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SUMMARY:I.A.M. THESE PEOPLE
DESCRIPTION:A participatory nomadic street cafe in Cliftonville\, Margate created by Dipesh Pandya; reclaiming public space to explore sonic cultures of [im]migrant and refugee trajectories. \nFree. \nOrganised by hands.up.if.you.re.brown and supported by Counterpoints Arts.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/i-a-m-these-people/
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Multi-Art Form
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SUMMARY:Passage: New Writing on Displacement and Migration
DESCRIPTION:Hear from fresh new writers and established authors as they discuss their work on the themes of displacement and migration.\n  \nThis event features a line-up of artists and writers at the forefront of driving social change through their storytelling. \nSpeakers include Helen Benedict\, British American novelist and journalist\, is best known for her writings on war and social injustice. Her new non-fiction book\, Map of Hope and Sorrow\, co-authored with Syrian writer\, Eyad Awwadawnan\, released in June 2022\, tells the stories of today’s refugees trapped in Greece. \nAnia Bas grew up in Poland and moved to the UK over 15 years ago to pursue her career in the arts. She has worked with the Tate\, the Whitechapel Gallery\, Eastside Projects and others as an artist and arts organiser. She graduated from the Faber Academy in 2018 and Odd Hours is her first novel. \nThis event is also in collaboration with Footnote. \nLaunching in spring 2022\, Footnote is a disruptive new publisher focusing on migration\, identity and marginalised knowledge and experience. \n  \nTickets: £5 standard entry\, excludes booking fee. \nConcessions 25%. Limited availability. Read about concessions. Tickets can only be sold through the Southbank Centre and our authorised agents\, and can’t be resold. You can return your tickets to the Southbank Centre for a credit voucher up to 48 hours before the event. Tickets resold on any third-party platforms will become invalid. \nFor ages 16+.  Approximate run time: 90 mins.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/passage-new-writing-on-displacement-and-migration/
CATEGORIES:Literature & Spoken Word
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SUMMARY:Mobilistan film (screening and Q&A)
DESCRIPTION:Documentary film by Ana Stanic with the Mobilistan team (Manaf Halbouni and Christian Manss)\, Counterpoints Arts and Allianz Kulturstiftung \nThe film traces the first official state tour of Mobilistan across European borders in the turbulent and uncertain Covid pandemic summer of 2021. \nMobilistan is the first ever mobile state limited to the space of a single vehicle. An art project dealing with the issues of mobility\, territorial limits\, marginalisation\, freedom to travel and the desire to belong. The state is the limousine and the limousine is the state\, whose territory can only be entered or exited through the doors of the vehicle. \nThis does not\, however\, preclude Mobilistan from having its own flag\, anthem and passport. \nFollow the state leaders on red carpets from Berlin to Dresden\, Prague\, Vienna\, Zagreb\, Sofia\, Istanbul\, Wroclaw\, Krakow and Solingen. \nDid it all go smoothly? Did the state ever run out of oil? Did it encounter any climate challenges and did any neighbouring state leaders offer help or support? All diplomatic blunders and successes\, planned or improvised\, hidden or displayed\, are revealed in the film\, alongside the onlookers’ thoughts and observations\, and a few surprises. \nMobilistan performance and tour were realised in cooperation with Allianz Kulturstiftung. The film has been commissioned by Counterpoints Arts as part of Across Borders initiative and realised in collaboration with Allianz Kulturstiftung. Produced by Natasha Davis for Counterpoints Arts. \nIntroductions\, short film premiere and Q&A with: \nManaf Halbouni – artist and Mobilistan co-creator\nChristian Manss – artist and Mobilistan co-creator\nAna Stanic – filmmaker\nNatasha Davis – producer \nThis is a free online event. Please register here to receive a link to a Zoom screening and Q&A on Friday 24 June\, 5-6pm. \nLong live Mobilistan! \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/mobilistan-film-screening-and-qa/
CATEGORIES:Film and Photography
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SUMMARY:Artist-to-Artist Interdisciplinary Practice: Language/Memory/Displacement
DESCRIPTION:Refugee Week 2022 in Dublin \nA collaboration between Fire Station Artists’ Studios Dublin & Counterpoints Arts London. \nArtist-to-Artist Interdisciplinary Practice: Language/Memory/Displacement \nFSAS with its proud legacy of social engagement\, works with artists who catalyse conversations between people and places. Never has this been more important. \nWorking with Counterpoints Arts London\, alongside artists and curators\, we ask you to join us for a roundtable about refugeeism and displacement and the boundaries of language\, identity\, history and memory. The conversation will take place in the context of Refugee Week\, which in 2022 explores the theme of healing as a form of mutual\, civic and collective care. \nIt will be navigated through the prism of two intergenerational\, interdisciplinary practices: the poetry\, performance and curated events of Caroline Bergvall\, and the hip hop dance\, theatre and fashion/design work of Tobi Balugun. Our aim is to open a space between artists\, art forms and other cultural actors to speak to the urgent issues of our time. \nModerator: Áine O’Brien\, Curator of Learning and Research and Co-Founder\, Counterpoints Arts \nPlease RSVP to: helen@firestation.ie with the subject Refugee Week Round Table by 10 June 2022 \nArtist-to-Artist Interdisciplinary Practice: Language/Displacement/Memory is associated with Hip Hop Pedagogy and Power – Reclaim the Archive\, an intergenerational place-based programme initiated by Counterpoints Arts in 2019 with artists\, educators\, digital producers\, curators\, archivists and activists. http://www.reclaimthearchive.com/  \n\n\n\nBiographies \n\n\n \n\n\nCaroline Bergvall\nPhotograph credit: Thierry Bal \n\n\nOf French-Norwegian heritage\, based in London\, Caroline Bergvall is an award- winning poet\, artist and performer. She works across languages\, artforms and media. Widely recognised for her contextual performances and writing practices working from contemporary audio-visual modes\, multilingual and queer identities and histories. Her performances and installations are shown internationally: Tate Modern (London)\, John Hansard gallery (Soton)\, Callicoon (NY)\, Jewish Museum (Munich)\, Fondatio \n\n\n\n\nTapiès (Barcelona)\, Khoj Art Centre (New Delhi)\, Pompidou Centre (Paris)\, Listening Academy (Berlin)\, Dublin LIFF\, Audiatur Festival (Oslo). Awarded multiple fellowships and commissions and a Cholmondeley Award for Contribution to Poetry (2017) and the Art-Literary Prize Bernard Heidsieck-Centre Pompidou\, Paris. \nHer current cycle Sonic Atlas explores languages in/out of context and includes the sunrise performance Ragadawn (European tour 2016-18) and the nocturnal Nattsong (Turner Contemporary Gallery\, 2021)\, with composer Gavin Bryars\, and sound-designer Jamie Hamilton. Her online Night & Refuge (2020- ongoing) is a live collaborative writing event across timezones. Books include: Alisoun Sings (2019)\, the final volume of a trilogy exploring medieval and contemporary languages; and source materials include: Meddle English (2011) and Drift (2014). \n\n  \n\n\n\n \n\n\nTobi Balugun\nPhotograph credit: Owen Behan \n\n\nTobi Balugun is a Nigerian born\, Dublin based\, Multidisciplinary Movement Artist working primarily in Dance and Fashion. A professional member of Dance Ireland\, Tobi has performed for and created community-led performances and projects with many artists/companies such as CoisCeim\, Cathy Coughlan\, Story of the Sei\, David Bolger and more. He was the recipient of the Create AIC Scheme Bursary Award 2020: Collaborative Arts and Human Rights. This period of research and critical reflection stemmed from an interest in delivering high quality arts engagement to Black-Irish communities \n\n\n\n\nand in expanding points of access for young Black Artists. A recipient of the Agility Award 2021\, he carried out a residency in Dance Ireland to begin the research process for ‘Ára’\, a theatrical dance piece portraying masculinity through a fusion of Hip-Hop cultural styles\, Afrobeats and traditional Nigerian dance. \nAs a curator\, Tobi has partnered with Smashing Times to produce\, ‘Eascair – A Black Irish Renaissance’\, as well as Dance Ireland for Black Canvas Curations\, a month packed with urban classes. Both events highlighted local teachers from diverse backgrounds. Over the last 5 years\, Tobi has established himself as a new voice in sustainable Irish clothing\, creating bespoke pieces for specific events and commercial video work\, as well as made to order designs for his own clothing line – SELF MADE.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/artist-to-artist-interdisciplinary-practice-language-memory-displacement/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220620T153000
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SUMMARY:Le Havre
DESCRIPTION:A charming comedy-drama set in the port city community of Le Havre. \nSet in the port city of Le Havre\, this charming comedy-drama tells the story of an ageing bohemian\, his wife and the wider community as they confront everyday hardships of their own but also that of the refugee crisis that surrounds them. A discussion will follow the screening\, exploring different aspects of the film\, including reasons for its inclusion in this year’s Refugee Week programme. \nFree for over-60s (booking by phone or in person only)\, otherwise normal matinee price. \nPresented by BFI in collaboration with Counterpoints Arts for Refugee Week 2022
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/le-havre/
CATEGORIES:Film and Photography
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SUMMARY:V&A film screening: Imploded\, burnt\, turned to ash
DESCRIPTION:A film screening of a drawing and sound performance by artist Issam Kourbaj in collaboration with composer Richard Causton and soprano Jessica Summers\, to mark the 10th anniversary of the Syrian uprising.\nThe performance begins with Kourbaj drawing fragments of Arabic words and eye idols on a large surface in layers\, repeating and obscuring them. The words are inspired by the teenage graffiti that sparked the Syrian uprising in March 2011\, and the eye idols are based on three Syrian eye idols from The Fitzwilliam Museum’s collection.\nThe final drawing is then burnt\, with the ash being placed in a glass box as a memorial to victims of the ongoing crisis. \nThis event is free and part of V&A’s Refugee Week programme of events celebrating community and mutual care. Find out more information at V&A website
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/va-imploded-burnt-turned-to-ash/
CATEGORIES:Film and Photography
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SUMMARY:V&A Family Trail: Refugee stories
DESCRIPTION:Go on a journey around the museum and explore six objects that tell a story about people who became refugees. This trail is aimed at families with children. \n\nThe United Nations Refugee Agency states that refugees are people who have fled war\, violence\, conflict or persecution and have crossed an international border to find safety in another country. Refugees often have had to flee with little more than the clothes on their back\, leaving behind homes\, possessions\, jobs and loved ones. Walk this trail with your family or friends to celebrate the contribution of refugees to the United Kingdom and encourage better understanding between communities. \n\nThis event is free and part of V&A’s Refugee Week programme of events celebrating community and mutual care. Found out more about the history of the objects included in the trail at the V&A website. \nImage: Dish\, by unknown maker\, about 1880\, Mumbai\, India. Museum no. IS.185-1965. © Victoria and Albert Museum\, London
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/va-family-trail-refugee-stories/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220611T000000
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SUMMARY:V&A Female Voices Tour
DESCRIPTION:Uncover the contribution of women to art and design on this special tour taking place every Saturday at 11.00. \nThere have always been women artists but\, until very recently they’ve often been ignored by the art world. This V&A Volunteer Guide-led tours highlights the leading role of women as artists but also patrons\, muses\, creators\, business partners and more. \nThis event is free and part of V&A’s Refugee Week programme of events celebrating community and mutual care. Find out more information at V&A website. \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/female-voices-tour/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220601T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220601T193000
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SUMMARY:Fadia’s Tree
DESCRIPTION:Screening + Q&A with director Sarah Beddington and special guest (TBA) \nThis striking documentary follows a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon and her ambition to reconnect with her ancestral homeland. \nEnglish and Arabic with English subtitles \nScreening in the run-up to Refugee Week\, Sarah Beddington’s film is a compelling documentary account of the director’s friendship with Fadia\, a charismatic Palestinian woman and teacher who lives in a refugee camp in Lebanon but is determined to reconnect with her ancestral homeland. This striking\, deeply poetic and profound film makes connections to bird migration and the healing power of a particular tree against the backdrop of history\, and a cruel fate that separates a people from their homeland. \nPresented by BFI in partnership with Counterpoints Arts for Refugee Week 2022
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/fadias-tree/
CATEGORIES:Film and Photography
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220527T200000
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SUMMARY:The Power to Create: Pop Culture and Narrative Change
DESCRIPTION:Friday 27 May\, 6-8pm BST\nLevel 5 Function Room\, Southbank Centre\nFree but ticketed via Southbank Centre website. If tickets are sold out\, join the waitlist. \nCounterpoints Arts\, the UK’s leading organisation in the field of arts\, migration and cultural change\, in collaboration with Southbank Centre\, presents ‘The Power to Create: Pop Culture & Narrative Change’\, an in-person networking event as part of our PopChange Salon Series. The evening will feature speakers who are at the forefront of driving social change\, building movements and disrupting existing power structures through vibrant\, game-changing cultural content in the US and UK.  \nSpeakers: \n\nNana Bempah\, an award-winning Executive Producer in film and advertising\, and founder and CEO of Pocc – a creative network driving cultural impact.\nRashad Robinson (via live link)\, a US civil rights leader and President of Color Of Change\, which builds power for Black communities through innovative cultural strategies.\nand Samir Patel\, innovation leader and CEO of Comic Relief\, which has recently launched The Power of Pop Fund with Unbound Philanthropy.\n\nGuest hosted by Naima Khan\, Director of Inclusive Mosque Initiative\, Co-Chair of Counterpoints Arts and one of Nesta and The Observer’s 50 New Radicals for their work on intersectional feminism. \nThis Salon is for TV/film creators and producers\, storytellers\, funders and narrative change makers\, and we invite you to join us for this interactive discussion and networking event. \n \nThe fusion of social change‑makers\, movement builders\, narrative experts\, creatives and funders has the potential to be one of the biggest\, driving forces of social and environmental change in our world over the years to come. We need to work together to harness the power\, opportunities and potential of pop culture for social change. (Sachrajda and Zukowska\, New Brave World Report\, 2021 \nThe PopChange Salon Series — presented by Counterpoints Arts’ Popchange initiative — are curated exchanges with change makers\, storytellers and the entertainment industry to explore opportunities for harnessing pop culture for real social change. Hosted by K Biswas (The Race Beat)\, and building from the recent New Brave World report (Sachrajda & Zukowska\, 2021)\, the Salon Series focuses on areas with momentum for narrative change in the UK — TV/film\, gaming and comedy — with particular reference to themes of racial justice\, migration and displacement. \nFriday 27 May\, 6-8pm\nLevel 5 Function Room\, Southbank Centre\nFree but ticketed via Southbank Centre website. If tickets are sold out\, join the waitlist.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/the-power-to-create-pop-culture-and-narrative-change/
CATEGORIES:Pop Culture
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SUMMARY:Mobilistan (film)
DESCRIPTION:First screening of a documentary film by Ana Stanic with the Mobilistan team (Manaf Halbouni and Christian Manss)\, Counterpoints Arts and Allianz Kulturstiftung \nThe film traces the first official state tour of Mobilistan across European borders in the turbulent and uncertain Covid pandemic summer of 2021. \nMobilistan is the first ever mobile state limited to the space of a single vehicle. An art project dealing with the issues of mobility\, territorial limits\, marginalisation\, freedom to travel and the desire to belong. The state is the limousine and the limousine is the state\, whose territory can only be entered or exited through the doors of the vehicle. \nThis does not\, however\, preclude Mobilistan from having its own flag\, anthem and passport. \nFollow the state leaders on red carpets from Berlin to Dresden\, Prague\, Vienna\, Zagreb\, Sofia\, Istanbul\, Wroclaw\, Krakow and Solingen. \nDid it all go smoothly? Did the state ever run out of oil? Did it encounter any climate challenges and did any neighbouring state leaders offer help or support? All diplomatic blunders and successes\, planned or improvised\, hidden or displayed\, are revealed in the film\, alongside the onlookers’ thoughts and observations\, and a few surprises. \nMobilistan performance and tour were realised in cooperation with Allianz Kulturstiftung. \nThe film has been commissioned by Counterpoints Arts as part of Across Borders initiative and realised in collaboration with Allianz Kulturstiftung. \nIntroductions\, short film premiere and Q&A with: \nManaf Halbouni – artist and Mobilistan co-creator \nChristian Manss – artist and Mobilistan co-creator \nAna Stanic – filmmaker \nAllianz Foundation \nCounterpoints Arts \nLong live Mobilistan!
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/mobilistan-film/
CATEGORIES:Film and Photography
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220504T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220504T150000
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SUMMARY:Binge Watching Hate: Strategies for Fighting the Rise of Digital Extremism
DESCRIPTION:Join advocates\, scholars\, and strategic thought leaders in conversation about cutting-edge communications strategies for combating the rise of far-right extremist ideology in digital spaces. \nDATE/TIME: Wed. May 4th\, 3pm UK/10AM EST. \nLive on Facebook @CounterpointsArts @DefineAmerican \nPanel: \nSarah E. Lowe\, Moderator\, (Director of Research + Impact\, Define American\, US) \nSarah is a health equities researcher\, a Ph.D. candidate in Community Health Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst\, and the Director of Research + Impact at the immigrant rights advocacy organization Define American. Her work focuses on narrative and participatory approaches\, particularly storytelling as critical narrative intervention in and around immigrant communities. \nZahed Amanullah (Resident Senior Fellow\, Institute for Strategic Dialogue\, UK) \nZahed leads ISD’s civil society engagement\, communications and partnerships. He coordinates between activists\, frontline workers\, and relevant civil society networks. \nDr. Francesca Bolla Tripodi\, (Senior Faculty Researcher\, CITAP: University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill\, US) \nFrancesca is a sociologist who studies how participatory media perpetuates systems of inequality. She is an assistant professor at the School of Information and Library Science at UNC Chapel Hill\, and is an affiliated researcher with Data & Society. \nShauna Siggelkow (Director of Digital Storytelling\, Define American\, US) \nShauna is a television and digital video producer who specializes in creating content-based advocacy campaigns. She leads an innovative strategy at the non-profit Define American\, where she combines social media influencer networks and digital humanities research to combat the spread of misinformation online. \nTony McAleer\, (Founder\, Life After Hate\, US) \nAuthor\, activist\, and founder of “Life After Hate\,” Tony knows firsthand how to combat white supracists online\, because he used to be one. Since reforming his ideology\, he has founded “Life After Hate\,” where he leads narrative and content strategy efforts to combat the rise of white nationalism in the U.S.\, and rehabilitate extremists who have bought into the rhetoric. \nPresented by Define American in partnership with Counterpoints Arts as part of our PopChange Salon Series. \nThe PopChange Salon Series — presented by Counterpoints Arts’ Popchange initiative — are curated exchanges with change makers\, storytellers and the entertainment industry to explore opportunities for harnessing pop culture for real social change. Building from the recent New Brave World report (Sachrajda & Zukowska\, 2021)\, the Salon Series focuses on areas with momentum for narrative change in the UK — TV/film\, gaming and comedy — with particular reference to themes of racial justice\, migration and displacement.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/binge-watching-hate-strategies-for-fighting-the-rise-of-digital-extremism/
CATEGORIES:Learning,Pop Culture
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SUMMARY:PopChange Salon Series X Now Play This Festival: Stories of Displacement in Video Games
DESCRIPTION:Can video games change our understanding of what it means to be a refugee? \nWith displacement as a guiding theme\, this will be an exploratory conversation looking at different ways in which video games can diversify our understanding of refugee experiences. The discussants will each be talking about some of their own projects — including the popular text-based game Bury Me\, My Love — while exploring the values and challenges of bringing lived experience into game development\, platforms for experimentation and cross-sector collaboration\, and opportunities with interactive forms such as AR/VR. This will be an inspiring conversation for game designers\, storytellers\, art-ivists and narrative change-makers. \nThe discussion will be facilitated by Jennifer Estaris\, Game Director of ustwo games (known for Monument Valley and Alba: A Wildlife Adventure) in conversation with:  \n\nSindi Breshani – Co-founder of Episod Studio which is currently developing ‘Race for the Arctic’\, a documentary game built with indigenous communities.\nFlorent Maurin (via live feed) – Founder of The Pixel Hunt – a games design studio focused on reality-inspired games\, including Bury Me\, My Love\, produced in collaboration with a Syrian refugee. \nMalath Abbas (via lived feed) – Founder of Biome Collective\, and currently producing ‘Hope’\, a playful experience that documents his own journey as a refugee to the UK.\n\nThis event is presented by Counterpoints Arts as part of its PopChange Salon Series in collaboration with Now Play This (8-10 April 2022) — a festival of experimental game design held at Somerset House. This year’s theme explores the relationship between game design and democracy. \nThe PopChange Salon Series — presented by Counterpoints Arts’ Popchange initiative — are curated exchanges with change makers\, storytellers and the entertainment industry to explore opportunities for harnessing pop culture for real social change. The Salon Series focuses on areas with momentum for narrative change in the UK — TV/film\, gaming and comedy — with particular reference to themes of racial justice\, migration and displacement. \n********* \nLinks & More Info: \nGet tickets to the Festival (£6.50-9) via Somerset House website: https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/now-play-2022  \nIf you are interested in joining\, we have a limited number of free tickets available. Get in touch with marcia@counterpoints.org.uk. \nWatch online: https://twitch.tv/nowplaythis \nImage credit: Bury Me\, My Love © The Pixel Hunt
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/popchange-salon-series-x-now-play-this-festival-stories-of-displacement-in-video-games/
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Digital,Gaming,Pop Culture
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SUMMARY:No Direction Home - Borderings
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night of laughter from the brilliant No Direction Home\, hosted by Ola Labib\, with Yasmeen Ghawri\, Selam Amare\, Edin Suljic\, Charly Monreal. \nNo Direction Home is a comedy collective produced by Counterpoints Arts featuring new stand-ups from refugee and migrant backgrounds. They’ve performed sell-out gigs around the country including at London’s Southbank Centre and the Edinburgh Fringe. Nish Kumar says: “The No Direction Home comedians are a very exciting\, interesting and creative bunch of people to be around. And they are very funny!” \nHost Ola Labib is a star of the comedy circuit being the only Black\, Muslim\, female\, Sudanese comedian currently performing in the UK. She has already gained serious ground on the circuit\, performed on TV shows such as Mo Gilligan’s Lateish and has no intention of slowing down. \nPresented as part of Borderings \nPlease note that we can only offer a limited number of Unwaged tickets. Do not purchase one of these unless you have a legitimate need. \n\n\n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/no-direction-home-borderings/
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220303T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220303T123000
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SUMMARY:Monthly Meet: Coffee and Cake
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to a friendly networking session for those involved in arts\, culture and community projects relating to refugees \nAt the Refugee Week Conference earlier in February we were struck (and inspired) by how much everyone wanted to share and make connections with each other – never mind that we were 300 people on one Zoom chat! \nSo\, we decided to make our March Monthly Meet an open networking session for anyone involved or interested in Refugee Week and Platforma. \nYou might be planning a Refugee Week event\, involved in arts\, culture\, education or sports by and with refugees\, or just interested in finding out more: Everyone is welcome. \nJoin us to: \n• Share plans and ideas \n• Ask each other questions \n• Make new connections \nWe’ll ask you when you sign up who you’d like to meet/ what you’d like to learn\, and aim to design the breakout rooms accordingly (wish us luck). \nWe will send you the Zoom link the day before the event. \nBring your own coffee and cake ? ? \nRegister via Eventbrite \n* \nRefugee Week & Platforma Monthly Meets are free\, friendly online meet-ups on the first Thursday of every month\, for people interested in arts\, culture and social change to share learning and expand their networks.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/monthly-meet-coffee-and-cake/
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220218T123000
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SUMMARY:Communities In And Around Museums
DESCRIPTION:18th February\, 11.00-12.30  \nLive online via https://www.youtube.com/c/GARAGEMCA \n  \nCounterpoints Arts is collaborating with Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow to present Communities In And Around Museums: Interaction\, Practices and Principles. \nThe workshop will take place at Garage MCA and live online via YouTube as part of the Experiencing the Museum Conference \nThe discussion brings together Russian and British culture professionals who implement projects\, in one way or another\, designed for different communities\, such as elderly people\, people with migration experience\, or deaf and hard-of-hearing visitors. The conversation will seek to define the  term “community” (using versions proposed by participants) and  discuss collectively the principles of interaction\, who and how constructs them\, whether the relationships between institutions and communities are mutually beneficial\, and how they influence and change each other. \n  \nPARTICIPANTS \nMarianna Kruchinski is public programs curator at the Typography Center for Contemporary Art\, Krasnodar.  She is responsible for the Centre’s film program and for the design of inclusive projects in cooperation with the Generation\, Open Environment\, and Good South foundations.  Marianna will talk about her experience of launching a dance laboratory as part of the Garage Screen Film Festival and other practices of interacting with the city’s various communities. \nDr. Tehmina Goskar is Curator and Director of the Curatorial Research Centre\, Art Fund Headley Fellow at the Museum of Cornish Life\, and a Fellow of the Museums Association.  Tehmina will present the project Citizen Curators (2017–2021)\, a work-based curatorial training scheme aimed at the communities of seven museums in Cornwall\, a rural and coastal region with huge wealth disparities\, remote from large urban centres\, and with very limited access to high-quality informal educational opportunities.  From the start\, the program was pitched as an experiment in cultural democracy.  Unlike larger\, more wealthy museums and universities\, Citizen Curators was formed from the grassroots for the grassroots\, with a very modest budget provided by the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund.  It resulted in 80 people being successfully trained in curatorial skills\, modern ethical practice\, and critical museum awareness.  Tehmina’s presentation will reveal some of the key findings of the active four-year research project to show how successful such participatory and democratic learning programs are\, their limitations\, and the realisation of a more diverse and inclusive museum community and workforce. \nVlad Kolesnikov is a speech pathologist\, Russian Sign Language interpreter\, teacher of supplementary education at School #52 for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children\, curator of Accessibility and Inclusion at GES-2 House of Culture\, and co-curator of the Deaf Teens program at the project school Kaskad. Project as A Method.  From 2015 to 2018\, he developed programs for deaf and hard-of-hearing visitors at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and from 2018 to 2021\, he was head of accessibility and the implementation of inclusive programs at the State Historical Museum.  His professional interests embrace education of deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences and their involvement in the overall cultural context.  Vlad will talk about the studio Kruzhok Kvadrat\, an adapted extra-curricular education program for deaf and hard-of-hearing children that has been operating at Special School No. 52 since 2019.  Kruzhok Kvadrat introduces students to jobs in arts and culture to help them with future career choices.  The program uses special methods and techniques\, including various forms of work that respond to each student’s individual needs in terms of development and education. \nRana Ibrahim is an Iraqi archeologist\, a freelance collage artist\, and the founder and director of the project Iraqi Women Art and War (IWAW).  Rana will present IWAW\, a women’s community group based in Oxford and established in 2018.  The project gives women who have been affected by conflict an opportunity to process their experiences and tell their stories through art. \n  \nMODERATORS \nAsel Rashidova is a manager in the Inclusive Programs Department at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. \nTom Green is a Senior Producer at Counterpoints Arts\, an organisation that works in the UK and internationally on the arts\, migration\, and social change. \n  \nAttending the conference is available with advance registration. \nMore information: https://garagemca.org/en/event/conference-experiencing-the-museum-after-inclusion-utopias-and-new-scenarios \n  \nImage (c) Garage MCA
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/communities-in-and-around-museums/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220207T000000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220207T000000
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SUMMARY:Refugee Week Conference 2022
DESCRIPTION:7th and 11th February – online \nShare inspiration\, learning and ideas ahead of Refugee Week 2022. How can arts\, cultural and community activities can help us create a kinder\, more welcoming world? \nFull details and free booking via Eventbrite \nJoin others from across the UK and the world to share inspiration\, learning and ideas ahead of Refugee Week 2022 in June. Whether you’ve been part of Refugee Week for years or are interested in getting involved for the first time\, everyone is welcome. \nThe Refugee Week conference is for anyone who is interested in taking part in Refugee Week\, an annual festival celebrating the contributions of refugees. \nRefugee Week 2022 is 20 – 26 June\, and anyone can take part by holding their own event or activity\, big or small. The theme of Refugee Week 2022 is Healing. \nIf you have any access needs or require data to join the conference\, please email hello@counterpoints.org.uk. \nThe sessions will be different on both days – join us for either or both. \nSESSION 1: Monday 7 February 10:30am – 12:45pm \nHosted by Laura Nyahuye\, Artist and Founder of Maokwo \nProgramme includes: \n– How to get involved in Refugee Week 2022\n– ‘Ask a Refugee Week organiser’ Q&A\n– A choice of workshops\, including building activities around the theme of ‘Healing’\, digital inclusion and how to publicise your event through media and social media \nSESSION 2: Friday 11 February 10:30am – 12:15pm \nHosted by Ayham Alsuleman \nProgramme includes: \n– Networking and sharing\n– A choice of workshops including Refugee Week and sports\, ideas for arts organisations and artists and exploring ‘celebration contributions’ \nFull programme to follow. \nImage (c) Ambrose Musiyiwa
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-conference-2022/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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SUMMARY:Syrian Arts and Culture Festival
DESCRIPTION:SACF is a multidisciplinary arts festival showcasing Syria’s vibrant arts and culture. The curated multi-disciplinary programme of events offers a creative collision of film\, music\, performance\, visual arts and talks. The festival brings together established alongside emerging artists\, filmmakers\, performers\, and musicians to offer London audiences alternative narratives and perspectives on Syria\, its people\, and culture. \nThe festival’s name\, SACF\, is an acronym for Syrian Arts and Culture Festival. It also is a transliteration of the Arabic word ‘سقف’\, meaning ‘roof’ or ‘ceiling’\, a word which is also colloquially used to represent the very ‘limit’ of something. By drawing on these imaginaries\, SACF sets out to embody multiple meanings. On one hand\, the festival aims to bring people together under a shared roof\, where new connections and understandings can take shape. On the other hand\, it acts as a provocation against the limits imposed on forms of creative expression that many Syrians have cunningly navigated. SACF aspires to be a creative platform where limits can be pushed and boundaries are broken. \nThis year’s inaugural festival offers a platform to showcase a rich and exciting body of artistic output and creative expression that sheds light on Syria’s historical\, economic\, social\, political and cultural specificities. It presents a multitude of entry points through which to approach and reflect on present-day Syria\, pitting the richness and diversity of Syria\, along with its local intricacies\, against the uniformity portrayed by the global media and its images. Such an assemblage of works then necessarily points towards the plurality of the people and modes of existence that have constituted the formation of Syria since its independence in 1946. \nThe festival emerges as a site of counterrepresentation\, where a broad range of narratives\, topics and issues can begin to make their way to the surface\, allowed to be made visible once again. This importantly\, presents a portal\, wherein connections between past realities and present-day urgencies can be redrawn\, offering a lens through which the revolutionary aspirations of 2011 and the violent and destructive suppression that has since engulfed the country can be re-witnessed not as an isolated set of events\, but rather encountered as a series of situated historical processes. This then opens up a space to creatively and critically reflect on a number of pertinent questions: How can we begin to renegotiate the present through the lens of the past? What reparative possibilities can be realised through such encounters? And lastly\, what new trajectories towards the future can be generated as a result? \nSAFC 2022 is supported by Arts Council England\, Shubbak\, Ettijahat and Counterpoints Arts
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/syrian-arts-and-culture-festival/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form
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SUMMARY:#MonthlyMeet: Exploring 'Healing'\, the Theme of Refugee Week 2022
DESCRIPTION:The theme of Refugee Week 2022 is Healing: celebrating community\, mutual care\, and the human ability to start again. \nJoin our December Monthly Meet to hear from speakers and join the discussion to explore the theme\, and begin to think about how we might respond to it in our Refugee Week activities in June 2022. \nWhether or not you’ve been involved in Refugee Week before\, everyone is welcome. \nSpeakers to be announced soon. \nFree booking via Eventbrite \nIf you have any questions or accessibility needs\, please email Tom at hello@counterpoints.org.uk \n* \nRefugee Week & Platforma Monthly Meets are free\, friendly online meet-ups on the first Thursday of every month\, for people interested in arts\, culture and social change to share learning and expand their networks. \nPlatforma is a national network that supports and develops arts by\, about and with refugees and migrants\, and Refugee Week is a festival celebrating the contributions\, creativity and resilience of refugees. Platforma and Refugee Week are run/ coordinated by Counterpoints Arts. \nImage (c) Joana Saramago. Grounding Project\, by artist Julie Nelson and the members of the Maudsley Charity’s Grounding Project with UCL. Refugee Week 2018 at V&A Museum
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/monthlymeet-exploring-healing-the-theme-of-refugee-week-2022/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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SUMMARY:STORIES FROM THE ‘ROADS’ OF EMPIRE - public event and exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Tracing narratives of catastrophe\, displacement\, renewal\, and contestation associated with empire.\nMigration narratives are often told by those who have not experienced them.\nHow do we reclaim the lived complexities of our stories when they are told on our behalf by institutions? \nJoin us for an exhibition with artwork and reflections by BLKBRD Collective\, Dana Olarescu\, London South Bank University  academics Ozan Kamiloglu\, Henry Redwood\, and Elian Weizman\, responding to the stories of 17 Londoners. \nThe exhibition opens at LSU’s Borough Gallery with talks and drinks reception on 16th November  (18:00 – 21:00) and runs on 17th\, 18th\, 19th\, 22nd and 23rd (12:00 to 18:00).\nLive music performance by Ibrahim Fanous during the opening event. \nThe event reflects on the work produced  following an earlier workshop with 17 Londoners\, through the following questions and more: How different stories from the roads of empire entwines? What are the conditions of recreating a life after a long journey? How can we think about official archives of empire with oral histories and personal stories? How can we create a different understanding of the past that will inform a different politics of the present\, and future? \nThis project is a London South Bank University initiative in collaboration with\nCounterpoints Arts\, and part of the Being Human Festival. Register free here.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/stories-from-the-roads-of-empire-public-event-and-exhibition/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form,Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211102T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211102T123000
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SUMMARY:LEARNING LAB X PLATFORMA 6 // STITCHING TIME AND PLACE: POSTCARDS ACROSS THE RIVER
DESCRIPTION:This Learning Lab — hosted as part of Platforma 6 Festival — will facilitate a conversation around the Postcards Across the River project led by Clapham Park Creative Co-op and produced by Counterpoints Arts.\n\nDate: Tuesday\, 2 November 2021\nTime: 11am to 12:30pm\nCost: £ Free\nWho: For anyone interested in textile art\, community-based practice\, local culture/history and community resilience\nSpaces: Limited spaces\, booking required.\nLocation: Online on Zoom (recording will be available online at a later date)\nHosted by: Counterpoints Arts and Platforma 6 Festival\n\n\nAbout the Learning Lab\n\nPostcards Across the River is a durational\, cross-borough collaboration between two community groups on either side of the River Thames: Clapham Park Creative Co-op (Lambeth) and East London Textile Arts (Newham). Facilitated by the textile artist\, Sonia Tuttiett\, with input from story collector and Clapham Park resident\, Thérèse Mullan\, and commissioned and produced by Marcia Chandra\, at Counterpoints Arts. The fabric postcards and accompanying stories of Postcards Across the River weave memories of home together with the interpersonal\, cultural imaginaries of a post-Covid world. The embroideries tell stories of the past\, the present and the future\, merging complex temporalities through intricacy and detail.\n\nWe invite you to join us in this conversation with participants as they reflect on the neighbourhood journeys that they have taken in Postcards Across the River – exchanging knowledge\, skills and know-how.\n\nWe are delighted to also be joined by Deirdre Figueiredo\, Director of Craftspace\, a leading craft development organisation creating opportunities to see\, make and be curious about exceptional contemporary craft.\n\nQuestions to explore together \n\n 	How might the everyday skills of embroidery be used to chronicle and document a place or a neighbourhood?\n 	How can this work create ‘living archives’ – especially as we move cautiously out from Covid 19?\n 	How might this slow\, collaborative work help us re-learn the values of creative/social exchange\, interconnection\, interdependency\, mutual aid and collective care?\n 	How might this form of everyday creativity be a critical catalyst for more sustainable cooperative public art commissions\, re-connecting people within and between neighbourhoods and places?\n\n\nDiscussants\n\n 	Marcia Chandra\, Counterpoints Arts\, commissioner/producer\n 	Sonia Tuttiett\, commissioned artist\n 	Thérèse Mullan\, Clapham Park Creative Co-op Community Producer and commissioned writer\n 	Participants from both Clapham Park Creative Co-op and East London Textile Arts\n\nWith special guest\, Deirdre Figueiredo\, Director of Craftspace\n\n\nModerated by Áine O’Brien\, Counterpoints Arts\nOrganisers\nClapham Park Creative Co-op is a neighbourhood initiative exploring community change through creative conversation\, and is produced by Counterpoints Arts. It works in partnership with and is supported by the Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing Association. \n\nPlatforma arts and refugee network supports and develops arts and culture by\, about and with refugees and migrants. Platforma is managed by Counterpoints Arts in partnership with organisations across the country. Every two years we run the Platforma Festival in a different part of England. Platforma 6 will take place in Yorkshire and online in October 2021 with a special focus on textiles.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/learning-lab-x-platforma-6-stitching-time-and-place-postcards-across-the-river/
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Craft & Design,Learning
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SUMMARY:Stories from the 'roads' of empire - with London South Bank University\, artists Dana Olarescu and BLKBRD Collective
DESCRIPTION:Stories from the ‘Roads’ of Empire is a new collaboration with London South Bank University and artists Dana Olarescu\, and BLKBRD Collective\, and explores the stories of catastrophe\, displacement\, and subsequent renewal and contestation associated with empire and its metropole by engaging with two different archives: Imperial War Museums\, and memories of London residents. \nMigration narratives are often told by those who have not experienced them. How do we reclaim the lived complexities of our stories when they are told on our behalf by institutions? \nJoin us for a group workshop led by Romanian migrant\, Londoner\, and artist Dana Olarescu\, with BLKBRD Collective. We will reimagine Imperial War Museums’ archives\, by looking at a number of Archive pieces in relation to your stories and memories of displacement and personal renewal. The workshop forms part of a London South Bank University project\, Stories from the ‘Roads’ of Empire\, in collaboration with Counterpoints Arts. \nFor more information and to reserve a place\, email roadsofempire@gmail.com by 28 October. Places are limited\, so we advise early registration. \nParticipants will receive £40 for their time\, and lunch will be provided. Children are welcome. \nWorkshop conversations will inform an artwork to be showcased in a public-facing event at Borough Road Gallery\, London South Bank University\, on 16 November\, as part of the Being Human Festival. \nStories from the ‘Roads’ of Empire was initiated by London South Bank University academics Ozan Kamiloglu\, Elian Weizman and Henry Redwood. \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/stories-from-the-roads-of-empire-with-london-southbank-university-and-dana-olarescu/
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Learning
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211113
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SUMMARY:We Apologize – Public Art Installation by Adrian Paci
DESCRIPTION:From 20th October to 12th November 2021\, Victoria Square\, Athens will host We Apologize – a new\, in situ art installation by visual artist Adrian Paci. The work is the product of many months of research in collaboration with old and new residents from the Victoria Square neighbourhood\, following an invitation by the Counterpoints Arts and Victoria Square Project organizations\, curated by Niovi Zarampouka-Chatzimanou\, director of VSP and Almir Koldzic\, director of Counterpoints Arts. \nVictoria Square is one of the most contested and politically charged public spaces in Greece. It is a meeting point for many different communities that make up the neighborhood and is often associated with the debates around migration and refugees. “We apologize” does not take a specific stance on these debates\, but instead it challenges us to rethink\, look at each other\, and find better ways to live together. It is addressed to all of us\, regardless of our stance and our different needs\, imposing no conclusions of its own on the public space\, but rather acting as food for thought —as is generally the case with the works of Adrian Paci. \nA public programme consisting of all-ages workshops\, debates\, tours and other activities on the issues posed by the work will take place alongside the installation. The program schedule is realized in collaboration with and the support of Goethe Institut Athen. \n**Please accept our sincere apologies for any inconvenience that may arise from the presence of the installation in Victoria Square. We understand that even a small shift from our everyday itinerary and routine may be annoying\, and we acknowledge the difficulty in coexisting with what is “new\,” “other\,” or “unknown” —qualities that may indeed challenge the things we take as given in our everyday lives. \nThe installation “We Apologize” is part of the Across Borders European programme supported by Comic Relief\, as well as the Athens Culture Net of the City of Athens. The opening of the installation will take place in Victoria Square\, on 20th October 2021\, at 20:00.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/we-apologize-public-art-installation-by-adrian-paci/
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211001
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211108
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SUMMARY:Platforma 6 in Yorkshire
DESCRIPTION:Our biennial Platforma festival is coming to Yorkshire! \nPlatforma 6 will take place at a range of venues and public spaces across the county 1 October-7 November 2021\, produced by Counterpoints Arts in partnership with more than 20 different organisations\, artists and collectives. \nThe Platforma festival takes place in a different part of England every two years. It brings together artists\, organisations\, funders and others to showcase work\, develop networks and capacity\, share practice and to learn. \nThe programme for Platforma 6 will include: \nSuitcases: Telling Textile Travels \nA specially commissioned online exhibition that will incorporate over 20 international textiles from the Conflict Textiles collection focused on global displacement\, both historical and current. A short film will offer an in depth insight to the textiles. There will also be an online guided tour and a series of in-person and online events and programming inspired by the exhibition. \nLeeds Playhouse: Theatres of Sanctuary \nAs part of their programme for Platforma 6\, Leeds Playhouse\, who were the first ever Theatre of Sanctuary\, will host a Theatre of Sanctuary Network meeting.  A panel discussion produced in partnership with Opera North will focus on best practice for arts organisations that are working with people who are seeking sanctuary. \nFriendship Through Puppets \n6 Million + in Dewsbury are working with local people of all ages and backgrounds\, including refugees from Syria to create a giant puppet 4 metres tall based on Najma\, a Syrian woman re-settled in Kirklees – the seventh ‘Weeping Sister’ giant puppet created by 6 million +. All of the puppets will take part in a special parade for Platforma 6. \nIn Which Language Do We Dream? : Rich Wiles and the al-Hindawi family \nAn exhibition at Impressions Gallery Bradford that offers fresh insights into the issues of displacement\, identity\, resettlement\, integration and home\, through the photographic perspectives of a Syrian family with first-hand experience. It is a co-created project funded by Arts Council England\, bringing together a 5-year photographic collaboration between socially-engaged photographer Rich Wiles and the al-Hindawi family\, through discussions with curator Anne McNeil. Picture: Re-worked family archive photograph. © Rich Wiles/al-Hindawi family \nPoetry @ Platforma 6 \nPoetry workshops and performance as part of a special project for Platforma 6 led by Kayo Chingonyi. \nCommissioned by Counterpoints Arts for the sixth biennial Platforma Festivial\, poets will work with participants across Yorkshire to create new work for local performances. \nThe project is being led by  poet Kayo Chingonyi (insta @kayochingonyi)\, whose first collection Kumukanda won the Costa Prize and whose new collection\, A Blood Condition\, is shortlisted for the Forward Prize. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Studies at Durham University. \nThe workshops and performances will take place in the following locations: \n– Barnsley\, with Barnsley Feels Like Home – led by Andrew McMillan (Insta: @andrewpoetry\, Twitter: @AMcMillanPoet) \n– Halifax\, with St Augustine’s Centre and Halifax Festival of Words (performance: 22 October) – led  by Khadijah Ibrahim (Insta: @khadijah.ibrahiim)\n \n– Rotherham\, with British Red Cross and Grimm & Co – led by Helen Mort  (Insta: @morty_but_nice\nTwitter: @HelenMort) \nA one-off workshop will take place in Bradford led by Anan Tello\, in partnership with Artworks Creative Communities. \nKayo Chingonyi picture (c) Smart Banda \nThis commission is part of the Across Borders programme from Counterpoints Arts\, supported by Comic Relief. \nOther Platforma 6 partner organisations and artists include East Street Arts\, Art House\, Intercultured Festival\, St Augustine’s Centre in Halifax\, Barnsley Feels Like Home\, Mafwa Theatre\, Matilda Velevitch\, Varvara Shavrova\, Compass Theatre. \nFull programme
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/platforma-6-in-yorkshire/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form
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SUMMARY:Autumn School - Create and Counterpoints Arts
DESCRIPTION:Participants at the 2018 Summer School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice\, held in Carlingford\, Co. Louth. Photo: Aoife Herrity\n  \nCreate and Counterpoints Arts are pleased to announce the 2021 School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice for up to 12 artists. Due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions and social distancing\, we will host the 2021 School virtually over five days: 1\, 8\, 1\, 22\, 29 October. The Autumn School is an initiative of The Arts Council of Ireland’s Artist in the Community (AIC) Scheme\, managed by Create. \nAbout the Autumn School \nThe virtual Autumn School is shaped by global and translocal practices. It is fundamentally informed by the diverse life experiences and creative practices of participants\, and the work and mentoring of visiting facilitators. The focus of learning in the School is enabled by an exploration of the critical space between the lived realities of cultural diversity and the connective methodologies and collective actions underpinning collaborative practice. \nThe School is interdisciplinary in its curriculum and composition of participants\, presenters and facilitators. Together we will explore what cultural diversity means in practice – in people’s intimate lives\, in neighbourhoods and within communities of place and interest. Lines of inquiry include the following questions\, among others: \n\nThe concept of cultural diversity is often narrowly (sometimes stereotypically) read through the lens of policy\, but how does the practice of cultural diversity resonate as an intersectional and dynamic part of everyday life? And by extension how might the language around cultural diversity be challenged and repositioned?\nHow might the experience of cultural diversity be enacted in the context of collaborative arts practice and vice versa?\nHow can cultural diversity and working cooperatively form an intrinsic part of the artistic\, socially engaged process\, acting as a powerful driver for social change in both local communities and within arts organisations?\nHow to understand the critical intersection of cultural diversity and collaborative arts practice in the context of decolonisation and the urgency of global racial justice movements?\n\nThe 2021 School will take the form of a five-day virtual residency enabling a ‘think and do’ collaborative approach\, utilizing creative workshops\, critical and comparative case studies\, a creative group challenge\, one-to-one mentoring\, international guest artists including curators\, policymakers and activists. \nThe deadline for submission to be part of the School is the 30 August 2021\, 5pm. You will find guidelines and an online application form linked on this page: Autumn School \nDirected by: Dr Áine O’Brien – Curator of Learning and Research and Co-Founder\, Counterpoints Arts \nCo-Facilitator \nIsabel Lima\, Independent Artist and Director of The Gresham Horse project \nVisiting artists and facilitators include: \nDana Olărescu\, Independent Artist and Cultural Activist \nIsmail Einashe\, Investigative Journalist and Cultural Activist \nNike Jonah\, Executive Director of PACE (Pan-African Creative Exchange) \nDominik Czechowski\, International Curator\, Researcher and Writer \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/autumn-school-create-and-counterpoints-arts/
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Learning,Multi-Art Form
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SUMMARY:Adrian Paci : Athens
DESCRIPTION:Artists Adrian Paci has been commissioned by Counterpoints Arts in partnership with Victoria Square Project (VSP) in Athens to produce new public work as part of our Across Borders programme. Born in Albania and now living in Italy\, Adrian is an artist whose work has been exhibited internationally including at the Venice Biennale His commission will engage with the neighbourhood of Victoria Square\, leading to a public installation/intervention in the Square itself in Autumn 2021. It will form part of VSP’s ongoing enquiry: Who Is The Contemporary Athenian? with an associated residency programme for emerging artists. \n\nCommissioning partner Victoria Square Project (VSP) is an evolving social sculpture. It was created by the artists Rick Lowe and Maria Papadimitriou in the framework of documenta 14\, in Athens\, in 2017. It now operates as a contemporary art space focused on the empowerment and inspiration of the residents of Victoria. VSP aims to be a catalyst for highlighting the importance of culture\, art and creativity in order to build a more humane society. \n\n\n\nThe commission will be part of VSP’s programme: Who Is The Contemporary Athenian? This question is posed as an attempt to identify concretely the elements that define an inclusive Athenian society today beyond labels like immigrant\, refugee\, first or second generation\, Greek etc\, but under the common ground of the neighbours and co-citizens. \n\n\n\nA residency programme\, Station One\, will also form part of this programme\, with Counterpoints as one of the partners. Focusing on socially engaged artistic practices\, Station One Residency for emerging artists aims to promote the dialogue amongst the Greek artistic scene on a wide range of community engaged practices. \n\n\n\nA range of other partners across the arts and NGO sectors will also be involved in the programme including Solidarity Now\, who will be leading a photography project with young people in Athens. Image by Adrian Paci : Centro di Permanenza Temporanea (2007)
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/adrian-paci-athens/
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Stand-Up Comedy and the Critical Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join Counterpoints Arts for the next event in our PopChange Salon Series featuring a live recording of our new podcast “But Is It Funny?” which puts comedy criticism in the spotlight. \nPanellists Suchandrika Chakrabarti (comic and writer)\, Jamal Khadar (writer and researcher) and Brian Logan (comedy critic for The Guardian) will be discussing current issues in stand-up and highlighting upcoming gigs and events. \nFollowing the recording\, PopChange Salon Series host\, K Biswas\, will lead a reflective discussion where you can have your say on what topics you think future episodes should be covering. The aim  is to extend and diversify comedy criticism\, bringing a wider range of insights into mainstream and emerging work. \nFree booking via Eventbrite \nAbout the “But Is It Funny?” Podcast: \nLaunching in September 2021\, this weekly podcast features Suchandrika Chakrabarti (comic and writer)\, Jamal Khadar (writer and researcher) and Brian Logan (comedy critic for The Guardian) discussing issues and highlights of the stand-up comedy scene in the UK. \nBuilding on Counterpoints Arts’ No Direction Home comedy project — which trains a new generation of stand-up comedians with migrant and refugee backgrounds — and its recent PopChange Retreat\, “But Is It Funny?” recognises that more diverse critical conversations can have a significant role in opening access and broadening audiences. For example\, is improv discriminatory? Do Middle Eastern performers only make jokes about terrorists? Can refugees ever be funny? \nWhile comedy has soared in popularity across the UK and internationally\, critical conversations have continued to be less prominent than for other artforms. “But Is It Funny?”\, the first regular podcast to focus on comedy criticism\, will help address that shortcoming. \nHosted by Counterpoints Arts‘ PopChange Initiative\, this is the second of five PopChange Salons in 2021 exploring the opportunities for real change presented within the New Brave world Report (2021)\, hosted by K Biswas. The Salon Series will explore racial justice\, comedy\, TV\, gaming and narrative change.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/stand-up-comedy-and-the-critical-conversation/
CATEGORIES:Comedy,Learning,Pop Culture
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SUMMARY:Comedy at the Museum of the Home
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Festival of Home enjoy a night of laughter from the brilliant No Direction Home\, hosted by Mo Omar\, with guest headliner Fatiha El-Ghorri and Yasin Moradi\, Selam Amare and Loraine Mponela. \nFull information and booking \nNo Direction Home is a comedy collective produced by Counterpoints Arts featuring new stand-ups from refugee and migrant backgrounds. They’ve performed sell-out gigs around the country including at London’s Southbank Centre and the Edinburgh Fringe. \nHost Mo Omar is a rising star of the comedy circuit who has appeared on Harry Hill’s Club Nite (ITV) and Stand Up for Live Comedy (BBC). \nGuest headliner Fatiha El-Ghorri is a London-based comedian who performs around the country and internationally. Her most recent TV appearance was on the Jonathan Ross Comedy Club (ITV). \n“The No Direction Home comedians are a veryexciting\, interesting and creative bunch of people to be around. And they are very funny!”\nNish Kumar
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/comedy-at-the-museum-of-the-home/
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:taking pArt  -  A COLLABORATION BETWEEN COUNTERPOINTS ARTS AND ART REFUGE
DESCRIPTION:Counterpoints Arts and Art Refuge return with the online art project\, taking pArt\, running every Thursday\, 1-2.30pm (BST) on Zoom. Through a series of participatory art workshops we welcome you to take part in playful art-making activities & games around The Community Table. \nThis project is a response to requests from our networks for a regular\, safe\, welcoming art making space for creativity and wellbeing. \nFor a mixed group of people aged 18 and over with lived experience as refugees\, people seeking asylum\, support workers\, foster-carers\, friends\, neighbours\, charity workers – all welcome. We also invite artists & cultural workers who would like to experience ‘making’ with others and as part of an Art Refuge series of workshops. \nWe will use easily accessible materials and domestic objects\, and groups are welcome to join together. You can use a computer or a phone to join in. \nThe workshops will be led by Art Refuge with guest artists from Counterpoints Arts. For further information and/or the Zoom link please email Dijana Rakovic\, Counterpoints’ Producer – dijana@counterpoints.org.uk with taking pArt in the subject line. \nArt Refuge uses socially engaged art and art therapy to support the mental health and wellbeing of people displaced due to conflict\, persecution and poverty\, in the UK and internationally\, alongside training\, education\, exhibitions and research. Its freelance team of artists and art therapists includes a growing number of artists with lived experience as refugees.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/taking-part-a-collaboration-between-counterpoints-arts-and-art-refuge/
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Digital
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SUMMARY:Mobilistan
DESCRIPTION:As part of our Across Borders programme\, Counterpoints Arts is delighted to be supporting the documentation of a new an art project by Manaf Halbouni & Christian Manss: Mobilistan\, the first mobile state in the limited space of a vehicle. \nMobilistan will be established on the area of a stretch limousine or state limousine\, thus forming the territory that can be entered or exited through the doors of the vehicle. Mobilistan has its own flag\, hymn and passport. There are four permanent residents of Mobilistan\, playing simultaneously several roles like State President\, Foreign Secretary\, Minister of Finance\, Interior Minister etc. The four permanent residents are: Barbara Repe\, Anne Manss\, Manaf Halbouni and Christian Manss. They will determine the fortunes of Mobilistan: who is allowed to become a citizen\, who gets a visa or where is the temporary location of Mobilistan. \nOn the trip from Berlin to Istanbul to the Mahalla Festival\, the state leaders are planning state visits to Dresden\, Prague\, Vienna\, Zagreb and Sofia. Of course\, the duration of the trip depends on the pandemic conditions in the respective countries. . \nA film documenting the work will be available later this year.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/mobilistan/
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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