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SUMMARY:Art\, Community and the Future(s) of Intangible Cultural Heritage
DESCRIPTION:Beyond the Now: Socially Engaged Practice in a (Dis) Connected World\n  \n\n\nJoin us on the 9th June at The Box for a conversation about the critical re-imagining of collections and archives in an age of uncertainty and resistance\, together with the increasingly urgent work of recovering and preserving intangible heritage. \nThis event takes place in the context of the Beyond the Now: Socially Engaged Practice in a (Dis) Connected World Programme\, funded by the British Council International Collaboration Fund. Key partners include Ettijahat Independent Culture\,Counterpoints Arts\, Arts University Plymouth and Mozilla Festival (members of the *Beyond the Now collective). \n3:00 – 4:30pm  \nSession 1 will showcase artistic interventions linking art and community projects with intangible cultural heritage initiated by the arts organisation Ettijahat  Independent Culture (Beirut /Brussels)\, under their Create Syria Programme; together with projects and residencies supported in 2022-2023 by Beyond the Now: Socially Engaged Practice in a (Dis) Connected World.  \nPresenters: Basma Baydoun\, Daniela Nofal and Sarah Allen.  \nModerator: Stephen Felmingham. \n5:00 – 6:30pm \nSession 2 will explore the potential to reframe/reimagine public collections and archives through the integrated lens of displacement\, socially engaged art practice\, education and community engagement.  \nPresenters: Awate Suileman\, Ashish Ghadiali\, Abdullah  and Chloe Hughes.  \nModerator Áine O’Brien. \n  \nRegister via Eventbrite to join in person. To join us virtually\, register here. \n\n\n\n\n\n  \nBeyond the Now \nBeyond the Now: Socially Engaged Art in a (Dis)Connected World is an international research\, development and cultural exchange focused on the role(s) of socially engaged art in an age of displacement. It includes a programme of mentorships\, residencies\, public dialogues\, commissions\, and other peer-to-peer learning for Syrian and Arab artists working across all art forms in the SWANA region\, Europe and the UK. \nBeyond the Now aims to open up new creative cultural and political affinities/solidarities for a post-pandemic world. We comprise small to medium arts\, civic\, research and digital organizations:; Counterpoints Arts\, (London\, UK: https://counterpoints.org.uk/); Ettijahat-Independent Culture (Lebanon and Belgium: https://www.ettijahat.org/site/index); Mozilla Festival (Holland/UK: https://www.mozillafestival.org/en/); CREATE (Ireland: https://www.create-ireland.ie/); co-culture (Germany: https://www.coculture.org/); in addition to individual researchers and producers working at: Open University (UK: https://www.open.ac.uk/); Arts University Plymouth (UK: https://www.aup.ac.uk/).  \nBios:  \nNoura Alsouma \nNoura is a Syrian illustrator\, graphic designer\, and printmaking artist\, born in the UAE. She graduated with a Bachelor’s in Graphic Design and Multimedia from the University of Sharjah\, and is currently pursuing her Master’s in Graphic Art (with a specialization in printmaking) at UMCS Poland. As an artist between the Middle East and Europe\, Noura tries to connect different places and cultures\, and holds a special place for the Arabic Language in her art. \nYara Amairy \nYara’s journey with the arts began through music\, where she had the opportunity to participate in various festivals and concerts in and around Damascus\, and work with children ages 6 to 10 as a music tutor. After graduating from the Faculty of Architecture\, she worked in the Consulting Center for Construction and Restoration of Heritage Buildings\, supervising the restoration work in Khan Suleiman Pasha\, and working on the rehabilitation of commercial buildings in Old Damascus. She volunteers as a teacher of architectural design for the first and second-year students in the Faculty of Architecture at Damascus University\, where she has lectured on the history of Syrian art\, and is pursuing her Masters in the restoration and rehabilitation of archaeological sites. \n\n\n\n\nAbeer Sanyour \nAbeer is an architect and Master’s student in Urban and Environmental Planning in Syria. She participated in various trainings around tangible and intangible cultural heritage and renovation\, and has worked as editor for the magazine Twenty-Two\, specialized in architectural concerns through educating\, training\, habitation and culture– spreading. Among their volunteering staff are students\, graduate architects\, and researchers across the architectural spectrum. Abeer has also collaborated with the Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums and is interested in social-spatial cohesion by working and connecting with local communities and their shared heritage.  \nWard Al Khalad \nWard is a Damascus-born artist who works with different artistic mediums such as illustration\, fashion design\, and documentation. After moving to Beirut\, he worked as an illustrator with the Library of Arabic Literature NYUAD. Building on a passion for traditional crafts and design\, he co-founded studio Kunukku\, a multi-disciplinary studio preserving the traditional craft of Syrian block printing. Being its creative director\, he has recently launched its first fashion collection in Beirut and is working on expanding his artistic research through more personal creative projects.  \nBasma Baydoun \nA graduate of Performing Arts (B.A – Lebanese University)\, Theatre Design (B.A – Concordia University)\, and Theatre Directing (M.A – Saint Joseph’s University)\, Basma splits her time between creative and cultural projects\, in addition to being a programme manager with Ettijahat – Independent Culture\, a cultural institution which supports artistic and cultural research and production\, education\, and capacity-building\, in response to the needs of independent artistic and cultural practitioners in the Arab Region. She has worked with various artists between Lebanon and Canada and has collaborated with Director’s Lab Mediterranean to organize its first and fourth editions in Beirut. \n\n\n\n\nDaniela Nofal \nDaniela is a London-based cultural organiser and arts practitioner. Daniela has produced various artistic projects and creative interventions\, sitting at the intersection of art\, arts education and social engagement\, and has collaborated with a number of organisations across the UK and internationally\, including Beyond the Now\, Counterpoints Arts and Ettijahat. Central to her artistic practice is experimenting with forms of organising and collectivising to reimagine forms of assembly and solidarity. Daniela is a member of several arts collectives including Cross Commons Collective\, and Sadaa Sound Syndicate. In 2020 she co-founded Zamakan\, a nomadic arts organisation working with artists from across West Asia and North Africa. Daniela is one of the initiators of SACF\, London’s Syrian Arts and Culture Festival. \nStephen Felmingham  \nStephen Felmingham is an artist and educator with an active research interest in creative pedagogies\, specifically research-led learning and alternative art school models and he leads on projects that work in and for communities\, introducing this into socially-engaged art and education and connecting organisations (artist-led initiatives\, community organisations\, public and philanthropic funders) who are working with the agency of creativity in the social realm. His research outputs have developed over the last three years into outward facing social practice projects\, including work with refugee communities that cohere with the College’s strategic aims of creative pedagogy and social justice\, as a founding partner of Beyond the Now\, a syndicated online platform working in locations across Europe\, the MENA region and the Global South to open new creative\, cultural and political affinities for a post-pandemic world. \n\n\n\n\nAbdullah Al Kafri \nAbdullah Alkafri is an award-winning playwright and theatre director. He has also collaborated with arts organisations including LIFT (UK)\, the Royal Court Theatre (UK)\, IEVP (Norway) and Lark (USA). He also works as a trainer\, strategic planner\, fundraiser and designer for arts intervention initiatives\, working with Culture Resource (Al Mawred Al Thaqafy) and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung among many others in Lebanon\, Syria\, Tunisia\, Yemen and elsewhere. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Arab Council for Social Sciences\, the Artistic Committee of Sundance Institute’s MENA Theater Lab and the board of the 10th Summit on Arts and Culture.In 2014. As a member of Ettijahat – Independent Culture\, Abdullah was chosen to succeed Rana Yazji as Executive Director of the non- governmental organisation. Ettijahat is dedicated to supporting Syrian artists and cultural practitioners and their peers across the Arab region and Europe\, providing capacity-building and educational opportunities to artists\, cultural practitioners and academics\, as well as financial and legal support. He also teaches MA Theatre at l’Université Saint-Joseph\, Beirut\, where he was awarded a PhD in performing arts in 2022.Ettijahat is one of the founding partners of Beyond the Now Collective. \nAshish Ghadiali  \nAshish Ghadiali is a writer\, filmmaker and activist. He is the Founder/Director of Radical Ecology\, a not-for-profit organisation that works across art\, research and policy to advance environmental justice and he is currently working on his first book\, Dart River – a psychogeography of empire set in the landscapes of South Devon for Hutchinson Heinemann. Film works include Planetary Imagination (2023)\, a 5-screen installation for The Box in Plymouth and The Confession (2016)\, a feature documentary for BBC Storyville and the BFI. He is also curator of the multi-artist group exhibition\, Against Apartheid\, which will open at KARST\, also in Plymouth\, in Autumn 2023. \nAWATE \nAWATE is a critically acclaimed rapper\, writer\, producer and performer focused on stories at the intersection of race\, class and surrealism – with a dose of humour. A former Activist in Residence at UCL in 2021\, Artist in Residence at the Tate and British Library in 2020 and 2019. Musician in Residence for the PRS Foundation and British Council working in Brazil in 2018 and Resident Artist at The Roundhouse in 2016 – Awate has produced a wide range of commissioned multimedia works mixing music\, film\, theatre and visual art. Awate’s 2018 debut album\, Happiness was supported by BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra\, Spotify\, Noisey\, MOBO x Help Musicians UK and called a\, “British rap masterpiece” by Trench Magazine. \n\n\n\n\nChloe Hughes \nChloe is a cultural leader who has worked across the creative sector. Chloe joined The Box’s senior management team in 2019\, having previously worked for Cornwall Museums Partnership. Working within museums she specialises in establishing organisational strategy through an EDI lens\, developing partnerships which create inclusive new opportunities and securing funding to enable audience development. She leads The Box’s extensive engagement programme which spans early years through to lifelong learning opportunities\, and whose digital initiative during Covid was shortlisted for the National Lottery Award Project of the Year. She is a member of the Museums Association Decolonisation Collective and an alumni of their Transformers leadership programme. \nÁine O’Brien  \nÁine is the Curator of Learning and Research/Co-Founder at Counterpoints Arts.  Áine has worked across the arts\, education and activism in the US\, Ireland and the UK and was co-director of Counterpoints Arts 2012- 2020. Åine runs Learning Lab\, a platform supporting cooperative (un)learning through socially engaged art (SEA). She directs the Summer School on Collaborative Practice and Social Change (in partnership with Create – National Development Agency for Collaborative Arts). A recent collective learning initiative includes Mutual Affinities 2022 (commissioned by Creative Scotland) and the publication Art\, Migration and the Production of Radical Democratic Citizenship (co-edited with Agnes Czajka\, Rowman International – Frontiers of the Political Series\, 2022). Counterpoints Arts  is one of the founding partners of Beyond the Now Collective. \n\n\n\n\nSarah Allen \nSarah is the Director of MozFest– a unique hybrid event that is part art\, tech and society convening\, part maker festival\, and the premiere gathering for activists in diverse global movements fighting for a more humane digital world. Sarah has curated digital and physical art exhibitions and workshops at the festival to help broaden perspectives\, learning and voices as we build a healthier internet and Trustworth AI.  \nMozFest is one of the founding partners of Beyond the Now Collective
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CATEGORIES:Learning
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SUMMARY:Agri/cultural Practices
DESCRIPTION:Workshop in Berlin on anti-racism\, arts and the environment with Mojisola Adebayo\, Asmelash Dagne and Nicole Wolf \nAre you interested in fighting racism and addressing climate injustice? \nWould you like to explore how the arts\, gardening and farming can work together? \nAre you Black\, Asian\, Indigenous\, a Person of Colour\, from a migrant background or a white person committed to anti-racism? \nIf so – read on! \nWhat is the workshop about? \nAgri/cultural practices is a practical experimental workshop that provides an introduction to Permaculture (permanent agriculture) sustainable design ethics and principles through games and exercises from Theatre of the Oppressed\, aimed at rehearsing solutions for change. Both Permaculture and Theatre of the Oppressed are informed by Indigenous\, Black and working-class knowledge and experience. This way of combining Permaculture and Theatre of the Oppressed was developed through the Neighbourhood Academy at Prinzessinnen Garden\, Berlin in 2019. However\, this workshop goes further by not only providing an introduction but focussing on anti-racism\, climate justice\, decolonizing\, addressing power structures\, understanding the link between colonialism and environmental chaos\, challenging environmental racism and exploring the potential of art. The site of the workshop is a garden in development\, and we will explore possibilities to design the garden with questions of the workshop in mind. \nWhat will we be doing? \nWe will be playing games\, doing practical exercises\, reading\, creative writing\, observing the landscape and designing\, watching theatre\, film screenings\, receiving contributions from guests\, discussing as well as enjoying the countryside\, eating healthy food and relaxing in nature. \nWhere and when will the workshop take place? \n16 June 5-9pm\, 17 & 18 June 9am-9pm\, 19 June 10am-4pm 2022 \n7-9 October 2022 there will be an optional follow up practical planting workshop activity at Gross Kreutz. \nHow much will it cost? \nThe workshop is FREE for Black\, Indigenous\, People-of-Colour\, refugees and non-white migrants. For others\, we ask for a contribution of 150-350 Euro (sliding scale). \nWho will be facilitating the workshop? \nMojisola Adebayo \nMojisola is Black-British (Yoruba/Danish) queer playwright\, performer\, producer\, facilitator\, Lecturer at Queen Mary\, University of London and research fellow at Potsdam University\, working on environmental racism through theatre. Mojisola holds a BA in Drama and Theatre Arts\, an MA in Physical Theatre\, a PhD in black queer theatre (University of London). Mojisola trained extensively with Augusto Boal and is a specialist in Theatre of the Oppressed\, working particularly in locations of conflict and crisis. She has worked in theatre\, radio and television over the past 25 years across four continents\, performing in over 50 productions\, writing\, devising and directing over 30 plays\, from Antarctica to Zimbabwe. Her own plays are concerned with racism\, climate change\, slavery\, occupation\, homophobia\, Islamaphobia\, gender-based violence and the Black Lives Matter movement. Publications include her plays in Mojisola Adebayo: Plays One and Plays Two (Oberon Books)\, 48 Minutes for Palestine (Methuen)\, The Theatre for Development Handbook (Pan\, co-written with John Martin and Manisha Mehta)\, Wind / Rush Generation(s) (in National Theatre Connections 2020\, Methuen) and Black British Queer Plays and Practitioners (Methuen\, co-edited with Lynette Goddard. Mojisola is commissioned by Counterpoints Arts. For more see www.mojisolaadebayo.co.uk \nAsmelash Dagne \nBorn and raised in Ethiopia\, qualifications include: Diploma of Integrated Natural Science (Hawassa college of Education/Ethiopia)\, Bachelor of Natural Science (Arba Minch University/Ethiopia)\, Permaculture Design Diploma (At permaculture institute of Britain/England) and Master of Science in Environmental Resources Management at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus – Senftenberg/Germany focus on utilizing renewable energy technology to ensure sustainable access tclean water\, energy and food in most vulnerable areas of the developing countries. From 2008-2013: I started my career in 2008 as an integrated natural science teacher and school “Permaculture” practitioner. In the years to come\, I have received eight regional and national prizes for remarkable achievement in creating a modal education and innovation center for sustainable integrated natural resource management in Ethiopia. From 2014-2016: I worked as “Permaculture” trainer and consultant for SMART-Ethiopia (Sustainable Management of Alternative and Renewable Technologies). Trained over 2000 farmers\, students\, teachers\, and agriculture extension workers in collaboration with various stakeholders (CISS – Ethiopia\, LVIA – international\, Slow Food International\, and others). 2017 – 2018: I worked as assistant general manager at SMART – Ethiopia to install and manage seven solar water pumps to ensure sustainable access to water\, energy\, and food. Trained farmers and extension work on integrated resource management. Since 2019 I have been Involved in planning and designing a multi years project on Agroforestry for sustainable development of human and nature in rural Ethiopia as external consultant\, Environmental consultant and trainer @ EcoPhi Renewables Engineering GabH. See https://bestecodesign.wordpress.com/ \nNicole Wolf \nNicole is a white queer German researcher\, writer and Senior Lecturer in Visual Cultures (Goldsmiths\, University of London) living in Berlin and London. Her background is in exploring political cinemas for their capacity to resist what is deemed to be real and to imagine otherwise. Much of her research and thinking is inspired and informed by artistic and activist practices in South Asia\, including in military occupied Kashmir. Nicole started training in Permaculture in 2014 (at Ecodharma\, facilitated by Alfred Decker and Caspar Brown)\, followed by two PC teacher trainings including Rosemary Morrow’s course in Srinagar\, Kashmir. Since then she has been passionate about connecting her interest in critical ecologies\, anti-colonial environmentalisms\, permaculture and creative practice\, exploring agriculture as resistance practice and what a cinematics of the soil might be. Collective learning and making processes which draw on diverse knowledges are crucial for all of these questions. Nicole’s participation in ‘Living Archive – Archive Work as a Contemporary Artistic Practice’ and ‘Archive ausser sich’ (both projects by Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art\, Berlin) included research and writing for the restoration of film works by Yugantar\, the first feminist film collective in India (1980-83) as well as the development of “Soil – City- Solidarity”\, an interdisciplinary urban permaculture design course\, and the symposium “’Tell me what matter was the ground’ – Repair beyond redemption”. Publications can be found here: https://www.gold.ac.uk/visual-cultures/n-wolf/ \nOther practical information \nSchedule: \n• Thursday 16 June\, arrival from 2pm is welcome. The workshop will be from 5pm-9pm (including mealtime) \n• Friday 17 and Saturday 18 June 9am-9pm (with breaks\, meals and optional evening programme) \n• Sunday 19 June 10am-4pm (with breaks and mealtime) \nOctober follow up: This will be a chance to get hands on experience by planting an agro forest in 7-9 October\, 2022. Friday evening: get together and follow up of June Workshop. Saturday: 9am-9pm\, Sunday 10am-4pm: guided planting activities with short inputs and sharings. \nParticipants are warmly encouraged to attend both parts but if necessary\, participants can just attend the June workshop. \nAccommodation: Ideally all participants will stay at the workshop site. Accommodation will be simple\, clean and basic – camping and indoor shared spaces. It is possible to rent private holiday apartments next door (extra cost). \nTransport: Train from Berlin to Gross Kreutz takes 40 minutes. A minibus will be provided from the station to the workshop / accommodation. Driving to the venue and parking is possible. \nFood\, cooking and cleaning: Vegan / vegetarian food will be provided by an on-site cook. Please let us know if you have any dietary restrictions. All participants are expected to share in tasks such as food preparation and cleaning up after meals. \nMaximum number of participants: 16. The majority of participants will be Black\, Asian\, Indigenous and or People-of-Colour. Part of the work will be in smaller groups and break out groups can be facilitated. \nLanguage: English\, with German translation if needed. \nChildcare: Please let us know if you require childcare and we will try to support this. \nAccess: Unfortunately\, the venue is currently not yet accessible to wheelchairs. However\, do get in touch to discuss your access needs and we will try to facilitate participation. We will apply a Covid-19 safety policy\, even if current laws don’t require that. \nCosts: The workshop is free for Black\, Asian\, Indigenous people\, People of Colour\, refugees and non-white migrants to Germany. For others\, we ask for a solidarity ticket of 150-350 Euro (depending on what you can afford). This covers full participation\, food\, camping/dorm accomodation and will support others. If you are not able to pay the minimum but wish to attend\, do get in touch to discuss possibilities! \nPartners: This workshop is made possible through Counterpoints Arts (as part of our Across Borders programme funded by Comic Relief) and Havel Kranich. \nFull details\, including how to apply : https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agricultural-practices-tickets-321395110427
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/agri-cultural-practices/
CATEGORIES:Sustainability & Climate Justice
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SUMMARY:Learning Lab: The Politics of Hospitality and the Refuge City
DESCRIPTION:Learning Lab takes its inspiration from artist Alketa Xhafa Mripa’s installation Refugees Welcome\, which will be located in front of the York Minster from 11- 4:00 pm on Saturday 17th June. \nMripa is traveling around the UK with a Luton tail lift van\, called Refugees Welcome\, to engage people in everyday conversations about ‘welcome’. She performs her memories of being warmly welcomed as a refugee from Kosovo in the late 1990s as a prompt for conversations. Is this performance\, agitprop\, site-specic installation or activism? Alketa embraces all these labels and more! \nThe Politics of Hospitality and the Refuge City comprises a series of films\, a public conversation with Mripa and a panel discussion about the role of arts and culture in opening up spaces for civic action\, the values of everyday human rights and urban sanctuary. \nContributors include among others: Maggie O’Neill (Sociology – University of York)\, Simon Parker (Refugee Action York and Politics – University of York)\, Alice Nah (Centre for Applied Human Rights – University of York)\, Jan Haaken (Portland State University)\, Almir Koldzic\, Áine O’Brien\, Nelli Stavropoulou\, Alketa Xhafa Mripa (Counterpoints Arts)\, Emily Riddle (The Art House\, Wakefield) and Paul Wordsworth (City of Sanctuary\, York). \nLearning Lab also includes a poster display and exhibition produced by students from the Departments of Politics\, History\, English and Related Studies and Economics\, University of York. The Exhibition will be open and will include a reception from 5.00 – 5:30 pm. \n\n\n\n\nSaturday 17th June \nRefugees Welcome installation: 11.00-4.00pm\, York Minster \nExhibition and drinks reception: 5.00 – 5.30pm\, King’s Manor Common Room \nLearning Lab on The Politics of Hospitality and the Refuge City: 5.30 -7.15pm\, King’s Manor Huntington Room \nYork Learning Lab Poster Invitation
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/learning-lab-the-politics-of-hospitality-and-the-refuge-city/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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SUMMARY:Dear Laila - Basel Zaraa
DESCRIPTION:Kirklees Council presents Dear Laila for Refugee Week \n“Dear Laila\, you are five now and have started to ask me where I grew up\, and why we can’t go there. This is me trying to give you an answer.” \nThe seeds of Dear Laila were planted when Basel’s five-year-old daughter Laila began to ask him about his home growing up. Unable to take her there\, he decided he would try to bring the place to her\, by creating a model of his childhood home in Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus. \nDear Laila shares the Palestinian experience of displacement and struggle through the story of one family. Using retelling of memories and tactile details\, it explores how war and exile are experienced through the everyday\, the domestic\, and the public space – to bring this now destroyed place to life. \nCredits: \nCommissioned by Good Chance Theatre\, with support from Arts Council England\nTranslator and script editor: Emily Churchill Zaraa\nSound engineer: Pete Churchill\nPhoto credit: Mohab Mohamed \nThis production in Kirklees for Refugee Week commissioned by Counterpoints Arts. \nVenues\, timings and booking arrangements to be confirmed.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/dear-laila-basel-zaraa/
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:V&A Drop-in Design: Stitching Borders
DESCRIPTION:Part of Refugee Week and The Great Exhibition Road Festival. \nCome together to share stories and notions of migration as we collectively create a hand-embroidered tablecloth border. Bring along trinkets\, swatches or buttons to add to our collaborative creation! Led by artist Aya Haidar\, this free\, drop-in workshop is an opportunity for all ages to share and make together as part of Refugee Week and the Great Exhibition Road Festival. \nThis event is free and supported by Art Jameel. Found out more at the V&A website. \nImage: Soleless series\, Aya Haidar\, 2018
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/drop-in-design-stitching-borders/
CATEGORIES:Craft & Design
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SUMMARY:Afghani War Rugs Reimagined
DESCRIPTION:“Afghani War Rugs Reimagined\,” a thought-provoking visual art exhibition by artist Ghafar Tajmohammad will run at the Yorkton Workshop in Hackney from June 19th until June 24th\, commissioned by Counterpoints Arts\, supported by Arts Council England and partnered with Afghan Association London Harrow. \nThe exhibition invites visitors to explore Ghafar Tajmohammad’s personal reinterpretations of Afghan War Rugs. Through a unique blend of art and oral history the exhibition showcases expanded paintings\, handwoven rugs\, and engaging audio and text narratives that go beyond the pictorial symbols of conflict and violence\, to examine instead the lived migration elements of the Afghan diaspora in the UK. \nDelve into the rich tapestry of Afghan culture and gain insight into the experiences of the multigenerational Afghan diaspora living in the UK. \nThis exhibition serves as a response to the recent events surrounding the Fall of Kabul in August 2021\, aiming to preserve memories and encourage dialogue between cultures. \nAbout the artist \nGhafar Tajmohammad is a visual artist who works primarily in painting\, but extends beyond the conventional practice and into the realm of expanded painting; allowing the artwork to exist as installation pieces. This approach allows the artist to stress the inherent textile materiality of raw canvas and connect with the rich culture of textiles and carpet weaving. Within the artwork\, recognisable motifs\, imagery\, and geometry fuse to form narratives suggestive of dual identities from lived experiences.\nConceptually\, the artistic practice reflects upon the idea of home for migrant communities. It express the abstract search for belonging and the experiences of those made to relocate. As a British Afghan who was displaced as a child\, Ghafar’s work is community-orientated focus and in his first solo exhibition chooses to advocate for the Afghan diaspora voices so often unheard. \nThe exhibition is part of Refugee Week 2023 which has the theme of “Compassion”. \nGhafar Tajmohammad on living in the UK during the ‘Fall of Kabul’ on August 15 2021: \n“The news headline THE FALL OF KABUL was displayed in the digital billboard at Charing Cross station just above the entrance for platform 1. \nSeeing that broke me. \nUntil then\, I kept maintaining to everyone that I was okay and that my family was okay. I shrugged off a comment a few days ago by a visitor calling me ‘whitewashed’ for not being angry enough. I nodded understandably as a charity that worked on the grounds in Afghanistan\, told me that we would have to cancel our part time design project due to the growing turmoil. I ignored messages of support from friends. \nBut seeing that headline brought me right back to my 9 year old self who knew little about the war\, but even less about his home.” \nTom Green\, Senior Producer at Counterpoints Arts says: \n“We’re so excited to have been involved in commissioning this new exhibition from Ghafar Tajmohammad. He’s a thoughtful and innovative artist who brings a much needed perspective on connections between Afghanistan and Britain\, in the context of displacement. We can’t wait for people to have a chance to see this new work and to share their responses to it.” \nVisitors can participate in four special events – reserve free tickets via Eventbrite \nWorkshop: Conflict Textiles \nDate: June 19th\, 11:00-15:00 PM \nDescription: Conflict Textiles curator Roberta Bacic will facilitate a ‘hands on’ textile workshop linked to the Afghani War Rugs Reimagined exhibition and Refugee Week. \nPrivate View: \nDate: June 22nd\, 6:00-9:00 PM \nDescription: Join us for an exclusive Private View of “Afghani War Rugs Reimagined” exhibition. This event offers an opportunity to explore Ghafar Tajmohammad’s captivating artworks until late hours\, accompanied by refreshment. Experience the exhibition in a lively setting and a chance to meet and hear from the artist. \nDrop-in Rug Weaving Workshop: \nDate: Throughout the exhibition period \nDescription: Engage with the interactive installation of a large loom during the Drop-in Rug Weaving Workshop. Witness the transformation of the artwork as the loom gradually becomes more complete over the course of the exhibition. Join artist Ghafar Tajmohammad in this immersive experience where you can actively participate in the weaving process. Visit the workshop during gallery hours to be part of this unique artistic endeavor. \nPanel Discussion on Afghan Art and Artists featuring Lazo Studio: \nDate: June 24th\, 1pm \nDescription: Join artist Ghafar Tajmohammad\, Hedieh Wojgani and Naseer Yasna for a stimulating Panel Discussion on Afghan Art and Artists. Hear from active members of the Afghan creative community about the cultural significance of Afghan art in this bilingual event\, provided in English and Dari. Gain insights from Ghafar Tajmohammad for his reinterpretations of Afghan War Rugs\, and discover the artistic vision of Lazo Studios\, an art\, design\, and wood crafting atelier founded by Hedieh and Naseer who worked in Afghanistan. Limited tickets are available for this talk\, which will feature catered traditional Afghan food. \nFor media inquiries and further information regarding this exhibition\, please contact: \nGhafar Tajmohammad\, Artist\nGhaf.taj@gmail.com\n07923886395 \nTom Green\, Senior Producer\, Counterpoints Arts\ntom@counterpoints.org.uk\n02081673501 \nFor more information about the artist\, please visit:\nWebsite: Ghafar Tajmohammad\nSocial Media: Ghaf.™ \nHigh-resolution images and additional press materials are available upon request. \nNotes For Editors\nWhere and When\nYorkton Workshop\,\n1-3 Yorkton St\, London E2 8NH\nJune 19th to 24th 2023 (not 20th)\nOpening hours and admission \nThe exhibition is open from Monday 19th to Saturday 24th (not 20th) from 12 noon – 5pm\, with the exception of Private View which opens until 9pm. Supported by Pearson Lloyd.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/afghani-war-rugs-reimagined/
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Visual Arts
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230620T150000
DTSTAMP:20260429T211146
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145000Z
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SUMMARY:Arts\, Refugees & Mental Health - report launch
DESCRIPTION:Counterpoints Arts has been commissioned by The Baring Foundation to write the latest in a series of research reports about arts and mental health\, this time looking at the provision for refugees and asylum seekers. \nCreatively Minded and Refugees – Arts\, refugees and mental health will be launched at Yorkton Workshops in London on 20th June as part of Refugee Week in an event running from 12 noon to 2.30pm. \nThe report features case studies of 12 organisations running arts programmes for refugees and asylum seekers that have a focus on mental health\, along with some key learning and suggestions for further research. \nA copy of the report will be available on the Baring Foundation website from 20th June. \nThe event is invite only but if you are interested in finding our more about the event and possibly attending please contact hello@counterpoints.org.uk \nImage courtesy of Art Refuge. \nLaunch event supported byPearson Lloyd
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/arts-refugees-and-mental-health-report-launch/
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230620T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230620T180000
DTSTAMP:20260429T211146
CREATED:20230518T123331Z
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SUMMARY:Name Me Lawand
DESCRIPTION:Film premiere + discussion with director Edward Lovelace and Steve Crump OBE\, founder and chair of Deaf Kidz International \nCompassion lies at the heart of this compelling story of the power of language. \nDirector \nEdward Lovelace \nWith \nLawand Hamad Amin\, Rawa Hamad Amin \nUK 2022. 82min \nEnglish\, Kurdish and BSL with English subtitles \nA BFI release \nConvinced of the potential of their deaf son\, a Kurdish family leave Iraq and finally arrive in Derby\, where Lawand joins the Royal School for the Deaf Derby. Empowered with British Sign Language\, he reveals himself as a witty and popular student\, while his family navigate a new common language and fight to remain in the community that has embraced them. Director Edward Lovelace (The Possibilities Are Endless) spent years alongside Lawand and his family\, to produce this striking\, affecting portrait. On World Refugee Day we are proud to present this powerful documentary\, highlighting the importance of community and the transformative effect of finding your voice. \nAudio Description available at this screening. \nThe screening will be presented with subtitles for the deaf and people experiencing hearing loss. \nWe aim to make this event fully accessible. \nPresented by the BFI in partnership with Counterpoints Arts.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/name-me-lawand/
CATEGORIES:Film and Photography
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230621T000000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230621T000000
DTSTAMP:20260429T211146
CREATED:20220517T100319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145000Z
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SUMMARY:Alter by Distanced Assemblage
DESCRIPTION:Seven interactive\, movable sculptures fill Southbank Centre spaces with sound and colour\, representing stories of migration\, for Refugee Week 2022.\n  \nThe sculptures are designed to be manoeuvred by both performers and the audience. \nParia Goodarzi and Francisco Llinas Casas respond to contemporary social\, political and cultural issues with reference to our society and ideas of identity. \nTheir work is inspired by the rich history of Southbank Centre and notions of refuge and displacement. \nBorn in Iran and Venezuela respectively\, their work draws inspiration from the lived experiences of migration and diaspora. Their practice is research-based and multidisciplinary\, often taking the shape of socially-engaged art projects\, participatory art and performance pieces. \nThroughout the exhibition there is the opportunity to meet the artists\, get to know more about their work and take part in creative workshops responding to the piece. \nCo-commissioned by Southbank Centre and Counterpoints Arts. \n  \nYou can see Alter at these times and locations: \nTuesday 21 June: 10am – 4pm (Exhibition Space\, Level 1\, Royal Festival Hall) \nWednesday 22 June: 10am – 6pm (Exhibition Space\, Level 1\, Royal Festival Hall) \nThursday 23 June: 10am – 6pm (Exhibition Space\, Level 1\, Royal Festival Hall) \nFriday 24 June: 12 – 7pm (The Clore Ballroom\, Level 2\, Royal Festival Hall) \nSaturday 25 June: 10 – 7pm (The Clore Ballroom\, Level 2\, Royal Festival Hall) \nSunday 26 June: 10 – 4pm (The Clore Ballroom\, Level 2\, Royal Festival Hall) \n  \nThroughout the exhibition there is the opportunity to meet the artists\, get to know more about their work and take part in creative workshops responding to the piece. There are also two performances. Please see individual event listings for further details. \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/alter-by-distanced-assemblage/
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230623T000000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230623T000000
DTSTAMP:20260429T211146
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SUMMARY:Windfalls - Falling Fruit (Berlin)
DESCRIPTION:Saxophonist and singer Conny Ottinger brings together musicians of different roots in her new band project: jazz pianist Reggie Moore (USA)\, folk bassist Michael Jach (D) and improvisational percussionist Martin von Allmen (CH). Conny\, who came from Poland to Germany as a child\, revisited Slavic languages through singing\, and in this project combines her love for the depth of Eastern European music\, jazz and Alpine yodelling. \nIn this special performance at Die Holzbläser on Friday 23 June at 20:00 as part of Refugee Week Berlin\, four additional musicians of refugee and migratory background will join Conny and the band on stage. \nConny says about the story behind the title: ‘At school\, I think in the ninth or tenth grade\, we were all supposed to design a record cover for our band\, if we were ever to have one. I don’t remember the name of my band any more\, but the title of my record was “Falling Fruit” – I drew a tree with saxophones hanging from it\, like apples\, and a few were falling down from the tree.’ \nWhat new fruit flavour will come out of the encounter with the four different musical paths and their guests this evening? \nRefugee Week Berlin is produced by Counterpoints Arts. See the full programme
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/windfalls-falling-fruit-berlin/
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230623T190000
DTSTAMP:20260429T211146
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SUMMARY:No Direction Home comedy in Nottingham
DESCRIPTION:For Nottingham Refugee Week\, a special stand-up comedy gig from our No Direction Home collective. \n“The evening will kick off at 5.30 with beautiful free food and drink from the Syrian Vegan Kitchen and a chance to mingle before the gig starts at 6pm. Join us for the most fun you’ll have in the hostile environment this year… Because sometimes\, it’s better to laugh than cry.” \nNo Direction Home was established by Counterpoints Arts with Camden People’s Theatre and top stand-up Tom Parry\, who has mentored the group. \nThey have already won over audiences in a variety of venues in London and around the country\, and have now secured their first West End run. \nTV comic and stand-up 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. The material is really good.”
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/no-direction-home-comedy-in-nottingham/
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230623T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230623T200000
DTSTAMP:20260429T211146
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SUMMARY:The Art Persists: Live Podcast and Music
DESCRIPTION:Bosla Arts and Counterpoints Arts are hosting the first ever live podcast recording of The Art Persists Podcast\, featuring artists Laura Nyahuye\, Ghafar Tajmohammad\, and Olga Tkachenko\, hosted by Georgia Beeston. \nThe live podcast will draw on Nyahuye’s exhibition\, Resilience: Friend or Foe?\, and Bosla Art’s latest issue Beyond Resilience. Together\, we will examine role of resilience and its limitations in each of the artists’ contexts; from addressing social issues through art\, to the Afghan diaspora experience\, and finally escaping war in Ukraine. The conversation will uncover each artist’s practice and explore solidarity action between countries and contexts. \nThe event will be followed by a Q&A and a performance by Syrian musician USTAVI. After the event attendees will be invited to stay for drinks and a social. \nFull details and booking via Eventbrite \nSupported by Pearson Lloyd \n \n \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/the-art-persists-live-podcast-and-music/
CATEGORIES:Learning,Multi-Art Form
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230623T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230623T203000
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SUMMARY:BAFTA Lecture: Hassan Akkad
DESCRIPTION:Following a screening of his short film Matar\, which tells the story of a Syrian asylum seeker living on the fringes of society\, hear from BAFTA-winning filmmaker and refugee rights activist Hassan Akkad\, as he shares his own experiences of fleeing conflict in Syria in 2015\, and subsequent work as a filmmaker in the UK. \nThe first in a series of events delivered in collaboration with BAFTA\, which aims to explore the importance of authentic storytelling of refugees onscreen\, and the positive impact of collaboration with creatives who have lived experience of migration\, in order to build narrative power and create social change. \nHassan’s lecture will be followed by a moderated Q&A. \nPlease join us after this event for some informal networking drinks in the Reuben Gallery from 20.30 – 22.00 BST. \nHassan Akkad is an award-winning filmmaker and creative director at Choose Love. He co-directed Netflix’s Convergence: Courage in a Crisis (2021) and was the associate producer of the Netflix film The Swimmers. Hassan’s short film\, Matar\, which he co-wrote and directed was released on WaterBear in 2023 and produced by Deadbeat Films. Hassan was part of the team that made Exodus: Our Journey to Europe which won a BAFTA for Best Factual Series in 2017. \nBAFTA is a world-leading independent arts charity that brings the very best work in film\, games and television to public attention and supports the growth of creative talent in the UK and internationally. Through its Awards ceremonies and year-round programme of learning events and initiatives – which includes workshops\, masterclasses\, scholarships\, lectures and mentoring schemes in the UK\, USA and Asia – BAFTA identifies and celebrates excellence\, discovers\, inspires and nurtures new talent\, and enables learning and creative collaboration. BAFTA is a registered charity (no. 216726).
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/bafta-lecture-hassan-akkad/
CATEGORIES:Film and Photography
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230625T000000
DTSTAMP:20260429T211146
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SUMMARY:Alter: Brought to Life
DESCRIPTION:Members of the public will be invited to interact with Alter\, an exhibition of seven sculptures featuring movement\, light and sound.\n  \nAlter has been co-commissioned by the Southbank Centre and Counterpoints Arts for the Southbank Centre’s public spaces during Refugee Week 2022. \nThe work consists of seven interactive\, movable sculptures featuring light and sound. As the sculptures are manoeuvred by both performers and the audience\, the space of the Southbank Centre is permeated with traces of sound and colour\, representing stories of migration. \nThe piece is created by Paria Moazemi Goodarzi and Francisco Llinas Casas\, and was inspired by the rich history of the Southbank Centre and notions of refuge and displacement. \nApproximate run time: 15 mins. Run times may vary by up to 20 minutes as they can be affected by last-minute programme changes\, intervals and encores.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/alter-brought-to-life/
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230624T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230627T170000
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SUMMARY:CompassionART
DESCRIPTION:Nucleus Arts presents an exhibition at the Halpern Gallery in Rochester by three artists for Refugee Week\, in collaboration with Counterpoints Arts. \nCompassionART features work by Kent-based artists Olesia Serohina\, Vladislav Zadorozhny and Farida Yesmin \nMore information is on <a href=”https://www.facebook.com/thehalpernpop”>the Halpern Pop Facebook page</a> \n&nbsp;
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/compassionart/
LOCATION:The Halpern Pop\, Rochester\, Kent\, The Halpern Pop\, Rochester\, Kent\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230624T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230624T210000
DTSTAMP:20260429T211146
CREATED:20230515T091656Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144959Z
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SUMMARY:I'd search forever\, I want to remember
DESCRIPTION:A project by Tamara Al-Mashouk \nAn all day multidisciplinary exhibition at a disused citadel in Dover featuring performance\, workshops guided tours and food. \nJoin us for a day in which Tamara Al-Mashouk and collaborators take over a disused Citadel exhibiting a wave machine + sound score\, a three-channel film and a photographic series. \nSet in a fortress built in the 1700s on the cliffs of Dover\, the day-long programme features a dance performance\, workshops and food. The day culminates with an audience-participatory performance that makes space for collective remembering. \nThe work presented is the result of a gathering of artists thinking and organising together. Manon Schwich\, Sami El-Enany\, Parker Heyl\, Angus Frost\, Lorella Bianco and Fadi Giha join Al-Mashouk in considering sites of solace within embodied experiences of hyper-politicisation. \nI’d search forever\, I want to remember is the culmination of a body of work that began in 2018 with a 10.5 hour durational performance by Al-Mashouk called Can you die if you don’t exist? where she read the names of 34\,361 refugees who died on their way to Europe off The List (published by The Guardian\, 2018). The performance was for Deeplab and commissioned by Mediale. \nI’d search forever\, I want to remember is in commissioned by Counterpoints Arts and Arts Council England and co-commissioned by Shubbak Festival. \nIn partnership with: Dover Arts Development\, The Citadel\, Refugee Week\, Samphire\, Future Foundry and SENSE. \nPRESS RELEASE_I’d search forever\, I want to remember
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/id-search-forever-i-want-to-remember/
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Multi-Art Form,Performance & Dance,Visual Arts
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230624T220000
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SUMMARY:V&A Friday Late: On The Verge
DESCRIPTION:This Friday Late features a programme curated by BLM Fest\, commissioned by Counterpoints Arts and the V&A during Refugee Week 2022. BLM Fest was founded by Kayza Rose\, and is a celebration of Black lives. BLM Fest is an invitation for everyone to take part and an exciting model of cultural production that fairly compensates Black people for their ideas\, time and labour. \nMasculinity does not exist\, only masculinities. Identity doesn’t exist\, only identities. We live in a promising world of gender expression and exploration\, where how you define yourself can take on multiple forms. In this plural world\, On the Verge explores the tipping point\, highlighting the artists\, designers\, and performers\, questioning the norms of masculine and feminine identity and the possibilities to come. Let a thousand genders bloom. \n\n@blmfest \n\n\nAll events are free\, and places are designated on a first-come-first-serve basis unless stated otherwise. Filming and photography will take place at this event. If you have any access requirements\, please let us know in advance by emailing disability@vam.ac.uk \n\nPlease note\, if the V&A reaches capacity\, it will allow access on a one-in\, one-out basis.\n\n\n\n\nFull Friday Late  programme and map of the Museum is HERE. BLM Fest x Counterpoints programme:\n\n\n\n\nBlack Queer History (B)\n\n\nPoetry Workshop \nEurope 1600–1815 Galleries \nThe Salon\, Room 4 \n18.45\, 19.45\, 20.45\, drop in \nPoet\, educator\, cultural curator and activist\, PJ Samuels leads  this workshop where you’ll work together to interrogate issues of autonomy\, race\, gender\, patriarchy and identity and explore belonging. Originally from Jamaica\, she is passionately vocal about human rights\, mental wellness\, stigmatisation and inequalities. PJ Samuels founded ‘Weather the Storm’\, an LGBTI Refugee peer support group she started in 2015. \n@pjsamuelspoet \n  \nA Taste of London Ballroom (C) \nThe Raphael Cartoons\, \nRoom 48a \nTalk at 19.15\, Workshop at 19.45\, \nPerformance at 20.45 \nA 3-part dip into Ballroom and the art of Voguing hosted by Kayza Rose. Delve into the living roots of UK Ballroom with a history lesson by London’s OG Harliyana 007. Then let your body do the talking as Pop-Dip-Spin extraordinaire Bronze 007 teaches a beginner’s voguing workshop. Followed by a performance by Tiffany 007\, aka The Banji C*nt (She/They)\, and Bronze 007. \n@kayza_rose \n@swarovskibae_ \n@tiffany.the.mannequin \n@groingthroughit \n  \nScreening of VISIBLE and Panel Discussion (E) \nHochhauser Auditorium\, \nSackler Centre for arts education \n18.30\, 19.00\, 19.30\, 20.00\, 21.00 \nPanel discussion at 20.30 \nFilm duration: 20 minutes \nVISIBLE\, directed by Campbell X and produced by Kayza Rose\, challenges common misconceptions about LGBTQI+ Black and People of Colour. The film calls upon inspirational ancestors\, contemporary artists and activists working to challenge mainstream perceptions and the sanitisation of LGBTQI+ legacies. At 20.30\, hear from founding director of Mzz Kimberley’s LIFE\, Kim Tatum; writer and performer Keith Jarrett; and international athlete and advocate for diversity and inclusion\, Corinne Humphreys in a panel discussion chaired by Kayza Rose\, founding Director of BLM Fest. \n@campbellx \n@kayza_rose \n@keithjlondon \n@cdhumphreys \n@mzzkimberley \n  \nMemoirs of a Masculine Man (G) \nThe John Madejski Garden \nDurational performance throughout the evening Rwandese born\, British movement-based artist\, Ishimwa Muhimanyi delivers a site-specific performance in the central garden of the museum. For Ishimwa\, masculinity is synonymous with fragility. Ishimwa’s work will explore the cracks in the masculine. Butt cracks\, emotional cracks\, spiritual cracks\, and temperamental cracks. Using movement\, fashion and furniture\, Ishimwa will take you on a journey of a man. \n@ishimwa \n\n\n  \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/friday-late/
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Film and Photography,Performance & Dance
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SUMMARY:Singing Our Lives
DESCRIPTION:Singers\, instrumentalists and poets share their responses to the theme of Compassion – and give you a chance to join in the singing. \n‘Singing Our Lives’\, now in its seventh year\, is produced by Together Productions and brings displaced people\, sanctuary seekers and local communities from around the UK to compose new music and perform together.  \nThe project unites amateur singers and performers\, professional musicians and writers from around the world in a unique coming together of cultures\, disciplines and traditions. \nThis performance marks the finale of ‘Refugee Week’\, and culminates in a thrilling mass performance of a ‘Singing Our Lives’ original composition. \nTogether Productions is a social change organisation based in the UK\, producing innovative collaborative projects that connect people across social and cultural divides. Through their programmes\, music and the arts become a catalyst to break down barriers\, reduce isolation and enhance well-being. Together Productions’ work includes those who are marginalised or excluded – such as displaced people and those seeking sanctuary – people facing mental health challenges\, the elderly\, the financially disadvantaged and socially excluded.  \nPerforming groups: \nThe Sing for Freedom Choir is a community of torture survivors and friends who sing together in a spirit of joy and hope\, in solidarity with all those who are oppressed. The choir sings for freedom and to give back a voice to those who have been silenced.  \nThe Mixed Up Chorus is passionate about the power of music to bring people together in the spirit of empathy and understanding. Performing global and original new repertoire\, the Chorus believes that singing next to each other helps us to live well next to each other.  \nWrite to Life are the world’s only long-running creative writing group for survivors of torture and have been working with survivors from around the world for over 20 years.  \nThe Orchestra of Syrian Musicians are a collective of professional singers and instrumentalists who have settled in the UK after being forced to flee the war in their homeland. Their haunting and uplifting music celebrates the rich cultural traditions of Syria. \nEvent presented in collaboration with Southbank Centre\, for Refugee Week 2023. Singing Our Lives is supported by IOM.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/singing-our-lives/
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230625T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230625T140000
DTSTAMP:20260429T211146
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SUMMARY:Migrant Futurism: Kenmure Street
DESCRIPTION:This panel brings together community activists and organisers to reflect on the power of the Kenmure Street protest\, two years on. \nThe panel features Mohammad Asif and Pinar Aksu\, who were active throughout the day\, alongside Sami\, an organiser in the anti-raids network. It’s moderated by film-maker\, activist and founder/director of Radical Ecology\, Ashish Ghadiali.  \nOn the morning of 13 May 2021\, UK immigration officials conducted a dawn raid in Glasgow Southside’s Kenmure Street\, detaining two Indian nationals in a Home Office van\, only to be met by an organised response from members of the local community who surrounded the vehicle.  \nWhat unfolded was an eight-hour grassroots protest\, animated by the spontaneous chant\, ‘These are our neighbours\, let them go.’ \nThe action\, which took place during Eid in one of Scotland’s most ethnically diverse neighbourhoods\, resulted in the release of the two men\, and was celebrated as a symbol of hope and solidarity in the face of the UK government’s ‘hostile environment’. \nHow did it come about? Why was it so effective? What happened after the cameras had gone away? And what can activists and communities learn from the anti-raids movement about organising in response to the Illegal Migration Bill? \nMohammad Asif is director of the Scotland-based Afghan Human Rights Foundation. \nPinar Aksu is a campaigner and development officer at the Maryhill Integration Network which works across Glasgow to facilitate connection between refugees\, migrants and settled inhabitants of the city. \nThis event is part of the launch of ‘Migrant Futurism’\, a long-term curatorial strand of research and public programming led by Radical Ecology\, in collaboration with Counterpoints Arts and the Southbank Centre. \n‘Migrant Futurism’ interrogates cultural strategies\, in the context of displacement\, for the imagination of just and sustainable futures. \nFree event.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/migrant-futurism-kenmure-street/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230625T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230625T140000
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SUMMARY:Amani Collective Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Modern African music’s breathtaking variety gets a proper outing. \nPalm wine from Sierra Leone and seben from the DRC – just two of the genres in this afternoon showcasing the complexity and variety of contemporary African music. \nThis is a chance to experience a slice of the vast diversity of African music\, with acclaimed lead singers and instrumentalists Papa Sam Alafia\, Emmanuela Yogolelo\, Tshepe Thsepela\, Herve Vika and Fade. \nOther genres that feature include Afro-fusion and agwaya\, rumba and mutwashi.  \nThis event is presented in collaboration with Southbank Centre\, for Refugee Week 2023.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/amani-collective-showcase/
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230625T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230625T163000
DTSTAMP:20260429T211146
CREATED:20230517T052406Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T144959Z
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SUMMARY:About Us! Artists’ Scratch Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Looking for a safe space to share your creative ideas? Need inspiration for your next project? \nCalling all artists! Are you a creative looking for a safe space to share your ideas? Are you looking for inspiration for your next creative project? \nWhether or not you’re ready to embrace the name ‘artist’\, if you’re making work or thinking about it\, this event is for you. \nSign up via the form below for a chance to be selected to present your work (or work in progress) and engage in discussions with a room full of like-minded artistic experimenters.  \nMusic\, film\, comedy\, drama\, improv\, visual art\, fashion and everything in between is welcome!  \nFull running orders to be updated when the presenters have been selected.  \nThis is an ongoing artists networking project\, led by AWATE\, supported by Counterpoints and Southbank Centre. Quotes from last year’s participants: \n‘It’s a wholly unique way to connect with your audience; I learned more about how audiences engage with my work at this event than I have for any other performance!’ – Laith Elzubaidi (writer/film-maker) \n‘[Artists’ Scratch Showcase] was such a warm\, collaborative and encouraging environment. It was so helpful to collaborate on my comedy in a space with lots of different perspectives and allowed me to look at what I was presenting from a different angle and incorporate new ideas.’ – Emily Bampton (writer/comedian) \n‘It allowed me to debut my first humanitarian documentary. Having had a shift of career direction from corporate industries\, I was so grateful to be able to present this important work\, which was well received by a beautiful crowd.’ – Saoud Khalaf (film-maker) \nTAKE PART\, APPLY HERE\n \nIf applying\, please make sure you’re available on the day\, and do join us even if you’re not selected. \nBook a FREE ticket to be part of the audience.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/about-us-artists-scratch-showcase/
LOCATION:Southbank Centre\, Belvedere Road\, London\, SE1 8XX
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Multi-Art Form
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230625T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230625T160000
DTSTAMP:20260429T211146
CREATED:20230517T081638Z
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SUMMARY:Migrant Futurism: Françoise Vergès
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Radical Ecology\, Francoise Verges will deliver a key-note presentation in the Purcell Room\, reflecting on the context of the UK’s Illegal Migration Bill and drawing connections between forced migration\, climate breakdown\, gender violence and systemic violence to insist on the need to develop and enhance international solidarity in the face of these interconnected planetary crises. \nFrancoise Verges is a renowned decolonial activist and theorist\, who through works including A Decolonialism Feminism and A Feminist Theory of Violence explores the intersections of race\, migration and gender in the context of 21st century global capitalism. \nThe panel will be moderated by filmmaker\, activist and founder/director of Radical Ecology\, Ashish Ghadiali and will be followed by a Q&A.  \nThis event is part of Refugee Week\, and launching Migrant Futurism\, a long-term strand of research and public programming by Radical Ecology and in collaboration with Counterpoints Arts and the Southbank Centre. \nMigrant Futurism is a long-term curatorial project\, led by Radical Ecology\, that interrogates cultural strategies\, in the context of displacement\, for the imagination of just and sustainable futures. \nTickets – £7.50. \nAge recommendation – For ages 14+\nContent Warning – Contains themes of gender-based violence
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/migrant-futurism-francoise-verges/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230625T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230625T160000
DTSTAMP:20260429T211146
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SUMMARY:West African Dance Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Dance soca\, reggae\, calypso and Afro-jive in this family-friendly event. \nThis family-friendly workshop and performance features West African percussion and dance with Imani Jendai and Tagne Tebu. \nParticipants have the opportunity to explore dance styles such as soca\, reggae\, calypso and Afro-jive. \nThe workshop is designed and delivered by Imani Jendai\, an exceptional and dynamic performer and choreographer with extensive knowledge of many different dance styles.  \nBorn and raised in Cameroon\, Tagné Tebu is a multi-talented multi-instrumentalist\, band leader\, music director and composer who has worked with musicians from many different cultures and musical backgrounds. \nHis music blends African melodies and grooves with jazz harmony and is based on African storytelling on the themes of love\, war and peace – it conveys a bittersweet sense of melancholy balanced by irrepressible optimism. \nThis event is presented in collaboration with Southbank Centre\, for Refugee Week 2023.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/west-african-dance-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230625T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230625T163000
DTSTAMP:20260429T211147
CREATED:20230517T063145Z
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SUMMARY:Migrant Futurism: Angela Camacho
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Radical Ecology\, Angela Camacho will perform a Future Ancestors Ritual to conclude an afternoon’s programme on Migrant Futurism\, including a panel on the Kenmure Street Protest of May 2021 and a keynote talk by decolonial activist and theorist Francoise Verges. \nAngela Camacho aka @thebonitachola is a London-based community organiser and domestic worker who fights for the rights of indigenous and Latinx communities and works to amplify the struggles of indigenous\, trans and womxn activists in the global south. \nHer practice is guided by the principle of becoming a good ancestor.  \nThis event is part of Refugee Week\, and launching Migrant Futurism\, a long-term curatorial strand of research and public programming led by Radical Ecology and in collaboration with Counterpoints Arts and the Southbank Centre\, that interrogates cultural strategies\, in the context of displacement\, for the imagination of just and sustainable futures. \nThis event is part of the launch of ‘Migrant Futurism’\, a long-term curatorial strand of research and public programming led by Radical Ecology\, in collaboration with Counterpoints Arts and the Southbank Centre. \n‘Migrant Futurism’ interrogates cultural strategies\, in the context of displacement\, for the imagination of just and sustainable futures. \nFree event.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/migrant-futurism-angela-camacho/
LOCATION:Southbank Centre\, Belvedere Road\, London\, SE1 8XX
CATEGORIES:Performance & Dance
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230625T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230625T190000
DTSTAMP:20260429T211147
CREATED:20230517T081657Z
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SUMMARY:Refugee Week Short Films Screening
DESCRIPTION:Image credit: Panic!\n  \nWatch exceptional short films from around the world\, made by refugee and asylum-seeking film-makers\, and curated by Sarah Agha\, founder of the Arab Film Club. \nEach title is either written and directed by a refugee film-maker or draws on real life experience to tackle the theme in some way.  \nThis showcase proves the power of cinema\, as each film-maker succeeds in humanising both struggle and injustice with their art. \nThe programme includes projects from BAFTA-winning film director Hassan Akkad and Counterpoints Arts’ Pop Culture & Social Change Producer\, Laith Elzubaidi.  \nThe screening is followed by a Q&A hosted by actress\, curator and presenter of the BBC’s ‘The Holy Land and Us’\, Sarah Agha. Agha founded the Arab Film Club during lockdown\, a community celebrating and exploring cinema from the Arab world. \n  \nThe Programme: \nYellow by Elham Ehsas (12’). In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan\, Laili walks into a Chadari store in Kabul to buy her first full-body veil from a Talib shopkeeper\, and face a new future. \nAziza by Soudade Kaadan (13’). A newly displaced Syrian couple take a drive around Beirut\, which soon morphs into a hallucinatory and nostalgic trip. \nAddress Unknown by Anton Fisher (24′). A postman goes looking for his childhood best friend who went missing due to forced removals\, before he himself is forced to relocate or face the bulldozers. \nPanic! by Laith Elzubaidi (8’). Every night Layla and her sister Noor are forced to huddle under candlelight to protect themselves from an ominous threat. Until one night\, a more psychological threat endangers them both. \nMatar by Hassan Akkad (23’). The story of Matar\, a Syrian asylum seeker in England. When confronted with the hostile immigration system\, he is forced to live on the fringes of society and rely on his bike to survive. \n  \nThis event is presented in collaboration with Southbank Centre\, for Refugee Week 2023. \n  \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Yellow by Elham Ehsas\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Yellow by Elham Ehsas\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Aziza by Soudade Kaadan\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Aziza by Soudade Kaadan\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Address Unknown by Anton Fisher\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Address Unknown by Anton Fisher\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Matar by Hassan Akkad\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Matar by Hassan Akkad
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-short-films-screening/
CATEGORIES:Film and Photography
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230625T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230625T193000
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SUMMARY:Songs to Heal and Empower
DESCRIPTION:Samia Malik celebrates the launch of her new album\, ‘Songs to Heal and Empower’ – music that extends and subverts the traditional Urdu Ghazal form. \nMalik’s powerful original songs are written in Urdu and English\, and explore contemporary issues around identity\, race and gender. \nThe music combines soaring Eastern melodies\, electronics\, tabla and deep bass grooves\, and are supported by live visuals of Malik’s original art and translations. \nMalik has collaborated with world-class artists including celebrated Indian dancer and activist Mallika Sarabhai and ‘sitarist to the stars’ Baluji Shrivastav OBE. \nThis event is part of our Refugee Week programme\, and is presented in collaboration with Southbank Centre. \nFree event.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/songs-to-heal-and-empower/
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230625T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230625T200000
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SUMMARY:Rainbows Across Borders
DESCRIPTION:Listen to a performance by the Rainbows Across Borders community choir\, a voluntary self-help group for LGBT asylum seekers fleeing persecution. \nWorking with Music Action International\, this community choir writes and performs their own songs with messages of compassion\, identity and belonging. \nThe choir provides a secure and safe space for members to share experiences as LGBT asylum seekers and to mutually build confidence whilst making music together.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/rainbows-across-borders/
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230625T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230625T213000
DTSTAMP:20260429T211147
CREATED:20230517T081603Z
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SUMMARY:Notes on Compassion: Words\, Music and Us
DESCRIPTION:Image: Sukina Noor \nMarking the 25th year of Refugee Week\, an evening of music and spoken word hosted by comedian Fatiha El-Ghorri responds to this year’s theme\, Compassion. \nWe are bringing together poets and musicians to share their responses on Compassion\, helping us create a safe and shared space of community in which to unpick what compassion means in today’s political\, social\, economic and cultural context\, and how important it is to extend it beyond our own networks. \nDo we live in times where acting with compassion may feel like a radical act? How can we grow compassion by doing small\, everyday acts that have potential to affect and support people outside our immediate circles of friends and family. \nSee poetry performances from Vanessa Kissule\, AWATE\, Momtaza Mehri \, FaceSoul\, Rachel Long and Sukina Noor commissioned by Counterpoints Arts and Southbank Centre\, an original choral performance from Woven Gold\, and musicians still to be announced. \nUnderneath Fatiha El-Ghorri‘s colourful hijab is a mind full of cutting observations and engaging witticism of the life and times of a British Muslim woman. By sharing stories of her own experiences – which are funny\, thought-provoking and honest – El-Ghorri smashes the Muslim stereotypes and challenges people to reconsider what they know about Islam\, Muslims and Muslim women especially. \nVanessa Kisuule is a writer and performer based in Bristol. She has won over ten slam titles including The Roundhouse Slam 2014\, Hammer and Tongue National Slam 2014 and the Nuoryican Poetry Slam. She has been featured on BBC iPlayer\, Radio 1\, and Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour\, Blue Peter\, Don’t Flop and TEDx in Vienna. She has appeared at an array of literary and music festivals and was Glastonbury Festival’s Resident Poet in 2019. She has been invited to perform all over the world from Belgium to Brazil to Bangladesh.  \nRachel Long is a poet and the founder of Octavia – Poetry Collective for Womxn of Colour\, which is housed at Southbank Centre\, London. She was shortlisted for Young Poet for Laureate for London in 2014 and awarded a Jerwood/Arvon Foundation mentorship in 2015. Rachel has run poetry workshops for The Poetry School\, The Serpentine Galleries and at University of Oxford. She is Assistant Tutor to Jacob Sam La-Rose on the Barbican Young Poets programme 2015-present. \nAWATE is a critically acclaimed rapper\, writer\, producer and performer focused on stories at the intersection of race\, class and surrealism – with a dose of humour. Awate’s 2018 debut album\, Happiness was supported by BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra\, Spotify\, Noisey\, MOBO x Help Musicians UK and called a\, “British rap masterpiece” by Trench Magazine. \nMomtaza Mehri is a poet and independent researcher working across criticism\, translation\, anti-disciplinary research practices\, education\, and radio. She is a former Young People’s Poet Laureate for London and Frontier-Antioch Fellow at Antioch University (Los Angeles). Her writing has appeared in the likes of POETRY\, Granta\, Vogue\, The Guardian\, Bidoun\, and The White Review. A former Columnist-in-Residence at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s Open Space\, she has also completed residencies at St. Paul’s Cathedral and the British Library. \nSukina Noor is a poet\, spoken-word artist\, playwright\, workshop facilitator and educator\, artistic curator\, writer and public speaker. She has toured extensively across UK\, Europe\, America and Africa performing\, delivering poetry workshops\, partaking in panel discussions and delivering lectures. \nFaisal Salah\, known by his stage name ‘Facesoul’ is a London-based artist born in East Africa. He moved with his family to the UK at the age of 2 and has been singing for as long as he has can remember. At 19 he began travelling the world\, performing for different communities and sharing his story through his voice. Faisal’s upbringing with traditional Islamic roots have been paramount to forming his truth and identity and his sense of spirituality is imbued in his practice. When he started performing at 15\, he would combine his love of singing\, poetry and storytelling as a tool to escape from the constraints of inner city living\, and aspire for something better.   \nKaia Laurielle is a singer/songwriter from south-east London whose music is a blend of electronic\, alternative soul and R&B. As a champion for Black love\, her lyrics tell the stories of those forgotten or overshadowed. \nWoven Gold is a choir of refugees and asylum seekers from around the world\,  performing original songs and music written together\, or traditional music from their own countries.  They are led by professional musicians who give their time.  The richness\, energy and power of Woven Gold comes from the  combination of a close sense of family and shared experience\, and the  range of musical cultures – from Burma\, Congo\, India\, Iran\, Kurdistan\,  Nigeria\, Pakistan and Uganda\, making Woven Gold a community choir like  no other. \n  \nTickets – £10 \n  \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Kaia\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Sukina\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				AWATE\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Rachel\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Vanessa\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Fatiha\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Momtaza
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/notes-on-compassion-words-music-and-us/
LOCATION:Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer\, Southbank Centre\, Belvedere Road\,\, London\, SE1 8XX
CATEGORIES:Literature & Spoken Word,Music
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230717
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SUMMARY:No Direction Home at Byline Times Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Counterpoints Arts comedy collective <a href=”https://counterpoints.org.uk/artist/no-direction-home/”>No Direction Home</a> will be performing at <a href=”https://www.dartington.org/whats-on/info/byline/”>The Byline Times Festival</a> in Dartington\, with a special guest headliner. \nDartington Trust and Byline Times Festival is a weekend of ideas\, food\, dancing and thinking about how we can change the world for the better. \nOriginally a three-day event in Sussex\, in 2023 Byline is collaborating with Dartington Trust on their beautiful estate in Devon. \nMore information: https://www.dartington.org/whats-on/info/byline/
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/no-direction-home-at-byline-times-festival/
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230718T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230718T170000
DTSTAMP:20260429T211147
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SUMMARY:Performing Migratory Identity
DESCRIPTION:Performing Migratory Identity: Performance Research on Displacement\, Belonging and Auto/Bio and Participatory Biography \nLindisfarne Centre\, St Aidan’s College\, University of Durham \n1:00 – 5:00 pm (lunch included) \nCounterpoints Arts’ Learning Lab in partnership with the Centre for Sex\, Gender and Sexualities\, University of Durham\, the Performing Arts\, University of Northumbria\, Platforma Arts + Refugee Network and The Forge\, reflects on the performance\, film and installation work of London-based artist and researcher\, Natasha Davis. \nFrom Rupture\, Asphyxia\, and Suspended\, to her multi-chaptered Internal Terrains and Teeth Show\, Davis imagines and renders intimate auto/biographical architectures of memory\, identity\, migration\, displacement\, trauma and the body. \nDavis’s work is informed by personal experience of enforced migration\, of crossing borders and a temporary loss of citizenship. Her performances – underpinned by longitudinal research – move fluently and fractiously between auto/bio and participatory biographies\, challenging many disciplinary truisms and boundaries. \nInspired by a provocation from Indian dramaturge Rustom Bharucha\, who subverts the question ‘When the play ends\, what remains?’ into ‘When the play ends\, what begins?’ Learning Lab explores the place of performance in engaging publics on the themes of identity\, migration\, memory and auto/biography. \nFollowing a response by performance artist Jane Arnfield (Reader in Arts\, Director of Fine & Visual Arts Programmes\, Northumbria University)\, questions for participants to consider include: how can personal autobiographical material open up and facilitate participatory experiences and insights? What form of knowledge is created and received through Davis’s mix of performance\, visual and live art and academic research? What can be revealed about histories of migration and displacement through using the body and memory as critical\, performance tools? What might performance-led visual and live art bring to the social sciences\, sciences and policy disciplines\, what possibilities can we imagine? \nIn conversation with a range of practitioners from the creative arts\, drama and performance\, and the humanistic social sciences – Davis will present a range of critical methodologies that are central to her work by way of presentation\, excerpts and a public interview. \nOur thanks to St Aidan’s College\, University of Durham for hospitality and support of Learning Lab. \nFor more information contact: \nMaggie O’Neill: maggie.o’neill@durham.ac.uk \nÁine O’Brien: aine@counterpoints.org.uk \nFor more on Learning Lab\, see here: http://learninglabeditions.org/ \nImage: Unrooted\, by Natasha Davis
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/performing-migratory-identity/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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