Borderline: A Comedy about a Tragedy
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.
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Refugee Week 2017 Conference
A stimulating day of workshops, performances and short, inspiring presentations to help you prepare for Refugee Week.
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Dance/Movement, Refugees and Migration
A Platforma networking meeting looking at current practice and future directions. Open to all (whether you have previous experience in this work or not).
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Stuart Hall Foundation, ‘Who do you think you are? Culture, identity and the contemporary art museum’
In collaboration with the Stuart Hall Foundation and chaired by Gilane Tawadros, this special 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.
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Learning Lab: How To Do Rights With Things: Art and Politics
Details to follow
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Platforma Festival planning
Join 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.
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Learning Lab: Unlearning the Role of the Artist with Eva Sajovic
Join 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.
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Film Screening: John Akomfrah’s The Stuart Hall Project (2013)
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.
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Searching for Great Aunt Minna
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.
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Peirene Press: breach and The Cut
Join us for a conversation between Samantha Schnee, Chair of Words Without Borders and publisher Meike Ziervogel, with writers Olumide Popoola and Annie Holmes to explore the unique commissioning approach of Peirene Press.
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Learning Lab: Brexit, Migration and Communities – A Call to Creative Action
Learning 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.
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No Boundaries 2017 – a symposium on the role of arts and culture
Counterpoints Arts Co-directors, Áine O’Brien and Almir Koldzic presented at this year’s No Boundaries conference, 28 & 29th March 2017, on the transformative potential of art as a catalyst for social change and the importance of cross-cultural partnerships between artists, communities and institutions.
