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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
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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
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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
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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/
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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SUMMARY:Refugee Week 2019 Launch at the V&A
DESCRIPTION:Following months of collaboration with the V&A Museum\, we have co-curated a hugely exciting programme that is inspired by this year’s Refugee Week theme “You\, Me and Those Who Came Before“. The programme includes a week of workshops\, music\, spoken word and interactive performances\, starting with the launch on 16th June – details below. Join us and V&A to discover experiences of displacement that are found in our families\, neighbourhoods and history. \n  \nProgramme – 16th June \n  \n‘You\, me and those who came before’ – Photography Commission\, Main Entrance. \nFor this special commission for Refugee Week 2019\, the distinguished photographer Jillian Edelstein created a stunning series of portraits that brings to light a hidden history of refugees enriching our culture and communities for generations. \nA special tour of the V&A with artist Ania Bas and Daniela Nofal – 13:00\, 14:30 and 16:00 from the Main Entrance \nThis unique tour of V&A is curated to combine an exploration of significant objects in the Museum’s Collections with performance and interactive moments from the below programme. Book early! \nAs Far as Isolation Goes\, The john Madejski Garden \n\nA performance by musician and street artist\, Basel Zaraa\, and live artist\, Tania El Khoury\, about the health experiences of refugees. \n\nIn this newly commissioned piece\, Zaraa creates a song inspired by conversations with friends and colleagues who have recently claimed refuge in the UK.  It uses touch\, sound and interactivity to bring the audience in contact with those faced with inhumane detention centres and a mental health system that disregards people’s political and emotional needs. \nSelected workshops by Refugee Week partners – various locations  \nWho came before you is a journey through the Refugee Council’s archive\, through poetry and craft\, and it’s been designed with the University of East London’s Paul Dudman and poet Sonia Quintero; Amnesty International’s What do we have in common‘ explores the history of Britain offering asylum to those seeking refugee with their large colourful map of family journeys; Migrant Help team invite you to create an object for their Time Capsule; ‘ International Organisation for Migration’s Hold on uses virtual reality to have us looking at the significance of holding on to objects and sharing them with the next generation (14 years +); Freedom From Torture return with their Write to Life creative writing group who will share stories in response to objects in the V&A collections. \n20:20\, by Salusbury World\, The Globe  \nSalusbury World is a unique and visionary school-based refugee charity in North West London\, which over the past twenty years has supported refugee children and their families. They bring parts of their storytelling installation created in partnership with the London College of Communication Design School and its students. \n80 Years On\, It’s Our Turn\, by Safe Passage\, Gallery 47c\, Level 0 \nThe Video Installation highlights the parallels between the situation of child refugees fleeing Nazi persecution 80 years ago and those fleeing persecution today and the need to carry forward the Kindertransport legacy. \nDrop-in Design: Under my Umbrella\, by the V&A Families team\, The john Madejski Garden \nWhat objects from the Museum would you like to share with others? Make a parasol decorated with the objects that mean most to you. \nMigrating Skills\, by Shelanu: Women’s Craft Collective from Birmingham\, Raphael\, 48a\, Level 0 \nWhat skills could you take with you if you had to start again in a new place? Make origami birds to carry the skills of ‘You\, me and those who came before’\, using your own experiences\, family stories or the V&A collections as inspiration. \nPlay for Progress\, Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre\, Level 4\, 12:00\, 13:30 and 15:00 \nJoin a workshop led by unaccompanied young refugees and asylum seekers working with Play for Progress\, a London-based charity that delivers therapeutic and educational music programmes for children impacted by conflict. Explore your own possibilities in music and work with the team. \nShelter from the Storm\, by The Scouts\, Design Studio\, The Sackler Center\, Level 0\, 12:00\, 13:00 and 15:00 \nAn immersive workshop for families\, suitable for ages 6+. \nGrounding Project\, by artist Julie Nelson and the members of the Maudsley Charity’s Grounding Project with UCL\, ceramics Studio\, Gallery 143\, Level 4\, 12:00\, 14:00 and 15:30.  \nCreate your own ceramic bird from clay\, and have it form part of ‘Flock\, a larger installation of migrating birds representing  individual journeys of hope. No previous experience necessary. Free\, booking here \nBerlin to Sarajevo\, by Natasha Davis and Nehra Stella\, Hochhauser Auditorium\, The Sackler Centre\, Level 1\, 15:00 to 17:00 \nDocumentary film connecting personal and political histories of Berlin and Sarajevo through poignant interviews with their citizens and poetic images of the two cities. Q&A with the artists.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-2019-launch-at-the-va-museum/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form
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SUMMARY:Refugee Week 2019
DESCRIPTION:This June will be the 21st Refugee Week\, taking place across the UK. It’s one of the biggest arts festivals in the country\, a nationwide programme of arts\, cultural and educational events that celebrate the contribution of refugees to the UK\, and encourages a better understanding between communities. There are also international events in Australia\, Europe and beyond. \nCounterpoints Arts co-ordinates Refugee Week\, providing leadership and support\, and working with the national partners. \nWe will also be presenting our own programme of events – more details on those soon! \nFor 2019 the theme is “You\, me and those who came before” – an invitation to discover the experiences of displacement that are found in our families\, neighbourhoods and history. \nCounterpoints Arts is also presenting  a programme of films available to screen at special reduced rates during Refugee Week (17-23 June  2019) via our Moving Worlds website. \nOther initiatives for 2019 include the Refugee Week Leadership Project and Simple Acts. \nCheck out the Refugee Week website for full details\, resources and all the updates. \nBackground \nRefugee Week started in 1998 as a direct reaction to hostility in the media and society in general towards refugees and asylum seekers. An established part of the UK’s cultural calendar\, Refugee Week is now one of the leading national initiatives working to counter this negative climate\, defending the importance of sanctuary and the benefits it can bring to both refugees and host communities. \nLast year there were more than 600 Refugee Week events in the UK\, reaching more than 120\,000 people. And there was a nationwide media campaign with a reach of many millions. \nThe aims of Refugee Week are: \n\nTo encourage a diverse range of events to be held throughout the UK\, which facilitate positive encounters between refugees and the general public in order to encourage greater understanding and overcome hostility\nTo showcase the talent and expertise that refugees bring with them to the UK\nTo explore new and creative ways of addressing the relevant issues and reach beyond the refugee sector\nTo provide information which educates and raises awareness of the reality of refugee experiences\n\nOur ultimate aim is to create better understanding between different communities and to encourage successful integration\, enabling refugees to live in safety and continue making a valuable contribution. \nRefugee Week is an umbrella festival\, with events held by a wide range of arts\, voluntary\, faith and refugee community organisations\, schools\, student groups and more. Past events have included arts festivals\, exhibitions\, film screenings\, theatre and dance performances\, concerts\, football tournaments and public talks\, as well as creative and educational activities in schools. \nThrough Refugee Week we aim to provide an important opportunity for asylum seekers and refugees to be seen\, listened to and valued.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-2019/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form
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SUMMARY:Refugee Week @ Mayor's Eid Festival
DESCRIPTION:8 June\, 12-6pm\, Trafalgar Square \nFree event  \nEach year the Mayor of London invites thousands of Londoners and visitors to join the Eid Festival\, an event that celebrates the end of Ramadan. \nThis year Counterpoints Arts have been invited to curate a refugee related strand of the Festival\, providing a taste of the upcoming Refugee Week. The programme will feature spoken word performances (headlined by poet Asma Elbadawi); music by The Damascus Band and Muslim Bilal; Afghan Camera Box Project by Iranian photographer Farhad Berahman\, and more. \nWe hope you will come and join us on the day to discover\, celebrate and learn more about experiences of displacement. \nMAIN STAGE  – MUSIC  \n  \n15:10 The Damascus Band \nThe Damascus Band are a group of exceptional Syrian Classical musicians now based in the UK. Featuring the talents of Hamsa Mounif\, Raghad Haddad\, Taim Saleh and Walid Zaido on vocals\, viola\, qanun and percussion\, their backgrounds are in orchestras including the Syrian National Symphony Orchestra and the Syrian National Orchestra for Arabic Music and they have also performed in the UK with the Africa Express ‘Orchestra of Syrian Musicians’. \n15:50 Muslim Belal \nAshley Chin also known as Muslim Belal is an award winning British actor and screen writer converted to Islam in 2002. Chin  tells his story all over the world in a unique poetic style leaving people inspired and amazed. Recently directed he’s first feature film “Faith” set for nationwide release early 2020 \n  \nMAIN STAGE – SPEAKERS \n14:45   Maurice Wren\, CEO of Refugee Council\, shares his thoughts on the importance of Refugee Week as a national platform for celebrating resilience\, creativity and contributions of refugees to the UK \n14.55   Asma Elbadawi\, a British Sudanese poet\, basketball player and global brand Adidas Ambassador\, shares a couple of poems to give a taste of the programme in the Spoken Word tent (info below) \n  \nNORTH TERRACE \n  \n12:00 – 17:30  Afghan Camera Box  \nAfghan Camera Box is a project by Iranian photographer and artist Farhad Berahman. \nThe Afghan Camera\, or ‘kamra-e-faoree’ is still used as a traditional method of capturing memories by veteran street photographers in Afghanistan and Iran. The hand-made wooden camera acts as both the camera and darkroom\, thus working as a ‘2 in 1’ machine. This enables capturing and instant printing of photographs\, an individual copy handed to visitors upon processing of the image. \nThe visitors are also invited to join Farhad in a hand colouring activity – a technique of treating images which dates back to the early 19th century when artists started to paint over a black and white photograph in order to bring photos to life. \n  \n12:00 – 17:00  Spoken Word Tent  \nLaila Sumpton\, Amir Darwish\, Tice Cin and The Ishami Foundation (12:00 – 17:00) \nLaila Sumpton\, Zahrah Sheikh\, The Ishami Foundation\, Zia Ahmed\, Amir Darwish (13:30 – 14:50). \nLaila Sumpton\, Rakaya Fetuga\, Tice Cin\, Zahrah Sheikh\, Zia Ahmed\, Asma Elbadawi\, Rakaya Fetuga (15:15 – 17:00) \nLaila Sumpton is a poet\, writer\, dance devotee and NGO worker based in London. Her poetry uses imagery and lyricism to tell stories about identity and human rights. She organises events and workshops at universites\, festivals\, heritage sites and various NGOs- using poetry and the arts to campaign for human rights and bring people together. \nAsma Elbadawi is a British Sudanese\, Basketball player\, Creative and Global Brand Adidas Ambassador. Born in Sudan and raised in England. Her dual cultural heritage deeply influences her creativity\, paired with a focus on international development and female empowerment. She is best known for her involvement in the successful Fiba Allow Hijab campaign that urged the Basketball federation FIBA in 2016 to allow Muslim women to wear the Hijab in Professional Basketball. \nAmir Darwish is a British Syrian poet & writer of Kurdish origin who lives in London. Born in Aleppo & came to Britain as an asylum seeker in 2003. He published his work in the UK\, USA\, Pakistan\, India\, Finland\, Turkey\, Canada\, Singapore & Mexico. \nTice Cin is a poet and writer from Tottenham\, North London. An alumnus of the poetry community Barbican Young Poets\, she recently took part in the Barbican’s Art of Change series and is part of the centre’s Design Yourself collective. \nThe Ishami Foundation are a Rwandan survivor’s group that creates poems and stories for the 25th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi. \nZahrah Sheikh is a British Pakistani poet from Ilford. Member of Octavia (a women of colour collective lead by Rachel Long) based at Southbank and a Barbican Young Poet Alumnus. Her writing mainly explores prayer\, the self\, the weight of an action and silence. \nZia Ahmed is from North West London. He was on attachment at Paines Plough for 2017\, having been a recipient of the Channel 4 Playwrights’ Scheme bursary. He is a London Laureate and was shortlisted to be the Young Poet Laureate for London 2015/16 and a former Roundhouse Slam winner. \nRakaya Fetuga is a poet and creative writer from London of Ghanaian and Nigerian heritage. Her work joins conversations on overlapping identities\, faith and culture as empowerment. Rakaya won the Spread the Word Poetry Prize in 2017 and the Roundhouse Poetry Slam in 2018.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-mayors-eid-festival/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form
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SUMMARY:Platforma 5 networking event
DESCRIPTION:Join us at The Quarterhouse in Folkestone for a networking event leading up to Platforma 5\,  taking place across Kent and Medway in October 2019.The event is open to all and will feature updates on plans so far for the 5th Platforma festival\, including performances\, exhibitions\, workshops\, seminars\, commissions and screenings. There will be time to network\, discuss new ideas and request partners and support.To reserve a free place at the event on 21st January\, or for more information\, contact Tom Green tom@counterpoints.org.uk \nPlease share this invitation with colleagues\, contacts and networks. \nThe biennial Platforma Festival brings together artists\, organisations\, funders and others for discussions\, workshops and the chance to share practice and showcase new work. Platforma 1 took place in London (2011)\, followed by Manchester (2013)\, Leicester (2015) & Newcastle and the North East (2017). \nPlatforma arts and refugee network supports and develops arts by\, about and with refugees and migrants from marginalised communities. It brings together groups and artists / performers of any background or political status (e.g. refugees and non-refugees). Platforma is run by Counterpoints Arts in partnership with organisations across the country.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/platforma-5-networking-event/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181027T000000
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SUMMARY:Travelling Tales
DESCRIPTION:Join us this half term during Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival for an exciting afternoon of performance\, literature and spoken word on the Clore Ballroom for primary school aged children. \n‘Queen of the Qanun’ Maya Youssef will perform The Seven Gates of Damascus\, a participatory musical theatre piece which will take you for a magical through distant lands. Inspired by the journeys taken by Syrian children looking for a new place to call home\, the universal themes of travel\, mystery and belonging resonate with all young audiences. Whether you’ve heard a qanun before or not\, The Seven Gates of Damascus will leave you with a sense of wonder\, empathy and magic. \nIn between these performances\, the collective Literary Natives will keep your little ones entertained with riveting stories of adventure\, exploration and discovery. See below for the full programme\, please note that times are subject to change. \nCounterpoints Arts believes in the power of shifting how we see displacement and migration through the arts. Our curation of Travelling Tales is part of our longstanding collaboration with Southbank Centre in using the arts as a vehicle for social change. \n11.15 – THE SEVEN GATES OF DAMASCUS \nThis exciting participatory theatre piece will transport you to a vibrant Damascus through rich storytelling and Maya Yousef’s soothing qanun\, a traditional Middle Eastern string instrument. Go on a seven part magical journey that will lead children and guardians alike to a place of peace and wonder \n  \n  \n12.15 –  THE CURIOUS MR GAHDZOOKS AND HIS CAUTIONARY TALES FOR NAUGHTY CHILDREN \nCome and listen to the wonderful actor and author Julian Anthony Vessel bring to life Mr Gahdzooks\, a mischievous figure who feeds off the naughtiness of children across the globe. This modern tale will have your children gripped and ready to mind their Ps and Qs. \n \n  \n12.30 – GIRLS LIKE ME\nWriter Hanna Jama recites her powerful poem Girls Like Me\, for all the girls (and boys) who’ve crossed oceans and deserts to find home in London \n  \n13.15 – THE SEVEN GATES OF DAMASCUS\n‘Queen of the qanun’ Maya Youssef returns for a second performance \n  \n14.15 – THE CURIOUS MR GAHDZOOKS AND HIS CAUTIONARY TALES FOR NAUGHTY CHILDREN \nIf you missed the riveting tale the first time round\, join us for another reading from Julian \n  \n14.30 – GIRLS LIKE ME\nHanna Jama returns for a final reading of her uplifting poem. \n  \n14.45 – THE SEVEN GATES OF DAMASCUS \nCatch this last theatrical performance of the magical journey. \n  \n15.45 –  BEDTIME STORY: HANDA’S SURPRISE \nListen to writer and producer Salma read from her favourite childhood book\, Handa’s Surprise by Eileen Browne. There’s a surprising adventure that awaits Handa as she takes seven pieces of delicious fruit to her friend Akeyo in a neighbouring village. With the cheeky animals she encounters along the way\, will she have anything left for Akeyo? \n  \n \n  \nTHROUGHOUT THE DAY – STIMELA! \nA fantastic compilation of music donated to Counterpoints Arts by some of the most sought after musicians\, artists who have been forcibly displaced from their homelands and other musicians who support refugees and human rights. \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/travelling-tales/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form
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SUMMARY:Moving stories: a Refugee Week special event
DESCRIPTION:We return to the British Museum for another collaboration event\, this year celebrating Refugee Week 20th birthday. \nThe programme will include artists installations and workshops\, performances and film. The Great Court will be the place to share a song with a variety of the most wonderful London choirs. \nAll activities free. \nLots more detail to come soon. \nImage by Marcia Chandra.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/moving-stories-a-refugee-week-special-event/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form
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SUMMARY:These Walls Must Fall
DESCRIPTION:Image: Hejira \nAN EVENING OF SPOKEN WORD\, MUSIC AND RESISTANCE! \nAn event organised by friends at Quakers in Britain\, in collaboration with Right to Remain\, Detention Action\, Student Action for Refugees\, and us. \nThis event is curated as an antidote to the current climate of ‘hostile environment’ where the borders seem to have moved right into our democratic structures\, where services people interact with on daily bases have become sites of the border. It is an invitation to join the movement of all those showing solidarity with one another; campaigning for change; and exercising their rights to live lives of dignity. \nAs part of Refugee Week 2018\, our partners will be celebrating people’s resistance to these injustices – and creating a space that strengthens our collective capacity to overcome fear and mistrust. Instead\, we hope to transform our communities to become beacons of welcome and hospitality. \nJoin Quakers in Britain on Saturday 23rd June to hear from poets and musicians who are at the forefront of forging creative responses\, based on kindness and common humanity\, to global economic inequality\, climate change\, and militarisation. There will also be the chance to hear from grassroots organisations at the heart of building a culture of welcome – and find out more about how you can get involved in the growing racial justice movement. \nARTISTS \nHejira are a five-piece London band partly named after Joni Mitchell’s 1976 album\, and partly after the Arabic word for “flight or journey to a more desirable place”. \nJJ Bola is an established writer and poet. He has written three collections: Elevate (2012)\, Daughter of the Sun (2014) and WORD (2015)\, and is the author of No Place to Call Home. He writes on themes related to migration\, race and borders. \nThe Nawi Collective are a London-based black women’s vocal collective who sing for justice to reclaim their time and for their ancestors. \nSelina Nwulu was the young poet laureate for London who work touches on social and environmental justice as well as identity\, nostalgia and belonging. \nBards Without Borders are a refugee and migrant poetry collective who have toured their performance responding to Shakespeare across the country and are now investigating the theme of ‘patriotism.’ \n** This event is FREE for people from migrant and refugee backgrounds **
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/these-walls-must-fall/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form
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SUMMARY:Refugee Week Friday late opening at the V&A
DESCRIPTION:Our week of celebrating Refugee Week‘s 20th birthday is punctuated by a special Friday evening celebration event. \nExpect an evening of music and dance\, film and arts installations. \nThe iconic entrance to V&A will become a dance space and the Garden Café an intimate concert venue. Artists from our networks take over other gallery spaces with participatory installations\, so audience participation required. \nWe will also be showing a film programme. \nFull programme coming soon. \nImage by Refugee Week 2017\, Dance for Refuge\, by Jake Davis
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-friday-late-at-the-victoria-and-albert-museum/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180617T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180617T170000
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SUMMARY:Refugee Week Launch at the V&A
DESCRIPTION:We launch this year’s Refugee Week with an event produced in collaboration with the V&A. \nThis is a very special year when we mark the 20th anniversary of  Refugee Week\, and we kick off the celebrations with another rich programme of artists’ installations\, workshops and performances. \nThe day is designed around the Simple Acts campaign\, inviting audiences to participate in one of the 20 ways of supporting refugees. With our contributors and audiences we will reflect on what this arts Festival has stood for over the last 20 years and how we imagine our future\, campaigning for refugee rights and for recognising contributions\, resilience and creativity of newcomers. \nThe programme will include artists from our networks\, visual\, live and musicians\, performing in galleries across the Museum. Refugee Week partners are bringing their own work and creative workshops\, and inviting audiences into conversations and activities based on Simple Acts. \nA number of organisations working across the arts and advocacy are joining the programme with another layer of creative activities. \nLastly\, and not to forget\, there may be a Refugee Week related treat in the Garden Café! \nAll will be revealed soon\, including the full programme! \nImage by Hufton+Crow\, for The Guardian. \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-launch-at-the-victoria-and-albert-museum/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form
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SUMMARY:Who Are We?
DESCRIPTION:Art\, migration and the production of democracy: Join us for a week of experimental production \nJoin Counterpoints Arts\, Loughborough University\, The Open University and Stance Podcast for a week of experimental production in partnership with the University of York Migration Network and many other collaborators. \nDrop in to activities spanning the visual arts: film and photography; design and architecture; digital cultures; the spoken and written word and Live Art. \nExamine connected questions around housing\, dis/placement and place-making; labour and inequality; and citizenship and the production of social democracy. \nEngage with the production of solidarities and of neighbourhoods and cities. Look into issues relating to knowledge and the commons\, and local ecologies and climate change. Investigate the production of communities\, identities and belonging\, public spheres\, and the transformative power of art and pop culture in tumultuous times. \nAs well as joining our drop-in activities at Tate Exchange\, engage with additional off-site activities happening in locations across the UK and beyond (alongside partners across Europe). Our off-site projects will be transmitted to Tate Exchange and our activities at Tate will be transmitted to our off-site collaborators. \nThis event is programmed by Counterpoints Arts\, Loughborough University\, The Open University and Stance Podcast Tate Exchange Associates. \nFor more information visit the Tate website
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/who-are-we/
CATEGORIES:Learning,Multi-Art Form
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170708T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170708T180000
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SUMMARY:Shahre Farang\, Refugees Welcome and Shed Your Fears
DESCRIPTION:“If you could never return home\, what would you do and where would you go if you were granted just one minute to go back there?” \nThis question is the starting point for Iranian photographer and artist Farhad Berahman’s artwork Shahre Farang\, which explores memories of home of Iranian asylum seekers living in the UK. \nBerahman collaborated with twenty Iranian asylum seekers\, asking them to describe places they would re-visit if they would go back to Iran for one last time. These memories were then passed on to a network of photographers based in Iran\, who were tasked with creating photographic interpretations of these memories. \nBerahman’s custom-made sculpture is a unique design based on a traditional Shahre Farang. A Shahre Farang is an Iranian version of a portable peep box traditionally taken around the country by wandering storytellers\, showing images of European cities as a form of exotic entertainment. \nBerahman has built a contemporary version of the box for the UK audiences\, where three viewing lenses are used to invite visitors to see a moving display of back lit images. \nThe images have a wonderful cinematic sense to them as ‘freeze frames’ of people’s memories. It is a work which does not only speak of one specific cultural context but more importantly asks viewers to consider how personal memories of home\, of far off cultures and of the past are filtered through photography. As an interactive artistic experience\, Shahre Farang transports viewers to another place and time. \nBerahman’s work will be presented at the b-side Outpost project space on Portland\, Dorset during Refugee Week  (17-22nd June)\, leading to its appearance at Bournemouth University’s annual  Festival of Learning in July 8th. The project will also be part of the 4th national Platforma Festival taking place in Newcastle and across the North East\, between 19-28th October 2017. \n \nImage of  ‘Shahre Farang’ courtesy of b-side  \nOn July the 8th\, Bournemouth University’s Festival of Learning will also host two Counterpoints Arts’ commissions. \nAlketa Xhafa Mripa presents her Refugees Welcome installation\, comprising of a Luton tail lift van – a potent symbol representing refugees crossing borders. The interior of the van is revamped to resemble  a ‘living room’ with soft furnishings\, visuals and a neon ‘hope’ sign evoking the ‘British Welcome’. The van and its contents act as a prompt for conversations with visitors\, extending the gesture of ‘fancy a tea with a refugee’. The mix of agitprop\, site-specific happening\, installation and live encounter engages with current shifts in attitudes to ‘welcome’. Visitors are asked to leave their thoughts in the comments book\, where stories will be shared via social media and local radio. \n#FancyaTeaWithaRefugee \n  \nRichard deDomenici’s Shed Your Fears is a non-denominational\, non-hierarchical booth\, into which two people get to confess their fears to each other\, privately\, anonymously and safely. Designed as a response to recent sociopolitical upheavals\, the piece invites participating audiences to share their innermost fears\, and by sharing them\, hopefully transcend them\, to the point where they can also share hopes and dreams. \n@ShedYourFears \nBoth Refugees Welcome and Shed Your Fears are on a tour around the country.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/iranian-photographer-farhad-berahman-explores-memories-of-iranian-asylum-seekers-through-his-shahre-farang-sculpture-at-bournemouth-universitys-festival-of-learning/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Different Pasts\, Shared Future: a Refugee Week special event
DESCRIPTION:As part of Refugee Week 2017\, we are collaborating with the British Museum to bring a special event and celebrate this year’s theme – Shared Future. \nJoin us for a rich range of happenings and activities taking place across The British Museum’s Great Court – from music performances\, to visual installations\, youth workshops and much more. Prompted by this year’s Refugee Week\, ‘Our Shared Future’\, the programme is curated to encourage full participation. Catering for all ages\, it’s a heady mix of theatre\, song\, making\, engaging or simply watching and listening. \nINSTALLATIONS AND GALLERY TOURS \nDead Reckoning by artist Bern O’Donoghue: \nDead Reckoning is an ongoing project bearing witness to the thousands of migrants and refugees who have died\, and continue to die\, attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea in search of sanctuary and a better life. Each tiny\, hand-marbled paper boat is marked with a relationship to another person\, a fragile reminder of the individuals caught up in the biggest humanitarian crisis in Europe since World War II. \nShed Your Fears by artist Richard Dedomenici: \nA non-denominational\, non-hierarchical booth\, into which two people get to confess their fears to each other\, privately\, anonymously and safely. Designed as a response to recent sociopolitical upheavals\, the piece invites participating audiences to share their innermost fears\, and by sharing them\, hopefully transcending them to the point where they can also share hopes and dreams. \nRefugee-led Gallery Talks: No Single Story\, 13.30- 14.15pm (Room 34) \nJoin tour guides Ameen and Ahmad on a journey through the British Museum’s Islamic World gallery. ‘No single story’ started as a pilot tour-guiding programme\, in which volunteers from refugee backgrounds were trained to give gallery talks at the Museum. Through selected objects\, Ameen and Ahmad will share their personal responses to these beautiful collections. \nMUSIC STAGE \nAar Manta\, 15:00pm: \nDescribed as ‘the voice of our generation’ by many young Somalis\, Aar Manta is a multi instrumentalist who mixes many musical styles with traditional Somali music. He is working with the UNHCR\, traveling to refugee camps in Ethiopia and working with young Somali refugees. \nSimo Lagnawi\, 14.10pm: \nSimo Lagnawi is a Moroccan Gnawa master who mixes his Berber origins with deep gnawa grooves. Simo studied with Gnawa masters in Morocco for over twenty years before moving to London in 2008. He is a serial collaborator and is considered UK’s leading guembri musician (camel-skinned bass instrument). Gnawa music consists of a series of spiritual chants\, and Simo’s music transports his audiences with his high-energy acrobatic dancing combined with his strident vocals\, krakebs (metal percussion instruments) and guembri playing. \nVoice of the Movement\, YouPress\, 1.30pm: \nWhat if you had to leave your home\, and the life you once knew? Could you take a personal journey\, not only leaving your home but leaving yourself to become someone new? Ten true life stories come together in this vibrant piece of the theatre which challenges the stigma associated with displacement. \nMOVING WORLDS FILM PROGRAMME (STEVENSON LECTURE THEATRE) \nSink into your seat and watch a series of short and feature-length films\, which capture refugee and migration-related stories about ‘rescue at sea’\, imagining and re-designing precious neighbourhoods\, the resilient power of arts and culture\, stepping into the shoes of those who have had to flee\, plus the building of new\, precarious lives by young refugees. Moving Worlds includes panel discussions with filmmakers\, artists\, advocates and activists working to create change and build social solidarity across communities and sectors. \nSession One: 11.15- 13.30pm \nSolidarity: Art Across Borders \nScreening Where do Art and Migration Meet and They Will Have to Kill Us First. \nPanel speakers: Johanna Schwartz (Director\, They Will Have To Kill Us First); Ahmed Tobasi (Actor); Hassan Abdulrazzak (Writer). This panel will be chaired by Yasmin Fedda\, filmmaker and creative producer at Highlights Arts. \nSession Two: 13.45- 16.15pm \nCrossings: At Home in the World   \nScreening At Home in the World\, Ellis\, Home\, MOAS Rescue at Sea\, My Refugee Story\, The Architect and Twinning Towns. \nPanel speakers: Matthew Saltmarsh (Senior Communications Officer\, UNHCR); Laura Padoan (External Relations Officer\, UNHCR); Jennifer Laws (Fundraising and Communications Officer\, MOAS); Juan delGado (Artist and Filmmaker). This panel will be chaired by Counterpoints Arts Co-Director\, Áine O’Brien. \n  \nSCREEN IN THE GREAT COURT \nShowing a collection of short films by artists and partners\, including: \nShed Your Fears\, Richard deDomenici\, Who Are We? Project\, by Marcia Chandra \nDead Reckoning\, Bern O’Donoghue\, Who Are We? Project\, by Marcia Chandra \nVoices of the Movement\, by YouPress \nI am a Refugee! by David Newman \nBelong\, Coram Young Citizens and Coram Life Education – ‘In association with Nicely Wrapped Films (early cut – work in progress)’ \nI Am Just Like You\, Kazzum\, film by Benjamin Bate \n  \nThe event is free and suitable for all ages.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/different-pasts-shared-future-a-refugee-week-special-event/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form,Music,Visual Arts
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