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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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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
DTSTAMP:20260430T154352
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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
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170217T170000
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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
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170622
DTSTAMP:20260430T154352
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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
DTSTAMP:20260430T154352
CREATED:20160921T181944Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20161010T130000
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161006
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161010
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161006
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161007
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SUMMARY:Arts of Social Change - Spoken Word and Music
DESCRIPTION:Internationally acclaimed\, Devon-based poetry star Alice Oswald joins Kayo Chingonyi\, a passionate new voice in UK poetry scene\, in a performance where they explore themes from their respective works\, including the politics of land\, of place\, contemporary migration and displacement. \nThe second performance is an ongoing musical collaboration and conversation between Syrian ney musician\, Louai Alhenawi\, and Stephen Ellis from indie band Revere and Gabby Young & Other Animals. Joined by Syrian musician Sanaa Wahbah on kanun and members of Revere\, the collaborators offer a unique blend of acoustic instruments\, percussion and classical Arabic music. \nTo end the evening\, virtuoso Syrian kanun player and composer\, Maya Youssef\, performs some of her soon to be released debut album with Carthage Music Publishing. Awarded ‘exceptional talent’ by the Arts Council England in 2012\, Youssef has performed at the UK’s most prestigious venues and festivals\, including the most recent BBC Proms and the Royal Albert Hall. \nPlease join the free pre-performance installation ‘Refugees Welcome’ on the lawn in front of the Great Hall. These performances are part of a programme of events showcasing the work of refugee and migrant Arts Hub Counterpoints Arts during their ‘Arts of Social Change’ retreat at Dartington.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/arts-of-social-change-spoken-word-and-music/
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20161005T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20161005T193000
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SUMMARY:Arts of Social Change - Queens of Syria
DESCRIPTION:Award Winning Documentary plus Q&A \n“I have a scream I have to let out – I want the world to hear it.” Suad. \nYasmin Fedda’s award winning documentary ‘Queens of Syria’ tells a story of fifty refugee women exiled in Jordan\, who came together to perform a contemporary version of the ancient Greek tragedy\, The Trojan Women. \nThe screening is followed by Q&A with the Director. \nWatch the trailer here. \nThis film is part of a programme of events showcasing the work of refugee and migrant Arts Hub Counterpoints Arts during their ‘Arts of Social Change’ retreat at Dartington. Please join us the following day for an evening of Spoken Word and Music\, preceeded by a free installation.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/arts-of-social-change-queens-of-syria/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161005
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161008
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SUMMARY:Arts and Social Change retreat
DESCRIPTION:From 5-7 October 2016 Counterpoints Arts travelled to Dartington Hall for a retreat dedicated to the Arts and Social Change\, with a special focus on Migration and Displacement. \nDuring the retreat Dartington became home to a diverse group of people drawn from the arts\, activism\, advocacy\, philanthropy and education. \nThis was a timely retreat tackling an urgent topic through the lens of arts and culture. Mixing lively workshops\, presentations\, performances and screenings from an exciting line-up of artists\, the retreat aimed to connect people and organisations\, to enable them to think and creatively imagine new ways of working and co-producing in increasingly challenging times. \nThe arts and its ability to translate the essence of the human story was at the very heart of this retreat. It featured a screening of Yasmin Fedda’s award winning film ‘Queens of Syria’; a conversation between Devon-based poet\, Alice Oswald\, and the passionate new voice of Kayo Chingonyi; a magical collaboration between Syrian ney musician\, Louai Alhenawi and members of the indie band Revere\, plus a performance by the virtuoso Syrian kanun player\, Maya Youssef. \nThe performances were preceded by a bold and moving installation\, camped on the grounds of Dartington\, called ‘Refugees Welcome’. Performance artist and activist\, Alketa Xhafa-Mripa\, used her own memories of receiving a warm welcome as a Kosovan refugee to the UK in the 1990s\, to draw people into a public conversation about the nature of ‘welcome’ in the UK today. \nWe were delighted to be working with Dartington Hall. The place\, the surrounding landscape and its identity is very special\, not least because of its long history of giving refuge to the globally displaced and its enduring passion for socially engaged arts. We were also pleased to be joined by the members of the local Beyond Borders Totnes group\, who have been working tirelessly on welcoming asylum seekers and refugees to their community. \nThe retreat was presented in association with and support from Unbound Philanthropy and the Social Change Initiative.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/arts-and-social-change-retreat/
CATEGORIES:Learning,Multi-Art Form
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160917
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160918
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SUMMARY:Alketa Xhafa Mripa's 'Refugees Welcome' at solidarity demonstration
DESCRIPTION:Artist Alketa Xhafa Mripa took this dynamic installation to the Refugees Welcome Here demonstration in September 2016\, inviting members of public into the back of her van to share stories and reflections on the theme of welcome. \nAlketa\, who is originally from Kosovo\, drew on memories of her own welcome to the UK in creating the installation\, which she hopes will also provoke questions about the welcome received by refugees today. \n‘Refugees Welcome’ is commissioned by Counterpoints Arts and had its debut at British Museum as part of Refugee Week 2016. \nSee how visitors reacted to the installation in this short video.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/alketa-xhafa-mripas-refugees-welcome-at-solidarity-demonstration/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160716T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160716T180000
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SUMMARY:Everyday on Canalside Street Party
DESCRIPTION:Our community project and partnership with Canalside Residents Association reached its second year. We celebrated this wonderful community and our collaboration with a huge street party\, with residents\, local businesses\, cultural organisations and neighbours. \nThe Whitmore Community Centre and Phillip Street outside were a buzz with the very exciting programme: \nMUSIC by Pantonic Steel Orchestra\, Hackney’s SuperJazz youth Band and Carradine’s Cockney Sing-a-long.\n\nFREE FOOD\, the  Italian & Mediterranean feast cooked up by Chef Pierro Gammauta\, refreshments donated by the local branch of Tesco. \nACTIVITIES\, such as facepainting with Canalside resident Toni Barnes\, henna tattoos by Bijal and more from local organizations Bags of Taste\, Skyway Charity\, Geffrey Museum\, Shoreditch trust and others. \nFinally\, the EVERYDAYONCANALSIDE project hosted a number of storytelling activities:\nHumansOfCanalside with Marcia Chandra – individual photograph and story taken and printed for you to take home\nOur CanalsideConversations invited residents to take part in creating a shared picture of what and who makes up Canalside\nSocialBroadcasts with Lucia Scazzocchio – live radio chats sharing thoughts and stories about community. \nHosted by Canalside Residents’ Association in collaboration with Counterpoints Arts\, supported by Metropolitan. \nImages by Briony Campbell.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/everyday-on-canalside-street-party/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160709
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160711
DTSTAMP:20260430T154352
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SUMMARY:Simple Acts of Welcome
DESCRIPTION:Add your voice to a chorus of welcome for refugees at  Festival of Love. \nWe invite you to join us to celebrate the opening weekend of Festival of Love at Royal Festival Hall’s Clore Ballroom by offering your simple act of welcome and writing it on a placard. \nThis year’s Festival of Love explores how acts of empathy\, no matter how small\, can start to change attitudes to and opinions of humanitarian issues. \nSimple Acts encourages us to learn and do more with and for refugees. With every new person joining in\, we get a little closer to removing barriers between international communities\, and to creating the kind of world we all want to live in. \nCurated and produced by Counterpoints Arts\, Simple Acts is a programme dedicated to inspiring individuals to use small\, everyday actions to change perceptions of refugees.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/simple-acts-of-welcome/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160702
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160712
DTSTAMP:20260430T154352
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SUMMARY:Platforma SE showcase & exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Turner Contemporary\, Margate \nA new exhibition developed by Platforma South East network will launch with a Showcase Event on 2 July based on the Refugee Week 2016 theme ‘Welcome’. The show will bring together work created by\, with and about refugees and migrants from marginalised communities. \nThe exhibition will feature the following visual artists from across the region working in a variety of media: Hong Dam\, Jay Gearing & Amanda Rigby\, Gil Mualem Doron\, Edi Mandala\, and Josepa Munoz. \nProgramme for 2 July (subject to change): \n10-1pm\, 2.30-3.30pm & 4.30pm-5pm: Interactive photography installation with Gil Mualem Doron\, Sunley Gallery \n2pm-2.15pm: Artist showcase and introduction from Platforma\, Sunley Gallery \n2.30-3.15pm: Puppet Theatre with Ellen Muriel\, Foyle Studio \n3.30-4.30pm: Music performance and film screening with Kotchin\, Azza and young people \nSupported by Platforma\, Arts Council England\, Counterpoints Arts\, Music for Change\, Refugee Week \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/platforma-se-showcase-exhibition/
CATEGORIES:Music,Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160625T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160625T233000
DTSTAMP:20260430T154352
CREATED:20160510T080308Z
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SUMMARY:European Connections with Transylvania
DESCRIPTION:Refugees Welcome! Part 2: European Connections with Transylvania plus Guests as part of Refugee Week \nProduced as part of our music project Celebrating Sanctuary London. \nVenue: Rich Mix London \nEastern European band Transylvania headlines an evening of music celebrating Refugee Week 2016. \nThe second of two artist and activist nights at Rich Mix\, the evening also features a key match in the European Championships. \nTransylvania are a party band spanning the folk beats and music of the Ukraine and Romania\, combined with electronic dance music. Pushing the Balkan boom sound to the limits and with DJs and a VJ adding fuel to the fire of their show\, expect the evening to be true to form of their motto: ‘DAMN FUN!’ Transylvania will be presenting the mother of all parties to conclude Refugee Week\, the European cup final\, and the vote on whether we stay in or out of Europe! \nThe evening will kickstart with a showing of the match followed by a programme featuring artists and activists calling for support of those seeking safety across Europe\, and challenging the racism towards refugees that many in politics and the media have exploited in the run up to the Referendum Vote. \nMusicians\, spoken word artists and activists come together for a programme in support of Refugees rights concluding Refugee Week 2016. Balkan party sounds and music from Refugee artists including a host for the evening. \nExpect to question and be provoked\, expect to be inspired to show unity for refugees. \nTransylvania centres around the talents of Konstantin Zgomot and Vlad Damien. Their repertoire\, with an array of awesome acoustic musicians\, draws on their roots\, rhythms and melodies from the Bukovina region\, but with red hot beats and samples provided by ultra producer Konstantin. Live the band kicks up a storm\, with original visuals and video mixes. Latest CD MR VLAD is out now. \ntwitter: @Transylvania_cc
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/european-connections-with-transylvania-2/
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160625T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160625T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T154352
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SUMMARY:Beats of the Antonov
DESCRIPTION:Beats of the Antonov is a documentary film following the displaced existences of the Blue Nile and Nuba Mountain communities along the border of North and South Sudan. Directed by Hajooj Kuka (who was born in Sudan)\, the film sets out to explore the issues of identity that lie at the heart of the Sudanese civil war. \nWinner of the 2014 People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival\, Beats of the Antonov explores the resilience of a community in the face of cultural oppression\, through music and dance. \nInstead of focusing solely on the Sudanese conflict\, Kuka chooses to spotlight the vibrant cultural traditions of the Nuba population and the ways in which these are recreated in refugee camps. Scenes of music-making are interspersed with interviews and observational shots to provide a personal representation of the reality on the ground. \nBeats of the Antonov is a short but optimistic film that throws up more questions than answers\, bringing much-needed attention to the on-going conflict in Sudan\, whilst also demonstrating the important role of music in maintaining hope and identity. \nThe screening is a collaboration between Counterpoints Arts and BFI\, in conjunction with Refugee Week and African Odysseys – a programme of films by and about the people of Africa. \nTickets will be £6.50\, available to buy on the BFI website. \nWatch the film’s trailer here.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/beats-of-the-antonov/
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SUMMARY:Moving Stories - Supplementary Schools and families Special event
DESCRIPTION:Refugee Week celebrations at the British Museum continue with a Special Event focused on supplementary schools\, young people and families.  \nThe Museum team collaborated with us to organise a special day for families to take part in lots of fun and engaging activities and to find out about the positive contributions refugees have made and continue to make to the UK.  \nCome to the Museum to create art work to add to a large ‘Welcome’ door installation in the Great Court\, watch an animation film made by the British Red Cross youth groups\, a performance created in collaboration between Dost and the Young Vic. There will be a chance to find out more about Amnesty International\, the UNHCR\, and the International Rescue Committee’s work across the world as well as to attend a storytelling session and special guided tours of the Museum.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/moving-stories-supplementary-schools-and-families-special-event/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form
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SUMMARY:Refugees Welcome! Featuring Logic\, Afrikan Boy and OpSa! Balkan Band with Azza
DESCRIPTION:A hip hop gig engaging with this year’s Refugee Week theme of Welcome. \nProduced as part of our music project Celebrating Sanctuary London. \nVenue: Rich Mix London \nLogic\, one of the UK’s leading voices in political hip hop\, will be heading up the first of two special Refugee Week evenings featuring artists and activists calling for action and awareness for refugees in the UK\, Europe\, the Middle East and beyond. \nLogic is an artist and activist\, and states this position through empowering songs entitled Question Everything\, For my People and his latest track I’m not an Alien. His socio-political activism and commentary is entwined throughout lyrics with current themes about imperialism\, war\, government cuts & corporations\, equality and social consciousness. \nLogic has emerged from strong roots in the South London underground hip hop scene and is also co-founder of The People’s Army\, which he established with like-minded artists such as Lowkey to effect ‘positive change’. Featuring luminaries of the UK hip hop and grime scene like Akala\, George the Poet\, and Mic Righteous\, the People’s Army is a community and platform for ideas to raise awareness – and encourages participation by anyone who wants to contribute. His energy can be felt by music fans of all genres. Songs like Spectator tear your heart out with hard-hitting lyrics whilst more up-tempo anthems such as The Future make Logic one of the most talented live performers in UK hip hop. \nWe are delighted to host Grime artist and MOBO nominee Afrikan Boy two years after his South Bank debut with us. African Boy is a second generation Nigerian living in London who has built a strong reputation for cultural exchange\, youth activism and engaging with other rappers internationally in countries like Sudan and Algeria. He has toured and guested on songs by MIA\, collaborated with DJ Shadow\, and toured with the Africa Express 8 tour that featured legends like Baba Maal\, Femi Kuti\, Fatoumata Diawara and Damon Albarn. \n\nAfrican Boy is cheeky and vibrant in his performance\, with an extra sharp wardrobe cut from Nigerian threads – but at the heart of his songs are the hardships of the migrant and refugee experience\, visa issues\, and identity fused with urban sounds from the UK and Nigeria. His music is rooted in influences like Fela Kuti\, King Sunny Ade and Dizzy Rascal. In 2015 he performed at the “Jungle” camp in Calais where he met with and performed to refugees there – this resulted in a film produced in partnership with Secret Cinema called ‘Border Business’. The humanity with which Afrikan Boy highlights refugee predicaments and his energized celebration of migrant roots will be just the ticket for this very special Refugee Week show. \nThe Op Sa! Balkan Band are a brass-centred Balkan party band performing songs spanning Serbia\, Macedonia\, Bosnia and Roma cultures with a contemporary twist. They are returning once more to Refugee Week with Czech Roma MC Azza from Margate\, with a special set to open the Rich Mix nights on the festival theme of ‘Welcome’. \nExpect to question and be provoked\, expect to be inspired to show unity for refugees. \n\nfacebook: Logicarmy\, Afrikanboy\, OpSaBalkanBand \ntwitter: @cslondonfext\, @LogicArmy\, @AfrikanBoy
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugees-welcome-logic-for-refugee-week-uk/
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Moving stories: a Refugee Week special at the British Museum
DESCRIPTION:FREE EVENT \nIn partnership with the British Museum we produced a very special Friday Late event\, curated around the 2016 Refugee Week theme of Welcome and around the incredible Museum’s collection of objects\, stories and ideas. \nThe multi-disciplinary programme included theatre\, spoken word\, music\, film screenings\, social broadcasting project and an array of engaging workshops and activities by some of our arts and advocacy partners. \nThe Museum’s Great Court\, the Enlightenment\, Assyria\, Parthenon Galleries were some of the spaces we ‘took over’ for this very special evening. \nWe hope that this event is the beginning of a long term friendship and collaboration with our partners at The British Museum. \nProgramme: \nUNHCR at the British Museum\n18.00-20.30\, East Lawn\nVisit the very special tent painted by Syrian refugee children and learn more about the people and the facts behind the ‘refugee crisis’. \nGuest book with Refugee Council\n18.00-20.30\, Colonnade\nEngage with the work of Refugee Council and answer the question ‘What does ‘Welcome’ mean to you?’ Share your thoughts and reflections from the evening. \nThe Open Gateway\n18.00-20.30\, Great Court\nInspired by Mimmo Paladino’s work in Lampedusa\, this door installation by artist Emily Tracy will be decorated with visitors’ messages and drawings around the theme of Welcome. \nWorld map\n18.00-20.30\, Great Court\nJoin Amnesty International UK with their beautifully hand-painted map of the world installation. \nHealing Classroom\n18.00-20.30\, Great Court\nCome along to a recreated International Rescue Committee Healing Classroom. Help us to create classroom materials for students in Nigeria and view our accompanying multimedia exhibition. \nFloating Life by Hong Dam and Bern O’Donoghue\n18.00-20.30\, Room 25\nHong Dam and Bern O’Donoghue present Floating Life a participatory installation. The two artists contemplate the hopes and dreams of refugees and the perils they encounter on their journey in search of a new life. \nRefugees Welcome by Alketa Xhafa-Mripa\n18.00-20.00\, Room 34\nAlketa is an artist originally from Kosovo and her ongoing Refugees Welcome installation\, a Counterpoints Arts commission\, is a safe and welcoming space for conversations\, memories of artist’s own welcome to the UK and questioning of support and welcome that exists today. \nIllustration workshop by Olivier Kugler\n18.00-20.30\, West Foyer\nOver the last two and a half years illustrator Olivier Kugler has been commissioned by  Médecins Sans Frontières to create drawings documenting the circumstances of Syrian refugees. Join Olivier in his ‘artists studio’ to explore his practice. \nObject handling with the Islington Centre for Refugees and Migrants\n18.00-20.30\, West Foyer\nCome and meet ESOL learners and find out the connections they have made to the collections in the British Museum. \nSomething to Declare by Cultivators\n18.00-20.30\, Studio\nExperience border control and the transition from one place to another at the Something to Declare – ‘Arrivals Bureau’. Once you get through the queuing\, form filling\, senseless questions and  bureaucracy\, you’ll be led to the interview room to record your own or your family’s arrival to London story. \nTrail – Museum wide\nThe trail is based on the objects that refugees receive when welcomed in refugee camps across the world.\nFree\, collect from the Information Desk in the Great Court Special event \nKayo Chingonyi followed by Maya Youssef\n18.00-18.30 & 20.00-20.30 Great Court\nWriter\, editor\, creative producer and Counterpoints Arts’ Poet-in-Residence\, Kayo introduces this special event. Virtuoso Syrian kanun player and composer Maya Youssef has been a regular commentator in the media and a performer of many prestigious events. Maya will be accompanied by percussionist Antonio Romero. Free\, no seating \nLouai Alhenawi and Stephen Ellis\n19.00-19.40\, Great Court\nThis is a first-time collaboration led by Syrian ney musician Louai Alhenawi and Stephen Ellis from indie band Revere and Gabby Young & Other Animals. Joining them will be Syrian musicians Sanaa Wahbah on Qanun\, Moheddin Aljabi on vocals and members of Revere. Through acoustic instruments\, percussion and Classical Arabic music the artists will explore the Refugee Week theme of ‘Welcome’ with their unique blend of new\n& reinterpreted songs. \nFrom Syria to Sicily\,  storytelling with Alia Alzougbi\n18.15-18.45 & 19.45-20.15\, Room 17\nFar from the 24-hour rolling news are cultures rich with stories and wisdom. Join storyteller Alia Alzougbi as she shares a dynamic tapestry of tales from Syria to Sicily. Free\, just drop in\, limited seating. \nHaymanot Tesfa followed by Tales from Noah’s Ark from Write to Life\n18.00-18.30 & 19.30-20.00\, Room 1\nAmharic singer & traditional krar player\, Haymanot is originally from Ethiopia. ‘Freedom from Torture’s Write to Life creative writing group present their imaginative\, moving – and funny – responses to Julian Barnes’ account of the Noah’s Ark story’ Free\, just drop in\, limited seating. \nChildren of War by Arcola Theatre / Ala-Turka\n19.00-19.30\, Room 18\nArcola Ala-Turka present extracts from their sellout production CHILDREN OF WAR / SAVAŞIN ÇOCUKLARI\, which reimagines Euripides’ The Children of Hercules\, a 2400 year old study of tolerance\, understanding and displacement. Performance is in Turkish. Free\, just drop in\, limited seating. \nWe are here by the Young Vic / DOST\n18.30-19.00 & 19.30-20.00\, Room 25\nInspired by the recent hit production of If You Kiss Me\, Kiss Me at the Young Vic and set to a soundtrack of popular world music\, ‘We’re Here’ is a piece of live performance made by a group of young people from all over the world who now call London home. Free\, just drop in\, limited seating. \nA day in the life by ice&fire theatre\n19.30-20.30\, Sackler Rooms\nSince 2015\, ice&fire has been running fortnightly creative expression sessions with a several members of Room to Heal\, a healing community for refugees and asylum seekers who have survived torture and other forms of organised violence. Tonight\, the group will share an intimate performance of some of the work that has been\ncreated through these sessions. Free\, just drop in\, limited seating. \nFilm Programme\n18:00-18:30. Stevenson Lecture Theatre\nAnonymous in Lampedusa\nScreening of the film Anonymous in Lampedusa.  Followed by Q&A. \nFilming Syria: Stories from the Jasmine Tree\n19:00-20.00\, Stevenson Lecture Theatre\nFilming Syria is a selection of short films produced by young filmmakers based in Syria with support from Bidayyat Audiovisual Arts. Presented in collaboration with artist\, Juan delGado. Followed by Q&A. \nShare your experience\nFollow @britishmuseum and @counterpointsarts on Twitter and tweet using #refugeeswelcome. \nMore details on the programme and contributing artists and organisation to be announced shortly.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/moving-stories-a-refugee-week-special-at-the-british-museum/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form
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