BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Counterpoints - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20261025T010000 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;TZID=Europe/London:20250906T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250907T170000 DTSTAMP:20260410T235909 CREATED:20250901T151841Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T095041Z UID:10000564-1757152800-1757264400@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Unstable DESCRIPTION:A new exhibition by Mohammad Noureddini in association with Counterpoints Arts.\nMohammad Noureddini is a visual storyteller shaped by a lifelong devotion to drawing\, painting\, and expressing emotion through form. His background in Fine Art began with traditional media including oil\, watercolour\, ink\, pen\, and printmaking\, and expanded into digital illustration and concept art. Mohammad has always seen art as a language beyond words\, a way to understand the world and connect with others. \nPrivate View 5th September 6-8pm URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/unstable/ LOCATION:Cambridge Artworks and Artspace\, 5 Green's Road\, Cambridge\, CB4 3EF\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Platforma,Visual Arts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Mohammad1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250904T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251018T170000 DTSTAMP:20260410T235909 CREATED:20250714T094107Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250912T080410Z UID:10000535-1756976400-1760806800@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Leaving Were The Ones Who Could Not Stay DESCRIPTION:Broadway Gallery in Letchworth presents Leaving Were The Ones Who Could Not Stay\, a new exhibition featuring the work of Beverley Carruthers\, Bettina Furnée\, Olga Jürgenson and Idit Elia Nathan. \nCo-commissioned and presented as part of the Platforma Festival (October 2025) produced by Counterpoints Arts. \nOpening Reception: Thursday 4 September 2025\, 18.30-21.00 \nWorkshop: Memory\, Identity & Home\nSaturday 4 October 2025\, 11:00 – 12:30\nJoin artists Beverley Carruthers and Bettina Furnée for a creative workshop exploring the experience of arriving in a new place. Inspired by photos from The Garden City Collection. We will work with writing\, storytelling and photography to create new versions of our own and others’ treasured memories. \nArtist-Led Walk & Talk\nSaturday 11 October 2025\, 12:00 – 13:30\nGain insight into the exhibition through a guided ‘walk and talk’ with the artists\, as they discuss their work and ideas. \nThe exhibition features four Cambridge-based artists who explore the socio-political forces shaping familial bonds\, migration\, and intergenerational memory. Through sound\, video\, collage\, and interactive installations\, they draw on personal histories\, interviews\, found material and family archives to reimagine borders\, displacement\, and the meaning of home. \nThis collectively created project encourages sharing of prescient stories of migration and displacement to question societal change and bonds. \nAll four artists present large-scale new works in this exhibition: Hailstones\, Bars and Meshes is a sound installation with photographic prints by Beverley Carruthers\, exploring contemporary oral histories of labour\, migration\, and community storytelling. Out Of Our Earth is a three-channel film and sound installation by Bettina Furnée that explores ‘leaving’- a friend\, a home\, a country\, our planet- by blending tales of migration and farewell with recorded interviews and elements of science fiction. Permission to Return Granted by Olga Jürgenson is exploring the impact of forced collectivisation\, Stalin’s terror and World War II on the migrant Estonian community\, including her family\, in the Ulyanovsk area of Soviet Russia during the period between 1929 and 1953. Trigger Warning by Idit Nathan is a sculptural installation of handkerchiefs passed down through the maternal line\, delicately embroidered with press images from the war in Gaza and artistic responses to historic horrors of war. \nThe project was developed in partnership with Counterpoints Arts as part of Platforma (October 2025). Additional events with Uncovering Letchworth\, METAL Peterborough and Revoluton Arts\, Luton\, will use the exhibition themes to stimulate conversation and connect (migrant) artists in the region. \nBeverley Carruthers is a multimedia artist exploring female experience\, and how this is navigated through ritual and performance in photography\, generative text\, sound art\, performance and film. She is a Royal College of Art alumnus and was senior lecturer in photography at London College of Communication where she co-created the Writing Photographs research project\, investigating how image and text come together\, particularly in an installation context. She recently ran The Expanded Librarian as collaboration between The Royal College of Art\, CRASSH\, University of Cambridge\, and University of The Arts\, London. She organised the Reframing Menopause research project where she has made collaborative film and texts works and co-curated the first multidisciplinary menopause conference at University of Cambridge in 2019. She has run two conferences at Tate Modern\, and an extensive exhibition\, public lecture\, and workshop program. She is an experienced workshop leader having taught for over 30 years at University of the Arts\, with public workshops at The Photographers’ Gallery\, Tate Modern and LCC Studios. \nBettina Furnée was born in The Netherlands and is studio artist at Wysing Arts Centre. Her text-based practice includes installation\, live events and moving image. She works collaboratively with writers\, musicians and participants to create projects that challenge dominant narratives and amplify voices from the community. Her projects are often situated in public places where power resides\, such as a church\, library\, mountain or bunker\, exploring the instability of language through wordplay\, text and sound. For instance\, collaborative project Even You Song was a choral evensong based on interviews with twelve couples about a potential space mission\, and this premiered at Peterborough Cathedral\, before touring in 2019. Powerhouse was a temporary installation\, set of posters\, archival work and film\, which resulted from a durational word association game staged at Cambridge University Library\, as part of a residency at Kettle’s Yard. She has been awarded public commissions\, group and solo shows\, residencies and support for self-initiated projects. In 2020 she was selected for alternative learning programme Syllabus VI\, and she is currently artist in residence for Natur Am Byth\, Wales’ green recovery programme. \nOlga Jürgenson was born in Siberia and raised in Estonia; she is currently based in Cambridge and works and exhibits internationally. Olga is drawn to the subject of human nature’s complexity – whether it’s from the perspective of a female artist collaborating with the world’s first AI sex doll Samantha\, TV detective stories questioning the role of god\, or a painter of portraits of robots disguised as celebrities. She has participated in many group exhibitions globally\, including 56th Venice Biennial\, MANIFESTA 10\, and Liverpool\, Moscow and Ural biennials. She has been awarded grants and awards from several European foundations\, and in 2011 she was nominated for the Kandinsky Prize (Moscow\, Russia). Recent solo exhibitions were at the Tallinn Art Hall Gallery\, Estonia (2021-2022)\, Espronceda Centre for Arts and Culture\, Barcelona\, Spain (2018)\, New Hall Art Collection\, University of Cambridge\, UK (2014)\, amongst others. Olga’s works are held in state and private collections across the world\, including British Film Institute\, London (UK)\, The University of Cambridge (UK)\, Oulu Art Museum (Finland)\, National Centre for Contemporary Art (Russia). Olga curated the National Pavilion of Mauritius at the 56th and 57th Venice Biennale. \nIdit Elia Nathan grew up in Jerusalem. She is a conceptual artist whose work includes interactive installations\, live events\, games\, audio-visual works\, walks and artists’ books where play operates as a productively provocative space to challenge accepted understandings. Using optics\, scale and perspective\, participants are invited to respond to contemporary dilemmas both as actors with free will and actors in an historical and cultural context. Her artworks have been been exhibited internationally and are held in private and public collections including Kettle’s Yard\, Standpoint\, IMT\, Parasol Unit\, Royal Institute of British Architects\, Triangle Space\, Pushkin House\, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama\, Pembroke and Homerton colleges (Cambridge)\, Crypt Gallery and Materia Gallery (Rome)\, Toxic Dreams (Vienna)\, Display Cult (Canada and US) and Zarya Centre for Contemporary Arts (Vladivostok). Until recently Idit was associate lecturer at Central St. Martin’s College (University of the Arts London)\, where she completed an arts practice PhD titled Art of Play in Zones of Conflict – the Case of Israel Palestine in 2018. \nImage: Bettina Furnée URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/leaving-were-the-ones-who-could-not-stay/ LOCATION:Broadway Gallery\, 2 The Arcade\, Letchworth Garden City\, SG6 3ES\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Platforma,Visual Arts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/donkey_1.2e16d0ba.fill-1300x731-c0.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250720T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250720T170000 DTSTAMP:20260410T235909 CREATED:20250630T083153Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250630T095514Z UID:10000525-1753020000-1753030800@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Leaving Were the Ones DESCRIPTION:Beverley Carruthers\, Bettina Furnée\, Olga Jürgenson and Idit Nathan present a ‘work in progress’ event with special guests at Wysing Arts Centre\, Cambridgeshire.\nFollowing their ‘work in progress’ days (17th-20th July) join the artists on Sunday 20 July for a special closing event with writer Ali Smith & filmmaker Sarah Wood who will lead a conversation focused on the exhibition themes. \nThis event is part of Leaving Are The Ones Who Could Not Stay – a new exhibition for Broadway Gallery\, Letchworth that explores the socio-political forces shaping familial bonds\, migration\, and intergenerational memory. \nLeaving Were The Ones Who Could Not Stay has been co-commissioned by Counterpoints Arts to be presented as part of the Platforma Festival October 2025\, and the Broadway Gallery\, a charitable service of the Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation. It is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Special thanks to the Garden City Collection and Revoluton Arts and METAL for their generous support and collaboration. \nFull details and booking via Eventbrite. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/leaving-were-the-ones/ LOCATION:Wysing Arts Centre\, Fox Road\, Bourn\, CB23 2TX\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Platforma,Visual Arts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/avif:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_1057164063_2792778880261_1_original.avif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250113T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250113T130000 DTSTAMP:20260410T235909 CREATED:20241115T165030Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241205T145234Z UID:10000470-1736764200-1736773200@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Cambridge - Platforma networking DESCRIPTION:Where: CRASSH\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Rd\, Cambridge CB3 9D \nWhen: 10.30-1.00 on Monday 13th January 2025 \nFor: information about the Platforma arts and refugees festival taking place across the East of England in October 2025\, and how you can get involved. \nTo reserve a free place: email tom@counterpoints.org.uk. \nPlease feel free to circulate this invitation\, but attendees must register in advance by email. \nImage: Good Evening\, We Are From Ukraine by Frankie Mills (Platforma 2023 in the South West) \nAN INVITATION\nThe Platforma festival takes place in a different English region every two years\, produced by Counterpoints Arts in collaboration with local partners and artists to showcase work relating to the arts refugees & migration\, build capacity and share learning. \nIn October 2025\, Platforma will take place across the East of England with a range of performances\, exhibitions\, talks and other events of all kind and scale. Most of the programming will be from local artists and organisations\, with touring and visiting contributions making it a truly national event. This edition’s programme will embed a particular focus on exploring mental health and wellbeing through the lens of the arts and its impact on individuals and communities affected by experiences of displacement. \nThis event on 13th January will be a chance to learn more about Platforma\, including how artists and organisations can get involved and what support can be provided. It will also be an opportunity to network across the arts\, refugee and other sectors in and around Cambridge. We will also share more about our work around mental health and creative well-being. \nIt will be an informal and friendly day\, and anyone with an interest in this work is welcome. . \nPlease contact tom@counterpoints.org.uk to reserve a free place or with any questions. We are able to cover the costs of local travel for people who are not supported by an organisation. \nMany thanks to the CRASSH for generously hosting this event. \nOther similar events have been (or will be) taking place in other places across the region – including in Ipswich\, Norwich and Great Yarmouth. \nBACKGROUND\nIn 2023 the 7th Platforma festival was held over 5 weeks across the South West of England\, with more than 30 events. A key part of the programme is connecting organisations and people across the arts\, migration and other sectors. We also seek to make connections between places\, within the region and with visiting artists and practitioners from across the UK and internationally. \nBy focusing on a different region every two years\, Counterpoints is able to spend time getting to know a wide range of new partners and to build and understanding of the context. Our co-commissions and overall programme are responsive to that\, with a view to capacity building for the longer term and creating collaborations that last well beyond the festival period. \nPlatforma also becomes a focus of local media\, as with this 2023 report by the BBC. \nRead more about Platforma 2023 URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/cambridge-platforma-networking/ LOCATION:CRASSH\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Rd\, Cambridge\, CB3 9DP\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Blog,Platforma ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/We-Are-From-Ukraine-Platforma-festival-2023-©-Frankie-Mills.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241125T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241125T143000 DTSTAMP:20260410T235909 CREATED:20241022T074042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241121T163734Z UID:10000466-1732532400-1732545000@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Ipswich - Platforma networking DESCRIPTION:Where: DanceEast\, Jerwood DanceHouse\, Foundry Lane\, Ipswich IP4 1DW \nWhen: 11.00-2.30 on Monday 25th November 2024 (free lunch provided) \nFor information about the Platforma festival taking place across the East of England in October 2025 and how you can get involved. \nThe Jerwood DanceHouse is a fully accessible venue. For venue information\, our visual story and virtual tour are here Your Visit – DanceEast. \nTo reserve a free place: email tom@counterpoints.org.uk before 15th November. Please include any access information and / or dietary requirements so that we can fully support you during your visit. \nUPDATE: This event is now fully booked. Please email if you would like to know more about Platforma in Ipswich and we can arrange a call. \nPlease circulate this invitation\, but all attendees must register in advance by email. \nImage: Good Evening\, We Are From Ukraine by Frankie Mills (Platforma 2023 in the South West) \nAN INVITATION\nThe Platforma festival takes place in a different English region every two years\, produced by Counterpoints Arts in collaboration with local partners and artists to showcase work\, build capacity and share learning. \nIn October 2025\, Platforma will take place across the East of England with a range of performances\, exhibitions\, talks and other events of all kind and scale. Most of the programming will be from local artists and organisations\, with touring and visiting contributions making it a truly national event. This edition’s programme will embed a particular focus on exploring mental health and wellbeing through the lens of the arts and its impact on individuals and communities affected by experiences of displacement. \nThis event in partnership with DanceEast on 25th November will be a chance to learn more about Platforma\, including how artists and organisations can get involved and what support can be provided. It will also be an opportunity to network across the arts\, refugee and other sectors in and around Ipswich. We will also share more about our work around mental health and creative well-being. \nIt will be an informal and friendly day\, and anyone with an interest in this work is welcome. It is fine to come for only part of the day. \nPlease contact tom@counterpoints.org.uk to reserve a free place or with any questions. We are able to cover the costs of local travel for people who are not supported by an organisation. \nMany thanks to the DanceEast for generously hosting this event. \nOther similar events have been (or will be) taking place in other places across the region. \nBACKGROUND\nIn 2023 the 7th Platforma festival was held over 5 weeks across the South West of England\, with more than 30 events. A key part of the programme is connecting organisations and people across the arts\, migration and other sectors. We also seek to make connections between places\, within the region and with visiting artists and practitioners from across the UK and internationally. \nBy focusing on a different region every two years\, Counterpoints is able to spend time getting to know a wide range of new partners and to build and understanding of the context. Our co-commissions and overall programme are responsive to that\, with a view to capacity building for the longer term and creating collaborations that last well beyond the festival period. \nPlatforma also becomes a focus of local media\, as with this 2023 report by the BBC. \nRead more about Platforma 2023 URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/ipswich-platforma-networking/ LOCATION:DanceEast\, Jerwood DanceHouse\, Foundry Lane\, Ipswich\, IP4 1DW\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form,Platforma ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/We-Are-From-Ukraine-Platforma-festival-2023-©-Frankie-Mills.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241112T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241112T120000 DTSTAMP:20260410T235909 CREATED:20241024T110041Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241213T210614Z UID:10000468-1731407400-1731412800@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Sanctuary and Visual Arts DESCRIPTION:Developed by City of Sanctuary UK and Counterpoint Arts\, the Arts Stream of Sanctuary recognises work done by arts organisations with artists and communities from refugee and asylum seeking backgrounds and helps them build sustainable ongoing programmes. \nA small but growing number of visual arts studios and venues have joined the programme and we are keen for more to get involved. \nThis online meeting will feature short presentations by studios and galleries which have Sanctuary status\, to share the work they do\, some of the challenges they face and how they address them. There will be plenty of time for questions and discussion. All welcome\, whether you are experienced in this work or coming to it for the first time.\nFree sign up here \nPlatforma is a festival produced every two years by Counterpoints with partners in a different English region. In October 2025 it will be in the East of England. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/sanctuary-and-visual-arts/ CATEGORIES:Platforma,Visual Arts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-13-at-09.38.59.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241105T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241105T143000 DTSTAMP:20260410T235909 CREATED:20240926T161101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241021T092651Z UID:10000465-1730802600-1730817000@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Norwich - Platforma networking DESCRIPTION:Where: Sainsbury Centre\, Norfolk Rd\, Norwich NR4 7TJ \nWhen: 10.30-2.30 on Tuesday 5th November 2024 (free lunch provided) \nFor information about the Platforma festival taking place across the East of England in October 2025 and how you can get involved \nTo reserve a free place: email tom@counterpoints.org.uk before 22nd October. \nPlease circulate this invitation\, but all attendees must register in advance by email. \n21/10/2004: This event is now at capacity\, but please email for more information about Platforma and to receive updates. \nImage: Good Evening\, We Are From Ukraine by Frankie Mills (Platforma 2023 in the South West) \nAn invitation\nThe Platforma festival takes place in a different English region every two years\, produced by Counterpoints Arts in collaboration with local partners and artists to showcase work\, build capacity and share learning. \nIn October 2025\, Platforma will take place across the East of England with a range of performances\, exhibitions\, talks and other events of all kind and scale. Most of the programming will be from local artists and organisations\, with touring and visiting contributions making it a truly national event. This edition’s programme will embed a particular focus on exploring mental health and wellbeing through the lens of the arts and its impact on individuals and communities affected by experiences of displacement. \nThis event at Sainsbury Centre on 5th November will be a chance to learn more about Platforma\, including how artists and organisations can get involved and what support can be provided. It will also be an opportunity to network across the arts\, refugee and other sectors in Norwich. We will also share more about our work around mental health and creative well-being. \nIt will be an informal and friendly day\, and anyone with an interest in this work is welcome. It is fine to come for only part of the day. \n10.30-12.30: Introducing Platforma and group discussions about current programming and provision in and around Norwich\, challenges and opportunities \n12.30-1.30: Lunch and conversation \n1.30-2.30: The arts\, refugees and mental health / creative health – discussion and ideas for events and programming. \nPlease contact tom@counterpoints.org.uk to reserve a free place or with any questions. We are able to cover the costs of local travel for people who are not supported by an organisation. \nMany thanks to the Sainsbury Centre for generously hosting this event. \nOther similar events have been (or will be) taking place in other places across the region. \nBackground\nIn 2023 the 7th Platforma festival was held over 5 weeks across the South West of England\, with more than 30 events. A key part of the programme is connecting organisations and people across the arts\, migration and other sectors. We also seek to make connections between places\, within the region and with visiting artists and practitioners from across the UK and internationally. \nBy focusing on a different region every two years\, Counterpoints is able to spend time getting to know a wide range of new partners and to build and understanding of the context. Our co-commissions and overall programme are responsive to that\, with a view to capacity building for the longer term and creating collaborations that last well beyond the festival period. \nPlatforma also becomes a focus of local media\, as with this 2023 report by the BBC. \nRead more about Platforma 2023 URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/norwich-platforma-networking/ LOCATION:Sainsbury Centre\, University of East Anglia\, Norfolk Road\, Norwich\, NR4 7TJ CATEGORIES:Platforma ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/We-Are-From-Ukraine-Platforma-festival-2023-©-Frankie-Mills.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240712T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240712T150000 DTSTAMP:20260410T235909 CREATED:20240514T161556Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144312Z UID:10000416-1720785600-1720796400@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Great Yarmouth networking meet-up DESCRIPTION:Original Projects and Counterpoints Arts invite you to an informal meet-up to bring together organisations and people working across the arts to support the wellbeing and mental health of refugees / asylum seekers in and around Great Yarmouth. \nCounterpoints will be running the Platforma festival. across the East of England in October 2025 and we are keen to speak with potential partners and discuss possible approaches. Mental health will be the main theme of the programme\, as part of Counterpoints new strand on this subject. \nThe meet-up will run from 12-3 on 12 July\, and you’re welcome to come for only a part of that if you can’t make the whole meeting. \nFood will be available. \nIt will be a chance to hear more from Counterpoints about their work and their plans and for everyone to share their own ideas and aspirations in this context. \nPlease sign up via Eventbrite \nCover image credit: Marcia Chandra – Refugee Week 2022 URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/great-yarmouth-networking-meet-up/ LOCATION:PrimeYarc\, Market Gates\, Great Yarmouth\, NR30 2BG\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Platforma ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/counterpoints-network.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231114T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231114T220000 DTSTAMP:20260410T235909 CREATED:20231005T212707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144536Z UID:10000367-1699988400-1699999200@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:In Their Shoes Film Evening (Bristol) DESCRIPTION:Bristol STAR invites you to a screening of Hostile\, a feature-length documentary directed by BAFTA-winning Sonia Gale. \nWhat does it mean to be British? What does it feel like to be told you don’t belong? This compelling and BAFTA-longlisted feature debut explores how the UK’s ‘hostile environment’ policies have affected four people from Black and Asian backgrounds. From archive footage and contemporary testimony we learn about the direct impact of these policies on everyday life. \nAn optional discussion about the documentary will be held after it has been watched. \nAll funds collected will be going towards campaigning against the Illegal Migration Act 2023\, and to protect the rights of local refugees. \nThis screening is in collaboration with the Film Society\, Amnesty Society and International Affairs Society. \nPresented by Counterpoints Arts as part of the Platforma festival 2023 in collaboration with Bristol STAR (Student Action for Refugees). URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/in-their-shoes-film-evening/ LOCATION:Richmond Building\, 105 Queens Road\, Clifton\, BS8 1LN CATEGORIES:Film and Photography,Platforma ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Website-Platforma-Overlay-7-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231105T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231105T163000 DTSTAMP:20260410T235909 CREATED:20231002T143017Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144537Z UID:10000366-1699194600-1699201800@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Name Me Lawand (Gloucester) DESCRIPTION:Lawand is a young Kurdish boy\, deaf since birth. At five years old his future in Iraq looks destined to be limited and lonely. In desperate search of a better life in a world where he can communicate\, his family decide to leave their home. After a treacherous journey and a year in a refugee camp\, the help of a deaf volunteer brings them to Derby where Lawand joins the Royal School for the Deaf. As he grows older\, the film follows his dramatic progress learning British Sign Language\, revealing a bright\, charismatic and inquisitive boy\, who discovers friendship and a new way to express himself. But just as Lawand is joyfully finding his place in the world\, the family face deportation from the UK. \nEmploying a striking lyrical and observational visual style\, writer-director Edward Lovelace spent four years filming Lawand\, learning British Sign Language himself. In this moving and inspiring portrait\, we follow Lawand’s evolution from extreme isolation to becoming able to be his true self. This is a story about the strength that language gives us\, whatever form it takes\, and of the power of friendship and community. \nName Me Lawand is a Pulse Films production with support from BFI Doc Society Fund (awarding National Lottery funding) and Electric Shadow Company. \nPresented as part of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England. \nBook tickets URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/name-me-lawand-gloucester/ LOCATION:Gloucester Guildhall\, 23 Eastgate Street\, Gloucester\, GL1 1NS\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Film and Photography,Platforma ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Name-Me-Lawand.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231104T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231104T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T235909 CREATED:20230918T102415Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144537Z UID:10000355-1699106400-1699124400@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Re-imagine Community Practice: Cooperation Disco + Arty Farty Karaoke (Bristol) DESCRIPTION:What is the migrant arts community?\nA cluster network under specific labels? The act of solidarity over trauma? Or can we take a different approach?\nJoin Bristol-based performance artist Howl Yuan on this social gathering\, featuring friendship\, celebration and joy-making practices. \nDate: Saturday 4th November 2023\nTime: 2-7PM\nVenue: Mill Room\, St. Anne’s House\, St Anne’s Rd\, Brislington\, Bristol\, BS4 4AB \nIn Cooperation Disco\, the group will engage with map making\, games and celebratory dances to build connections and solidarity across people and places in the UK. It’s a seemingly mighty task that we’ll face together with creativity and playfulness! Here everyone has a place. \nArty-Farty Karaoke is a multilingual karaoke practice. It embraces the act of ‘singing along’ and ‘singing with’ as the collective cheerful connection-making method. \nHowl invites migrant artists\, performance makers\, cultural producers and their allies to come and share your need\, support\, voice and joy. \nBook your FREE place by emailing Platforma producer Tasnim Siddiqa Amin at tasnim@counterpoints.org.uk with your name\, your link with Bristol and South West and whether you identify as a migrant performance practitioner (including artists\, producers\, advocators\, thinkers). \nThis event is co-facilitated with Ania Varez. \nLight refreshments will be provided.\nTimings:\n2PM – Welcome\n2.30PM – 4.30PM Cooperation Disco\n4.30 – 5PM Break\n5 – 7PM Arty-Farty Karaoke \nAnia Varez (they/them) is a Venezuelan dance artist and community worker based in Bristol. They graduated with honors from the London Contemporary Dance School. Ania makes experimental and collaborative performances\, working with other dancers\, artists of other disciplines and with people who don’t identify as artists yet. They have worked with Lisa May Thomas\, Laila Diallo\, Terrestrial\, Fair Play Productions and Shotput Theatre. Their own work has toured internationally (Taiwan and South Korea) as well as in the UK\, including SPILL Festival. They are a member of Interval\, an artist support network in Bristol. \nHowl Yuan\, or Yuan Cheng-Po\, is a Taiwanese performance maker/writer/curator/researcher. His interests cross cultural identity\, mobility\, site/place/space and decolonised narratives. His works span different formats but are primarily performance-based\, and are presented in theatres\, galleries\, festivals\, beaches or gardens. \nImage credit: Howl Yuan \nThis event is co-commissioned by Counterpoint Arts and performingborders \nPart of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/re-imagine-community-practice/ LOCATION:St. Anne’s House\, St Anne's Rd\, Bristol\, BS4 4AB\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Learning,Music,Performance & Dance,Platforma ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231031T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231031T120000 DTSTAMP:20260410T235909 CREATED:20230828T063306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144537Z UID:10000348-1698750000-1698753600@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Trigger and Maison Foo : theatre\, food and a culture of belonging (online) DESCRIPTION:As part of the Platforma festival 2023\, theatre companies Trigger and Maison Foo share their experiences of working with food and hospitality to engage with asylum seekers and help change narratives around displacement. \nA free online event on Zoom : reserve a free place via Eventbrite \nThere will be the opportunity for a Q&A\, to share your own experiences and to network online. \nTrigger \nNorth Somerset arts charity Trigger are creators and producers of bold\, unforgettable live events. \nFor this discussion they will be talking about Humanity Hotel\, an ongoing project supporting the wellbeing of asylum seekers housed in hotels across North Somerset. \nIn May 2022\, North Somerset become host to hundreds of asylum seekers forced to leave their homes and families\, and now displaced in the UK. \nHoused in rurally isolated areas\, this community rely solely on agents in Bristol to support their wellbeing needs\, from legal advice to English lessons. \nOn their arrival\, Trigger mobilised to offer support. Pulling together a network of local people\, they were able to help with donations of phones and other essential items; they’ve facilitated car shares and free public transport\, signposted legal advice\, arranged volunteer opportunities and brokered relationships with the local football club for regular games. \nOver the last six months Trigger have facilitated a regular creative and cultural programme. From art making to cooking\, sewing and ceramics\, Trigger are working in collaboration with local artists\, musicians\, arts venues and community organisations to deliver creative\, educational and participatory workshops for this community. \nwww.triggerstuff.co.uk \nFollow Trigger on Facebook\, Twitter or Instagram \nMaison Foo \nMaison Foo are makers of theatre\, art and community\, and a proud Theatre Company of Sanctuary. For this event they will be talking about their project A Seat At Our Table. \nOn October 2022\, Maison Foo and their Creative Sanctuary Group took over the grand Georgian dining room at Pickford’s House in Derby\, to reimagine what and whose stories are told in buildings such as these. \nThe project aimed to give people across the UK with Refugee and Asylum Seeker status\, a positive platform from which to tell and share their stories with audiences and beyond\, in places where their voice has previously been unheard. \nAudiences were invited to take a seat at the dining table\, to listen to personal and intimate stories about the familial and universal experience of food and mealtimes. Challenging the perception of who should be seated at the table of grand stately homes and paving the way for a new future…one that is open and accepting of all regardless\, of their background and journey to the UK. \nCo-created with Maison Foo’s Creative Sanctuary Group (a diverse collective of People Seeking Sanctuary in Derby)\, the project began with weekly gatherings to cook and to share favourite memories of mealtimes. These stories then formed part of ‘A Seat At Our Table’ a live multi-sensory storytelling experience co-hosted by the group. \nA Seat At Our Table was originally commissioned by Derby CAN (Arts Council England Producing HUB) in partnership with Derby Museums and Oddfellows UK. \n‘Dear Guests\, we welcome you to come and sit at our table and listen to our stories. Inspired by our love of cooking\, food\, and memories of family kitchens all over the world; these are stories we would love to share with you.’ The Creative Sanctuary Group x \nwww.maisonfoo.co.uk \nFollow Maison Foo on Facebook and Twitter \nImage: Maison Foo’s A Seat At Our Table\, Photo by Jon Legge \nPart of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/trigger-and-maison-foo-theatre-food-and-a-culture-of-belonging/ CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Platforma,Theatre ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Maison-Foo-Jon-Legge.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231028T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231029T170000 DTSTAMP:20260410T235909 CREATED:20230827T200155Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144537Z UID:10000330-1698487200-1698598800@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Dear Laila by Basel Zaraa @ the Palestine Museum (Bristol) DESCRIPTION:“Dear Laila\, you are five now and have started to ask me where I grew up\, and why we can’t go there. This is me trying to give you an answer.” \nThe seeds of Dear Laila were planted when Basel’s five-year-old daughter Laila began to ask him about his home growing up. Unable to take her there\, he decided he would try to bring the place to her\, by creating a model of his childhood home in Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus. \nDear Laila shares the Palestinian experience of displacement and struggle through the story of one family. Using retelling of memories and tactile details\, it explores how war and exile are experienced through the everyday\, the domestic\, and the public space – to bring this now destroyed place to life. \n \nRead an interview with Basel Zaraa \nBooking for the Palestine Museum: \nThe work is experienced by one person at a time. To reserve a slot via e-mail please send your preferred visiting time to  tom@counterpoints.org.uk \nCredits: \nOriginally commissioned by Good Chance Theatre\, with support from Arts Council England. \nTranslator and script editor: Emily Churchill Zaraa \nSound engineer: Pete Churchill \nPhoto credit: Mohab Mohamed \nPresented by Counterpoints Arts as part of the Platforma festival 2023 in collaboration with the Palestine Museum\, Bristol. The Palestine Museum was founded in 2013\, and is run entirely by volunteers It explores Palestinian culture\, heritage and daily life. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/dear-laila-by-basel-zaraa-the-palestine-museum/ LOCATION:Palestine Museum\, 27 Broad St\, Bristol\, BS1 2HG\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Platforma,Visual Arts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Test-Platforma-Overlay-9.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231028T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231028T113000 DTSTAMP:20260410T235909 CREATED:20231017T190420Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144537Z UID:10000369-1698487200-1698492600@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:CROWN تاج Workshop (Bristol) DESCRIPTION:Join us for a FREE workshop on Saturday 28th October\, 10-11.30AM. Led by Company Scheherazade Director\, Mario Tarokh with support from Company Musician\, Mario Christofi. The workshop will incorporate basic technique\, movement exploration and learning choreography from the CROWN production. \nFeaturing a fun\, dynamic soundtrack mixing classical Persian music and electronica. Open to all levels and genders. Suitable for 16+. \nTo sign up email companyscheherazade@gmail.com or call Maria on 07709518378. \nFor more information\, visit www.mariatarokh.com URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/crown-%d8%aa%d8%a7%d8%ac-workshop-bristol/ CATEGORIES:Learning,Performance & Dance,Platforma ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Website-Platforma-Overlay-6.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231023 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231024 DTSTAMP:20260410T235909 CREATED:20230930T100308Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144537Z UID:10000365-1698019200-1698105599@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Climate Action and Refugees (Cardiff) DESCRIPTION:In partnership with Platforma festival\, STAR (Student Action for Refugees) at Cardiff University are hosting an innovative evening of panellists\, workshops and conversations that will unite like-minded societies from across the university. \nThey encourage anybody with a passion for education and activism to come along to the student’s uniun to learn about the social injustice issues brought about by the climate crisis. \nTheir goal is for all of our participants to leave with an enhanced understanding of how they as individuals and societies\, can help balance the scales of climate injustice. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/climate-action-and-refugees-cardiff/ LOCATION:Cardiff University Students’ Union\, Park Pl\, Cardiff\, CF10 3QN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form,Platforma ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Cardiff-STAR.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231022T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231022T180000 DTSTAMP:20260410T235909 CREATED:20230724T173747Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144537Z UID:10000339-1697976000-1697997600@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Sudafest: Hope and Healing (Bristol) DESCRIPTION:Sudafest will make a return for Platforma on 22 October! Alongside some old favourites including drumming\, basket weaving and creative writing workshops and youth theatre performance\, Sudafest will spotlight the current turbulent situation in Sudan using storytelling\, live performances and music. No need to book\, just turn up. \nCome along to watch Malkat Aldar\, a show performed by young women telling the story of a Sudanese self-taught novelist and women’s rights activist Malkat Aldar Mohamed. There will also be some lovely traditional Sudanese food available to attendees\, all vegan. Full programme and timings to be published soon. \nA taste of what you can expect here\, Sudafest Evening with Ebo Krdum & Mustafa Khogaliand in the video below: \n \nSudafest: Hope and Healing will take place on Sunday 22nd October\, 12-6PM at the Faithspace Community Redcliff\, Prewett St\, Redcliffe\, Bristol BS1 6PB. \nFor more info contact Hiba at info@sudafest.org and check out the Sudafest website here: sudafest.org \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nPart of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/sudafest-hope-and-healing/ LOCATION:Faithspace\, Prewett St\, Bristol\, BS1 6PB\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Craft & Design,Music,Platforma,Theatre ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231021T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231021T223000 DTSTAMP:20260410T235909 CREATED:20230918T161545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144538Z UID:10000356-1697913000-1697927400@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:CORE by Abigail Reynolds (Cornwall) DESCRIPTION:As part of Flamm by Creative Kernow (21-22nd October 2023)\nOur relationship with the Earth is changing. \nWe must attune ourselves to the Earth and each other by listening\, responding\, and moving together. Core explores these themes in a quarry\, a scar of past extraction. Once a test site for dynamite drills\, Holman quarry has been silent for decades. Core invites us to dance to new rhythms and sounds in this carved landscape. The lost rhythms of percussive drills are replaced by electronic beats made entirely from quarry recordings. These unique sounds\, mixed by acclaimed producers during workshops\, let us reconnect to the rhythms of the Earth. \nDate: Saturday 21st October 2023 \nTime:\nFirst performance 6.30PM-8.30pm\nSecond performance 8.30PM-10.30PM \nLocation: Holman Quarry\, Lanner\, Redruth TR16 5HG. The event will be accessible via minibuses. \nBooking is essential but free to attend\, cash donations are welcome. More info on how to book to come. Keep an eye out on Flamm website and socials. Facebook\, Instagram and Twitter. \nAbout Abigail Reynolds\nAbigail uses montage techniques of layering and folding to destabilise singular ideas of cultural and political ecologies. She often works in dialogue with disciplines and places outside the art world; a silver band\, geologists\, libraries. She works across sculpture\, print and film as well as creating ephemeral events to bring disparate things into conversation. She works with a strong awareness of plurality; keeping a space complex and unreconciled.\n\n“The pages and images she excavates\, now dislocated from their original context\, become more like artifacts or archaeological remnants – more enigmatic\, more mutable\, and open to more complex meaning and association.” (Martin Clark)\n\nAbigail is noted for her work in collage\, using dynamic forms of assembly to release the latent possibilities in book plates by cutting and folding. To fold or layer historic images or events brings into focus our relation to time\, making it possible to discern things that are almost completely lost. Another medium she often uses is glass – using it  metaphorically to focus the act of looking and to suggest alternative modes of perception as well as simply to focus the light. \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-by-abigail-reynolds-cornwall/ LOCATION:Holman Quarry\, Market Way\, Redruth\, TR16 5HG\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form,Music,Platforma,Visual Arts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Website-Platforma-Overlay-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231021T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231021T160000 DTSTAMP:20260410T235909 CREATED:20230725T153107Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144538Z UID:10000338-1697889600-1697904000@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Humanity Hotel: Feasting (Winford) DESCRIPTION:Bringing together asylum seekers\, refugees and local residents to celebrate the diversity of our cultures by sharing a meal\, listening to great music and exchanging stories that help us see the world through someone else’s eyes. \nBrought to you by Trigger as part of their wider ongoing project Humanity Hotel supporting the wellbeing of asylum seekers housed in hotels across North Somerset through arts\, culture and creativity. \nFood will be cooked and prepared by the incredible Loves Café. \nBook tickets via Eventbrite \nPart of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/humanity-hotel-feasting/ LOCATION:Winford Village Hall\, Felton Ln\, Winford\, Bristol\, BS40 8AD\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Music,Platforma ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Test-Platforma-Overlay-5.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231021T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231022T180000 DTSTAMP:20260410T235909 CREATED:20230919T125034Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144538Z UID:10000357-1697886000-1697997600@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Gwyrdh Glas by Sovay Berriman (Cornwall) DESCRIPTION:As part of Flamm by Creative Kernow (21-22nd October 2023)\nGwyrdh Glas (tr. Green Green)\, sits within Berriman’s ongoing project MESKLA | Brewyon Drudh (tr. Mussel Gathering | Precious Fragments) 2022-24\, a multi-platform artwork that uses sculpture and conversation to explore contemporary Kernewek (Cornish) cultural identity and its relationship with heritage\, land\, and extraction industries\, including tourism and mining. \nMESKLA offers space for play in making and for conversation around questions of cultural heritage and belonging. \nDates/Times: \n\nSaturday 21st October 2023\, 11AM-11PM\nSunday 22nd October 2023\, 11AM-6PM\n\nLocation: Market Hall\, Market Way\, Redruth\, TR15 2AU \nNo booking required. \nAbout Sovay Berriman\nSovay Berriman’s work is rooted in their experience of being Cornish\, their culture’s shifting identity\, and the mutability yet power of a sense of place. \nPerformance platforms and dance floors\, the politics of responsibility\, identity and waste\, as well as a fascination with the natural environment’s evolution and its domestic and industrial use\, inform the abstract and semi-fantastical sculptural structures and events Sovay builds. \nThe artworks Sovay creates manifest out of multiple elements. Printed or drawn symbols and forms repeat and layer; components of found material\, acrylic or clay man lean\, prop or balance; live or recorded conversations may be presented upon stages of timber and reclaimed copper\, or made accessible through online platforms. All of these fragments work together through drawing\, text/audio\, moving image\, sculpture & installation to create a whole of shared stories and supportive structures. \nSovay uses visual art as a framework and prompt for action and discussion\, and is committed to questioning balances of power. Sovay is excited by the possibility of the collective\, supple and subtle boundaries\, edges and moments of change. Sovay invites contributors into the work at significant times to collaborate\, test and participate. \nSovay has exhibited & worked with organisations & galleries\, such as MIRROR – Plymouth\, Contemporary Art Society\, Spike Island – Bristol\, Exeter Phoenix\, The Harris – Preston\, Pi-ArtWorks – London/Istanbul\, & Robin Gibson – Sydney. \nGwyrdh Glas is being presented as part of Flam\, 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/gwyrdh-glas-by-sovay-berriman-cornwall/ LOCATION:Market Hall\, Market Way\, Redruth\, TR15 2AU\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form,Music,Platforma,Visual Arts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Website-Platforma-Overlay-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231021 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231029 DTSTAMP:20260410T235909 CREATED:20230725T162254Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144537Z UID:10000342-1697846400-1698537599@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:CROWN//تاج by Company Scheherazade (Dartington and Bristol) DESCRIPTION:There is power in self-discovery… \nCROWN//تاج is the UK’s first touring production by Company Scheherazade combining classical Persian dance\, contemporary dance\, and Sufi movement to tell a story of displacement\, identity\, and body sovereignty to an original soundtrack of live classical music and electronica. \nUsing Persian miniatures\, lived experience and the poetry of Forough Farrokhzad\, the 3 lead dancers take the audience on a journey from determination through struggle to release. Finding courage\, resilience\, and joy along the way. \nMaria Tarokh directs this female-led production on its inaugural tour. The cast feature brilliant contemporary and classical dancers and virtuoso classical Persian musicians to bring you a moving\, exhilarating\, and energetic experience. \nRunning time: 60 minutes \nSuitable for 14+. \nContent note: The performance does not include any visuals that adults or children may find disturbing. However\, it does deal with adult themes and the soundtrack features some heavy bass. \nCo-produced by Dartington Arts and commissioned by Counterpoints Arts. Supported with funding from Arts Council England. \nDates and venues confirmed: \n21 October at Dartington Hall (Booking Link) \n28 October at Acta in Bristol (Booking Link) \nThere will also be a performance on 10 November at RichMix in London (Booking Link) \n@companyscheherazade \n \nDance artists: Ghazal Seidi\, Ayesha Fazal and Regine Phua \nSound Designer: Somin Griffin Dave \nMusicians: Ala Zarei and Mario Christofi \nPart of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/crown-by-maria-tarokh/ CATEGORIES:Performance & Dance,Platforma ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Maria-7-Platforma-Overlay.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231021 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231023 DTSTAMP:20260410T235909 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:20231021 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231022 DTSTAMP:20260410T235909 CREATED:20230725T170404Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144538Z UID:10000343-1697846400-1697932799@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Mohand & Peter (Bristol and Swindon) DESCRIPTION:PSYCHEdelight Theatre and Sole Purpose Productions present a wonderful work of storytelling and physical theatre. With humour and visual poetry\, Mohand and Peter will take you on a road trip through Sudan jumping from one character to another\, including Omar Al Bashir\, Mohand’s 450 cousins\, and a lazy camel. \nMohand and Peter bounce on one of the toughest international news stories of the decade and as two brave clowns\, they fight horror with laughter to build a magnificent pedestal for Mohand’s country. \nIn Bristol there will be a matinee and evening performances at acta on 21 October priced just £5. Booking link \nThere will also be a private performance at the Harbour Project in Swindon on 19 October. \n\nThe Stage : “A genial\, family friendly two-hander that acknowledges the profound sense of yearning that refugees so often feel for the families and homes they’ve left behind” \nThe Star Sheffield : “Magical and magnificent show. Charming\, funny and clever.” \nCentre Stage Reviews : “Tonight I laughed\, I learnt\, I travelled.” \nEverything Theatre : “A glorious celebration of Sudan\, and the magic of friendship across cultures” \nTheatre-News : “Master-class of physical theatre. A delight from start to finish.” \nReviewsGate : “Funny\, consistently entertaining. Beguiling performers” \nLondonTheatre1 : “Broad and refreshing… The portrayals are spot on. An engaging and enthusiastic piece of theatre” \nMind the Blog :  “Mohand’s love letter to Sudan is an entertaining & enlightening show – as timely as it ever could be” \nThe Family Stage: “For some of us\, the show gave us a chance to learn just a little about a country that we rarely hear much about apart from negative news. For others\, it represented an opportunity to be transported back to the country they call home and to celebrate it at its best.” \nThere Ought to Be Clowns: “Beautiful in both its poetic and physical language\, Mohand & Peter is a triumph”. \nEvents in London: “A skilfully handled trip down memory lane.” \nThe Prickle: “Explosively funny duo” \n \n  \nPart of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England. \n  URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/mohand-peter/ CATEGORIES:Platforma,Theatre ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Test-Platforma-Overlay-8.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231020 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231022 DTSTAMP:20260410T235909 CREATED:20230725T145708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144538Z UID:10000337-1697760000-1697932799@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Ellipsis: An Audio Walking Tour in Swindon DESCRIPTION:Belén L.Yáñez will be bringing her audio walking tour Ellipsis to Swindon. Co-created with local communities\, Ellipsis encourages you to reconnect with your local area and observe something new and unexpected in the everyday.  \nJoin us in Swindon for a free and interactive audio walking tour experience suitable for all ages. Guided by a performer for 60 minutes you will be invited to rediscover and interact with your local area. Explore familiar places from a different perspective and blur the real with the imagined. \nMultiple dates and times in Swindon on Friday 20 October\, 3.30PM and Saturday 21 October\, 11AM and 3PM. Book your free tickets via Eventbrite. \nFunded by National Lottery through Arts Council England \nCo-commissioned by Counterpoints Arts \nSupported by Arts University Plymouth & Prime Theatre \nImage credit: Collage by Belén L.Yáñez \nPart of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/ellipsis-an-audio-walking-tour-in-swindon/ LOCATION:STEAM – Museum of the Great Western Railway\, Fire Fly Avenue\, Swindon\, SN2 2TA\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Audio,Community & Participation,Performance & Dance,Platforma ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/ellipsis_Overlay-Platforma.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231020 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231022 DTSTAMP:20260410T235909 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;TZID=Europe/London:20231018T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231018T193000 DTSTAMP:20260410T235909 CREATED:20230917T093336Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144538Z UID:10000354-1697652000-1697657400@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Picturing Displacement - Symposium & Exhibition (Bristol) DESCRIPTION:A symposium\, exhibition and new network that will explore the ways visual art can illuminate and reshape narratives around migration\, identity and belonging. \nFree booking \nFeaturing Amak Mahmoodian\, Frankie Mills\, Adiam Yemane\, Liz Hingley and Aida Silvestri. Panel moderated by Fozia Ismail. \nCounterpoints Arts and the Martin Parr Foundation present a series of short talks led by artists whose photographic practice focuses on migration\, identity\, refuge and care. \nThe discussion will touch on questions of representation\, activism and lived experience. \nAll are invited to view the exhibition after the talks and share food inspired by Middle Eastern\, African and Eastern Europe cuisines made by Houria. \nThe featured photographers work will be on show outside the Royal Photographic Society in Bristol from 13th October\, curated by Liz Hingley. \nAmak Mahmoodin was born in Shiraz\, Iran and now lives in Bristol. Her artistic practice explores the representation of gender\, identity and displacement\, bridging a space between personal and political. Working with images\, poems\, archives and videos\, she looks for the lyrical reality frames in the photographs. \nFrankie Mills is a photographer and writer based in Devon. She is interested in the ways in which people create a sense of home and belonging that doesn’t derive from location. She is currently creating a body of work on Ukrainian refugees in her local community. Work from the series won OpenWalls Arles (2023) and has been shortlisted for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize (2023). \nAdïam Yemane\, an Ethiopian-Eritrean visual artist and storyteller\, embraces a profound love for nature. Her artistic journey steers toward freelance portrait and research photography\, a platform through which she illuminates contemporary issues\, notably in social justice and community development. Her art aspires to convey heartfelt global stories\, transcending surface narratives\, and beckoning viewers to connect with the world on a deeper level. \nLiz Hingley is an artist and anthropologist based in London. She founded The SIM Project\, a mobile collection of unique personal artefacts made at workshops in 8 countries to date. The SIM-scale artefacts combine analogue and digital photography processes with jewellery making to give tangible meaning to peoples virtual networks\, and value and archive stories of migration. The project is a collaboration with Frank Menger of the Centre for Print Research\, UWE and a growing\nteam. \nAida Silvestri is an interdisciplinary artist and educator of Eritrean descent. She creates mixed media artworks that challenge the status quo of stigma\, prejudice and social injustice concerning race\, class\, identity and health\, often combining text\, image and experimental techniques to manipulate the photographic surface. \nFozia Ismail is a scholar\, cook and founder of Arawelo Eats\, a platform for exploring politics\, identity and colonialism through East African food & co- founder dhaqan collective a Somali feminist art collective based in Bristol. \nHouria CIC is a Bristol-based anti-slavery & anti-racism organisation\, training & hiring women migrant cooks and survivors of slavery in a Bristol-based catering company. \nThis event is supported by the University of West England. It is part of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England. \nImage by Adiam Yemane URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/picturing-displacement-symposium-bristol/ LOCATION:Martin Parr Foundation\, 316 Paintworks\, Bristol\, BS4 3AR\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Photography,Platforma ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Adiam-yemane.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231015 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231019 DTSTAMP:20260410T235909 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;TZID=Europe/London:20231013T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231013T203000 DTSTAMP:20260410T235909 CREATED:20230731T132152Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144538Z UID:10000344-1697223600-1697229000@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:SDA Launches 'The Green Room' (Stroud) DESCRIPTION:Join Soumik Datta Arts (SDA) on Friday 13 October for a special concert celebrating the launch of a new programme for migrant and refugee musicians: The Green Room\n\nAga Khan Music Award winner\, Soumik Datta will perform an evening of contemporary Indian music to address refugee issues\,  together with SDA associate artists\, Gurdain Singh on tabla and Preetha Narayanan on violin. \nThe concert will be followed by the launch of the Green Room – SDA’s new residency programme to deliver professional development opportunities for global south refugee and migrant musicians. Find out who the Green Room Artists are and take part in an informal Q&A. \nOver three residential weeks at Hawkwood Centre\, seven Green Room artists will undergo a series of workshops\, rehearsals and recording to co-create authentic and collective work in a safe\, welcoming and nurturing space. Read more about it in the call out here. \nThe event will be followed by a networking opportunity for local artists and organisations. \nThis is a seated event. \nPhoto by Daniel Dittus. \nPart of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/sda-launches-the-green-room/ LOCATION:Hawkwood Centre\, Painswick Old Rd\, Stroud\, GL6 7QW\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Music,Platforma ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Test-Platforma-Overlay-10.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231012T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231012T200000 DTSTAMP:20260410T235909 CREATED:20230714T141937Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144538Z UID:10000011-1697135400-1697140800@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Theatre of Migration with Carlota Matos and Hiba Elhindi (Bristol) DESCRIPTION:UPDATE: This event took place on 12th October 2023. You can now read our blog about how it went and watch the recording here.   \nJoin community artists Carlota Matos and Hiba Elhindi for a discussion about the ethics of working with migrants in theatre\, chaired by Vandna Mehta. \nThe evening will include a sharing from ongoing theatre workshops with migrant women in collaboration with Borderlands and a screening of the work being done by project SuFIA (Sudanese Folklore-Inspired Arts) by Hiba. The 45-min panel discussion will feature topics such as the ethics of participation\, making theatre from lived experience and working with migrants followed by a Q&A. \nCarlota recently partnered with Bristol-based charity Borderlands to offer free weekly theatre workshops for migrant women starting in September 2023. This participatory theatre project addresses language barriers and explores identity and what it means to be a woman in different cultures. \nTheatre of Migration with Carlota Matos and Hiba Elhindi will take place on Thursday 12th October\, 6.30-8PM at the Trinity Centre\, Trinity Road\, Bristol\, BS2 0NW. \nDoors will open at 6.15PM and the event will start promptly at 6.30PM. Refreshments will be provided. Please note there won’t be any alcohol served. \nACCESS: This is a relaxed event and will have BSL interpretation throughout. Trinity is wheelchair accessible. You can find more details about the venue’s accessibility on their website. \nTo reserve a free place visit https://www.trinitybristol.org.uk/whats-on/2023/theatre-of-migration \nMeet your panellists: \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Carlota Matos\n \n \n \n \n \n Hiba Elhindi\n \n \n \n \n \n Vandna Mehta\n \n \n\nCarlota Matos is a Portuguese theatre and performance artist based in Bristol. She works with communities\, young people and artists with a focus on access\, co-creation and social change. Carlota recently completed a DYCP (Arts Council England) and is part of Future Laboratory\, a project of research residencies on the topic of social inclusion throughout Europe. \nHiba Elhindi is a Sudanese-British curator\, drama facilitator and educator based in the South West of England. She is passionate about using arts to empower young generations\, bring communities together and tell unheard stories. Hiba curated a number of art projects involving members of the Sudanese community in Bristol\, including SuFIA\, Sudafest\, Sudanese Youth Theatre\, Choir and Games without Borders. (Sudafest makes a return for Platforma on 22 Oct in Bristol with a message focused on hope and healing\, check out event details here!) \nVandna Mehta (Chair) is Founder of Vocalise Magazine CIC and co-Founder of Diverse Artists Network CIC. She is a member of the Core Team for Bristol Refugee Festival and is also a freelance creative producer and community arts activist\, events. She is an active member of Culture Declares Emergency and was recently selected for the pioneering group of trailblazing women leaders south west programme addressing the gender imbalance in senior roles in arts organisations. \nPresented in collaboration with Borderlands\, a Bristol-based charity supporting refugees\, asylum seekers and those with insecure immigration status from exclusion to belonging. Supported by Arts Council England. \nPart of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/theatre-of-migration-with-carlota-matos-and-hiba-elhindi/ LOCATION:Trinity Centre\, Trinity Road\, Bristol\, BS2 0NW\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Platforma,Theatre ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Test-Platforma-Overlay-12.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231010T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231010T210000 DTSTAMP:20260410T235909 CREATED:20230916T174741Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144538Z UID:10000353-1696966200-1696971600@counterpoints.org.uk SUMMARY:Palestine Comedy Club (Bristol) DESCRIPTION:Counterpoints Arts\, The Palestine Museum in Bristol and the Palestine Comedy Club present a unique night of stand-up comedy! Featuring top Palestinian comedians Alaa Shehada\, Hanna Shammas and Diana Sweity on their first UK tour – performing in English. \nBOOK NOW (£7/£5) \nPalestine Comedy Club (PalCom) is a comedy production company established in the UK and Palestine by Palestinian stand-up comedian\, Alaa Shehada\, with assistance from senior lecturer in comedy and solo performance at Middlesex University\, Dr. Sam Beale\, and film producer\, Charlotte Knowles. \nUnder the leadership of Alaa Shehada\,  Palestine Comedy Club is working to establish a stand-up comedy circuit across the West Bank providing space and funds for emerging stand-up comedy talent in the region to hone their craft and develop a culture of live comedy performance that is unique to the Palestinian experience. \nThe Palestine Museum in Bristol was founded in 2013\, and is run entirely by volunteers It explores Palestinian culture\, heritage and daily life. \n \nPresented by Counterpoints Arts with the Palestine Museum as part of the Platforma festival 2023 \nMore about PalCom \nPalestine Comedy Club’s first show\, ‘Balad’ (بلد ) toured to venues in Ramallah\, Nablus\, Haifa\, Nazareth\, Jerusalem and Jenin in 2022. Performed by Alaa Shehada\, Hanna Shammas\, Raed Sheukhi\, Diana Sweity\, Ebaa Monther and Khalil Al-Batran\, ‘Balad’ explores the complexity of Palestinian identity as it is experienced across the entire region\, from Hebron to the Golan Heights. \nThe show received excellent reviews and was described as “ laughter in extreme pain\, and a turning point towards a different comedy in Palestine.” \nPalCom delivers workshops to non-performers including in women’s centres and refugee camps. We have taught in Ramallah\,  in the Korean Centre\, Hebron\, at the Ibaa Cultural Centre in Dheishah Camp\, Bethlehem\, and at the women’s centre in Jenin. We have also held workshops at Nablus Performing Arts and Circus School. These workshops gave local people an opportunity to share personal stories and explore stand-up skills as a form of personal and cultural expression. URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/palestine-comedy-club-bristol/ LOCATION:Palestine Museum\, 27 Broad St\, Bristol\, BS1 2HG\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Comedy,Platforma ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/PalCom.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231007 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231009 DTSTAMP:20260410T235909 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 END:VCALENDAR