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SUMMARY:Refugee Week 2024: Our Home
DESCRIPTION:The theme for Refugee Week 2024 is “Our Home”. From the places we gather to share meals to our collective home\, planet earth: everyone is invited to celebrate what our Our Home means to them. \nRefugee Week is the world’s largest arts & culture festival celebrating the contributions\, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary. Established in 1998 in the UK\, this annual festival aligns with World Refugee Day\, celebrated globally on June 20th. In 2024\, join us from June 17th to 23rd for a community-powered week! \nRefugee Week is a partnership project coordinated by Counterpoints Arts. It is an open platform\, so anyone can get involved anywhere in the world. \nWe will be publishing our own programme of Refugee Week events in the coming weeks.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-2024-our-home/
CATEGORIES:Refugee Week
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SUMMARY:Shaping the story
DESCRIPTION:A strategic day of networking\, research and practice sharing – with arts\, media\, research\, philanthropy\, charity and policy sectors. A collaboration between Unbound Philanthropy\, Climate Outreach and Counterpoints Arts.\n  \n‘Over the last six months we have been mapping the work underway in the UK at the intersections of climate and migration. Whilst we have found that a lot is happening\, there is currently a chronic lack of resource\, capacity and connections leading to limitations in the impact of this important work. It is very exciting to see a rapid growth in grassroots organising\, interest from funders\, and awareness of the importance of this work from NGOs and others. A concerted effort is now needed to make the most of the window of opportunity that exists to influence policies\, politics and narratives on climate-related migration.’ Ruth Grove-White & Ben Margolis\, authors of Building Common Ground briefing\, May 2024 \n  \nImage: Counterpoints’ Women’s Climate Justice and Migration retreat\, Hawkwood College\, November 2023\n—————————————————————————————————————————- \nWe are convening a dynamic group of around 50 individuals from the arts\, media\, research\, philanthropy\, charity\, and policy sectors for a series of critical conversations: \nPanel 1: The Ecosystem \nSetting the stage\, we will delineate priorities and share pivotal insights from the newly commissioned report by Unbound Philanthropy. \nChair: Alice Sachrajda\, UK Programme Officer & UK Head of Cultural Strategy – Unbound Philanthropy \nWith Ruth Grove-White & Ben Margolis\, Unbound consultants and authors of Building Common Ground: Yasmin Halima – JCWI; Alba Kapoor – Runnymede Trust \nPanel 2: How We Talk About Climate and Migration \nThis panel delves into the narratives shaping climate and migration\, exploring strategic communication practices and strategies to dismantle toxic narratives. \nChair: Maryam Pasha\, TEDxLondon and Climate Curious podcast \nWith Fahmida Miah – Climate Outreach; André Dallas\, People and Planet; Sangeetha Iengar – Goldsmith Chambers and University of Oxford \nPanel 3: The Storytellers: Art and Climate Justice \nFocusing on the arts\, this session spotlights artists committed to storytelling and socially engaged methodologies\, engaging themes of decolonization\, intersectionality\, and community collaboration. \nChair: Bonnie Chiu\, The Social Investment Consultancy \nWith Dhaqan Collective\, Farah Ahmed – Julie’s Bicycle\, Nana Bempah – POCC \n—————————————————————————————————————————- \nOur intention is to craft a reflective space that showcases the recent briefing by Ruth Grove-White and Ben Margolis on civil society work at the intersections of climate and migration in the UK. The briefing highlights the need for significant investment from funders\, building cross-sector relationships\, supporting diverse leadership\, committing to intersectional work\, and embedding a vision of systemic change. \nWe aim to foster cross-sector networking and explore innovative ways to represent lived experiences\, supporting collaboration and movement-building at the nexus of climate justice and migration. We also celebrate the practices of artists and activists reimagining storytelling around climate justice and global displacement. \nThis gathering aspires to embody these priorities\, fostering innovative and inclusive approaches to the intertwined challenges of climate and migration. \n—————————————————————————————————————————- \nUnbound Philanthropy is a private grantmaking foundation that works to ensure that migrants and refugees are treated with respect and engage with their new communities. We support pragmatic\, innovative\, and responsive approaches to immigration and immigrant integration in the United States and United Kingdom. \nClimate Outreach is the first British charity to focus exclusively on public engagement with climate change. Every year Climate Outreach helps hundreds of organisations think about how they can tell a different climate story. They do this through research and advice\, workshops and training\, and Climate Visuals. \nYorkton Workshops is a home to the award winning design studio\, Pearson Lloyd. Saved from demolition\, by considering the most sustainable\, socially valuable and creatively interesting paths of working with\, preserving and enhancing the existing building – Yorkton is also a gallery\, event space and location available for hire in Hackney\, East London. \n—————————————————————————————————————————-
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/shaping-the-story/
LOCATION:Yorkton Workshops\, 1-3 Yorkton St\, London\, London\, E2 8NH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Learning,London Refugee Week,Pop Culture
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SUMMARY:When community is HOME\, at Yorkton Workshops
DESCRIPTION:When community is HOME is a week-long exhibition and a programme of workshops\, performances\, networking\, supper clubs\, podcasts\, kite-flying and communal singing — curated by Counterpoints Arts\, supported by Pearson Lloyd design studio. Counterpoints brings their network of collaborators to Yorkton Workshops to respond to the theme of Our Home through an exploration of the intersection of displacement\, climate justice and wellbeing. \nWe feel privileged to be working in the beautiful gallery. The curated programme is full of opportunity to participate\, meet the artists\, witness talks and performances and eat delicious food… and gather at a time when creatively connecting with friends and strangers feels like an act of self-care and support for others. \nThe creative programme is a set of collaborations with artists\, collectives and organisations. Some are ‘old’ friends and partners\, and others are new to our ever growing network. \nWe are working with: \nClimate Outreach \nUnbound Philanthropy \nEtaf \nNour Alsholi \nAditi Jaganathan \nZafeerah Heesambee \nTasnim Mahdy \nJohn Hunnex \nIn The Mix \nCompass Collective and Sarah Jackson / Nottingham Trent University \nKim Chin \nZhvan Theatre Company \nBosla Arts \nKites in Solidarity \nBint Mbareh \nand others! \nWe will see you at Yorkton Workshops. The programme runs from 17th to 22nd June. Ticketing info for some of the activities will follow shortly. \nImage: Bosla Arts\, The Art Persists podcast\, Yorkton Workshops\, 2023 © Paul Gilbey \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/when-community-is-home-london-refugee-week-at-yorkton-workshops/
LOCATION:Yorkton Workshops\, 1-3 Yorkton St\, London\, London\, E2 8NH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Multi-Art Form,Refugee Week
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SUMMARY:Voice Notes by Compass Collective and nottingham trent university
DESCRIPTION:Come and experience the ‘Voice Notes’ is an international art project exploring the role of the telephone in experiences of exile. Featuring recorded phone calls left by young refugees and asylum seekers from around the world\, the exhibition investigates displaced voices\, creative networks\, transnational communication\, and different modes of talking and listening across cultures.\n\n\n\n\nThe exhibition has been co-created with over fifty young people who have fled war\, violence\, conflict and persecution and yet who continue to offer stories of solidarity and hope. At the heart of the installation are multidirectional ultrasonic speakers that are positioned to create a network of intersecting telephone messages. As visitors move around the gallery\, they tap into stories of home and belonging\, landscape and loss\, and communication and connection. In turn\, visitors are invited to shape new ways of thinking about sanctuary by contributing their own voice notes as part of our evolving telephonic soundscape.\n\nVoice Notes has been co-created with over 50 young refugees and asylum seekers living the UK and in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The exhibition is curated by poet Dr Sarah Jackson (Nottingham Trent University) in collaboration with acclaimed sound artist and founder of the Space21 international festival Hardi Kurda\, and refugee arts organisation Compass Collective.\n\nThe project is supported by international partners\, including New Art Exchange\, Counterpoints Arts\, Refugee Roots\, Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature\, Slemani UNESCO Cities of Literature and STEP. It is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.\n\nDr Sarah Jackson is Associate Professor in Modern and Contemporary Writing. She teaches on the BA English\, BA Creative Writing\, MA Creative Writing and MRes English Literary Research programmes\, and supervises PhD students working in contemporary literature and creative writing. An award-winning poet and academic\, Sarah publishes widely on 20th and 21st century literature\, literary theory and creative-critical ecologies.\n\nPart of the exhibition curated by Counterpoints Arts\, with the support of Yorkton Workshops.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/voice-notes-by-compass-collective-and-nottingham-trent-university/
LOCATION:Yorkton Workshops\, 1-3 Yorkton St\, London\, London\, E2 8NH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Audio,London Refugee Week
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SUMMARY:BAFTA Short Film Screenings + Q&A
DESCRIPTION:Join us at BAFTA for a special Refugee Week evening of short films followed by a panel + Q&A with the filmmakers. Delivered in collaboration with Counterpoints Arts\, this special event will be followed by an opportunity to network with refugee and asylum seeker creatives and filmmakers. \n\n\n\nThis year\, Counterpoints Arts and Other Cinemas – two organisations who work across intersections of racial justice and migration – have collaborated on a film programme taking place during Refugee Week: June 17th-23rd. \nThe programme\, curated by Other Cinemas\, consists of 3 feature films and 6 short films. \nThese films can be watched across the UK for free; either at home or used for a community screening! No need to get rights or licensing\, they have been arranged for the duration of Refugee Week. They will be available to be screened anywhere in the UK for free! \nIf you would like to gain access to these films to put on a screening or watch the films yourself- please go to www.refugeeweek.org.uk or go to the Refugee Week Instagram page\, to find a Google Form that you can fill out to gain access. \n\n\nLITTLE PYONGYANG by Roxy Rezvany \nWith exclusive access to one of the world’s largest community on North Korean defectors\, this is a tale of one North Korean’s struggle to leave behind the homeland. Joong-wha Choi\, a former soldier in the DPRK\, lives today with his wife and kids in a sleepy London suburb.  Despite enjoying the new found comforts of his British life\, and being emancipated from the pressures of the North Korean state\, his dilemma lies in a desire to return to the land that betrayed him\, but is undoubtedly his true home. \nMOTHERLAND by Ellen Evan \nMotherland speaks to the experiences of the Windrush generation and subsequent generations of Jamaicans navigating the landscape of the UK’s hostile environment. \nA SWING IN ATAYFIYAH by Bediah \nA Swing in Atayfiyah dwells in the memory of homes and friendships left behind in Iraq\, the irrecoverable sense of belonging\, and the dissonance of diaspora. \nI CARRY IT WITH ME EVERYWHERE by Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah \nI Carry It With Me Everywhere draws a line across multiple temporalities and registers of immigrant life\, uniting three different stories of migration in Northwest London through a shared condition of fragmentation. \nHosted by Counterpoints Arts producer Laith Elzubaidi. \n  \nBOOKING LINK HERE.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/bafta-short-film-screenings-qa/
LOCATION:BAFTA\, 195 Piccadilly\, St. James's\, London\, W1J 9LN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Film and Photography,London Refugee Week
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SUMMARY:Hope as Discipline: Ritualising Collective Liberation
DESCRIPTION:How do we hold onto hope in dark times? Join us as we gather with Dr Aditi Jaganathan to moor ourselves in possibilities of hope as we organise for collective liberation\n  \nAs babylon crumbles; its architectures of oppression fall\, in Gaza\, in Haiti\, in Sudan\, in the Congo\, in the heart of empire. In this brokenness\,  spirit speaks; spirit calls on us to reach into otherwise possibilities\, otherwise ways of being in the fold of our collective being. \nWe gather as an offering of refusal\, refusing the structures which refuse our complex personhood\, refusing the suppression of rhythms of liberation. Leaning into this spirit of refusal we figure out ways to relinquish control and lean into our shared vulnerability; to orbit around ways of being moored in possibilities of hope. It is in the matter of being together\, as ritual\, that our tethering to hope as possibility emerges.  \nThis event invites organisers\, cultural workers\, creatives as well as dreamers and schemers who are affected by the passing of the Rwanda Bill and are organising in the wake of ongoing violence\, whether that be in the UK or beyond. We hope that by gathering we can thread together our interconnected struggles and hold space to resource ourselves through ritual and by centering our collective liberation. \n  \nDr Aditi Jaganathan is a thinker and creator\, writer and dreamer. \nHaving worked at the intersections of law\, culture and politics in various capacities\, Aditi is motivated by a politics of refusal\, living in rupture as rapture; turning away from hegemonic worlds of oppression and tuning into something different\, beyond the world we live in and moving to the rhythms of an elsewhere. It is this compulsion which guides her pedagogy in the education work she does. Riffing off education for liberation\, she creates spaces of  (un)learning as a site of radical praxis\, using tools of music\, film and visual culture\, to unpack the ways in which ideologies of oppression and liberation travel through cultural production. She teaches her own course\, Rhythm\, Race\, Revolution as well as courses at different London-based academic institutions. \nWith a particular interest in creativity as decolonial praxis\, she situates the imagination as a radical site of refusal and resistance. Her research work examines the different ways in which Black and Brown cultural production has activated autonomous modes of meaning-making and self-determination in London\, through contesting racialised norms and (re)imagining racialised postcolonial subjectivities. And it is through an ethic of jazz that Aditi curates this work. \nReserve your free spot for this session here. \nImage Credits © Carmel King
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/hope-as-discipline-ritualising-collective-liberation/
LOCATION:Yorkton Workshops\, 1-3 Yorkton St\, London\, London\, E2 8NH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,London Refugee Week,Mental Health
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SUMMARY:Love letters to home by zafeerah heesambee
DESCRIPTION:When Community is Home. What does this mean to you\, and where do you find your sense of home?\nJoin us for ‘Love Letters Home\,’ a lino printing workshop hosted by artist Zafeerah Heesambee in collaboration with Muslim Sisterhood\, in celebration of UK Refugee Week on Tuesday\, June 18th 2024. Connect with others as you learn the art of lino printing and create your own pieces inspired by this year’s theme. Your creations will be featured in a collective zine\, showcasing the talents of the Muslim Sisterhood network and the Yorkton Programme community\, as part of UK Refugee Week 2024. \nTickets for this workshop is free\, but capacity is limited so grab a space while you can! \nReserve your free spot for this session here. \nWe are fundraising for Palestine and Sudan\, and would appreciate £5 donations to support medical teams on the ground. Any donations from this workshop will go towards Medical Aid Palestine and Sudan Relief Fund.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/love-letters-to-home-by-zafeerah-heesambee/
LOCATION:Yorkton Workshops\, 1-3 Yorkton St\, London\, London\, E2 8NH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,London Refugee Week
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SUMMARY:Cyanotypes - archives and markings of home by Tasnim Mahdy
DESCRIPTION:This workshop explores the Juliana Anicia Codex through cyanotype printing. Participants will reflect on personal connections to home and migration\, making visible the intangible marks of their histories.\nJoin us for a workshop where we will delve into the Juliana Anicia Codex\, an ancient manuscript featuring important Arabic and Persian botanical illustrations\, in collaboration with John Hunnex. We’ll start with a discussion on the cultural significance of the Codex\, focusing on how naming practices reflect identity and migration. What was left out of the archive. Participants will then get hands-on with cyanotype printing\, a photographic technique that uses sunlight to create distinct blue-toned prints. They will incorporate botanical elements and personal symbols to create prints that tell their own stories – mythology\, and connections to home. The workshop will highlight the idea of mark-making\, where the fleeting and invisible aspects of personal histories are made tangible. Participants will actively create artworks that reveal unseen narratives\, transforming intangible experiences into visible forms. This process not only encourages personal reflection but also fosters a shared space for community storytelling and cultural expression. \nThis workshop is part of an on-going research collaboration between Tasnim Mahdy\, John Hunnex and Hanouf Al-Alawi\, centred on The Codex Vindobonenis. \nThis is a free workshop. \nImage credit: Tasnim Mahdy.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/cyanotypes-archives-and-markings-of-home-by-tasnim-mahdy/
LOCATION:Yorkton Workshops\, 1-3 Yorkton St\, London\, London\, E2 8NH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,London Refugee Week
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SUMMARY:In The Mix
DESCRIPTION:‘Laughter is the brightest in the place where the food is’ – Irish proverb. Come and join us for an evening of Eritrean\, Sudanese and Yemeni food to celebrate London Refugee Week. \n“One day I will cook for you”. A phrase many Refugees and Asylum Seekers have said over the years\, as they live in limbo\, with no access to proper kitchen facilities. The IN THE MIX project was a direct response to this phrase and it was surprising how easy and quickly it came together. Working in collaboration with Granville Community Kitchen\, we set up a Supper and Social club for people who live in and around the South Kilburn Estate. We are now expanding our wings\, sharing our food\, and encouraging people to join us. \nA community based project devised by artist Matilda Velevitch where refugees cook their favourite dishes and invite local residents to come for a group dinner each week. \nTickets can be bought HERE! \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/in-the-mix/
LOCATION:Yorkton Workshops\, 1-3 Yorkton St\, London\, London\, E2 8NH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation
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SUMMARY:Greengross Global Arts 4 Brain Health Change Makers REFUGEE Conversation
DESCRIPTION:There are 110 million people around the world who have been forcibly displaced as a result of persecution\, conflict\, violence\, human rights violations or events seriously disturbing public order\, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Of these\, 6.1 million are asylum seekers (having applied for asylum awaiting decision as to whether they will be granted refugee status) and 36.4 million are living as refugees. Some 404\,000 refugees returned to their countries of origin during the first half of 2023 while 59\,500 were resettled. From the war in Ukraine to ongoing conflict in Syria\, the Middle East\, to climate shocks and economic turmoil in East Africa and Latin America—global instability is increasing. \nTo address the trauma of displacement\, torture\, prevent retraumatisation on entry into even a safe but strange new country\, a remarkable range of organisations offer care and rehabilitative support. Working in temporary hotel accommodation\, day centres\, detention camps\, and with trauma-informed training\, artists and arts therapists are encouraging refugees to connect\, express themselves through participatory arts so as to preserve their heritage and gradually rebuild their brain health and a new sense of belonging. \nWho for? \nIf you are involved with arts practice for refugees\, or if you teach\, study or work in the fields neuroscience\, psychology\, psychiatry involving arts to preserve brain health\, and social prescribing to enable people to access inspirational cultural and creative opportunities to preserve their brain health\, identity and confidence among their new communities. \nA G E N D A (Online: 14.00 – 16.30 BST) \nHOST: Veronica Franklin Gould\, President\, Arts 4 Dementia. \nCHAIR : Alexandra Coulter\, Director\, National Centre for Creative Health. \nChristopher Bailey\, Arts and Health Lead\, World Health Organisation. \nProfessor Cornelius Katona Medical and Research Director of the Helen Bamber Foundation. Royal College of Psychiatrists lead on Refugee and Asylum Mental Health. \nAlmir Koldzic\, Director and Co-Founder\, Counterpoints Arts ‘Creatively Minded and Refugees’ \nPANEL Chair: Professor Cornelius Katona \n\nDaniela Nofal\, Counterpoints Arts – Network\nBobby Lloyd\, Art Refuge\, Community Table\nSheila Hayman\, Freedom from Torture\, ‘Write to Life’\n\nPANEL Chair: Professor Rachel Tribe\, Professor of Applied Psychology at the University of East London \n\nSara Green\, Founder & Executive Director\, Art for Refugees in Transition\, New York.\nDr Hanan Khalil\, Associate Professor of Neurological Rehabilitation at Qatar University. Physical therapy for refugees in Qatar\nLis Murphy\, Creative Director and Ramsey Janini\, Creative Producer\, Music Action International\, Crisis Choirs led by refugee musicians for new arrivals at drop-in centres.\n\nPANEL Chair: Professor Rachel Tribe\, Professor of Applied Psychology at the University of East London \n\nJohanne Hudson-Lett\, Artistic Director\, Hear Me Out\n\n\nPhoebe Shaw\, Communities Programme Manager\, Untold Stories Project\, Artcore\, Derby.\n\n\nKunle Adewale\, Creative technology for refugees in Bosnia\, Ireland and Sheffield\n\nPROJEKT EUROPA Chair: Alexandra Coulter\, Director\, National Centre for Creative Health \n\nMaria Aberg\, Artistic Director\, Projekt Europa.\nProjekt Encounter: Dr Angeliki Varakis-Martin\, Lecturer in Drama and Theatre\, University of Kent\nProjekt Encounter: Dr Francisca Stangel and Tom Tegento\, drama for refugees workshop facilitators.\n\nRSVP your free place to attend here.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/greengross-global-arts-4-brain-health-change-makers-refugee-conversation/
CATEGORIES:Learning,Mental Health
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SUMMARY:Voice Notes Exhibition London Launch: Free Workshop & Live Performance
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with Counterpoints Arts\, Voice Notes will be exhibited at Yorkton Workshops in Hoxton from 17 – 22 June. \nWorkshop: \nOn Thursday 20 June we will be hosting a free workshop for 2pm – 4pm to celebrate refugee voices from around the world! \nSign up to Voice Notes Creative Writing Workshop here. \nLaunch event \nLater in the evening\, we invite you to the London launch event of Voice notes with live performances on Thursday 20th June 7-9pm to celebrate refugee voices from around the world. \nWith a special welcome from project lead\, Sarah Jackson\, and live performances from Compass young people\, come and meet the team\, enjoy some refreshments and immersive yourself in the sound experience. Open to all 16+.  \nSign up to the launch event for free here. \nAbout Voice Notes \nVoice Notes is an international art project exploring the role of the telephone in experiences of exile. Featuring recorded phone calls left by young refugees and asylum seekers from around the world\, the exhibition investigates displaced voices\, creative networks\, transnational communication\, and different modes of talking and listening across cultures. \nThis exhibition has been co-created with young people who have fled war\, violence\, conflict and persecution and yet who continue to offer stories of solidarity and hope. At the heart of the installation are multidirectional ultrasonic speakers that are positioned to create a network of intersecting telephone messages. As visitors move around the gallery\, they tap into stories of home and belonging\, landscape and loss\, and communication and connection. In turn\, visitors are invited to shape new ways of thinking about sanctuary by contributing their own voice notes as part of our evolving telephonic soundscape. \nVoice Notes is funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council. Led by Nottingham Trent University\, the project is produced in collaboration with Compass Collective\, Counterpoints Arts\, Hardi Kurda\, New Art Exchange\, Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature\, Refugee Roots\, Slemani UNESCO City of Literature and STEP. \nReserve your free spot for this session here. \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/voice-notes-exhibition-london-launch/
LOCATION:Yorkton Workshops\, 1-3 Yorkton St\, London\, London\, E2 8NH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,London Refugee Week
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SUMMARY:Our Home: Voices from Afghanistan by Magdalena Moursy in collaboration with Ariana Abawe
DESCRIPTION:For Refugee Week 2024\, join Magdalena Moursy and Ariana Abawe at Libreria Bookshop for a special showcase of Voices from Afghanistan – an audio feature that shares different stories from Afghans around the world. \nIn response to Refugee Week’s theme this year ‘Our Home’\, we invite you to sit for a collective listening session that fosters a deeper connection to the Afghan experience with live performances of Afghan Rubab music and poetry. And experience some Afghan hospitality with tea and snacks provided by Ariana’s mother who runs Kulcha Kafe. \nListen to the personal stories of four women – a judge\, a yoga activist\, a fashion activist\, an artist – and a man who is a refugee rights campaigner\, as they reflect on their lives under the Taliban regime\, their experiences of displacement\, and their hopes and fears for the future of their homeland. \nAs we approach 3 years on since the Taliban re-occupied Afghanistan in August 2021\, it feels to many Afghans that the world has turned their backs and gone silent. This event offers an opportunity to gain a deeper and more personal understanding of the complex realities faced by Afghans throughout their lives and today. \nJoin us in support of the Afghan community who continue to show resilience and courage\, hoping and working for a better future for their home\, Afghanistan. Voices from Afghanistan was produced and edited by Magdalena Moursy\, in collaboration with British-Afghan journalist Ariana Abawe\, who supported as research and cultural consultant. This project has been funded by Arts Council England. \nFree event. \nImage credit: the artists.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/our-home-voices-from-afghanistan-by-magdalena-moursy-in-collaboration-with-ariana-abawe/
LOCATION:Libreria Bookshop\, 65 Hanbury Street\, London\, E1 5JL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Audio,London Refugee Week
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SUMMARY:The R.A.P. Party @The London Library: Refugee Week
DESCRIPTION:For Refugee Week\, poet and playwright Inua Ellams brings his exhilarating live literature phenomenon\, the R.A.P Party\, back to The London Library for a nostalgic\, no-clutter\, no-fuss\, evening of music and words. We’re bringing you a line-up of poets from across a spectrum of refugee and migrant backgrounds to explore the theme of Refugee Week 2024: ‘Our Home’. And we’ll be playing tunes of their choice to to get you on your feet. Our line-up includes: Ammar Haj Ahmad\, Elmi Ali\, Natalie Linh Bolderston\, Inua Ellams\, Yanita Georgieva\, Sophie Herxheimer\, Adam Kammerling\, Amaal Said\, George Szirtes and more TBC. \nTen writers + a DJ = the best night out you’ll ever have in a library – or anywhere\, for that matter. \n‘A truly fluid literary event not just mingling poetry and music together seamlessly\, but also bringing different tribes of poets: ages\, races\, gender\, styles together. You will be moved in your heart and in your head.’— Roger Robinson \nAmmar Haj Ahmad is an award-winning Syrian-British actor\, dramaturg\, playwright\, poet\, facilitator and director who is currently the Associate Artistic Director at Good Chance. He trained at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus and his directing work includes the closing ceremony for Paris Peace Forum 2023\, The Jungle stage reading in DasDas\, Istanbul and LonDon Quixote and Longing\, both at The Space Theatre\, London.  \nElmi Ali is a writer and performer. He writes poetry\, short fiction and drama. His performances have been received in venues across the country including Westminster\, The Southbank Centre and Contact Manchester. His work has appeared in publications such as the Poetry Review and Scarf Magazine. \nNatalie Linh Bolderston is a Vietnamese-Chinese-British poet. In 2020\, she received an Eric Gregory Award and co-won the Rebecca Swift Women Poets’ Prize. Her poem ‘Middle Name with Diacritics’ was shortlisted for the 2021 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Her pamphlet\, The Protection of Ghosts\, was published by V. Press in 2019. She is now working on her first full-length collection. \nInua Ellams is a Nigerian-born\, UK-based poet\, playwright and performer who has written for the Royal Shakespeare Company\, the National Theatre and the BBC. His latest play was an adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters set in Nigeria\, staged at the National Theatre. The Actual\, his fifth poetry release and first full collection\, was published in 2020 by Penned in the Margins.  \nYanita Georgieva is a poet and journalist. She was born in Bulgaria\, raised in Lebanon\, and currently lives in England. She is a recipient of the Out-Spoken Prize for Page Poetry and a member of the Southbank New Poets Collective and the London Library Emerging Writers. Her debut pamphlet\, Small Undetectable Thefts\, is out now with Broken Sleep.  \nSophie Herxheimer is an artist and poet. Her work has been shown at Tate Modern\, the Thames festival\, the sea-front at Margate and Mrs Beeton’s grave. Her collection Velkom to Inklandt was Poetry Book of the Month in the Observer\, and a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Her book 60 Lovers to Make and Do\, was a TLS Book of the Year and her latest collection is INDEX\, a box of 78 collage poems\, published as a deck of prophetic cards.   \nAdam Kammerling is an award winning poet\, interdisciplinary artist and educator. His most recent works include Seder\, his debut poetry collection\, which was a finalist in the National Jewish Book Awards\, Shall We Take This Outside\, a three-person spoken-word/dance theatre piece that toured nationally\, and Inside!\, a piece of poetry/rave theatre commissioned by Centrepoint and the Saatchi Gallery. \nAmaal Said is a Danish-born Somali photographer and poet. Her photographs have been featured in Vogue\, The Guardian and The New Yorker. She won Wasafiri Magazine’s New Writing Prize for poetry in 2015. In 2018\, her photography was featured in the fourth volume of African Lens and was exhibited in Accra\, Ghana. She is a member of Octavia\, poetry collective for womxn of colour and a former Barbican Young Poet. \nGeorge Szirtes was born in Hungary\, came to England as a refugee and trained as an artist. His twelfth book of poems\, Reel (2004) won the TS Eliot Prize for which he has been twice shortlisted since. His latest is Fresh Out of the Sky (2021). His memoir The Photographer at Sixteen was awarded the James Tait Black Prize in 2020. He is a co-winner of the International Booker translator’s prize\, as well as of numerous others. \nProduced in collaboration with London Library. \nSupported using funding from Fondation Jan Michalski.  \nBooks by the artists will be available to purchase at the event and online through London Library’s partner bookshop Hatchards. \nNB This event will take place in person at The London Library. Please see the Event Access Guidelines before you arrive. Doors (and the bar) open at 6.30pm for a 7.00pm start.  \nLondon Library events are subject to Terms and Conditions. \nBook HERE. Standard ticket £10. For under 30s/underwaged £8. \nImage credit: London Library.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/the-r-a-p-party-the-london-library-refugee-week/
LOCATION:London Library\, 14 St James’s Square\, London SW1Y 4LG
CATEGORIES:London Refugee Week
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SUMMARY:No Direction Home on tour!
DESCRIPTION:Our stand-up comedy collective are heading off around the country to bring their unique brand of humour to three different venues for Refugee Week. \n21 June – Merlin Theatre\, Frome \nFeaturing Selam Amare\, Pepa Duarte and Usman Khalid\, hosted by Roann Hassani McCloskey. \n22 June HOME\, Manchester \nFeaturing Selam Amare and Teddy with guest headliner Tadiwa Mahlunge\, hosted by Yasmeen Ghrawi \n23 June in Peterborough \nFatiha El-Ghorri\, Selam Amare and Teddy\, hosted by Yasmeen Ghrawi. \nProduced by Counterpoints Arts\, No Direction Home have performed more than 25 gigs across the country and currently have a monthly residency at Soho Theatre in London. \nNish Kumar says: “The No Direction Home comedians are a very exciting\, interesting and creative bunch of people to be around. And they are very funny\, the material is really good.” \n‘A memorable comedy night… Underlines how vital comedy is’ ★★★★ Standard
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/no-direction-home-on-tour/
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:Sounds Like Home Choir performance
DESCRIPTION:Free event – no booking required. \nJoin the Migration Museum and the Sounds Like Home Choir for a special Refugee Week event\, featuring an international women’s choir sharing songs from the places we call home. \nEnjoy a free performance\, including songs in Yoruba\, Turkish\, Spanish\, Zulu and English. \nSounds Like Home is a community choir project for women living in Hackney. They consist of women of all backgrounds\, ages\, and abilities\, exploring the origins\, language\, and musical genres of the songs that have shaped who they are and where they’re from. Sounds Like Home is supported by Counterpoints. \nFull details here.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/sounds-like-home-choir-performance/
LOCATION:Migration Museum\, Lewisham Shopping Centre\, London\, SE13 7HB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:London Refugee Week,Music
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SUMMARY:Threading layers of Home by Kim Chin
DESCRIPTION:Artist Kim Chin invites us into a reflective setting\, to inspire a clearer understanding and vision of what “community” means to us. We do this by ‘visiting’ layers of ancestral\, environmental and embodied home. \nWe will explore rituals\, sharing readings and exchange thoughts while the group embroiders and collages onto fabric. \nThe intention of the workshop is to initiate a restorative sense of grounding and belonging. Through collective making we will activate a space of multi-vocal wisdom and hope that can be threaded into our daily lives after the event. \nWe will also share grounding and aftercare resources. \nNOTE: We will be sharing reflections and our knowledge. Bring readings\, definitions and objects to share with the group\, on what “home” and community mean to you. \nMaterials and refreshments will be provided. \nFree workshop. Sing up HERE! \nImage credit: Kim Chin. \nAbout the Artist: \nKim Chin (she\, they) is an artist and community mobiliser. Through creative learning and social engagement practices\, Kim amplifies transnational and intersectional East and Southeast Asian narratives as part of\, and in relation to\, wider British narratives. \n\n\n\n\n\nKim co-founded ESEA unseen with Sue Man in 2023 – an art-making\, curating\, and cultural producing duo who leverage textiles\, hospitality\, dialogue\, and neurodiverse adaptations to transform unawareness & trauma into a site for connection and collective agency. \nProjects have been showcased in collaboration with various art\, cultural\, and community advocacy organisations in England and the Philippines. \n\nProject Credit x Paradise Row\, a hybrid event cohosted in England | Germany | Trinidad | Cayman Islands\, Fondation Gallery\, Philippines\, and in London; Migration Museum\, Coin Street Community Builders\, Camden Chinese Community Centre\, Kakilang Arts\, Greenpeace\, Southbank\, and the Museum of the Home.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/threading-layers-of-home-by-kim-chin/
LOCATION:Yorkton Workshops\, 1-3 Yorkton St\, London\, London\, E2 8NH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,London Refugee Week,Mental Health
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SUMMARY:Didi and Gogo are Waiting
DESCRIPTION:To mark London Refugee Week\, join us at the Yorkton Workshops for Zhvan Theatre’s unique performance of ‘Didi and Gogo are Waiting’. The production  uses the idea of a pair of refugees starting to perform the famous Samuel Beckett’s  play ‘Waiting for Godot’\, but then allowing their own experiences to take over\, perhaps allowing them to discover who Godot really is! With one member of the cast suddenly sent to the Bibby Stockholm\, the rehearsal process has had its struggles\, but a combination of rehearsing by phone\, plus a couple of trips to Dorset\, they  have kept things moving  to present to you their riveting production. \nAbout Zhvan Theatre and the play: \nIn February 2022\, Chris Walters began teaching a weekly Drama class for asylum-seekers living at the Holiday Inn in Wembley\, as well as two neighbouring hotels.  From this\, a theatre company was formed\, called Zhvan Theatre Company (zhvan is a Kurdish word\, meaning beautiful.) Since then\, they have presented three productions: a low-key performance in the hotel of two folk tales;  ‘No Waiting’\, a play combining comic sketches about the experience of waiting\, alongside scenes which described the life of the asylum-seeker. This production was  presented at the Beck Theatre in Hayes\, as well as Kensal Rise library. They also performed ‘Journeys’\, a play about the different experiences of three different people seeking asylum in England\, based on their own experiences\, at the Migrant Connections festival in Streatham.  \nThe Drama classes at the Holiday Inn always depended upon who would turn up.  Sometimes\, there was a mere handful\, sometimes twenty or more.  Sometimes there would be people who were fluent in English\, sometimes there were people with none\, most often it was a mixture of the two. It was impossible to know in advance who would be there\, so it did require a certain nimbleness. \nGradually\, however\, a core group became regulars\, and at least it was possible to explore ideas for theatre.  By the time of ‘No Waiting’ in 2023\, Zhvn Theatre  had a solid core of about a dozen performers.  But the life of the asylum-seeker is random and chaotic\, and shortly after that various members left to be relocated\, to begin college courses\, to get on with their lives which was always the hope and aspiration. \nBut with numbers low\, Walters started to look at scenes from ‘Waiting For Godot’\, a play that seemed particularly relevant to the experience of the asylum-seeker: waiting from day to day\, each one much the same as the one before\, with no clear idea as to when it might end\, just a vague hope. \nA production of the whole play would never be viable. Apart from anything else\, the actors had English as a second language\, so the task had to be made manageable.  But they also started to see other possibilities\, to have the performers comment on the action\, to introduce aspects of physical theatre. Then they can possibly unlock the mystery of who Godot actually was. \nThis event is also made possible with the support of Care4Calais where Chris Walters also volunteers. \nImage Credit: Zhvan Theatre
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/didi-and-gogo-are-waiting/
LOCATION:Yorkton Workshops\, 1-3 Yorkton St\, London\, London\, E2 8NH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:London Refugee Week,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Bosla Arts' Open-Mic Night: Solidarity Sessions
DESCRIPTION:Come and join Bosla Arts for an evening of music\, poetry\, and more based on the theme of solidarity to celebrate London Refugee Week. Open to all! They want to hear a song\, poem\, spoken word\, stand up comedy\, or anything else the audience feels like sharing. And if the audience just wants to listen that’s fine too! \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. \nBook your tickets HERE. \nImage credit: Paul Gilbey \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/bosla-arts-open-mic-night-solidarity-sessions/
LOCATION:Yorkton Workshops\, 1-3 Yorkton St\, London\, London\, E2 8NH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Literature & Spoken Word,London Refugee Week,Music,Performance & Dance
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SUMMARY:Flying Kites for Palestine by Zafeerah Hessambee and Kites in Solidarity
DESCRIPTION:Kites for Palestine – A global kite-flying day in solidarity with the children of Gaza. Gazan children broke the world record for the most kites flown simultaneously across the Gaza strip in 2011\, with over 12\,000 kites flown. \nOn Saturday 22nd June we will join the global movement from London to fly kites for Palestine. This will be a two- part day. In the morning\, we will host a workshop with a community group/ individuals creating kites (25 participants). This will be facilitated by Zafeerah and volunteers from KIS. Then\, in the afternoon\, we will congregate in the local park (location TBC) and fly kites collectively. We will have a short welcome\, thank you and poetry reading of Reefat Alareer’s poem ‘You must live to tell my story’ before flying kites with the public. \nInfo on how to join TBA. \nZafeerah is a Creative Producer\, Visual Artist\, and founder of Paintbrush&Co. After graduating with a BA in Law\, she has gone on to work with leading organisations to produce cultural projects\, public art and work with communities across the UK. Using her multi-disciplinary art practice\, Zafeerah developed Pb&Co to curate creative spaces that centre and celebrate the global majority. Zafeerah’s art explores themes of love\, grief and community through fine art and digital mediums. In her current developing project ‘All the things we have loved’\, she combines illustration\, lino printing and ceramics as a method of archiving and storytelling memories and joy. Previously\, her work from the project ‘Searching for you\, searching for me’ has been published and exhibited on billboards nationwide. \nKites in Solidarity is a grassroots movement of volunteers which was founded in 2023 in response to the ongoing siege of Gaza. The movement was inspired by the 2011 world record for the most kites flown simultaneously\, which was achieved by children of the Gaza Strip.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/flying-kites-for-palestine-by-zafeerah-hessambee-and-kites-in-solidarity/
LOCATION:Yorkton Workshops\, 1-3 Yorkton St\, London\, London\, E2 8NH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,London Refugee Week
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SUMMARY:Constellations of Care: a new commission by Amanda Camenisch and Therese Westin
DESCRIPTION:This Refugee Week we celebrate the launch of Constellations of Care\, a new commission by artists Amanda Camenisch and Therese Westin\n  \nJoin us for the launch of Constellations of Care\, a new project developed by artists Amanda Camenisch and Therese Westin. \nThis two-part commission\, hosted at the Victoria & Albert Museum\, brings together a sound meditation and performance\, shining a light on the healing capacities of sound and movement. \n  \nSound Meditation \n11:30 | Raphael Gallery \nSound\, music and singing are some of the oldest ways of building community\, gathering to worship and connect with each other and the divine. \nCome along for a late morning sound meditation performed by Dotty Fernandez\, Florence Musa\, Freida C. McNeil\, Priyanka G Geriya\, Sharon and Sungyeon Kim\, who will be using 4 bespoke elemental sound sculptures. \nThe various sound sculptures built by Amanda Camenisch and Therese Westin are ceremonial and alchemical objects. They relate to different elements; Air\, Water\, Earth and Aether\, created with the intention to function as portals\, gates and activators\, to produce cleansing and uplifting frequencies. Some of the sculptures use long notes and extended reverberation times that create overtones\, building on a tradition of reverberation and echo as key sonic components for sounding in sacred spaces. \n  \nPerformance \n13:00 | Medieval Renaissance 50A \nJoin us in the afternoon for a movement-based performance\, where 16 performers come together to form intricate patterns symbolizing care\, nurture\, and love. Through a series of gestural movements\, they communicate in a language that opens empathic channels\, revealing layers of physical and emotional strength\, resilience\, lineage\, and faith. \nThe performance unfolds through a blend of structured games\, improvisation\, and rehearsed sequences. Known hymns intertwine with vocal improvisations\, harmonizing in a celebration of unity and worship. Movement and songs become vessels for communication. \nExploring the depths of the human experience\, the performers delve into the nurturing\, caring aspects of their being\, unravelling what is stored within their bodies. Boundaries blur as bodies transform into entire landscapes\, symbolising the interconnectedness of humanity and the shared experiences that bind us together. \nThe piece echoes the verse “our citizenship is in heaven” (Philippians 3:20)\, inviting contemplation on our divine connection and unity beyond earthly boundaries. \nConceived by Amanda Camenisch and Therese Westin. Performed and directed by: Abimbola\, Dotty\, Elizabeth Addoi\, Florence Musa\, Freida C. McNeil\, Funmilda Olojo\, Grace Ade\, Grace Owolabi\, Jemilat\, Kristina\, Ladun Mary Oguntoyinbo\, Leo\, Ms Jumoke\, Margaret\, Nada Alharbi\, Ola Fagbemi\, Pham B Long\, Priyanka G Geriya\, Sharon\, Sungyeon Kim\, Vanessa Mirza\, Zara.  \n  \nAbout the Project \nThis sound meditation is the continuation of an ongoing participatory project with migrants and refugees meeting regularly to explore movement and sound together. Their most recent project titled Lyra was supported by Arts Council England\, SPACE Ilford and the Community Engagement Fund. In its entirety Lyra contained an installation\, sounds sculptures\, radio programs\, workshops\, a vinyl record\, a performance project and mentorship program. Lyra explored themes around the notion of the home as a cloud\, through collective sound exploration and sculptural work over a period of 14 months. \n  \nAbout the Artists \nWorking with sound\, textiles\, sculpture and poetry as art-making and healing practices\, Amanda and Therese develop collaborative projects that centre the experiences of its participants through a trauma-informed approach. Focusing on facilitating holistic spaces and experiences that become conduits for artistic expression\, the artists tend to both individual and collective needs in the process of developing projects and creating artworks with various private and public outcomes. \nSome of the performers are people with whom Amanda and Therese have worked with for several years\, some have joined the project just a few months ago. The foundation for the collective creative process has been a deep appreciation for music and sound\, movement\, and conversations around faith and belonging. The voices and stories\, poems and songs of Abimbola\, Clara Soyinka\, Dotty\, Elizabeth Addoi\, Florence Musa\, Freida C. McNeil\, Funmilda Olojo\, Grace Ade\, Grace Owolabi\, Jani\, Ladun Mary Oguntoyinbo\, Leo\, Ms Jumoke\, Margaret\, Pham B Long\, Priyanka G Geriya\, Sharon\, Sungyeon Kim\, Vanessa Mirza\, Zara featured in a 4 part radio program on Montez Press Radio. \nThe collectively created sound scores and individual solos will be pressed onto a vinyl record that can be purchased later on in the year. \nFind our more about Lyra here.  \n  \nCommissioned as part of London Refugee Week 2024\, produced by Counterpoints Arts in collaboration with the V&A. \n  \nImage credits: Amanda Camenisch & Therese Westin
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/constellations-of-care-a-new-commission-by-amanda-camenisch-and-therese-westin/
LOCATION:V&A\, Cromwell Rd\, London\, SW7 2RL
CATEGORIES:London Refugee Week,Mental Health,Performance & Dance,Refugee Week
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SUMMARY:Refugee Week Walk on The Line
DESCRIPTION:We love this – a guided walk from Three Mills to Cody Dock as part of Refugee Week. \n\n\nAs part of Refugee Week\, The Line team is hosting a guided walk on The Line for refugees\, migrants\, displaced people\, asylum seekers and anyone who wants to show their support and care. The walk is also part of The Great Get Together\, a joint initiative of Refugee Week UK and The Jo Cox Foundation. It is the UK’s annual celebration of everything that unites our communities\, inspired by Jo Cox’s belief that “we have more in common than that which divides us.” The Line is East London’s public art trail that connects Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and The O2\, following the waterways and the line of the Greenwich Meridian. Our mission is to connect communities and inspire individuals through a dynamic outdoor exhibition programme where everyone can explore art\, nature and heritage for free. \nIn the spirit of this\, The Line is inviting you to walk together with family\, friends\, neighbours\, strangers and other groups to celebrate Refugee Week on Saturday 22 June. \nThe walk will start at 2pm at The House Mill. We will introduce The Line\, and do some simple warm-up activities. We will then walk together for 1 hour\, pausing along the route to hear about each artwork. We will finish the walk at about 3.30pm at Cody Dock\, an urban ecology retreat near Canning Town\, where there will be refreshments and a drop-in creative session until 5pm. There will be a badgemaking station for you to draw designs or write a quote and have it pressed into your own badge. \n\n\n\n\nGuidelines\nSafety is our top priority. Please follow these guidelines: \n\nBe kind and look out for one another. You are responsible for your own safety as well as safety of others.\nThis event is a safe and non-judgemental space. We ask that anyone joining supports refugee and migrant rights. Hostile views will not be tolerated.\nStay on designated pathways throughout the route.\nDo not leave or separate from the group without notifying one of the organisers.\nWe do not recommend anyone leaving the walk earlier than stated in the itinerary. Safety in numbers is the priority.\nObserve traffic rules and be cautious of vehicles when walking or crossing the road throughout the walk.\nCarry identification with emergency contact information\n\n\n\n\n\nVisit The Line’s website. \nFollow on Instagram. \nSign up to their newsletter for events and updates.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-walk-on-the-line/
LOCATION:The House Mill  Three Mill Lane London E3 3DU
CATEGORIES:London Refugee Week
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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:A voice departs by Bint Mbareh
DESCRIPTION:For London Refugee Week\, Bint Mbareh will be delivering  a communal vocalising  performance which will incorporate  members of the audience in a non-musical but poetic expression.  \n A Voice Departs makes a choir of whoever is present. The choir does not sing\, it recites\, chants\, yells\, and uses the voice in non-musical ways that are obscured by the politeness and necessities of every day life. The process of turning from an audience into a choir only requires people to use their ears and voices and to be open to the invitations and offers being provided by Bint Mbareh – she might ask the group to split into groups and read different parts of a poem\, she might ask certain members to enact the rhythm of the poem by clapping or otherwise\, she might ask other members to become the echo of another group. The process of using their  voices together makes demystifies the shame and fear that lives in almost all of our voices. \nBint Mbareh is a sound artist focussed on the power of communal vocalising. Her research centres on  Palestinian folklore and its current potential for liberatory narratives\, especially in the two fields of mourning/lamentation music and music used to summon rain and to praise water resources. Bint Mbareh works with Yamen Omer\, a research collaborator. \nFree event. Reserve your spot via Eventbrite here. \nImage credit: Peter Adamik\, Impuls Festival 2022. \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/bint-mbareh-communal-vocalising-performance/
LOCATION:Yorkton Workshops\, 1-3 Yorkton St\, London\, London\, E2 8NH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:London Refugee Week,Mental Health,Performance & Dance
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240623T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240623T140000
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SUMMARY:Kitchen Conversations: Brunch by Sonia Uddin and Olga Macrinici
DESCRIPTION:What makes us feel at home? A taste? Smell? Colour? Sound? What does it mean to be displaced in our own home or land? \nRepresenting the heart of our homes\, the kitchen is a space where some of the most meaningful\, life-changing conversations take place. We want to replicate this experience and create a platform for dialogue between all members of our community: artists\, writers\, organisers\, comrades and friends. \nMany of us will have our stories of home\, migration and displacement related to food and its preparation. Over the past months we’ve been shown Palestinians preparing meals with the ingredients they have to hand whilst under siege\, narrating their culture and heritage\, as acts of both survival and resistance. Weaponising food and using famine as a method of control in occupied territories\, has been historically used by oppressors all over the world. We are witnessing it now in Gaza and Sudan. We want to acknowledge this\, in solidarity and as artists and organisers. \nIn the hope of food bringing folks together in kitchen conversations\, we invite organisers\, comrades and friends to a brunch\, offering a space to meet and find joy in conversation. \nJoin us in the simple act of sharing a meal and bring a dish you’ve made related to home to share together with comrades and to regroup. Register for the event HERE. \nThis is a free event. If you are able to donate\, we would be grateful if you could support the following charities: \nThe Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund via THIS donation link. \nAnd/or \nSudanese charities HERE. \n* As we’re sharing home-made dishes\, please bring a full list of ingredients. Thank you! \n  \nAbout the Artists: \nSonia Uddin is a visual artist with a social\, collaborative\, interdisciplinary practice. Her current research engages with themes around social architecture\, housing activism\, resistance\, migration and the voices that emerge during times of community struggle. Working across film\, performance\, collage and print\, archives and social histories inform a documentary approach to storytelling. She is currently undertaking a commissioned project for Counterpoints Arts that explores: social housing\, activism and migration; through archives\, interviews and storytelling workshops around housing struggle. \n  \nOlga Macrinici is a migrant\, queer and disabled theatre artist from Moldova. They work at the intersection of theatre and social change\, combining performance\, community projects and writing. Olga is currently based in Liverpool\, making interdisciplinary work\, from writing and directing to running workshops with and for the migrant community and performing on the local drag scene.\n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/kitchen-conversations-brunch/
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,London Refugee Week
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240623T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240623T153000
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SUMMARY:Family Workshop: Journeys from Home by Art Refuge
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Refugee Week in this creative workshop inspired by journeys from home. \nJoin Art Refuge artists Aida Silvestri and Bobby Lloyd for a multi-generational art and making workshop at The Community Table. Be inspired by maps from the British Library collection\, as well as your own lived experience of travelling\, routes and journeys\, using postcards to share\, create and connect as a community. \nEveryone is welcome and there is no need to book. \nPresented in partnership with Counterpoints Arts and Art Refuge\, as part of London Refugee Week. \nArt Refuge is a UK based charity that uses art and art therapy to support the mental health and well-being of people displaced due to conflict\, persecution\, poverty and climate emergency\, in the UK and internationally. \nCounterpoints Arts is a national arts organisation working in arts\, migration and cultural change. Counterpoints coordinates the national Refugee Week\, the world’s largest arts & culture festival celebrating the contributions\, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary. \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/family-workshop-journeys-from-home-by-art-refuge/
LOCATION:British Library\, 96 Euston Rd\, London\, London\, NW1 2DB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,London Refugee Week
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240628T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240630T180000
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SUMMARY:Room for Dinner & 3EIB Presents: Room for Us
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with London Festival of Architecture and soon to be opened Palestine House\, Counterpoints’ Room for Dinner reimagines the dinner party.\nFood is often intimately tied to the memories of those who have left their homes due to forced displacement and are challenged with having to forge a new life\, while preserving their culture and connections to their origins. An expanded supper club\, collaborative sewing project and popup store hybrid commissioned by Counterpoints Arts will see 3EIB\, Palestinian artists and Hiba chefs envision a convivial space for the interdisciplinary intermingling of culture and heritage that investigates the roles of host and guest. \nOn the evening of Friday 28 June\, a special dinner cooked by Hiba will be served amidst a collaborative sewing project by Ramallah based Nöl Collective. Guests will engage in a sensorial experience which will reframe and personalise the Palestinian experience of displacement and resistance through the eating of cuisine steeped in history against the backdrop of art\, embroidery\, storytelling and performance with contributions from artist Bint Mbareh\, writer Sarin Hasbun and others. Doors open at 6:30pm and the dinner party will commence at 7pm. \nThis event is part of a weekend-long collaboration with Palestine House and 3EIB – 3EIB Presents: Room for Us. On Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th June\, Palestine House will be open from 12 – 6pm. \nThe free\, drop-in weekend programme presented by 3EIB will feature a Palestinian marketplace with home and lifestyle shop el Bustan\, Palestinian independent fashion brands and Arabic literature from bookshop Maqam. View Nöl Collective’s collaborative sewing project and listen to an accompanying soundtrack born of Palestine’s rich sonic history. Play games from Culture Mocktail and enjoy food and drinks from Hiba and Saffron and Honey. \nJoin us for the following workshops:  \nSunday\, 2-3pm:\nChildren’s Poetry writing with Tasneim Ziyada  \nSaturday and Sunday\, 2-5 pm:\nTatreez workshop facilitated by Susan Al-Safadi. \n——————————————————— \nRoom for Dinner is for anyone who supports the Palestinian cause and presents an opportunity to imagine a microcosm of an inclusive and collective future for humanity. It is part of Counterpoints’ London Refugee Week. \nFriday: All proceeds from ticket sales will go towards supporting Palestine House – backed project of supplying safe\, sterilised water in Gaza. \nBOOK YOUR TICKETS HERE. \nSupported by Choose Love. \nSaturday & Sunday: Free entry. \n \nAbout the Collaborators: \n3EIB is a platform showcasing independent fashion brands from the SWANA region founded by Dania Arafeh\, a Palestinian British curator. @_3eib_ \nCounterpoints is a leading national organisation in the field of arts\, migration and social change. \nHiba is a family-owned and run business which brings London the tastes of Palestine & Lebanon. @hibaexpress \nBint Mbareh is a sound artist focussed on the power of communal vocalising. Her research centres on  Palestinian folklore and its current potential for liberatory narratives\, especially in the two fields of mourning/lamentation music and music used to summon rain and to praise water resources.  @BintMbareh \nSabrin Hasbun is a Palestinian-Italian transnational writer. She has always had to mediate between cultures and every day for her is a journey across borders. @SabrinHasbun \nMaqam is a locally owned independent youth-led specialist bookshop and community space in London. @Maqam \nNöl Collective is a fashion label working with family-run sewing workshops\, artisans\, and women’s cooperatives to produce garments in Palestine. @NolCollective \nSusan Al-Safadi is a writer\, community organiser\, tatreez artist and embroiderer\, and a baker. Susan runs Saffron and Honey Bakery. \nPalestine House is a new dynamic home for art\, advocacy\, thinking\, community and conversation in the heart of London. \nChoose Love does whatever it takes to provide refugees and displaced people with everything from lifesaving search and rescue boats to food and legal advice. @chooselove \nLondon Festival of Architecture is a month-long celebration of architecture and city-making\, taking place every June across London. The Festival’s mission is to open up discussions around architecture\, test new ideas and uncover and promote new talent. @londonfestivalofarchitecture \nRefugee Week is the world’s largest arts & culture festival celebrating the contributions\, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary. @RefugeeWeekUK \nThis event is organised by Dania Arafeh\, Kristine Tan and Dijana Rakovic. \nImage credit: Tomasso Serra. Osama Quashoo and Meskele Sereke Mesgna with the symbolic wooden key at the heart of Palestine House.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/room-for-dinner/
LOCATION:Palestine House\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,London Refugee Week,Multi-Art Form
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240630T170000
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SUMMARY:Home: Short Films Screening + Q&A
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a programme of exceptional short films curated by actress and writer Sarah Agha\, exploring stories of migration and refugee narratives. \nThe Arab Film Club returns to the Southbank Centre this June for a special screening for Refugee Week\, which this year has the central theme of ‘Home’. \nEach title has been written and directed by a refugee filmmaker or draws on real life experience. These films demonstrate the power of cinema and humanise struggle and injustice through art. \nThe screening is followed by a Q&A hosted by Sarah Agha with the filmmakers on stage. \nThis event is part of our London Refugee Week programme\, and Southbank Centre’s summer season You Belong Here\, which explores how we create and foster a sense of belonging in our communities and with our networks and audiences\, have them feel like Southbank Centre is a home away from home. \nPresented in collaboration with Southbank Centre. Part of You Belong Here. \nFor ages 16+ \nBook HERE. Tickets: From £8 (excludes £3.50 booking fee). Concessions 25% (limited availability). \nImage credit: Beneath Our Mother’s Feet
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/home-short-films-screening-qa/
LOCATION:Southbank Centre\, Belvedere Road\, London\, SE1 8XX
CATEGORIES:Film and Photography,London Refugee Week
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240630T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240630T220000
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SUMMARY:From the Lips to the Moon
DESCRIPTION:Immerse yourself in improvised music\, poetry and visuals led by electronic musician Pouya Ehsaei and writer-performer Tara Fatehi\, marking Refugee Week. \n  \nWater comes up. Water comes up. Windows. Water comes up. Water comes up. Nostrils. Water comes up. Ten\, nine\, eight\, seven\, six. CRY. SMASH. Did you close the door? Did you say goodbye? \nFrom the Lips to the Moon is an immersive space playing with the synergies of words\, melodies\, languages and beats. Expect riveting live music\, mind-bending beats\, fierce poetry\, absurd texts\, hypnotic visuals\, and non-stories told in goosebumps and half-familiar languages \nThe performance brings together state of the art experimental electronic music with a fresh and raw sound that puts listeners in an imaginative realm\, with guest musicians\, poets\, VJ and DJ bringing in their unique languages\, stories\, tunes and cutting-edge live visuals. \nPouya Ehsaei is an electronic musician\, composer and sound designer experienced at live performance and composition with acoustic instruments\, spoken-word and performance. \nTara Fatehi is a performer\, performance maker and writer whose work highlights mistranslation\, ambiguity\, disjunction\, playfulness and unfinishedness. \nThis event is part of our London Refugee Week programme and Southbank Centre’s summer season You Belong Here\, which explores how we create and foster a sense of belonging in our communities\, our networks and with our audiences so that everyone feels that the Southbank Centre is a home away from home. \nPresented in collaboration with Southbank Centre. Part of You Belong Here. \nFor ages 16+ \nBook HERE. This performance is pay what you can with the following options: Free\, £8\, £15 (excludes £3.50 booking fee). \nImage credit: Jemima Yong.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/from-the-lips-to-the-moon/
LOCATION:Purcell Room\, Queen Elizabeth Hall\, Southbank Centre\, London SE1 8XX
CATEGORIES:London Refugee Week
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240707T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240729T170000
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SUMMARY:One Song in Medway
DESCRIPTION:One Song is a multiscreen video installation\, by artist Kadir Karababa\, about the power of songs that connect us to our roots. \nIt will be exhibited at the The Halpern Gallery at Nucleus Arts\, Chatham from 6th to 28th July 2024.\nThe official opening of the exhibition is from 3.30-5.30pm on Saturday 6th July\, forming part of the Chatham Carnival celebrations. \nhttps://www.nucleusarts.com/halpern-onesong \nThe work examines how songs are carried across borders and continents and yet remain firmly rooted in the places they were first sung. It asks how migrant communities can\, through the experience of singing\, be transported back to the places they left behind. \nCommissioned by Counterpoints Arts and conceived by artist Kadir Karababa\, it has engaged women from the diverse migrant communities of Medway. \nOne Song in Medway is made possible thanks to public funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England\, and with support from Medway Council and Nucleus Arts. \nParticipants were recruited through a series of community workshops across Medway in May and June 2024.\nAmong those taking part were women from Medway based community groups including Medway African and Caribbean Association\, Medway Adult Education\, Medway Libraries\, Luton Primary School and Medway Interfaith Action.\nWorkshop attendees were invited to sing one song that reminded them of the place they first called home. \nA final group of 12 local migrant and refugee women were then filmed to be part of the installation to be exhibited at Nucleus Arts from 6th July. \nArtist Kadir Karababa says:\n“Folk and traditional songs the world over deal with the same universal themes: love\, life\, death\, loss\, connection to place and the earth. \n“By asking women from migrant communities to share their songs\, the piece seeks to make visible the interconnectedness of us all and how\, despite the surface differences of race\, religion\, language and culture\, we are all ultimately singing the same song.” \nGenevieve Tullberg\, for Nucleus Arts\, says: \n“For over 20 years Nucleus has championed creativity as a tool to enhance people’s lives in Medway. We are thrilled to support One Song in Medway\, an artwork which celebrates diversity and stimulates social inclusion\, health and wellbeing. \n“We are proud to have hosted the final workshops that led to the making of One Song at Nucleus Arts\, and now the installation itself in our Halpern Gallery.” \nAdam Bryan\, Medway Council’s Director of Place\, says: \n“Our Culture and Libraries service is delighted to have worked with Kadir and Counterpoints Arts on a project that has brought so many together to share\, connect and sing. This project has allowed Medway’s diverse migrant communities to express themselves and their experiences through art – giving them the opportunity to feel seen and find connection. We look forward to seeing this fantastic installation at Nucleus Arts.” \nTom Green\, for Counterpoints Arts\, says: \n“We’re an arts organisation that works nationally and internationally and have worked with partners in Kent and Medway a number of times in recent years. \n“Kadir’s project gets right to the heart of our interest in connecting people across communities through the arts\, finding the things in common about migration and displacement that can inspire and move us all.” \nAbout the Artist \nKadir’s practice mixes socio-political engagement and personal exploration\, delving into the complexities of identity\, individual and collective memory. He draws inspiration from his lived experience\, as well as from broader cultural and historical contexts. \nThrough a diverse range of mediums including sculpture\, painting\, printmaking\, audio-visual work\, and installation\, he wants to make multi-dimensional work which is unashamedly sentimental and provokes reflection.\nHe is influenced by his multicultural background\, as he was born in London in 1985 and has mixed Turkish\, English\, and Cypriot heritage. Kadir lives and works in Hackney\, London and draws inspiration from his surroundings\, the diverse communities that shape the city and his own family’s story of migration. \nBy exploring the intersections of his queer\, working class\, migrant identities and broader socio-political issues\, he strives to create art that sparks conversations and invites viewers to bridge the gap between the personal and the universal\, encouraging dialogue and understanding in an increasingly complex world.\nAbout Nucleus Arts \nNucleus Arts is the Award Winning flagship arts organisation founded by the Halpern Charitable Foundation. The Foundation was the brainchild of the late Hilary Halpern whose dream was to promote the Arts in Medway and Kent. Nucleus Arts has become the cultural and creative heart of Kent & Medway since it was founded in 2002\, and focuses on affordability\, accessibility and excellence in the Arts. \nCredits\nOne Song is conceived and created by Kadir Karababa\nkadirkarababa@live.co.uk\nkadirkarababa.com\nwww.instagram.com/kadkarababa \nProducer: Vanessa Stone \nWorkshop Co-facilitator and Vocal Coach: Dani Osoba Producer for Counterpoints Arts: Tom Green \nLighting and Camera: Giorgia Young \nGraphic Design: Salina \nSet Construction: Anchor Signmakers \nGallery Manager\, for Nucleus Arts: Genevieve Tullberg
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/one-song-in-medway/
LOCATION:Nucleus Arts\, 272 High St\, Chatham\, ME4 4BP
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240712T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240712T150000
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SUMMARY:Great Yarmouth networking meet-up
DESCRIPTION:Original Projects and Counterpoints Arts invite you to an informal meet-up to bring together organisations and people working across the arts to support the wellbeing and mental health of refugees / asylum seekers in and around Great Yarmouth. \nCounterpoints will be running the Platforma festival. across the East of England in October 2025 and we are keen to speak with potential partners and discuss possible approaches. Mental health will be the main theme of the programme\, as part of Counterpoints new strand on this subject. \nThe meet-up will run from 12-3 on 12 July\, and you’re welcome to come for only a part of that if you can’t make the whole meeting. \nFood will be available. \nIt will be a chance to hear more from Counterpoints about their work and their plans and for everyone to share their own ideas and aspirations in this context. \nPlease sign up via Eventbrite \nCover image credit: Marcia Chandra – Refugee Week 2022
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/great-yarmouth-networking-meet-up/
LOCATION:PrimeYarc\, Market Gates\, Great Yarmouth\, NR30 2BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Platforma
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