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SUMMARY:Travelling Tales
DESCRIPTION:Join us this half term during Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival for an exciting afternoon of performance\, literature and spoken word on the Clore Ballroom for primary school aged children. \n‘Queen of the Qanun’ Maya Youssef will perform The Seven Gates of Damascus\, a participatory musical theatre piece which will take you for a magical through distant lands. Inspired by the journeys taken by Syrian children looking for a new place to call home\, the universal themes of travel\, mystery and belonging resonate with all young audiences. Whether you’ve heard a qanun before or not\, The Seven Gates of Damascus will leave you with a sense of wonder\, empathy and magic. \nIn between these performances\, the collective Literary Natives will keep your little ones entertained with riveting stories of adventure\, exploration and discovery. See below for the full programme\, please note that times are subject to change. \nCounterpoints Arts believes in the power of shifting how we see displacement and migration through the arts. Our curation of Travelling Tales is part of our longstanding collaboration with Southbank Centre in using the arts as a vehicle for social change. \n11.15 – THE SEVEN GATES OF DAMASCUS \nThis exciting participatory theatre piece will transport you to a vibrant Damascus through rich storytelling and Maya Yousef’s soothing qanun\, a traditional Middle Eastern string instrument. Go on a seven part magical journey that will lead children and guardians alike to a place of peace and wonder \n  \n  \n12.15 –  THE CURIOUS MR GAHDZOOKS AND HIS CAUTIONARY TALES FOR NAUGHTY CHILDREN \nCome and listen to the wonderful actor and author Julian Anthony Vessel bring to life Mr Gahdzooks\, a mischievous figure who feeds off the naughtiness of children across the globe. This modern tale will have your children gripped and ready to mind their Ps and Qs. \n \n  \n12.30 – GIRLS LIKE ME\nWriter Hanna Jama recites her powerful poem Girls Like Me\, for all the girls (and boys) who’ve crossed oceans and deserts to find home in London \n  \n13.15 – THE SEVEN GATES OF DAMASCUS\n‘Queen of the qanun’ Maya Youssef returns for a second performance \n  \n14.15 – THE CURIOUS MR GAHDZOOKS AND HIS CAUTIONARY TALES FOR NAUGHTY CHILDREN \nIf you missed the riveting tale the first time round\, join us for another reading from Julian \n  \n14.30 – GIRLS LIKE ME\nHanna Jama returns for a final reading of her uplifting poem. \n  \n14.45 – THE SEVEN GATES OF DAMASCUS \nCatch this last theatrical performance of the magical journey. \n  \n15.45 –  BEDTIME STORY: HANDA’S SURPRISE \nListen to writer and producer Salma read from her favourite childhood book\, Handa’s Surprise by Eileen Browne. There’s a surprising adventure that awaits Handa as she takes seven pieces of delicious fruit to her friend Akeyo in a neighbouring village. With the cheeky animals she encounters along the way\, will she have anything left for Akeyo? \n  \n \n  \nTHROUGHOUT THE DAY – STIMELA! \nA fantastic compilation of music donated to Counterpoints Arts by some of the most sought after musicians\, artists who have been forcibly displaced from their homelands and other musicians who support refugees and human rights. \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/travelling-tales/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form
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SUMMARY:Global Significance
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Tate Modern (Level 5) for a day of hip-hop\, poetry\, and spoken Word at Tate Exchange with Tania Bruguera\, Tate Neighbours and Counterpoints Arts \nGlobal Significance is an invitation to write collectively – and intergenerationally – in response to Tania Bruguera’s Turbine Hall Commission and the ‘terms and conditions’ written by the Tate Neighbours. \nA single large table will run across Tate Exchange and be covered with paper. Anyone can write anything. The space will be filled with poetry and prose picking up on the themes chosen by Tate Neighbours: migration\, creativity\, homelessness\, the planet and vulnerable communities. \nFacilitated by Abdul Karim Abdullah and several Tate Neighbours\, plus a range of spoken word performers and activists\, an open learning session will explore the traditions of Hip-Hop\, poetry and spoken word to articulate personal feelings\, empathy\, understanding and calls to action in relation to art\, migration and activism. \nThere will also be an invitation to use different languages and to consider how languages and political passions evolve and intersect. \nA microphone will be available at all times for invited performers as well as anyone who wants to step forward. \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/global-significance/
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Pop Culture and Social Change Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Counterpoints Arts is bringing together a select\, invited group of around 50 individuals from the worlds of the visual and performing arts\, broadcast media\, entertainment\, advertising\, fashion\, social media\, philanthropy\, charity and policy sectors. \nPopular culture is a potent catalyst for social change\, especially in times when people feel increasingly less connected. We are creating this reflective space in order to facilitate new cross-sector collaborations and to explore ways of representing the lived concerns and experiences of diverse audiences through the prism of pop culture. \nArtists\, creatives and activists are engaging with the field of popular culture to imaginatively re-shape narratives around migration and global displacement. Recent examples of this include: The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla; Michelle and Barack Obama setting up a new production house in partnership with Netflix; Warsan Shire featuring on Beyoncé’s album Lemonade; and a former Counterpoints Arts’ artist in residence\, Kayo Chingonyi\, recently receiving the Dylan Thomas award – all pointing to increasing forms of popular crossover and social justice genre-mixing. \nThis year we are delighted to welcome Bridgit Antoinette Evans\, Executive Director of the recently launched Pop Culture Collaborative in the US\, to share learning and successes from their influential grant-making programme. \nOver the two and a half days we will present a programme of inspiring work by a range of artists and cultural producers\, short inspirations and provocations\, organised walks\, workshops\, public events (film screening and a hiphop gig) and plenty of informal networking and shared meals.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/pop-culture-and-social-change-retreat/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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SUMMARY:Tania Bruguera in residency at Tate Exchange
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Hyundai Turbine Hall Commission\, Tania Bruguera will be in residency at Tate Exchange for the month of October. Bruguera is also Tate Exchange’s Lead Artist for its 2018-19 activity year\, which is inspired by the theme of ‘movement’. Her residency at Tate Exchange addresses not just the physical movement of people\, but the emotional journey from the far away and unknown ‘other’ to the close-by neighbour. We have worked closely with Bruguera in the development of the programme. \n  \nAbout Tania Bruguera \nBest known for her politically-engaged projects and activism\, Bruguera makes work that addresses institutional power\, borders and migration. She has established a unique concept for her political approach to art – Arte Util (useful art) – one that has continued to be developed during her Hyundai Commission and will continue with Tate Exchange. \n  \nOver the past 20 years\, Bruguera has become renowned for creating art that addresses major political concerns\, often taking the form of a political or social action. Her work questions the nature of power structures\, behaviours and values. She has consistently argued for art’s role as a useful agent of real change in the world\, while using the museum as an active forum for public debate. \n  \nBruguera’s previous projects have included the Cátedra Arte de Conducta (Behaviour Art School)\, an institution that existed in Havana from 2003 to 2009\, and the recently opened Hannah Arendt International Institute for Artivism in Havana. Her work Tatlin’s Whisper #5\, 2008\, which involves two mounted police officers performing crowd-control exercises inside the museum\, is one of the major performance works in Tate’s collection. In 2012 Bruguera was also in residence at Tate Modern with her ongoing project Immigrant Movement International\, in which visitors were required to line up and pass a lie detector test based on questions from the UK immigration form before being granted access to the Tanks. \n  \nPlease check on the Tate Website for a detailed schedule and accurate timings.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/tania-bruguera-in-residency-at-tate-exchange/
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Eid Festival 2018
DESCRIPTION:Counterpoints Arts is delighted to be partnering with the London Mayor and London Assembly to bring a special Refugee Week programme to the Eid Festival 2018 in Trafalgar Square. \nJoin us for performances and artists including:\nMaya Youssef & Urnina Women’s ensemble \nCalled after Urnina\, goddess of music in Mesopotamia and ancient Syria\, our ensemble is leading a revival in the tradition of female music-making by women in the Arab world. In the courts of Baghdad\, Cordoba\, and Medina women were highly trained in musical composition and performance\, as well as in poetry composition and recitation\, dance\, calligraphy and shadow-puppetry. Despite being slaves\, these sophisticated women – known as qiyān – had courtly privileges\, and were vital curators of the arts from the 8th to the 13th centuries.  \nIn revitalising this women’s tradition we will recover neglected Arab repertoires\, jewels of the classical heritage that have been forgotten. We offer hope to counter the turbulence of the contemporary Arab world\, manifesting the collaborative strength of women’s creativity\, and recuperating an artistic heritage that deserves celebration. \n  \n \n  \nAwate \nAwate is a rapper and producer from Maiden Lane Estate in Camden. He learned from mentors such as Poisonous Poets rappers\, Stylah and Lowkey\, BBC 1Xtra’s DJ Semtex and one of his heroes\, Yasiin Bey. As a refugee from Eritrea via Saudi Arabia\, Awate’s lyrics are a complex train of thought on subjects like self-esteem\, racism\, pride and class.\nPoetry from:\nZia Ahmed – a London Laureate and was shortlisted to be the Young Poet Laureate for London 2015/16 + a former Roundhouse Slam winner. \n‘Bards Without Borders’ are a refugee and migrant poetry collective formed in 2015 to respond to the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare. Featuring: Fatima Diriye – a Somali London-based poet\, who explores the realms of vulnerability\, identity and personal reflections; Hamdi Khalif – a writer from London who was born in Mogadishu and is currently studying an MA in Creative Writing while also working on two publications; Laila Sumpton – a member of the Keats House Poets since 2010 and an Associate Writer at Spread the Word\nSuhaama Elmi – a passionate writer who expresses herself through poetry inspired by her Somali heritage.\nHanna Ali – a writer\, poet\, project lead\, teaching fellow and PhD candidate at SOAS\, University of London where she specialises in Afro-Arab identity.\nWhite City Youth Theatre \nChildren aged 9-10 years old have been creating a piece of theatre called ‘Abu Kassem’s Slippers’ inspired by their Arab World Project where they have been learning about Arab culture and stories. They have worked with storyteller Alia Alzougbi from the Shubbak Festival and this diverse theatre group from White City are excited to share their new performance with you in Trafalgar Square.\nFarhad Berahman – Afghan Camera \nIranian photographer and artist Farhad Berahman is based in the UK. The Afghan Camera\, or ‘kamra-e-faoree’\, is still used as a traditional method of capturing memories by veteran street photographers in Afghanistan and Iran. The hand-made wooden camera acts as both the camera and darkroom\, thus working as a ‘2 in 1’ machine. This enables capturing and instant printing of photographs\, an individual copy handed to visitors upon processing of the image.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/eid-festival-2018/
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Moving stories: a Refugee Week special event
DESCRIPTION:We return to the British Museum for another collaboration event\, this year celebrating Refugee Week 20th birthday. \nThe programme will include artists installations and workshops\, performances and film. The Great Court will be the place to share a song with a variety of the most wonderful London choirs. \nAll activities free. \nLots more detail to come soon. \nImage by Marcia Chandra.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/moving-stories-a-refugee-week-special-event/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form
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SUMMARY:These Walls Must Fall
DESCRIPTION:Image: Hejira \nAN EVENING OF SPOKEN WORD\, MUSIC AND RESISTANCE! \nAn event organised by friends at Quakers in Britain\, in collaboration with Right to Remain\, Detention Action\, Student Action for Refugees\, and us. \nThis event is curated as an antidote to the current climate of ‘hostile environment’ where the borders seem to have moved right into our democratic structures\, where services people interact with on daily bases have become sites of the border. It is an invitation to join the movement of all those showing solidarity with one another; campaigning for change; and exercising their rights to live lives of dignity. \nAs part of Refugee Week 2018\, our partners will be celebrating people’s resistance to these injustices – and creating a space that strengthens our collective capacity to overcome fear and mistrust. Instead\, we hope to transform our communities to become beacons of welcome and hospitality. \nJoin Quakers in Britain on Saturday 23rd June to hear from poets and musicians who are at the forefront of forging creative responses\, based on kindness and common humanity\, to global economic inequality\, climate change\, and militarisation. There will also be the chance to hear from grassroots organisations at the heart of building a culture of welcome – and find out more about how you can get involved in the growing racial justice movement. \nARTISTS \nHejira are a five-piece London band partly named after Joni Mitchell’s 1976 album\, and partly after the Arabic word for “flight or journey to a more desirable place”. \nJJ Bola is an established writer and poet. He has written three collections: Elevate (2012)\, Daughter of the Sun (2014) and WORD (2015)\, and is the author of No Place to Call Home. He writes on themes related to migration\, race and borders. \nThe Nawi Collective are a London-based black women’s vocal collective who sing for justice to reclaim their time and for their ancestors. \nSelina Nwulu was the young poet laureate for London who work touches on social and environmental justice as well as identity\, nostalgia and belonging. \nBards Without Borders are a refugee and migrant poetry collective who have toured their performance responding to Shakespeare across the country and are now investigating the theme of ‘patriotism.’ \n** This event is FREE for people from migrant and refugee backgrounds **
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/these-walls-must-fall/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form
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SUMMARY:Refugee Week Friday late opening at the V&A
DESCRIPTION:Our week of celebrating Refugee Week‘s 20th birthday is punctuated by a special Friday evening celebration event. \nExpect an evening of music and dance\, film and arts installations. \nThe iconic entrance to V&A will become a dance space and the Garden Café an intimate concert venue. Artists from our networks take over other gallery spaces with participatory installations\, so audience participation required. \nWe will also be showing a film programme. \nFull programme coming soon. \nImage by Refugee Week 2017\, Dance for Refuge\, by Jake Davis
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-friday-late-at-the-victoria-and-albert-museum/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form,Music
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SUMMARY:Refugee Readings at Doughty Street Chambers
DESCRIPTION:World Refugee Day 2018 honours the strength\, courage and perseverance of millions of refugees.  Our event will\, in partnership with Doughty Street Chambers\, bring together writers and artists to perform extracts from works inspired by or through the refugee experience. \nIt will include readings from: \n\nVesna Maric\, author of ‘Bluebird’\, a memoir about her experiences of being young refugee in the UK\nDina Nayer\, author of ‘The Ungrateful Refugee’\, an acclaimed essay on the refugee life\, whose work is featured in the new anthology ‘The Displaced’\, to be launched shortly before Refugee Week\nMeike Ziervogel\, author of ‘Shatila Stories’\, co-written with Syrian refugees in Lebanon\nSelina Nwulu\, Young Poet Laureate for London 2015-16.\n\n  \nTim Finch will also read from his book ‘The House of Journalists’ – his take on the telling of refugee stories. Art works related to forced migration will be on display before and after the performances and will remain throughout Refugee Week 2018. We are delighted to showcase works from Olivier Kugler\, award winning artist who has worked in refugee camps in Turkey\, Greece and Calais as well as The Stranger photographic series by Arteh Odjidja in partnership with Coram Children’s Legal Centre\, a portrait-based project\, sharing the inspirational stories of young migrants and refugees. \n  \nRegistration for the event can be done via Eventbrite.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-readings-at-doughty-street-chambers/
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Above the Drowning Sea
DESCRIPTION:Canada 2017Dirs René Balcer\, Nicola Zavaglia92minDigitalEnglish subtitles \nThe fascinating story of a Chinese diplomat who saved the lives of many refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe.\nIn Nazi Europe in 1939 when all doors were closed\, refugees found sanctuary in Shanghai thanks to the intervention of Chinese diplomat Ho Feng Shan. As the Chinese consul in Vienna he defied the Nazis and his own government and issued travel visas to the refugees. In light of today’s refugee crisis\, this is an inspiring\, poetic tale about two peoples who found common cause and dignity in a world in chaos.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/above-the-drowning-sea/
CATEGORIES:Film and Photography
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180619T203000
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SUMMARY:A Season in France
DESCRIPTION:France 2017Dir Mahamat-Saleh HarounWith Eriq Ebouaney\, Sandrine Bonnaire\, Aalayna Lys100minDigitalEnglish subtitles \nA teacher flees to France from his war-torn country in this deeply affecting drama.\n‘I know very well the reality of refugees looking for asylum\,’ says award-winning director Haroun (A Screaming Man)\, who emigrated to France from Chad in the 1980s. In his new feature\, a teacher (Ebouaney) flees tragedy in his war-torn country and escapes to France\, where he falls for a French woman (Bonnaire). A Season in France is a deeply affecting and humane drama about the bitter fate of those driven from their home but unwelcome elsewhere.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/a-season-in-france/
CATEGORIES:Film and Photography
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SUMMARY:Refugee Week Launch at the V&A
DESCRIPTION:We launch this year’s Refugee Week with an event produced in collaboration with the V&A. \nThis is a very special year when we mark the 20th anniversary of  Refugee Week\, and we kick off the celebrations with another rich programme of artists’ installations\, workshops and performances. \nThe day is designed around the Simple Acts campaign\, inviting audiences to participate in one of the 20 ways of supporting refugees. With our contributors and audiences we will reflect on what this arts Festival has stood for over the last 20 years and how we imagine our future\, campaigning for refugee rights and for recognising contributions\, resilience and creativity of newcomers. \nThe programme will include artists from our networks\, visual\, live and musicians\, performing in galleries across the Museum. Refugee Week partners are bringing their own work and creative workshops\, and inviting audiences into conversations and activities based on Simple Acts. \nA number of organisations working across the arts and advocacy are joining the programme with another layer of creative activities. \nLastly\, and not to forget\, there may be a Refugee Week related treat in the Garden Café! \nAll will be revealed soon\, including the full programme! \nImage by Hufton+Crow\, for The Guardian. \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-launch-at-the-victoria-and-albert-museum/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form
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SUMMARY:Through Our Eyes + Q&A with director Samir Mehanovic
DESCRIPTION:UK-Bosnia and Herzegovina-Germany-Lebanon-Republic of Macedonia 2018Dir Samir Mehanovic70minDigitalEnglish subtitles \nDoes humanity ever learn from past tragedy? BAFTA-winning director Samir Mehanovic investigates.\nBAFTA-winning director Samir Mehanovic asks whether humanity ever learns from past tragedy\, and makes a plea for the world to welcome and accept those fleeing conflict and terror. As a Muslim who fled to the UK from Bosnia in the 1990s\, he gives personal insight into the human catastrophe in Syria as he speaks to refugees in camps\, on trains\, and in their new-found places of exile.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/through-our-eyes-qa-with-director-samir-mehanovic/
CATEGORIES:Film and Photography
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SUMMARY:Who Are We?
DESCRIPTION:Art\, migration and the production of democracy: Join us for a week of experimental production \nJoin Counterpoints Arts\, Loughborough University\, The Open University and Stance Podcast for a week of experimental production in partnership with the University of York Migration Network and many other collaborators. \nDrop in to activities spanning the visual arts: film and photography; design and architecture; digital cultures; the spoken and written word and Live Art. \nExamine connected questions around housing\, dis/placement and place-making; labour and inequality; and citizenship and the production of social democracy. \nEngage with the production of solidarities and of neighbourhoods and cities. Look into issues relating to knowledge and the commons\, and local ecologies and climate change. Investigate the production of communities\, identities and belonging\, public spheres\, and the transformative power of art and pop culture in tumultuous times. \nAs well as joining our drop-in activities at Tate Exchange\, engage with additional off-site activities happening in locations across the UK and beyond (alongside partners across Europe). Our off-site projects will be transmitted to Tate Exchange and our activities at Tate will be transmitted to our off-site collaborators. \nThis event is programmed by Counterpoints Arts\, Loughborough University\, The Open University and Stance Podcast Tate Exchange Associates. \nFor more information visit the Tate website
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/who-are-we/
CATEGORIES:Learning,Multi-Art Form
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SUMMARY:Juan delGado’s Living Room: Crossing Thresholds in Wakefield
DESCRIPTION:A Learning Lab focusing on the participatory and social engagement work of Juan delGado – as seen through the lens of his two-stage ‘Living Room’ project set in the cultural and social landscape of Wakefield and at Art House. \nJuan conceived Living Room as a ‘welcoming’ space within Art House aiming to open up access to different groups from the local community. This resulted in the establishment of a Sanctuary Studio (at Art House) dedicated to supporting artists seeking sanctuary or whose status is currently defined by ‘no recourse to public funding’. \nLiving Room incorporates a range of conversations between civic agencies and individuals in Wakefield including the accommodation centre\, Urban House\, City of Sanctuary\, Wakefield Council and AxisWeb\, among other groups. Living Room also questions the concept of ‘validation [for artists] outside the gallery…system’ (Validation Beyond the Gallery\, AxisWeb).  \nLearning Lab will critically re-frame the Living Room project\, bringing together a range of artists\, activists\, curators\, programmers\, evaluators and policymakers to listen and feedback to Juan as he reflects and maps out the second and crucial stage of this work. \nLiving Room is commissioned by Counterpoints Arts as part of a Paul Hamlyn Foundation ‘Explore and Test’ grant. \nRespondents: Artists\, Brian Weston Temboman Mucheriwa and Mohammed Barrangi; AxisWeb Director\, Mark Smith; Evaluators\, Chrissie Tiller and Susanne Burns.  \nModerator: Co-Director Counterpoints Arts\, Áine O’Brien
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/juan-delgados-living-room-crossing-thresholds-in-wakefield-2/
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Refugee Week 2018 planning event for museums and galleries
DESCRIPTION:The Migration Museums Network and Counterpoints Arts are hosting a free evening event at the Migration Museum to plan Refugee Week 2018 activities together.\nFollowing up the success of Counterpoints Arts sell-out Refugee Week planning event coming up on February 12\, we’ve decided to host an event on February 28 specifically aimed at those working in and with museums and galleries across the UK. This practical\, ideas sharing event will be an opportunity to hear from a range of museums and galleries active in Refugee Week in varied ways: What have they learnt? What are their tips? What are the opportunities to collaborate to increase our impact? \nOur aim is that this event galvanises efforts across our sector for Refugee Week 2018 (18–24 June 2018) – its 20th anniversary year! \nYou are warmly invited to join us. The event is free but registration is essential. \nVenue: \nMigration Museum at the Workshop\n26 Lambeth High Street\, London\, SE1 7AG \nClick here to register for the event (via Eventbrite) \nQueries or suggestions? Please contact Emily Miller at the Migration Museum: emily@migrationmuseum.org \nOr Emily Churchill Zaraa at Counterpoints Arts: emily@counterpoints.org.uk
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/4112/
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SUMMARY:Refugee Week Conference 2018
DESCRIPTION:Get set for Refugee Week 2018 \nJoin us for a day of listening\, learning and networking in preparation for the 20th birthday edition of Refugee Week\, 18-24 June 2018. Expect inspiring speakers\, engaging practical workshops and fabulous performances – visit the Eventbrite page for more details. \nRefugee Week is a partnership project coordinated by Counterpoints Arts
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-conference-2018/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20171122T180000
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SUMMARY:Seeking Shelter Late at the Jewish Museum
DESCRIPTION:Hosted at the Jewish Museum\, we are delighted to be collaborating with the Museum on this Late event. Presented as part of the Migration Festival programme for the Museum’s Sukkot: Seeking Shelter installation\, in partnership with Camden Council. \nExplore the Sukkot: Seeking Shelter installation after hours and enjoy art installations\, crafts and talks inspired by themes of journeys\, migration and shelter. \nThe programme will start with Lord Dubs speaking about his experience of coming to the UK as a child on the Kindertransport and fighting for the rights of refugees. Artist Bern O’Donoghue will be taking inspiration from the Museum’s collection to create a moving installation of paper boats and Gil Mualem Doron will be inviting participation in his New Union Flag installation. Artist Orly Orbach will be serving up a new piece titled ‘Eat Your Own Identity’\, workshops in which visitors will be able to make their own ID cards using gingerbread dough. \nAs part of love music and spoken word programme Ethiopian singer Haymanot Tesfa will be performing songs of home and poets Edin Suljic and Alev Adil will be sharing their work and refugee experience. \nAlso\, there will be an opportunity to learn more about Camden based EMMA magazine\, the publication giving homeless people a voice and to look at the Museum’s objects that have travelled from around the world and to learn the stories of the refugees and migrants that brought them to the UK in a talk with a Curator.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/seeking-shelter-late-at-the-jewish-museum/
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Platforma Festival 2017
DESCRIPTION:The 4th national Platforma Festival for the arts by\, about and with refugees and migrants will take place in Newcastle\, Gateshead\, Stockton and Middlesborough 19-31 October 2017.  \nThe main event is the 2-day PLATFORMA CONFERENCE in Newcastle 27-28 October. \nFor more information contact tom@counterpoints.org.uk \nThe Platforma Festival 2017 is produced by Counterpoints Arts in partnership with Freedom City 2017\, Northern Roots\, ISIS Arts\, ARC Stockton\, Art and Christianity Enquiry\, the Platforma network and a range of other venues\, organisations and networks. Commissioned artists include Isabel Lima (pictured below)\, Henna Asikainen\, Juan DelGado\, Natasha Davis and Katia Kameli. \n \nThe FREE programme includes: \n19 October: As Free As A Bird!\, Tyne Theatre\, Newcastle (13.30-14.30) \nChildren from three east end primary schools in Newcastle have been hard at work in their schools\, singing\, dancing and rehearsing to put together a performance of a brand new musical As Free As a Bird! by Grumpy Sheep Music for the start of the Platforma Festival. See their first performance at Tyne Theatre! More details \n19 October: “Connecting Communities”\, ARC Stockton (14.00-19.00) \nA day of performances and conversations about how the arts can bring people together around issues relating to refugees and migration. Featuring a performance of Borderline by PSYCHEdelight\, and a new work by Natasha Davis. Plus a screening of Queens of Syria (directed by Yasmin Fedda) and contributions from United Voices. \nFull details and free booking here: http://arconline.co.uk/whats-on/community/connecting-communities-%E2%80%93-platforma-festival-2017 \nBorderline\nPSYCHEdelight facilitated art based workshops in Calais Jungle throughout 2015 -2016. Sophie Besse\, a theatre director and art-therapist\, witnessed among the refugees an eagerness for comedy as a way to contrast and express their tragedy. This experience gave her the impulse to create Borderline in collaboration with Frank Wurzinger\, a professional clown practitioner. The show is the result of 6 weeks devising period with an ensemble of European and refugee performers altogether from 7 different nationalities : Uk\, France\, Syria\, Afghanistan\, Chile and Sudan. It has played to packed houses in the past 12 months across the UK and internationally. (Borderline photos by Jose Farinha) \n \nQueens of Syria\nQueens of Syria (directed by Yasmin Fedda) tells the story of fifty women from Syria\, all forced into exile in Jordan\, who came together in Autumn 2013 to create and perform their own version of the Trojan Women\, the timeless Ancient Greek tragedy all about the plight of women in war. What followed was an extraordinary moment of cross-cultural contact across millennia\, in which women born in 20th century Syria found a blazingly vivid mirror of their own experiences in the stories of a queen\, princesses and ordinary women like them\, uprooted\, enslaved\,and bereaved by the Trojan War. \n \nT-Shirts by Natasha Davis \nWhat is your favourite t-shirt? Tell me a story about it… When did you get it\, was it a gift or did you buy it? Are there any special occasions you wore it for? Has it travelled with you across borders? Using t-shirts as the playful start of an exchange\, the performance choreographs memories into a visual poem\, with t-shirts becoming the link to vivid and faded colours in our lives\, stains and scars\, people and places we love\, and the choices we make when we can take very little with us on our journeys. A multi-media encounter with time and memory\, with losses and liberations of living in transit – from Natasha Davis\, an artist whose own performances and t-shirts have been crossing borders on five continents through the past decade. \n \n\n19-26 October: From Syria to Gateshead\, Shipley Art Gallery \nAn artistic and musical exploration of belonging among refugee-background Syrian young people living in Gateshead.  Over a three-month period\, the fourteen young people represented in this exhibition participated in research interviews and workshops with professional artists and musicians to produce works that reflect their ideas and experiences of belonging. From Syria to Gateshead is a partnership between Durham University\, GemArts and Gateshead CouncilFrom Syria to Gateshead is a partnership between Durham University\, GemArts and Gateshead Council with support from Shipley Art Gallery. Full details: http://www.platforma.org.uk/pf_events/from-syria-to-gateshead/ \n \n\n21 October: Gresham Wooden Horse (11.30-14.30\, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art) \nIsabel Lima will introduce her latest project made with the community of Gresham in Middlesborough and commissioned by MIMA and co-commissioned by partners including Counterpoints Arts. There will be an opportunity to see an exhibition about the project\, to join a community lunch\,  and to take the short walk from the gallery to see the horse itself in Gresham. For full details contact tom@counterpoints.org.uk \n \n21 October – Private View – Ritournelle (once more\, from the top) by Katia Kameli (14.00–16.00 St John the Baptist Church Grainger Street\, Newcastle NE1 5JG)\nRitournelle (once more\, from the top) is the result of Katia Kameli’s artist residency  with Art and Christianity Enquiry at St John the Baptist\, Newcastle\, which has been programmed in collaboration with Platforma. In response to the invitation to consider themes of residency\, migration and belonging within the context of this medieval church\, Kameli has produced new site-specific artworks. More information \n21 October – Screening: Place I Call Home (18.00-19.00\, New Bridge Project\, Newcastle) \nPlace I Call Home is a film about the migration of people to Hartlepool by Maxy Bianco & Students of Hartlepool Sixth Form College. In little over 150 years the population of Hartlepool has grown from thousands to tens of thousands\, over 160 nations have roots in our town. This film asks the question\, where do we come from? Produced by Jo Hislop and made by Maxy Bianco and students\, Anthony Graham\, Phoebe Hay\, Ely King\, Katie Kennedy\, Ruben Gonzalez\, Lydia Balmforth and Hayley Briggs. As part of a recent project with Hartlepool Youth Services the film was funded by HLF. A selection of other short films will also be shown. \n \n\n25-26 October: Counterpoints Arts strategic session (Newcastle / Gateshead) \nFollowing on from their first arts and social change “retreat” in Dartington last year\, Counterpoints Arts (the charity that manages the Platforma network) will be running discussions and workshops for invited guests on themes including popular culture and European networking. Feedback from this session will be presented as part of the Platforma Conference. \n\n27 October: PLATFORMA CONFERENCE Day 1 (Newcastle\, various venues): 10.00-18.00 \nJoin us to share practice\, ideas and inspiration with artists and organisations from across the North East\, the UK and internationally. This first day of the Conference will focus on new work commissioned for the Festival\, providing hands-on engagement with some of the most important issues relating to the arts by\, with and about refugees and migrants. All events in this programme are free and open to all (unless otherwise stated). \nTo reserve a place at the Conference please email tom@counterpoints.org.uk \n10.00-11.30: Conference launch at St John the Baptist Church\, Grainger Street\, Newcastle NE1 5JG\nFeaturing a new installation\, Ritournelle (once more\, from the top) by artist Katia Kameli (pictured below)\, a French-Algerian artist commissioned as part of the Platforma Festival by Art and Christianity Enquiry\, the leading UK organisation in the field of visual art and religion. Almir Koldzic and Áine O’Brien\, co-directors of Counterpoints Arts\, will introduce the Conference and outline the main themes attendees will be invited to explore. \n \n12.00-14.00: Art In The Park: Forage and The Big M\, Nuns Moor Park\, Newcastle NE4\nFrom the church we will walk about 30 minutes together to the park (alternative transport provided if required) where\, in partnership with ISIS Arts\, we present a new work by Henna Asikainen\, Forage. Produced with participants from local communities in Newcastle\, and with the co-operation of the National Trust\, the work will be made on the day from a collection of foraged materials. More details here: https://counterpoints.org.uk/artist/henna-asikainen-forage/ \n\n \nISIS Arts will also be presenting work curated by Juan Delgado in their unique inflatable gallery\, The Big M. \n \nPlus  there will be free food\, music\, and discussion around aspects of the work displayed. \n15.00-17.00: Parallel seminars  \n1) Counterpoints Arts’ Learning Lab: The Art of Self-Organising\, New Modes of Networking and Cross-Border Solidarities (venue & full details to be confirmed) \nSelf-organising has a long history in the arts and cultural sector influencing diverse methods of production and participation. Borne out of creativity\, politics and necessity it has to date produced a rich range of practices and ways of working. Join us – artists\, curators\, producers\, programmers\, activists\, educators\, critics – in this open forum to explore a timely re-thinking of how self-organisation today moves beyond the somewhat limiting labels of ‘non-profit’\, ‘artist-run’ or ‘alternative’. With visiting contributors from across the UK\, Europe and the US we will share initiatives exploring new models of governance\, new platforms for cultural participation and active citizenship plus innovative and strategic cross-border networking. Our discussion will be framed by a keynote from Adnan Abdul Ghani\, initiator of the autonomous Support Group Network (SGN) at Restad Gard Asylum Centre\, Sweden. This Learning Lab forum is a collaboration between Counterpoints Arts\, University of York Migration Network and the Cultural Significance of Place Research Group\, University of Newcastle. \n\n2)  Displacement and art in the age of hostility – Hatton Gallery\, Newcastle\n \nThe filmmaker Marusya Bociurkiw and the performance practitioner Elena Marchevska will discuss their most recent projects and will engage in a discussion with the audience about the ethical implications of creating work about displacement and migration. The session will start with a screening of an excerpt of the movie: This Is Gay Propaganda: LGBT Rights and the War in Ukraine\, the most recent documentary by Marusya Bociurkiw . This will be followed by a short presentation of The Study Room guide on The Displaced and Privilege\, project that Elena Marchevska developed this year in collaboration with Live Art Development Agency and Counterpoints Arts. Full details \n \n \n3) Broken Chords Can Sing A Little – Isabel Lima; ISIS Arts\, 5 Charlotte Square\, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4XF \nThis seminar will critically reflect upon the process of developing Gresham’s Wooden Horse\, a participatory project developed with disparate communities living in Gresham\, Middlesbrough. Inspired by the myth of the Trojan Horse\, this project uses its symbolism to stimulate collective action among Gresham’s populations. Many of Gresham’s grids of terraced houses have been demolished or boarded up in recent years. Its population is diverse\, including British workers and asylum seekers. Social deprivation discourages local people from finding mutual commonalities and reports suggest that different communities rarely interact with one another. Gresham’s Wooden Horse sets up an informal forum for cultural exchange. The project is a vehicle for residents of Gresham\, old and new\, to establish a sense of ownership of their neighbourhood\, enabling a collective process of reimagining the area’s identity. This session will focus on the ethics of engagement; collaboration; stakeholders and sustainability of artist-led participatory artworks within communities. \n17.00-18.30: Hatton Gallery special viewing \nAn opportunity to see the “Kurt Schwitters: Collage & Assemblage”  exhibition at the newly refurbished Hatton Gallery. Schwitters\, who fled Germany in 1937 for Norway and then England\, is one of the most important figures in post-War art. Schwitters: Collage & Assemblage focuses on Schwitters’ pioneering career long use of collage\, a significant development in 20th century art practice. Fascinating dialogues exist between these works and those of the Independent Group and early pop artists on display in Hatton Gallery’s “Pioneers of Pop” exhibition and Schwitters’ Merz Barn Wall\, permanently displayed in the Hatton Gallery. \n18.00-20.00: Stranger Tales\, Settle Down Cafe\, 61-62 Thornton St\, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4AW \nCapacity limited – first come\, first served. \nStranger Tales is an intimate storytelling experience that will take you across the globe\, traversing time and distance\, travelling from Siberia to a UK city street\, bringing you stories that have never been told before. Created by theatre maker Stella Barnes with two professional performers and the input of 20 members of the public who shared their stories\, Stranger Tales is part of Stella’s ongoing work in the field of arts and migration. She has a special interest in the notion of hospitality and how it relates to arts practice and attitudes to migration. The work is a frame for exploring complex and sometimes conflicting perceptions and offer a ‘performance’ of hospitality. The word hospitality has its roots in the word ‘host’ which has two origins: the Latin for stranger or enemy\, and conversely guest. Stranger Tales is presented as a work in progress in collaboration with The Southbank Centre\, Counterpoints Arts and idle women. This event is not suitable for small children. \nImage (below) by Candice Purwin \n \n\n28 October: PLATFORMA CONFERENCE Day 2 – 10.00-16.00 \nNewcastle City Library\, 33 New Bridge St W\, NE1 8AX\n \nThe second day of the Conference will be a chance to hear about a range of different projects and artistic interventions from around the country and internationally. There will also be a chance to reflect on work seen on Day 1 and elsewhere in the Festival. We will then be inviting attendees to consider a range of questions about their own approaches and what they have seen elsewhere\, working towards ideas for a new Platforma Manifesto on the arts by\, with and about refugees and migrants. \nInspirations will come from artists including: \nManif Halbouni & Farhad Berhaman\n \nWorkshop sessions will be led by Stella Barnes and David Nguyen. \nAll welcome\, regardless of previous experience in this work and whether you are able to attend on the 27th or not. Please email tom@counterpoints.org.uk to confirm attendance. \nAt 3pm we will present a performance of the brilliant Borderline by PSYCHEdelight\, the acclaimed “comedy about a tragedy” made collaboratively by a company of young refugees and European actors and a sell-out hit at venues across the country. \n \nPlus there will be a performance by dance and choreographer Tim Rubidge and Afshin Emam drawing on work done for the Make/Shift dance project. \n \nAttendance is free and open to all\, whether you are able to attend Day 1 or not. Please email tom@counterpoints.org.uk to reserve a place. \n8pm: Borderline at Gosforth Civic Theatre \nAnother chance to see the acclaimed show from PSYCHEdelight developed with and performed by refugees who lived in the Calais camp on their way to the UK. “High Comedy amidst the Poignancy. Powerful. Important.” Huffington Post. Booking: https://www.gosforthcivictheatre.co.uk/borderline \n\n31 October: Migration Museums Network event\, Main Hall at Discovery Museum \nThis is an event to bring together and share learning from the pilot of the Migration Museums Network. This network is aiming to increase and improve outputs associated with migration and related themes in museums and galleries across the UK. The event in Newcastle will be a practical day. Full details to come. \n \n\nThe biennial Platforma Festival brings together artists\, organisations\, funders and others for discussions\, workshops and the chance to share practice and showcase new work. The first three took place in London (2011)\, Manchester (2013) and Leicester (2015). \nPlatforma arts and refugee network supports and develops arts by\, about and with refugees and migrants from marginalised communities. It brings together groups and artists / performers of any background or political status (e.g. refugees and non-refugees)\, whose work examines the varied experiences of refugees and migrants both before and after they arrived and settled in their host country. Platforma is managed by Counterpoints Arts in partnership with organisations across the country.  \n \nCounterpoints Arts is a leading national organisation in the field of arts\, migration and social change. Our mission is to support and produce the arts by and about migrants and refugees\, seeking to ensure that their contributions are recognized and welcomed within British arts\, history and culture. \nAbout Freedom City 2017 \nThe Platforma Festival is being presented as part of Freedom City 2017. On 13th November 1967\, Newcastle University awarded Dr Martin Luther King an honorary degree\, the only UK university to do so in his lifetime. On accepting this award\, Dr King made what was to be his final public speech outside of the US before his assassination in April 1968. In a moving address\, he called for us to join him in the ongoing struggle against war\, poverty and racism. Freedom City 2017 brings together international artists\, musicians\, filmmakers\, academics and community groups to inspire a new generation to contribute towards tackling the issues that Dr King spoke of in his acceptance speech. \nOn Sunday 29th October a great drama will engulf NewcastleGateshead\, inspired by Dr Martin Luther King Jr. and epic civil rights struggles from across the globe\, both past and present. Out of the buildings and through the streets of NewcastleGateshead will come a unique afternoon of theatre\, music\, dance\, circus and art to celebrate the courage and sacrifice of those who have led the long march for civil rights. Starting from different locations across the city\, the stories from Alabama 1963\, India 1919\, South Africa 1961\, Manchester 1819\, and Tyneside 1936 will be woven together in a unique immersive performance featuring a local cast of hundreds that will develop throughout the day. As night falls\, an uplifting climax will bring the city to a standstill for a memorable moment of light\, sound and theatre. \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/platforma-festival-newcastle-the-north-east/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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SUMMARY:Learning Lab on Migrant Mothers and Daughters – Participation Arts and Social Action in Research
DESCRIPTION:This two-day Learning Lab focuses on Migrant Mothers and Daughters – Participation Arts and Social Action in Research at a pivotal stage of its development. We will critically re-examine film footage shot throughout the Migrant Mothers and Daughters research\, collectively reflecting on the collaborative process enacted across ‘walking methods’ and ‘participatory theatre’\, together with listening and learning from participants and diverse contributors to the project. \nInvited artists\, researchers and performers\, Jane Arnfield and Natasha Davis – whose respective work explores and challenges the boundaries of (auto)biography\, identity\, memory\, citizenship\, belonging and participation – will engage in comparative dialogue with the Migrant Mothers and Daughters’ research team and with participants\, creative contributors and project advisors. \nA central focus of Learning Lab is to probe the overlaps\, differences and conceptual tensions between social science–led PAR (Participant Action Research) and the participatory methodologies conducted across the field of visual arts and performance practice. A key goal will be to inform the shaping of an online toolkit providing training tools for social science researchers. \n2-Day Learning Lab Programme \nTaylor Digital Studio\, Tate Britain \nWednesday 19th 2017 \n10:00 – 10:30: Intro to research team and other learning lab participants \n10:30 – 11:30: Conversation with research team – reflecting on process to date \n11:30 – 1:00: Invited artists\, Arnfield and Davis\, present and explore comparative methodologies and practice – auto/biography\, participatory practice through performance \n1:00 – 2:00: Lunch \n2:00 – 3:00: Arnfield and Davis continued \n3:00 – 5:00: Film workshop examining/commenting on three streams of research footage – the process of making a ‘living archive’ \nThursday 20th 2017 \n10:00 –1:00: Reflecting and listening to feedback from participants and advisors \n1:00 – 2:00: Lunch \n2:00 – 4:00: Film workshop continued \n4:00 – 5:00: Final reflections and actions \nIndicative Learning Lab questions include (among others): \n\nWhere are the potential methodological exchanges between the above fields\, PAR and visual arts and performance?\nHow is co-production of knowledge and content understood and practiced in both?\nWhat emerges when a camera is introduced into the research process?\nWhen is filming ‘participatory’\, ‘collaborative’ and ‘observational’; when is it ‘documentation’?\nHow do we unpack the differences between modes of documenting and participatory storytelling?\nHow might the methodological values of PAR a priori shape post-production of outputs;\nWhat might emerge and be discovered through the retrospective editing process?\nHow best to identify the ‘change’ and ‘transformative’ moments in the footage and documentation?\nWhat are the ethical challenges of PAR when working with and alongside vulnerable subjects?\nWhat supports need to be in place for both subjects and research teams when navigating difficult revelations and emotions?\nHow is ‘well-being’ understood and practiced in PAR and within the visual arts and performance?\nWhat is the fault line between ‘data’ and first and second person storytelling?\nHow do we join the storytelling arc between PAR and policy-practice?\n\n Migrant Mothers and Daughters – Participation Arts and Social Action in Research is a collaborative project led by Umut Erel\, Open University with Tracey Renolds\, University of Greenwich\, Maggie O’Neill\, University of York\, Research Fellow\, Erene Kaptani and filmmaker\, Marcia Chandra. \nThe project is structured across three integrated strands: (i) participatory methods with migrant parents’ and young people on intergenerational communication (ii) participatory methods with families with no recourse to public funds in conversation with policy-practice; and\, (iii) …developing training tools for social science research in collaboration and consultation with Counterpoints Arts… and the Runnymeade Trust. \n Migrant Mothers and Daughters – Participation Arts and Social Action in Research is funded by the ESRC/NCRM \nLab is now full. \nModerator: Áine O’Brien\, Co-Director Counterpoints Arts \nCo-Producer: Nelli Stavropoulou\, Counterpoints Arts
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/learning-lab-on-migrant-mothers-and-daughters-participation-arts-and-social-action-in-research/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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SUMMARY:What does it mean to have a rights-focused approach to arts participation?
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free seminar where we’ll explore diverse rights-focused approaches to arts participation. \nGuest speakers will present a range of perspectives and methods\, providing insights into how these have applied to specific audience groups they’ve worked with. Speakers will then host a series of open roundtable discussions encouraging an open dialogue and exchange of ideas around the following issues: \n• How are rights-focused methods and processes applied in an arts context? \n• Why are rights-focused approaches important in the recruitment of participants and community engagement more broadly? \n• What participant\, institutional and sector-wide changes can take place as a result of incorporating a rights-focused approach? \nThe notion of ‘rights’ brings into focus the duties institutions have to engage with diverse audiences. Using a rights-focused approach we can pay closer attention to the responsibilities publically- funded arts organisations have to the public\, as well as the power relationships that shape and hinder participation. In this way\, a rights- focused approach provides a starting point with which to address access issues between audiences and institutions\, through utilising agency\, advocacy methods and change processes. \nThis event marks the end of a year- long project called Canvas(s) funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Canvas(s) has explored access to cultural spaces with young people from refugee backgrounds. The project was formed around a diverse group of arts and migrants rights organisations: Autograph ABP\, Counterpoints Arts\, Migrants Rights Network\, Asylum Aid\, British Red Cross and the National Gallery. \nThe Canvas(s) project is managed by Autograph ABP. \nFull details: http://autograph-abp.co.uk/events/what-does-it-mean-to-have-a-rights-focusedapproach-to-arts-participation
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/what-does-it-mean-to-have-a-rights-focused-approach-to-arts-participation/
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Learning Lab: Unlearning the Role of the Artist: Part 2
DESCRIPTION:This Learning Lab\, Unlearning the Role of the Artist: Part 2\, is framed by the interdisciplinary methodologies and comparative arts practice of London-based artist\, Eva Sajovic. \nPrior to the launch of Eva’s exhibition at the MediaNox Gallery in Maribor\, Slovenia\, Learning Lab invites artists\, curators\, activists\, educators and interested practitioners to partake in a day of critical debate and co-production.This will include critical panels\, co-production workshops\, and the preparing of food and eating together. \nEva’s work pushes the boundaries of participatory and collaborative arts\, challenging the dynamics of power and assumptions made by artists when working with and alongside communities of place and dis/placement. Her participatory photography and social portraiture to date will guide our conversation\, specifically focusing on work produced during a recent two-part residency on climate change and displacement at Darat Al Funun Foundation in Amman\, Jordan. \nLearning Lab will facilitate critical dialogue and a questioning of participatory photography as a tool of agency and emancipation.We will also explore how different types and practices of citizenship can be enacted through photographic practice\, and how natural plants and ecology act as catalysts for new modes of citizenship and community. \nWe aim to convene a co-production workshop and invite participants to bring photographs of plants and people relating to issues of migration\, climate change\, and displacement. Our aim is to layer the photographs with aural and written statements collated through our conversations and to transform and/or re-contextualise the images to communicate a collectively forged/defined narrative. \nThis methodology is based on the model of the tape slides medium\, largely used by community photography groups in the UK in the 70s\, as a means of creating alternative modes of communication. \nLearning Lab builds upon an ongoing\, collaborative conversation between artist\, Eva Sajovic\,Agnes Czajka (Open University) and Áine O’Brien and Dijana Rakovic (Counterpoints Arts) initiated at the Who Are We? project at Tate Exchange London. It is co-produced with Terra Vera\, Slovenia. \n \n  \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/learning-lab-unlearning-the-role-of-the-artist-part-2/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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SUMMARY:Shahre Farang\, Refugees Welcome and Shed Your Fears
DESCRIPTION:“If you could never return home\, what would you do and where would you go if you were granted just one minute to go back there?” \nThis question is the starting point for Iranian photographer and artist Farhad Berahman’s artwork Shahre Farang\, which explores memories of home of Iranian asylum seekers living in the UK. \nBerahman collaborated with twenty Iranian asylum seekers\, asking them to describe places they would re-visit if they would go back to Iran for one last time. These memories were then passed on to a network of photographers based in Iran\, who were tasked with creating photographic interpretations of these memories. \nBerahman’s custom-made sculpture is a unique design based on a traditional Shahre Farang. A Shahre Farang is an Iranian version of a portable peep box traditionally taken around the country by wandering storytellers\, showing images of European cities as a form of exotic entertainment. \nBerahman has built a contemporary version of the box for the UK audiences\, where three viewing lenses are used to invite visitors to see a moving display of back lit images. \nThe images have a wonderful cinematic sense to them as ‘freeze frames’ of people’s memories. It is a work which does not only speak of one specific cultural context but more importantly asks viewers to consider how personal memories of home\, of far off cultures and of the past are filtered through photography. As an interactive artistic experience\, Shahre Farang transports viewers to another place and time. \nBerahman’s work will be presented at the b-side Outpost project space on Portland\, Dorset during Refugee Week  (17-22nd June)\, leading to its appearance at Bournemouth University’s annual  Festival of Learning in July 8th. The project will also be part of the 4th national Platforma Festival taking place in Newcastle and across the North East\, between 19-28th October 2017. \n \nImage of  ‘Shahre Farang’ courtesy of b-side  \nOn July the 8th\, Bournemouth University’s Festival of Learning will also host two Counterpoints Arts’ commissions. \nAlketa Xhafa Mripa presents her Refugees Welcome installation\, comprising of a Luton tail lift van – a potent symbol representing refugees crossing borders. The interior of the van is revamped to resemble  a ‘living room’ with soft furnishings\, visuals and a neon ‘hope’ sign evoking the ‘British Welcome’. The van and its contents act as a prompt for conversations with visitors\, extending the gesture of ‘fancy a tea with a refugee’. The mix of agitprop\, site-specific happening\, installation and live encounter engages with current shifts in attitudes to ‘welcome’. Visitors are asked to leave their thoughts in the comments book\, where stories will be shared via social media and local radio. \n#FancyaTeaWithaRefugee \n  \nRichard deDomenici’s Shed Your Fears is a non-denominational\, non-hierarchical booth\, into which two people get to confess their fears to each other\, privately\, anonymously and safely. Designed as a response to recent sociopolitical upheavals\, the piece invites participating audiences to share their innermost fears\, and by sharing them\, hopefully transcend them\, to the point where they can also share hopes and dreams. \n@ShedYourFears \nBoth Refugees Welcome and Shed Your Fears are on a tour around the country.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/iranian-photographer-farhad-berahman-explores-memories-of-iranian-asylum-seekers-through-his-shahre-farang-sculpture-at-bournemouth-universitys-festival-of-learning/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form,Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170625T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170625T163000
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SUMMARY:Different Pasts\, Shared Future: a Refugee Week special event
DESCRIPTION:As part of Refugee Week 2017\, we are collaborating with the British Museum to bring a special event and celebrate this year’s theme – Shared Future. \nJoin us for a rich range of happenings and activities taking place across The British Museum’s Great Court – from music performances\, to visual installations\, youth workshops and much more. Prompted by this year’s Refugee Week\, ‘Our Shared Future’\, the programme is curated to encourage full participation. Catering for all ages\, it’s a heady mix of theatre\, song\, making\, engaging or simply watching and listening. \nINSTALLATIONS AND GALLERY TOURS \nDead Reckoning by artist Bern O’Donoghue: \nDead Reckoning is an ongoing project bearing witness to the thousands of migrants and refugees who have died\, and continue to die\, attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea in search of sanctuary and a better life. Each tiny\, hand-marbled paper boat is marked with a relationship to another person\, a fragile reminder of the individuals caught up in the biggest humanitarian crisis in Europe since World War II. \nShed Your Fears by artist Richard Dedomenici: \nA non-denominational\, non-hierarchical booth\, into which two people get to confess their fears to each other\, privately\, anonymously and safely. Designed as a response to recent sociopolitical upheavals\, the piece invites participating audiences to share their innermost fears\, and by sharing them\, hopefully transcending them to the point where they can also share hopes and dreams. \nRefugee-led Gallery Talks: No Single Story\, 13.30- 14.15pm (Room 34) \nJoin tour guides Ameen and Ahmad on a journey through the British Museum’s Islamic World gallery. ‘No single story’ started as a pilot tour-guiding programme\, in which volunteers from refugee backgrounds were trained to give gallery talks at the Museum. Through selected objects\, Ameen and Ahmad will share their personal responses to these beautiful collections. \nMUSIC STAGE \nAar Manta\, 15:00pm: \nDescribed as ‘the voice of our generation’ by many young Somalis\, Aar Manta is a multi instrumentalist who mixes many musical styles with traditional Somali music. He is working with the UNHCR\, traveling to refugee camps in Ethiopia and working with young Somali refugees. \nSimo Lagnawi\, 14.10pm: \nSimo Lagnawi is a Moroccan Gnawa master who mixes his Berber origins with deep gnawa grooves. Simo studied with Gnawa masters in Morocco for over twenty years before moving to London in 2008. He is a serial collaborator and is considered UK’s leading guembri musician (camel-skinned bass instrument). Gnawa music consists of a series of spiritual chants\, and Simo’s music transports his audiences with his high-energy acrobatic dancing combined with his strident vocals\, krakebs (metal percussion instruments) and guembri playing. \nVoice of the Movement\, YouPress\, 1.30pm: \nWhat if you had to leave your home\, and the life you once knew? Could you take a personal journey\, not only leaving your home but leaving yourself to become someone new? Ten true life stories come together in this vibrant piece of the theatre which challenges the stigma associated with displacement. \nMOVING WORLDS FILM PROGRAMME (STEVENSON LECTURE THEATRE) \nSink into your seat and watch a series of short and feature-length films\, which capture refugee and migration-related stories about ‘rescue at sea’\, imagining and re-designing precious neighbourhoods\, the resilient power of arts and culture\, stepping into the shoes of those who have had to flee\, plus the building of new\, precarious lives by young refugees. Moving Worlds includes panel discussions with filmmakers\, artists\, advocates and activists working to create change and build social solidarity across communities and sectors. \nSession One: 11.15- 13.30pm \nSolidarity: Art Across Borders \nScreening Where do Art and Migration Meet and They Will Have to Kill Us First. \nPanel speakers: Johanna Schwartz (Director\, They Will Have To Kill Us First); Ahmed Tobasi (Actor); Hassan Abdulrazzak (Writer). This panel will be chaired by Yasmin Fedda\, filmmaker and creative producer at Highlights Arts. \nSession Two: 13.45- 16.15pm \nCrossings: At Home in the World   \nScreening At Home in the World\, Ellis\, Home\, MOAS Rescue at Sea\, My Refugee Story\, The Architect and Twinning Towns. \nPanel speakers: Matthew Saltmarsh (Senior Communications Officer\, UNHCR); Laura Padoan (External Relations Officer\, UNHCR); Jennifer Laws (Fundraising and Communications Officer\, MOAS); Juan delGado (Artist and Filmmaker). This panel will be chaired by Counterpoints Arts Co-Director\, Áine O’Brien. \n  \nSCREEN IN THE GREAT COURT \nShowing a collection of short films by artists and partners\, including: \nShed Your Fears\, Richard deDomenici\, Who Are We? Project\, by Marcia Chandra \nDead Reckoning\, Bern O’Donoghue\, Who Are We? Project\, by Marcia Chandra \nVoices of the Movement\, by YouPress \nI am a Refugee! by David Newman \nBelong\, Coram Young Citizens and Coram Life Education – ‘In association with Nicely Wrapped Films (early cut – work in progress)’ \nI Am Just Like You\, Kazzum\, film by Benjamin Bate \n  \nThe event is free and suitable for all ages.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/different-pasts-shared-future-a-refugee-week-special-event/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form,Music,Visual Arts
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170624T190000
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SUMMARY:Refugee Week at Southbank Centre
DESCRIPTION:This year’s collaboration with the Southbank Centre is a programme of theatre\, comedy\, choir performances\, a live art performance\, Balkan music and more. We celebrate across the Southbank spaces: \nYou\, Me and Those Who Came Before \n1pm – 6.45pm \nQueen Elizabeth Hall Foyer; Free \nInvestigate your ancestry and help create a wall of portraits at this drop-in drawing workshop. Suitable for all ages. \n  \nFull Circle \n1pm – 1.45pm \nThe Clore Ballroom\, Level 2\, Royal Festival Hall; Free \nFull Circle is an award-winning community opera project inspired by the story of a Newham resident who arrived as a young refugee. It features music and spoken word created by pupils from 15 local schools working with John Barber\, Hazel Gould\, Mohammed Yahya and Laila Sumpton. \nA collaboration between Newham Music\, Music For Youth\, Lister Community School and Counterpoints Arts. \n  \n As Far as Isolation Goes \n1pm – 3pm & 4pm – 6pm \nQueen Elizabeth Hall Foyer; Free \nWhat does it feel [1] like to be a refugee? Drop in to our interactive performance installation by artists Tania El Khoury and Basel Zaraa to get an insight into the hardships faced by people in detention centres\, through painting\, touch and sound. \n  \nWhat’s Far Is Near by Staging Sisterhood \n2.30pm – 3.30pm \nPurcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall; £5* \nThis theatre piece features two simultaneous performances: one here and the other in Beirut\, with a live video link between them. It is the culmination of a three-month devised theatre project for participants from refugee or asylum-seeking backgrounds\, taking place between London and Lebanon using technology to create a shared space. \nPresented by Seenaryo\, in partnership with Women Now for Development\, Counterpoints Arts and Southbank Centre. \n  \nSinging Our Lives \n2.30pm – 5.30pm \nThe Clore Ballroom\, Level 2\, Royal Festival Hall; Free \nSinging Our Lives brings together musicians from refugee\, migrant and local UK backgrounds to compose and perform together. Produced by Together Productions in collaboration with the International Organization for Migration and Refugee Week. \n  \n2.30pm Singing Our Lives Massed Ensemble \nHundreds of voices unite for this ensemble performance\, featuring five choirs and members of the Orchestra of Syrian Musicians. \nMusical director Jeremy Haneman \n  \n3pm The Sing for Freedom Choir \nThis choir builds community between local residents and refugees and asylum seekers who are survivors of torture. Together\, they sing songs of hope and peace. Musical director Gemma Storr \n  \n3.20pm Royal Opera House Thurrock Community Chorus \nThe 120-strong chorus performs It Takes A Village\, which uses famous opera choruses to explore what happens when we open our hearts to outsiders. \nMusical director Jeremy Haneman\, accompanist Ashley Beauchamp \n  \n3.50pm The Mind and Soul Choir \nThis community choir promotes wellbeing through singing as well as aiming to reduce the stigma around mental illness. They rehearse weekly at the Maudsley Hospital and are open to new members. \nMusical director Nicola Wydenbach \n  \n4.10pm The Islington Refugee Choir \nThe Islington Refugee Choir meets regularly to share music from different cultures and write songs together. Today they perform traditional and well-known pieces alongside their original work. \nMusical director Romain Malan \n  \n4.30pm The Orchestra of Syrian Musicians \nMembers of the Orchestra of Syrian Musicians take you on a trip to the Middle East with their uplifting Arabic melodies. \nLed by Basel Saleh and Hamsa Mounif \n  \n4.50pm The Mixed Up Chorus \nThis chorus sings together to build understanding and empathy. Today they perform songs \ninspired by this year’s Refugee Week theme: \n‘Generations – You\, me and those who came before’. Musical director Jeremy Haneman \n  \nA Day \n4.15pm – 5pm \nQueen Elizabeth Hall Foyer; Free \nIn this poetic performance of words and song\, the Women for Refugee Women Drama Group tell us their experiences of life in the UK by exploring what a typical day might bring. It is followed by a post-show discussion. \nA collaboration with Rainbow Sisters\, a group of lesbian and bisexual asylum-seeking women. \n  \nBalkan and Roma Sounds \n5.30pm – 7pm  \nQueen Elizabeth Hall Foyer; Free \nGet footloose at a free early evening party of Balkan and Roma sounds\, featuring musicians from Counterpoints Arts network\, jazz and classical guitarist Stefan Melovski and the London based Gypsy Roma jazz band – Faith and Branko. \n  \nNo Direction Home  \n7pm – 9pm \nPurcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall; £12* \nNo Direction Home is a stand-up comedy course for people from refugee and migrant backgrounds\, taught by comedian Tom Parry. See the results at this performance\, hosted by Parry and with Suzi Ruffell and Romesh Ranganathan as guest headliners. \nPresented by Counterpoints Arts and Camden People’s Theatre. \n  \n*Transaction fees apply: £3 online; £3.50 over the phone. No transaction fees for in-person bookings\, book via Southbank Centre website and box office. \n  \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-at-southbank-centre-2/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form,Music,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Refugees Welcome
DESCRIPTION:Visit Alketa Xhafa-Mripa for a conversation\, and a cup of tea\, inside her installation Refugees Welcome. \nAlketa Xhafa Mripa’s mobile installation comprises a Luton tail lift van: a potent symbol of the border crossings braved by refugees. \nThe interior of the van has been revamped with soft furnishings and visuals evoking the ‘British Welcome’. There are vintage armchairs\, a rug and a coffee table that holds the offer of ‘Tea with a Refugee’. The back interior wall bears a Union Jack with a neon sign that reads ‘Hope’. \nMripa begins each conversation inside the installation with a memory of how she was welcomed as a very young person\, and of what that meant to her and her family. \nBorn in Kosovo in 1980\, Mripa came to London in 1997 and completed her studies at Central Saint Martins. Her artistic practice advocates for women’s liberation and independence\, using many forms such as paintings\, photography\, embroidery\, films and installations. \nRefugees Welcome is a Counterpoints Arts commissions\, presented here in partnership with Southbank Centre.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugees-welcome/
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170624
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170626
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SUMMARY:Dear Home Office 2: Still Pending
DESCRIPTION:Watch a play performed by ten young refugee men\, telling versions of their own stories. \n\n\n\n\nFollowing the sell-out success and Amnesty Freedom of Expression Award nomination for Dear Home Office\, Phosphoros Theatre has created a sequel. \nThe new play is performed by the same ten refugees. Kareem is settled in London\, but the sudden arrival of his destitute brother forces him to re-navigate the system. Now 18 and independent\, but with no refugee status\, Elgi tries to stay optimistic despite the stalling of his university prospects. Failed asylum seeker Akram embarks on a stressful appeal\, until he makes a chance connection that might just be the thing that saves him. Stardom beckons for Filmon as he is courted by TV producers – but is his face ‘refugee enough’? \nDear Home Office 2: Still Pending explores stories of coming-of-age in extreme and challenging circumstances through the company’s signature blend of comedy\, raw talent and celebration. \nPerformances are: \n24th June – 19:00 \n25th June – 14:00 & 18:00
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/dear-home-office-2-still-pending/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170621
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170626
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SUMMARY:Gift Giving: printmaking sessions with young refugees
DESCRIPTION:Explore gift fiving as part of a live printmaking session across second part of Refugee Week. \nArtists Afshin Dehkordi and Saeed Taji Farouky are collaborating with a group of young refugee and asylum-seeking people to give voice to social meaning and its loss through basic printmaking techniques.\n\n\n\n\nJoin the artists and young people inside a freestanding printing workshop inside Royal Festival Hall\, specially commissioned from an architect. At each printmaking station a young refugee passes on their newly acquired printmaking skills to a member of the public. \nPrinted works will be pinned to the structure as they come off the printing press\, so the installation evolves throughout the week. You can also take a free print home with you. \nThese young people are experts in their own experiences: the focus of this art is not the physical prints themselves\, but the intangible dialogue\, sharing and connection created between the visiting public and the young people. \nThis free event is presented in partnership with Southbank Centre.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/gift-giving-printmaking-sessions-with-young-refugees/
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170619
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170703
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SUMMARY:Charwei Tsai: Hear Her Singing
DESCRIPTION:Encounter perspectives from women refugees in the UK through film portraits of song and storytelling. \nHear Her Singing is a project by artist Charwei Tsai which takes the universal nature of song to create a platform for women refugees in the UK.\n\n\n\n\nTsai’s film portraits are a result of singing and storytelling workshops with women at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre in Bradford and a group supported by the London-based charity Women for Refugee Women. The project looks to share and give visibility to the personal experiences of those seeking refuge. \nHear Her Singing is presented as part of Refugee Week. It is produced in collaboration with Music in Detention and Women for Refugee Women. With thanks to the Ministry of Culture\, Taiwan.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/charwei-tsai-hear-her-singing/
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170618T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170618T170000
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SUMMARY:Our Shared Future - Refugee Week
DESCRIPTION:For the third year running Refugee Week 2017 is launched in London in partnership with Southbank Centre. The music programme is part of Southbank Centre’s Meltdown Festival. \n‘Our Shared Future’\, is an afternoon of global beats curated by M.I.A as part of the Meltdown Festival\, featuring Liverpool-based Iranian rapper Farhood\, ‘first lady of Arabic hip hop’\, Palestinian-British rapper Shadia Mansour and DAM Palestinian hip hop group. \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/our-shared-future-refugee-week/
CATEGORIES:Music
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