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SUMMARY:Moving Roots: Diaspora Communities x Climate Action
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Refugee Week and London Climate Action Week\, Climate Outreach is hosting an event exploring the interconnections between climate action\, migration and diaspora communities. \nAccording to the latest RACE report*\, the UK’s climate sector remains one of the least diverse in the UK\, despite climate change impacting all of us. We know the UK’s society is made up of many diverse diaspora communities connected to cultures\, lands and communities all over the world. \nMany of these groups are playing a key role in ensuring the climate change conversation includes their community’s voices and that climate action is shaped by their unique challenges and experiences. \nIn partnership with Counterpoints Arts\, this event aims to highlight the integral role diaspora communities play in supporting and providing agency to those impacted by climate change and climate-driven migration\, despite often not being included in the conversation. \nWe will also showcase the creative and unique ways diaspora members and leaders are taking climate action and making vital links to their cultures and community spaces\, ensuring the climate conversation includes people from all backgrounds and represents diverse experiences. \nJoin the event to hear from: \n– Fahmida Miah\, Climate Outreach \n– Farah Ahmed\, Our Diaspora Futures \n– Jebi Rahman\, Bangladeshi Diaspora Climate Action (BDCA) \n– Zamzam Ibrahim\, Somalis for Sustainability \n– Ania Drewniok\, POMOC \nAlongside the panel discussion\, there will be delicious plant-based food served\, an artistic performance\, and opportunities to connect with others in the climate and migrant justice space! \nSign up before 20th June to attend. \nBOOK HERE! \n* Racial Action for the Climate Emergency (www.race-report.uk) \n* Photo credit: Photo by Zen Chung from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/photo/women-gardening-5529587/
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/moving-roots-diaspora-communities-x-climate-action/
LOCATION:Pelican House\, 144 Cambridge Heath Road London E1 5QJ
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Refugee Week,Sustainability & Climate Justice
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SUMMARY:Interweaving threads of migration and climate justice
DESCRIPTION:Explore the interwoven connections between the climate crisis\, migration\, culture\, tradition and memory in a day of talks and listening sessions. \nThis is a partnership between the Eden Project\, Art Reach and Counterpoints Arts\, bringing artists Dhaqan Collective and Kaajal Modi to the Eden Project for a public programme exploring the themes of migration and climate justice. \nThese talks and sessions are free with valid Eden admission. For further information about this event please email art@edenproject.com. \n  \nAbove the desert and below the water: panel discussion \nTime:  11am–12.30pm\nLocation: Tipi \n  \n \n  \nJoin us for a panel discussion addressing the themes of migration and climate justice in relation to oral traditions and memory. \nThis discussion will be facilitated by Jelena Sofronijevic\, and will be recorded and hosted on the EMPIRE LINES podcast\, featuring Fozia Ismail and Ayan Cilmi from Dhaqan Collective\, artists Kaajal Modi and Sovay Berriman\, as well as environmental humanities university lecturer Jim Scown. \nImage: Shoona Goolab \nBelow the water: waterway listening with Kaajal Modi \nTime: 1.30–3pm \nLocation: Tipi* \n  \n \n  \nIn this session\, join artist and researcher Kaajal Modi\, and take part in “embodied listening”\, featuring field recordings from waterways around Britain\, including migration stories and reflections from marginalised communities. \n*This session has limited capacity\, so participation will be on a first-come-first-served basis. It will begin and end in the Tipi\, with a guided visit to the Rainforest Biome. \nAbove the desert: listening session with Dhaqan Collective \nTime:  2–3.30pm\nLocation: Tipi* \n  \n \n  \nJoin artists Fozia Ismail and Ayan Cilmi\, from the Dhaqan Collective\, for an engaging listening session\, which will highlight the significance of Somali women’s weaving songs and oral storytelling traditions. You will be guided through an audio soundscape that explores the cultural importance of the Galool tree\, and concludes with networking and Somali hospitality. \n*This session will begin and end in the Tipi\, with a guided visit to the Mediterranean Biome. \n  \nAbout the contributors \nDhaqan Collective\n \nDhaqan Collective is a Somali feminist art group based in Bristol\, led by Ayan Cilmi and Fozia Ismail. Applying Somali nomadic stories and artistic practices to support the Somali diaspora to find joy and healing as a way of building a just climate future. \n  \nKaajal Modi\n \nKaajal Modi is a multidisciplinary artist-researcher in climate heritage whose creative practice incorporates sensoriality\, embodiment and storytelling in order to co-create with diverse communities (human\, microbial and ecological). \n  \nSovay Berriman\n \nSovay Berriman‘s work is rooted in the experience of being Cornish\, neurodivergent\, queer and from a low socio-economic background – the grounding and mutable aspects of these identities\, emotions and politics informing their sense of place and practice. \n  \nJim Scown\n \nJim Scown is Lecturer in Environmental Humanities at the University of Exeter\, co-director of the Centre for Environmental Arts and Humanities\, Food\, Farming and Countryside Commission advisor and BBC New Generation Thinker. His research focuses on the intersections of soils\, literature and science. \n  \nThis day programme is presented in partnership with Eden Project and Art Reach. \nLead image: Paul Gilbey
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/interweaving-threads-of-migration-and-climate-justice/
LOCATION:Eden Project\, Bodelva\, Cornwall\, PL24 2SG
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form,Sustainability & Climate Justice
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SUMMARY:Climate & Displacement  Part II: A gathering for womxn artists
DESCRIPTION:A collective of womxn* dedicated to addressing the intertwined challenges of displacement\, racial justice\, and climate justice gathers for the second time\, on the Island of Portland. This 3-day gathering is organised during b-side Festival\, connecting to the Festival programme and b-side team and network. \nOur Gathering is a continuation of our shared journey with a group of womxn practitioners that began in November 2023 — one built on connections around collaboration\, creativity\, and radical care. Together\, we will continue to shape this space\, allowing our practices to speak of our own and each other’s work. It is curated in collaboration with socially engaged artist Dana Olărescu. \nOur approach for this Gathering can be grounded in Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown\, which emphasises that profound change begins with small\, intentional actions. We will embrace this philosophy as we engage in intimate\, radical conversations that plant the seeds of transformation. These dialogues—full of insight\, discomfort\, and revelation—hold the power to shape movements that confront and dismantle systems of oppression. \nOur work here is contextual\, deeply tied to the immediate tensions surrounding us\, such as the hostile environment and immigration policies symbolised by the Bibby Stockholm barge and the larger global conflicts like the ongoing genocide in Palestine\, conflicts and emergencies in Sudan\, DRC\, Yemen\, Bangladesh\, as well as countries embroiled within the continuities of colonial legacies and histories. These events are inextricably linked to our explorations of settler colonialism and environmental justice. Our partnerships with the b-side team and Dhaqan Collective\, and through their project House of Weaving Songs\, enrich our understanding of cultural memory and resilience\, particularly within the communities on the Isle of Portland and Somali communities in Bristol and elsewhere. \nA key question we will explore is how we continue to work together and also how to document these radical conversations—capturing their transformative potential in a way that resonates with broader audiences and allies. Our aim is not just to record but to craft narratives that carry forward the energy and intent of our collective work. \nThroughout our time together\, we invite you to fully engage\, rest when needed\, and bring as much of yourselves into this space as you can. Through walks\, meals\, discussions\, and reflection\, let us co-create a space where our practices can be supported and where we can envision new paths forward. \nAs adrienne maree brown reminds us\, “small is all.” Every action\, every conversation is an opportunity to shape the future we want—a future where justice\, care\, and freedom for all are central to our movements. \n*We use this term to include transgender women and nonbinary people. \nOur Programme: \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\nJoining: \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n		\n\nOur growing network includes the following practitioners who were part of the November 2023 gathering: \nAbigail Reynolds\, Artist \nAnnie Hall\, Counterpoints Operations Manager \nCarmel King\, Photographer \nDalia Al-Dujaili\, Writer\, Editor\, Producer \nDeborah Yewande Bankole\, Creative producer\, Strategist\, Researcher \nFarah Ahmed\, Climate Justice Organiser\, Facilitator\, Creative Producer and Curator \nGeorgia Beeston\, Co-Founder of Bosla Arts\, Senior Digital Officer at PEN International \nHenna Asikainen\, Artist \nLara Deffense\, Refugee Week UK Coordinator \nKaajal Modi\, Multidisciplinary Artist and Researcher \nMariana Pinto Leitão Pereira\, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Heritage for Global Challenges Research Centre\, University of York \nNaima Khan\, Counterpoints’ Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees and the Director of feminist\, Muslim organisation the Inclusive Mosque Initiative \nSandy Leong\, artist \nzoë laureen palmer\, Artist\, Writer and Human Ecologist \n  \nThank you to our network\, and to our friends at b-side Festival for their support. \n  \nImage credit: Carmel King. Gathering Part 1\, at Hawkwood College\, November 2023 \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/climate-displacement-part-ii-a-gathering-for-womxn-artists/
CATEGORIES:Learning,Sustainability & Climate Justice
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SUMMARY:Acting with Love & Solidarity at Southbank Centre - with Tasnim Mahdy and Riwa Saab
DESCRIPTION:On the final day of Counterpoints Arts’ weekend you are invited to join artist Tasnim Mahdy in a collaborative workshop exploring themes of memory\, archives and re-emerging narratives through cyanotypes – a type of artwork made using the UV rays of the sun to create unique pieces of textiles. \nThen end the day experiencing a performance by Riwa Saab\, reflecting on the life of Syrian singer Asmahan\, whose life and legacy are told through music\, words and movement. \nRiwa Saab is a cross-disciplinary artist who works with space\, sound and words. Through braiding together the crafts of theatre\, poetry and music\, she explores the diasporic experience of building cultural bridges\, unpacks generational and familial baggage\, and creates space for pockets of joy. \nAsmahan: An Unbridled Voice by Riwa Saab is a multidisciplinary performance piece exploring the secrets\, truths and fallacies that get spun into gossip\, the inseparability of art and politics\, and a woman’s insistence on liberation. These themes are unravelled through the journey of Asmahan\, the Syrian singer who reached great heights with her enigmatic voice and captivating presence\, all while challenging the barriers of both colonialism and tradition. \nSchedule\n1pm – 5.30pm: cyanotype workshop with Tasnim Mahdy\n5.30pm – 6pm: performance of Asmahan: An Unbridled Voice by Riwa Saab \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis summer\, Southbank Centre is collaborating with a range of London-based collectives and organisations to curate the Riverside Stage in response to the theme of our season\, You Belong Here\, enabling these collaborators to welcome different audiences and recognise how they want and choose to belong at the Southbank Centre. See our events pages for the rest of the weekend’s programme. \nImage: Shona Goolab\, Refugee Week at Yorkton Workshops
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/tasnim-mahdy-acting-with-love-solidarity-at-southbank-centre/
LOCATION:Riverside Terrace\, Level 2\, Southbank Centre\, London\, SE1 8XZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Sustainability & Climate Justice
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SUMMARY:dhaqan collective: House of Weaving Songs at Southbank centre
DESCRIPTION:dhaqan collective invites you to enter The House of Weaving Songs\, a domed steel structure based on an Aqal\, a Somali nomadic home found in the arid landscapes of Somalia. \nEmbark on a sensory journey as 360-degree audio surrounds you\, transporting you to the heart of Somali nomadic life through the musicality of Somali women’s weaving songs. \nWander through nomadic tapestries adorned with tales of tradition and resilience\, each thread weaving a story of heritage and belonging. \nThe Aqal contains the wishes and the dreams of those who made it\, and it becomes a repository for our own hopes and dreams\, a space for conversations and dialogue about our climate anxieties. \ndhaqan collective is a Somali feminist art collective led by Ayan Cilmi and Fozia Ismail. Their practice seeks to find ways of building imaginative futures that support Somali people in the UK and in East Africa to resist threats over our cultural heritage. Cilmi and Ismail are Spike Island Studio holders and Pervasive Media Studio residents in Bristol. \nThe House of Weaving Songs was developed as part of Playable Cities\, an arts and creative technology programme funded through My World at Bristol University and Watershed. It is a Counterpoints and Arts Reach co-commission. After Southbank Centre\, House of Weaving Songs is touring to b-side Festival (5 – 8 Sep)\, Eden Project (21 Sep) and Journeys Festival International ( 11 & 12 Oct). \nThis is part of a weekend curated with Southbank Centre. This summer\, Southbank Centre is collaborating with a range of London-based collectives and organisations to curate the Riverside Terrace stage in response to the theme of our season\, You Belong Here\, enabling these collaborators to welcome different audiences and recognise how they want and choose to belong here at the Southbank Centre. See the rest of the weekend programming on our event pages.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/dhaqan-collective-house-of-weaving-songs-at-southbank-centre/
LOCATION:Rooftop Garden\, Queen Elizabeth Hall\, Southbank Centre\, London\, SE1 8XZ
CATEGORIES:Sustainability & Climate Justice,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:The Art Persists: Live Podcast by Bosla Arts
DESCRIPTION:Join Bosla Arts and Counterpoints Arts for a live podcast event! Bosla Arts will bring together a panel of artists to talk about their work on the themes of displacement\, climate justice\, sustainability and mental health. Speakers to be announced shortly. \nThe Art Persists Podcast offers a glimpse into the life of artists and activists bridging the arts\, activism\, and human rights around the world. \n\n\n\nBosla Arts is an arts platform focused on sharing and supporting art-activists worldwide\, while drawing on their work to raise awareness to the public. They do this through an art residency\, events\, art magazine\, and art podcast – bringing together artists\, activists\, and social change makers from all over the world.\n\n\nFree event\, book your tickets HERE.\n\nImage Credit: Paul Gilbey
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/the-art-persists-live-podcast-by-bosla-arts/
LOCATION:Yorkton Workshops\, 1-3 Yorkton St\, London\, London\, E2 8NH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Audio,London Refugee Week,Sustainability & Climate Justice
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SUMMARY:Hip Hop Garden at Alkebulan - African Storytelling
DESCRIPTION:Using hip hop and permaculture values\, this interactive workshop will explore environmentalism\, songwriting and performance.\n\nJoin MoYah and KMT Freedom Teacher for this free taster session that is part of a wider programme covering wellbeing\, food growing and cooking\, enterprise and employability\, event management\, social movement and green structures.\n\nMoYah and KMT Freedom Teacher will perform after the workshop\, 15:00-17:00\, and participants who feel ready to take the stage will also have a chance to share their work. \n\nBorn in Mozambique during a 16-year war\, MoYah was forced to flee his country as a political refugee & move to Lisbon at a young age. Inspired by his parents broad musical taste & the impact of Rap music whilst living in Portugal\, he quickly learned that music could be used not only for entertainment but also as a powerful tool for self exploration & social expression eventually leading him to writing raps that addressed issues relating to identity\, social injustices & spirituality from the perspective of a child of the African Diaspora. \n\nKMT Freedom Teacher KMT combines his love for music and nature\, grounded in a deep respect for the beauty and abundance of Pachamama (Mother Earth). With over 20 years of leading positive social change and raising awareness for a multitude of social issues through the powerful words and rhythms of Hip Hop music\, KMT demonstrates a non-exhaustive passion for the environment and conservation. His goal is to entertain and educate\, as he addresses issues of global food security\, providing solutions for local food growing systems. \nThis event is part of DIASPORA! \nDIASPORA! festival is a vibrant celebration of people\, music\, film\, poetry\, dance\, storytelling\, and more\, taking place at venues across the city on the Early May Bank Holiday weekend. These events aim to reflect the variety of talent within the region’s cultural communities. \n\n\n\nPart of Counterpoints’ networking in South West.\n\nRegister HERE.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/hip-hop-garden-at-alkebulan-african-storytelling/
LOCATION:The Trinity Centre\,  Trinity Rd\, Bristol\,  BS2 0NW
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Sustainability & Climate Justice
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SUMMARY:Migration\, Climate Justice & The Power of Stories
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the next in the series of Counterpoints’ PopChange Salons presented with Climate Spring\, in collaboration with the Southbank Centre. \nFull details and booking \nThis salon explores the intersection of migration and climate justice through the lens of artistic practice and the works of artists and guests who harness the power of storytelling. \nBy bringing into a conversation visionary guests and artists\, it explores approaches that shine a light on new narratives uncovering the intricate connections between migration and environmental justice. \nThroughout\, participants engage in thought-provoking discussions centred on the following critical questions: \nRegenerative language: How can we champion and bring forward a language of inclusivity and hope that recognises the tireless efforts of artists\, activists and policymakers dedicated to equity\, justice\, and decolonization? How do we ensure our language and storytelling reflects the world we are trying to move into\, not just the world we want to move away from? \nWeaving cooperation: What innovative strategies can we foster to bring diverse voices together to nurture cooperation\, collaboration and solidarity? \nClimate displacement: How do we acknowledge and respond to the unique and disproportionate impact of climate change on women\, and on people on the move? \nThis Pop Change Salon is hosted by Lucy Stone\, Founder and Director of Climate Spring\, and Dijana Rakovic\, Senior Producer at Counterpoints Arts. \nAbout Climate Spring \nClimate Spring is a global organisation at the forefront of using the power of the screen to transform how people see and respond to climate change. Launched in 2022 by a collective of leading screen industry and climate experts\, Climate Spring works closely with gatekeepers\, creatives and producers to create content that shifts climate narratives and reaches mainstream audiences. It offers early-stage development funding; advice and guidance from climate experts for writers\, commissioners and producers; and support in moving a project from idea to distribution. By informing\, inspiring and incentivising mainstream content makers to explore climate stories in a more impactful way\, Climate Spring helps transform society’s response to the climate crisis. \nPhoto: House of Weaving Songs by Dhaqan Collective\, at Playable Cities\, Trinity Hall\, Bristol\, July 2023 \n  \nOur Salon panellists are: \n  \nALINAH AZADEH \n  \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Alinah Azadeh\, by Adiam Yemane\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				What You See Now; Crow Link; South Downs\n				\n		\n\n  \nAlinah Azadeh is a writer\, artist\, performer and cultural activist of British Iranian heritage. Alongside a 30-year arts career\, Azadeh has been published\, most recently in Best British Short Stories 2023 (Salt). As inaugural writer-in-residence at Seven Sisters Country Park and Sussex Heritage Coast 2020-23\, for South Downs National Park\, she led We See You Now\, a decolonial landscape and literature programme for writers of global majority heritage\, exploring the coast through the lens of climate change and justice\, personal migration and belonging. This led to her podcast The Colour of Chalk and We Hear You Now\, an audio series of poetry\, speculative fiction and myth by 9 writers\, installed on Listening Posts across the coast and online\, co-funded by Arts Council England. Alinah is working on writing projects\, including a book proposal on ecological and human loss\, recovery – and letting go. She is also Changing Chalk Associate Artist for The National Trust/Writing Our Legacy. \n@alinahazadeh \n  \nDHAQAN COLLECTIVE \n  \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Dhaqan Collective\, Illustration by Maya Mihindou \n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Camel Meat and Cassette Tapes\, Launch at Arnolfini\, image by Paul Samuel White\n				\n		\n\n  \nDhaqan Collective is led by Fozia Ismail and Ayan Cilmi. Their practice asks and seeks to find ways of building imaginative futures that support Somali people here and in East Africa to resist the threats over their cultural heritage.  \nDhaqan Collective is a feminist art collective of Somali women\, centering the voices of womxn and elders in our community\, and privileging co-creation and collaboration.  The Collective uses everyday materials\, cassette tapes\, food\, textiles\, to create spaces of communion\, joy and healing that centre the full range of Somali diasporic experiences.  Their creative ecology is rooted in the collective thinking of Somali nomadic life and the creativity at its heart. In the last few decades\, Somali nomadic life has become endangered due to environmental collapse.    \nThe Collective’s previous projects include:  Camel Meat & Tapes part 1 funded by Paul Hamlyn via Arnolfini’s City Fellows programme and part 2 funded by Arts Council England. These projects explored orality\, ancestors\, archives & identity and were co-created with Somali elders and young people in Bristol using cassette tapes to unearth the embodied archives of the Somali community.  Audible Tapestries\, focused on finding new ways to combine sound with physical ‘woven’ artefacts. The project explores the links between Somali nomadic weaving patterns and the songs that are an inherent part of the weaving process.  Dhaqan were responsible for curating the International Festival Day of Co-Creating Change in the Arts at Battersea Arts Centre in November 2021.  They have designed and delivered a range of talks and workshops on their practice for a range of organisations and universities including:    Watershed\, British Library\, the Welcome Collection\, Battersea Arts Centre\, Visual Arts South West\, Bricks Bristol\, Numbi Arts\, London School of Economics\, University of East Anglia and Bermin University.  \nDhaqan Collective’s House of Weaving Song is currently co-commissioned by Counterpoints Arts and Art Reach. \n@dhaqancollective \n  \nGAIA VINCE \n  \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Gaia Vince\, by Phil Fisk\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Nomad Century book cover\n				\n		\n\n  \nGaia Vince is an honorary senior research fellow at UCL and a science writer and broadcaster interested in the interplay between humans and the planetary environments. Gaia has held senior editorial posts at Nature and New Scientist\, and her writing has appeared in The Guardian\, The Times and Scientific American. Her research takes her across the world: she has visited more than sixty countries\, has lived in three and is currently based in London. In 2015\, she became the first woman to win the Royal Society Science Book of the Year Prize solo\, for her debut\, Adventures in the Anthropocene. \n@wanderinggaia \n  \nLENA DOBROWOLSKA & TEO ORMOND-SKEAPING \n  \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Lena Bobrowolska\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Teo Ormond-Skeaping\n				\n		\n\n  \nLena Dobrowolska & Teo Ormond-Skeaping are a Polish-British artist collaboration working with photography\, documentary and narrative film\, immersive technologies\, and artist research.  \nTheir collaborative practice sees them work on extensive\, interdisciplinary projects exploring the political ecology of the climate crisis\, climate-induced migration\, slow violence\, climate-changed future scenarios\, the governmentality of Loss and Damage under the UNFCCC\, and the cultural critique of the Anthropocene\, which they prefer to call the Capitalocene. \nThe duo are recipients of numerous awards\, including the Art and Citizenship Residency at the Embassy of Foreign Artists (2021)\, the Prix COAL 2019 on Disaster Displacement (2019) and the Culture and Climate Change: Future Scenarios Networked Residency (2016).  \nTheir work has been screened and exhibited internationally at climate change conferences\, galleries\, museums and film festivals\, including Fotodoks\, Munich (2023)\, Futures/Melkweg Expo Amsterdam (2022)\, The Noorderlicht Festival of Photography (2019)\, Kunst Haus Wien: Museum Hundertwasser (2019)\, Krakow Photomonth (2019)\, and UNFCCC COP25 (2019).  \nIn addition to their artistic practice\, Lena is a PhD Researcher at the Digital Cultures Research Centre\, UWE Bristol\, a Research Associate with Culture and Climate Change at the School of Architecture\, University of Sheffield and lectures in MA Digital Direction at the Royal College of Art.  \nTeo works to coordinate the Loss and Damage Collaboration’s (L&DC) Advocacy and Outreach and Communications programs as well as co-coordinating their Human Mobility and Displacement and non-economic loss and damage working groups.  \nTogether\, they run the L&DC’s Art and Culture program “Ways of Repair: Loss and Damage” which is aimed at facilitating a transdisciplinary exchange around the issue of loss and damage caused by the climate crisis. \n@lena_dobrowolska \n@teoormondskeaping
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/migration-climate-justice-the-power-of-stories/
LOCATION:Southbank Centre\, Belvedere Road\, London\, SE1 8XX
CATEGORIES:Pop Culture,Sustainability & Climate Justice
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SUMMARY:Climate Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Image: House-of-Weaving Song by Dhaqan Collective © Luke O’Donovan \n  \n“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation\, and that is an act of political warfare.” \n“The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.” \nAudre Lorde \n  \nAs part of this year’s Platforma Festival programme in the Southwest of England\, we have organised a Climate & Displacement mini-retreat\, taking place between 3-4 November at Hawkwood College\, Stroud. \nWith social and environmental issues intensifying\, and general discourse steered towards greenwashing and short-term solutions\, we need new approaches\, ideas and collaborations. With this challenge in mind\, we are organising a retreat that will convene a group of women artists\, who make work about community\, collectivism and solidarity. \nCould co-habiting in this way allow us to share our diverse methods\, processes\, struggles\, and accomplishments? Women have always convened. By giving a platform to women who are already developing work addressing answers to contemporary issues\, the retreat will provide an opportunity to start reciprocal conversations and engage intersectionally with womanhood\, migration and belonging in a self-directed\, non-hierarchical context. \nWe will host around twenty women in a generous\, intimate\, networking space that is about exchanging knowledge\, experiences\, practices and ‘making’ something together. \nThe retreat is co-designed and co-produced in collaboration with socially engaged artist Dana Olărescu. \nThis gathering is inspired by the fact that for the current Platforma Festival we organically commissioned and co-commissioned projects on migration and displacement by women artists\, who will be part of the retreat (artists Kaajal Modi and Dhaqan Collective – co-commissioned with Art Reach; and with Creative Kernow\, artists Sovay Berriman and Abigail Reynolds). This inspired us to want to re-imagine ways of gathering and collaborating led by women artists and activists\, including beyond this retreat.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/climate-retreat/
CATEGORIES:Learning,Sustainability & Climate Justice
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SUMMARY:Agri/cultural Practices
DESCRIPTION:Workshop in Berlin on anti-racism\, arts and the environment with Mojisola Adebayo\, Asmelash Dagne and Nicole Wolf \nAre you interested in fighting racism and addressing climate injustice? \nWould you like to explore how the arts\, gardening and farming can work together? \nAre you Black\, Asian\, Indigenous\, a Person of Colour\, from a migrant background or a white person committed to anti-racism? \nIf so – read on! \nWhat is the workshop about? \nAgri/cultural practices is a practical experimental workshop that provides an introduction to Permaculture (permanent agriculture) sustainable design ethics and principles through games and exercises from Theatre of the Oppressed\, aimed at rehearsing solutions for change. Both Permaculture and Theatre of the Oppressed are informed by Indigenous\, Black and working-class knowledge and experience. This way of combining Permaculture and Theatre of the Oppressed was developed through the Neighbourhood Academy at Prinzessinnen Garden\, Berlin in 2019. However\, this workshop goes further by not only providing an introduction but focussing on anti-racism\, climate justice\, decolonizing\, addressing power structures\, understanding the link between colonialism and environmental chaos\, challenging environmental racism and exploring the potential of art. The site of the workshop is a garden in development\, and we will explore possibilities to design the garden with questions of the workshop in mind. \nWhat will we be doing? \nWe will be playing games\, doing practical exercises\, reading\, creative writing\, observing the landscape and designing\, watching theatre\, film screenings\, receiving contributions from guests\, discussing as well as enjoying the countryside\, eating healthy food and relaxing in nature. \nWhere and when will the workshop take place? \n16 June 5-9pm\, 17 & 18 June 9am-9pm\, 19 June 10am-4pm 2022 \n7-9 October 2022 there will be an optional follow up practical planting workshop activity at Gross Kreutz. \nHow much will it cost? \nThe workshop is FREE for Black\, Indigenous\, People-of-Colour\, refugees and non-white migrants. For others\, we ask for a contribution of 150-350 Euro (sliding scale). \nWho will be facilitating the workshop? \nMojisola Adebayo \nMojisola is Black-British (Yoruba/Danish) queer playwright\, performer\, producer\, facilitator\, Lecturer at Queen Mary\, University of London and research fellow at Potsdam University\, working on environmental racism through theatre. Mojisola holds a BA in Drama and Theatre Arts\, an MA in Physical Theatre\, a PhD in black queer theatre (University of London). Mojisola trained extensively with Augusto Boal and is a specialist in Theatre of the Oppressed\, working particularly in locations of conflict and crisis. She has worked in theatre\, radio and television over the past 25 years across four continents\, performing in over 50 productions\, writing\, devising and directing over 30 plays\, from Antarctica to Zimbabwe. Her own plays are concerned with racism\, climate change\, slavery\, occupation\, homophobia\, Islamaphobia\, gender-based violence and the Black Lives Matter movement. Publications include her plays in Mojisola Adebayo: Plays One and Plays Two (Oberon Books)\, 48 Minutes for Palestine (Methuen)\, The Theatre for Development Handbook (Pan\, co-written with John Martin and Manisha Mehta)\, Wind / Rush Generation(s) (in National Theatre Connections 2020\, Methuen) and Black British Queer Plays and Practitioners (Methuen\, co-edited with Lynette Goddard. Mojisola is commissioned by Counterpoints Arts. For more see www.mojisolaadebayo.co.uk \nAsmelash Dagne \nBorn and raised in Ethiopia\, qualifications include: Diploma of Integrated Natural Science (Hawassa college of Education/Ethiopia)\, Bachelor of Natural Science (Arba Minch University/Ethiopia)\, Permaculture Design Diploma (At permaculture institute of Britain/England) and Master of Science in Environmental Resources Management at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus – Senftenberg/Germany focus on utilizing renewable energy technology to ensure sustainable access tclean water\, energy and food in most vulnerable areas of the developing countries. From 2008-2013: I started my career in 2008 as an integrated natural science teacher and school “Permaculture” practitioner. In the years to come\, I have received eight regional and national prizes for remarkable achievement in creating a modal education and innovation center for sustainable integrated natural resource management in Ethiopia. From 2014-2016: I worked as “Permaculture” trainer and consultant for SMART-Ethiopia (Sustainable Management of Alternative and Renewable Technologies). Trained over 2000 farmers\, students\, teachers\, and agriculture extension workers in collaboration with various stakeholders (CISS – Ethiopia\, LVIA – international\, Slow Food International\, and others). 2017 – 2018: I worked as assistant general manager at SMART – Ethiopia to install and manage seven solar water pumps to ensure sustainable access to water\, energy\, and food. Trained farmers and extension work on integrated resource management. Since 2019 I have been Involved in planning and designing a multi years project on Agroforestry for sustainable development of human and nature in rural Ethiopia as external consultant\, Environmental consultant and trainer @ EcoPhi Renewables Engineering GabH. See https://bestecodesign.wordpress.com/ \nNicole Wolf \nNicole is a white queer German researcher\, writer and Senior Lecturer in Visual Cultures (Goldsmiths\, University of London) living in Berlin and London. Her background is in exploring political cinemas for their capacity to resist what is deemed to be real and to imagine otherwise. Much of her research and thinking is inspired and informed by artistic and activist practices in South Asia\, including in military occupied Kashmir. Nicole started training in Permaculture in 2014 (at Ecodharma\, facilitated by Alfred Decker and Caspar Brown)\, followed by two PC teacher trainings including Rosemary Morrow’s course in Srinagar\, Kashmir. Since then she has been passionate about connecting her interest in critical ecologies\, anti-colonial environmentalisms\, permaculture and creative practice\, exploring agriculture as resistance practice and what a cinematics of the soil might be. Collective learning and making processes which draw on diverse knowledges are crucial for all of these questions. Nicole’s participation in ‘Living Archive – Archive Work as a Contemporary Artistic Practice’ and ‘Archive ausser sich’ (both projects by Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art\, Berlin) included research and writing for the restoration of film works by Yugantar\, the first feminist film collective in India (1980-83) as well as the development of “Soil – City- Solidarity”\, an interdisciplinary urban permaculture design course\, and the symposium “’Tell me what matter was the ground’ – Repair beyond redemption”. Publications can be found here: https://www.gold.ac.uk/visual-cultures/n-wolf/ \nOther practical information \nSchedule: \n• Thursday 16 June\, arrival from 2pm is welcome. The workshop will be from 5pm-9pm (including mealtime) \n• Friday 17 and Saturday 18 June 9am-9pm (with breaks\, meals and optional evening programme) \n• Sunday 19 June 10am-4pm (with breaks and mealtime) \nOctober follow up: This will be a chance to get hands on experience by planting an agro forest in 7-9 October\, 2022. Friday evening: get together and follow up of June Workshop. Saturday: 9am-9pm\, Sunday 10am-4pm: guided planting activities with short inputs and sharings. \nParticipants are warmly encouraged to attend both parts but if necessary\, participants can just attend the June workshop. \nAccommodation: Ideally all participants will stay at the workshop site. Accommodation will be simple\, clean and basic – camping and indoor shared spaces. It is possible to rent private holiday apartments next door (extra cost). \nTransport: Train from Berlin to Gross Kreutz takes 40 minutes. A minibus will be provided from the station to the workshop / accommodation. Driving to the venue and parking is possible. \nFood\, cooking and cleaning: Vegan / vegetarian food will be provided by an on-site cook. Please let us know if you have any dietary restrictions. All participants are expected to share in tasks such as food preparation and cleaning up after meals. \nMaximum number of participants: 16. The majority of participants will be Black\, Asian\, Indigenous and or People-of-Colour. Part of the work will be in smaller groups and break out groups can be facilitated. \nLanguage: English\, with German translation if needed. \nChildcare: Please let us know if you require childcare and we will try to support this. \nAccess: Unfortunately\, the venue is currently not yet accessible to wheelchairs. However\, do get in touch to discuss your access needs and we will try to facilitate participation. We will apply a Covid-19 safety policy\, even if current laws don’t require that. \nCosts: The workshop is free for Black\, Asian\, Indigenous people\, People of Colour\, refugees and non-white migrants to Germany. For others\, we ask for a solidarity ticket of 150-350 Euro (depending on what you can afford). This covers full participation\, food\, camping/dorm accomodation and will support others. If you are not able to pay the minimum but wish to attend\, do get in touch to discuss possibilities! \nPartners: This workshop is made possible through Counterpoints Arts (as part of our Across Borders programme funded by Comic Relief) and Havel Kranich. \nFull details\, including how to apply : https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agricultural-practices-tickets-321395110427
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/agri-cultural-practices/
CATEGORIES:Sustainability & Climate Justice
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SUMMARY:Tales from the Congo Basin
DESCRIPTION:Gently explore climate change and its links to colonialism\, race and migration in an interactive family session with storyteller and musician Emmanuela Yogolelo.\n  \nYou’re encouraged to join in with the traditional songs\, including call and response\, clapping and body percussion\, and hear music and stories from the region. \nThe Congo Basin is an amazing place. It spans six countries and is home to the second largest rainforest on Earth\, and the world’s deepest river. \nIt is rich in wildlife\, including gorillas\, forest elephants\, hippos\, bonobos and okapis. \nYogolelo says\, ‘Many rains/moons ago\, where I come from\, people used to come together most evenings and before bedtime\, under a tree or around a fire\, to listen to adults’ telling stories and learn. \n‘Some evenings\, a grandmother would be the storyteller. She could start her story with a song\, and where I come from\, music is communal and participative\, so everyone would join in with singing\, percussions or dance. \n‘I can tell you straight away something is happening with Mother Nature\, something has been done to the environment. Just like those people in the past\, you can hear our personal experiences of climate change from a justice point of view and join in the story.’ \nOriginally from Upper Zaire and Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo\, Emmanuela Yogolelo is a singer-songwriter\, live performer\, workshop facilitator\, speaker and cultural leader. \nYogolelo developed her passion for music from an early age\, soaked as she was in the musical surroundings of her native land. \nShe was exposed to the traditional acoustic music of the Shi and Mbuti pygmies\, the musical genres of neighbouring Rwanda and Burundi\, the music of the streets\, the radio and the local nganda pubs. \nTales from the Congo Basin is a Counterpoints Arts commission\, as part of ‘To love\, care\, breathe… as acts of justice’ commissioning project. \nFree. For ages 5+. Approximate run time: 30 mins. \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/tales-from-the-congo-basin/
CATEGORIES:Sustainability & Climate Justice
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SUMMARY:Building Alternative Food Systems
DESCRIPTION:The Arts\, Migration and Food Platforma 5 event\, part of Something Held in the Mouth\, a four day festival of food\, migration & the poetics of food\, organised by  Custom Folkestone. \n14:00 to 16:00 \nInterdisciplinary artist Dana Olărescu and social designer Paulina Sidhom are working with a food bank organiser in Peckham\, examining the system from how we make donations through to the user experience. Their work encourages us to reconsider our responsibility as citizens\, beyond existing power structures\, to redesign food systems collectively \nThey will run a participatory workshop on re imagining a better\, fairer (more nutritious) food banking and sharing system\, aimed at empowering those in need and those that donate. 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 to 17:00 \nWhat role can arts & food projects play in developing understanding of migration & displacement? With May Project Gardens founder Ian Solomon-Kawall (KMT)\, Usman Khalid of Haven Coffee and Dana Olărescu and Paulina Sidhom. \nAbout the panel: \nDana and Paulina test the boundaries between art and design with collaborative work inspired by ecology\, wellbeing\, and non-formal education. They are currently developing a project on natural building and growing microgreens in London\, aiming to address people’s contemporary relationship to locally-sourced food. Previous projects include teaching gardening techniques to vulnerable adults\, and art installations challenging immigrant stereotypes\, with some on show at Tate Modern\, Museum of London\, Goldsmiths University\, and Incheon Arts Platform (South Korea\,) amongst others. @microlifeproject #microchangescreatewaves \n Ian (KMT) has over 20 years experience of working in activism and social change. He’s worked on raising awareness for a multitude of social issues using the powerful words and rhythms of Hip Hop music and a non-exhaustive passion for the environment and conservation\, combining his love for music and love for nature. KMT’S VISION – KMT uses the arts for social change to propose a provocation – Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable. His philosophy and working methodologies are grounded in a deep respect for the beauty and abundance of Pachamama (Mother Earth)\, linking the issues of global food security and local food growing systems\, to both entertain and educate. Projects form the rich tapestry that is the community-led food growing space May Project Gardens which he designed using permaculture principles. Here he mentors young people\, nurturing ideas and fuelling passions through music and a connection to the environment\, through a six month leadership programme\, Hip Hop Gardens. \n\nHaven Coffee was founded in 2018 by social entrepreneur and refugee Usman Khalid\, Haven Coffee is a coffee brand with a social mission\, running pop-up coffee shops for workspaces and events across London. We provide a coffee shop experience without you even having to leave the building. With our professionally trained baristas and organic high-quality blends\, Haven can give you that perfect cup of coffee you are looking for. What’s more\, each cup of Haven Coffee sold helps support and raise awareness for refugee communities across the UK\, from promoting refugee artists to organising events\, as well as providing barista training to those refugees who are looking to build a new professional life for themselves.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/building-alternative-food-systems/
CATEGORIES:Sustainability & Climate Justice
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