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SUMMARY:Literature and Activism - bringing refugee experiences 'home'
DESCRIPTION:The refugee ‘crisis’ has dominated the media in recent months and public engagement with the issue has never been higher.  Across TV\, radio\, newspapers and social media\, all aspects of the crisis are exhaustively discussed. So what role if any does literature play in helping to deepen our understanding? \nThe event will launch a highly anticipated new book\, breach\, by Olumide Popoola and Annie Holmes\, who were commissioned to engage with and bring back “home” the experiences of refugees and migrants in Calais. Coming from his unique poetical perspective will be the multi-talented spoken word artist\, Kayo Chingonyi\, who is currently doing a residency around the issues of migration. \nHosted by an author and experienced immigration expert\, Tim Finch\, the event will question whether literature can really move us to act and engage with experiences of refugees. And what can writers add to the efforts of their journalist colleagues. \nDrinks will be available from the bar. Kayo will also play a few tunes from his eclectic record collection. \nFeatured writers include: \nOlumide Popoola is a Nigerian German writer. Her publications include poetry and essays\, the novella this is not about sadness (2010) and the play Also by Mail (2013). She lives in London\, where she lectures in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths.  www.olumidepopoola.com \nAnnie Holmes is a Zimbabwean writer and film-maker\, now London-based. In addition to publishing short fiction\, she has co-edited two volumes of oral narratives in the McSweeney’s Voice of Witness series\, Underground America and Hope Deferred. Twitter @AnnieHolmesLit \nKayo Chingony is the author of two poetry books\, Some Bright Elegance (Salt\, 2012) and The Colour of James Brown’s Scream (Akashic\, 2016). He has been widely published in journals and anthologies and has delivered lectures and readings at venues and events around the world. He was awarded a Geoffrey Dearmer Prize and is currently a resident artist of Royal Holloway\, University of London and Counterpoints Arts\, engaging with issues around migration and activism. \nTim Finch\, author of The House Of Journalists (“A savagely funny broadside aimed at the industry of suffering” Metro “[An] effective mixture of often-light comedy and often-brutal reportage from the front line against tyranny” Daily Mail) and former Director of Communications at the Refugee Council. \nManveen Rana is a journalist for The World At One on BBC Radio 4. Last year\, she spent a few months following one Syrian family on their arduous journey from Turkey to their final home in Germany. Along the way they met people smugglers\, walked through forests at night\, got caught up in riots at the Macedonian border and spent nights sleeping on Serbian streets. Her reports of the family’s journey and their subsequent experiences of trying to forge a future in Frankfurt have been collated in a successful podcast series and a documentary. “A New Life In Europe: The Dhnie Family” has been shortlisted for both the Peabody Awards and the One World Media Awards. \nOrganised by Counterpoints Arts in collaboration with Peirene Press and Royal Holloway\, University of London \nTickets are £6 and can be booked on the Richmix website.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/literature-and-activism-bringing-refugee-experiences-home/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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SUMMARY:Bards Without Borders: Shakespeare 400
DESCRIPTION:Richmix\, 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd\, London E1 6LA \n8pm\, £10/£8 \nGolden lads and girls all must\,\n As chimney-sweepers\, come to dust. \nShakespeare has been dead for a while\, and on the anniversary of his death Bards Without Borders (BWB) held an international wake\, all be it 400 years late! Imagine a multilingual carnivalesque funeral which blended the traditions of ten different countries and involved a few of the Bard’s major and minor characters. \nBWB\, the London-based collective of poets and musicians from refugee and migrant backgrounds hosted an evening of new poetry\, live music\, puppetry and revelry rounded off with a DJ set and the chance to toast the original Bard and make sure he was truly spinning (and dancing) in his coffin. Bards Without Borders broke all borders be they national\, spiritual or literal. The night set the record straight on how Shakespeare shines a light on our very own experiences of journey\, loss\, joy and displacement. \nStirringly good\, heartfelt and skilled music for the ears tonight from #Bardswithoutborders (@DebsNewbold) \nJust when I needed a reminder that there is so much loveliness in the world (@skanoli) \nIf this were played upon a stage now\, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. (William Shakespeare) \nFollowing workshops led by poet/facilitator Laila Sumpton and theatre director Arne Pohlmeier (Two Gents Productions) and sell out debut performances at Hackney Showrooms\, Arcola Theatre and the Poetry Café this Rich Mix performance marked the exact date\, 400 years ago\, of Shakespeare’s passing. \nPresented in association with Platforma Arts & Refugees Network and supported by Arts Council England\, Global Shakespeare and Spread The Word. \nBWB poets: Freddy Macha\, Tolu Agbelusi\, Shamim Azad\, Alia’ Kuwalit\, Belinda Zhawi\, Edin Suljic\, Lloyd Benjamin\, Haroon O Mahdi\, Barbara Lopez\, Fatima Diriye & Hamdi Khalif. \nhttp://www.richmix.org.uk/events/spoken-word/bards-without-borders
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/bards-without-borders-shakespeare-400/
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SUMMARY:Everyday On Canalside Community Event\, Saturday\, April 9\, 2016
DESCRIPTION:Counterpoints Arts and the Canalside Residents’ Association co-hosted a ‘Learning Lab’ at the Whitmore Community Centre \nThere was lots of hands-on creative activities\, including: \n* Radio podcasting with Social Broadcasts\n* A photographer  taking portraits for Humans of Canalside \n* Your histories\, ideas\, stories and knowledgewere shared through maps and posters \n* The Canalside gardening group met and talked about summer activities \nThere was also sharing of ideas and planning for the BIG Canalside Street Party in July! \nThoughts on activities\, music\, performance\, food\, art was all shared. Residents and local businesses met and shared with each other the diverse cultures and skills that exist in Canalside. \nMore info: Email info@everydayoncanalside.org or contact the Canalside Residents’ Association
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/everyday-on-canalside-community-event-saturday-april-9-2016-2/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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SUMMARY:Beyond Borders
DESCRIPTION:Young Vic\, 66 The Cut\, Waterloo\, London SE1 8LZ \nCounterpoints Arts/Platforma and the Young Vic invite you to a free event looking at theatre and performance with and by refugees and migrants. \nA chance to hear about the Young Vic’s work with refugees and and asylum seekers and their future plans. \nAnd an opportunity to discuss themes including:\n– How participatory work can link to main house production\n– Connections between work in the UK and overseas\n– Pathways for artists from refugee and migrant backgrounds\, from their first engagement to career development. \nThe half-day session builds on an event held by Counterpoints Arts/Platforma and The Tricycle theatre July 2015\, bringing together organisations\, artists and others working in this field. \nTo reserve a place email Sharon Kanolik: sharonkanolik@youngvic.org\nIf you have any questions please contact Tom Green: tom@counterpoints.org.uk
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/beyond-borders/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160226T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160226T170000
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SUMMARY:Refugee Week Conference EXTRA
DESCRIPTION:Image by Ambrose Musiyiwa \nDue to unprecedented demand for the Refugee Week Conference\, we are holding a special extra event on 26 February 3pm-5pm at Rich Mix in Bethnal Green\, London. \nThe mini-conference will be an opportunity to enjoy some of the highlights of the Refugee Week conference\, witness inspiring performances and speakers\, and share ideas with organisers and supporters from across the country in preparation for Refugee Week 2016. \nClick here for details and to book your free place.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-conference-extra/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160223T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160223T220000
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SUMMARY:Migration Lab @ Design Museum
DESCRIPTION:Going behind the headlines\, Migration Lab focuses on the ‘on-the-ground reality’ of forced migration\, inviting you to put yourself in the shoes of those who are creating solutions by making\, doing\, sharing\, and debating. \n\nWhat Can you Expect: \nThe Design Museum and the Learning Lab at Counterpoints Arts are collaborating to create the Migration Lab – an evening exploring the potential of design to build collective futures in the face of the daunting physical\, social\, and cultural challenges triggered by global population displacement. \nParticipate in a ‘bodging’ session led by artist and designer\, Jasleen Kaur. Using everyday and found materials and low-tech processes\, find out how to repair and make objects ‘built for how we do things\, not for how we should be doing them’. \nMeet some of the volunteers who have been working for StartupAid’s ‘Marhacar.com’ project\, distributing first aid items on the island of Lesbos. The ‘operations zone’ reconstructs Lesbos and its different camps and warehouses in miniature across the museum\, so that you can take part in simulated operations\, organising missions which use coordinated design and collaborative action to help as many people as possible. \nWatch a screening of The Architect by Muajhid Attar\, 2016. The Architect was supported by the Syria Mobile Film Festival training workshop. It explores a young boy’s dream to re-design and re-build his beloved city of Aleppo. \nEngage in a discussion led by Engin Isin\, author of Citizens Without Frontiers\, on diverse practices of mobile creativity across borders and the urgent realities of new modes of global citizenship. Engin will be in conversation with Joanna Theodorou\, Ismail Einashe\, Shahed Saleem\, Yasmin Fedda\, Paula Schwarz and Jasleen Kaur. \nMore about Speakers \n\n\n\n\nEngin Isin is Professor of Politics at The Open University\, UK. He is Chief Editor of the journal Citizenship Studies and author and editor of fifteen books in the field\, including Being Political and Citizens Without Frontiers. Engin is particularly interested in the history and practice of population exchange and the role of creative arts and design in recognizing the ingenuity of new modes of global citizenship. \nJasleen Kaur  is a Scottish-Indian artist based in London. Jasleen engages with the malleability of cultures and how social histories are embedded in materials and objects. Jasleen is a visiting lecturer at The Royal College of Art\, exhibits worldwide and was awarded the Jerwood Makers Open in 2015. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Royal College of Art and the UK Crafts Council. \n\n\n\nStartupAid was launched at the Global Economic Forum in January 2016 and is the initiative of social entrepreneur\, Paula Schwarz\, and her team. StartupAid connects humanitarian and creative entrepreneurs\, designers and NGOs through the ‘Harbor’ Internet – where users exchange knowledge and develop tools to solve problems together that refugees\, volunteers and NGOs face on a daily basis. \nPaula Schwarz – StartupAid studied Investment Management in Stanford and at ALBA University in Greece. She mentored for the Venture Bus in East Africa and founded the first carpooling community in Kenya (Jambocar.co.ke). She is a trained Investment Manager and worked for the private fund of Philipp Schindler (Google Global Head of Operations) in the Middle East. \nJoanna Theodorou – StartupAid specializes in Cultural Diplomacy and founded the NGO ‘Reload Greece’ in 2012. She is project leader for the social entrepreneurship programme of the municipality of Athens and is a grant officer for the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. \nIsmail Einashe is a freelance journalist\, researcher and associate editor at Warscapes. He writes for Prospect\, Index on Censorship\, African Arguments and Welt-Sichten\, and has published in The Guardian\, Internazionale and The Mail & Guardian. Ismail presented on BBC radio on Four Thought\, The Cultural Frontline and From our own Correspondent’. Born in Somalia\, Ismail lived in Ethiopia before arriving in Britain as a child refugee. \nShahed Saleem teaches at the University of Westminster School of Architecture\, and is senior researcher on the Bartlett’s Survey of London project. Shahed’s The British Mosque is a social and architectural history and the first comprehensive account of Muslim architecture in Britain. Shahed’s work engages with processes of making community and religious spaces\, negotiating discourses of planning\, migration and visual cultures. \nYasmin Fedda is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose films have focused on a range of themes from Edinburgh bakeries to Syrian monasteries. Her films have been BAFTA-nominated and screened at numerous international festivals. Films include Breadmakers (2007)\, A Tale of Two Syrias (2012)\, Queens of Syria (2014). Fedda has also made broadcast films for the BBC and Al Jazeera. \n\nTickets include entry to the Designs of the Year and Designers in Residence exhibition before the activities begin. Doors will open at 18:15. Events begin at 19:00 and last until about 22:00. \nAdults £12 / Students £9 / Members £6 \nTo find out about other similar learning platforms\, visit our Learning Lab project site. \n\n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/migration-lab-design-museum/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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SUMMARY:Unexpected: Continuing Narratives of Identity and Migration
DESCRIPTION:Ben Uri Gallery\, 108A Boundary Road\, London NW8 \nIn collaboration with Ben Uri\, this new exhibition juxtaposes works from Ben Uri’s permanent collection by artists including Frank Auerbach and Eva Frankfurther with invited artists offering a contemporary response across a range of practices and media including Behjat Omer Abdulla\, Güler Ates\, James Russell Cant\, Ana Cvorovic\, Juan Delgado\, Tam Joseph\, Joyce Kalema\, Jasleen Kaur\, Fowokan George Kelly\, Jessica Marlowe\, Edwin Mingard\, Eugene Palmer\, Zory Shahrokhi\, Salah Ud Din and other. \nBoth individually and collectively\, the featured works touch on themes of journeys\, displacement\, loss\, memory and identity\, evoking powerful and sometimes unexpected juxtapositions and responses. \nFull details: http://benuri.org.uk/exhibitions/unexpected \nImage: Divided To The Ocean\, by James Cant
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/unexpected-continuing-narratives-of-identity-and-migration/
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160215T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160215T170000
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SUMMARY:Refugee Week Conference 2016
DESCRIPTION:The one and only Refugee Week conference\, featuring inspirational speakers\, networking opportunities and workshops to help organisers and supporters across the country prepare for Refugee Week 2016. \nThe conference is free (lunch provided) and open to all – newcomers especially welcome. \nFull programme to follow at www.refugeeweek.org.uk \nWe have a small travel budget for people from refugee and asylum seeker groups and communities who would like to attend the conference. These funds are allocated on a first come first served basis\, to apply please contact Refugee Week UK Coordinator Emily Churchill Zaraa on emily@counterpoints.org.uk or 0207 012 1761.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-conference-2016/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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SUMMARY:Bards Without Borders at Arcola Theatre
DESCRIPTION:5.30pm\, Arcola Theatre\, 24 Ashwin Street\, London E8 3DL \nPlatforma presents a free performance by Bards Without Borders in support of Nine Lives at Arcola Theatre. \nBards Without Borders (BWB) brings together poets from refugee and migrant backgrounds to create new writing and performance in response to the work of William Shakespeare. Their first gig last month was sold out\, and they are now working on new material for performances throughout 2016 – the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. \nBWB is led by poet/facilitator Laila Sumpton and theatre director Arne Pohlmeier (Two Gents) with support from Platforma / Counterpoints Arts. BWB poets: Freddy Macha\, Tolu Agbelusi\, Shamim Azad\, Alia’ Kuwalit\, Belinda Zhawi\, Edin Suljic\, Lloyd Benjamin\, Haroon O Mahdi\, Barbara Lopez\, Fatima Diriye\, Hamdi Khalif. \n \nNine Lives is a gripping new play from Zodwa Nyoni (Channel 4 Writer in Residence 2014) threading together humour and humanity to tell the real personal story behind asylum headlines. Former West Yorkshire Playhouse Associate Director Alex Chisholm directs Lladel Bryant\, UK Young Citizen of the Year in 2006 and the co-founder of Chicken Shop Shakespeare. \nFull details about Nine Lives\, and free booking for Bards Without Borders: https://www.arcolatheatre.com/production/arcola/nine-lives \nImage by Briony Campbell
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/bards-without-borders-at-arcola-theatre/
CATEGORIES:Literature & Spoken Word,Platforma
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160129T180000
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SUMMARY:7 Days in Syria - screening and a Q/A
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to a special screening of the feature documentary 7 Days in Syria\, 29th January 6:00-8:30 pm\, Institute of Historical Research\, Wolfson Room Senate House\, Malet Street\, London WC1E 7HU. The screening will be followed by a Q/A with award winning war correspondent and Newsweek Middle-East editor\, Janine di Giovanni\, who also produced the film. \n‘7 Days’ gives a window into the lives of families struggling to survive the Syria Conflict. Their courage and resilience shines through in impossible circumstances’ – Angelina Jolie Pitt \nFilm details here: http://www.7daysinsyriafilm.com\n\n‘
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/7-days-in-syria/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160128T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160128T190000
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SUMMARY:‘Eastern Europeans for Dummies’: Immigrant audience development
DESCRIPTION:Image: Patricia Oliveira \nVenue: Romanian Cultural Centre in London\, Manchester Square\, 18 Fitzhardinge Street\, London W1H 6EQ \nDate: 28th January 2016 \nTime: 4:00 – 7:00 pm \nJoin us for a Learning Lab focusing on the unique interdisciplinary methodologies and creative thinking behind the performance duo There There\,  as they embark on audience development for a wider touring of their Arts Council England funded\, Eastern Europeans for Dummies. \nPart ‘performance taster’ by There There\, part a ‘think and do’ roundtable\, Learning Lab will bring together a mix of people\, practices and sectors across the arts\, advocacy\, activism and academia to connect with and feed into the next stage of Eastern Europeans for Dummies at both research and implementation level. \nFor more details\, see Learning Lab Editions  \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/eastern-europeans-for-dummies-immigrant-audience-development-work-of-there-there/
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160123T183000
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SUMMARY:Mbira Kuwirirana at Arcola Theatre
DESCRIPTION:Arcola Theatre\, 24 Ashwin Street\, London E8 3DL \nPlatforma presents a free performance by the brilliant Mbira Kuwirirana in support of Nine Lives at Arcola Theatre. \nMbira Kuwirirana is a trio of mbira players based in the UK. The name of the group can be loosely translated to “mbira is friendship”. The trio is composed of Fungai Gahadzikwa\, Doug Langley and Takudzwa Mukiwa who met because of mbira and have maintained a close friendship since. \nThe trio has been playing together for over 5 years and have played at events including the British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference in 2010\, Mwalimu Express\, Music For Liberia concerts and many more including at venues such as the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. \nNine Lives is a gripping new play from Zodwa Nyoni (Channel 4 Writer in Residence 2014) threading together humour and humanity to tell the real personal story behind asylum headlines. Former West Yorkshire Playhouse Associate Director Alex Chisholm directs Lladel Bryant\, UK Young Citizen of the Year in 2006 and the co-founder of Chicken Shop Shakespeare. \nFull details about Nine Lives\, and free booking for Mbira Kuwirirana: https://www.arcolatheatre.com/production/arcola/nine-lives
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/mbira-kuwirirana-at-arcola-theatre/
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160121T000000
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SUMMARY:‘Everyday on Canalside’ Year 2: Co-Production and Making Together
DESCRIPTION:Image: Ian Buswell \nVenue: Whitmore Community Centre\, 2-4 Phillipp St\, London N1 5NU \nTime: 6:30 – 8:30 pm \nDate: 21 January 2016 \nA Learning Lab at the Whitmore Community Centre which focused on the second year of ‘Everyday on Canalside’ – a participation and community-arts programme located on the Canalside Estate in Hoxton. \nLearning Lab facilitated the Community Residents Association (CRA) together with residents on Canalside\,  the ‘Everyday on Canalside’ team in addition to partners at Metropolitan Housing in their planning for the programme’s second year. \nRunning from 6:30 -8:30 pm\, we looked back at the ‘Everyday on Canalside’ project and made plans for 2016. \nLearning Lab was followed by a social get-together of residents and invited guests to mark the New Year and what promised to be an exciting programme shaped by collaboration and creative action. \nFor more details re Learning Lab please email: dijana@counterpoints.org.uk
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/everyday-on-canalside-year-2-co-production-and-making-together/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160119T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160119T203000
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SUMMARY:Poetry and Activism – with Kayo Chingonyi
DESCRIPTION:Free\, booking required \nToynbee Studios\, 28 Commercial St\, London E1 6AB \nHumanities and Arts Research Centre (Royal Holloway\, University of London) and Counterpoints Arts invite you to the the launch of a new creative collaboration around a residency for poet Kayo Chingonyi. \nThe arts and humanities have a vital role to play in shaping our responses to the current crisis of migration at Europe’s borders. We look to the arts not only for an understanding of who we are and how we relate to others\, but also the kind of society we want to live in. A public conversation about these ideas has never been more urgently needed. \nThis new partnership between and Counterpoints Arts and Humanities and Arts Research Centre\, Royal Holloway will provide the opportunity for a collaborative approach to work on current forced migration from within the arts and humanities\, centred on a residency for the poet Kayo Chingonyi. \nDrawing on research and expertise from across the two organisations and their wider networks\, the residency will provide opportunities for the development of multi-disciplinary responses to forced migration through reflective forms of creative-critical practice. A central focus will be on responses to the language of forced migration\, in particular on unpacking how certain terms and concepts –‘welcome’\, ‘hospitality’\, ‘crisis’– become freighted in public discourse. \nAt this launch event we will present the outline of the residency and invite you to respond to some of the central questions and concerns and suggest areas for research. \nThe event will also feature performances by poets and activists Saradh Soobrayen and Hamdi Khalif. \nTo reserve a free place for the launch event please email: tom@counterpoints.org.uk \nKayo Chingonyi is the author of two books of poetry\, Some Bright Elegance (Salt\, 2012) and The Colour of James Brown’s Scream (Akashic\, 2016) and is currently working on a third. His work has been published in a range of anthologies and literary magazines and he has delivered readings and talks around the world. He is a writer-in-residence at George Green’s School\, a commissioned poet for the Nuffield Council on Bioethics\, and Associate Poet at the ICA from Autumn 2015 to Spring 2016.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/poetry-and-activism-with-kayo-chingonyi/
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SUMMARY:Platforma Jam at the Arcola
DESCRIPTION:Arcola Theatre\, 24 Ashwin Street\, London E8 3DL \nPlatforma presents a free performance in support of Nine Lives at Arcola Theatre. \nFive friends from four continents bring you songs\, sounds and spoken word from Ethiopia\, Palestine and beyond. Featuring Haymanot Tesfa\, Leila Seguin\, Duncan Mortimer\, EbsilBaz\, Emily Zaraa. \nNine Lives is a gripping new play from Zodwa Nyoni (Channel 4 Writer in Residence 2014) threading together humour and humanity to tell the real personal story behind asylum headlines. Former West Yorkshire Playhouse Associate Director Alex Chisholm directs Lladel Bryant\, UK Young Citizen of the Year in 2006 and the co-founder of Chicken Shop Shakespeare. \nFull details about Nine Lives\, and free booking for Platforma Jam: https://www.arcolatheatre.com/production/arcola/nine-lives
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/platforma-jam-at-the-arcola/
CATEGORIES:Music,Platforma
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20151203T193000
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SUMMARY:Bards Without Borders at Hackney Showroom
DESCRIPTION:Bards Without Borders present a poetry & music scratch night\, bringing together London poets from refugee and migrant backgrounds and contributions from live music & spoken word experts Tongue Fu.* \nFollowing three workshops led by poet/facilitator Laila Sumpton (Spread the Word\, Keats House\, Exiled Writers Ink) and theatre director Arne Pohlmeier (Two Gents Productions) focusing on The Comedy Of Errors\, this will be the Bards Without Borders’ premiere performance. \nPresented in association with Platforma arts & refugees network. \nSupported by Arts Council England and Spread The Word. \nBWB poets: Freddy Macha\, Tolu Agbelusi\, Shamim Azad\, Alia’ Kuwalit\, Belinda Zhawi\, Edin Suljic\, Lloyd Benjamin\, Haroon O Mahdi\, Barbara Lopez\, Fatima Diriye & Hamed Khalif. \n* Tongue Fu is “Poetry\, but not as you know it…amazing” (The Guardian). Created and hosted by poet Chris Redmond (Scroobius Pip’s Beatdown XFM; Pick Of The Week – BBC R4)\, it is one of the UK’s liveliest and largest spoken word shows: a riotous experiment in live literature\, music and improvisation featuring the genre hopping Tongue Fu Band (Nostalgia 77\, Jamie Cullum\, Beardyman)
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/bards-without-borders-at-hackney-showroom/
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20151105T113000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20151105T130000
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SUMMARY:Economics\, People and Place: policy versus participatory arts practice in the context of migration.
DESCRIPTION:Image: Everyday on Canalside\, Marcia Chandra\, 2015 \nDate: Thursday 5 November – 2015 \nTime: 11:40 – 1:00 pm \nLocation: De Montfort University\, Leicester LE1 9BH \nThe 2015 Budget painted a very partisan picture of the parsing of the public purse with harsh everyday effects for diverse communities of place. Can we credibly claim to engage in socially engaged and community-led arts projects without also grappling with the language of economic policy? Do we shy away from such discourse and debate at our peril? \nCan we re-frame economic relations with values of empathy\, care and humanity? What might this do to participatory arts practice? \nAt this Counterpoints Arts’ Learning Lab Round Table at the Platforma Festival 2015\, we explored the critical space between economic policy\, inequality\, participatory arts and communities of place.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/economics-people-and-place-policy-versus-participatory-arts-practice-in-the-context-of-migration-2/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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SUMMARY:Platforma Conference 2015
DESCRIPTION:The Platforma Conference on will take place 5-6 November 2015 in Leicester\, in partnership with De Montfort University and ArtReach as part of the third Platforma Festival. \nA special session for international delegates\, and those based in this country but working in part overseas\, will take place on 4th November. \nThe Platforma arts and refugees network is run by Counterpoints Arts with funding from the Baring Foundation and Arts Council England\, in partnership with organisations across England. \nThe Conference is a chance for artists\, other practitioners and academics to share their experiences and discuss various aspects of work by\, with and about refugees. It covers all art forms and all types of work\, including participatory. \nThe Platforma Festival will run across the first week of November\, with various arts events around Leicester. The programme will be confirmed in summer 2015. \nFull details: www.platforma.org.uk/pf_events/platforma-conference
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/platforma-conference-2015/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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SUMMARY:The Edge
DESCRIPTION:7.30pm\, 5th November \nThe Y Theatre\, 7 East Street\, Leicester\, LE1 6EY \nDevised and directed by Douglas Rintoul\, a Transport/New Wolsey Theatre co-production. Presented in Leicester as part of the Platforma Festival. \nBooking opens July 2015 \n‘There is something about the edge: the edge of the land and water. Here possibilities abound that don’t exist in the security of the interior.’\nSunand Prasad\, Architect \nAward-winning theatre company Transport returns with a multi-media sea saga. A woman steps into the English Channel. Five thousand miles away in West Bengal a man is swept up by a great storm surge. Two decades later their children meet on a beach by an English town that’s been abandoned to the sea. She’s training to swim the Channel. He’s a climate change refugee. Set in the near future\, ‘The Edge’ takes us on a touching and fantastical journey through weather\, time and friendship exploring the mythical place where the land meets the sea\, posing vital questions about our future in a rapidly changing environment. \nA Transport/New Wolsey Theatre\, Ipswich co-production
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/2311/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20151104T193000
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SUMMARY:Internal Terrains
DESCRIPTION:De Montfort University\, Leicester LE1 9BH \n7.30pm\, FREE as part of the 3rd Platforma Festival (to book contact tom@counterpoints.org.uk) \nWhat cracks\, what dents appear in the density of everyday pressures and ageing? Why is the body sometimes sensitive to every sound? \nInternal Terrains explores life as a choreography of decades\, in search of what’s at stake as we move from one decade to another. Poetic and sensual\, the performance plays chords with films and installations\, crows\, cages and electric shocks. \nDeveloped partly in the studio and partly through workshops with DMU students\, who will be sharing stories and work with Natasha in the weeks before performance to translate them into visual metaphors around body\, memory and identity. \nCreated\, written and performed by Natasha Davis. Developed in collaboration with: Bob Karper (sound)\, Branislava Kuburovic (written documentation)\, Elisa Gallo Rosso (objects)\, Lucy Cash (movement) and Marty Langthorne (lights). \nOriginally commissioned by Chelsea Theatre London\, Colchester Arts Centre and Live Collision Dublin. Funded by Arts Council England\, Hosking Houses Trust and Theatre Studies at the University of Warwick. Supported by Littoral. \nThis performance commissioned by De Montfort University and Counterpoints Arts for the Platforma Festival 2015 \nSuitable for ages 16+ (unless accompanied by an adult) \nPhoto of Natasha Davis by Lucy Cash \nFull details: platforma.org.uk/pf_events/internal-terrains-natasha-davis/
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/internal-terrains/
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20151020T100000
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SUMMARY:The Value in Making: Crafting\, Memory\, Migration and Storytelling
DESCRIPTION:Image: ‘Turn Right at the Mango Tree’\, Livstycket \nVenue: The Drum\, 144 Potters Lane\, Birmingham B6 4UU \nWe invite you to a partnership project comprising Counterpoints Arts’ Learning Lab\, Crafts Council UK\, the Embassy of Sweden – London\, Craftspace\, Platforma Arts + Refugee Network\, British Council and the National College of Art and Design\, Ireland. \nFramed by a conversation with the Stockholm-based social enterprise\, Livstycket\, and Birmingham-based enterprise\, Shelanu\, Learning Lab focuses on the social and cultural value of craft as a form of place-making when produced by migrant and refugee women. \nLearning Lab explores the role that crafts and making play in navigating experiences of migration\, including wellbeing and integration. We will also look at the value of craft in creating dynamic and sustainable social enterprises. \nThrough a mix of case studies\, presentations\, workshops and conversations\, Learning Lab reflects on new ways of working and asks fresh questions about the role of craft-making in collaborative learning and collective settings. \nWhat are the threads we can draw out that tell the stories of craft skills through journeys of old to new\, tradition to modern\, old to young? \nQuestions include: \nWhat kind of cultural knowledge and ‘know how’ is produced through the transmission of craft skills amongst migrant and refugee women? \nWhat alternative economic and cultural models prevail in the often precarious\, sometimes hidden process of craft-making? \nHow does craft feed back to and re-imagine through storytelling a more equal\, diverse and inclusive city? \nHow can craft legacies open pathways to education and the labour market? \nHow do the realities of cultural displacement and the use of new technologies facilitate cultural change within craft-making? \nWhat can we learn about migration and the bonds between generations\, through engagement in craft? \nContributors to this Learning Lab include practitioners from Livstycket\, Shelanu and Craftspace in addition to Jessica Hemmings\, editor of the recently published Cultural Threads (Bloomsbury\, 2015); together with a range of arts practitioners\, writers\, researchers and cultural entrepreneurs. \nFor more information contact: Áine O’Brien: aine@counterpoints.org.uk \nFor more on Learning Lab\, see here: http://learninglabeditions.org/
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/the-value-in-making-crafting-memory-migration-and-storytelling/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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SUMMARY:Bridging The Gap
DESCRIPTION:Tricycle Theatre\, 269 Kilburn High Road\, London NW6 7JR \nThe Tricycle Theatre and Counterpoints Arts invite you to take part in a conversation about the value of the arts for young EAL learners. \nThe afternoon will provide a chance for artists\, practitioners and organisations working with asylum seekers\, refugees and young migrants to share experiences of working with new English speakers and discuss the question: \nHow can we work more closely with schools to engage young migrants learning English for the first time? \nSince 2008\, through its Minding the Gap project\, the Tricycle has been using drama and theatre as a tool to help recent young migrants\, asylum seekers and refugees to learn English. We are keen to share some of the work we’ve done and to hear from others working with EAL learners in schools and other learning contexts. \nWe’re also enthusiastic to hear from those who might want to explore working in this area\, or who are looking to build new connections. We hope conversations started at this event will be the start of further discussions at the Platforma Conference in Leicester this November. \nRSVP to kate.young@tricycle.co.uk\, or on 0207 625 0134.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/bridging-the-gap/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150621T173000
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SUMMARY:Refugee Artists in Europe Today - talk and discussion at King's Place
DESCRIPTION:Mary Mitchell speaker and media researcher\, with poet George Szirtes and Syrian musician Maya Youssef  – in collaboration with The Continuum Ensemble. \nMary Mitchell will lead an informative talk and discussion about artists who have fled their home countries due to persecution for their artistic work and/or racial origin. The talk will include information on the current situation in Europe for refugee artists\, an introduction to the Traces Project which highlights contributions to the arts from individuals who have fled conflict or persecution and found safety in the UK. The two contibuting artists\, George Szirtes and Maya Youssef\, will respond to the emerging themes and present a short performance of their work. \nMary Mitchell is a media researcher and producer specializing in co-created digital storytelling in refugee communities. She is a producer and media researcher who led on developing content and strategy for the Traces Project\, funded by UNHCR. \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-artists-in-europe-today-talk/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150620T160000
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SUMMARY:Family event at V&A Childhood Museum
DESCRIPTION:It’s your story too! – Refugee Week family event organised in partnership with the V&A Childhood Museum \n20th June 2015 – 10am to 4.30pm \nFree \nThis event\, marking Refugee Week and the World Refugee Day\, will celebrate contributions refugees and migrants make to each of us and to the UK. We invite young people and the young at heart to join us and contribute to a fabulously fun programme by sharing their own stories\, taking part in workshops and family and participatory activities\, witnessing live performances\, theatre\, watching films\, and learning about community projects. \nIt’s your story too! asks the visitors to join in by using Counterpoints Arts’ very own Simple Acts programme. Through fun and engaging simple actions of sharing a song\, watching a film\, drawing\, sharing a meal and others we learn about refugees and ourselves. \nThe event will feature an ‘edible histories’ installation by artist and illustrator Orly Orbach who uses visual narratives and storytelling to create an ‘alternative’ and inclusive history of Great Britain\, history inclusive of contributions by refugees and migrants.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/family-event-at-va-childhood-museum/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form
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SUMMARY:Josephine Oniyama & The Heritage Survival Band at Southbank Centre
DESCRIPTION:FREE EVENT at Royal Festival Hall \nIn partnership with Counterpoints Arts\, Southbank Centre will host a special performance bringing together singer-songwriter Josephine Oniyama and members of the UK-based Heritage Survival Band from Harare\, Zimbabwe. \nSince her early days of circuiting Manchester’s live music venues with her guitar in hand\, Josephine has carved a strong reputation with her critically acclaimed album ‘Portrait’ in 2012. She has toured internationally and shared a stage with artists like Paloma Faith and Paulo Nutini. Described by the Times as having “a Grace Jones-like hint of Jamaican to her voice and a hypnotic way with precisely phrased poetry”\, Josephine’s candid soulful vocals draw upon a truly global palette including her Liberian and Jamaican heritage\, citing artists like Sister Rosetta Tharpe\, King Sunny Ade\, Fela Kuti and Joni Mitchell as influences. \nJosephine will be joined onstage by Zee Guveya and Norman ‘Jekanyika’ Muza from The Heritage Survival Band – one of the most prolific Zimbabwean acts in the UK\, whose members have performed with great Zimbabwean music legends such as Dr Thomas Mapfumo and Oliver Mutukudzi. Formed and based in Greater Manchester they combine infectious rhythms made to make you dance\, with Afro Jazz and traditional Mbira influences. Within their lyrics they explore social justice themes such as war and poverty as well as ‘life and love’. The multi-instrumentalists will be bringing guitar\, vocals\, mbira\, and bass to the mix. \n“Everybody’s talking about a singer called Josephine. In fact I think I might love her most of all” – Lauren Laverne (Grazia) \nJosephine: “The music is wonderful” – Paul Lester (The Guardian) \nHeritage Survival Band: “exceptionally talented traditional rhythm exponents hailing from Harare” – Nehanda Radio
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/josephine-oniyama-the-heritage-survival-band-at-southbank-centre/
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150618T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150618T210000
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SUMMARY:Stella Chiweshe
DESCRIPTION: St Mary Le Strand\, London WC2 \nStella Rambisai Chiweshe is known The Queen of Mbira Music from Zimbabwe. In this rare London gig at Just Festival Westminster\, as part of a short UK tour celebrating Refugee Week (produced in association with Platforma and Konimusic) Stella will play and sing a range of her best loved songs. \nStella’s long solo career has established her as one of the most original artists on the contemporary African scene\, using popular music to show the depth and power of her traditional spiritual music at home and abroad. \n“Stella’s repertoire stretches from straight classical pieces to bubbly uptempo jigs. The mbira ripples and chimes like a xylophone ” — Roots \nFull tour details: http://www.platforma.org.uk/pf_events/362/
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/stella-chiweshe/
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150616T180000
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SUMMARY:Practices of Place-Making: Memory\, Migration and the Global City (Part 1)
DESCRIPTION:In association with the Migration Museum Project\n16 June: 3:30 – 6 pm\nThe Ditch\, Shoreditch Town Hall\, 380 Old Street\, London \nArtists are often astute observers of the intricate – idiosyncratic – processes of place-making. They are able to document the everyday minutiae shaping the cultural diversity of local places. Yet artistic practices of place-making demand deep collaboration\, encouraging (interdisciplinary) methodologies of trust\, participation\, and democratic/experimental modes of representing ‘voice’ and collective agency for communities of place. \nThis Learning Lab focused on the work of artists who are engaging in place-making practices through the prism of migration\, memory and the lived realities of the global city.Using video\, still photographs\, maps\, sound and text\, Haim Bresheeth and Reza Tavakol’s installation ‘Convivencia’ (co-existence) explores the mixed cultural heritage and everyday life on Turnpike Lane\, North East London\, where more than 100 languages are spoken and people from all parts of the world live in close proximity.\n \nJames Russell Cant’s collaborative photographic portraiture series\, ‘Home Cooking’\, uses food as an anchor for refugee memories and place-making – wherein shared recipes\, cooking and eating enact a rich performative site for cross-cultural exchange and engagement. \nRespondents: Bobby Lloyd\, ‘The Drawing Shed’; Marcia Chandra\, ‘Everyday on Canalside’; Reem Charik\, Febrik; Alice Sachrajda\, The Young Foundation; Professor Phil Marfleet\, University of East London \nImage (top):’Wedding in Park’ – Convivencia: The Turnpike Lane Project\, Haim Bresheeth and Reza Tavakol\, 2015.\nImage (in text) Home Cooking\, James Russell Cant 2012. \nLearning Labs form part of the Out of Place Action-Research Platform (a project led by Counterpoints Arts’ Learning Lab\, in partnership with Royal Holloway\, University of London and FilmAid).
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/practices-of-place-making-memory-migration-and-the-global-city-part-1-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150616T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150621T180000
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SUMMARY:dis/placed
DESCRIPTION:Venue:\nThe Ditch\, Shoreditch Town Hall\n380 Old Street\nLondon EC1V 9LT \nA week-long programme of events in response to global demographic shifts and unprecedented levels of human displacement. \nFeaturing over 40 artists working across visual art\, film\, photography\, Live Art\, performance and design\, dis/placed considers the experiences of people who are ‘staying temporarily’\, sometimes for generations\, in stateless limbos\, detention centres\, refugee camps or urban settlements – living within a country’s borders yet outside its political\, legal and civic life. \ndis/placed invites audiences to explore the exhibition and participate in a daily programme of learning labs\, workshops\, performances\, interventions and screenings. \nProduced by Counterpoints Arts in partnership with Live Art Development Agency \n@counterarts\n#displacedarts\nfacebook.com/counterpointsarts \nContributing artists \nManaf Halbouni\, Kimbal Bumstead\, Richard Dedomenici\, Maya Sanbar\, Mary Mitchell\, Zory Shahrokhi\, James Russell Cant\, Hasan Tanji & Mohamed Tayeb\, Simon Hipkins\, Agata Skowronek and David McAulay\, Sophia Gardiner\, Juan delGado\, Josepa Munoz\, Victoria Burgher\, Hong Dam\, Mariwan Jalal\, Hesan Fetrati\, Anna Sherbany\, Ulrika Eller-Rueter\, Emi Avora\, Matthias Kispert\, Zlata Camdzic & Anna Ehnold-Danailov – w2d theatre\, Nana Varveropoulou\, Florian Amoser\, Sean Burn\, Orly Orbach\, Natasha Davis\, Kay Adshead\, Krissi Bohn\, There There\, Hassan Nezamian\, Eva Mileusnic\, Haim Bresheeth\, Herdi Ahmed\, Laura Saunders\, Alice Myers\, Between the Borders\, Lucy Namayanja\, Anthea Kennedy / Ian Wiblin\, Karen Boswall\, Nesreen Nabil Hussein\, Reza Tavakol\, Bobby Lloyd\, Outlandish Theatre \n  \n\n  \nEvents and performances \n16th June \n2 — 3pm Outlandishtheatre Platform — Between Land and Water A 40 minute live performance in collaboration with four Muslim women in East London; it deals with their personal connection to identity\, place and memorised landscape in London\, in response to the Dublin voices of first generation Muslim women in ‘Between Land\nand Water’ (2014). \nPrivate View 7-10pm (booking required)\nFeaturing food project Topik by Irem Aksu\, incorporating cultural and historical elements – food without borders. \n17th June\n6.45 – 7.15 Nesreen Nabil Hussein – My City\, My Revolution\,  a multi-media performance exploring the city as a site of displacement and alternative revolutions (conceived by Nesreen Hussein in collaboration with Vanio Papadelli\, Mohamed Goely and Michael Picknett). \n7.15 – 7.35 Sean Burn – Slave Ships Today\, spoken word performance and soundscape & visual installation in a close reflection on those displaced. \n7.35 – 8.30 Richard Dedomenici – PPP* Utility Cabinet (installation + performance)\, exploring ways of utilising street cabinets and other discreet prefabricated structures as a solution to the problem of slum landlords exploiting powerless immigrants. \n18th June\n6.45 – 7.15 Zlata Camdzic – Welcome to Dreamland (conceived by Zlata Camdzic and Anna Ehnold-Danailov) – a series of short theatrical performances\, each following different aspects of a female asylum seeker’s incredible journey. \nfollowed by \n7.15 – 8.30 Panel Discussion – Exploring Immigration Detention through Performance\, with excerpts from The Bogus Woman by Kay Adshead\, performed by Krissi Bohn. Panel discussion led by Dr Agnes Woolley (Royal Holloway\, University of London) with Zlata Camdzic\, Anna Ehnold-Danailov\, Kay Adshead and Bamidele\, member of the Freed Voices group – a group of experts-by-experience committed to speaking out about the realities of immigration detention in the UK. Event supported by Royal Holloway\, University of London. \n20th June\n3.30 – 5.30pm There There –  TEXT HOME TO 78070 (installation + performance) – a secret set of assimilation instructions authored by the infamous Romanian Crime Wave itself\, to help immigrants integrate and endanger the British way. \n6 – 8:30 pm Film Screening – Garden Studio\, with filmmakers present for post-screening discussion \nBoya Boya (19 mins\, 2014)\, Karen Boswall \nThe View from Our House (76 mins\, 2013)\, Anthea Kennedy/Ian Wiblin \n21st June\n12.00 – 2.30pm There There –  TEXT HOME TO 78070\n2.00 – 2.30pm Natasha Davis – Internal Terrains (Installation + performance) explores life as a choreography of decades\, in search of what’s at stake as we move from one decade to another. Crows\, cages and electric shocks mix with cables\, bulbs and short films revealing fragments of border crossings\, memories and distant lands. \n3-5pm  Panel Discussion – Live Art & dis/placed\, led by Lois Keidan with Alice Ross & Bernard G Mills\, Zlata Camdzic & Anna Ehnold-Danailov\, Natasha Davis\, Nesreen Nabil Hussein  and There There. \n5.15 – 6:00pm Film Screening – Eyes with No Barriers Screening of short films exploring what it means to be ‘dis/placed’ as seen through the eyes of young migrants and non-migrants.  Post-screening conversation with film programme mentor\, Victor Rios\, and young filmmakers. \n\n  \nLearning Lab \nThe Learning Lab threads its way through the dis/placed exhibition opening multiple spaces for interdisciplinary reflection\, creative exchange\, cross-sector learning and collaboration. \nLabs are individually designed to facilitate lively imagining and debate. We invite you to participate in this dedicated programme focusing on the themes explored by artists in the exhibition who are working across film\, photography\, audio\, Live Art and performance\, architecture and design. \nLab topics include: ‘waiting’\, ‘cross-border movement’\, ‘technologies of asylum and detention’\, ‘participatory arts and practices of place-making’\, ‘arts\, activism and social change’\, ‘memory and re-imagining lost archives’\, ‘restorative role of arts and culture’\, ‘investigative journalism through interactive storytelling’ and ‘representing the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean’. \nLearning Labs form part of the Out of Place Action-Research Platform (a project led by Counterpoints Arts’ Learning Lab\, in partenership with Gillian Gordon\, Royal Holloway\, University of London and FilmAid). \nWith questions about Learning Lab\, please contact Áine O’Brien (aine@counterpoints.org.uk) \nLearning Lab booking: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/displaced-learning-labs-and-events-tickets-17149140541 \n16 June: 3:30 – 6 pm\nPractices of Place-Making: Memory\, Migration and the Global City (Part 1) \nIn association with the Migration Museum Project (www.migrationmuseum.org) \nArtists are often astute observers of the intricate – idiosyncratic – processes of place-making. They are able to document the everyday minutiae shaping the cultural diversity of local places. Yet artistic practices of place-making demand deep collaboration\, encouraging (interdisciplinary) methodologies of trust\, participation\, and democratic/experimental modes of representing ‘voice’ and collective agency for communities of place. \nThis Lab focuses on the work of artists who are engaging in place-making practices through the prism of migration\, memory and the lived realities of the global city. \nUsing video\, still photographs\, maps\, sound and text\, Haim Bresheeth and Reza Tavakol’s installation ‘Convivencia’ (co-existence) explores the mixed cultural heritage and everyday life on Turnpike Lane\, North East London\, where more than 100 languages are spoken and people from all parts of the world live in close proximity. \nJames Russell Cant’s collaborative photographic portraiture series\, ‘Home Cooking’\, uses food as an anchor for refugee memories and place-making – wherein shared recipes\, cooking and eating enact a rich performative site for cross-cultural exchange and engagement. \nRespondents: Bobby Lloyd\, ‘The Drawing Shed’; Marcia Chandra\, ‘Everyday on Canalside’; Reem Charik\, Febrik; Alice Sachrajda\, The Young Foundation; Professor Phil Marfleet\, University of East London \n17 June: 3- 6pm \nQueens of Syria: Capturing the Healing Process of Interactive Theatre in the ‘Trojan Women’ Project \nHow would an all-women cast of Syrian refugees interpret Euripides’ great play about war today? 25 women from Syria fleeing the conflict\, find themselves in Jordan with nothing\, no homeland and no hope. Film director\, Yasmin Fedda\, follows the birth of a play and documents the women\, their interpretation and process. \nIn conversation with Fedda and producers\, Georgina Paget and Itab Azzam\, we will look at the ‘Trojan Women’ project conducted in Amman\, Jordan (co-produced by Charlotte Eagar and William Stirling). \nThe project uses participatory storytelling and public performance to promote understanding between refugees and host communities in Jordan. In the Queens of Syria\, Fedda captures a transformative journey through a mix of quiet observation\, direct interviews\, and footage of the refugee women’s lives. We witness the women telling eloquent and moving personal stories of what it means to be caught up in the conflict\, revealing historic entanglements with the Euripides’ tragedy alongside rich exchanges with\, dramaturge\, Omar Abu Saada\, and acting coach\, Nanda Mohammad. \nQueens of Syria will have its London premiere at the Barbican on 16 July\, 2015. \nRespondent: Gillian Gordon \n18 June: 2- 6 pm \nWaiting (for Godot): Temporalities of Control and of Migration. \nIn ‘How long can waiting work?’ the late Edward Said likens Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’ to the Palestinian condition. It is ‘about waiting\, about unending expectation … as Arabs now\, we are in fact waiting for all sorts of things to happen with very little certainty as to what they are\, how they will affect us\, and what will come after.’ \nThis Lab brings together several artists who creatively document a range of enforced waiting conditions for refugees and migrants across the globe. \nMaya Sanbar’s 3-screen film installation\, titled ‘Waiting’\, steadily observes Palestinian migrants trapped in a no-man’s land\, on the Gaza/Egypt border; Matthias Kispert’s experimental video essay ’No More Beyond’ is located in Melilla\, the Spanish enclave in Morocco surrounded by a boundary of 6.8 miles of heavily patrolled triple wire fence. The remains of a refugee community on the Tunisian/Libyan border is filmed by Kimbal Bumstead in ‘The Horizon is Far Away’\, together with his participatory photography project\, ‘Waiting for a New Life‘ with Yezidi (Iraqi) refugees in an unofficial refugee camp in Batman\, Eastern Turkey. Simon Hipkins\, Agata Skowronek and Dave McCauley’s ‘The Circle’ weaves film\, photography and sound design to witness the enduring legacy of violence in Iraq\, mediated through stories of internally displaced people. Juan delGado’s installation ‘Terminal Sur’ re-invokes the voices of an invisible community in the city of Bogotá – internally displaced from the region of Choco\, Colombia. Emily Churchill Zaara curates and translates several art/activist projects chronicling everyday perspectives from within and without the Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria. \nRespondent: TBC \n19 June: 11 – 12:30pm \nWays of Working: Cartoons and Contraband – A Master Class with Benjamin Dix. \nSometimes a simple\, hand-drawn image conveys more meaning than glossy photographs and films. Benjamin Dix and the team at Positive Negatives\, Ltd.\, use multimedia technology to tell new stories to represent global conflict\, humanitarian and migration issues to wide and diverse audiences. Benjamin will walk us through a range of collaborative projects\, which use mixed-methods of investigative journalism\, ethnography\, interactive comics\, and face-to-face testimonials. www.positivenegatives.org \n19 June: 3- 6pm \nDetention: Participatory Arts and Photography in Nana Varveropoulou’s No-Man’s Land.\nIn association with Autograph ABP (http://autograph-abp.co.uk/) \nA Lab based on the collaborative methodologies\, processes and outcomes of Nana Varveropoulou’s photography project\, No Man’s Land\, located in Coinbrook Immigration Removal Centre\, UK. No Man’s Land was produced through sustained collaboration with a group of men who participated in a programme of photo workshops. The workshops were developed through ongoing dialogue between Varveropoulou and the detainees\, based around themes surrounding the emotional experience and impact of indefinite detention. \nThe workshop will explore and reflect on the site-specific/collaborative methodologies implemented by Varveropoulou\, in addition to the aesthetics and ethics underpinning the work\, with a view to understanding wider social impact and plans for exhibition and publication – for whom and to what end? \nRespondent: Dr Roberta McGrath\, Reader in Photography\, Napier University\, Edinburgh; Andrej Mahecic\, Senior Communications Officer – UNHCR \n20 June: 10:30 – 12:00 noon \nPractices of Place-Making: Memory\, Migration and the Archive (Part 2) \nWhat do you hang on the walls of your mind?  *Eve Arnold\, Magnum Photographer \nSyrian artist Manaf Halbouni’s installation of an overloaded\, battered car\, Nowhere is Home\, epitomizes the extreme precariousness for individuals forced to flee homes\, livlihoods and extended communities. With no firm footing in any location\, Halbouni takes his artistic intervention to the road – assembling a living archive\, a makeshift mobile space ‘packed with objects [he loves] and with the capacity to drive away’. \nMany of the artists in ‘dis/placed’ use a similar form of mobile storytelling to re-imagine and challenge the idea of a fixed archival collection. The idea of history and the perceived boundaries of fact\, fiction\, memory and loss are continuously re-negotiated. Several works introduce alternative ways of remembering and archiving that include the digital and the sensorial\, collaboration\, co-production and participation. \nThis Learning Lab will take the form of a conversation with Professor Maggie O’Neill\, University of Durham and Dr Roberta McGrath\, University of Napier\, Edinburgh\, as they walk through and read against the grain of the exhibition with a view to exploring how human rights are understood in these new methods of archival research\, mobile storytelling and creative co-production. \n* ‘What do you hang on the walls of your mind? When I became a photographer I began\, assiduously\, to collect favourite images which I filed away in my imagination to bring out and examine during moments of stress and moments of quiet’. (‘At Home in the World’\, Magnum Legacy Eve Arnold\, by Janine di Giovanni\, 2015). \n20 June: 1 – 3:00pm  \nWorld Refugee Day \nCreative Responsibility and Human Rights: Telling the Untold Stories of the Crisis in the Mediterranean  \nIn association with the Migration Museum Project (www.migrationmuseum.org) and the Migrant Rights Network (www.migrantsrights.org.uk) \n  \nThis Learning Lab will take the form of a moderated panel with short presentations and open discussion. \nA recent article by Guardian journalist\, Jonathan Jones\, sets the agenda for this conversation when he declares that ‘art’s response to migrant drownings should be way more aggressive’. Jones suggests that ‘the scale of our cruelty\, the true consequences of all the rhetoric that de-humanises migrants\, have become so lethally clear\, surely art on such a theme should be less equivocal\, more angry?’ \nWhat might a creative arts response be and can it ever act alone? \nThis Learning Lab brings together a mix of people who are actively engaged and interested in making urgent interventions in the representation and communication of the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean. It will showcase examples from creative practitioners\, commentators and researchers who are telling the story of the root causes of the migrant crisis through collaborative storytelling methods\, media platforms and broadcasting channels. \nThe aim is to set up a network of interested artists\, journalists\, activists\, advocates\, academics and policymakers with a view to sharing ideas and charting potential collaborations and storytelling partnerships. \nPanel participants include – with more updates to come: \nPreethi Nallu: Print and multimedia journalist who has reported from the Middle East\, Asia and Europe. Focusing on human rights and development issues\, she writes for Al Jazeera\, TIME\, Newsweek and other international outlets. Her most recent work for UNHCR highlights the plight of refugees and migrants at sea. She is currently working on a multimedia project called ‘Parallel Journeys: Seasons of Migration’ with photographer and writer\, Iason Athanasiadis. \nRuben Anderson: Anthropologist/postdoctoral research fellow at the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit\, London School of Economics and author of Illegality Inc: Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe\, 2014 \nBenjamin Dix: Director of Positive Negatives Ltd\, which uses multimedia and traditional forms of art to represent global conflict\, humanitarian and migration issues to wide and diverse audiences – www.positivenegatives.org \nMaurice Wren:  Chief Executive at the British Refugee Council. Maurice was Director of Asylum Aid since 2002\, having previously held senior management roles at Shelter and the Housing Associations Charitable Trust. \nRichard Kotter:  European Union Country Coordinator (and member of SOS Europe project group) for Amnesty International UK. He is Senior Lecturer in Economic / Political Geography\, and Programme Leader for the MSc in Disaster Management and Sustainable Development\, Department of Geography\, Northumbria University at Newcastle upon Tyne. \n  \nPhotograph: ‘Nowhere is Home’ (work in progress image) by Manaf Halbouni\, 2015. Commissioned for the exhibition Dispossessed at the Venice Biennale by Wroclaw with Dredesn and Lviv. A partner piece for Refugee Week 2015 will be co-commissioned by the Victoria and Albert Museum and Counterpoints Arts. \nWe are grateful to Aurora Multimedia for their support for this exhibition
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/displaced/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Commission: Nowhere is Home by Manaf Halbouni
DESCRIPTION:A car loaded with personal possessions turned into a living space – an impossible home for a “modern nomad unable to belong and grow roots”. \nThis personal yet universal piece by German-Syrian artist Manaf Halbouni speaks of his transient life in exile from Damascus. It also stands as a moving testament to loss\, resilience and hope for over 50 million displaced people across the world\, who are often forced to hastily pack a few cherished belongings onto a car before escaping war\, natural disaster or conflict. \n‘Nowhere is Home’ was displayed at the Southbank Centre from 16-21 June 2015 (as an outdoor installation linked to the dis/placed show)\, and at the V&A’s Friday Late event on 26th June. From 22 – 25 June\, the car was driven around London as an interactive installation\, generating public engagement with issues relating to global displacement. \nOriginally commissioned for the exhibition ‘Dispossessed’ at the Venice Biennale by Wroclaw with Dredesn and Lviv. This partner piece for Refugee Week 2015 has been co-commissioned by the V&A and Counterpoints Arts. \nHere you can see a short video about the making of Manaf’s piece by super talented  Isla Gordon-Crozier.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/commission-nowhere-is-home-by-manaf-halbouni-2/
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SUMMARY:The Salt of the Earth + special guests at BFI
DESCRIPTION:The awe-inspiring and overwhelmingly beautiful images of Sebastião Salgado\, the Brazilian photographer and former refugee\, so captured the imagination of acclaimed director Wim Wenders that he teamed up with Salgado’s son Juliano to tell the story of this global wanderer’s life in this award-winning documentary. It’s presented to mark Refugee Week\, a nationwide programme of arts\, culture and educational events that celebrate the contribution of refugees and attempts to counter negative media and public perceptions of them. \nA post-screening discussion will include panelists: \nJanine di Giovanni:  Middle East Editor of Newsweek and a contributing editor of Vanity Fair. Di Giovanni is also a consultant on Syria for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She has won many awards for her reportage\, war reporting and journalism. \nGonzalo Vargas Llosa: Director of UNHCR UK (appointed 2014) after four years as the Refugee Agency’s Representative in the Dominican Republic. He has also served in New York\, Panama and UNHCR’s Geneva headquarters\, as well as on emergency missions in Pakistan\, Darfur\, Sudan and Libya. \nNeil Burgess:  Founding director of Magnum Photos London and bureau chief of Magnum New York. Since founding ‘nbpictures’\, an international photographer’s agency based in London\, he has represented the work of some of the world’s leading photographers\, including Sebastiao Salgado\, Annie Leibovitz\, and Don McCullin. \nPanel Chair: \nPaul Lowe:  Course Director of the Masters programme in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication\, University of the Arts London. Lowe is an award-winning photographer\, whose work is represented by Panos Pictures\, and who has been published in Time\, Newsweek\,Life\, The Sunday Times Magazine\, The Observer and The Independent amongst others. He has covered breaking news the world over\, including the fall of the Berlin Wall\, Nelson Mandela’s release\, famine in Africa\, the conflict in the former Yugoslavia and the destruction of Grozny. He is a consultant to the World Press Photo foundation in Amsterdam on online education of professional photojournalists in the majority world. \nFollowed by a reception in the Blue Room (space is limited\, so please book your place via the bfi box office on 0207928 3232). \nTo buy tickets\, please go to BFI website \nProduced by BFI and Counterpoints Arts in association with FilmAid \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/2249/
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