BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Counterpoints - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Counterpoints
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Counterpoints
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:Europe/London
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20200329T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20201025T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20210328T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20211031T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20220327T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20221030T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20230326T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20231029T010000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220504T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220504T150000
DTSTAMP:20260429T222831
CREATED:20220422T113931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145006Z
UID:10000076-1651676400-1651676400@counterpoints.org.uk
SUMMARY:Binge Watching Hate: Strategies for Fighting the Rise of Digital Extremism
DESCRIPTION:Join advocates\, scholars\, and strategic thought leaders in conversation about cutting-edge communications strategies for combating the rise of far-right extremist ideology in digital spaces. \nDATE/TIME: Wed. May 4th\, 3pm UK/10AM EST. \nLive on Facebook @CounterpointsArts @DefineAmerican \nPanel: \nSarah E. Lowe\, Moderator\, (Director of Research + Impact\, Define American\, US) \nSarah is a health equities researcher\, a Ph.D. candidate in Community Health Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst\, and the Director of Research + Impact at the immigrant rights advocacy organization Define American. Her work focuses on narrative and participatory approaches\, particularly storytelling as critical narrative intervention in and around immigrant communities. \nZahed Amanullah (Resident Senior Fellow\, Institute for Strategic Dialogue\, UK) \nZahed leads ISD’s civil society engagement\, communications and partnerships. He coordinates between activists\, frontline workers\, and relevant civil society networks. \nDr. Francesca Bolla Tripodi\, (Senior Faculty Researcher\, CITAP: University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill\, US) \nFrancesca is a sociologist who studies how participatory media perpetuates systems of inequality. She is an assistant professor at the School of Information and Library Science at UNC Chapel Hill\, and is an affiliated researcher with Data & Society. \nShauna Siggelkow (Director of Digital Storytelling\, Define American\, US) \nShauna is a television and digital video producer who specializes in creating content-based advocacy campaigns. She leads an innovative strategy at the non-profit Define American\, where she combines social media influencer networks and digital humanities research to combat the spread of misinformation online. \nTony McAleer\, (Founder\, Life After Hate\, US) \nAuthor\, activist\, and founder of “Life After Hate\,” Tony knows firsthand how to combat white supracists online\, because he used to be one. Since reforming his ideology\, he has founded “Life After Hate\,” where he leads narrative and content strategy efforts to combat the rise of white nationalism in the U.S.\, and rehabilitate extremists who have bought into the rhetoric. \nPresented by Define American in partnership with Counterpoints Arts as part of our PopChange Salon Series. \nThe PopChange Salon Series — presented by Counterpoints Arts’ Popchange initiative — are curated exchanges with change makers\, storytellers and the entertainment industry to explore opportunities for harnessing pop culture for real social change. Building from the recent New Brave World report (Sachrajda & Zukowska\, 2021)\, the Salon Series focuses on areas with momentum for narrative change in the UK — TV/film\, gaming and comedy — with particular reference to themes of racial justice\, migration and displacement.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/binge-watching-hate-strategies-for-fighting-the-rise-of-digital-extremism/
CATEGORIES:Learning,Pop Culture
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/binge-watching.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220410T000000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220410T000000
DTSTAMP:20260429T222831
CREATED:20220406T134414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145006Z
UID:10000079-1649548800-1649548800@counterpoints.org.uk
SUMMARY:PopChange Salon Series X Now Play This Festival: Stories of Displacement in Video Games
DESCRIPTION:Can video games change our understanding of what it means to be a refugee? \nWith displacement as a guiding theme\, this will be an exploratory conversation looking at different ways in which video games can diversify our understanding of refugee experiences. The discussants will each be talking about some of their own projects — including the popular text-based game Bury Me\, My Love — while exploring the values and challenges of bringing lived experience into game development\, platforms for experimentation and cross-sector collaboration\, and opportunities with interactive forms such as AR/VR. This will be an inspiring conversation for game designers\, storytellers\, art-ivists and narrative change-makers. \nThe discussion will be facilitated by Jennifer Estaris\, Game Director of ustwo games (known for Monument Valley and Alba: A Wildlife Adventure) in conversation with:  \n\nSindi Breshani – Co-founder of Episod Studio which is currently developing ‘Race for the Arctic’\, a documentary game built with indigenous communities.\nFlorent Maurin (via live feed) – Founder of The Pixel Hunt – a games design studio focused on reality-inspired games\, including Bury Me\, My Love\, produced in collaboration with a Syrian refugee. \nMalath Abbas (via lived feed) – Founder of Biome Collective\, and currently producing ‘Hope’\, a playful experience that documents his own journey as a refugee to the UK.\n\nThis event is presented by Counterpoints Arts as part of its PopChange Salon Series in collaboration with Now Play This (8-10 April 2022) — a festival of experimental game design held at Somerset House. This year’s theme explores the relationship between game design and democracy. \nThe PopChange Salon Series — presented by Counterpoints Arts’ Popchange initiative — are curated exchanges with change makers\, storytellers and the entertainment industry to explore opportunities for harnessing pop culture for real social change. The Salon Series focuses on areas with momentum for narrative change in the UK — TV/film\, gaming and comedy — with particular reference to themes of racial justice\, migration and displacement. \n********* \nLinks & More Info: \nGet tickets to the Festival (£6.50-9) via Somerset House website: https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/now-play-2022  \nIf you are interested in joining\, we have a limited number of free tickets available. Get in touch with marcia@counterpoints.org.uk. \nWatch online: https://twitch.tv/nowplaythis \nImage credit: Bury Me\, My Love © The Pixel Hunt
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/popchange-salon-series-x-now-play-this-festival-stories-of-displacement-in-video-games/
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Digital,Gaming,Pop Culture
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/burymemyloveheader.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220408T000000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220408T000000
DTSTAMP:20260429T222831
CREATED:20220323T133222Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145006Z
UID:10000080-1649376000-1649376000@counterpoints.org.uk
SUMMARY:No Direction Home - Borderings
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night of laughter from the brilliant No Direction Home\, hosted by Ola Labib\, with Yasmeen Ghawri\, Selam Amare\, Edin Suljic\, Charly Monreal. \nNo Direction Home is a comedy collective produced by Counterpoints Arts featuring new stand-ups from refugee and migrant backgrounds. They’ve performed sell-out gigs around the country including at London’s Southbank Centre and the Edinburgh Fringe. Nish Kumar says: “The No Direction Home comedians are a very exciting\, interesting and creative bunch of people to be around. And they are very funny!” \nHost Ola Labib is a star of the comedy circuit being the only Black\, Muslim\, female\, Sudanese comedian currently performing in the UK. She has already gained serious ground on the circuit\, performed on TV shows such as Mo Gilligan’s Lateish and has no intention of slowing down. \nPresented as part of Borderings \nPlease note that we can only offer a limited number of Unwaged tickets. Do not purchase one of these unless you have a legitimate need. \n\n\n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/no-direction-home-borderings/
CATEGORIES:Comedy
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Ola-Labib-4.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220303T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220303T123000
DTSTAMP:20260429T222831
CREATED:20220217T121843Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145007Z
UID:10000081-1646305200-1646310600@counterpoints.org.uk
SUMMARY:Monthly Meet: Coffee and Cake
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to a friendly networking session for those involved in arts\, culture and community projects relating to refugees \nAt the Refugee Week Conference earlier in February we were struck (and inspired) by how much everyone wanted to share and make connections with each other – never mind that we were 300 people on one Zoom chat! \nSo\, we decided to make our March Monthly Meet an open networking session for anyone involved or interested in Refugee Week and Platforma. \nYou might be planning a Refugee Week event\, involved in arts\, culture\, education or sports by and with refugees\, or just interested in finding out more: Everyone is welcome. \nJoin us to: \n• Share plans and ideas \n• Ask each other questions \n• Make new connections \nWe’ll ask you when you sign up who you’d like to meet/ what you’d like to learn\, and aim to design the breakout rooms accordingly (wish us luck). \nWe will send you the Zoom link the day before the event. \nBring your own coffee and cake ? ? \nRegister via Eventbrite \n* \nRefugee Week & Platforma Monthly Meets are free\, friendly online meet-ups on the first Thursday of every month\, for people interested in arts\, culture and social change to share learning and expand their networks.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/monthly-meet-coffee-and-cake/
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/coffee-cake.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220218T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220218T123000
DTSTAMP:20260429T222831
CREATED:20220202T150029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145007Z
UID:10000082-1645182000-1645187400@counterpoints.org.uk
SUMMARY:Communities In And Around Museums
DESCRIPTION:18th February\, 11.00-12.30  \nLive online via https://www.youtube.com/c/GARAGEMCA \n  \nCounterpoints Arts is collaborating with Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow to present Communities In And Around Museums: Interaction\, Practices and Principles. \nThe workshop will take place at Garage MCA and live online via YouTube as part of the Experiencing the Museum Conference \nThe discussion brings together Russian and British culture professionals who implement projects\, in one way or another\, designed for different communities\, such as elderly people\, people with migration experience\, or deaf and hard-of-hearing visitors. The conversation will seek to define the  term “community” (using versions proposed by participants) and  discuss collectively the principles of interaction\, who and how constructs them\, whether the relationships between institutions and communities are mutually beneficial\, and how they influence and change each other. \n  \nPARTICIPANTS \nMarianna Kruchinski is public programs curator at the Typography Center for Contemporary Art\, Krasnodar.  She is responsible for the Centre’s film program and for the design of inclusive projects in cooperation with the Generation\, Open Environment\, and Good South foundations.  Marianna will talk about her experience of launching a dance laboratory as part of the Garage Screen Film Festival and other practices of interacting with the city’s various communities. \nDr. Tehmina Goskar is Curator and Director of the Curatorial Research Centre\, Art Fund Headley Fellow at the Museum of Cornish Life\, and a Fellow of the Museums Association.  Tehmina will present the project Citizen Curators (2017–2021)\, a work-based curatorial training scheme aimed at the communities of seven museums in Cornwall\, a rural and coastal region with huge wealth disparities\, remote from large urban centres\, and with very limited access to high-quality informal educational opportunities.  From the start\, the program was pitched as an experiment in cultural democracy.  Unlike larger\, more wealthy museums and universities\, Citizen Curators was formed from the grassroots for the grassroots\, with a very modest budget provided by the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund.  It resulted in 80 people being successfully trained in curatorial skills\, modern ethical practice\, and critical museum awareness.  Tehmina’s presentation will reveal some of the key findings of the active four-year research project to show how successful such participatory and democratic learning programs are\, their limitations\, and the realisation of a more diverse and inclusive museum community and workforce. \nVlad Kolesnikov is a speech pathologist\, Russian Sign Language interpreter\, teacher of supplementary education at School #52 for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children\, curator of Accessibility and Inclusion at GES-2 House of Culture\, and co-curator of the Deaf Teens program at the project school Kaskad. Project as A Method.  From 2015 to 2018\, he developed programs for deaf and hard-of-hearing visitors at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and from 2018 to 2021\, he was head of accessibility and the implementation of inclusive programs at the State Historical Museum.  His professional interests embrace education of deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences and their involvement in the overall cultural context.  Vlad will talk about the studio Kruzhok Kvadrat\, an adapted extra-curricular education program for deaf and hard-of-hearing children that has been operating at Special School No. 52 since 2019.  Kruzhok Kvadrat introduces students to jobs in arts and culture to help them with future career choices.  The program uses special methods and techniques\, including various forms of work that respond to each student’s individual needs in terms of development and education. \nRana Ibrahim is an Iraqi archeologist\, a freelance collage artist\, and the founder and director of the project Iraqi Women Art and War (IWAW).  Rana will present IWAW\, a women’s community group based in Oxford and established in 2018.  The project gives women who have been affected by conflict an opportunity to process their experiences and tell their stories through art. \n  \nMODERATORS \nAsel Rashidova is a manager in the Inclusive Programs Department at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. \nTom Green is a Senior Producer at Counterpoints Arts\, an organisation that works in the UK and internationally on the arts\, migration\, and social change. \n  \nAttending the conference is available with advance registration. \nMore information: https://garagemca.org/en/event/conference-experiencing-the-museum-after-inclusion-utopias-and-new-scenarios \n  \nImage (c) Garage MCA
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/communities-in-and-around-museums/
CATEGORIES:Learning
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/garage-mca.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220207T000000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220207T000000
DTSTAMP:20260429T222831
CREATED:20220124T193005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145007Z
UID:10000083-1644192000-1644192000@counterpoints.org.uk
SUMMARY:Refugee Week Conference 2022
DESCRIPTION:7th and 11th February – online \nShare inspiration\, learning and ideas ahead of Refugee Week 2022. How can arts\, cultural and community activities can help us create a kinder\, more welcoming world? \nFull details and free booking via Eventbrite \nJoin others from across the UK and the world to share inspiration\, learning and ideas ahead of Refugee Week 2022 in June. Whether you’ve been part of Refugee Week for years or are interested in getting involved for the first time\, everyone is welcome. \nThe Refugee Week conference is for anyone who is interested in taking part in Refugee Week\, an annual festival celebrating the contributions of refugees. \nRefugee Week 2022 is 20 – 26 June\, and anyone can take part by holding their own event or activity\, big or small. The theme of Refugee Week 2022 is Healing. \nIf you have any access needs or require data to join the conference\, please email hello@counterpoints.org.uk. \nThe sessions will be different on both days – join us for either or both. \nSESSION 1: Monday 7 February 10:30am – 12:45pm \nHosted by Laura Nyahuye\, Artist and Founder of Maokwo \nProgramme includes: \n– How to get involved in Refugee Week 2022\n– ‘Ask a Refugee Week organiser’ Q&A\n– A choice of workshops\, including building activities around the theme of ‘Healing’\, digital inclusion and how to publicise your event through media and social media \nSESSION 2: Friday 11 February 10:30am – 12:15pm \nHosted by Ayham Alsuleman \nProgramme includes: \n– Networking and sharing\n– A choice of workshops including Refugee Week and sports\, ideas for arts organisations and artists and exploring ‘celebration contributions’ \nFull programme to follow. \nImage (c) Ambrose Musiyiwa
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-conference-2022/
CATEGORIES:Learning
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/RE-Conference.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220205
DTSTAMP:20260429T222831
CREATED:20211211T103232Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145007Z
UID:10000144-1642636800-1644019199@counterpoints.org.uk
SUMMARY:Syrian Arts and Culture Festival
DESCRIPTION:SACF is a multidisciplinary arts festival showcasing Syria’s vibrant arts and culture. The curated multi-disciplinary programme of events offers a creative collision of film\, music\, performance\, visual arts and talks. The festival brings together established alongside emerging artists\, filmmakers\, performers\, and musicians to offer London audiences alternative narratives and perspectives on Syria\, its people\, and culture. \nThe festival’s name\, SACF\, is an acronym for Syrian Arts and Culture Festival. It also is a transliteration of the Arabic word ‘سقف’\, meaning ‘roof’ or ‘ceiling’\, a word which is also colloquially used to represent the very ‘limit’ of something. By drawing on these imaginaries\, SACF sets out to embody multiple meanings. On one hand\, the festival aims to bring people together under a shared roof\, where new connections and understandings can take shape. On the other hand\, it acts as a provocation against the limits imposed on forms of creative expression that many Syrians have cunningly navigated. SACF aspires to be a creative platform where limits can be pushed and boundaries are broken. \nThis year’s inaugural festival offers a platform to showcase a rich and exciting body of artistic output and creative expression that sheds light on Syria’s historical\, economic\, social\, political and cultural specificities. It presents a multitude of entry points through which to approach and reflect on present-day Syria\, pitting the richness and diversity of Syria\, along with its local intricacies\, against the uniformity portrayed by the global media and its images. Such an assemblage of works then necessarily points towards the plurality of the people and modes of existence that have constituted the formation of Syria since its independence in 1946. \nThe festival emerges as a site of counterrepresentation\, where a broad range of narratives\, topics and issues can begin to make their way to the surface\, allowed to be made visible once again. This importantly\, presents a portal\, wherein connections between past realities and present-day urgencies can be redrawn\, offering a lens through which the revolutionary aspirations of 2011 and the violent and destructive suppression that has since engulfed the country can be re-witnessed not as an isolated set of events\, but rather encountered as a series of situated historical processes. This then opens up a space to creatively and critically reflect on a number of pertinent questions: How can we begin to renegotiate the present through the lens of the past? What reparative possibilities can be realised through such encounters? And lastly\, what new trajectories towards the future can be generated as a result? \nSAFC 2022 is supported by Arts Council England\, Shubbak\, Ettijahat and Counterpoints Arts
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/syrian-arts-and-culture-festival/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/city-dreams-photo-6-min.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211202T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211202T123000
DTSTAMP:20260429T222831
CREATED:20211116T135245Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145007Z
UID:10000146-1638442800-1638448200@counterpoints.org.uk
SUMMARY:#MonthlyMeet: Exploring 'Healing'\, the Theme of Refugee Week 2022
DESCRIPTION:The theme of Refugee Week 2022 is Healing: celebrating community\, mutual care\, and the human ability to start again. \nJoin our December Monthly Meet to hear from speakers and join the discussion to explore the theme\, and begin to think about how we might respond to it in our Refugee Week activities in June 2022. \nWhether or not you’ve been involved in Refugee Week before\, everyone is welcome. \nSpeakers to be announced soon. \nFree booking via Eventbrite \nIf you have any questions or accessibility needs\, please email Tom at hello@counterpoints.org.uk \n* \nRefugee Week & Platforma Monthly Meets are free\, friendly online meet-ups on the first Thursday of every month\, for people interested in arts\, culture and social change to share learning and expand their networks. \nPlatforma is a national network that supports and develops arts by\, about and with refugees and migrants\, and Refugee Week is a festival celebrating the contributions\, creativity and resilience of refugees. Platforma and Refugee Week are run/ coordinated by Counterpoints Arts. \nImage (c) Joana Saramago. Grounding Project\, by artist Julie Nelson and the members of the Maudsley Charity’s Grounding Project with UCL. Refugee Week 2018 at V&A Museum
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/monthlymeet-exploring-healing-the-theme-of-refugee-week-2022/
CATEGORIES:Learning
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_186756509_131989282460_1_original.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211124
DTSTAMP:20260429T222831
CREATED:20211109T100913Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145007Z
UID:10000147-1637020800-1637711999@counterpoints.org.uk
SUMMARY:STORIES FROM THE ‘ROADS’ OF EMPIRE - public event and exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Tracing narratives of catastrophe\, displacement\, renewal\, and contestation associated with empire.\nMigration narratives are often told by those who have not experienced them.\nHow do we reclaim the lived complexities of our stories when they are told on our behalf by institutions? \nJoin us for an exhibition with artwork and reflections by BLKBRD Collective\, Dana Olarescu\, London South Bank University  academics Ozan Kamiloglu\, Henry Redwood\, and Elian Weizman\, responding to the stories of 17 Londoners. \nThe exhibition opens at LSU’s Borough Gallery with talks and drinks reception on 16th November  (18:00 – 21:00) and runs on 17th\, 18th\, 19th\, 22nd and 23rd (12:00 to 18:00).\nLive music performance by Ibrahim Fanous during the opening event. \nThe event reflects on the work produced  following an earlier workshop with 17 Londoners\, through the following questions and more: How different stories from the roads of empire entwines? What are the conditions of recreating a life after a long journey? How can we think about official archives of empire with oral histories and personal stories? How can we create a different understanding of the past that will inform a different politics of the present\, and future? \nThis project is a London South Bank University initiative in collaboration with\nCounterpoints Arts\, and part of the Being Human Festival. Register free here.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/stories-from-the-roads-of-empire-public-event-and-exhibition/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form,Visual Arts
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Stories-from-the-Roads-of-Empire-exhibition-insta-image.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211102T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211102T123000
DTSTAMP:20260429T222831
CREATED:20211018T182704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145007Z
UID:10000150-1635850800-1635856200@counterpoints.org.uk
SUMMARY:LEARNING LAB X PLATFORMA 6 // STITCHING TIME AND PLACE: POSTCARDS ACROSS THE RIVER
DESCRIPTION:This Learning Lab — hosted as part of Platforma 6 Festival — will facilitate a conversation around the Postcards Across the River project led by Clapham Park Creative Co-op and produced by Counterpoints Arts.\n\nDate: Tuesday\, 2 November 2021\nTime: 11am to 12:30pm\nCost: £ Free\nWho: For anyone interested in textile art\, community-based practice\, local culture/history and community resilience\nSpaces: Limited spaces\, booking required.\nLocation: Online on Zoom (recording will be available online at a later date)\nHosted by: Counterpoints Arts and Platforma 6 Festival\n\n\nAbout the Learning Lab\n\nPostcards Across the River is a durational\, cross-borough collaboration between two community groups on either side of the River Thames: Clapham Park Creative Co-op (Lambeth) and East London Textile Arts (Newham). Facilitated by the textile artist\, Sonia Tuttiett\, with input from story collector and Clapham Park resident\, Thérèse Mullan\, and commissioned and produced by Marcia Chandra\, at Counterpoints Arts. The fabric postcards and accompanying stories of Postcards Across the River weave memories of home together with the interpersonal\, cultural imaginaries of a post-Covid world. The embroideries tell stories of the past\, the present and the future\, merging complex temporalities through intricacy and detail.\n\nWe invite you to join us in this conversation with participants as they reflect on the neighbourhood journeys that they have taken in Postcards Across the River – exchanging knowledge\, skills and know-how.\n\nWe are delighted to also be joined by Deirdre Figueiredo\, Director of Craftspace\, a leading craft development organisation creating opportunities to see\, make and be curious about exceptional contemporary craft.\n\nQuestions to explore together \n\n 	How might the everyday skills of embroidery be used to chronicle and document a place or a neighbourhood?\n 	How can this work create ‘living archives’ – especially as we move cautiously out from Covid 19?\n 	How might this slow\, collaborative work help us re-learn the values of creative/social exchange\, interconnection\, interdependency\, mutual aid and collective care?\n 	How might this form of everyday creativity be a critical catalyst for more sustainable cooperative public art commissions\, re-connecting people within and between neighbourhoods and places?\n\n\nDiscussants\n\n 	Marcia Chandra\, Counterpoints Arts\, commissioner/producer\n 	Sonia Tuttiett\, commissioned artist\n 	Thérèse Mullan\, Clapham Park Creative Co-op Community Producer and commissioned writer\n 	Participants from both Clapham Park Creative Co-op and East London Textile Arts\n\nWith special guest\, Deirdre Figueiredo\, Director of Craftspace\n\n\nModerated by Áine O’Brien\, Counterpoints Arts\nOrganisers\nClapham Park Creative Co-op is a neighbourhood initiative exploring community change through creative conversation\, and is produced by Counterpoints Arts. It works in partnership with and is supported by the Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing Association. \n\nPlatforma arts and refugee network supports and develops arts and culture by\, about and with refugees and migrants. Platforma is managed by Counterpoints Arts in partnership with organisations across the country. Every two years we run the Platforma Festival in a different part of England. Platforma 6 will take place in Yorkshire and online in October 2021 with a special focus on textiles.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/learning-lab-x-platforma-6-stitching-time-and-place-postcards-across-the-river/
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Craft & Design,Learning
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_168899689_131989282460_1_original.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211030T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211030T160000
DTSTAMP:20260429T222831
CREATED:20211001T120641Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145007Z
UID:10000152-1635591600-1635609600@counterpoints.org.uk
SUMMARY:Stories from the 'roads' of empire - with London South Bank University\, artists Dana Olarescu and BLKBRD Collective
DESCRIPTION:Stories from the ‘Roads’ of Empire is a new collaboration with London South Bank University and artists Dana Olarescu\, and BLKBRD Collective\, and explores the stories of catastrophe\, displacement\, and subsequent renewal and contestation associated with empire and its metropole by engaging with two different archives: Imperial War Museums\, and memories of London residents. \nMigration narratives are often told by those who have not experienced them. How do we reclaim the lived complexities of our stories when they are told on our behalf by institutions? \nJoin us for a group workshop led by Romanian migrant\, Londoner\, and artist Dana Olarescu\, with BLKBRD Collective. We will reimagine Imperial War Museums’ archives\, by looking at a number of Archive pieces in relation to your stories and memories of displacement and personal renewal. The workshop forms part of a London South Bank University project\, Stories from the ‘Roads’ of Empire\, in collaboration with Counterpoints Arts. \nFor more information and to reserve a place\, email roadsofempire@gmail.com by 28 October. Places are limited\, so we advise early registration. \nParticipants will receive £40 for their time\, and lunch will be provided. Children are welcome. \nWorkshop conversations will inform an artwork to be showcased in a public-facing event at Borough Road Gallery\, London South Bank University\, on 16 November\, as part of the Being Human Festival. \nStories from the ‘Roads’ of Empire was initiated by London South Bank University academics Ozan Kamiloglu\, Elian Weizman and Henry Redwood. \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/stories-from-the-roads-of-empire-with-london-southbank-university-and-dana-olarescu/
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Learning
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Stories-from-the-Roads-of-Empire_image-without-text.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211020
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211113
DTSTAMP:20260429T222831
CREATED:20211014T072859Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145007Z
UID:10000151-1634688000-1636761599@counterpoints.org.uk
SUMMARY:We Apologize – Public Art Installation by Adrian Paci
DESCRIPTION:From 20th October to 12th November 2021\, Victoria Square\, Athens will host We Apologize – a new\, in situ art installation by visual artist Adrian Paci. The work is the product of many months of research in collaboration with old and new residents from the Victoria Square neighbourhood\, following an invitation by the Counterpoints Arts and Victoria Square Project organizations\, curated by Niovi Zarampouka-Chatzimanou\, director of VSP and Almir Koldzic\, director of Counterpoints Arts. \nVictoria Square is one of the most contested and politically charged public spaces in Greece. It is a meeting point for many different communities that make up the neighborhood and is often associated with the debates around migration and refugees. “We apologize” does not take a specific stance on these debates\, but instead it challenges us to rethink\, look at each other\, and find better ways to live together. It is addressed to all of us\, regardless of our stance and our different needs\, imposing no conclusions of its own on the public space\, but rather acting as food for thought —as is generally the case with the works of Adrian Paci. \nA public programme consisting of all-ages workshops\, debates\, tours and other activities on the issues posed by the work will take place alongside the installation. The program schedule is realized in collaboration with and the support of Goethe Institut Athen. \n**Please accept our sincere apologies for any inconvenience that may arise from the presence of the installation in Victoria Square. We understand that even a small shift from our everyday itinerary and routine may be annoying\, and we acknowledge the difficulty in coexisting with what is “new\,” “other\,” or “unknown” —qualities that may indeed challenge the things we take as given in our everyday lives. \nThe installation “We Apologize” is part of the Across Borders European programme supported by Comic Relief\, as well as the Athens Culture Net of the City of Athens. The opening of the installation will take place in Victoria Square\, on 20th October 2021\, at 20:00.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/we-apologize-public-art-installation-by-adrian-paci/
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/facebook_1635935524000_6861610912058674892.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211001
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211108
DTSTAMP:20260429T222831
CREATED:20210522T132725Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145007Z
UID:10000189-1633046400-1636329599@counterpoints.org.uk
SUMMARY:Platforma 6 in Yorkshire
DESCRIPTION:Our biennial Platforma festival is coming to Yorkshire! \nPlatforma 6 will take place at a range of venues and public spaces across the county 1 October-7 November 2021\, produced by Counterpoints Arts in partnership with more than 20 different organisations\, artists and collectives. \nThe Platforma festival takes place in a different part of England every two years. It brings together artists\, organisations\, funders and others to showcase work\, develop networks and capacity\, share practice and to learn. \nThe programme for Platforma 6 will include: \nSuitcases: Telling Textile Travels \nA specially commissioned online exhibition that will incorporate over 20 international textiles from the Conflict Textiles collection focused on global displacement\, both historical and current. A short film will offer an in depth insight to the textiles. There will also be an online guided tour and a series of in-person and online events and programming inspired by the exhibition. \nLeeds Playhouse: Theatres of Sanctuary \nAs part of their programme for Platforma 6\, Leeds Playhouse\, who were the first ever Theatre of Sanctuary\, will host a Theatre of Sanctuary Network meeting.  A panel discussion produced in partnership with Opera North will focus on best practice for arts organisations that are working with people who are seeking sanctuary. \nFriendship Through Puppets \n6 Million + in Dewsbury are working with local people of all ages and backgrounds\, including refugees from Syria to create a giant puppet 4 metres tall based on Najma\, a Syrian woman re-settled in Kirklees – the seventh ‘Weeping Sister’ giant puppet created by 6 million +. All of the puppets will take part in a special parade for Platforma 6. \nIn Which Language Do We Dream? : Rich Wiles and the al-Hindawi family \nAn exhibition at Impressions Gallery Bradford that offers fresh insights into the issues of displacement\, identity\, resettlement\, integration and home\, through the photographic perspectives of a Syrian family with first-hand experience. It is a co-created project funded by Arts Council England\, bringing together a 5-year photographic collaboration between socially-engaged photographer Rich Wiles and the al-Hindawi family\, through discussions with curator Anne McNeil. Picture: Re-worked family archive photograph. © Rich Wiles/al-Hindawi family \nPoetry @ Platforma 6 \nPoetry workshops and performance as part of a special project for Platforma 6 led by Kayo Chingonyi. \nCommissioned by Counterpoints Arts for the sixth biennial Platforma Festivial\, poets will work with participants across Yorkshire to create new work for local performances. \nThe project is being led by  poet Kayo Chingonyi (insta @kayochingonyi)\, whose first collection Kumukanda won the Costa Prize and whose new collection\, A Blood Condition\, is shortlisted for the Forward Prize. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Studies at Durham University. \nThe workshops and performances will take place in the following locations: \n– Barnsley\, with Barnsley Feels Like Home – led by Andrew McMillan (Insta: @andrewpoetry\, Twitter: @AMcMillanPoet) \n– Halifax\, with St Augustine’s Centre and Halifax Festival of Words (performance: 22 October) – led  by Khadijah Ibrahim (Insta: @khadijah.ibrahiim)\n \n– Rotherham\, with British Red Cross and Grimm & Co – led by Helen Mort  (Insta: @morty_but_nice\nTwitter: @HelenMort) \nA one-off workshop will take place in Bradford led by Anan Tello\, in partnership with Artworks Creative Communities. \nKayo Chingonyi picture (c) Smart Banda \nThis commission is part of the Across Borders programme from Counterpoints Arts\, supported by Comic Relief. \nOther Platforma 6 partner organisations and artists include East Street Arts\, Art House\, Intercultured Festival\, St Augustine’s Centre in Halifax\, Barnsley Feels Like Home\, Mafwa Theatre\, Matilda Velevitch\, Varvara Shavrova\, Compass Theatre. \nFull programme
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/platforma-6-in-yorkshire/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/cropped-Instagram-post-black-copy.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211001
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211030
DTSTAMP:20260429T222831
CREATED:20210726T142420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145008Z
UID:10000162-1633046400-1635551999@counterpoints.org.uk
SUMMARY:Autumn School - Create and Counterpoints Arts
DESCRIPTION:Participants at the 2018 Summer School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice\, held in Carlingford\, Co. Louth. Photo: Aoife Herrity\n  \nCreate and Counterpoints Arts are pleased to announce the 2021 School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice for up to 12 artists. Due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions and social distancing\, we will host the 2021 School virtually over five days: 1\, 8\, 1\, 22\, 29 October. The Autumn School is an initiative of The Arts Council of Ireland’s Artist in the Community (AIC) Scheme\, managed by Create. \nAbout the Autumn School \nThe virtual Autumn School is shaped by global and translocal practices. It is fundamentally informed by the diverse life experiences and creative practices of participants\, and the work and mentoring of visiting facilitators. The focus of learning in the School is enabled by an exploration of the critical space between the lived realities of cultural diversity and the connective methodologies and collective actions underpinning collaborative practice. \nThe School is interdisciplinary in its curriculum and composition of participants\, presenters and facilitators. Together we will explore what cultural diversity means in practice – in people’s intimate lives\, in neighbourhoods and within communities of place and interest. Lines of inquiry include the following questions\, among others: \n\nThe concept of cultural diversity is often narrowly (sometimes stereotypically) read through the lens of policy\, but how does the practice of cultural diversity resonate as an intersectional and dynamic part of everyday life? And by extension how might the language around cultural diversity be challenged and repositioned?\nHow might the experience of cultural diversity be enacted in the context of collaborative arts practice and vice versa?\nHow can cultural diversity and working cooperatively form an intrinsic part of the artistic\, socially engaged process\, acting as a powerful driver for social change in both local communities and within arts organisations?\nHow to understand the critical intersection of cultural diversity and collaborative arts practice in the context of decolonisation and the urgency of global racial justice movements?\n\nThe 2021 School will take the form of a five-day virtual residency enabling a ‘think and do’ collaborative approach\, utilizing creative workshops\, critical and comparative case studies\, a creative group challenge\, one-to-one mentoring\, international guest artists including curators\, policymakers and activists. \nThe deadline for submission to be part of the School is the 30 August 2021\, 5pm. You will find guidelines and an online application form linked on this page: Autumn School \nDirected by: Dr Áine O’Brien – Curator of Learning and Research and Co-Founder\, Counterpoints Arts \nCo-Facilitator \nIsabel Lima\, Independent Artist and Director of The Gresham Horse project \nVisiting artists and facilitators include: \nDana Olărescu\, Independent Artist and Cultural Activist \nIsmail Einashe\, Investigative Journalist and Cultural Activist \nNike Jonah\, Executive Director of PACE (Pan-African Creative Exchange) \nDominik Czechowski\, International Curator\, Researcher and Writer \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/autumn-school-create-and-counterpoints-arts/
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Learning,Multi-Art Form
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/SSCD_WEB_COL_0640-640x480-1.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211001
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211002
DTSTAMP:20260429T222831
CREATED:20210524T135312Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145008Z
UID:10000188-1633046400-1633132799@counterpoints.org.uk
SUMMARY:Adrian Paci : Athens
DESCRIPTION:Artists Adrian Paci has been commissioned by Counterpoints Arts in partnership with Victoria Square Project (VSP) in Athens to produce new public work as part of our Across Borders programme. Born in Albania and now living in Italy\, Adrian is an artist whose work has been exhibited internationally including at the Venice Biennale His commission will engage with the neighbourhood of Victoria Square\, leading to a public installation/intervention in the Square itself in Autumn 2021. It will form part of VSP’s ongoing enquiry: Who Is The Contemporary Athenian? with an associated residency programme for emerging artists. \n\nCommissioning partner Victoria Square Project (VSP) is an evolving social sculpture. It was created by the artists Rick Lowe and Maria Papadimitriou in the framework of documenta 14\, in Athens\, in 2017. It now operates as a contemporary art space focused on the empowerment and inspiration of the residents of Victoria. VSP aims to be a catalyst for highlighting the importance of culture\, art and creativity in order to build a more humane society. \n\n\n\nThe commission will be part of VSP’s programme: Who Is The Contemporary Athenian? This question is posed as an attempt to identify concretely the elements that define an inclusive Athenian society today beyond labels like immigrant\, refugee\, first or second generation\, Greek etc\, but under the common ground of the neighbours and co-citizens. \n\n\n\nA residency programme\, Station One\, will also form part of this programme\, with Counterpoints as one of the partners. Focusing on socially engaged artistic practices\, Station One Residency for emerging artists aims to promote the dialogue amongst the Greek artistic scene on a wide range of community engaged practices. \n\n\n\nA range of other partners across the arts and NGO sectors will also be involved in the programme including Solidarity Now\, who will be leading a photography project with young people in Athens. Image by Adrian Paci : Centro di Permanenza Temporanea (2007)
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/adrian-paci-athens/
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/image003.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210928T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210928T183000
DTSTAMP:20260429T222831
CREATED:20210914T151142Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145008Z
UID:10000156-1632846600-1632853800@counterpoints.org.uk
SUMMARY:Stand-Up Comedy and the Critical Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join Counterpoints Arts for the next event in our PopChange Salon Series featuring a live recording of our new podcast “But Is It Funny?” which puts comedy criticism in the spotlight. \nPanellists Suchandrika Chakrabarti (comic and writer)\, Jamal Khadar (writer and researcher) and Brian Logan (comedy critic for The Guardian) will be discussing current issues in stand-up and highlighting upcoming gigs and events. \nFollowing the recording\, PopChange Salon Series host\, K Biswas\, will lead a reflective discussion where you can have your say on what topics you think future episodes should be covering. The aim  is to extend and diversify comedy criticism\, bringing a wider range of insights into mainstream and emerging work. \nFree booking via Eventbrite \nAbout the “But Is It Funny?” Podcast: \nLaunching in September 2021\, this weekly podcast features Suchandrika Chakrabarti (comic and writer)\, Jamal Khadar (writer and researcher) and Brian Logan (comedy critic for The Guardian) discussing issues and highlights of the stand-up comedy scene in the UK. \nBuilding on Counterpoints Arts’ No Direction Home comedy project — which trains a new generation of stand-up comedians with migrant and refugee backgrounds — and its recent PopChange Retreat\, “But Is It Funny?” recognises that more diverse critical conversations can have a significant role in opening access and broadening audiences. For example\, is improv discriminatory? Do Middle Eastern performers only make jokes about terrorists? Can refugees ever be funny? \nWhile comedy has soared in popularity across the UK and internationally\, critical conversations have continued to be less prominent than for other artforms. “But Is It Funny?”\, the first regular podcast to focus on comedy criticism\, will help address that shortcoming. \nHosted by Counterpoints Arts‘ PopChange Initiative\, this is the second of five PopChange Salons in 2021 exploring the opportunities for real change presented within the New Brave world Report (2021)\, hosted by K Biswas. The Salon Series will explore racial justice\, comedy\, TV\, gaming and narrative change.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/stand-up-comedy-and-the-critical-conversation/
CATEGORIES:Comedy,Learning,Pop Culture
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/SQ-But-is-it-funny-Group-insta-graphic-1-448x448-1.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210918T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210918T213000
DTSTAMP:20260429T222831
CREATED:20210825T151233Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145008Z
UID:10000160-1631995200-1632000600@counterpoints.org.uk
SUMMARY:Comedy at the Museum of the Home
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Festival of Home enjoy a night of laughter from the brilliant No Direction Home\, hosted by Mo Omar\, with guest headliner Fatiha El-Ghorri and Yasin Moradi\, Selam Amare and Loraine Mponela. \nFull information and booking \nNo Direction Home is a comedy collective produced by Counterpoints Arts featuring new stand-ups from refugee and migrant backgrounds. They’ve performed sell-out gigs around the country including at London’s Southbank Centre and the Edinburgh Fringe. \nHost Mo Omar is a rising star of the comedy circuit who has appeared on Harry Hill’s Club Nite (ITV) and Stand Up for Live Comedy (BBC). \nGuest headliner Fatiha El-Ghorri is a London-based comedian who performs around the country and internationally. Her most recent TV appearance was on the Jonathan Ross Comedy Club (ITV). \n“The No Direction Home comedians are a veryexciting\, interesting and creative bunch of people to be around. And they are very funny!”\nNish Kumar
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/comedy-at-the-museum-of-the-home/
CATEGORIES:Comedy
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Fatiha-El-Ghorri-small.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210916
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211126
DTSTAMP:20260429T222831
CREATED:20210608T140520Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145007Z
UID:10000175-1631750400-1637884799@counterpoints.org.uk
SUMMARY:taking pArt  -  A COLLABORATION BETWEEN COUNTERPOINTS ARTS AND ART REFUGE
DESCRIPTION:Counterpoints Arts and Art Refuge return with the online art project\, taking pArt\, running every Thursday\, 1-2.30pm (BST) on Zoom. Through a series of participatory art workshops we welcome you to take part in playful art-making activities & games around The Community Table. \nThis project is a response to requests from our networks for a regular\, safe\, welcoming art making space for creativity and wellbeing. \nFor a mixed group of people aged 18 and over with lived experience as refugees\, people seeking asylum\, support workers\, foster-carers\, friends\, neighbours\, charity workers – all welcome. We also invite artists & cultural workers who would like to experience ‘making’ with others and as part of an Art Refuge series of workshops. \nWe will use easily accessible materials and domestic objects\, and groups are welcome to join together. You can use a computer or a phone to join in. \nThe workshops will be led by Art Refuge with guest artists from Counterpoints Arts. For further information and/or the Zoom link please email Dijana Rakovic\, Counterpoints’ Producer – dijana@counterpoints.org.uk with taking pArt in the subject line. \nArt Refuge uses socially engaged art and art therapy to support the mental health and wellbeing of people displaced due to conflict\, persecution and poverty\, in the UK and internationally\, alongside training\, education\, exhibitions and research. Its freelance team of artists and art therapists includes a growing number of artists with lived experience as refugees.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/taking-part-a-collaboration-between-counterpoints-arts-and-art-refuge/
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Digital
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/taking-pArt.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210915
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211122
DTSTAMP:20260429T222831
CREATED:20210915T074015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145007Z
UID:10000154-1631664000-1637539199@counterpoints.org.uk
SUMMARY:Mobilistan
DESCRIPTION:As part of our Across Borders programme\, Counterpoints Arts is delighted to be supporting the documentation of a new an art project by Manaf Halbouni & Christian Manss: Mobilistan\, the first mobile state in the limited space of a vehicle. \nMobilistan will be established on the area of a stretch limousine or state limousine\, thus forming the territory that can be entered or exited through the doors of the vehicle. Mobilistan has its own flag\, hymn and passport. There are four permanent residents of Mobilistan\, playing simultaneously several roles like State President\, Foreign Secretary\, Minister of Finance\, Interior Minister etc. The four permanent residents are: Barbara Repe\, Anne Manss\, Manaf Halbouni and Christian Manss. They will determine the fortunes of Mobilistan: who is allowed to become a citizen\, who gets a visa or where is the temporary location of Mobilistan. \nOn the trip from Berlin to Istanbul to the Mahalla Festival\, the state leaders are planning state visits to Dresden\, Prague\, Vienna\, Zagreb and Sofia. Of course\, the duration of the trip depends on the pandemic conditions in the respective countries. . \nA film documenting the work will be available later this year.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/mobilistan/
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Mobilistan-Manaf-Halbouni-Christian-Manss.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210910
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210913
DTSTAMP:20260429T222831
CREATED:20210906T054623Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145008Z
UID:10000159-1631232000-1631491199@counterpoints.org.uk
SUMMARY:Station One AIR | exhibition | First Part
DESCRIPTION:Victoria Square Project (VSP) presents: \nVisual artists Gülşah Aykaç\, Thomas Diafas\, Kostantza Kapsali and Maria Louizou\npresent the works they created within the 1st cycle of the Station One AIR residency\nprogram under the subject “Hippodamia in Context”. \nAs part of a 3-year research question “Who is the Contemporary Athenian?”  in collaboration with Counterpoints Arts and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Public Humanities Initiative (SNFPHI) at Columbia University\, VSP implemented the Station One AIR residency program for emerging artists. \nDuring the 1st cycle of the program\, Greek and oversea artists were hosted in Athens\, engaged with the local community and the art scene of Athens and worked collectively on alternative “contextualizations” of the statue “Theseus Saves Hippodameia” at Victoria Square. \nIn the final action of the Program\, the creations of the artists will be exhibited in Victoria Square next to the statue aiming to lively interact with the residents and visitors of our neighborhood. \nFor Counterpoints Arts\, this work forms part of our Across Borders programme in the UK\, Greece and Germany supported by Comic Relief.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/station-one-air-exhibition-first-part/
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/station-1.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210901
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210906
DTSTAMP:20260429T222831
CREATED:20210824T073709Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145008Z
UID:10000161-1630454400-1630886399@counterpoints.org.uk
SUMMARY:Across Borders: Body & Self
DESCRIPTION:Group exhibition with Arin Ismail\, Azadeh Kiankhah\, Isadora Canela\, Michael(a) Daoud\, Minna Etein and Paula Muhr. \nOpening: 1.9.2021\, 6:00 – 9:00 pm \nOpen daily 2.9. – 5.9.2021\, 12:00 – 6:00 pm \nSymposium: 4.9.2021\, 1:00 – 6:00 pm \nThe exhibition Across Borders: Body & Self is a collaboration between Counterpoints Arts and coculture Berlin inspired by Mojisola Adebayo’s Leaves from Family Tree commissioned by Counterpoints Arts and performed in the summer of 2021 at ZK/U Berlin. \nThe six artists were selected from an open call to submit existing work that explores the themes of body & self in the context of migration and displacement. \nMojisola’s performance explored environmental justice and migration via the incredible story of Henrietta Lacks\, an African American tobacco farmer descended from enslaved people. Henrietta had her body cells taken without her knowledge for medical research and seventy years later\, even after her death\, they are still multiplying and continue to be used in laboratories all over the world\, without her permission. Millions of us benefit from it today\, even though most of us have never heard her name. By talking about her story today\, we place her body and her(self) on the map of contemporary Berlin. \nUsing a variety of media the artists in this exhibition add their own personal and political discursive angles – be it feminist\, migrant\, queer or medical – to the exploration of memory and identity in the context of the body & self. Whether this happens via a relationship between the body and an object\, by turning toward our inner skins and senses\, by connecting historical events across the 20th and 21st centuries using the body\, by testing the limits of their own bodies through durational rituals or repetitive habitual acts – they ask us to question the logic of the subjectivity and materiality of crossing borders.  \nOn Saturday 4th September at 1 – 6pm\, there will be a symposium with Mojisola Adebayo and five other artists talking about their work and how they explore the issues around the body & self. The full programme along with the name of the artists will be announced on 25th August. You can book a free place at the symposium via Eventrbrite. \nCo-curated with coculture by Natasha Davis for Counterpoints Arts . For any further questions please contact Natasha Davis via hello@counterpoints.org.uk \nThe exhibition is part of the three-year programme Across Borders by Counterpoints Arts in the UK\, Germany and Greece\, in collaboration with local partners\, developing arts and pop culture projects that help normalise and diversify representations of migrants and people seeking refuge. The programme is supported by Comic Relief. \nCounterpoints Arts works in the UK and internationally on the arts\, migration and cultural change. \ncoculture is a Berlin-based non-profit cultural organisation founded by conceptual artist Khaled Barakeh as a response to the challenges faced by displaced cultural producers.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/across-borders-body-self/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Across-Borders-Body-Self.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210813
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210815
DTSTAMP:20260429T222831
CREATED:20210713T150227Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145008Z
UID:10000163-1628812800-1628985599@counterpoints.org.uk
SUMMARY:Leaves from Family Tree by Mojisola Adebayo
DESCRIPTION:A new performance telling the incredible story of Henrietta Lacks\, whose cells were used for medical research without her consent. \nFree booking via Eventbrite \nIn 1951 Henrietta Lacks\, an African American tobacco farmer descended from enslaved people\, had cells taken without her knowledge for medical research. Seventy years later\, even after her death\, they are still multiplying and continue to be used in laboratories all over the world.  \nThis new performance by Mojisola Adebayo\, developed for the outdoors space with the ZK/U Berlin and directed by Matthew Xia\, explores this incredible story.  \nHenrietta Lacks’ life\, body and legacy have affected millions of us\, yet most have never heard her name. The performance seeks to draw a map on which her name is placed.  \nAn accompanying workshop with Mojisola Adebayo and Nicole Wolf at ZK/U will engage with questions of climate justice\, environmental racism and migration. The trans-Atlantic slavery is a story of mass forced migration and its Diasporic afterlives continue that migration story. The slave trade was environmental\, slavery was agricultural and the legacies can be seen in climate injustice today.
 \nMojisola Adebayo is a Black British Berlin-based theatre artist who has worked on theatre and performance projects internationally from Antarctica to Zimbabwe. She is a playwright\, performer\, director\, producer\, workshop facilitator and lecturer. Over the past 25 years she has performed in over 50 productions\, writing\, devising and directing over 30 plays. Her own plays include Moj of the Antarctic: An African Odyssey\, Muhammad Ali and Me\, and I Stand Corrected. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature\, she is currently on a research fellowship exploring theatre\, literature\, environmental racism and climate justice at University of Potsdam\, just outside Berlin.  \nProduced by Natasha Davis for Counterpoints Arts in connection to a project commissioned by Actors Touring Company (ATC) and the Young Vic. \n

For any further questions please contact Natasha Davis via hello@counterpoints.org.uk \nThe work is part of the three-year programme Across Borders by Counterpoints Arts in the UK\, Germany and Greece\, in collaboration with local partners\, developing a series of arts and pop culture projects that help normalise and diversify representations of refugees in mainstream media\, arts & culture. \nImage by Paul Woodward.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/leaves-from-family-tree-by-mojisola-adebayo/
CATEGORIES:Theatre
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Leaves-from-Family-Tree.image-by-Paul-Woodward-scaled.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210722T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210722T211500
DTSTAMP:20260429T222831
CREATED:20210712T102414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145008Z
UID:10000164-1626984000-1626988500@counterpoints.org.uk
SUMMARY:No Direction Home x LIMBO
DESCRIPTION:Live stand-up comedy online\, marking the release of critically acclaimed film LIMBO\, hosted by MUBI and Counterpoints Arts. \nBefore the critically acclaimed film LIMBO hits cinemas on 30 July\, enjoy a night of stand-up comedy with No Direction Home comics from refugee and migrant backgrounds. Along with your host Mo Omar\, the night will be introduced by Vikash Bhai\, star of LIMBO\, Ben Sharrock’s new film following a group of asylum seekers on a fictional remote Scotitish island. \nPlus performances from No Direction Home stand-ups Abdul Tahhan\, Selam Amare\, Loraine Mponela and Krzysia Balinska! \nLIMBO is a wry\, funny and poignant cross-cultural comedy-drama that sews together the hardship and hope of the refugee experience. Exploring themes spanning guilt\, regret and grief that come with leaving one life behind to embark on another\, this deadpan comedy-drama from a bold new voice in British film shines a light on the hearts and lives of those at the centre of a crisis that is mostly only experienced through headlines. \nLIMBO comes to cinemas on July 30 and exclusively to curated streaming platform MUBI later in the year. \nFree: booking required
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/no-direction-home-x-limbo/
CATEGORIES:Comedy
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Limbo_Still09-small.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210714T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210714T193000
DTSTAMP:20260429T222831
CREATED:20210709T125536Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145008Z
UID:10000165-1626283800-1626291000@counterpoints.org.uk
SUMMARY:POPCHANGE SALON SERIES: RACIAL JUSTICE\, POP CULTURE AND SOCIAL STRUGGLE
DESCRIPTION:K Biswas\, Leah Cowan\, and Selina Nwulu discuss popular culture in Britain and its potential role in accelerating social change and highlighting structural inequality. \nYouth led movements – against racism and sexism\, for LGBTQ+ and disability rights or environmental sustainability ‐ feel locked out of elite political and economic circles\, and see culture as their site of expression. A new wave of radical pop-cultural expression\, dormant for much of the 21st century\, may have emerged in film & television\, music & fashion\, gaming and social media campaigns. Under discussion will be Britain’s belated public reckoning with racism in the wake of George Floyd’s murder\, and the emerging counter-reaction crystallised in a new Culture War. \n//  \nHosted by Counterpoints Arts‘ PopChange Initiative\, this is the first of five PopChange Salons in 2021 exploring the opportunities for real change presented within the New Brave world Report (2021). The Salon Series will explore racial justice\, comedy\, TV\, gaming and narrative change. \n// \nRecommended background reading\n— New Brave World a new report by Alice Sachrajda and Marzena Zukowska that explores the power\, opportunities and potential of pop culture for social change in the UK. The report is supported by Unbound Philanthropy and builds on Riding the Waves\, a scoping study on the same theme published in 2017. \n— \, a journal for research and best practice in how to make UK media more representative of all sections of society\, edited by K Biswas. The recently published issue features articles by Lenny Henry and director Amma Asante talking about sharing power on-screen & being allowed to fail; Gary Younge on working as a Black journalist at The Guardian and Afua Hirsch’s experiences starting out at The Voice newspaper\, amongst others.\nJOINING US ON AIRMEET\nWe’re thrilled to be welcoming such an exciting range of participants and speakers\, and invite you to join us in using the Airmeet platform to make new connections during the networking\, sessions. Airmeet is best experienced on a Chrome browser (version 79 or higher)\, on a laptop or a desktop. You can download the latest version here. \nIf you’d like to familiarise yourself with Airmeet before the session\, you can do so via this link. \nFILMING\nSome sections of the programme will be live streamed\, but only participants who choose to go ‘on stage’ will be visible. Presentations by speakers (but not the Q&A sections) will also be filmed and shared online. \nSOCIAL MEDIA\nWe’d love you to join the conversation online using the hashtag #popxchange or via our social media channels: Twitter // Instagram // Facebook
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/popchange-salon-series-racial-justice-pop-culture-and-social-struggle/
CATEGORIES:Learning,Pop Culture
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/PopChange-Salon-general-Eventbrite-1.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210709
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210713
DTSTAMP:20260429T222831
CREATED:20210524T135327Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145008Z
UID:10000187-1625788800-1626134399@counterpoints.org.uk
SUMMARY:Mojisola Adebayo : Family Tree
DESCRIPTION:Mojisola Adebayo presents work in Berlin connected to a project commissioned by Actors Touring Company (ATC) and the Young Vic. Produced by Counterpoints Arts as part of our Across Borders programme\, supported by Comic Relief. \n\n\n\nBlack British Berlin-based theatre artist Dr Mojisola Adebayo\, who has worked on theatre and performance projects internationally from Antarctica to Zimbabwe\, will be undertaking research and development and presenting work connected to a commission from ATC and Young Vic\, alongside discussions and a four-day workshop with Dr Nicole Wolf\, for and with artists of refugee background\, located in a community garden in Berlin. The work connects to the subject of migration\, environmental racism and climate justice\, through a female African Diasporic lens. It makes the connection between extraction from the land and the Black female body as a site of extraction. \n\nMojisola Adebayo is a playwright\, performer\, director\, producer\, workshop facilitator and lecturer. Over the past 25 years she has performed in over 50 productions\, writing\, devising and directing over 30 plays. Her own plays include Moj of the Antarctic: An African Odyssey\, Muhammad Ali and Me\, and I Stand Corrected. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature\, she is currently on a research fellowship exploring theatre\, literature\, environmental racism and climate justice at University of Potsdam\, just outside Berlin. \n\n\n\nThe scenes Mojisola will present in a public garden in Berlin\, directed by Matthew Xia\, are inspired by Henrietta Lacks\, an African American tobacco farmer descended from enslaved people\, whose extraordinary everlasting cells were taken without her knowledge in 1951\, are still multiplying after her death and continue to be used in medical research all over the world today. Scenes will also feature Anarcha\, Betsey and Lucy\, three enslaved African American women who were operated on without consent or anaesthetic and are the forgotten ‘mothers’ of modern gynaecology. \n\n\n\nThe scenes focus on these Black women\, whose lives\, bodies and legacies have affected every European family and individual today\, yet most have never heard their names. The work seeks to draw a map on which their names are placed. The trans-Atlantic slave is a story of mass forced migration and its Diasporic afterlives continue that migration story. The slave trade was environmental\, slavery was agricultural and the legacies can be seen in climate injustice today. Accompanying workshops and discussions will engage with questions of climate justice\, environmental racism and migration. \n\n\n\nThe producer for Counterpoints Arts in Germany is Natasha Davis.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/mojisola-adebayo-family-tree/
CATEGORIES:Theatre
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/mojisola.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210621
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210718
DTSTAMP:20260429T222831
CREATED:20210504T143645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145008Z
UID:10000190-1624233600-1626566399@counterpoints.org.uk
SUMMARY:Return of Danton - Collective Ma'louba - Video on Demand
DESCRIPTION:By Collective Ma’louba \nSuitable for ages 16+ \nTickets: £0\, £5\, £15 (plus option to donate £5). Performed in Arabic with English subtitles \nPart of Shubbak Festival 2021. Co-presented by Counterpoints Arts as part of this year’s Refugee Week programme. \nA  collective of German-based Syrian actors is rehearsing a contemporary adaptation of Georg Büchner’s Danton’s Death. A shattering\, political drama\, at its centre is a conflict between two giant figures of the French Revolution\, Danton and Robespierre. \nIt is considered to be one of the greatest revolutionary works of European theatre. It is also terribly complex and convoluted\, and the translation into Arabic from the German isn’t particularly good. \nThe company’s director believes this adaptation of a German classic will secure them funding. But the playwright turned dramaturg was more keen on writing a new play about the everyday lives of Syrian refugees living abroad. \nAs the company wrestles with Büchner’s manically intense play\, life mirrors art as the two lead actors are caught up in the arguments between the writer and director. \nBetween catastrophic line runs and overlong cigarette breaks\, the four lock horns about their conflicted views on the Syrian revolution and their roles as artists in exile. \nRehearsals progress and the tensions and disagreements grow as the company – almost unknowingly – engage more deeply with the themes of the play: What is a revolution? When does it end? Ten years after the Syrian revolution\, do they really understand what happened and how they can tell their story? \nReturn of Danton is a new play by Syrian playwright Mudar Alhaggi and directed by Omar Elerian. Written and performed in Arabic\, the play is a contemporary exploration of how the dynamics of political revolutions – from the French Revolution to the Arab Spring – can be reflected within the politics of the rehearsal room. \nCollective Ma’louba is an intercultural theatre lab currently in residence at the Theater an der Ruhr in Mülheim. In its theatre productions\, Collective Ma’louba questions the political and social conditions of the Arab world against the background of recent rebellions and penetrates the taboos of Arab and European society. \nCo-presented by Shubbak Festival\, Counterpoint Arts\, The Lowry & Ettijahat Independent Culture. In cooperation with Maxim Gorki Theatre\, Berlin. A co-production of Theater an der Ruhr and Shubbak Festival. Funded by The German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia. \n#ReturnOfDanton  #Shubbak  #ShubbakFestival  #ArabCulture  #ArabFestival  #ContemporaryArabCulture \n  \nImportant information about the event\n\nPlease note that this event listing is for the Video on Demand option. The video on demand content will be made available from the specified event date. After you’ve bought a ticket\, you will have 3 days to finish watching the content from when you first press play.\nThe video on demand option will be without the panel discussion.\nIf you would like to buy a ticket for the livestream on June 20th you can buy them from here.\nThe production will have English subtitles.\n\n  \nARTIST BIOGRAPHIES \n Collective Ma’louba \nCollective Ma’louba is an intercultural theatre lab currently in residence at the Theater an der Ruhr in Mülheim. In its theatre productions\, Collective Ma’louba questions the political and social conditions of the Arab world against the background of recent rebellions and penetrates the taboos of Arab and European society. Further artistic projects of thematic relevance such as installations\, exhibitions\, concerts and workshop accompany the theatre productions. They work in NRW\, Germany and across the world\, thus creating transnational meeting places. Follow the Collective’s via Facebook  and Instagram. \nMudar Alhaggi (Author) \nMudar Alhaggi (*1981) studied theatre studies at The Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damaskus. Alhaggi works as an author and dramaturge\, he writes for the radio and TV\, pens scripts and leads writing workshops for refugees. He staged “Footfalls” by Samuel Beckett and the production “One Thousand and One Tents”\, which was developed in a workshop with refugees in Lebanon. In 2013 the production “Now T-Here“\, in which he was involved as author and director (in collaboration with Stella Cristofolini) was presented in Oberhausen and Berlin. Since 2015 he manages “Future Stages. A Creative Programme for Emerging Syrian Writers” in Lebanon together with Erik Altorfer. In 2015 and 2016 he developed “41 Stunden” with Kopp / Nauer / Praxmarer / Vittinghoff\, a coproduction with Schlachthaus Theater Bern. With Erik Altorfer\, he presented another work with adolescent refugees and young people from Graz at Schauspielhaus Graz. Mudar Alhaggi lives in Berlin since summer 2015. Since 2017 he is the artistic director of COLLECTIVE MA’LOUBA. \nOmar Elerian (Director) \nOmar Elerian is a freelance theatre director\, writer and dramaturg. Of Italian/Palestinian descent\, Omar trained in Italy and then graduated from Lecoq International Theatre School in Paris in 2005. He’s based in London since 2009. He was the resident Associate Director at the Bush Theatre from 2012 to 2019\, where he commissioned and directed some of the theatre’s most successful shows. As sole director for the Bush\, his credits include smash-hit Misty by Arinzé Kene (Bush and West End)\, NASSIM by Nassim Soleimanpour (Bush\, Traverse Theatre and world tour)\, Going Through by Estelle Savasta and Islands by Caroline Horton. As Associate Director working alongside Madani Younis\, his credits include The Royale by Marco Ramirez\, Leave Taking by Winsome Pinnock and Perseverance Drive by Robin Soans. Outside the Bush\, he directed Olivier nominated show You’re Not Like The Other Girls Chrissy by Caroline Horton and co-created acclaimed sitespecific show The Mill: City of Dreams with Madani Younis for Freedom Studios. In 2020 he co-created Autoreverse with Florencia Cordeu\, which opened the Going Global season at Battersea Arts Centre in February. Omar is currently developing projects with the Almeida\, National Theatre\, Manchester HOME\, Staatstheater Mainz\, Collective Ma’louba and The Shed in New York. \n  \nShubbak Festival is the UK’s premier festival of contemporary Arab arts and culture. \nThis year’s ambitious programme connects you to the very best contemporary Arab artists. Dive into marathon DJ sets\, watch Hip Hop\, rap and trap legends\, enjoy re-imagined classics\, installations in iconic settings\, and listen as audio guided tours take you to an imaginary city. \nShubbak is live in London\, online and broadcasting from Beirut\, Gaza\, Marrakech\, Slemani\, Riyadh\, Khartoum and Doha. Join artists\, audiences and communities locally and globally through a festival programme that has been conceived especially for this year’s exceptional conditions. \nWitness the extraordinary creativity\, responsiveness and imaginative power of Arab artists to speak of our times. Join the Festival from 20th June – 17th July\, 2021! Follow the action via @shubbakfestival. \n  \n \n  \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/return-of-danton-collective-malouba-video-on-demand/
CATEGORIES:Digital,Film and Photography,Theatre
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/THE-RETURN-OF-DANTON-_-Image_Molter-Sartor-01-2-scaled.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210620T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210620T190000
DTSTAMP:20260429T222831
CREATED:20210504T110112Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145414Z
UID:10000191-1624215600-1624215600@counterpoints.org.uk
SUMMARY:Return of Danton - Collective Ma'louba - Livestream + Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:By Collective Ma’louba \nDuration: 90 minutes (includes post show talk)\, 16+ \nTickets: £0\, £5\, £15 (plus option to donate £5). Performed in Arabic with English subtitles \nBooking for livestream 19.00 (UK time) on 20 June  \nPart of Shubbak Festival 2021. Co-presented by Counterpoints Arts as part of this year’s Refugee Week programme. \nA  collective of German-based Syrian actors is rehearsing a contemporary adaptation of Georg Büchner’s Danton’s Death. A shattering\, political drama\, at its centre is a conflict between two giant figures of the French Revolution\, Danton and Robespierre. \nIt is considered to be one of the greatest revolutionary works of European theatre. It is also terribly complex and convoluted\, and the translation into Arabic from the German isn’t particularly good. \nThe company’s director believes this adaptation of a German classic will secure them funding. But the playwright turned dramaturg was more keen on writing a new play about the everyday lives of Syrian refugees living abroad. \nAs the company wrestles with Büchner’s manically intense play\, life mirrors art as the two lead actors are caught up in the arguments between the writer and director. \nBetween catastrophic line runs and overlong cigarette breaks\, the four lock horns about their conflicted views on the Syrian revolution and their roles as artists in exile. \nRehearsals progress and the tensions and disagreements grow as the company – almost unknowingly – engage more deeply with the themes of the play: What is a revolution? When does it end? Ten years after the Syrian revolution\, do they really understand what happened and how they can tell their story? \nReturn of Danton is a new play by Syrian playwright Mudar Alhaggi and directed by Omar Elerian. Written and performed in Arabic\, the play is a contemporary exploration of how the dynamics of political revolutions – from the French Revolution to the Arab Spring – can be reflected within the politics of the rehearsal room. \nCollective Ma’louba is an intercultural theatre lab currently in residence at the Theater an der Ruhr in Mülheim. In its theatre productions\, Collective Ma’louba questions the political and social conditions of the Arab world against the background of recent rebellions and penetrates the taboos of Arab and European society. \nCo-presented by Shubbak Festival\, Counterpoint Arts\, The Lowry & Ettijahat Independent Culture. In cooperation with Maxim Gorki Theatre\, Berlin. A co-production of Theater an der Ruhr and Shubbak Festival. Funded by The German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia. \n#ReturnOfDanton  #Shubbak  #ShubbakFestival  #ArabCulture  #ArabFestival  #ContemporaryArabCulture \n  \nImportant information about the event\n\nPlease note that this event listing is for the livestream option and you will need to watch the content on the specified event date/time.\nIf you miss the livestream\, you will need to purchase a video on demand ticket if you would like to watch it back.\nIf you would like to buy a ticket for the video on demand option you can buy them from here.\nPlease note that the video on demand option will be without the panel discussion.\nThe production will have English subtitles and the discussion will have BSL interpretation.\n\n  \nARTIST BIOGRAPHIES \nCollective Ma’louba \nCollective Ma’louba is an intercultural theatre lab currently in residence at the Theater an der Ruhr in Mülheim. In its theatre productions\, Collective Ma’louba questions the political and social conditions of the Arab world against the background of recent rebellions and penetrates the taboos of Arab and European society. Further artistic projects of thematic relevance such as installations\, exhibitions\, concerts and workshop accompany the theatre productions. They work in NRW\, Germany and across the world\, thus creating transnational meeting places. Follow the Collective’s via Facebook  and Instagram. \nMudar Alhaggi (Author) \nMudar Alhaggi (*1981) studied theatre studies at The Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damaskus. Alhaggi works as an author and dramaturge\, he writes for the radio and TV\, pens scripts and leads writing workshops for refugees. He staged “Footfalls” by Samuel Beckett and the production “One Thousand and One Tents”\, which was developed in a workshop with refugees in Lebanon. In 2013 the production “Now T-Here“\, in which he was involved as author and director (in collaboration with Stella Cristofolini) was presented in Oberhausen and Berlin. Since 2015 he manages “Future Stages. A Creative Programme for Emerging Syrian Writers” in Lebanon together with Erik Altorfer. In 2015 and 2016 he developed “41 Stunden” with Kopp / Nauer / Praxmarer / Vittinghoff\, a coproduction with Schlachthaus Theater Bern. With Erik Altorfer\, he presented another work with adolescent refugees and young people from Graz at Schauspielhaus Graz. Mudar Alhaggi lives in Berlin since summer 2015. Since 2017 he is the artistic director of COLLECTIVE MA’LOUBA. \nOmar Elerian (Director) \nOmar Elerian is a freelance theatre director\, writer and dramaturg. Of Italian/Palestinian descent\, Omar trained in Italy and then graduated from Lecoq International Theatre School in Paris in 2005. He’s based in London since 2009. He was the resident Associate Director at the Bush Theatre from 2012 to 2019\, where he commissioned and directed some of the theatre’s most successful shows. As sole director for the Bush\, his credits include smash-hit Misty by Arinzé Kene (Bush and West End)\, NASSIM by Nassim Soleimanpour (Bush\, Traverse Theatre and world tour)\, Going Through by Estelle Savasta and Islands by Caroline Horton. As Associate Director working alongside Madani Younis\, his credits include The Royale by Marco Ramirez\, Leave Taking by Winsome Pinnock and Perseverance Drive by Robin Soans. Outside the Bush\, he directed Olivier nominated show You’re Not Like The Other Girls Chrissy by Caroline Horton and co-created acclaimed sitespecific show The Mill: City of Dreams with Madani Younis for Freedom Studios. In 2020 he co-created Autoreverse with Florencia Cordeu\, which opened the Going Global season at Battersea Arts Centre in February. Omar is currently developing projects with the Almeida\, National Theatre\, Manchester HOME\, Staatstheater Mainz\, Collective Ma’louba and The Shed in New York. \n  \nShubbak Festival is the UK’s premier festival of contemporary Arab arts and culture. \nThis year’s ambitious programme connects you to the very best contemporary Arab artists. Dive into marathon DJ sets\, watch Hip Hop\, rap and trap legends\, enjoy re-imagined classics\, installations in iconic settings\, and listen as audio guided tours take you to an imaginary city. \nShubbak is live in London\, online and broadcasting from Beirut\, Gaza\, Marrakech\, Slemani\, Riyadh\, Khartoum and Doha. Join artists\, audiences and communities locally and globally through a festival programme that has been conceived especially for this year’s exceptional conditions. \nWitness the extraordinary creativity\, responsiveness and imaginative power of Arab artists to speak of our times. Join the Festival from 20th June – 17th July\, 2021! Follow the action via @shubbakfestival. \n\n \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/return-of-danton-world-premiere/
CATEGORIES:Digital,Theatre
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/THE-RETURN-OF-DANTON-_-Image_Molter-Sartor-01-2-scaled.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210620T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210620T120000
DTSTAMP:20260429T222831
CREATED:20210618T125104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145414Z
UID:10000166-1624190400-1624190400@counterpoints.org.uk
SUMMARY:The Body As Data : Uninvited
DESCRIPTION:Live performance by Tom Tegento at Margate beach. Created by Sidonie Carie-Green and Tom Tegento. \nThis site specific performance follows the shifting identity of a refugee living in Kent – exploring his embodied practice as an uninvited guest into loaded political and coastal spaces. \nThis performance will begin at the Nayland Rock Shelter\, moving across the beach and finally up to the Turner Contemporary. \nThere will also be a livestream. See: https://www.thebodyasdataproject.com/events-2
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/the-body-as-data-uninvited/
CATEGORIES:Performance & Dance
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-18-at-14.46.27.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210619T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210619T190000
DTSTAMP:20260429T222831
CREATED:20210604T155325Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145414Z
UID:10000177-1624129200-1624129200@counterpoints.org.uk
SUMMARY:I See My Ghost Coming From Afar
DESCRIPTION:An online theatre performance via http://www.seenaryo.org/refugee-week-2021/ \nTaking its name from the poem by Palestinian writer Mahmoud Darwish\, I See My Ghost Coming From Afar is a physical theatre production devised by young Palestinian & Lebanese actors. \nThis show was developed by Seenaryo in partnership with Goethe Institut Libanon. \nThe performance is being streamed in collaboration with Counterpoints Arts as part of Refugee Week. \nFollowing the performance\, the cast will be speaking to a group of young people in Germany\, exploring themes around gender and sexuality. Tune in to watch their conversation. \nThis conversation is hosted by Seenaryo in collaboration with Bund Deutscher Amateurtheater as part of their TheaterWelten digital festival.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/i-see-my-ghost-coming-from-afar/
CATEGORIES:Theatre
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/A63I8132-scaled.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210619T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210619T170000
DTSTAMP:20260429T222831
CREATED:20210528T050926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T145414Z
UID:10000181-1624113000-1624122000@counterpoints.org.uk
SUMMARY:Uprootedness & Hybridity
DESCRIPTION:Uprootedness & Hybridity: Researching Eastern-European intergenerational trauma in the arts and theatre \nOnline seminar initiated by Monika Dorniak \nProduced by Counterpoints Arts as part of Refugee Week 2021 \n19 June\, 15.30h (CET) 14.30h (UK) -18.00h (CET) \nFull details and free booking via Eventbrite \nA Zoom link will be sent to registrants on the day of the event. \nWith contributions by: Monika Dorniak & Susanna Rydz\, Olesya Khromeychuk\, Nina Mdivani\, Jessica Ostrowicz\, Red Zenith Collective \nImage courtesy of Monika Dorniak \nOur bodies store memories that far exceed our lifetimes\, and the global increase in migrations and forced displacements leads us to new reflections on our belonging and identity. In the past decades\, artists\, scientists and historians have become increasingly interested in the research of intergenerational trauma\, and the impact of our ancestors traumatic experiences on our present identities. Wars do not only deconstruct landscapes and bodies\, but destroy cultural archives and artefacts\, which leave descendants with no less than fragmented images of their bygone ‘realities’. \nThis seminar will introduce artistic quests across Eastern European history from four different perspectives. While sharing our personal and intimate reflections\, we are unravelling the complexity of intergenerational trauma collectively\, and allow space for different questions that may lead us to new answers. \nTransmission of trauma is not limited to genes only\, but could also be experienced through its reenactment in the arts and theatre. \nIn our seminar\, Ukrainian historian and theatre maker Olesya Khromeychuk describes the ongoing war in Donbas\, and introduces three documentary plays\, based on war testimonies of witnesses or participants. \nThe traumatic events of the Shoah and their impact on the Jewish culture are a major theme for British artist Jessica Ostrowicz\, whose sculptural works introduce healing rituals and repetitions. \nIn their lecture performance German-Polish artists Monika Dorniak and Susanna Rydz analyse hybridity\, othering\, and their ancestors experience of oppression. \nNew York-based curator Nina Mdivani will talk about the impact of the multiple Russian invasions of Georgia in the 20th century on cultural and artistic processes\, and questions how art can reflect historical meaning-making and victimhood by bridging fiction and reality. \nThe lectures conclude with a group discussion that is open to the audience. \nThe seminar will end with a healing workshop by The Red Zenith Collective.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/uprootedness-hybridity/
CATEGORIES:Learning
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://counterpoints.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/MonikaDorniak_Untitled_2018-scaled.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR