \n21st June – We Dare to Dream Screening and Q&A at Museum of the Home – screening of the documentary film about five refugee athletes\, followed by a discussion with Waad Alkateab and Ahmad Al-Rashid. \n22nd June – Refugee Week Walk on the Line – A guided walk from Three Mills to Cody Dock as part of Refugee Week\, produced by the brilliant The Line team. \n22nd June – soon to be announced collaboration with V&A – A beautiful performance by artists Amanda Camenisch and Therese Westin\, and their group of co-creators. \n23rd June – ‘Journeys from Home’ at The British Library – A family workshops with Art Refuge artists Aida Silvestri and Bobby Lloyd\, who will be working with their The Community Table project and maps from the Library’s collection and the families’ own experiences of travelling\, routes and journeys. \n28th June – ‘Room for Dinner’ at Palestine House – an exciting new collaboration with 3EIB\, soon to be opened Palestine House and London Festival of Architecture. An expanded supper club\, collaborative embroidery project\, fashion and book pop-up reimagines the dinner party as a convivial space for the intermingling of culture and heritage. Crucially\, this event will be fundraising funds for a Palestine House – backed safe water project on the ground in Gaza. Tickets soon to be released! \n29th and 30th June – 3EIB presents: ‘Room for Us’ at Palestine House – a weekend of storytelling\, workshops and spotlighting of Palestinian fashion brands.. and food by Hiba. \n30th June – We’re back at Southbank Centre with the Home: Short Films Screening and Q&A with Sarah Agha and From the Lips to the Moon – a music\, poetry and visuals led by electronic musician Pouya Ehsaei and writer-performer Tara Fatehi. \nFor even more events marking Refugee Week in London\, by a host of amazing individuals and organisations\, head over to Refugee Week website and search for what is happening in your area. Here are the ways of taking part in Refugee Week. \nImage: ‘Table Runner’ by Nol Collective\, commissioned by Counterpoints\, 3EIB and Palestine House for Room for Dinner \n  \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/london-refugee-week-2024-counterpoints-arts-highlights/
LOCATION:Various London venues
CATEGORIES:London Refugee Week
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