BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Counterpoints - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Counterpoints X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Counterpoints REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20180325T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20181028T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20220101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231021 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231023 DTSTAMP:20260607T160850 CREATED:20230725T155343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144537Z UID:10000341-1697846400-1698019199@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Flamm (Redruth) DESCRIPTION:We are excited to be partnering with Creative Kernow to present commissions by artists Abigail Reynolds and Sovay Berriman as part of a new pilot initiative Flamm in Redruth\, Cornwall on 21-22 October. Both projects address issues of heritage\, language and migration in ways that add new dimensions to our Platforma 2023 programme. \nAbigail Reynolds will present CORE\, a collaborative sound installation rooted in place\, from the quarry on Carn Marth to explore socio-economic change caused by mine closures and ideological hydro feminist change in our extractive relationship with the environment. More information on this event and booking details here. \nGwyrdh Glas (tr. Green Green) by Sovay Berriman uses sculpture and conversation to explore contemporary Kernewek (Cornish) identity in relation to themes of heritage\, land and extraction industries. Sovay will deliver a public workshop series and an audiovisual film and a rock sculpture on the themes of Kernewek (Cornish) identity\, land and language. More information on this event here. \nThe artworks will be presented at Flamm in Redruth\, Cornwall on 21-22 October as part of a multi-layered programme of exhibitions and events. This project is funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund; European Structural and Investment\, Cornwall Council and Arts Council England. You can read more about Flamm and the two artists proposals at flamm.creativekernow.org.uk \nPart of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Abigail Reynolds\n \n \n \n \n \n Sovay Berriman URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/flamm/ CATEGORIES:Audio,Community & Participation,Multi-Art Form,Music,Platforma,Visual Arts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Test-Platforma-Overlay-6.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231020 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231022 DTSTAMP:20260607T160850 CREATED:20230724T175359Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144538Z UID:10000340-1697760000-1697932799@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:The Creative Sanctuary Symposium (Online) DESCRIPTION:The Creative Sanctuary symposium produced by Insiders / Outsiders Festival takes place online 20-21 October telling the story of Dartington Hall in Devon as an important place of sanctuary for refugees from Fascist Europe. Get your tickets on Eventbrite\, £0-35\, concessions available. \nDartington Hall\, established by Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst in the late 1920s as a utopian agricultural and educational experiment\, became a much-needed place of refuge for a significant number of eminent creative individuals\, who because of their Jewish background and/or anti-fascist stance\, were forced to leave Germany (and later\, Austria) after 1933. Spanish Republicans fleeing the Spanish Civil War were also welcomed. \nComprising a lively mixture of illustrated talks straddling multiple art forms (fine and applied arts\, architecture\, dance and music)\, discussions\, Q&A sessions and film screenings\, the programme will be aimed at both a general and a specialist audience\, local\, national and international. \nThe symposium\, which draws on the very latest archival researches by established and early career scholars alike\, will fill a significant gap in twentieth century British cultural and social history. \nFor full details of the programme\, including a breakdown of events and guest speakers\, see the Eventbrite page. \nThe symposium is kindly supported by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art\, Shoresh Charitable Trust\, the Elmgrant Trust and Counterpoints Arts. \nMain image: Hans Keller teaching at Summer School of Music\, Dartington Hall \nPart of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/the-creative-sanctuary-symposium-online/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Learning,Multi-Art Form,Platforma ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231015 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231019 DTSTAMP:20260607T160850 CREATED:20230915T125345Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144538Z UID:10000352-1697328000-1697673599@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:The South West SIM Project workshops at Martin Parr Foundation and The Royal Photographic Society (Bristol) DESCRIPTION:The SIM Project workshops give tangible meaning to people’s virtual networks and explore how the images we create and exchange through our smartphones map our place in the world. \nPeople who have experience of displacement and those working to support refugees and asylum seekers in the South West of England will be invited to workshops at Martin Parr Foundation and Royal Photographic Society in Bristol. In a process that combines analogue and digital photography with jewellery making and origami\, participants will create unique SIM-scale artefacts to keep\, wear and to be added to the project collection. \nThe personal artefacts made as part of Platforma will be exhibited in Houston\, Texas in 2024. They will be shown alongside SIM artefacts made by over 170 participants from countries including Afghanistan\, Syria\, Turkey\, Venezuela\, Hong Kong\, Senegal and Libya at previous workshops held in 7 countries across Europe. \nThe project is led by artist and anthropologist Liz Hingley\, with the support of Jeweller Sofie Boons and Frank Menger of the Centre for Print Research at the University of West England. Initially inspired by collaboration with Syrians on a UK resettlement programme in 2017\, the project was recently supported by Liz’s residency within the Department of Digital Humanities at Kings College London (2020-23) and is sponsored by 4JET: innovations in glass\, Just Castings and Beyond Print. \nMartin Parr Foundation will generously host the workshops and an accompanying pubic symposium on the 18th October bringing together artists whose works relates to themes of migration\, displacement and belonging. \nPart of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/the-south-west-sim-project-workshops-at-martin-parr-foundation-and-the-royal-photographic-society/ LOCATION:Martin Parr Foundation\, 316 Paintworks\, Bristol\, BS4 3AR\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Multi-Art Form,Platforma ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/SW-SIm-Workshops.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231007 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231009 DTSTAMP:20260607T160850 CREATED:20230915T110318Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144538Z UID:10000351-1696636800-1696809599@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:The South West SIM Project: memories in motion at BOP festival (Bristol) DESCRIPTION:‘As an immigrant\, I don’t really have roots\, I have tendrils\, which stretch to different places in the world where there are people I love’\nArgentinian project artist\, Cyprus\, 2022 \nThe SIM Project install a mobile exhibition in the Paintworks Event Space\, for BOP festival 23\, presenting over 100 personal glass and metal artefacts made by participants from countries including Afghanistan\, Syria\, Turkey\, Venezuela\, Hong Kong\, Senegal and Libya. \nThe SIM Project gives tangible meaning to people’s virtual networks and explores how the images we create and exchange through our smartphones map our place in the world. The unique wearable artefacts in the project collection have been made in workshops across Europe using a process which combines analogue and digital photography with jewellery making. \nThe project is led by artist and anthropologist Liz Hingley with the support of jeweller Sofie Boons and Frank Menger of the Centre for Print Research. It is inspired by and continues to evolve through conversation and craft with refugees and others who have experienced displacement to shape new ways of sharing\, valuing and archiving stories of migration. This chapter of the project is produced with Counterpoints Arts and supported by the University of West England and Martin Parr Foundation. \nPart of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/the-south-west-sim-project-memories-in-motion-at-bop-festival-bristol/ LOCATION:Paintworks Event Space\, The Airstream Main Courtyards\, Bristol\, BS4 3EH\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Multi-Art Form,Photography,Platforma ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/SW-SIm-Memories940.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230930T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231001T173000 DTSTAMP:20260607T160850 CREATED:20230919T133228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144539Z UID:10000359-1696075200-1696181400@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Core: Electronic Music Workshops (Cornwall) DESCRIPTION:Core: Electronic Music Workshops\nAS PART OF FLAMM BY CREATIVE KERNOW\nMake dance music for the mix at Abigail Reynolds’ Core in a quarry on the edge of Redruth. \nCore is an invitation to dance to the rhythms and sounds of a quarry which has been drilled with hundreds of deep holes. The quarry was a test site for the drills used to set dynamite deep inside the stone\, but has been silent for decades. The lost rhythm of the percussive drills will be replaced by loud electronic beats created entirely from recordings made in the quarry. For Core\, sounds from the quarry will mixed by an impressive list of music producers\, solo\, in collaboration\, and through workshops. \nThe workshops are for all levels\, from curious young people and beginners who want to learn how to mix a dance track\, through to experienced music producers. Tracks made in these sessions will be included in the final mix performed in the quarry on October 21st. Three beginners workshops for up to 12 people will be led by Stuart Blackmore and Toby Sadgrove. The workshops are free to attend\, with a suggested donation of £10. \nSat 30 Sept \n12pm-2.30pm                workshop 12+ years \n3pm-5.30pm                  workshop 16+ years \nSun 1 Oct \n1pm-3.30pm                  workshop 18+ years \nLocation: Krowji\, West Park\, Redruth\, Cornwall TR15 3GE \nBook here for the workshops! \n  \nFor Music Producers\nCore is looking for dance tracks\, made from sound samples recorded in the quarry. On Sunday 1st October 4-7pm\, there will also be a share session for music producers led by Martin Pease. This is a masterclass for music producers who have already downloaded the quarry recordings and made a start with their own kit. If you work with music/sound and are interested in creating a track for Core and attend the masterclass. Email coresubmissions2023@gmail.com for information and a link. \n  \nCORE is being presented as part of a multi-layered programme of exhibitions and events. Supported by Art Night\, Counterpoints Arts\, Creative Kernow\, Cultivator\, Good Growth\, Levelling Up\, Shared Prosperity Fund and Cornwall Council. Part of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/core-electronic-music-workshops/ LOCATION:Krowji\, West Park\, Cornwall\, TR15 3GE\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Learning,Multi-Art Form,Music,Platforma ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Website-Platforma-Overlay-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230930 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231108 DTSTAMP:20260607T160850 CREATED:20230129T162013Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144537Z UID:10000010-1696032000-1699401599@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Platforma 2023 : South West England DESCRIPTION:The Platforma festival is produced by Counterpoints Arts every two years in a different part of England\, in partnership with organisations\, artists and venues across many different art forms. \nThe 7th Platforma festival will take place across the South West\, to showcase the brilliant work being made\, develop networks and capacity\, and to share practice. \nWhile the focus will be on organisations and artists from within the region\, it is also a chance to feature those from elsewhere across the UK and internationally\, to forge new connections. \nWith more than 30 events across 5 weeks\, it will be the biggest Platforma ever. We believe it can also be the most impactful – at a time when the perspectives\, opportunities and connections that arts and culture can bring are urgently needed. \nPlatforma feature article by BBC Bristol \nEvents calendar \nFor more information contact hello@counterpoints.org.uk \nPROGRAMME LISTINGS \n30 September and 1 October: Core: Electronic Music Workshops (Redruth\, Cornwall) \n1-31 October: Good Evening We Are From Ukraine – Photography exhibition by Frankie Mills at (Ivybridge and Paignton Libraries\, with Libraries Unlimited) \n1 October: Celebrating the Arabic Speaking World – Try your hand at calligraphy\, sample snacks and hear poetry (Bristol) \n4 October: Come We Grow  – A sharing event celebrating the end of the Hip Hop Gardens programme working with a group of young people with refugee backgrounds by May Project Gardens (Bristol) \n5 October: Creating Connection – Inspiring a shared vision for the arts\, refugees and asylum seekers (Swindon) \n6-7 October: Ellipsis by Belén L.Yáñez – An interactive audio experience devised as a walking tour (Plymouth) \n7-8 October: The South West SIM Project install Memories in Motion at the BOP Festival (Bristol) \n7-28 October: Gwyrdh Glas Workshops (Redruth\, Cornwall) \n10 October: Palestine Comedy Club at the Palestine Museum (Bristol) \n12 October: Theatre of Migration – Carlota Matos and Hiba Elhindi discuss the ethics of working with migrants in theatre\, chaired by Vandna Mehta (Bristol) \n13 October: Soumik Datta Arts present an evening of music\, networking and the launch of their Green Room project (Stroud) \n15-18 October: The South West SIM Project workshops (Bristol) \n18 October: Picturing Displacement – A symposium with four photographers\, alongside a month-long exhibition of their work (Bristol) \n20-21 October: The Creative Sanctuary –  Online seminars exploring the story of Dartington Hall in Devon as an important place of sanctuary for refugees from Fascist Europe\, including many artists (online) \n20-21 October: Ellipsis by Belén L.Yáñez – An interactive audio experience devised as a walking tour (Swindon) \n21-22 October: Flamm – Two new commissions addressing themes of heritage\, language and migration by Cornwall-based artists Abigail Reynolds and Sovay Berriman (Redruth\, Cornwall). CORE by Abigail Reynolds will take place on Saturday 21st October. Gwyrdh Glas (tr. Green Green) by Sovay Berriman will take place Saturday 21st October  – Sunday 22nd October. \n21 October: CROWN//تاج  – The UK’s first touring production by Company Scheherazade\, combining classical Persian dance\, contemporary dance\, and Sufi movement (Dartington) \n21 October: Mohand and Peter – With humour and visual poetry\, Mohand and Peter will take you on a theatrical road trip through Sudan (Bristol) \n21 October: Humanity Hotel : Feasting – Bringing together asylum seekers\, refugees and local residents to celebrate the diversity of our cultures (Winford) \n22 October: Sudafest: Hope and Healing – A celebration of Sudanese storytelling\, live performances and music (Bristol) \n28 October: CROWN//تاج  – The UK’s first touring production by Company Scheherazade\, combining classical Persian dance\, contemporary dance\, and Sufi movement (Bristol) \n28-29 October: Dear Laila – Art installation by Basel Zaraa at The Palestine Museum that shares the Palestinian experience of displacement and struggle through the story of one family (Bristol) \n31 October: Theatre\, Food and a Culture of Belonging – Sharing practice with Trigger and Maison Foo (online) \n3-4 November: Climate and Displacement Mini:Retreat (Stroud) \n4 November: Re-imagine Community Practice: Cooperation Disco + Arty Farty Karaoke (Bristol) \n5 November: Name Me Lawand – documentary film about a young Kurdish boy seeking asylum with his family in the UK (Gloucester) \n5 November: No Direction Home stand-up comedy featuring Sami Abu Wardeh (Gloucester) \nAs part of Platforma we ran an open call for two public art commissions in partnership with ArtReach for work exploring Climate Justice and Displacement. The selected artists are: \n\ndhaqan collective\, a feminist Somali art collective\, who have constructed the House of Weaving Songs. The audio-visual outdoor installation seeks to preserve Somali nomadic culture and provide a sanctuary for our collective climate anxieties.\nKaajal Modi – a multidisciplinary designer\, artist and creative researcher with over five years experience working through accessible modes to engage communities around the UK into important conversations about culture\, sustainability and climate. Their co-creation practice incorporates illustration\, live art\, sound\, video and workshops to create lively and situated encounters between people\, organisms and ecosystems\n\nMore information about the presentation of their work will be coming soon. \nIllustration credit: Maya Mihindou URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/platforma-7-south-west-england/ CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form,Platforma ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Test-Platforma-Overlay.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230625T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230625T163000 DTSTAMP:20260607T160850 CREATED:20230517T052406Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144959Z UID:10000035-1687703400-1687710600@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:About Us! Artists’ Scratch Showcase DESCRIPTION:Looking for a safe space to share your creative ideas? Need inspiration for your next project? \nCalling all artists! Are you a creative looking for a safe space to share your ideas? Are you looking for inspiration for your next creative project? \nWhether or not you’re ready to embrace the name ‘artist’\, if you’re making work or thinking about it\, this event is for you. \nSign up via the form below for a chance to be selected to present your work (or work in progress) and engage in discussions with a room full of like-minded artistic experimenters. \nMusic\, film\, comedy\, drama\, improv\, visual art\, fashion and everything in between is welcome! \nFull running orders to be updated when the presenters have been selected. \nThis is an ongoing artists networking project\, led by AWATE\, supported by Counterpoints and Southbank Centre. Quotes from last year’s participants: \n‘It’s a wholly unique way to connect with your audience; I learned more about how audiences engage with my work at this event than I have for any other performance!’ – Laith Elzubaidi (writer/film-maker) \n‘[Artists’ Scratch Showcase] was such a warm\, collaborative and encouraging environment. It was so helpful to collaborate on my comedy in a space with lots of different perspectives and allowed me to look at what I was presenting from a different angle and incorporate new ideas.’ – Emily Bampton (writer/comedian) \n‘It allowed me to debut my first humanitarian documentary. Having had a shift of career direction from corporate industries\, I was so grateful to be able to present this important work\, which was well received by a beautiful crowd.’ – Saoud Khalaf (film-maker) \nTAKE PART\, APPLY HERE\n \nIf applying\, please make sure you’re available on the day\, and do join us even if you’re not selected. \nBook a FREE ticket to be part of the audience. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/about-us-artists-scratch-showcase/ LOCATION:Southbank Centre\, Belvedere Road\, London\, SE1 8XX CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Multi-Art Form ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/MCH_1VA1661-Counterpoints-RW2022-551.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230624T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230624T210000 DTSTAMP:20260607T160850 CREATED:20230515T091656Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144959Z UID:10000037-1687604400-1687640400@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:I'd search forever\, I want to remember DESCRIPTION:A project by Tamara Al-Mashouk \nAn all day multidisciplinary exhibition at a disused citadel in Dover featuring performance\, workshops guided tours and food. \nJoin us for a day in which Tamara Al-Mashouk and collaborators take over a disused Citadel exhibiting a wave machine + sound score\, a three-channel film and a photographic series. \nSet in a fortress built in the 1700s on the cliffs of Dover\, the day-long programme features a dance performance\, workshops and food. The day culminates with an audience-participatory performance that makes space for collective remembering. \nThe work presented is the result of a gathering of artists thinking and organising together. Manon Schwich\, Sami El-Enany\, Parker Heyl\, Angus Frost\, Lorella Bianco and Fadi Giha join Al-Mashouk in considering sites of solace within embodied experiences of hyper-politicisation. \nI’d search forever\, I want to remember is the culmination of a body of work that began in 2018 with a 10.5 hour durational performance by Al-Mashouk called Can you die if you don’t exist? where she read the names of 34\,361 refugees who died on their way to Europe off The List (published by The Guardian\, 2018). The performance was for Deeplab and commissioned by Mediale. \nI’d search forever\, I want to remember is in commissioned by Counterpoints Arts and Arts Council England and co-commissioned by Shubbak Festival. \nIn partnership with: Dover Arts Development\, The Citadel\, Refugee Week\, Samphire\, Future Foundry and SENSE. \nPRESS RELEASE_I’d search forever\, I want to remember URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/id-search-forever-i-want-to-remember/ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Multi-Art Form,Performance & Dance,Visual Arts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Insta-post_square.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230623T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230623T200000 DTSTAMP:20260607T160850 CREATED:20230602T073254Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145000Z UID:10000018-1687545000-1687550400@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:The Art Persists: Live Podcast and Music DESCRIPTION:Bosla Arts and Counterpoints Arts are hosting the first ever live podcast recording of The Art Persists Podcast\, featuring artists Laura Nyahuye\, Ghafar Tajmohammad\, and Olga Tkachenko\, hosted by Georgia Beeston. \nThe live podcast will draw on Nyahuye’s exhibition\, Resilience: Friend or Foe?\, and Bosla Art’s latest issue Beyond Resilience. Together\, we will examine role of resilience and its limitations in each of the artists’ contexts; from addressing social issues through art\, to the Afghan diaspora experience\, and finally escaping war in Ukraine. The conversation will uncover each artist’s practice and explore solidarity action between countries and contexts. \nThe event will be followed by a Q&A and a performance by Syrian musician USTAVI. After the event attendees will be invited to stay for drinks and a social. \nFull details and booking via Eventbrite \nSupported by Pearson Lloyd \n \n \n  URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/the-art-persists-live-podcast-and-music/ CATEGORIES:Learning,Multi-Art Form ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/3faccf8e-8920-4e5c-b9ac-f8ca9c5f7244-e1686581327737.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220626T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220626T160000 DTSTAMP:20260607T160850 CREATED:20220517T112359Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145001Z UID:10000064-1656244800-1656259200@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Artists' Scratch Showcase DESCRIPTION:Are you a creative looking for a safe space to share your ideas? Are you looking for inspiration for your next creative project?\n  \nWhether or not you’re ready to embrace the name ‘artist’\, if you’re making work or thinking about it\, this event is for you. \nSign up to one or both of our two sessions to present your work (or work in progress) and engage in discussions with a room full of like-minded artistic experimenters. \nMusic\, film\, comedy\, drama\, improv\, visual art and everything in between is welcome! \nThe event features guest showcases in collaboration with Counterpoints partners at TekstLab\, Oslo. \nFull running orders to be updated when the presenters have been selected. \n  \nFree\, but ticketed. For ages 16+. \n  \n\n\n\n\nApply here to be featured in this showcase by telling us a bit about you and your work.  This event is split into two sessions with different presentations in each. Please book a ticket for both sessions if you want to attend both. \nThis event takes place on the Queen Elizabeth Hall stage. Please get in touch if you need level access. For more info email Southbank Centre at hello@southbankcentre.co.uk \n  URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/artists-scratch-showcase/ CATEGORIES:Literature & Spoken Word,Multi-Art Form,Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/55350023-scaled-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220625T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220625T163000 DTSTAMP:20260607T160850 CREATED:20220609T180012Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145003Z UID:10000050-1656165600-1656174600@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:V&A Play for Progress Pop Up Performance DESCRIPTION:Join young people from Play for Progress for an informal pop up performance and get ready to join in! \nPlay for Progress tap into the healing power of music\, the arts\, play\, and creative therapies to build healthy and resilient relationships that support and amplify the voices of unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people. \nPerformance times: 14.00 and 16.00. \nThis event is free and part of V&A’s Refugee Week programme of events celebrating community and mutual care. Find out more information at V&A website. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/play-for-progress-pop-up-performance/ CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/play-for-progress_640.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220625T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220625T173000 DTSTAMP:20260607T160850 CREATED:20220620T092712Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145003Z UID:10000044-1656162000-1656178200@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Celebrating Sanctuary: Lewisham Refugee Week Festival DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate Refugee Week at the Horniman\, with partners from across Lewisham. \nCelebrating Sanctuary will be an afternoon of live music and dance\, storytelling\, workshops and more\, all by people newly arrived in Lewisham from around the world. Community organisations have joined together to create a programme that will be taking place across the Horniman Museum and Gardens. \nTaking place across the beautiful Horniman Museum and Gardens\, this mini-festival has been developed in partnership with Create Without Borders and We Are Lewisham\, London Borough of Culture 2022\, to mark Lewisham’s status as the UK’s first Borough of Sanctuary. \nFor all ages unless otherwise stated. Workshop numbers will be limited on a first come\, first served basis\, so get there early to grab your spot! \nProgramme for the day: \nConservatory\nAll day\nInformation stall. Come and find out about local groups and how you can get involved\nin upcoming projects and campaigns. \nAll day\nLewisham Fostering Team. Information about fostering unaccompanied refugee children and young people. \nAll day\nArt exhibition. A showcase of paintings from Create Without Borders. \nAll day\nMessages from the Heart – Hope in the Heart X LRMN. This exhibition is a rich collection of images\, personal narrative and more\, created by people with Lived Experience. \nAll day\nHealing Together. A collaborative artwork inspired by the paintings of Abel Rodríguez.\nAll day Sanctuary banner. A giant welcome banner created by Year 5 and 6 students with artist Ghafar Tajmohammad as part of the Migration Museum’s involvement in the Walk With Amal project at Deptford. \n2-5pm \nHealing pods. Exploring the notion of Healing through Design\, this project unites people across London and Athens as part of Refugee Week through a virtual experience in a place without borders. \n1-2pm and 3-4pm\nWellbeing session. Head/hand massage\, reiki (sign–up). \n3–4pm\nTea and biscuits with Refugee Café \n3–4pm\nWellbeing session. Head/hand massage\, reiki (sign–up). \nOutside\n2–2. 30pm\nKids Yoga. Introducing fun ways to incorporate mindfulness and balance \n  \nBandstand\nAll day Stall.\nAffordable art\, coffee\, clothing\, preserves and other tasty treats from a collective of refugee artists and organisations. \n1pm\nOpening address from Councillor Campbell \n1.05–2pm\nFashion Show.\nA showcase of traditional clothing from around the world. \n2.15–2.45pm\nDance Performance. A mix of dances from Latin America with Asociación de Madres y Padres Latinoamericanos and LAF Community Salay UK. \n3–3.45pm\nThe Flotsam Orchestra. An incredible global roots ensemble. \n4–4.30pm\nOpen Mic. Readings\, spoken word and comedy. \n4.45–5pm\nE–S–K–I–S–T–A. Learn traditional Ethiopian dance. \n5–5.30pm\nClosing the day. Music and dancing. Music gallery performance space. \nAll day\nSonic Minds. An interactive sculpture co–produced with children and young people who have experienced displacement. \n1–1.30pm\nSafe HAVEN. Join Usman Khalid for a screening of the film Safe HAVEN and audience Q&A. \n2–2.30pm\nFlotsam music workshop. Learn an Afro–Colombian song with Jenny Parra and the Flotsam Orchestra! \n3–3.45pm\nComedy workshop. An interactive workshop with comedienne Ola Labib. \n4–5pm\n#NoticeUs. Healing through taking action together. Online performance and discussion on the campaign to improve temporary accommodation. \nEducation Centre (1)\nAll day Photo exhibition. An exhibition of photos taken of the 2021 Migrant Connections Festival. \n1–1.45pm\nMindfulness photography. Connect with nature through photography. This session will include a walk through the Horniman Gardens. \n2–2.45pm\nMarco’s Miracle Mountain – family cookie decoration. Join Refugee Café to decorate\nEcuadorian biscuits and bread. Fun for all the family! \n3.15–4pm\nMessages from the Heart. Arts and crafts –visit the exhibition and then create your own ‘Message from the Heart’. \n4.15– 5pm\nCalligraphy workshop. Using traditional and modern Persian letters and words – create a drawing to take home. \nEducation Centre (2)\nAll day Photo exhibition. An exhibition of photos taken of the 2021 Migrant Connections Festival. \n1.50–2.50pm\nLondon Must Act workshop. Find out ways to support our campaign fighting for a humane migration policy for all. \n3.10–4.10pm\nWhat makes a good migrant festival? This workshop\, hosted next to Migrant Connections exhibition space\, explores what makes a good migrant festival. \nHands on base\n1–1.20pm\nThis London. Short performance following the journeys of migrant women arriving in the UK. \n1.30–2.30pm\nStorytelling with object handling. Share and create your own story with museum artefacts. \n2.45–3.45pm\nThis is London. Short performance following the journeys of migrant women arriving to the UK and workshop on building a Borough of Sanctuary. \n4–5pm\nDesta (Happiness) Workshop. A wellbeing workshop using creativity\, discussions exploring our journey and hopes for the future. For adults and children 10+. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-festival-celebrating-sanctuary/ LOCATION:Horniman Museum and Gardens\, 100 London Road\, London\, \, SE23 3PQ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Multi-Art Form,Music,Theatre ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/download.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220625 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220627 DTSTAMP:20260607T160850 CREATED:20220616T135848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145001Z UID:10000045-1656115200-1656287999@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:I.A.M. THESE PEOPLE DESCRIPTION:A participatory nomadic street cafe in Cliftonville\, Margate created by Dipesh Pandya; reclaiming public space to explore sonic cultures of [im]migrant and refugee trajectories. \nFree. \nOrganised by hands.up.if.you.re.brown and supported by Counterpoints Arts. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/i-a-m-these-people/ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Multi-Art Form ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image0-1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220620T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220726T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T160850 CREATED:20220511T100303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145001Z UID:10000075-1655683200-1658793600@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Refugee Week 2022 DESCRIPTION:Refugee Week\, co-ordinated by Counterpoints Arts will be taking place across the UK and internationally from 20-26 June. \nThe theme this year is Healing. Through creativity and conversations\, Refugee Week 2022 will be a celebration of community\, mutual care\, and the human ability to start again. \nThe lead illustration for Refugee Week 2022 is by Nima Javan\, a painter specialising in traditional Persian art and contemporary abstract art. Nima’s current work is inspired by ‘Persian miniatures’\, using characters found in traditional paintings as well as his own creations. Originally from Quchan in North East Iran\, Nima sought refuge in the UK in 2019. The illustration is commissioned for Refugee Week by Counterpoints Arts. \nIf you’re holding your own event for Refugee Week\, you’re welcome to use Nima’s image in your Refugee Week publicity\, crediting ‘image by Nima Javan for Refugee Week’ where possible. You can crop the image if needed but we ask that you don’t modify it – thanks! \nRefugee Week is a festival celebrating the contributions\, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary. Founded in 1998 and held every year around World Refugee Day on the 20 June\, Refugee Week is also a growing global movement\, with many events planned for 2022 in countries including Australia\, Greece and Germany (both in collaboration with Counterpoints Arts)\, Malta\, Taiwan and Hong Kong. \nThrough a programme of arts\, cultural\, sports and educational events alongside media and creative campaigns\, Refugee Week enables people from different backgrounds to connect beyond labels\, as well as encouraging understanding of why people are displaced\, and the challenges they face when seeking safety.  Refugee Week is a platform for people who have sought safety to share their experiences\, perspectives and creative work on their own terms. \nRefugee Week’s vision is for refugees and asylum seekers to be able to live safely within inclusive and resilient communities\, where they can continue to make a valuable contribution. \nRefugee Week is an umbrella festival\, and anyone can get involved by holding or joining an event or activity. Refugee Week events happen in all kinds of different spaces and range from arts festivals\, exhibitions\, film screenings and museum tours to football tournaments\, public talks and activities in schools. \n\nA selection from our Refugee Week programme: \n20th June at BFI\, 2 -3.35pm\, Le Havre\nhttps://counterpoints.org.uk/event/le-havre/\nSet in the port city of Le Havre\, this charming comedy-drama tells the story of an ageing bohemian\, his wife and the wider community as they confront everyday hardships of their own but also that of the refugee crisis that surrounds them.\nGuest list/tickets.\n\n24th June at SBC\, 7.45 to 9.15pm\, Passage: New writing on migration and displacement\nhttps://counterpoints.org.uk/event/passage-new-writing-on-displacement-and-migration/\nThe event features a line-up of artists and writers at the forefront of driving social change through their storytelling.Chaired by Christy Lefteri with Helen Benedict (Footnote)\, Ania bas + one TBC.\nGuest list/tickets.\n\n24th June at V&A\, from 6.30pm\, our Friday Late collaboration with BLM Fest and V&A\nInfo published this week\, the programme includes a screening and panel on the LGBTQI+\, Black and People of Colour histories\, London Ballroom and vouguing performance and workshop\, Black queer history poetry workshop and performance in the John Madejsko garden/pool.\n \n25th June\, 1 to 5.30pm\, Celebrating Sanctuary: Lewisham Refugee Week Festival at the Horniman Museum\nhttps://counterpoints.org.uk/event/celebrating-sanctuary-lewisham-refugee-week-festival/\nA day of fun and thought-provoking art\, performance\, food\, music\, workshops and discussion celebrating Lewisham’s richly diverse communities. With a host of local community organisations. Full programme announced shortly.\n\n25th June at SBC\, 7.45 to 9.30pm\, Awate presents: About Us\nhttps://counterpoints.org.uk/event/awate-presents-about-us/\nThe Eritrean-born\, Camden-raised wordsmith\, poet\, rapper\, producer and activist curates this event as part of Refugee Week 2022. The line-up includes resident DJ for the night TrYb\, as well as live performances from IsattaSheriff\, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan\, Susanne Xin and Kofi Stone.\nGuest list/tickets.\n\n26th June at SBC\, 7.45 to 9.45pm\, No Direction Home\nhttps://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/gigs/no-direction-home?eventId=911030\nWith host Ola Labib\, headlined by Fatiha El-Ghorri\nGuest list/tickets.\n\n21st to 26th June\, at varous times\, Alter by Distanced Assemblage\nhttps://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/art-exhibitions/alter\nOur co-commision with Southbank centre\, inspired by the rich history of Southbank Centre and notions of refuge and displacement. The installation of seven movable sculptures filling the public spaces with sound sand colour. The artists are runing sculpture\, movement and creative writing workshops through out the week. The installation is on the spirit Level at the start of the week\, moving to Clore Ballroom from 24th to 26th June.\n \n  \nFull details about Refugee Week events\, plus resources and inspirations including the Simple Acts programme can be found on the Refugee Week website. \nRefugee Week is a partnership project coordinated and managed by Counterpoints Arts. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-2022/ CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Nima-Javan-RW-Comission-2022-1024x1024-1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220619T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220619T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T160850 CREATED:20220609T133343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145005Z UID:10000054-1655596800-1655596800@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:V&A Family Trail: Refugee stories DESCRIPTION:Go on a journey around the museum and explore six objects that tell a story about people who became refugees. This trail is aimed at families with children. \n\nThe United Nations Refugee Agency states that refugees are people who have fled war\, violence\, conflict or persecution and have crossed an international border to find safety in another country. Refugees often have had to flee with little more than the clothes on their back\, leaving behind homes\, possessions\, jobs and loved ones. Walk this trail with your family or friends to celebrate the contribution of refugees to the United Kingdom and encourage better understanding between communities. \n\nThis event is free and part of V&A’s Refugee Week programme of events celebrating community and mutual care. Found out more about the history of the objects included in the trail at the V&A website. \nImage: Dish\, by unknown maker\, about 1880\, Mumbai\, India. Museum no. IS.185-1965. © Victoria and Albert Museum\, London URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/va-family-trail-refugee-stories/ CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Plate.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220609T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220611T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T160850 CREATED:20220609T150642Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145006Z UID:10000053-1654772400-1654905600@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:V&A Female Voices Tour DESCRIPTION:Uncover the contribution of women to art and design on this special tour taking place every Saturday at 11.00. \nThere have always been women artists but\, until very recently they’ve often been ignored by the art world. This V&A Volunteer Guide-led tours highlights the leading role of women as artists but also patrons\, muses\, creators\, business partners and more. \nThis event is free and part of V&A’s Refugee Week programme of events celebrating community and mutual care. Find out more information at V&A website. \n  URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/female-voices-tour/ CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/female-voices-tour_640.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220120 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220205 DTSTAMP:20260607T160850 CREATED:20211211T103232Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145007Z UID:10000144-1642636800-1644019199@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Syrian Arts and Culture Festival DESCRIPTION:SACF is a multidisciplinary arts festival showcasing Syria’s vibrant arts and culture. The curated multi-disciplinary programme of events offers a creative collision of film\, music\, performance\, visual arts and talks. The festival brings together established alongside emerging artists\, filmmakers\, performers\, and musicians to offer London audiences alternative narratives and perspectives on Syria\, its people\, and culture. \nThe festival’s name\, SACF\, is an acronym for Syrian Arts and Culture Festival. It also is a transliteration of the Arabic word ‘سقف’\, meaning ‘roof’ or ‘ceiling’\, a word which is also colloquially used to represent the very ‘limit’ of something. By drawing on these imaginaries\, SACF sets out to embody multiple meanings. On one hand\, the festival aims to bring people together under a shared roof\, where new connections and understandings can take shape. On the other hand\, it acts as a provocation against the limits imposed on forms of creative expression that many Syrians have cunningly navigated. SACF aspires to be a creative platform where limits can be pushed and boundaries are broken. \nThis year’s inaugural festival offers a platform to showcase a rich and exciting body of artistic output and creative expression that sheds light on Syria’s historical\, economic\, social\, political and cultural specificities. It presents a multitude of entry points through which to approach and reflect on present-day Syria\, pitting the richness and diversity of Syria\, along with its local intricacies\, against the uniformity portrayed by the global media and its images. Such an assemblage of works then necessarily points towards the plurality of the people and modes of existence that have constituted the formation of Syria since its independence in 1946. \nThe festival emerges as a site of counterrepresentation\, where a broad range of narratives\, topics and issues can begin to make their way to the surface\, allowed to be made visible once again. This importantly\, presents a portal\, wherein connections between past realities and present-day urgencies can be redrawn\, offering a lens through which the revolutionary aspirations of 2011 and the violent and destructive suppression that has since engulfed the country can be re-witnessed not as an isolated set of events\, but rather encountered as a series of situated historical processes. This then opens up a space to creatively and critically reflect on a number of pertinent questions: How can we begin to renegotiate the present through the lens of the past? What reparative possibilities can be realised through such encounters? And lastly\, what new trajectories towards the future can be generated as a result? \nSAFC 2022 is supported by Arts Council England\, Shubbak\, Ettijahat and Counterpoints Arts URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/syrian-arts-and-culture-festival/ CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/city-dreams-photo-6-min.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211116 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211124 DTSTAMP:20260607T160850 CREATED:20211109T100913Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145007Z UID:10000147-1637020800-1637711999@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:STORIES FROM THE ‘ROADS’ OF EMPIRE - public event and exhibition DESCRIPTION:Tracing narratives of catastrophe\, displacement\, renewal\, and contestation associated with empire.\nMigration narratives are often told by those who have not experienced them.\nHow do we reclaim the lived complexities of our stories when they are told on our behalf by institutions? \nJoin us for an exhibition with artwork and reflections by BLKBRD Collective\, Dana Olarescu\, London South Bank University  academics Ozan Kamiloglu\, Henry Redwood\, and Elian Weizman\, responding to the stories of 17 Londoners. \nThe exhibition opens at LSU’s Borough Gallery with talks and drinks reception on 16th November  (18:00 – 21:00) and runs on 17th\, 18th\, 19th\, 22nd and 23rd (12:00 to 18:00).\nLive music performance by Ibrahim Fanous during the opening event. \nThe event reflects on the work produced  following an earlier workshop with 17 Londoners\, through the following questions and more: How different stories from the roads of empire entwines? What are the conditions of recreating a life after a long journey? How can we think about official archives of empire with oral histories and personal stories? How can we create a different understanding of the past that will inform a different politics of the present\, and future? \nThis project is a London South Bank University initiative in collaboration with\nCounterpoints Arts\, and part of the Being Human Festival. Register free here. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/stories-from-the-roads-of-empire-public-event-and-exhibition/ CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form,Visual Arts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Stories-from-the-Roads-of-Empire-exhibition-insta-image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211001 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211108 DTSTAMP:20260607T160850 CREATED:20210522T132725Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145007Z UID:10000189-1633046400-1636329599@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Platforma 6 in Yorkshire DESCRIPTION:Our biennial Platforma festival is coming to Yorkshire! \nPlatforma 6 will take place at a range of venues and public spaces across the county 1 October-7 November 2021\, produced by Counterpoints Arts in partnership with more than 20 different organisations\, artists and collectives. \nThe Platforma festival takes place in a different part of England every two years. It brings together artists\, organisations\, funders and others to showcase work\, develop networks and capacity\, share practice and to learn. \nThe programme for Platforma 6 will include: \nSuitcases: Telling Textile Travels \nA specially commissioned online exhibition that will incorporate over 20 international textiles from the Conflict Textiles collection focused on global displacement\, both historical and current. A short film will offer an in depth insight to the textiles. There will also be an online guided tour and a series of in-person and online events and programming inspired by the exhibition. \nLeeds Playhouse: Theatres of Sanctuary \nAs part of their programme for Platforma 6\, Leeds Playhouse\, who were the first ever Theatre of Sanctuary\, will host a Theatre of Sanctuary Network meeting.  A panel discussion produced in partnership with Opera North will focus on best practice for arts organisations that are working with people who are seeking sanctuary. \nFriendship Through Puppets \n6 Million + in Dewsbury are working with local people of all ages and backgrounds\, including refugees from Syria to create a giant puppet 4 metres tall based on Najma\, a Syrian woman re-settled in Kirklees – the seventh ‘Weeping Sister’ giant puppet created by 6 million +. All of the puppets will take part in a special parade for Platforma 6. \nIn Which Language Do We Dream? : Rich Wiles and the al-Hindawi family \nAn exhibition at Impressions Gallery Bradford that offers fresh insights into the issues of displacement\, identity\, resettlement\, integration and home\, through the photographic perspectives of a Syrian family with first-hand experience. It is a co-created project funded by Arts Council England\, bringing together a 5-year photographic collaboration between socially-engaged photographer Rich Wiles and the al-Hindawi family\, through discussions with curator Anne McNeil. Picture: Re-worked family archive photograph. © Rich Wiles/al-Hindawi family \nPoetry @ Platforma 6 \nPoetry workshops and performance as part of a special project for Platforma 6 led by Kayo Chingonyi. \nCommissioned by Counterpoints Arts for the sixth biennial Platforma Festivial\, poets will work with participants across Yorkshire to create new work for local performances. \nThe project is being led by  poet Kayo Chingonyi (insta @kayochingonyi)\, whose first collection Kumukanda won the Costa Prize and whose new collection\, A Blood Condition\, is shortlisted for the Forward Prize. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Studies at Durham University. \nThe workshops and performances will take place in the following locations: \n– Barnsley\, with Barnsley Feels Like Home – led by Andrew McMillan (Insta: @andrewpoetry\, Twitter: @AMcMillanPoet) \n– Halifax\, with St Augustine’s Centre and Halifax Festival of Words (performance: 22 October) – led  by Khadijah Ibrahim (Insta: @khadijah.ibrahiim)\n \n– Rotherham\, with British Red Cross and Grimm & Co – led by Helen Mort  (Insta: @morty_but_nice\nTwitter: @HelenMort) \nA one-off workshop will take place in Bradford led by Anan Tello\, in partnership with Artworks Creative Communities. \nKayo Chingonyi picture (c) Smart Banda \nThis commission is part of the Across Borders programme from Counterpoints Arts\, supported by Comic Relief. \nOther Platforma 6 partner organisations and artists include East Street Arts\, Art House\, Intercultured Festival\, St Augustine’s Centre in Halifax\, Barnsley Feels Like Home\, Mafwa Theatre\, Matilda Velevitch\, Varvara Shavrova\, Compass Theatre. \nFull programme URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/platforma-6-in-yorkshire/ CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/cropped-Instagram-post-black-copy.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211001 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211030 DTSTAMP:20260607T160850 CREATED:20210726T142420Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145008Z UID:10000162-1633046400-1635551999@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Autumn School - Create and Counterpoints Arts DESCRIPTION:Participants at the 2018 Summer School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice\, held in Carlingford\, Co. Louth. Photo: Aoife Herrity\n  \nCreate and Counterpoints Arts are pleased to announce the 2021 School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice for up to 12 artists. Due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions and social distancing\, we will host the 2021 School virtually over five days: 1\, 8\, 1\, 22\, 29 October. The Autumn School is an initiative of The Arts Council of Ireland’s Artist in the Community (AIC) Scheme\, managed by Create. \nAbout the Autumn School \nThe virtual Autumn School is shaped by global and translocal practices. It is fundamentally informed by the diverse life experiences and creative practices of participants\, and the work and mentoring of visiting facilitators. The focus of learning in the School is enabled by an exploration of the critical space between the lived realities of cultural diversity and the connective methodologies and collective actions underpinning collaborative practice. \nThe School is interdisciplinary in its curriculum and composition of participants\, presenters and facilitators. Together we will explore what cultural diversity means in practice – in people’s intimate lives\, in neighbourhoods and within communities of place and interest. Lines of inquiry include the following questions\, among others: \n\nThe concept of cultural diversity is often narrowly (sometimes stereotypically) read through the lens of policy\, but how does the practice of cultural diversity resonate as an intersectional and dynamic part of everyday life? And by extension how might the language around cultural diversity be challenged and repositioned?\nHow might the experience of cultural diversity be enacted in the context of collaborative arts practice and vice versa?\nHow can cultural diversity and working cooperatively form an intrinsic part of the artistic\, socially engaged process\, acting as a powerful driver for social change in both local communities and within arts organisations?\nHow to understand the critical intersection of cultural diversity and collaborative arts practice in the context of decolonisation and the urgency of global racial justice movements?\n\nThe 2021 School will take the form of a five-day virtual residency enabling a ‘think and do’ collaborative approach\, utilizing creative workshops\, critical and comparative case studies\, a creative group challenge\, one-to-one mentoring\, international guest artists including curators\, policymakers and activists. \nThe deadline for submission to be part of the School is the 30 August 2021\, 5pm. You will find guidelines and an online application form linked on this page: Autumn School \nDirected by: Dr Áine O’Brien – Curator of Learning and Research and Co-Founder\, Counterpoints Arts \nCo-Facilitator \nIsabel Lima\, Independent Artist and Director of The Gresham Horse project \nVisiting artists and facilitators include: \nDana Olărescu\, Independent Artist and Cultural Activist \nIsmail Einashe\, Investigative Journalist and Cultural Activist \nNike Jonah\, Executive Director of PACE (Pan-African Creative Exchange) \nDominik Czechowski\, International Curator\, Researcher and Writer \n  URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/autumn-school-create-and-counterpoints-arts/ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Learning,Multi-Art Form ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/SSCD_WEB_COL_0640-640x480-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210901 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210906 DTSTAMP:20260607T160850 CREATED:20210824T073709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145008Z UID:10000161-1630454400-1630886399@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Across Borders: Body & Self DESCRIPTION:Group exhibition with Arin Ismail\, Azadeh Kiankhah\, Isadora Canela\, Michael(a) Daoud\, Minna Etein and Paula Muhr. \nOpening: 1.9.2021\, 6:00 – 9:00 pm \nOpen daily 2.9. – 5.9.2021\, 12:00 – 6:00 pm \nSymposium: 4.9.2021\, 1:00 – 6:00 pm \nThe exhibition Across Borders: Body & Self is a collaboration between Counterpoints Arts and coculture Berlin inspired by Mojisola Adebayo’s Leaves from Family Tree commissioned by Counterpoints Arts and performed in the summer of 2021 at ZK/U Berlin. \nThe six artists were selected from an open call to submit existing work that explores the themes of body & self in the context of migration and displacement. \nMojisola’s performance explored environmental justice and migration via the incredible story of Henrietta Lacks\, an African American tobacco farmer descended from enslaved people. Henrietta had her body cells taken without her knowledge for medical research and seventy years later\, even after her death\, they are still multiplying and continue to be used in laboratories all over the world\, without her permission. Millions of us benefit from it today\, even though most of us have never heard her name. By talking about her story today\, we place her body and her(self) on the map of contemporary Berlin. \nUsing a variety of media the artists in this exhibition add their own personal and political discursive angles – be it feminist\, migrant\, queer or medical – to the exploration of memory and identity in the context of the body & self. Whether this happens via a relationship between the body and an object\, by turning toward our inner skins and senses\, by connecting historical events across the 20th and 21st centuries using the body\, by testing the limits of their own bodies through durational rituals or repetitive habitual acts – they ask us to question the logic of the subjectivity and materiality of crossing borders. \nOn Saturday 4th September at 1 – 6pm\, there will be a symposium with Mojisola Adebayo and five other artists talking about their work and how they explore the issues around the body & self. The full programme along with the name of the artists will be announced on 25th August. You can book a free place at the symposium via Eventrbrite. \nCo-curated with coculture by Natasha Davis for Counterpoints Arts . For any further questions please contact Natasha Davis via hello@counterpoints.org.uk \nThe exhibition is part of the three-year programme Across Borders by Counterpoints Arts in the UK\, Germany and Greece\, in collaboration with local partners\, developing arts and pop culture projects that help normalise and diversify representations of migrants and people seeking refuge. The programme is supported by Comic Relief. \nCounterpoints Arts works in the UK and internationally on the arts\, migration and cultural change. \ncoculture is a Berlin-based non-profit cultural organisation founded by conceptual artist Khaled Barakeh as a response to the challenges faced by displaced cultural producers. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/across-borders-body-self/ CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Across-Borders-Body-Self.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210609 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210628 DTSTAMP:20260607T160850 CREATED:20210527T154616Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145008Z UID:10000182-1623196800-1624838399@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Refugee Week 2021 at the V&A: We cannot walk alone DESCRIPTION:Image: As Far As Isolation Goes\, by Tania El-Khoury and Basel Zaraa. Credit: Marcia Chandra. \n  \nWe’ll shortly be announcing the final exciting elements of our collaboration with the V&A. \nJoin us for a week long programme of online activities and in-person projects \nThe programme includes: \n  \nMisan Harriman: We Cannot Walk Alone \nat V&A’s Dome\, Main Entrance \nA new portrait series by acclaimed photographer Misan Harriman captures eight artistic and cultural figures sharing the message ‘We Cannot Walk Alone’ for Refugee Week 2021. The figures\, who range from children’s author Michael Rosen to aspiring pilot and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Maya Ghazal\, are people who have chosen to ‘walk alongside others’ in a range of creative ways\, showing that all of us have a role to play in creating a world where everyone is welcomed\, included and valued. \n\nFigures include:\n\nMichael Rosen\, Children’s Author and Poet \nYasmin Khan\, Author\, Broadcaster and Cook \nIkram Abdi Omar\, Model \nMaya Ghazal\, Pilot\, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador and Syrian refugee \nBishop Jonathan Clark\, Bishop of Croydon \nHossam Fazulla\, Filmmaker and Producer \nAyanna Witter-Johnson\, Cellist and Singer \nMaria Igwebuike\, Sustainable Lingerie Designer \n  \nOnline Workshop: Shemza Islamic Digital Painting. Supported by Art Jameel. \nOnline\, 12th June\, 10:30 to 12:30 \nCreate your own digital paintings inspired by the work of artist Anwar Jalal Shemza and objects from the V&A collection. Led by renowned multimedia artist Aphra Shemza\, develop your digital art skills while learning about the place of migrant voices within British Art History. \nBook your place here. \nThis workshop is centred around the shemza.digital project\, a collaboration with computer artist Stuart Batchelor and the Estate of Anwar Jalal Shemza. Shemza.digital is based on the work of Aphra’s grandfather\, British/Pakistani painter Anwar Jalal Shemza. \nNo previous experience needed. This event will take place through Zoom. For this workshop you will be use a free online digital painting tool that requires access to a desktop computer\, laptop or tablet. This workshop is for adults 18+ \n  \nOnline Workshops: This Home In My Hand with Samak Bilab Bi Delo. Supported by Art Jameel. \nOnline\, 14th June\, 18:30 to 20:30 \nWherever you call home\, this two part workshop invites you to explore the intersection of local industry\, heritage craft\, and material composition. How might these connections inspire regeneration and foster community? Hear about the work of Samak Bilab Bi Delo in Palestine and Jordan\, and take inspiration from the V&A collection to think about how objects from the past might inform contemporary design and change society. Participants will be invited to develop and share design ideas connected to their region. \nHosted by the founders of Samak Bilab Bi Delo\, a multi-national artist collective that combines art education\, heritage Palestinian craft and textile production\, and Jordanian artisanal dyeing. \nPart 1: The Museum in My Home – Redefining material; find a new perspective of personal possessions through an exploration of objects from the V&A collection \nPart 2: Hands on! How objects can inform contemporary design and change society \nBook your place. \nThis event will take place through Zoom. For this workshop you will need access to a desktop computer\, laptop or tablet.\nThis workshop is for adults 18+ \nwww.samakbilabbidelo.com\nwww.instagram.com/samakbilabbidelo \n  \nOnline Talk: LGBTQ/Refugee Week \nOnline\, 16th June\, 13:00 to 14:00 \nJoin the V&A’s award-winning LGBTQ+ guides for this special online tour created especially for Refugee Week. Celebrating the 2021 theme ‘We Cannot Walk Alone’\, this talk will share the remarkable stories of LGBTQ+ refugees who were trailblazers in their field of art or performance and paved the way for others. \nBook your place here. \nThis talk will take place over Zoom: you will require access to a desktop computer\, laptop or tablet. For adults 18+ \n  \nOnline Workshop: Shemza Digital Islamic Painting (13-15 Years). Supported by Art Jameel. \nOnline\, 22 June\, 17:00 to 18:00 \nCreate your own digital paintings inspired by the work of artist Anwar Jalal Shemza and objects from the V&A collection. Led by renowned multimedia artist Aphra Shemza\, develop your digital art skills while learning about the place of migrant voices within British Art History. Please note this online workshop is for young people aged 13-15. \nBook your place. \nParent/Guardian consent form. \nThis workshop is centred around the shemza.digital project\, a collaboration with computer artist Stuart Batchelor and the Estate of Anwar Jalal Shemza. Shemza.digital is based on the work of Aphra’s grandfather\, British/Pakistani painter Anwar Jalal Shemza. \nNo previous experience needed. Please get a parent or guardian to complete the consent form and email it to us ahead of the event.\nThis event will take place through Zoom. For this workshop you will be use a free online digital painting tool that requires access to a desktop computer\, laptop or tablet. \n  \n  URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-2021-at-the-va/ CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/MCH041_RefugeeWeek2019_VA-1-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201027 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201031 DTSTAMP:20260607T160850 CREATED:20201027T051852Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145415Z UID:10000224-1603756800-1604102399@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Black Heroes & Sheroes DESCRIPTION:This Black History Month we celebrate some of the black artists we work with\, who have either experienced displacement and/or make work that speaks of the interconnected themes of migration and racial justice. We’ve invited the artists to tell their stories through their work\, and tell stories of their own heroes and sheroes\, of contributions and histories that are an integral part of the culture and history of this country. \nOur Traces Project has two new profiles published to mark the Month. Mohammed Yahya is a Mozambican rapper who has performed internationally and has a socially engaged practice using music to build and inspire young people. Read Mohammed’s profile here. \nLucky Moyo\, musician\, dancer and storyteller has his own profile published on the Traces Project timeline\, and he also performs a vibrant Facebook live set on Wednesday 28th October\, at 7:30pm. \nThe final performance is by the brilliant British-Nigerian singer songwriter Bumi Thomas. At 6pm on Friday 30th October Bumi will present a set of her own songs and those of her heroes\, recorded in the iconic London Oval Theatre. Head over to our Instagram for this very special performance. Performance filmed by Hossam Fazulla. \nImage: Bumi Thomas. Credit: the Artist. \n  URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/black-heroes-sheroes/ CATEGORIES:Learning,Multi-Art Form,Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Bumi-Thomas-Press-2019.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201023T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201023T201500 DTSTAMP:20260607T160850 CREATED:20200914T122016Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145416Z UID:10000233-1603479600-1603484100@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:RE:seeding\, in correspondence Performance to Camera by Jade Montserrat DESCRIPTION:Online Premiere of Performance to Camera Commission + Q&A \nPart of performingbordersLIVE20 \nFriday 23 October / 7pm- 8.15pm \nFree tickets & English live captions: click here \nRE:seeding\, in correspondence is a new performance to camera suggesting that there is a connection between ourselves and the earth and that this line\, or connection\, like our communications with one another\, is drawing. \nDeveloped with film-makers Webb-Ellis\, Jade seeks to visualise these exchanges of energy\, the lines\, the communications\, and with that\, consider\, maybe on a global scale\, stewarding of our spaces. \nRE:seeding\, in correspondence documents processes of making virtual connections with a local community of people who have refugee status or are seeking asylum. Jade’s research topics on ownership\, body and land\, explored through a workshop with participants from MAFWA Theatre – an organisation in Leeds who make theatre with sanctuary seekers in Burmantofts\, Lincoln Green and Mabgate – included an exchange of materials: charcoal\, a sketchbook\, herb seeds and materials to grow them in with the intention of locating commonality through shared connection to earth\, soil\, and growth. \nA development of ‘Drawing as Contagion’\, a text and workshop devised in response to exhibition Instituting Care (Bluecoat; Humber Street Gallery) RE:seeding\, in correspondence extends Jade’s central idea that drawing is a mode of being or a mode of operating\, allowing further exploration of the question: What does it mean to survey and reclaim ‘environments’\, our relationship to space\, and where are potentials for reclamation or belongings? \nPerformance to Camera Collage by Jade Montserrat and Webb-Ellis \nEngagement and Project Management by Helen Moore \nThe online screening will be followed by a conversation between Jade Montserrat and Chandra Frank and a Q&A. \nCommissioned by performingborders\, East Street Arts and Counterpoint Arts for performingbordersLIVE20. Supported by Live Art Development Agency\, with funding from Arts Council England. \nBios \nJade Montserrat is an artist based in Scarborough\, England. She is the recipient of the Stuart Hall Foundation Scholarship which supports her PhD (via MPhil) at IBAR\, UCLan\, and the development of her work from her black diasporic perspective in the North of England. Jade works through performance\, drawing\, painting\, film\, installation\, sculpture\, print and text. Jade Montserrat is the recipient of the Stuart Hall Foundation Scholarship which supports her PhD (via MPhil) at IBAR\, UCLan\, (Race and Representation in Northern Britain in the context of the Black Atlantic: A Creative Practice Project) and the development of her work from her black diasporic perspective in the North of England. She was also awarded one of two Jerwood Student Drawing Prizes in 2017 for No Need for Clothing\, a documentary photograph of a drawing installation at Cooper Gallery DJCAD by Jacquetta Clark. Jade’s Rainbow Tribe project – a combination of historical and contemporary manifestations of Black Culture from the perspective of the Black Diaspora is central to the ways she is producing a body of work\, including No Need For Clothing and its iterations\, as well as her performance work Revue. Jade was commissioned to present Revue as a 24 hour live performance at SPILL Festival of Performance\, October 2018\, a solo exhibition at The Bluecoat\, Liverpool\, (Nov – 10 Mar 2019) which toured to Humber Street Gallery ( July-sept 2019) and was commissioned by Art on the Underground to create the 2018 Winter Night Tube cover. Iniva and Manchester Art Gallery have commissioned Jade as the first artist for the Future Collect project (2020). \nChandra Frank is a feminist researcher and independent curator who works on the intersections of archives\, waterways\, gender\, sexuality and race. Her curatorial practice explores the politics of care\, experimental forms of narration\, and the colonial grammar embedded within display and exhibition arrangements. Chandra earned a PhD in Media\, Communications and Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths\, University of London. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and exhibition catalogues\, including Feminist Review\, the Small Axe VLOSA catalogue\, The Place is Here publication and the collection Tongues. She recently co-edited a special issue on Archives for Feminist Review. Her curated exhibitions include Re(as)sistingNarratives(Amsterdam/Cape Town)\, Fugitive Desires(London)\, and Proclamation 73 (Durban) (co-curated with Zara Julius). Chandra curated the 2016 Archives Matter Conference at the Centre for Feminist Research at Goldsmiths. Currently\, Chandra is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Charles Phelps Taft Research Centre at the University of Cincinnati. chandrafrank.com \nFeatured image credits: Screen shot courtesy of Jade Montserrat. \nUPDATE \nWatch the performance online  \nWatch the post-performance discussion between Jade Montserrat and Chandra Frank URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/reseeding-in-correspondence-performance-to-camera-by-jade-montserrat/ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Multi-Art Form ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/re-seeding.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200710T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200710T120000 DTSTAMP:20260607T160850 CREATED:20200709T110522Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145416Z UID:10000236-1594382400-1594382400@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Caroline Bergvall: Night & Refuge DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to share this film of Caroline Bergvall’s Night & Refuge event\, a public collaborative writing event between five UK-based poets\, which took place over Zoom during the Covid-19 lockdown. \nThis unique event happened online on 20 May 2020\, from 6-9pm BST\, and spanned many  time-zones. The short film presented here\, edited in a visually and sonically startling way\, shows the five poets exchanging thoughts and processes while developing the shared poem. Curator and host-poet Caroline Bergvall had set a brief loosely inspired by the tradition of Renga – an ancient and strict rule-bound Japanese form of collective writing. The motifs to be explored followed the phases of the night and asked: what is the night\, what is refuge\, how does one seek refuge during this pandemic confinement? \nMany other writers started joining in spontaneously with comments and lines on Twitter at #nightandrefuge. They slowly became part of the event. The writing in progress was made visible to the poets and audiences alike through a Digital Writing Desk developed with visual artist Mays Albeik. \nFilmed and edited by Andrew Delaney. \nSound design by Jamie Hamilton. \nProduced by C. Bergvall. \nA Sonic Atlas Project. \n \nThe Poets: \nVahni Capildeo is a Trinidadian Scottish writer working on their eighth full-length book (their fourth from Carcanet Press). Recent collaborations include Light Site Poetry 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. \n* \nMays Albaik is an artist whose interdisciplinary visual practice has literary writing at its heart and includes performance\, video\, and spatial installations. Holds an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design; a B.Arch from the American University of Sharjah. She has participated in exhibitions including Qala 0.8900 (Darat Al Funun\, Jordan); Glass Triennial (Woods Gerry Gallery\, USA); Sawt 2a (Grey Noise\, Dubai); Mind the Gap (Tashkeel\, Dubai)\, and Change Coordinates + Someone Else (1971 Design Space\, Sharjah). \n* \nCaroline Bergvall – Initiator and Host-poet of the event. Writer\, artist\, and performer who works across art-forms\, media and languages. The recipient of many international commissions\, she is a noted exponent of writing and performance methods adapted to contemporary audiovisual and contextual situations\, as well as multilingual identities and translocal exchange. Awarded the Heidsieck Art Literary Prize\, Centre Pompidou\, Paris (2017). Cholmondeley Award for Poetry for her book and project Drift (2017). Latest book Alisoun Sings (2019). Ongoing cycle of live works\, Sonic Atlas (2016-). \nNight & Refuge is a project within Bergvall’s ongoing cycle of interdisciplinary perfomances Sonic Atlas\, which explores languages in movement and in transformation through speech\, sounds\, songwork in a range of performative situations. It began with Ragadawn (2016)\, staged at daybreak in locations as diverse as Marseille and the Isle of Skye\, and continued with Conference of the Birds (2018) a discussion soundwork first presented at the Whitstable Biennale. \nYou can find out more about the project\, including the many twitter contributions\, on Caroline Bergvall’s website here: http://carolinebergvall.com/work/night-refuge/ \nHosted by event partners Cement Fields & Counterpoints Arts. Co-hosted by Festival of Hope\, 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/caroline-bergvall-night-refuge/ CATEGORIES:Literature & Spoken Word,Multi-Art Form ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/NightRefuge_FilmStill_CarolineBergvall-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200615T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200615T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T160850 CREATED:20200113T152307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145418Z UID:10000261-1592179200-1592179200@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Refugee Week DESCRIPTION:Refugee Week is the UK’s largest festival celebrating the contributions\, creativity and resilience of refugees. Counterpoints Arts is proud to be national coordinator of Refugee Week\, as well as producing a flagship programme of Refugee Week events with partners including the V&A and Southbank Centre. \nRefugee Week 2020\, which has the theme of ‘Imagine’\, will be marked 15-21 June as a virtual festival in the UK and internationally. \nGet involved by joining a Refugee Week event or activity online\, or holding one of your own. \nFor more information about Refugee Week\, visit www.refugeeweek.org.uk. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week/ CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/RefugeeWeek20180617_VA_CounterpointsArts_004_┬®_Marcia_ChandraA.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191003T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191003T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T160850 CREATED:20190923T062457Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145420Z UID:10000270-1570060800-1570060800@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Something Held in the Mouth DESCRIPTION:#platforma5 \nCustom Folkestone presents: Something Held in the MouthA four day festival bringing together artists and creative practitioners to present a diverse programme of art\, events\, workshops and talks about the poetics of food\, the politics of its migrations and the ways in which our bodies hold these stories. The festival convenes dialogues around the way food crosses boundaries and creates connections across the world\, as well as exploring the intersections between art\, food and local markets to forge new alliances through geopolitical conversations.  \nhttps://www.customfolkestone.co.uk \nEvents include: \n6 October  \n14.00: Building alternative food banks –  Interdisciplinary artist Dana Olarescu and social designer Paulina Sidhom will run a participatory workshop on re imagining a better\, fairer food bank system\, aimed at empowering those in need. Looking at replacing dried\, canned foods with seasonal\, organic and locally-grown ones\, they aim to create a more holistic model prioritising nutrition and food literacy by reflecting on our contemporary disconnect from food. Come help them build it together. \n16.00: Panel discussion – What role can arts & food projects play in developing understanding of migration & disaplacement? \n17.00: Join artist and musician Lucky Moyo for the latest East Yard Community Meal.  Custom will be collaborating once again with Dr Legumes and Docker Bakery to produce a Zimbabwean menu designed by Lucky Moyo and friends.  This time we are also going to welcome Lucky’s band of singers\, drummers and dancers to lead us in a musical community celebration! \nPart of the 5th Platforma Festival\, produced by Counterpoints Arts \n  URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/something-held-in-the-mouth/ CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/something-held1-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190623T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190623T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T160850 CREATED:20170511T074031Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145420Z UID:10000299-1561248000-1561248000@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Refugee Week at Southbank Centre DESCRIPTION:Join us and our partners at Southbank Centre for a day of all kinds of creative\, fun and engaging activities in response to this year’s Refugee Week’s theme ‘Our Shared Future’. \nRefugee Week partners bring their own participatory activities to present their work and to celebrate this year’s theme. They will be joined by artists and organisations\, all coming together around the programme which includes  singing\, making\, having conversations and engaging in artists’ workshops. \nThe day will include the launch of the London Syrian Ensemble\, the Big Sing and participatory\, agit-prop installations by Counterpoints Arts-commissioned artists Gil Mualem-Doron and Alketa Xhafa-Mripa. \nThis event is free and suitable for all the family. \n  URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-at-southbank-centre/ CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/SBC.CAwebsite-scaled-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190621T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190621T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T160850 CREATED:20190508T065437Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145421Z UID:10000294-1561075200-1561075200@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Refugee Week: Special Late Opening at the V&A Museum DESCRIPTION:21 June\, 6-10pm\, V&A Museum  \nA date for the diaries – Refugee Week Friday night treat at the V&A Museum. \nDance for Refuge return for the third year in a row\, taking over the Grand Entrance and programming a set of music to help raise awareness of the importance of migrant culture in the arts. \nFollowed by Don Letts DJ Set – legendary DJ spins upbeat reggae and tunes inspired by the Refugee Week theme of #generations. \nMusic in the Gamble Room\, a programme headlined by London-based rapper and an old friend of Counterpoints Arts – Awate! Details of this programme will be published as a separate event. \nRoyal College of Music’s cellist Jobine Siekman performs a concert\, with piano accompanist\, at The Globe\, from 18:30 to 19:30. Included in the performance is the work by the Hungarian-Austrian composer of refugee background\, Ligeti. \nCohere\, by Geoff Brokate\, Gallery 47C\, level 0 \nCohere is a visual and poetic response to the meaning of place\, and how our homeland and its culture impact our sense of self. hear spoken word poetry by refugee writers and explore your own sense of belonging through poetic visual imagery and language. \nKwibuka 25- Rwandan poetry and stories\, by Laila Sumpton and Jo Ingabire\, The Globe\, 20:00 to 21:30 \nKwibuka means remember in Kinyarwanda. Join Rwandan poets and storytellers from the Ishami Foundation as we remember the genocide 25 years ago\, look back at the time before and look forward to the future. Add our pop up writing mosaic before and after as we explore the V&A’s collection and think about how conflict changes lives and identities. \nOur newest Refugee Week partners at the International Rescue Committee will be at the Sackler Centre reception throughout the evening with ‘Rescuing Futures’\, sharing the objects and materials designed by young people building their entrepreneurship and business skills through the Rescuing Futures projects. All of the young people have fled conflict and crisis and are now working to kick-start their careers. \nCapernaum\, with UNHCR\, Hochhauser Auditorium\, Sackler Centre\, Level 1\, 16:00 to 19:00 \nWatch this critically acclaimed drama of hardened\, streetwise 12-year old Lebanese boy who sues his parents in protest of the life they have given him. Book here \nBelly Full: Feeding the Nation’s Narratives\, Art and Digital Art Studio\, The Sackler Centre\, Level 0\, 19:00 to 21:30 \nWith young contemporary artists explore lost histories\, undocumented stories and personal lives integral to the fabric of this nation. In collaboration with Laundry Arts. To book check the Museum’s website\, tickets £12\, £10 concessions. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/special-late-opening-at-the-va-museum/ CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/dance-for-refuge-2019_960.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190620T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190620T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T160850 CREATED:20190517T110525Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145421Z UID:10000289-1560988800-1560988800@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Rubble Theatre DESCRIPTION:German-Syrian artist Manaf Halbouni’s sculpture Rubble Theatre is a highlight of this year’s Refugee Festival Scotland. It recreates a scene of destruction in Syria\, featuring the rubble of a bombsite and an abandoned car. Halbouni was born in Syria\, the son of a Syrian father and a German mother. He studied at art school in Syria and then moved to Germany a few years before the war. In 2017\, far-right groups in Germany protested against his installation Monument\, which erected three\, upended buses at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and at the Frauenkirche in Dresden\, in homage to a barricade of buses that protected civilians from sniper fire in Aleppo.\n\nVehicles (and most frequently cars) are a repeating theme in Halbouni’s work – whether as a means of escape or as a mobile home. ‘With the car\, a symbol of mobility\, I try to reach a place that I can call home to take root again\,’ he says. Rubble Theatre will bring the theme of displacement to the heart of Glasgow and be a space for emerging artists from refugee and migrant backgrounds and others to meet\, discuss and share their work. \nRubble Theatre will continue Halbouni’s ongoing exploration of belonging and ‘home’\, acting as a catalyst for public discussions central to Refugee Festival Scotland’s theme of ‘Making Art\, Making Home’ – enabling wider dialogue about the pivotal role of art in creating welcoming and inclusive communities. \nJoin us at Rubble Theatre for the launch of Refugee Festival Scotland 2019 on World Refugee Day\, Thursday 20 June. Halbouni will also be in conversation with Counterpoints Arts about his international work as an artist on Monday 24 June. \nRubble Theatre will be open to the public between Thursday 20 – Wednesday 26 June. The installation is outdoors and wheelchair accessible. \nCommissioned by Counterpoints Arts and Refugee Festival Scotland and supported by Creative Scotland. \n\n  \nConversations with Artist \nAs part of Rubble Theatre\, Manaf Halbouni will discuss his way of working and what inspires his practice with other artists and cultural practitioners: including Rachel Disbury\, Alchemy Film; Helen Trew\, Creative Scotland; Leila Sinclair-Bright\, University of Edinburgh; Sara Sharaawi\, Highlight Arts. \n23rd June \n4:00pm: Rubble Theatre\, St Enoch Square \nIn conversation with Rachael Disbury\, Alchemy Film \n24th June \n4:00pm: Rubble Theatre\, St Enoch Square \nIn conversation with Helen Trew\, Creative Scotland \n24th June \n7:00 – 8:00pm: Scottish Youth Theatre\nManaf Halbouni will take part in a public conversation with Kate Gray\, Director of Collective\, Edinburgh at the Scottish Youth Theatre\, Brian Cox Studio Theatre\, The Old Sheriff Court\, 105 Brunswick Street\, Glasgow G1 1TF \n25th June \n3:00pm: Rubble Theatre\, St Enoch Square \nIn conversation with Leila Sinclair-Bright\, University of Edinburgh and Claudia Zeiske\, Deveron Projects \n26th June \n4:00pm: Rubble Theatre\, St Enoch Square \nIn conversation with Sara Sharaawi\, Highlight Arts URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/rubble-theatre/ CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Picture1.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR