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SUMMARY:Movement\, Wellbeing & Social Change
DESCRIPTION:A free gathering presented by CASA and Counterpoints Arts \nArtists. Dancers. Funders. Culture workers. An evening where titles take a back seat and people meet as people first. \nThrough performances\, conversations\, movement and shared experiences\, this gathering creates space for new collaborations\, unexpected encounters and conversations about how movement can transform not only artistic practice but the ways we care for ourselves and each other. \nFull details and booking \nPresented as part of Lines of Flight\, CASA’s year-round multi-arts programme at Brixton House: \nAcross exhibitions\, art residencies\, dance\, performance and celebration\, Lines of Flight invites us to slow down and attend to forms of knowledge and ways of living that often remain at the margins: relationships with landscapes\, rituals\, ancestral memory\, the body and more-than-human life\, alongside practices of rest\, grief\, joy and collective celebration.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/movement-wellbeing-social-change/
LOCATION:Brixton House\, 385 Coldharbour Lane\, Brixton\, London\, SW9 8GL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Dance,Mental Health
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SUMMARY:(Failing to Make) A Documentary About My Sudanese Family
DESCRIPTION:A new short documentary by Sid Elbadawi: A filmmaker sets out to document a trip with his Sudanese family in the shadow of the civil war\, but finds the process undoing the film itself.\n(Failing to Make) A Documentary About My Sudanese Family will premiere at BFI London Film Festival on 13 and 17 October 2026 as part of a programme called Altered States “Altered Fractured memories and uncertain fates are examined in shorts featuring our unshakeable resolve.” \n-Tuesday 13 October 2026 17:50 Vue West End\, EPIC 1\n-Saturday 17 October 2026 14:50 BFI Southbank\, Screen NFT2 \nTickets on sale from Thursday 17 September 2026 10:00 \nFull details and booking \nPost production on the film was supported by Counterpoints Productions.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/failing-to-make-a-documentary-about-my-sudanese-family/2026-10-17/
CATEGORIES:Counterpoints Productions,Film
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SUMMARY:(Failing to Make) A Documentary About My Sudanese Family
DESCRIPTION:A new short documentary by Sid Elbadawi: A filmmaker sets out to document a trip with his Sudanese family in the shadow of the civil war\, but finds the process undoing the film itself.\n(Failing to Make) A Documentary About My Sudanese Family will premiere at BFI London Film Festival on 13 and 17 October 2026 as part of a programme called Altered States “Altered Fractured memories and uncertain fates are examined in shorts featuring our unshakeable resolve.” \n-Tuesday 13 October 2026 17:50 Vue West End\, EPIC 1\n-Saturday 17 October 2026 14:50 BFI Southbank\, Screen NFT2 \nTickets on sale from Thursday 17 September 2026 10:00 \nFull details and booking \nPost production on the film was supported by Counterpoints Productions.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/failing-to-make-a-documentary-about-my-sudanese-family/2026-10-13/
CATEGORIES:Counterpoints Productions,Film
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261010
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SUMMARY:Common Ground CHWA Conference 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Culture\, Health and Wellbeing Alliance conference will run from 7-9 October 2026 at Barnsley Civic \nOur opening speakers and panel chairs will help us explore the ‘edges’ of creative health – how it relates to healthcare systems\, planetary health\, the economy\, and shifting cultures. \nThe conference is an opportunity for the creative health sector to come together for nourishment\, knowledge and support. The theme for 2026 is Common Ground and we will be learning from people in our own and related fields about how we can come together to effect deep and much-needed systemic change. \nOur Arts\, Displacement and Mental health Producer Maren Ellermann will be speaking on the Whose Culture\, Whose Health Panel – Cultures on the Move on Friday 9 October.  On the same day\, she will also be delivering a workshop: Hate and Toxicity: Practical Responses and Approaches\, alongside Nzinga Mascall. \n\nBook your tickets here\, including in-person and digital\nApply for one of 10 bursary spaces (deadline 10am\, Monday 7 September)\nApply to volunteer at the conference (deadline 5pm\, Monday 7 September)\n\nOther speakers include:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThahmina Begum\, Artist-Researcher and Art Psychotherapist | Helen Chatterjee\, Professor\, Human & Ecological Health\, UCL |  Prof Kevin Fenton\, Regional Public Health Director\, Department of Health and Social Care | Darren Henley\, Chief Executive of Arts Council England | Hollie Smith-Charles\, Director\, Creative Health & Change Lead\, Arts Council England \nFor a full list of creative and inspiring panelists\, artists\, performers and workshops facilitators\, see the programme here. \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/common-ground-chwa-conference-2026/
LOCATION:Barnsley Civic\, 46 Eldon St\, Barnsley\, S70 2JL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Mental Health
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261010
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SUMMARY:Pop Culture and Social Change Retreat 2027 — Digital
DESCRIPTION:Counterpoints Arts’ 2026 Pop Culture and Social Change Retreat\n  \nDelivered in collaboration with the Power of Pop Fund — will bring together 50 change-making producers\, content creators\, cultural innovators\, activists and philanthropists at Dartington Hall\, Devon\, from 7-9th October. \n  \nAt a moment when digital platforms are concentrating power in fewer and fewer hands\, and far-right narratives are being amplified and funded across the media landscape\, this year’s retreat turned its focus to digital storytelling for social justice. \n  \nOver two and a half days\, we explored how digital cultural content can drive social change\, disrupt power structures\, and build long-term narrative power. This retreat was framed by a new piece of research\, commissioned in collaboration with the AKO Storytelling Institute at UAL\, that shows the urgency and relevance of this subject in this highly polarised time.  \n  \nBackground\nSince the first Counterpoints Art’s Pop Culture & Social Change Retreat in 2018\, more creative teams are collaborating\, producing and supporting narrative change initiatives. The 2022 retreat drew inspiration from these pop culture case studies\, and the shared knowledge and experience of a fast growing network of creative practitioners and change-makers. Recent examples of successful films focusing on lived experience of migration and displacement include\, multi-award winning films such as All That’s Left of You (2025) by Cherein Dabis and A Fox Under a Pink Moon (2025)\, directed by Mehrdad Oskouei and Soraya Akhlaghi\, highlighting the power of film to drive social change. Or Netflix’s Peabody Winner Mo and Apple TV’s Pachinko highlighting the experiences of an undocumented migrant from Palestine and South Korea (respectively). The 2024 retreat brought together an extraordinary community of practitioners to develop cultural interventions at the nexus of climate and migrant justice — forging connections\, building collective imagination\, and planting the seeds for what this network will do next. \n  \nSetting\nThe programme included inspiring work by a range of content creators\, platforms and cultural producers with short inspirations\, provocations and workshops. We held a programme of events featuring workshops\, talks\, film and performance\, and space for informal networking including shared meals featuring locally sourced food. The retreat was supported by Unbound Philanthropy\, and The Power of Pop Fund with all of the activities set in the beautiful Grade-II listed Dartington Hall\, near Totnes\, Devon. \n  \nRead more about our PopChange initiative here.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/pop-culture-and-social-change-retreat-2027-digital/
LOCATION:Dartington Trust\, Totnes\, TQ9 6EL
CATEGORIES:Digital,Pop Culture
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SUMMARY:About Us! Artists' Scratch Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of diverse new work from five Global Majority heritage artists\, hosted by curator and lead scratch artist Awate.\nGet a glimpse behind the curtain of creation and imagination as five artists take to the floor to share new works in progress. \nAudiences are invited to give feedback and ask questions in a safe\, communal space to help lift up artists. \nThis event is open to all audiences wanting to experience work in its initial stages of development\, and applications to present work are open to artists aged over 18 from a global majority background (or tackling the subjects of diaspora and migration)\, whether you’re a writer\, musician\, dancer\, film-maker\, designer or anything in between. \nIn the past we’ve had films inspired by Greek mythology\, stylists presenting their original textile designs\, stand-up comedy\, powerful rap music\, innovative piano performances and short plays reflecting on the trans experience. \nAfter presenting at our Scratch event\, artists have gone on to embark on their first UK music tours\, had their short-films made/presented at the BFI London Film Festival\, secured options from high-profile TV production companies\, started their own regular comedy nights and found lasting connections with other artists in the audience or presenting alongside them. \nThis Scratch Showcase is a collaboration between Awate\, Counterpoints Arts and the Southbank Centre. \nBook your free ticket HERE. \nImage credit: Mohammed Moharm. \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/about-us-artists-scratch-showcase-4/
LOCATION:Clore Ballroom\, Southbank Centre\, Belvedere Road\, London\, SE1 8XX
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260923T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260923T150000
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SUMMARY:Our Work in Mental Health
DESCRIPTION:On 23 September we’re gathering partners\, collaborators and friends for a day of impact sharing\, conversation\, thinking and celebration. Together\, we’ll explore how our mental health work at Counterpoints Arts has grown\, what we’ve learned\, what has challenged us\, and where we’re hoping to go next. \nWe’ll also be officially launching our Mental Health Framework\, a practical and values‑led manifesto that articulates Counterpoints’ approach to art\, migration and mental health.. It introduces the language we use\, the principles that shape our practice\, and how we evaluate our work. \nThe day will consist of (hopefully good) conversations\, workshops\, performances and shared food\, creating space for reflecting and collective imagining. \nThis is an invite‑only event\, but if you would like to attend\, please email maren@counterpoints.org.uk \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/our-work-in-mental-health/
LOCATION:Yorkton Workshops\, 1-3 Yorkton St\, London\, London\, E2 8NH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Mental Health
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260910
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SUMMARY:A Tonic to the Nation
DESCRIPTION:A Tonic to the Nation: Immigrant Contribution to the Festival of Britain\nA full day symposium\, an exhibition and a concert from Insiders/Outsiders in partnership with St John’s Waterloo. \nScheduled to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the Festival of Britain\, this one-day symposium will explore an important but still widely overlooked aspect of the Festival and its legacy: namely\, the disproportionately large creative input of those from (mostly) Jewish immigrant families and of former refugees from Nazism – many of them imprisoned behind barbed wire as so-called ‘enemy aliens’ only eleven years earlier. \nIn so doing\, it will invite a closer critical scrutiny both of the nature and extent of that input and of the complex issues of postwar cultural renewal\, national memory and identity\, patriotism and assimilation\, both then and in the present – and by extension highlight the creative contributions of more recent immigrants and their descendants to this contemporary British life. \nComprising a lively mixture of illustrated talks\, discussions\, a concert and the Royal College of Music exhibition ‘Music\, Migration and Mobility’ about émigré musicians from Nazi Europe in Britain\, the symposium programme is aimed at both a general and a specialist audience. \nThe project is initiated and organised by Monica Bohm-Duchen\, founding director of Insiders/Outsiders\, an ongoing celebration of the contribution made by refugees from Nazi Europe to British culture\, in partnership with St John’s Waterloo. Restored after being bombed during WWII\, it became the official church for the Festival of Britain and home to two major paintings by German-Jewish émigré artist Hans Feibusch. The symposium and concert form part of “Now I make a leaf of voices“\, a series of events celebrating St John’s Festival of Britain heritage\, which runs between July and December 2026. \nFull details and booking
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/a-tonic-to-the-nation/
LOCATION:St John’s Church\, 73 Waterloo Road\, London\, london\, SE1 8TY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Music,Visual Arts
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260824
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261001
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SUMMARY:Stream Palestine Comedy Club at Home
DESCRIPTION:For a limited time\, you can now buy or rent the feature documentary Palestine Comedy Club and stream it at home. \nWhen six Palestinian comedians hit the road to tour a stand-up show across Palestine\, their search for humour amid the injustices of everyday Palestinian life becomes a powerful plea for humanity in the face of brutal war. \nFollowing the comedians on and off stage\, the film celebrates humour as a source of connection\, resilience and resistance – even in the most difficult circumstances. \nPalestine Comedy Club is a film by Alaa Regash Aliabdallah and Charlotte Knowles and was produced in association with Counterpoints Productions\, the new film production arm of Counterpoints Arts. \nThe film is available to buy or rent until 30 September 2026 only. \nBuy or rent Palestine Comedy Club here \nWatch the trailer:
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/stream-palestine-comedy-club-at-home/
CATEGORIES:Comedy,Counterpoints Productions,Film
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260820T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260820T210000
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SUMMARY:A Song for the Xeedho: LATE
DESCRIPTION:Join artist Fozia Ismail and Orsod Malik\, Executive Director of the Stuart Hall Foundation\, for a conversation marking the final event in the A Song for the Xeedho public programme.\nBOOK HERE\nTogether\, Fozia and Orsod will reflect on the themes that have emerged through the installation; from diasporic knowledge systems and oral tradition to archiving\, counter-archiving and anticolonial practice. \nTaking the xeedho as a starting point\, the conversation will consider the knot not only as a material form\, but as a way of thinking: about memory\, inheritance\, migration\, women’s labour and the connections that hold communities across time and place. \nModerated by artist-producer Heather Marks\, this conversation invites audiences into a reflective discussion on archives and other ways of remembering. \nThe evening continues with DJs\, food\, and drinks by Arawelo Studio. \nThis event is part of the public Programme for A Song for the Xeedho\, part of Backyard Biennial. \nAbout Fozia Ismail\n \nFozia Ismailis a British Somali artist\, founder of Arawelo Eats and co-founder of dhaqan collective. Her practice moves across food\, sound\, textiles and found objects to create works exploring migration\, climate\, identity and diasporic memory. \nRooted in Somali nomadic feminist pedagogy\, her work approaches everyday cultural practices as living archives of care\, knowledge and survival. Through collective acts of listening\, eating\, weaving and making\, she reframes domestic and communal space as sites of shared authorship. Central to her practice are inherited materials and objects connected to her mother’s Somali nomadic roots – vessels\, spices\, textiles\, cassette tapes and sound recordings\, which she transforms into sculptural\, time-based and archival works. \nIsmail has exhibited internationally at the British Textile Biennale\, Southbank Centre\, Biennale Architettura Venice\, Weltmuseum Wien\, Playable Cities\, Osaka and Jodhpur Art Week. \nA Song for the Xeedho – the Knot Makers is co-commissioned by Counterpoints Arts and Whitechapel Gallery. \nAbout Orsod Malik\n \nOrsod Malik is a Sudani curator of exhibitions and archives\, writer\, independent researcher\, and the Executive Director of the Stuart Hall Foundation. He currently serves as a Trustee at The Common Guild\, a visual arts organisation in Glasgow. Malik’s work explores transnational cultural and political entanglements in historical narratives to consider the possibility of shared histories. He is particularly interested in the relationship between social movements and aesthetics\, and their combined role in shaping collective identities. \nMalik’s latest project\, Qissas\, was recently shortlisted for the 2026 Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize. He has also curated exhibitions and developed programmes for several cultural organisations including\, the Stuart Hall Foundation\, International Curators Forum (ICF)\, Black Cultural Archives\, Institute of International Visual Arts (iniva)\, Prince Claus Fund and the British Council. \nAbout Heather Marks\n \nHeather Marks is an artist\, researcher and producer working across archives\, film\, literature and public programming. Her practice explores Black and Global Majority histories\, with a focus on fugitivity\, fabulation and decolonial practices of repair. \nShe is currently in residence at the National Portrait Gallery\, responding to portraits of 16th – 19th century Global Majority sitters in the Heinz Archive\, and at The Box\, Plymouth\, researching unseen collections in the South West Film & Television Archive. Her moving image work Fugitives in the Archive has screened at Spike Island\, Autograph ABP and Bristol Beacon. \nHeather has produced cultural programmes and projects with organisations including Words of Colour\, the Southbank Centre\, Glasgow Film Theatre\, Kiraathane and the Irish Writers Centre. She serves on the advisory board of Arawelo Studio. \nBOOK HERE \nPhotograph by Lisa Whiting Photography
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/a-song-for-the-xeedho-late/
LOCATION:Whitechapel Gallery\, 77-82 Whitechapel High St\, London\, E1 7QX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Sound Art,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:A Song for the Xeedho: Climate\, Censorship and East African Futures
DESCRIPTION:Layla Mahmood\, East Africa Correspondent for The Observer\, joins Mohammed Elnaiem from The Decolonial Centre for a conversation on climate\, censorship and environmental change in East Africa.\nBOOK HERE\nTaking Fozia Ismail’s A Song for the Xeedho as a starting point\, the event considers what disappearing ecologies mean for nomadic life\, oral tradition and ways of knowing rooted in land\, movement and interdependence. \nLayla will be joined by an additional speaker (to be announced) for a discussion on climate\, power\, colonial legacies and who gets to narrate environmental change. \nA Song for the Xeedho – the Knot Makers is co-commissioned by Counterpoints Arts and Whitechapel Gallery. \nAbout Layla Mahmood\nLayla Mahmood is a journalist\, reporter and East Africa Correspondent for The Observer. Her work spans climate\, politics\, culture and social justice. She has worked with The Guardian and the BBC\, with a focus on investigative and people-led reporting that traces how political decisions are felt in everyday life. Her journalism has explored social and political issues across East Africa and the wider diaspora\, alongside cultural writing for publications including Glamour and Subbacultcha!. Layla has also worked as a producer and writer with Fully Focused Productions and Million Youth Media\, supporting storytelling rooted in lived experience and youth perspectives. \nAbout Mohammed Elnaiem\nMohammed Elnaiem is Director of The Decolonial Centre. He is an activist\, and also working on a Ph.D. in Sociology at Trinity Hall\, Cambridge\, where he is writing a dissertation on the relationship between capitalism\, colonialism and patriarchy. \nBOOK HERE
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/climate-censorship-and-east-african-futures/
LOCATION:Whitechapel Gallery\, 77-82 Whitechapel High St\, London\, E1 7QX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Sound Art,Visual Arts
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260815T150000
DTSTAMP:20260709T080116Z
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SUMMARY:Listening to the Xeedho Archive
DESCRIPTION:Join researcher Ibrahim Hirsi and moderator Heather Marks for an open archive session exploring the research and sound archive behind Fozia Ismail’s A Song for the Xeedho.\nBOOK HERE\nThis informal session offers a behind-the-scenes look at the recordings\, questions and cultural histories informing the project. Ibrahim will share elements of his research into the xeedho — a Somali nomadic wedding vessel — and the oral traditions\, songs\, memories and forms of women’s knowledge connected to it. \nPart presentation\, part listening session and part open conversation\, the event invites audiences to think with the archive as a living\, layered space: one shaped by sound\, migration\, craft\, memory and what is passed between generations. \nA Song for the Xeedho – the Knot Makers is co-commissioned by Counterpoints Arts and Whitechapel Gallery. \n  \nAbout Ibrahim Hirsi\nIbrahim Hirsi is a writer\, archivist\, and editor at Journal Gobanimo. He is a co-founder of Koor Archives and is currently working on his first monograph\, which explores the metre of southern Somali poetic forms. His work has been published in The Poetry Review\, Modern Poetry in Translation\, PBLJ\, and the anthology Before Them\, We (Flipped Eye\, 2022). \n  \nAbout Fozia Ismail\nFozia Ismailis a British Somali artist\, founder of Arawelo Eats and co-founder of dhaqan collective. Her practice moves across food\, sound\, textiles and found objects to create works exploring migration\, climate\, identity and diasporic memory.  \nRooted in Somali nomadic feminist pedagogy\, her work approaches everyday cultural practices as living archives of care\, knowledge and survival. Through collective acts of listening\, eating\, weaving and making\, she reframes domestic and communal space as sites of shared authorship. Central to her practice are inherited materials and objects connected to her mother’s Somali nomadic roots – vessels\, spices\, textiles\, cassette tapes and sound recordings\, which she transforms into sculptural\, time-based and archival works.  \nIsmail has exhibited internationally at the British Textile Biennale\, Southbank Centre\, Biennale Architettura Venice\, Weltmuseum Wien\, Playable Cities\, Osaka and Jodhpur Art Week.   \n  \nAbout Heather Marks\nHeather Marks is an artist\, researcher and producer working across archives\, film\, literature and public programming. Her practice explores Black and Global Majority histories\, with a focus on fugitivity\, fabulation and decolonial practices of repair. She is currently in residence at the National Portrait Gallery\, responding to portraits of 16th – 19th century Global Majority sitters in the Heinz Archive\, and at The Box\, Plymouth\, researching unseen collections in the South West Film & Television Archive. Her moving image work Fugitives in the Archive has screened at Spike Island\, Autograph ABP and Bristol Beacon. \nBOOK HERE \nImage: Listening to the Archive -Maya Mahindou Illustration for Camel Milk & Cassette Tapes two
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/listening-to-the-xeedho-archive/
LOCATION:Whitechapel Gallery\, 77-82 Whitechapel High St\, London\, E1 7QX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Sound Art,Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260813T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260813T210000
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SUMMARY:A Song for the Xeedho: Under the Open Sky Screening + Q&A
DESCRIPTION:A screening of Under the Open Sky followed by a short Q&A with director Sonum Sumaria and Yumna Kamel (Earth Refuge).\n  \nBOOK HERE \n  \nJoin us for a screening of Under the Open Sky\, followed by a short Q&A with Director Sonum Sumaria and Yumna Kamel\, founder of Earth Refuge. \nIn Under the Open Sky\, Ahmed and his family – nomadic camel-herders from India – face an existential dilemma: to continue their traditional way of life or adapt to a rapidly modernising world. The film traces their quiet but powerful struggle to hold onto their ancestral way of life as they are increasingly displaced by industrialisation\, climate shifts and economic pressures. \nAfter the screening\, Sonum and Yumna will reflect on the making of the film and further questions around climate crisis\, displacement\, land\, memory and belonging. This event is presented as part of the A Song for the Xeedho: the Knot Makers public programme. \nTickets: £5. (If the ticket price is a barrier\, please contact us via dijana@counterpoints.org.uk) \nBOOK HERE \nA Song for the Xeedho: the Knot Makers by Fozia Ismail is co-commissioned by Counterpoints Arts and Whitechapel Gallery for Backyard Biennial. Public programme curated by Heather Marks. \n  \nBiographies:\nSonum Sumaria is an award-winning British-Asian filmmaker and has been making films with marginalised communities for the past thirteen years. She read Spanish and Russian at Cambridge University\, and studied at the Cuban film school EICTV\, going on to complete an MA in Cinematography at MetFilm School in London. Sonum has a deep interest in nomadic and indigenous communities and is particularly drawn to the themes of identity and belonging. \nYumna Kamel is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Earth Refuge\, the first legal think tank focused on climate displacement. She is a leading voice on climate mobility\, legal innovation\, and migrant justice\, with a track record of building some of the field’s most ambitious public-facing initiatives. At Earth Refuge\, Yumna leads work on legal education\, advocacy and access to justice for communities affected by climate displacement. She has launched flagship online beginners’ workshops\, co-developed the Climate Mobility Case Database and co-founded the upcoming  Climate Mobility and Legal Innovation Programme (CLIP). Previously\, she was Senior Legal Education Officer at Right to Remain\, which supports people navigating the UK asylum and immigration system. Yumna holds an LLM from University of Pennsylvania\, where she was awarded the Public Interest Fellowship\, and an LLB from Queen Mary University. She also serves on the advisory boards of the Global Center for Climate Justice and Arawelo Studio. \n  \nLinks:\nUnder the Open Sky – trailer \nArawelo Studio – website / Instagram \nFozia Ismail – Instagram / LinkedIn \nSonum Sumaria – website / Instagram \nEarth Refuge – website / Instagram \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/a-song-for-the-xeedho-under-the-open-sky-screening-qa/
LOCATION:BLOC\, ArtsOne Building\, Queen Mary University of London\, BLOC\, 1 Westfield Way\, London\, E1 4PD
CATEGORIES:Film,Learning,Sustainability & Climate Justice
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260730T200000
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SUMMARY:To Re-Cite: What Do We Inherit Through Sound?
DESCRIPTION:Join artist Aliaskar Abarkas and curator\, researcher and writer\, Mariam Elnozahy\, and musician and architect Mhamad Safa as they expand on themes from To Re-Cite\, Aliaskar’s project exploring sound\, music\, and listening through faith and collective experience. \nBOOK HERE\nThe conversation will expand on themes emerging from Abarkas’ workshops\, reflecting on how sonic practices – from recitation and prayer to breath\, rhythm\, and silence – shape spiritual\, emotional\, and communal life. Beginning with the Qur’anic verse Ayat al-Kursi\, whispered across generations and transmitted as both lullaby and sonic protection\, the project considers how sound moves through memory\, ritual\, architecture\, and collective experience.  \nFull details of the event\, including confirmed speakers\, will be announced at a later date. \nTo Re-Cite is co-commissioned by Counterpoints Arts and Whitechapel Gallery for Backyard Biennial. \n\nAbout Aliaskar Abarkas\n\nAliaskar Abarkas is an Iranian artist based in London. \nRooted in alternative and communal art education\, his practice stages choreographic encounters that move from individual elements into collective expression. Often in dialogue with historical sources\, Abarkas builds collaborative frameworks that invite participants to interpret and activate inherited scores through music\, exhibition\, and performance-making. \nHe is currently an Associate Artist at Sadler’s Wells / Rose Choreographic School (London\, 2024–26) and Lead Artist at Autograph Gallery (Acts of Solidarity\, in partnership with All Change\, London\, 2025–28). He holds a BA in Visual Cultures from the University of Tehran and an MA in the Theory of Contemporary Art and Politics from Goldsmiths\, University of London. Previous residencies include Cubitt Gallery and the Swiss Church (London)\, as well as Rupert (Lithuania)\, the Institute of Postnatural Studies (Madrid)\, Castro (Rome)\, Open School East\, and Syllabus V (UK)\, among others. \nHis work has been supported by institutions including the Barbican Centre\, ICA\, The Mosaic Rooms\, TACO!\, Pushkin House\, LUX (London)\, CAPC (Bordeaux)\, LOCALES (Rome)\, Scuola Piccola Zattere (Venice)\, and CIRCA. Upcoming projects include commissions and collaborations with Arts Catalyst (Sheffield)\, YDP Foundation (London)\, and the Singapore Art Museum. \n\n  \nAbout Mariam Elnozahy\nMariam Elnozahy is a curator\, researcher\, and writer. She currently serves as the Artistic Director of Konsthall C in Stockholm\, where her program “Sacred Spaces” invites artists to address questions of religion and society. Previously\, she ran exhibitions and programs at the Townhouse Gallery for Contemporary Art in Cairo and worked at Ma3azef Magazine. She has also curated exhibitions in Copenhagen\, London\, Oslo\, Uppsala\, Amsterdam\, and Jeddah and conducted workshops in Tunis and Tangiers. These programs often addressed histories of globalization\, development\, and resource extraction. She also works to support artists at various stages of conceptualization and artistic production. Her writing has been published in CURA Magazine\, Frieze Magazine\, The TLS\, Markaz Review\, Hyperallergic\, and MadaMasr. She was in residency at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht\, NL from 2022-2023 conducting research in the archive of Royal Dutch Shell. She holds a masters degree from the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. \n  \nAbout Mhamad Safa\nMhamad Safa is a London-based musician and architect whose work explores the intersection of multi-scalar spatial conditions and their sonic make-ups. He graduated from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths\, University of London\, in 2019 and received his PhD from the University of Westminster in 2024. He is a Lecturer in Architecture and Media Studies at the Royal College of Art in London. He also lectures in Sound Arts at the London College of Communication. His sound work was featured at the Renaissance Society in Chicago\, the Sharjah Architecture Triennial\, the Bergen Assembly\, the Goethe-Institut\, Kunsthalle Basel\, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts. \n  \n\nBOOK HERE \n\nIMAGE: Exhibition Catalogue: Woven Air: The Muslin and Kantha Tradition of Bangladesh\, 1988\, Whitechapel Gallery. Courtesy of the Whitechapel Gallery Archive
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/to-re-cite-what-do-we-inherit-through-sound/
LOCATION:Whitechapel Gallery\, 77-82 Whitechapel High St\, London\, E1 7QX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Sound Art,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Sijelo Collective in Leeds - Arts of Noticing
DESCRIPTION:Supported by the Critical Digital Practice Lab\n\n\n\n\n‘Arts of Noticing’ is a one-day symposium where artists\, researchers\, technologists and organisers making and thinking with plants will come together to explore questions about nature\, memory\, and human connection through the senses. There will be a series of workshops and activities about embodiment and sensing with plants\, followed by a creative activity in the afternoon where we will bring together all that we’ve learned in order to create a collaborative living collage. \nSijelo Collective in Leeds present: ‘Arts of noticing’ \n“Noticing is my way of opposing… it is trying to take those blinders off to look at the world around us\, with special attention to the more-than-human world (the human plus non-human world).” – Anna Tsing \nSchedule for the day \n10.00–10.30: arrivals\, teas and coffees (provided by the Barn Cafe) \n10.30-11.00: Short intros from Sijelo and CDP Lab \n11.00–12.00: the art of noticing things \nBo Olawoye of Sijelo will facilitate a walking* activity where we will spend some time wandering\, looking and using our senses to explore the farm. You can decide what little things are worth noticing. These might be shapes\, colours\, shadows\, light or textures. \n*you are also welcome to sit or stand and notice \n12.00–13.00: Plant Switching II \nJoanne Armitage of CDP Lab will lead us in the digitisation of plant–human connections through the creation of simple soft-circuit switches. Using conductive materials and living plants\, we will experiment with translating interspecies encounters into binary on/off signals. Together\, we will reflect on how reducing these relationships to digital logic can flatten the complexity\, reciprocity\, and energies of plant–human interactions\, while also considering how such systems might be extended\, challenged\, or reimagined. \n13.00-13.30: COMMONING & [Co-]SENSINGTHOUGHT FORMS Pt I \nHow can we sense a shared language manifested in land\, people and ephemera? \nIn this playful collaborative workshop with artist Kim Chin of Sijelo\, we explore how we feel through natural forms and imagined symbolism\, sharpen listening skills with pairwork and probing\, and interpret what we “see-hear-feel” by markmaking with natural dyes. In addition to the creative activity\, we will engage in a short mindfulness activity\, light-touch introduction of visual forms of communication by communities-activists-artists and end with reflections to close the session. \n13.30– 14.30: Lunch \nVegan lunch provided by the Barn Cafe (please email hello@kaajalmodi.com with any specific dietary requirements) \n14.30– 15.30: COMMONING & [Co-]SENSINGTHOUGHT FORMS Pt II \nContinuing our session from the morning exploring how we feel through natural forms and imagined symbolism with Kim Chin. \n15.30–17.00: Sculpting with Nature \nIn this relaxed and experimental workshop facilitated by Tasnim Siddiqa Amin of Sijelo\, you are invited to explore your relationship with land and power through a queer lens through material collaging. We’ll also consider how our bodies can be incorporated into the sculpture. We can work as a group or work on your own small piece and then add it a larger shared artwork. \nMaterials to collage with will be provided\, including plants\, sensors\, and spices\, and you can also bring with you images\, words\, textures\, sounds and gestures that represent your relationship with Land and plants. If you have anything you would like printed please email it to hello@kaajalmodi.com by 13.00 on Wednesday 22nd July. \n17.00: Finish \n18.00: optional visit to PEST by Lucif Neave at Assembly House \nEvent/Booking link HERE \nAbout the Facilitators:\nBoseda Olawoye (known as Bo) is a freelance creative producer/consultant based in Nottingham who works nationally and beyond. She specialises in developing arts projects\, programmes and cultural strategies with and for diverse communities\, young people(13+)\, marginalised groups and artists. \nJoanne Armitage is a digital media practitioner\, researcher and artist. She is co-founder of the international maker-activist collective sus_NET (Sustainable Making for Feminist Action)\, which collaboratively explores issues of justice and equity through creative\, technical and community practice. Her work centres on developing methods to unpack\, critically engage with and rebuild technology alongside activist groups and within community contexts. Her approach emphasises slowness\, play and the everyday to untangle issues of agency\, power and expertise. \nKim Chin (they / she / we) makes art with others. Through experimental textiles\, time-based media\, installation and facilitating participatory activities\, their work is an invitation to enjoy the process of creating\, un/learning self-knowledge with others. We notice our breath\, bones\, mood and energy that we carry into physical and socio-political spaces – consciously and unconsciously. The alchemy of nature is Kim’s teacher; soil\, seeds and creatures know no borders. When site-specific textile pieces are shaped by environmental elements and oils of human touch\, they explore questions on labour\, ownership and material intent. \nTasnim Siddiqa Amin (she/they) is a queer\, working-class Bangladeshi-British artist\, theatremaker and activist from East London. Her interdisciplinary practice spans theatre\, performance art\, visual art and community arts facilitation\, grounded in anti-racism\, postcolonialism and intersectional feminism. \nTasnim’s practice is trauma-informed and grounded in care-based methodologies\, shaped by lived experience and a commitment to collective wellbeing. She designs and delivers participatory arts programmes that prioritise accessibility\, co-creation\, and long-term relationship-building using creativity as a means of connection\, reflection and resistance. \nSijelo are a UK-based art collective of women and non-binary people organising\, producing and making at the intersection of climate justice\, land rights\, migration and displacement. The collective came together through a series of residential events organised by Counterpoints from 2023–4\, and now loosely collectivise around specific campaigns\, events and issues that feel urgent to us https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/climate-displacement-part-ii-a-gathering-for-womxn-artists/ \nThe event is funded by Leeds Critical Digital Practice Lab (CDPL)\, a new creative and critical experimentation space-based at the University of Leeds. The lab is a space where we play with accessible technologies and feminist and decolonial practices in order to develop critical digital methods in response to the emergent moment. Led by Kaajal Modi\, Helen Thornham and Joanne Armitage. \n‘Arts of Noticing’ is an independently organized symposium\, officially recognized as part of a global conversation sparked by the If Trees Could Talk International Art Biennale. To learn more\, visit https://www.iftreescouldtalk.art/conversations/sijelo \nWith special thanks to the EMPIRE LINES podcast\, Meanwood Valley Urban Farm\, Counterpoints Arts and University of Leeds. \nImage: detail from a workshop series at The Showroom\, London by Kim Chin.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/sijelo-collective-in-leeds-arts-of-noticing/
LOCATION:Meanwood Valley Urban FarmMeanwood\, England\, Sugar Well Rd\, Meanwood\, Leeds\, LS7 2QG
CATEGORIES:Learning,Sustainability & Climate Justice
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260717T120000
DTSTAMP:20260709T105225Z
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SUMMARY:Backyard Biennial: East — Guided Tour
DESCRIPTION:A special networking event for invited artists and producers to view the Whitechapel Backyard Biennial and to learn more about the works and the production and curation process.\n\nDate: 17th July 2026\, starting at 11am. \nThis networking event is part of an ongoing collaboration between Counterpoints and Original Projects\, an arts organisation based in Great Yarmouth with whom we first collaborated as part of Platforma 2025. \nThe event will be part of artist and curator exchange visits between the two organisations. \nFor more information contact tom@counterpoints.org.uk. \nRead more about Backyard Biennial: East at Whitechapel Gallery here. \nPhotograph by Mohammed Moharm
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/backyard-biennial-guided-tour/
LOCATION:Whitechapel Gallery\, 77-82 Whitechapel High St\, London\, E1 7QX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Learning,Visual Arts
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260717
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260726
DTSTAMP:20260721T081454Z
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SUMMARY:How I Grew A Moustache (Work in Progress)
DESCRIPTION:A semi-biographical theatre piece by Riwa Saab exploring grief through the lens of intergenerational relationships.\nPresented by Arts Admin with support from Arts Council England\, Counterpoints Arts\, Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Shubbak.\nIn a pursuit of better understanding her father\, Riwa finds a letter he sent to his own late dad. With this discovery\, she unlocks a quest that travels through timelines and across conversations with family members\, piecing together a puzzle. Pulling in puppetry\, silhouettes\, and verbatim audio\, How I Grew a Moustache explores how grief and silence travel across generations\, and what it means to inherit stories that are left untold. At its heart\, the work asks how diasporic families carry love\, loss and memory across time. \nRiwa Saab is a theatre-maker\, sound designer\, poet and puppeteer. With her hands in different writing/composing and performance disciplines\, she works in both creative and backstage capacities. Her art puts people and our relationships at the centre of the political narratives we inhabit\, with recent explorations including the unpacking of generational and familial baggage\, and the politics of pop princesses. \n“The elegance with which Riwa traveled through and compressed time was extraordinary. Grief and loss often feel tied to specific moments\, but Riwa managed to show how something that happened 50 years ago to someone else can still be happening to us in the present.” – Audience member \nArtsadmin / Toynbee Studios\, 28 Commercial St\, London E1 6AB\nPresented as part of Whitechapel Gallery’s Backyard Biennale\nSaturday 25 July\n7 – 8pm\nBook your free ticket \nBush Theatre\, 7 Uxbridge Rd\, London W12 8LJ\nThursday 17 July\n8 – 9pm \nFriday 18 July\n8 – 9pm \nTickets: £10 – £20
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/how-i-grew-a-moustache-work-in-progress/
CATEGORIES:Mental Health,Theatre
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260716T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260716T200000
DTSTAMP:20260709T073714Z
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SUMMARY:Fozia Ismail In Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join artist Fozia Ismail for the opening conversation of A Song for the Xeedho – the Knot Makers.\nBOOK HERE\nFozia will introduce the ideas\, histories and questions that shape the installation\, from Somali nomadic heritage and women’s craft traditions to climate grief\, migration and memory. \nTaking the xeedho – a woven vessel made for Somali wedding ceremonies – as a starting point\, the conversation will explore how objects can hold stories of land\, movement\, care and loss. In conversation with journalist Precious Adesina\, Fozia will reflect on the making of the work\, the knot as both material and metaphor\, and what it means to honour forms of knowledge carried through family\, oral tradition and embodied practice. \nA Song for the Xeedho – the Knot Makers is co-commissioned by Counterpoints Arts and Whitechapel Gallery. \n  \nAbout Fozia Ismail\nFozia Ismail is a British Somali artist\, founder of Arawelo Eats and co-founder of dhaqan collective. Her practice moves across food\, sound\, textiles and found objects to create works exploring migration\, climate\, identity and diasporic memory. \nRooted in Somali nomadic feminist pedagogy\, her work approaches everyday cultural practices as living archives of care\, knowledge and survival. Through collective acts of listening\, eating\, weaving and making\, she reframes domestic and communal space as sites of shared authorship. Central to her practice are inherited materials and objects connected to her mother’s Somali nomadic roots – vessels\, spices\, textiles\, cassette tapes and sound recordings\, which she transforms into sculptural\, time-based and archival works. \nIsmail has exhibited internationally at the British Textile Biennale\, Southbank Centre\, Biennale Architettura Venice\, Weltmuseum Wien\, Playable Cities\, Osaka and Jodhpur Art Week. \n\n  \nAbout Precious Adesina\nPrecious Adesina is a London-based freelance writer\, presenter and moderator. Her work explores the intersections of the arts\, culture\, lifestyle\, and social politics\, often centring on underrepresented artists and overlooked perspectives in the UK and internationally. \nFormerly a journalist at The Telegraph\, she now regularly writes for leading outlets including The New York Times\, BBC Culture\, The Guardian\, Financial Times\, CNN\, The Economist\, and The Art Newspaper\, among others. Adesina has been invited to speak at institutions such as Whitechapel Gallery\, the Barbican Centre\, Nottingham Contemporary\, and University College London\, her alma mater. \nAcross both her journalism and public engagements\, she consistently highlights how the arts reflect\, challenge\, and reshape today’s social and cultural landscape. \n  \nBOOK HERE \nCamel Milk Cultures event\, Wellcome Collection. Photograph by David Sandison/Wellcome.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/fozia-ismail-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Whitechapel Gallery\, 77-82 Whitechapel High St\, London\, E1 7QX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Sound Art,Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260628T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260628T170000
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SUMMARY:Arab Film Club: An Afternoon of Shorts and Q&A
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a specially curated programme of short films for Refugee Week 2026\nActor and writer Sarah Agha curates a programme of short films for Arab Film Club on 28 June\, followed by a live Q&A with the film-makers. These exceptional films demonstrate how film-makers can use the power of cinema\, art and storytelling to humanise narratives of migration\, using cinema to champion stories of courage\, community and resilience. \nFull line up to be announced soon. For ages 14+. \nBook your place on the Southbank Centre website. \nPhoto: Southbank 2025\, Suhaib Jaber \n— \nInterested in holding your own Refugee Week film screening?\nEach year we curate a selection of short and feature-length films from across the world exploring themes of displacement\, migration\, belonging\, and community as part of The Refugee Week Film Festival. Organisations and individuals can screen them for free during Refugee Week on 15 – 21 June 2026. Find out more about hosting your own screening.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/arab-film-club-an-afternoon-of-shorts-and-qa/
LOCATION:Purcell Room\, Southbank Centre
CATEGORIES:Film,London Refugee Week
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260627T220000
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SUMMARY:Our HeartBeats: Courage in Creativity
DESCRIPTION:Join a celebration of global club sounds and community at the Southbank Centre with Our Heartbeats DJ Crew\nRooted in the belief of music’s ability to bring people together and defy narratives\, Our HeartBeats DJ crew create a space where culture\, migration and identity collide on the dance floor. \nOur HeartBeats is a community-led DJ training and performance platform rooted in the belief that music has the power to unite\, empower and challenge narratives. Championing young DJs from refugee and displaced backgrounds\, the programme creates pathways into London’s music scene while celebrating the diverse musical identities of its artists. \nAt this event\, newly trained DJs from the latest Our HeartBeats cohort will perform their first public sets\, supported by alumni artists who have gone on to perform at festivals\, venues and radio stations across London and beyond. Special guest DJs will also join the line-up. \nAbout Our Heartbeats\nPart of Southbank Centre’s Refugee Week 2026 programme\, presented in partnership with Counterpoints Arts\, this event responds to this year’s theme of ‘courage’ – welcoming audiences to connect across cultures through music and shared celebration. \nOur HeartBeats began during Refugee Week 2024 in collaboration with the Southbank Centre and has since grown into an independent Community Interest Company supporting emerging artists through workshops\, mentoring and performance opportunities. Find out more about Our Heartbeats.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/our-heartbeats-courage-in-creativity/
LOCATION:Riverside Terrace\, Southbank Centre SE1 8XX\, SE1 8XX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:London Refugee Week,Music
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260627T150000
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SUMMARY:Counterpoints Lecture with Elif Shafak
DESCRIPTION:Global bestselling writer and renowned activist Elif Shafak explores whether creativity can help heal our divided world in the inaugural Counterpoints lecture.\nBOOK TICKETS \nFor this first iteration of the annual Counterpoints lecture\, Elif Shafak explores how imagination and artistic practice shape our understanding of the world. She reflects on the link between creativity and courage\, and how creativity can open paths to belonging\, imagination and collaboration in times of conflict\, fear and political division. \nDrawing on academic\, literary critic and activist Edward Said’s concept of the ‘counterpoint’ perspective of displaced people\, Shafak considers how artists from regions affected by war\, violence and political extremism can offer vital insights and new ways of seeing\, questioning and imagining. As part of this\, Shafak unravels the idea of ‘storyland’ as a motherland. \nPart of Southbank Centre’s Refugee Week 2026 programme\, presented in partnership with Counterpoints. Refugee Week is a nationwide festival celebrating the contributions\, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary. Inspired by refugees\, the theme this year is ‘courage’. \nFurther information available on Southbank Centre’s website. \nAbout Elif Shafak\nElif Shafak is an award-winning and highly acclaimed British-Turkish novelist whose work has been translated into 55 languages. The author of 21 books\, including 13 novels\, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world. \nShafak holds a PhD in political science and is President of the Royal Society of Literature and a Public Humanities Fellow at the School of Advanced Studies (SAS). She is a leading voice on freedom of expression\, women’s rights and LGBTQ+ rights. \nPhoto credit: Ferhat Elik
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/counterpoints-lecture-with-elif-shafak/
LOCATION:Royal Festival Hall\, Southbank Centre\, SE1 8XX
CATEGORIES:Literature & Spoken Word,Refugee Week
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260626T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260626T205000
DTSTAMP:20260610T153519Z
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SUMMARY:It Sounds Like Courage: Music and Solidarity
DESCRIPTION:A celebration of music and spoken word shaped by migration – brought together by courageous creative talents for Refugee Week.\nBOOK TICKETS \nCo-curated by Southbank Centre with Anoushka Shankar and Counterpoints Arts\, It Sounds Like Courage brings a unique blend of artists who stand in solidarity with displaced people all over the world. \nConnected by the unifying theme of ‘courage’\, the night features music and poetry born from generations of migration\, mapping the sounds and creativity that grew out of resistance movements. \nThe Line Up\nHosted by comedian Nish Kumar\, an inspiring lineup of musicians includes: \n\nAward-winning Palestinian singer\, composer\, and flautist Nai Barghouti\, who is conducted by Robert Ames with the London Contemporary Orchestra\nKora virtuoso Seckou Keita\nAfrofusion rapper MoYah\nMercury Prize-nominated songwriter Nadine Shah\nSoul singer and songwriter Nectar Woode\n\nThere will also be poetry from award-winning poets: \n\nInua Ellams\nNikita Gill\nSalena Godden\n\nFeaturing artists with lived experience of displacement\, musicians with migrant heritage and high-profile allies in the fight for justice and equality\, It Sounds Like Courage is a night to imagine new possibilities together\, with community and solidarity at its centre. \nThis event sits at the heart of Refugee Week’s programme of events and is presented by Southbank Centre in partnership with Counterpoints. \nFull details and booking via the Southbank Centre website. \nAnoushka Shankar. Photo by Laura Lewis
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/it-sounds-like-courage-music-and-solidarity/
LOCATION:Royal Festival Hall\, Southbank Centre\, SE1 8XX
CATEGORIES:Music,Refugee Week
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260620
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260901
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SUMMARY:One Song @ Art House
DESCRIPTION:One Song is an audio-visual installation and community project by artist Kadir Karababa that explores how music carries memory\, identity and a sense of home across borders.\nFirst begun in 2024\, the project is an evolving archive of songs and stories developed with women who have personal experience of migration or seeking sanctuary. \nBuilt through participation and shared experience\, this iteration was developed with members of the Wakefield community. Each participant is invited to share a song that takes them back to the place they first called home. These songs form the foundation of the work\, bringing together individual memories into a wider collective portrait. \nThe project is inspired by the artist’s own family history of migration from Eastern Turkey to London\, and an interest in how songs are carried across borders while remaining rooted in the places they were first sung. \nThese songs are deeply personal\, connected to family\, language and everyday life\, and often carried across time and distance. For many\, singing becomes a way of reconnecting with places and experiences that are no longer physically present. \nPresented together\, One Song creates a shared space of listening. Each voice remains distinct\, while common themes of movement\, belonging\, loss and connection begin to emerge. \nRead more on The Art House website. \nOne Song was originally commissioned by Counterpoints Arts. This iteration has been supported by Arts Council England and Counterpoints Arts. To view the archive of songs that make up One Song and to read more about work visit The One Song website
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/one-song-art-house/
LOCATION:The Art House\, Drury Lane\, Wakefield\, WF1 2TE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260619T181000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260619T200000
DTSTAMP:20260428T202706Z
CREATED:20260427T211120Z
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SUMMARY:Khartoum + discussion
DESCRIPTION:In this moving documentary\, a collective of filmmakers capture the lives of a people caught up in a conflict that has ravaged Sudan.\nDirectors: Rawia Alhag\, Ibrahim Snoopy\, Anas Saeed\, Timeea M Ahmed\, Phil Cox \nUK-Sudan-Germany-Qatar 2025. 80min \nThe screening will be followed by a discussion. \nA civil servant\, a tea lady\, a resistance committee volunteer and two young bottle collectors. Five Khartoum residents from different walks of life\, share their experiences of conflict and exile after escaping the Sudanese capital following a military coup and the outbreak of war. The filmmakers – also displaced by the war – weave together a personal and insightful film comprising footage shot prior to the escape\, staged reenactments\, and stories of migration and survival\, highlighting the human cost of this conflict. \nContains scenes of war and graphic violence or injury. \nPresented by BFI Southbank as part of their Refugee Week programme\, in partnership with the International Organization for Migration (IOM). \nFull details and tickets
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/khartoum/
LOCATION:BFI\, Belvedere Road\, London\, SE1 8XT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Film,Refugee Week
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260619T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260619T200000
DTSTAMP:20260527T144046Z
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Inspyre
DESCRIPTION:An Evening with Inspyre: Home\, Migration & Belonging\n\n\n\n\n\nAs part of Refugee Week 2026\, Inspyre invites you to an intimate evening of storytelling\, reflection\, and conversation exploring the meaning of home\, migration\, and belonging. \nHosted in London\, this special gathering will bring together performances\, personal stories\, short film\, and discussion to humanise refugee experiences through art and community. Across three themed chapters Home\, Migration\, and Home From Home\, the evening will explore what it means to leave\, arrive\, rebuild and belong. \nExpect a warm and reflective atmosphere with spoken word\, film\, conversation\, tea\, coffee\, and space to connect with others through shared stories. \nInspyre is a creative media and community platform centred around storytelling\, books\, culture\, and thoughtful conversation. Through podcasts\, events\, and community gatherings\, we aim to create spaces where people feel inspired\, understood\, and connected. \nThis event is part of Inspyre’s wider 2026 cultural programme focused on storytelling\, community\, and meaningful creative experiences. \nTickets: https://luma.com/4k32vuqv
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/an-evening-with-inspyre/
LOCATION:Church Street Library\, 67 Church St\, Edgware Rd\, London\, NW8 8EU
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form,Refugee Week
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260617T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260617T203000
DTSTAMP:20260522T165554Z
CREATED:20260522T165352Z
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SUMMARY:Comedy and Social Justice
DESCRIPTION:To mark Refugee Week this double event — organised by the University of Westminster (School of Humanities) in partnership with Counterpoints Arts — offers an opportunity to explore the power of comedy in contexts of displacement and injustice. \nFeaturing stand-up comedy from the No Direction Home Comedy Collective with Yasmeen Audisho Ghrawi\, Victor Rios\, Prince Abdi and Selam Amare. \nFollowed by a screening of acclaimed documentary Palestine Comedy Club: “When six Palestinian comedians hit the road to tour a stand-up show across Palestine and Israel\, their search for humour amidst the injustice of everyday Palestinian life becomes a plea for humanity against in the face of brutal war” \nThe evening will conclude with a Q&A featuring Comedy Director Dr Sam Beale\, film producer Charlotte Knowles\, Dr Atef Alshear (University of Westminster) and No Direction Home members. The event will be moderated by Dr Federica Mazzara (University of Westminster). \nFull details and free booking via Eventbrite
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/comedy-and-social-justice/
LOCATION:University of Westminster\, 309 Regent Street ( Room UG05)\, London\, W1B 2HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Comedy,Refugee Week
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260617T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260617T221500
DTSTAMP:20260527T120454Z
CREATED:20260527T120454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260527T120454Z
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SUMMARY:Around the World
DESCRIPTION:A Stand & Be Counted (SBC) Theatre production in collaboration with Football Unites Racism Divides\, Sheffield Home of Football and Yellow Bus Events. Supported by Counterpoints Arts and Migration Matters Festival.\nAround the World is a brand new digital art-meets-football project made with people from all over the world who now call Sheffield home\, to celebrate the World Cup and Refugee Week. \nSBC’s bright yellow school bus will tour Sheffield’s communities\, inviting peopl\,e to explore the original rules of the modern game; founded right here in our city – and make your own art works to be displayed on board the bus and beyond! \nTHey will be touring around the city between Thursday 11 June – Tuesday 16 June with a series of community events\, games and creative workshops\, culminating in a dazzling celebration of everything that has been created at the Peace Gardens on Wednesday 17 June. \nThe main event on Wednesday 17 June will include contributions and events with Amar Shah\, Brown Girl Sport\, Farah Chamma\, Inderjit Bhogal OBE and be hosted by Sile Sibanda.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/around-the-world/
LOCATION:Peace Gardens\, 50 Pinstone Street\, Sheffield\, S1 2HH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Refugee Week
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260616T182000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260616T193000
DTSTAMP:20260428T202618Z
CREATED:20260427T210611Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260428T202618Z
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SUMMARY:Allies In Exile + Q&A
DESCRIPTION:The London Premiere of a new film by Hasan Kattan and Fadi Al-Halabi\nDirector: Hasan Kattan \nUK-Syria 2026. 40min \nEvent includes a Q&A with Hasan Kattan \nSyrian filmmakers Hasan Kattan and Fadi Al-Halabi experienced and documented the atrocities of the war in Syria. After entering the UK\, they find themselves part of the asylum process\, wondering whether their new lives will ever become a reality. \nMade as part of the Displacement Film Fund launched by UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Cate Blanchett\, and co-produced by Counterpoints Productions\, this moving first-person documentary explores the power of cinema to bring refugee stories to the big screen. \nContains scenes of war and graphic violence or injury. \nPresented by BFI Southbank as part of their Refugee Week programme. \nFull information and tickets
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/allies-in-exile-qa/
LOCATION:BFI\, Belvedere Road\, London\, SE1 8XT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Film,Refugee Week
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260615T000000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260621T000000
DTSTAMP:20260401T162824Z
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SUMMARY:Refugee Week 15-21 June 2026
DESCRIPTION:Refugee Week is the world’s largest arts and culture festival celebrating the contributions\, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary.\nEstablished in the UK in 1998\, Refugee Week is co-ordinated by Counterpoints Arts and takes place every year around World Refugee Day (20th June). It has grown into a global movement with over 2 million participants\, across over 20 countries. Through an exciting programme of thousands of events\, activities and media campaigns\, Refugee Week brings together people from different backgrounds to connect beyond labels\, and foster a deeper understanding of why people are displaced\, and the challenges they face when seeking safety. \nRefugee Week 2026 will be 15-21st June with the theme of Courage. \nBy providing a platform for people who have sought sanctuary to share their experiences\, perspectives and creative work on their own terms\, our vision is for refugees and asylum seekers to be able to live safely within inclusive and resilient communities\, where they can continue to make a valuable contribution. \nThis year\, Quentin Blake’s joyful illustrations will sit at the centre of the Simple Acts campaign — a series of nine everyday actions anyone can take to show solidarity with refugees and help build more welcoming communities. Blake’s bright\, playful drawings will appear on postcards\, posters and other materials for communities\, schools\, libraries \, arts organisations and individuals to use at their own events. \nRead more about Refugee Week\, including how you can take part.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-15-21-june-2026/
CATEGORIES:Refugee Week
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260611
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260913
DTSTAMP:20260629T142247Z
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SUMMARY:Floating Together: Refugee Week Co-Commission by Malak Mattar
DESCRIPTION:A new public artwork commissioned by Choose Love\, Counterpoints and the Southbank Centre.\nResponding to the Refugee Week 2026 theme of ‘courage’\, and the Choose Love and Creative Visions themes ‘unique and united’ artist Malak Mattar has created a new installation in collaboration with young people from Ukraine and Greece. The commission is a bold public artwork inviting reflection on solidarity\, community and courage. \nMalak Mattar describes Floating Together\n‘Growing up by the sea in Gaza\, summer meant long days at the beach and the excitement of new colourful swimming floats that marked our journey from childhood to adulthood. Swan and turtle-shaped floats became symbols of joy and childhood. Over time\, the meaning of the sea changed. As life under blockade became difficult\, many young people began crossing the sea in search of a better life. Some reached new shores\, while others were lost along the way. \n‘The installation reflects both memories of my childhood and the realities of displacement. Inspired by swimming floats\, the work is large\, playful and illuminated with vibrant light\, especially at night\, honouring the many refugee journeys made in darkness\, while sending a message that refugees are seen\, welcomed and cared for. \n‘The patterns featured on the floats are created in collaboration with young people from Ukraine and Greece\, alongside drawings by children from Gaza\, expressing family life\, flowers\, dreams\, love and unity.’ \nThe installation is part of the Southbank Centre’s Riverside Sessions. \n  \nAbout Malak Mattar\nMalak Mattar (b. Gaza Strip) is a multidisciplinary Palestinian artist whose work is rooted in personal and collective experiences under occupation and siege. She began painting as a teenager\, using art as a form of survival and resistance. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in private and public collections\, including the British Museum. Mattar is also the Artistic Director of the Together for Palestine Concert and the author of the bestselling children’s book Sitti’s Bird. \nPhoto by Hossam Fazulla
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/floating-together/
LOCATION:Riverside Terrace\, Southbank Centre SE1 8XX\, SE1 8XX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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