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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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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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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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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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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
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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
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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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SUMMARY:Learning Lab: The Politics of People and Place
DESCRIPTION:Venue: Taylor Digital Studio\, Tate Britain\, London SW1P 4RG \nThis Learning Lab reflects on three place-based projects – each forming part of a Paul Hamlyn ‘Explore and Test’ programme run by Counterpoints Arts. \nDeveloping new partnerships/collaborations between local arts and civic organisations in addition to community groups and wider networks\, the three projects below engage in different ways with the impact of austerity policy on local communities\, specifically in areas of high migration and/or with low access to the arts. \nTom Molineaux: Blackburn with Darwen \nTom Green’s Tom Molineaux works with theatre and playwriting to forge links between local boxing clubs and arts and community organisations in areas of high migration. In collaboration with Kerry Tuhill and a team of volunteers at Blackburn-based arts organisation Action Factory\, the project ran workshops with boxers from diverse backgrounds\, refugee groups and schools. It did so through highlighting and staging the life story of American boxer\, Tom Molineaux\, who came to the UK in 1810 as a freed slave and ended up fighting for a national title in front of 20\,000 people. With a methodological mix of creative writing\, producing\, theatre and youth workshops\, Tom Molineaux taps into young people’s feelings about sport\, identity and the local communities that they live in. The project was supported by funders including Arts Council England. \nGresham’s Wooden Horse: Gresham\, Middlesbrough \nIsabel Lima’s Gresham’s Wooden Horse\, is set in the Gresham area of Middlesborough in a diverse community that has experienced a stalled re-generation of housing scheme. Through a series of workshops led by Lima and her collaborators (including the artists TILT)\, and a group of local people\, Gresham residents crafted a giant wooden horse. This site-specific and co-producing methodology offers a vehicle for residents of Gresham\, both old and new\, to establish a sense of ownership of their neighbourhood – enabling the collective process of re-imagining the area’s identity via informal cultural exchange and skills sharing. The wooden horse was wheeled through the streets in a procession from Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA) to Gresham. Gresham’s Horse has kick-started a process of community activity that will include gardening and football. The project was part of a commission for MIMA with funders including Arts Council England. \nForage: Newcastle & Northumberland \nDeveloped during an ISIS Arts research residency\, Henna Asikainen’s Forage is set in the rural landscape close to Newcastle. With the support of free-access to National Trust land\, newly arrived refugees and asylum seekers\, local ramblers and other community members walked together and simultaneously engaged in conversations about ‘belonging’\, dis/placement’\, the right to visit state-funded cultural institutions\, the concept of ‘roaming’ and the ‘commons’. Implementing a mix of walking methodologies and storytelling\, the project enabled refugee and asylum groups to form relationships with local residents and vice versa\, to share comparative stories\, knowledge and skills related to the natural environment and to access long-term settled locals’ experiences and knowledge of their communities. During the walks\, participants gathered foraged materials\, which were transformed into an installation on the bandstand at Nunsmoor Park during Platforma Festival in October 2017. Funders for the project included Arts Council England. \nLearning Lab will combine a series of artist presentations and open discussion with contributions/feedback from project participants\, partners and invited respondents and evaluators. Discussion topics will include: building new ecosystems and creative infrastructures through participatory arts; the power dynamics and challenges of place-based\, durational work; working with unusual allies and sustaining community connections and co-production; understanding the importance of securing local legacy and cross-sector collaboration and cooperation. \nModerated by Áine O’Brien\, Co-Director – Counterpoints Arts
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/learning-lab-the-politics-of-people-and-place/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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SUMMARY:Alketa Xhafa Mripa's ‘Refugees Welcome' mobile installation at University of York
DESCRIPTION:Artist Alketa Xhafa Mripa will be presenting her dynamic installation Refugees Welcome as part of York University’s festival York Festival of Ideas welcoming members of the public into the back of her Luton tail lift van to share personal narratives and experiences on the theme of welcome. \nAlketa\, who is originally from Kosovo\, re-engages with her personal experience of being warmly welcomed on her arrival to the UK\, which she hopes will facilitate reflections on the reception of refugees today. By creating a parallel between ‘then’ and ‘now’\, she hopes to challenge and redefine what it means to be living in a multi-cultural society – a question more topical than ever. \nRefugees Welcome is commissioned by Counterpoints Arts and following a successful debut at the British Museum as part of Refugee Week 2016\, has just been showcased as part of the ‘Who Are We?’ six-day cross-platform initiative at the Tate Exchange (16-19th March 2017) that hosted a range of artists and installations exploring notions of identity\, belonging\, citizenship\, solidarity\, and migration. \nRefugees Welcome is currently touring different locations across the UK. If you are interested in bringing this project to your area please contact hello@counterpoints.org.uk \n \nRefugees Welcome by Alketa Xhafa Mripa from Counterpoints Arts on Vimeo. \nSave
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/alketa-xhafa-mripas-refugees-welcome-mobile-installation-at-university-of-york/
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation
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SUMMARY:Refugee Week 2017 Special Film Programme at the BFI Southbank
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Refugee Week 2017\, Counterpoints Arts have partnered with BFI again this year\, to create  an exciting film programme of cinematic and virtual reality stories that invite audiences to witness and engage with experiences of displacement. \nThe programme includes four different screening experiences: \nThursday\, 15th June\, 14.00PM at NFT1 General Admission \n \nScreening of restored Oscar-winning period drama\, Julia\, which will be  introduced by the magnificent Vanessa Redgrave (work permitting). The film is based on Lilian Hellman’s account of a wealthy childhood friend who turns her back on privilege to follow her ideals and support victims of the Nazi regime in Germany prior to world War Two. \nWednesday 21st June\, 18.10PM at NFT3 \n \nScreening of Stranger in Paradise – a provocative and fresh appraoch to documentary filmmaking\, featuring an actor posing as a teacher who confronts newly arrived migrants/refugees with extreme political viewpoints from their host country. The screening will be followed by a discussion exploring the innovative storytelling techniques employed in the documentary and the tensions between media discourses\, lived experiences\, and politics. \nFriday\, 23rd June\, 15.00-18.00PM at the Blue Room and Atrium\, followed by discussion  \n \nThe Refugee Journeys programme is a non-bookable drop-in event (15.00- 18.00pm) including award-winning VR immersive documentary HOME: Aamir\, produced by National Theatre and Surround Vision\, which follows the story of a young man escaping the threat of murder in Sudan. The programme also includes VR short story We Wait exploring one Syrian family’s story as they wait to cross the Aegean seas\, produced as part of the BBC Connected Studios ‘Future of Content’ programme\, and Channel 4 News’ interactive video story Two Billion Miles\, using real news footage documenting the journey of displaced individuals. \nThe Refugee Journeys programme will be followed by a discussion (18.15pm) exploring the synergy between 360 technology\, virtual reality and documentary storytelling\, while also addressing ways of ‘seeing’ and understanding the ‘refugee crisis’. The discussion is free but please book in advance by calling the BFI box office on 020 79283232 due to limited capacity. \nFriday\, 23rd June\, 20.45PM at NFT2 \n \nScreening of The Good Postman – a documentary that follows the story of a postman living in a Bulgarian border town\, who decides to challenge the establishment by proposing a radical policy of welcoming ‘refugees’. Drawing on the events and real-life experience of the cast\, this blend of documentary and lavish cinematography delivers a poignant\, pertinent and deeply affecting story from the life of a community. \nFor information about the events and for booking options please visit the BFI website. \nRefugee Week (19-25 June 2017) is an annual nationwide celebration of the contribution of refugees to the UK.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-2017-special-film-programme-at-the-bfi-southbank/
CATEGORIES:Film and Photography
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SUMMARY:Project Refuge/e
DESCRIPTION:Part of M.I.A.’s Meltdown \nGet an insight into the conditions experienced by many refugees with Refuge/e\, a new project that gives a first-hand sense of Syrian refugee lives in the Middle East. \nSyrians who flee to neighbouring Lebanon are provided with a ‘New Arrivals Kit’ by UNHCR: basic materials for a shelter that they must build and reinforce themselves. The artists learned first-hand how people coped with this challenge\, then shipped a shelter kit and local materials back to the UK to make this reconstruction. \nThe tent is furnished with plaster and brass castings of possessions typically found in these homes and is covered with old plastic advertising boards\, now used for insulation. Through the space you can listen to refugees speaking about their daily experiences of living for years in tents or shells of buildings\, struggling for normality in displacement. \nAn installation by AMP Art \nSupported by Arts Council England\, the British Council\, Holman Fenwick Willan\, the A M Qattan Foundation\, the Art Fund and individual donations.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/project-refugee/
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Learning Lab:  Support Group network-SGN & Re:Act\, Valand Academy\, Kultur i Väst\, Outgrain\, and Counterpoints Arts\, London
DESCRIPTION:We wish to invite you to a Learning Lab scheduled for 30/31 May 2017\, inspired by the self-organising\, cooperative arts and culture work of the Restad Gård ‘’Support Group network-SGN & Re:Act project of Save the Children’ in different refugee camps and municipalities across Sweden and Europe. \nThe specific aim of the Learning Lab is to explore the dynamic methodologies of cooperation enacted by SGN & Re:Act and to simultaneously connect and engage artists\, activists\, educators\, civic leaders\, policy and decision makers. \nLearning Lab partners include Support Group network-SGN & Re:Act\, Valand Academy\, Kultur i Väst\, Outgrain\, and Counterpoints Arts\, London. \nThis Learning Lab is driven by a series of interconnected questions: \n• What can the self-organizing arts sector learn from the deep cooperative arts and culture work at Restad Gård? \n• How might the SGN Restad Gård model be a force for social change offering an inclusive and resilient model of cultural and social integration? \n• How might the creative networking methodologies at Restad Gård shed light on new ways of organizing\, new forms of knowledge\, pedagogy and civic participation? \n• What role does arts and culture play in the creation and sustaining of social and political equality and new modes of citizenship? \n• How might we come together – across silos – to exchange ideas\, ways of working and create meaningful change in relation to integration and civic inclusion? \nThe ethos of the Learning Lab method – which is directed by Counterpoints Arts – is to bring diverse actors and creative practitioners together; to learn through doing\, to collectively reflect in order to make change. To this end\, Learning Lab will comprise workshops\, film screenings\, case studies\, roundtables and an open forum allowing for a rich range of activities and peer-to-peer interaction (see here: http://learninglabeditions.org/). \nA central goal for the Learning Lab on 30/31st May is to co-design conceptual and practical actions in the form of a shared manifesto toward strategic cooperation and collaboration across the arts\, culture\, civic\, educational and policy sectors. \nVenue: Valand Academy \nTimetable: \nTuesday 30 May: 9.30-10.00 (Registration and Teas/Coffee) – 17.00pm (with additional cooking and eating together from 17.00 to 20.00pm) \nWednesday 31 May: 9.30-10.00 (Teas/Coffee) – 17.00pm \nPlease RSVP to Áine O’Brien\, Co-Director\, Counterpoints Arts: aine@counterpoints.org.uk \nMore details on the program to follow once the full list of participants are confirmed. \nFeatured photograph credits: ©Jose Farinha 2017
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/learning-lab-support-group-network-sgn-react-valand-academy-kultur-i-vast-outgrain-and-counterpoints-arts-london/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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SUMMARY:No Boundaries 2017 - a symposium on the role of arts and culture
DESCRIPTION:On 28 and 29 March 2017\, split across two venues in Manchester HOME and Hull Truck Theatre\, this year’s No Boundaries conference hosted a diverse range of contributors from the UK arts and culture sector to examine important questions around the role of arts in society. \nSupported by Arts Council England and the British Council\, the two-day conference combined live and live-streamed presentations across five different panels\, touching upon a range of issues including inclusivity and accessibility in the arts\, collaborative practices and cross-sector partnerships\, as well as shifting pathways to audience development\, loyalty\, and engagement. \nCounterpoints Arts Co-directors\, Áine O’Brien and Almir Koldzic\, were amongst the invited speakers\, addressing the transformative potential of art as a catalyst for social change\, focusing on the importance of “unusual alliances” and cross-sectoral partnerships in dialogue with communities and artists\, in order to create a more sustainable and democratic environment for social change to take place. \n“Art is not a salve\, or a band aid for political situations\, but artists can\, and have successfully stepped into this void” in order to instigate change\, raise awareness and render visible what is frequently being excluded. Drawing from examples  from Counterpoints Arts‘ latest collaborative six-day initiative\, Who Are We? at Tate Exchange\, including Alketa Xhafa Mripa’s Refugees Welcome Luton tail lift van installation\, which engaged audience members in conversations around refugees and welcoming\, over a cup of tea; Richard DeDomenici’s ‘Shed your Fears’ booth\, which invited participants to confess their innermost fears to a complete stranger; and Gill Mualem- Doron’s The New Union Flag project\, which re-imagined a multicultural sense of belonging through an alternative flag\, O’Brien and Koldzic\, explored the role of art as “a non-threatening framework for audiences to come together\, learn more\, participate\, appreciate\, deepen sympathy and find new ways to connect” in an increasingly diverse social space.   \nO’Brien and Koldzic highlighted the importance of embedding agency and democratic participation within the final artwork\, and in particular as part of the process of artistic engagement between audiences and artist\, to truly facilitate meaningful dialogue. The ‘Who Are We?’ multi-platform event was invested in the creation a shared\, collective space where the boundaries between viewers and artists became blurred\, through the collaborative pursuit of answers to the question ‘Who Are We?’. \nNo Boundaries offered the opportunity for practitioners\, artists\, community groups and organisations to engage with some of the major issues currently facing the arts as well as served as a testimony of the “breadth\, ambition and innovation of work being made by practitioners and organisations of all scales”\, as described by a-n The Artists Information Company. \nFor more information about the conference\, including video recordings of speakers\, you can visit the No Boundaries website.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/no-boundaries-2017-a-symposium-on-the-role-of-arts-and-culture/
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SUMMARY:Learning Lab: Brexit\, Migration and Communities – A Call to Creative Action
DESCRIPTION:Image: The Stuart Hall Project\, 2014 \nLearning Lab engages the Platforma North West Hub\, but also seeks to include artists\, cultural workers\, organisations\, activists\, academics and change-makers interested in forging alliances through working together. \nIt will mix lively debate\, share ways of cooperative working and learn from active case studies from different regions. \nLearning Lab is shaped by the following provocations: \n\nWhat role does art and culture play in a post-referendum landscape?\nHow can arts and culture engage with communities experiencing the harsh reality of austerity policies?\nCan arts and culture bring communities together in a time of increasing political and social division?\nHow might the arts tap into the deep resilience of communities?\nHow can arts and culture inspire communities to build capacity\, respond to ongoing challenges and define their own futures?\n\nLearning Lab partners include: Community Arts North West (CAN)\, Counterpoints Arts and the University of York\, Northern Migration Network. \nFilm \n6pm-8.30pm: Film Screening / Post screening Q&A \nTitle: The Stuart Hall Project \nFull running time (including credits): 103 mins \nCountry of origin: United Kingdom \nLanguage/s: English \nSynopsis:  \nHighly acclaimed at the 2013 Sundance and Sheffield Documentary Festivals\, this film from award-winning documentarian John Akomfrah (The Nine Muses) is a sensitive\, emotionally charged portrait of cultural theorist Stuart Hall. A founding figure of contemporary cultural studies and one of the most inspiring voices of the post-war Left\, Stuart Hall’s resounding and ongoing influence on British intellectual life commenced soon after he emigrated from Jamaica in 1951. Combining extensive archival imagery – television excerpts\, home movies\, family photos – with specially filmed material and a personally mixed Miles Davis soundtrack\, Akomfrah’s filmmaking approach matches the agility of Hall’s intellect\, its intimate play with memory\, identity and scholarly impulse traversing the changing historical landscape of the second half of the 20th century. (BFI) \nThe film will be followed by a post screening panel and open discussion.  \n  \nPrice: £3 Platforma members / £7 non-Platforma members \nBooking: If you would like to attend please email: Katherine@can.uk.com \nVenue: HOME
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/learning-lab-brexit-migration-and-communities-a-call-to-creative-action/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form
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SUMMARY:Peirene Press: breach and The Cut
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation between Samantha Schnee\, Chair of Words Without Borders\, and Peirene Press publisher\, Meike Ziervogel\, with writers\, Olumide Popoola and Annie Holmes\, to explore the unique commissioning approach of Peirene Press. Ziervogel works closely with writers\, commissioning Popoola and Holmes to go to Calais in 2015 to produce the collection of short stories\, breach (2016).  Peirene’s collaborative/commissioning approach with writers (and readers) continues with the forthcoming Brexit novel\, The Cut\, in collaboration with writer\, Anthony Cartwright. \nAnnie Holmes was born in Zambia and raised in Zimbabwe. Many years later\, she left southern Africa and filmmaking to enrol in a writing programme in California. Her short fiction has been published in Zimbabwe\, South Africa and the US\, and a novella-length memoir – Good Red – in Canada. She co-edited two collections of oral narratives in McSweeney’s Voice of Witness series: Hope Deferred and Underground America. In 2016 she co-authored the short story collection breach with Olumide Popoola. She now lives in the UK. \nMeike Ziervogel is a novelist and publisher. She grew up in northern Germany and came to London in 1986 to study Arabic language and literature. She has worked as a journalist for Reuters in London and Agence France Presse in Paris. In 2008 she founded Peirene Press. In 2012 Meike was voted as one of Britain’s 100 most innovative and influential people in the creative and media industries\, the Time Out and Hospital Club hClub 100 list. Meike is the author of three novels\, Magda\, Clara’s Daughter and Kauthar\, all published by Salt in the UK. Her fourth novel\, The Photographer\, will be released in May 2017. \nOlumide Popoola is a Nigerian German writer of long and short fiction\, based in London. Her publications include essays\, poetry\, short stories.  Her novella this is not about sadness was published by Unrast Verlag in 2010. Her play Also by Mail was published in 2013 by Witnessed (edition assemblage) and the short story collection breach\, which she co-authored with Annie Holmes\, in 2016 by Peirene Press. Her publications also include critical essays (often on practice-led research and the novel)\, hybrid pieces and poetry. She lectures in creative writing\, and s currently as associate lecturer at Goldsmiths College. \nSamantha Schnee is the founding editor and chair of the board of Words Without Borders\, an online magazine of literature in translation into English; since its inception 14 years ago\, WWB has published over 2\,000 translations from over 1000 languages.  Born in the UK and raised in the US\, Samantha also translates from Spanish and serves as a Trustee of English PEN. \nPlease book via the Tate Exchange
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/peirene-press-breach-and-the-cut/
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SUMMARY:Searching for Great Aunt Minna
DESCRIPTION:Searching for Great Aunt Minna was inspired by a photograph and a commissioned photo essay for the London Sunday Times Magazine about the Sangoma\, the traditional healers\, (shamans) who are called by their Ancestors to heal. For Who Are We?\, Jillian Edelstein will be in conversation with Liz Jobey\, an associate editor of the FT Weekend Magazine. Jillian’s story takes in the history of Eastern Europe and the solid immigration drive to Southern Africa from Eastern Europe. Photography\, film interviews and diary pieces are used to illustrate her  family’s search for stability due to forced removal. This story echoes the lives of everyday migrants and asylum seekers today coming to Europe from the challenged parts of Africa\, and the conflict zones of the Middle East. \nPlease book via the Tate Exchange \nJillian Edelstein is a London-based\, award winning photographer. She began working as a press photographer in Johannesburg\, South Africa and her portraits have appeared in many publications including The New Yorker\, The New York Times Magazine\, The FT Weekend Magazine\, Vanity Fair\, and Interview\, L’Uomo Vogue\, Port\, The Guardian Weekend\, The Sunday Times Magazine\, Time Magazine\, Fortune\, Elle\, W Magazine\, GQ and Esquire.   Jillian has exhibited internationally at venues including the National Portrait Gallery\, The Photographers’ Gallery\, Tom Blau Gallery\, The Royal Academy\, OXO Gallery in London\, Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles\, France\, Bensusan Museum\, Johannesburg\, Robben Island Museum in Cape Town\, South Africa and Dali International Photography Festival\, Yunnan Province\, China.   In the run up to the Olympics 2012 Edelstein was commissioned by The National Portrait Gallery and BT to produce a series of 17 portraits of those working to make the Olympic and Paralympic Games happen. The Road to 2012: Aiming High was opened by the Duchess of Cambridge at the start of the Games. \nLiz Jobey is a writer and editor with a special interest in photography. As an editor she has worked at the Sunday Times\, the Independent on Sunday Review\, the Guardian\, and Granta. As a writer she has contributed to the Guardian\, the Financial Times\, the Art Newspaper and the London Review of Books\, principally on subjects related to photography. She also works as an editor of photographic books\, including Nigel Shafran\, Dark Rooms (MACK)\, Fazal Sheikh\, the Erasure trilogy (Steidl)\, Tony Ray-Jones\, American Colour (MACK)\, Donovan Wylie\, The Maze\,  (Steidl)\, Jillian Edelstein\, Truth & Lies (Granta).  She has been a Trustee of the John Kobal Foundation since 1993. She is currently an Associate Editor at the Financial Times Weekend Magazine. \nRead the conversation Searching for Great Aunt Minna\, between Jillian Edelstein and Alena Pfoser.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/searching-for-great-aunt-minna/
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: John Akomfrah's The Stuart Hall Project (2013)
DESCRIPTION:John Akomfrah’s ground-breaking documentary The Stuart Hall Project (2013) combines archive footage and a soundtrack of the music of Miles Davis to portray the life of Stuart Hall\, the founding figure of cultural studies who has had a resounding and ongoing influence on British intellectual and cultural life. The film meditates on memory\, identity and the changing landscape of the late 20th century. \nThis event follows a symposium ‘Who do you think you are? Culture\, Identity and the Contemporary Art Museum’. \n\nImage credit: John Akomfrah\, The Stuart Hall Project (2013)
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/film-screening-john-akomfrahs-the-stuart-hall-project-2013/
CATEGORIES:Film and Photography
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SUMMARY:Learning Lab: Unlearning the Role of the Artist with Eva Sajovic
DESCRIPTION:Southwark Room\, 5th Floor of the Switch House at Tate Modern\, London \nUnlearning seems like a daunting task. How willing are any of us – arts practitioner\, academic or activist – to peel away received ways of thinking\, methodologies\, or secure sets of knowledge? \nJoin us for a Learning Lab with artist\, Eva Sajovic\, when she practices the art of ‘unlearning’\, whilst posing questions about the politics of representing others in an age of global displacement. \nSajovic: \nArtists often speak from the position of the privileged. They have the means to move\, look\, collect and display stories\, metaphors\, and visuals\, often conferring on them an obligation to act. But are the stories artists tell the ones subjects want to tell? Whose voice is being heard? To whom are these stories told and what can they achieve? How can artists support subjects and work to affect change through participatory practice; what are the limitations?  \nThese are urgent questions when engaging with displaced communities through the lens of participatory arts practice. \nWhat is the role of artists using participatory practice when working in areas of displacement? \nWhat methodologies can artists use to create platforms for subjects to represent themselves\, acknowledging that artistic work is always a translation and that change of context might change the perception of the work?  \nWhat support can artists expect from commissioning organisations when using participatory methodologies\, knowing that the boundaries between the artist-as-professional and artist-as-friend in process-based participatory work is fluid\, blurred and prone to misinterpretation?   \nWhat modes of representation might challenge stereotypes and activate audiences to see the world as an interconnected entity? \nLearning Lab will take the form of a performed auto-ethnography by Sajovic\, together with contributions from critical respondents\, rapporteurs\, lively open debate and the collective/creative production of a ‘manifesto for unlearning’. \nRespondent: Agnes Czajka\, The Open University \nRapporteur: Ele Belfiore\, Loughborough University \nTo register for this Learning Lab\, please contact dijana@counterpoints.org.uk\n \nEva Sajovic is a socially engaged artist photographer. In her work Sajovic explores the drivers of global displacement such as regeneration\, poverty\, trafficking\, culture and climate change. \nHer practice includes Participatory social action projects (for example\, a skills exchange project\, The People’s Bureau\, based in Elephant & Castle) and Photographic social portraiture\, where she collaborates closely with subjects to construct images. \nSajovic exhibits internationally and has had her work commissioned by the Tate\, Whitechapel Gallery\, The National Archives\, Fotogallery\, the Cuming museum\, 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning\, 47/04\, PARC\, Siobhan Davies Dance. She has been supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation\, Joseph Rowntree Foundation\, the Heritage Lottery Fund\, Arts Council England\, the European Commission\, Darat Al Funun Foundation\, University of The Arts and the Ministry of Culture Slovenia. \nShe is an Associate Lecturer at UAL’s Central Saint Martins and Theory Lecturer at Chelsea College of Art.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/learning-lab-unlearning-the-role-of-the-artist-with-eva-sajovic/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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SUMMARY:Platforma Festival planning
DESCRIPTION:The Beacon\, Westgate Road 128 Hoxton Street Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 9PQ\n\nJoin us to help plan for the fourth national Platforma Festival showcasing the arts by\, with and about refugees\, taking place in Newcastle and across the North East in October 2017.All welcome – please spread the word!Free booking: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/platforma-festival-planning-tickets-31324651877Following our two Newcastle meetings in 2016\, this will be a chance to hear more about plans for the Platforma Festival of arts & refugees in October 2017 including details of the buddy project that will help support refugee artists take part in the Platforma Festival.Plus will be inviting organisations and artists to put forward their ideas\, proposals and requests for support and collaboration. \nOrganised by Platforma (managed by Counterpoints Arts) in partnership with Crossings\, Freedom City 2017 and Northern Roots. \nThe Platforma Festival takes place every two years. It’s a chance to showcase the arts by\, with and about refugees and migrants and to share ideas and practice at a two-day Conference. \nFollowing our last meeting in November two themes emerged most strongly: \n– pathways for artists \n– connecting communities. \nWe also identified potential venues and organisations that might take part in the Festival across Newcastle\, Gateshead and the North East region. A full agenda will be circulated before the event. \nFor more information or queries email tom@counterpoints.org.uk
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/platforma-festival-planning/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170308T120000
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SUMMARY:Learning Lab: How To Do Rights With Things: Art and Politics
DESCRIPTION:We citizens should pay attention to the artists and push back against politicians who are trying to hold us back into 19th Century fantasies about who “we” are. (Francois Crepeau\, Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants). \nWho Are We? at Tate Exchange was a jam-packed week of installations\, performances and workshops – exploring the contested terrain of rights\, migration\, identity\, citizenship\, belonging and displacement. At the end of this full-on week\, Learning Lab explored how artists are currently navigating the everyday reality of rights\, alongside and in collaboration with audiences and publics.  How are rights performed and activated through the arts? How are rights enacted through the  materiality of things\, bodies\, sound\, and movement? How can art and civic activism be forged in creative collaboration with advocacy and academia? To what end? Where are the critical fault lines? Who is safeguarding the rights of those artists who are putting their bodies on the line\, persistently posing and proposing tough questions in what are tumultuous and precarious times? \nLearning Lab reflected on a week of creative exchange and public engagement\, taking the form of an open table with a range of contributors – including artists\,  activists\, academics and voices from the field of advocacy. \nCoordinated by Lizzy Willmington. \nModerator: Áine O’Brien\, Counterpoints Arts \nImage credit: Behjat Omer Abdulla working on ‘From a Distance’ at Valand Academy\, University of Gothenburg\, Sweden (Photo: Andreas Engman)
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/learning-lab-how-to-do-rights-with-things-art-and-politics/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170307T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170307T160000
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SUMMARY:Stuart Hall Foundation\, 'Who do you think you are? Culture\, identity and the contemporary art museum'
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with the Stuart Hall Foundation and chaired by Gilane Tawadros (Vice Chair of the Stuart Hall Foundation)\, this is a special event ‘Who do you think you are? Culture\, identity and the contemporary art museum’ on Friday 17 March 2017. \nThe event will bring together directors of major contemporary art museums in Europe to discuss how contemporary art institutions shape our sense of identity and belonging at a time of political and social turbulence. \nSpeakers include: \nOkwui Enwezor (Director\, Haus der Kunst\, Munich)  \nEnwezor is a Nigerian-born poet\, art critic\, art historian\, and curator who helped bring global attention to African art. Enwezor is considered one of the most influential curators and theorists in contemporary art. \nMarta Gili (Director\, Jeu de Paume)  \nGili is the Director of Jeu de Paume in Paris\, an arts centre for modern and postmodern photography and media. She is an art critic and curator and founding member of the Miro Foundation in Barcelona. \nFrancesco Manacorda\, Director\, Tate Liverpool  \nManacorda has curated numerous group shows including Subcontinent: The Indian Subcontinent in Contemporary Art\, The Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art\, Radical Nature\, solo exhibitions\, as well as large scale events. He regularly contributes to many publications including Domus\, Flash Art International and Art Review. He has written artists’ monographs and contributed to a wide range of group exhibition catalogues. \nGilane Tawadros (Chair) is the Vice-Chair of the Stuart Hall Foundation and Chief Executive of DACS\, a not-for-profit visual artists rights management organisation. She is a curator and writer and was the founding Director of the Institute of International Visual Arts (INIVA) which Stuart Hall chaired for over a decade. \n\n\n\n\nPlease book via the Tate Exchange \n\n\n\n\n  \nFollowing this event there is a screening of John Akomfrah’s The Stuart Hall Project (2013). \nImage credit: John Akomfrah\, The Stuart Hall Project (2013)
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/stuart-hall-foundation-who-do-you-think-you-are-culture-identity-and-the-contemporary-art-museum/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170228T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170228T130000
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SUMMARY:Dance/Movement\, Refugees and Migration
DESCRIPTION:Greenwich Dance\, The Borough Hall\, Royal Hill\, London SE10 8RE  \nCounterpoints Arts and Greenwich Dance present: \nA Platforma networking meeting looking at current practice and future directions. Open to all (whether you have previous experience in this work or not) and featuring presentations by Greenwich Dance\, Protein Dance\, Natasha Davis and Simona Scotto. \nThis will be a chance to hear from those with experience working in this area and to discuss issues including: \n> Engaging children and young people from refugee backgrounds \n> How to evaluate participatory work with refugees \n> Career pathways for dancers from refugee backgrounds \n> Representation of refugees and migrants in dance and movement work \n> Useful networks and contacts\, including internationally \n> Future actions and events \nTo reserve a free place\, or for more information\, please contact Tom Green tom@counterpoints.org.uk \nCounterpoints Arts engages with refugee and migrant experiences through arts and cultural programmes. Its 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. Central to the mission is our belief in the ability of the arts to inspire social change and enhance inclusion & cultural integration of refugees & migrants.  Counterpoints Arts manages Refugee Week and the national Platforma network on arts by\, about and with refugees. \nGreenwich Dance is the home of dance in South East London. An extraordinary meeting place for artists\, audiences and communities; they make the space for great dance to happen through incubation\, creation\, participation and performance. They challenge perceptions and change lives through excellence and innovation. Greenwich Dance aims to set the standard for dance locally\, nationally and internationally. \nPhoto: Stephen Morgan for Protein Dance
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/dancemovement-refugees-and-migration/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170217T100000
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SUMMARY:Refugee Week 2017 Conference
DESCRIPTION:After an unprecedented level of interest\, the 2017 Refugee Week Conference is now fully booked and the waiting list is closed. \nIf you can’t be there in person\, do follow the Refugee Week Facebook and Twitter feeds on the day as we will be live streaming some of the action and Tweeting throughout. \nThe Conference is 10am – 5pm on Friday 17 February at Amnesty International Human Rights Action Centre\, 25 New Inn Yard\, London\, EC2A 3EA. \nThe day will offer a stimulating mix of workshops\, performances and short\, inspiring presentations to help you prepare for Refugee Week\, which is 19-25 June 2017. \nClick here for the full conference programme.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-2017-conference/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170210
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SUMMARY:Borderline: A Comedy about a Tragedy
DESCRIPTION:As part of Refugee Week at Southbank Centre\, witness a satire on Calais Jungle devised by an ensemble of European and refugee performers\, across the two dates. \nPSYCHEdelight presents Borderline\, a satire on the Calais Jungle directed by Sophie Besse.\n\n\n\n\nBorn from a year of workshops Besse conducted in Calais\, Borderline was created in collaboration with clown Frank Wurzinger and an ensemble of European performers and refugees from Syria\, Sudan\, Afghanistan and Palestine. \n‘High comedy amidst the poignance. Powerful. Important’ (The Huffington Post) \nTickets are likely to sell out quickly for this popular performance\, each followed by a 30-minute Q&A session.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/borderline-a-comedy-about-a-tragedy/
CATEGORIES:Performance & Dance
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20161010T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20161010T160000
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SUMMARY:Theatre and Sanctuary
DESCRIPTION:West Yorkshire Playhouse\, Leeds\, LS2 7UP \n12.45pm – 4pm with opportunities for informal networking afterwards Free: Book via West Yorkshire Playhouse Box Office on 0113 213 7700 or wyp.org.uk \nWest Yorkshire Playhouse (WYP) and Platforma invite you to a networking event exploring theatre\, dance\, refugees and migration. It will be a chance to hear from a variety of theatre companies\, writers and performers and to learn about WYP’s work as a Theatre of Sanctuary. There will be an opportunity to share your experiences and raise the issues that you feel are most pressing in this area of work. All welcome. \nSome bursaries are available to help with travel costs\, particularly for those from refugee backgrounds. \nQuestions\, including re. travel bursaries:\nruth.hannant@wyp.org.uk\ntom@counterpoints.org.uk \nFollowing the event\, attendees are invited to a 6.30pm screening of Andrea Arnold’s award-winning Wuthering Heights\, followed by a panel discussion. This can be booked at the reduced cost of £10 https://www.wyp.org.uk/events/brontes-stage-screen/ \nBackground \nIn 2014 West Yorkshire Playhouse became the first ever Theatre of Sanctuary\, a public statement and recognition of our commitment to being a place of safety\, hospitality and support for refugees and asylum seekers. They work closely with refugee organisations and with volunteers from the refugee and asylum seeker community in Leeds to offer a range of creative and practical projects (including Asmarina Voices pictured)\, and extend a warm welcome to the Playhouse community. \nPlatforma\, managed by Counterpoints Arts\, has been running since 2010 to develop and support the arts by\, about and with refugees and migrants. Through a national network of Regional Hubs\, artists and organisations Platforma runs events across all art forms\, including the biennial Platforma Festival. Earlier this year Platforma partnered with the Young Vic in London for a networking event called Beyond Borders; we hope some attendees will now come to this event at WYP so that those discussions can be continued.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/theatre-and-sanctuary/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20161010T110000
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Ellen Schneider
DESCRIPTION:A Learning Lab Conversation with Ellen Schneider\, Founder and Director\, Active Voice Lab\, San Francisco\, CA \nImage: Horticulture\, Active Voice Lab \nVenue: Counterpoints Arts\, 128 Hoxton St\, London N1 6SH \nPlease join us for a Learning Lab Conversation with Ellen Schneider\, Founder and Director\, Active Voice Lab\, San Francisco\, CA \nHow do we know if the use of arts and culture is helping to shift attitudes\, increase integration\, even improve public policy around immigration issues? What can we learn from evaluation tools\, or should we even try? What are the consequences of attaching indicators to creativity\, especially in the wake of Arts Council England’s recently announced standardized system to measuring the ‘quality’ of the arts? \nCounterpoints Arts’ partner and ‘Impact Advisor’\, Ellen Schneider\, (founder of Active Voice Lab ) has been asking these questions for over a decade and is eager to know how counterparts in London are sorting through these issues. \nUsing clips from documentaries\, feature films\, and digital stories about the migrant experience\, Ellen will share an overview of her Horticulture framework\, which uses garden tools as metaphors to think about what kinds of stories can contribute to particular outcomes. \nWe’ll also open up the conversation to discuss whether and how practitioners can track if they are making a difference. \nWe anticipate a lively conversation that we hope will lead to further exploration and collaboration. \nIn collaboration with the Platforma Arts + Refugee Network \nFor more information and to register\, please contact: \naine@counterpoints.org.uk \ntom@counterpoints.org.uk
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/learning-lab-ellen-schneider/
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SUMMARY:Somewhere Else at CROSSROADS Art Show
DESCRIPTION:“An important contribution to one of the most current topics”\nPeter Heslip\, Director of Visual Arts\, Arts Council England \n“Juan delGado captures traces of people fleeing”\nMathilda Svensson\, Göterborg Poston \nSocially-engaged artist Juan delGado has travelled to Greece\, Macedonia\, and Calais to record the journeys taken by refugees. But rather than focus on capturing these ‘invisible’ people\, his protagonists are the places that they have passed through. \nThe project is a journey. As a storyteller\, the artist recounts an intimate experience of travelling through an unfamiliar landscape through which the real life experience of thousands of refugees reverberates. \nAs the Berlin Wall once symbolised a division\, today the Mediterranean Sea seems to play a similar role as a barrier. A new border has been formed that the refugee cannot straddle but is now forced to navigate. An apparently ‘invisible’ frontier that contrasts leisure\, wealth and glamour for some with the harsh reality of becoming a refugee for others. The beautiful background of the Mediterranean bears witness to the trauma and displacement of the people who continue to move through it. \nIn his work delGado presents powerful fragments of experiences and fleeting moments that tell the human story of people caught in the unfolding sweep of history. \nSomewhere Else is supported by Counterpoints Arts and all profits go to Islington Centre for Refugees and Migrants. \nThe exhibition is part of international art show CROSSROADS – visit the website for exact timings. \nPlease note the private view on Thursday 6 October is by invitation only.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/somewhere-else-at-crossroads-art-show-2016/
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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