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SUMMARY:Creating Connection (Swindon)
DESCRIPTION:A free networking event to discuss the arts\, refugees and asylum seekers in Swindon. Showcasing existing work and exploring possibilities for new collaborations. \nProduced by Create Studios in collaboration with Counterpoints Arts. \nFree booking via Eventbrite \nProgramme: \n10.30: Arrivals at Create Studios \n11: Setting the Swindon context for the arts\, refugees and migration \n11.15: Inspirations from previous and current projects \n12.15: Discussing the arts and cultural strategy for Swindon \n13.20: Workshops to explore different aspects of this work \n15.15: Reception STEAM mseum \nPart of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/creating-connection-swindon/
LOCATION:Create Studios\, 10 Carriage Works\, Swindon\, SN1 5FB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Platforma
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SUMMARY:Ellipsis: An Audio Walking Tour (Plymouth)
DESCRIPTION:Belén L.Yáñez will be bringing her audio walking tour Ellipsis to Plymouth. Co-created with local communities\, Ellipsis encourages you to reconnect with your local area and observe something new and unexpected in the everyday.  \nJoin us for a free and interactive audio walking tour experience suitable for all ages. Guided by a performer for 60 minutes you will be invited to rediscover and interact with your local area. Explore familiar places from a different perspective and blur the real with the imagined. \nMultiple dates and times in Plymouth on Friday 6 October\, 4.30PM and Saturday 7 October\, 11AM and 4.30PM. \nFunded by National Lottery through Arts Council England. \nCo-commissioned by Counterpoints Arts \nSupported by Arts University Plymouth & Prime Theatre \nImage credit: Collage by Belén L.Yáñez \nPart of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/ellipsis-an-audio-walking-tour-in-plymouth/
LOCATION:Plymouth Random Art Corner\, 30 Union Street\, Plymouth\, PL1 3EX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Audio,Community & Participation,Performance & Dance,Platforma
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SUMMARY:Gwyrdh Glas Workshops (Cornwall)
DESCRIPTION:Gwyrdh Glas Workshops\nAS PART OF FLAMM BY CREATIVE KERNOW \nDuring these workshops facilitated by local artist Sovay Berriman we will share thoughts on identity & Cornwall\, and then using the reclaimed materials available such as cardboard\, paper and cloth to make ‘rubbish sculptures’. Through the practical art-making Sovay invites the identity conversations to flow in a slightly different way. We will draw inspiration from the granite forms of carns of Kernow/Cornwall such as Carn Brea\, The Hurlers\, Trencrom and Rough Tor and are titled Gwyrdh Glas – Liwyow a Gernow / Colours of Cornwall. \nWe will paint the rock sculptures in colours that connect to our identities and relationships with the rocks of Kernow\, and we’ll name these colours in Kernewek/Cornish. If a fitting word does not exist\, we will create one through conversation and use of Kernewek/Cornish dictionaries loaned to the project by Kowethas an yeth Kernewek. \nThe colours and their words will be collected in a sample book – Liwyow a Gernow (Colours of Cornwall) which will be added to the MESKLA | Brewyon Drudh archive\, and offered to the Cornish Language Office to contribute to the gelyver kernewek (Cornish Dictionary). The Cornish Language Service will adjust the names we’ve created to ensure they ‘make-sense’ within the linguistic rules of the language. \nBoth the rock-sculptures and the sample book of colours will be included in Sovay’s exhibition Gwyrdh Glas as part of Flamm in Redruth 21st-22nd October. If they agree\, participants names will be included in the details of the project\, and the MESKLA | Brewyon Drudh PEOPLE page. \nWorkshops are sometimes drop-in\, and sometimes bookable\, please see each listing for details. \nSat 7th October | Krowji\, as part of the Fun Palaces weekend \nTues 10th October 11am – 1pm | The Shire Hall\, IntoBodmin for Hospital Rooms’ Cornwall Project \nSat & Sun 21st & 22nd October | Flamm Cornwall open drop-in. Location: Market Hall\, Market Way\, Redruth\, TR15 2AU \nFri & Sat 27th & 28th October | Lowender Festival\, Redruth \nFor more info about Sovay Berriman\, the workshops and events please visit https://sovayberriman.co.uk/MESKLA-workshops \n  \nCORE is being presented as part of a multi-layered programme of exhibitions and events. Supported by Art Night\, Counterpoints Arts\, Creative Kernow\, Cultivator\, Good Growth\, Levelling Up\, Shared Prosperity Fund and Cornwall Council. Part of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/gwyrdh-glas-workshops-cornwall/
LOCATION:Cornwall
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Learning,Platforma,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:The South West SIM Project: memories in motion at BOP festival (Bristol)
DESCRIPTION:‘As an immigrant\, I don’t really have roots\, I have tendrils\, which stretch to different places in the world where there are people I love’\nArgentinian project artist\, Cyprus\, 2022 \nThe SIM Project install a mobile exhibition in the Paintworks Event Space\, for BOP festival 23\, presenting over 100 personal glass and metal artefacts made by participants from countries including Afghanistan\, Syria\, Turkey\, Venezuela\, Hong Kong\, Senegal and Libya. \nThe SIM Project gives tangible meaning to people’s virtual networks and explores how the images we create and exchange through our smartphones map our place in the world. The unique wearable artefacts in the project collection have been made in workshops across Europe using a process which combines analogue and digital photography with jewellery making. \nThe project is led by artist and anthropologist Liz Hingley with the support of jeweller Sofie Boons and Frank Menger of the Centre for Print Research. It is inspired by and continues to evolve through conversation and craft with refugees and others who have experienced displacement to shape new ways of sharing\, valuing and archiving stories of migration. This chapter of the project is produced with Counterpoints Arts and supported by the University of West England and Martin Parr Foundation. \nPart of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/the-south-west-sim-project-memories-in-motion-at-bop-festival-bristol/
LOCATION:Paintworks Event Space\, The Airstream Main Courtyards\, Bristol\, BS4 3EH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Multi-Art Form,Photography,Platforma
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SUMMARY:No Direction Home with Palestine Comedy Club (London)
DESCRIPTION:As part of our autumn run at Soho Theatre in partnership with Show And Tell\, we are collaborating with the Palestine Comedy Club (PalCom) to present guest performers Alaa Shehada\, Diana Sweity and Hanna Shammas on their first UK tour – performing in English. \nThe gig will be hosted by Thanyia Moore\, with guest headliner Catherine Bohart. \nPalestine Comedy Club (PalCom) is a comedy production company established in the UK and Palestine by Palestinian stand-up comedian\, Alaa Shehada\, with assistance from senior lecturer in comedy and solo performance at Middlesex University\, Dr. Sam Beale\, and film producer\, Charlotte Knowles. \nUnder the leadership of Alaa Shehada\,  Palestine Comedy Club is working to establish a stand-up comedy circuit across the West Bank providing space and funds for emerging stand-up comedy talent in the region to hone their craft and develop a culture of live comedy performance that is unique to the Palestinian experience. \nBOOK TICKETS \nThere is also a panel event with PalCom from 4.30pm at 21 Soho \nMore about PalCom \nPalestine Comedy Club’s first show\, ‘Balad’ (بلد ) toured to venues in Ramallah\, Nablus\, Haifa\, Nazareth\, Jerusalem and Jenin in 2022. Performed by Alaa Shehada\, Hanna Shammas\, Raed Sheukhi\, Diana Sweity\, Ebaa Monther and Khalil Al-Batran\, ‘Balad’ explores the complexity of Palestinian identity as it is experienced across the entire region\, from Hebron to the Golan Heights. \nThe show received excellent reviews and was described as “ laughter in extreme pain\, and a turning point towards a different comedy in Palestine.” \nPalCom delivers workshops to non-performers including in women’s centres and refugee camps. They have taught in Ramallah\,  in the Korean Centre\, Hebron\, at the Ibaa Cultural Centre in Dheishah Camp\, Bethlehem\, and at the women’s centre in Jenin. We have also held workshops at Nablus Performing Arts and Circus School. These workshops gave local people an opportunity to share personal stories and explore stand-up skills as a form of personal and cultural expression. \nUpcoming No Direction Home dates at Soho Theatre: \nNov 13: Hosted by Michael Akadiri \nDec 11: Headlined by Shaparak Khorsandi \nSoho Theatre\, 21 Dean St London W1D 3NE\nTickets from £15\nwww.sohotheatre.com \nBook tickets \n020 7478 0100 \n \nPresented by Show And Tell with Counterpoints Arts\, the gigs feature line-ups of new voices from refugee and migrant backgrounds alongside some of the biggest names in British comedy. \nNo Direction Home was established by Counterpoints Arts with Camden People’s Theatre and top stand-up Tom Parry\, who has mentored the group. \nThey have already won over audiences in a variety of venues in London and around the country\, and have now secured their second West End run. \nTV comic and stand-up Nish Kumar\, says: “The No Direction Home comedians are a very exciting\, interesting and creative bunch of people to be around. And they are very funny. The material is really good.” \nNo Direction Home performers are new talents with backgrounds in countries including Syria\, Iran\, Iraq\, Ethiopia and Mali. \nYasmeen Ghrawi says: “No Direction Home is a space to show up/stand up\, a space to be seen and heard\, a space of celebration. We come from places of varying remoteness to the UK\, some of us fresh off the back of a truck\, others migrated here years ago. We hope to keep sharing the love – and our jokes.” \nShow And Tell is an award-winning production company of live comedy\, with a national and international programme of events. With teams in London and New York\, we seek to play an integral role in the live performance careers of many world-class and emerging talents in both the UK and US.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/no-direction-home-soho-theatre/
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:Palestine Comedy Club (Bristol)
DESCRIPTION:Counterpoints Arts\, The Palestine Museum in Bristol and the Palestine Comedy Club present a unique night of stand-up comedy! Featuring top Palestinian comedians Alaa Shehada\, Hanna Shammas and Diana Sweity on their first UK tour – performing in English. \nBOOK NOW (£7/£5) \nPalestine Comedy Club (PalCom) is a comedy production company established in the UK and Palestine by Palestinian stand-up comedian\, Alaa Shehada\, with assistance from senior lecturer in comedy and solo performance at Middlesex University\, Dr. Sam Beale\, and film producer\, Charlotte Knowles. \nUnder the leadership of Alaa Shehada\,  Palestine Comedy Club is working to establish a stand-up comedy circuit across the West Bank providing space and funds for emerging stand-up comedy talent in the region to hone their craft and develop a culture of live comedy performance that is unique to the Palestinian experience. \nThe Palestine Museum in Bristol was founded in 2013\, and is run entirely by volunteers It explores Palestinian culture\, heritage and daily life. \n \nPresented by Counterpoints Arts with the Palestine Museum as part of the Platforma festival 2023 \nMore about PalCom \nPalestine Comedy Club’s first show\, ‘Balad’ (بلد ) toured to venues in Ramallah\, Nablus\, Haifa\, Nazareth\, Jerusalem and Jenin in 2022. Performed by Alaa Shehada\, Hanna Shammas\, Raed Sheukhi\, Diana Sweity\, Ebaa Monther and Khalil Al-Batran\, ‘Balad’ explores the complexity of Palestinian identity as it is experienced across the entire region\, from Hebron to the Golan Heights. \nThe show received excellent reviews and was described as “ laughter in extreme pain\, and a turning point towards a different comedy in Palestine.” \nPalCom delivers workshops to non-performers including in women’s centres and refugee camps. We have taught in Ramallah\,  in the Korean Centre\, Hebron\, at the Ibaa Cultural Centre in Dheishah Camp\, Bethlehem\, and at the women’s centre in Jenin. We have also held workshops at Nablus Performing Arts and Circus School. These workshops gave local people an opportunity to share personal stories and explore stand-up skills as a form of personal and cultural expression.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/palestine-comedy-club-bristol/
LOCATION:Palestine Museum\, 27 Broad St\, Bristol\, BS1 2HG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Comedy,Platforma
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SUMMARY:Theatre of Migration with Carlota Matos and Hiba Elhindi (Bristol)
DESCRIPTION:UPDATE: This event took place on 12th October 2023. You can now read our blog about how it went and watch the recording here.   \nJoin community artists Carlota Matos and Hiba Elhindi for a discussion about the ethics of working with migrants in theatre\, chaired by Vandna Mehta. \nThe evening will include a sharing from ongoing theatre workshops with migrant women in collaboration with Borderlands and a screening of the work being done by project SuFIA (Sudanese Folklore-Inspired Arts) by Hiba. The 45-min panel discussion will feature topics such as the ethics of participation\, making theatre from lived experience and working with migrants followed by a Q&A. \nCarlota recently partnered with Bristol-based charity Borderlands to offer free weekly theatre workshops for migrant women starting in September 2023. This participatory theatre project addresses language barriers and explores identity and what it means to be a woman in different cultures. \nTheatre of Migration with Carlota Matos and Hiba Elhindi will take place on Thursday 12th October\, 6.30-8PM at the Trinity Centre\, Trinity Road\, Bristol\, BS2 0NW. \nDoors will open at 6.15PM and the event will start promptly at 6.30PM. Refreshments will be provided. Please note there won’t be any alcohol served. \nACCESS: This is a relaxed event and will have BSL interpretation throughout. Trinity is wheelchair accessible. You can find more details about the venue’s accessibility on their website. \nTo reserve a free place visit https://www.trinitybristol.org.uk/whats-on/2023/theatre-of-migration \nMeet your panellists: \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Carlota Matos\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Hiba Elhindi\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Vandna Mehta\n				\n		\n\nCarlota Matos is a Portuguese theatre and performance artist based in Bristol. She works with communities\, young people and artists with a focus on access\, co-creation and social change. Carlota recently completed a DYCP (Arts Council England) and is part of Future Laboratory\, a project of research residencies on the topic of social inclusion throughout Europe. \nHiba Elhindi is a Sudanese-British curator\, drama facilitator and educator based in the South West of England. She is passionate about using arts to empower young generations\, bring communities together and tell unheard stories. Hiba curated a number of art projects involving members of the Sudanese community in Bristol\, including SuFIA\, Sudafest\, Sudanese Youth Theatre\, Choir and Games without Borders. (Sudafest makes a return for Platforma on 22 Oct in Bristol with a message focused on hope and healing\, check out event details here!) \nVandna Mehta (Chair) is Founder of Vocalise Magazine CIC and co-Founder of Diverse Artists Network CIC. She is a member of the Core Team for Bristol Refugee Festival and is also a freelance creative producer and community arts activist\, events. She is an active member of Culture Declares Emergency and was recently selected for the pioneering group of trailblazing women leaders south west programme addressing the gender imbalance in senior roles in arts organisations. \nPresented in collaboration with Borderlands\, a Bristol-based charity supporting refugees\, asylum seekers and those with insecure immigration status from exclusion to belonging. Supported by Arts Council England. \nPart of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/theatre-of-migration-with-carlota-matos-and-hiba-elhindi/
LOCATION:Trinity Centre\, Trinity Road\, Bristol\, BS2 0NW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Platforma,Theatre
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SUMMARY:SDA Launches 'The Green Room' (Stroud)
DESCRIPTION:Join Soumik Datta Arts (SDA) on Friday 13 October for a special concert celebrating the launch of a new programme for migrant and refugee musicians: The Green Room\n\nAga Khan Music Award winner\, Soumik Datta will perform an evening of contemporary Indian music to address refugee issues\,  together with SDA associate artists\, Gurdain Singh on tabla and Preetha Narayanan on violin. \nThe concert will be followed by the launch of the Green Room – SDA’s new residency programme to deliver professional development opportunities for global south refugee and migrant musicians. Find out who the Green Room Artists are and take part in an informal Q&A. \nOver three residential weeks at Hawkwood Centre\, seven Green Room artists will undergo a series of workshops\, rehearsals and recording to co-create authentic and collective work in a safe\, welcoming and nurturing space. Read more about it in the call out here. \nThe event will be followed by a networking opportunity for local artists and organisations. \nThis is a seated event. \nPhoto by Daniel Dittus. \nPart of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/sda-launches-the-green-room/
LOCATION:Hawkwood Centre\, Painswick Old Rd\, Stroud\, GL6 7QW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Music,Platforma
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SUMMARY:The South West SIM Project workshops at Martin Parr Foundation and The Royal Photographic Society (Bristol)
DESCRIPTION:The SIM Project workshops give tangible meaning to people’s virtual networks and explore how the images we create and exchange through our smartphones map our place in the world. \nPeople who have experience of displacement and those working to support refugees and asylum seekers in the South West of England will be invited to workshops at Martin Parr Foundation and Royal Photographic Society in Bristol. In a process that combines analogue and digital photography with jewellery making and origami\, participants will create unique SIM-scale artefacts to keep\, wear and to be added to the project collection. \nThe personal artefacts made as part of Platforma will be exhibited in Houston\, Texas in 2024. They will be shown alongside SIM artefacts made by over 170 participants from countries including Afghanistan\, Syria\, Turkey\, Venezuela\, Hong Kong\, Senegal and Libya at previous workshops held in 7 countries across Europe. \nThe project is led by artist and anthropologist Liz Hingley\, with the support of Jeweller Sofie Boons and Frank Menger of the Centre for Print Research at the University of West England. Initially inspired by collaboration with Syrians on a UK resettlement programme in 2017\, the project was recently supported by Liz’s residency within the Department of Digital Humanities at Kings College London (2020-23) and is sponsored by 4JET: innovations in glass\, Just Castings and Beyond Print. \nMartin Parr Foundation will generously host the workshops and an accompanying pubic symposium on the 18th October bringing together artists whose works relates to themes of migration\, displacement and belonging. \nPart of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/the-south-west-sim-project-workshops-at-martin-parr-foundation-and-the-royal-photographic-society/
LOCATION:Martin Parr Foundation\, 316 Paintworks\, Bristol\, BS4 3AR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Multi-Art Form,Platforma
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SUMMARY:Picturing Displacement - Symposium & Exhibition (Bristol)
DESCRIPTION:A symposium\, exhibition and new network that will explore the ways visual art can illuminate and reshape narratives around migration\, identity and belonging. \nFree booking \nFeaturing Amak Mahmoodian\, Frankie Mills\, Adiam Yemane\, Liz Hingley and Aida Silvestri. Panel moderated by Fozia Ismail. \nCounterpoints Arts and the Martin Parr Foundation present a series of short talks led by artists whose photographic practice focuses on migration\, identity\, refuge and care. \nThe discussion will touch on questions of representation\, activism and lived experience. \nAll are invited to view the exhibition after the talks and share food inspired by Middle Eastern\, African and Eastern Europe cuisines made by Houria. \nThe featured photographers work will be on show outside the Royal Photographic Society in Bristol from 13th October\, curated by Liz Hingley. \nAmak Mahmoodin was born in Shiraz\, Iran and now lives in Bristol. Her artistic practice explores the representation of gender\, identity and displacement\, bridging a space between personal and political. Working with images\, poems\, archives and videos\, she looks for the lyrical reality frames in the photographs. \nFrankie Mills is a photographer and writer based in Devon. She is interested in the ways in which people create a sense of home and belonging that doesn’t derive from location. She is currently creating a body of work on Ukrainian refugees in her local community. Work from the series won OpenWalls Arles (2023) and has been shortlisted for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize (2023). \nAdïam Yemane\, an Ethiopian-Eritrean visual artist and storyteller\, embraces a profound love for nature. Her artistic journey steers toward freelance portrait and research photography\, a platform through which she illuminates contemporary issues\, notably in social justice and community development. Her art aspires to convey heartfelt global stories\, transcending surface narratives\, and beckoning viewers to connect with the world on a deeper level. \nLiz Hingley is an artist and anthropologist based in London. She founded The SIM Project\, a mobile collection of unique personal artefacts made at workshops in 8 countries to date. The SIM-scale artefacts combine analogue and digital photography processes with jewellery making to give tangible meaning to peoples virtual networks\, and value and archive stories of migration. The project is a collaboration with Frank Menger of the Centre for Print Research\, UWE and a growing\nteam. \nAida Silvestri is an interdisciplinary artist and educator of Eritrean descent. She creates mixed media artworks that challenge the status quo of stigma\, prejudice and social injustice concerning race\, class\, identity and health\, often combining text\, image and experimental techniques to manipulate the photographic surface. \nFozia Ismail is a scholar\, cook and founder of Arawelo Eats\, a platform for exploring politics\, identity and colonialism through East African food & co- founder dhaqan collective a Somali feminist art collective based in Bristol. \nHouria CIC is a Bristol-based anti-slavery & anti-racism organisation\, training & hiring women migrant cooks and survivors of slavery in a Bristol-based catering company. \nThis event is supported by the University of West England. It is part of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England. \nImage by Adiam Yemane
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/picturing-displacement-symposium-bristol/
LOCATION:Martin Parr Foundation\, 316 Paintworks\, Bristol\, BS4 3AR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Photography,Platforma
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SUMMARY:Art Works: How Organisers and Artists are Creating a Better World Together

DESCRIPTION:Ken Grossinger in Conversation\nAuthor and strategist Ken Grossinger joins Fran Panetta\, Director of the new AKO Storytelling Institute and Almir Koldzic\, Director of Counterpoints Arts in conversation\, following the publication of Ken’s new book Art Works: How Organisers and Artists are Creating a Better World Together (The New Press\, 2023). \n\nKen Grossinger has been a leading strategist in movements for social and economic justice for thirty-five years\, in unions and community organisations\, and as director of Impact Philanthropy in Democracy Partners. Among other cultural projects\, he co-executive produced the award-winning Netflix documentaries The Social Dilemma and The Bleeding Edge. \nReviews \n“Art Works tells the complicated and fascinating story of the recent history of activism and the arts and points to new ways in which the arts\, pop culture\, and institutions are aligning themselves to address issues of violence\, beauty\, capitalism\, and justice. Challenging and inspiring\, the book raises many fundamental questions about the purpose of art and its relationship to societal change.” \nLaurie Anderson\, artist and activist \n“Grossinger’s arguments are a corrective to the cliché of ‘art for art’s sake.’ It is a rare manual for those who devote themselves to social change in times of crises\, a reference book about our political reality\, and an insightful signpost.” \nAi Weiwei\, artist and activist \n  \nFurther information: \n\nKen Grossinger\nArt Works\nAKO Storytelling Institute\n\nUniversity of the Arts London \n\nImage credit: Banner Image – Mural\, Stefan Ways\, 2013 \n  \nBooking link
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/art-works-how-organisers-and-artists-are-creating-a-better-world-together/
LOCATION:Central Saint Martins Studio Theatre\, Granary Square\, King’s Cross
CATEGORIES:Learning
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SUMMARY:The Creative Sanctuary Symposium (Online)
DESCRIPTION:The Creative Sanctuary symposium produced by Insiders / Outsiders Festival takes place online 20-21 October telling the story of Dartington Hall in Devon as an important place of sanctuary for refugees from Fascist Europe. Get your tickets on Eventbrite\, £0-35\, concessions available. \nDartington Hall\, established by Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst in the late 1920s as a utopian agricultural and educational experiment\, became a much-needed place of refuge for a significant number of eminent creative individuals\, who because of their Jewish background and/or anti-fascist stance\, were forced to leave Germany (and later\, Austria) after 1933. Spanish Republicans fleeing the Spanish Civil War were also welcomed. \nComprising a lively mixture of illustrated talks straddling multiple art forms (fine and applied arts\, architecture\, dance and music)\, discussions\, Q&A sessions and film screenings\, the programme will be aimed at both a general and a specialist audience\, local\, national and international. \nThe symposium\, which draws on the very latest archival researches by established and early career scholars alike\, will fill a significant gap in twentieth century British cultural and social history. \nFor full details of the programme\, including a breakdown of events and guest speakers\, see the Eventbrite page. \nThe symposium is kindly supported by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art\, Shoresh Charitable Trust\, the Elmgrant Trust and Counterpoints Arts. \nMain image: Hans Keller teaching at Summer School of Music\, Dartington Hall \nPart of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/the-creative-sanctuary-symposium-online/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Learning,Multi-Art Form,Platforma
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SUMMARY:Ellipsis: An Audio Walking Tour in Swindon
DESCRIPTION:Belén L.Yáñez will be bringing her audio walking tour Ellipsis to Swindon. Co-created with local communities\, Ellipsis encourages you to reconnect with your local area and observe something new and unexpected in the everyday.  \nJoin us in Swindon for a free and interactive audio walking tour experience suitable for all ages. Guided by a performer for 60 minutes you will be invited to rediscover and interact with your local area. Explore familiar places from a different perspective and blur the real with the imagined. \nMultiple dates and times in Swindon on Friday 20 October\, 3.30PM and Saturday 21 October\, 11AM and 3PM. Book your free tickets via Eventbrite. \nFunded by National Lottery through Arts Council England \nCo-commissioned by Counterpoints Arts \nSupported by Arts University Plymouth & Prime Theatre \nImage credit: Collage by Belén L.Yáñez \nPart of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/ellipsis-an-audio-walking-tour-in-swindon/
LOCATION:STEAM – Museum of the Great Western Railway\, Fire Fly Avenue\, Swindon\, SN2 2TA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Audio,Community & Participation,Performance & Dance,Platforma
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231022
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SUMMARY:Mohand & Peter (Bristol and Swindon)
DESCRIPTION:PSYCHEdelight Theatre and Sole Purpose Productions present a wonderful work of storytelling and physical theatre. With humour and visual poetry\, Mohand and Peter will take you on a road trip through Sudan jumping from one character to another\, including Omar Al Bashir\, Mohand’s 450 cousins\, and a lazy camel. \nMohand and Peter bounce on one of the toughest international news stories of the decade and as two brave clowns\, they fight horror with laughter to build a magnificent pedestal for Mohand’s country. \nIn Bristol there will be a matinee and evening performances at acta on 21 October priced just £5. Booking link \nThere will also be a private performance at the Harbour Project in Swindon on 19 October. \n\nThe Stage : “A genial\, family friendly two-hander that acknowledges the profound sense of yearning that refugees so often feel for the families and homes they’ve left behind” \nThe Star Sheffield : “Magical and magnificent show. Charming\, funny and clever.” \nCentre Stage Reviews : “Tonight I laughed\, I learnt\, I travelled.” \nEverything Theatre : “A glorious celebration of Sudan\, and the magic of friendship across cultures” \nTheatre-News : “Master-class of physical theatre. A delight from start to finish.” \nReviewsGate : “Funny\, consistently entertaining. Beguiling performers” \nLondonTheatre1 : “Broad and refreshing… The portrayals are spot on. An engaging and enthusiastic piece of theatre” \nMind the Blog :  “Mohand’s love letter to Sudan is an entertaining & enlightening show – as timely as it ever could be” \nThe Family Stage: “For some of us\, the show gave us a chance to learn just a little about a country that we rarely hear much about apart from negative news. For others\, it represented an opportunity to be transported back to the country they call home and to celebrate it at its best.” \nThere Ought to Be Clowns: “Beautiful in both its poetic and physical language\, Mohand & Peter is a triumph”. \nEvents in London: “A skilfully handled trip down memory lane.” \nThe Prickle: “Explosively funny duo” \n \n  \nPart of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England. \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/mohand-peter/
CATEGORIES:Platforma,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Flamm (Redruth)
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to be partnering with Creative Kernow to present commissions by artists Abigail Reynolds and Sovay Berriman as part of a new pilot initiative Flamm in Redruth\, Cornwall on 21-22 October. Both projects address issues of heritage\, language and migration in ways that add new dimensions to our Platforma 2023 programme. \nAbigail Reynolds will present CORE\, a collaborative sound installation rooted in place\, from the quarry on Carn Marth to explore socio-economic change caused by mine closures and ideological hydro feminist change in our extractive relationship with the environment. More information on this event and booking details here. \nGwyrdh Glas (tr. Green Green) by Sovay Berriman uses sculpture and conversation to explore contemporary Kernewek (Cornish) identity in relation to themes of heritage\, land and extraction industries. Sovay will deliver a public workshop series and an audiovisual film and a rock sculpture on the themes of Kernewek (Cornish) identity\, land and language. More information on this event here. \nThe artworks will be presented at Flamm in Redruth\, Cornwall on 21-22 October as part of a multi-layered programme of exhibitions and events. This project is funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund; European Structural and Investment\, Cornwall Council and Arts Council England. You can read more about Flamm and the two artists proposals at flamm.creativekernow.org.uk \nPart of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England. \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Abigail Reynolds\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Sovay Berriman
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/flamm/
CATEGORIES:Audio,Community & Participation,Multi-Art Form,Music,Platforma,Visual Arts
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231029
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SUMMARY:CROWN//تاج by Company Scheherazade (Dartington and Bristol)
DESCRIPTION:There is power in self-discovery… \nCROWN//تاج is the UK’s first touring production by Company Scheherazade combining classical Persian dance\, contemporary dance\, and Sufi movement to tell a story of displacement\, identity\, and body sovereignty to an original soundtrack of live classical music and electronica. \nUsing Persian miniatures\, lived experience and the poetry of Forough Farrokhzad\, the 3 lead dancers take the audience on a journey from determination through struggle to release. Finding courage\, resilience\, and joy along the way. \nMaria Tarokh directs this female-led production on its inaugural tour. The cast feature brilliant contemporary and classical dancers and virtuoso classical Persian musicians to bring you a moving\, exhilarating\, and energetic experience. \nRunning time: 60 minutes \nSuitable for 14+. \nContent note: The performance does not include any visuals that adults or children may find disturbing. However\, it does deal with adult themes and the soundtrack features some heavy bass. \nCo-produced by Dartington Arts and commissioned by Counterpoints Arts. Supported with funding from Arts Council England. \nDates and venues confirmed: \n21 October at Dartington Hall (Booking Link) \n28 October at Acta in Bristol (Booking Link) \nThere will also be a performance on 10 November at RichMix in London (Booking Link) \n@companyscheherazade \n \nDance artists: Ghazal Seidi\, Ayesha Fazal and Regine Phua \nSound Designer: Somin Griffin Dave \nMusicians: Ala Zarei and Mario Christofi \nPart of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/crown-by-maria-tarokh/
CATEGORIES:Performance & Dance,Platforma
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SUMMARY:Gwyrdh Glas by Sovay Berriman (Cornwall)
DESCRIPTION:As part of Flamm by Creative Kernow (21-22nd October 2023)\nGwyrdh Glas (tr. Green Green)\, sits within Berriman’s ongoing project MESKLA | Brewyon Drudh (tr. Mussel Gathering | Precious Fragments) 2022-24\, a multi-platform artwork that uses sculpture and conversation to explore contemporary Kernewek (Cornish) cultural identity and its relationship with heritage\, land\, and extraction industries\, including tourism and mining. \nMESKLA offers space for play in making and for conversation around questions of cultural heritage and belonging. \nDates/Times: \n\nSaturday 21st October 2023\, 11AM-11PM\nSunday 22nd October 2023\, 11AM-6PM\n\nLocation: Market Hall\, Market Way\, Redruth\, TR15 2AU \nNo booking required. \nAbout Sovay Berriman\nSovay Berriman’s work is rooted in their experience of being Cornish\, their culture’s shifting identity\, and the mutability yet power of a sense of place. \nPerformance platforms and dance floors\, the politics of responsibility\, identity and waste\, as well as a fascination with the natural environment’s evolution and its domestic and industrial use\, inform the abstract and semi-fantastical sculptural structures and events Sovay builds. \nThe artworks Sovay creates manifest out of multiple elements. Printed or drawn symbols and forms repeat and layer; components of found material\, acrylic or clay man lean\, prop or balance; live or recorded conversations may be presented upon stages of timber and reclaimed copper\, or made accessible through online platforms. All of these fragments work together through drawing\, text/audio\, moving image\, sculpture & installation to create a whole of shared stories and supportive structures. \nSovay uses visual art as a framework and prompt for action and discussion\, and is committed to questioning balances of power. Sovay is excited by the possibility of the collective\, supple and subtle boundaries\, edges and moments of change. Sovay invites contributors into the work at significant times to collaborate\, test and participate. \nSovay has exhibited & worked with organisations & galleries\, such as MIRROR – Plymouth\, Contemporary Art Society\, Spike Island – Bristol\, Exeter Phoenix\, The Harris – Preston\, Pi-ArtWorks – London/Istanbul\, & Robin Gibson – Sydney. \nGwyrdh Glas is being presented as part of Flam\, a multi-layered programme of exhibitions and events. Supported by Art Night\, Counterpoints Arts\, Creative Kernow\, Cultivator\, Good Growth\, Levelling Up\, Shared Prosperity Fund and Cornwall Council. Part of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/gwyrdh-glas-by-sovay-berriman-cornwall/
LOCATION:Market Hall\, Market Way\, Redruth\, TR15 2AU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form,Music,Platforma,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Humanity Hotel: Feasting (Winford)
DESCRIPTION:Bringing together asylum seekers\, refugees and local residents to celebrate the diversity of our cultures by sharing a meal\, listening to great music and exchanging stories that help us see the world through someone else’s eyes. \nBrought to you by Trigger as part of their wider ongoing project Humanity Hotel supporting the wellbeing of asylum seekers housed in hotels across North Somerset through arts\, culture and creativity. \nFood will be cooked and prepared by the incredible Loves Café. \nBook tickets via Eventbrite \nPart of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/humanity-hotel-feasting/
LOCATION:Winford Village Hall\, Felton Ln\, Winford\, Bristol\, BS40 8AD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Music,Platforma
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SUMMARY:CORE by Abigail Reynolds (Cornwall)
DESCRIPTION:As part of Flamm by Creative Kernow (21-22nd October 2023)\nOur relationship with the Earth is changing. \nWe must attune ourselves to the Earth and each other by listening\, responding\, and moving together. Core explores these themes in a quarry\, a scar of past extraction. Once a test site for dynamite drills\, Holman quarry has been silent for decades. Core invites us to dance to new rhythms and sounds in this carved landscape. The lost rhythms of percussive drills are replaced by electronic beats made entirely from quarry recordings. These unique sounds\, mixed by acclaimed producers during workshops\, let us reconnect to the rhythms of the Earth. \nDate: Saturday 21st October 2023 \nTime:\nFirst performance 6.30PM-8.30pm\nSecond performance 8.30PM-10.30PM \nLocation: Holman Quarry\, Lanner\, Redruth TR16 5HG. The event will be accessible via minibuses. \nBooking is essential but free to attend\, cash donations are welcome. More info on how to book to come. Keep an eye out on Flamm website and socials. Facebook\, Instagram and Twitter. \nAbout Abigail Reynolds\nAbigail uses montage techniques of layering and folding to destabilise singular ideas of cultural and political ecologies. She often works in dialogue with disciplines and places outside the art world; a silver band\, geologists\, libraries. She works across sculpture\, print and film as well as creating ephemeral events to bring disparate things into conversation. She works with a strong awareness of plurality; keeping a space complex and unreconciled.\n\n“The pages and images she excavates\, now dislocated from their original context\, become more like artifacts or archaeological remnants – more enigmatic\, more mutable\, and open to more complex meaning and association.” (Martin Clark)\n\nAbigail is noted for her work in collage\, using dynamic forms of assembly to release the latent possibilities in book plates by cutting and folding. To fold or layer historic images or events brings into focus our relation to time\, making it possible to discern things that are almost completely lost. Another medium she often uses is glass – using it  metaphorically to focus the act of looking and to suggest alternative modes of perception as well as simply to focus the light. \nCORE is being presented as part of a multi-layered programme of exhibitions and events. Supported by Art Night\, Counterpoints Arts\, Creative Kernow\, Cultivator\, Good Growth\, Levelling Up\, Shared Prosperity Fund and Cornwall Council. Part of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/core-by-abigail-reynolds-cornwall/
LOCATION:Holman Quarry\, Market Way\, Redruth\, TR16 5HG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form,Music,Platforma,Visual Arts
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231022T180000
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SUMMARY:Sudafest: Hope and Healing (Bristol)
DESCRIPTION:Sudafest will make a return for Platforma on 22 October! Alongside some old favourites including drumming\, basket weaving and creative writing workshops and youth theatre performance\, Sudafest will spotlight the current turbulent situation in Sudan using storytelling\, live performances and music. No need to book\, just turn up. \nCome along to watch Malkat Aldar\, a show performed by young women telling the story of a Sudanese self-taught novelist and women’s rights activist Malkat Aldar Mohamed. There will also be some lovely traditional Sudanese food available to attendees\, all vegan. Full programme and timings to be published soon. \nA taste of what you can expect here\, Sudafest Evening with Ebo Krdum & Mustafa Khogaliand in the video below: \n \nSudafest: Hope and Healing will take place on Sunday 22nd October\, 12-6PM at the Faithspace Community Redcliff\, Prewett St\, Redcliffe\, Bristol BS1 6PB. \nFor more info contact Hiba at info@sudafest.org and check out the Sudafest website here: sudafest.org \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\nPart of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/sudafest-hope-and-healing/
LOCATION:Faithspace\, Prewett St\, Bristol\, BS1 6PB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Craft & Design,Music,Platforma,Theatre
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231024
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SUMMARY:Climate Action and Refugees (Cardiff)
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with Platforma festival\, STAR (Student Action for Refugees) at Cardiff University are hosting an innovative evening of panellists\, workshops and conversations that will unite like-minded societies from across the university. \nThey encourage anybody with a passion for education and activism to come along to the student’s uniun to learn about the social injustice issues brought about by the climate crisis. \nTheir goal is for all of our participants to leave with an enhanced understanding of how they as individuals and societies\, can help balance the scales of climate injustice.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/climate-action-and-refugees-cardiff/
LOCATION:Cardiff University Students’ Union\, Park Pl\, Cardiff\, CF10 3QN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form,Platforma
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231028T113000
DTSTAMP:20260430T001434
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SUMMARY:CROWN تاج Workshop (Bristol)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a FREE workshop on Saturday 28th October\, 10-11.30AM. Led by Company Scheherazade Director\, Mario Tarokh with support from Company Musician\, Mario Christofi. The workshop will incorporate basic technique\, movement exploration and learning choreography from the CROWN production. \nFeaturing a fun\, dynamic soundtrack mixing classical Persian music and electronica. Open to all levels and genders. Suitable for 16+. \nTo sign up email companyscheherazade@gmail.com or call Maria on 07709518378. \nFor more information\, visit www.mariatarokh.com
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/crown-%d8%aa%d8%a7%d8%ac-workshop-bristol/
CATEGORIES:Learning,Performance & Dance,Platforma
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231029T170000
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SUMMARY:Dear Laila by Basel Zaraa @ the Palestine Museum (Bristol)
DESCRIPTION:“Dear Laila\, you are five now and have started to ask me where I grew up\, and why we can’t go there. This is me trying to give you an answer.” \nThe seeds of Dear Laila were planted when Basel’s five-year-old daughter Laila began to ask him about his home growing up. Unable to take her there\, he decided he would try to bring the place to her\, by creating a model of his childhood home in Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus. \nDear Laila shares the Palestinian experience of displacement and struggle through the story of one family. Using retelling of memories and tactile details\, it explores how war and exile are experienced through the everyday\, the domestic\, and the public space – to bring this now destroyed place to life. \n \nRead an interview with Basel Zaraa \nBooking for the Palestine Museum: \nThe work is experienced by one person at a time. To reserve a slot via e-mail please send your preferred visiting time to  tom@counterpoints.org.uk \nCredits: \nOriginally commissioned by Good Chance Theatre\, with support from Arts Council England. \nTranslator and script editor: Emily Churchill Zaraa \nSound engineer: Pete Churchill \nPhoto credit: Mohab Mohamed \nPresented by Counterpoints Arts as part of the Platforma festival 2023 in collaboration with the Palestine Museum\, Bristol. The Palestine Museum was founded in 2013\, and is run entirely by volunteers It explores Palestinian culture\, heritage and daily life.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/dear-laila-by-basel-zaraa-the-palestine-museum/
LOCATION:Palestine Museum\, 27 Broad St\, Bristol\, BS1 2HG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Platforma,Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231028T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231028T170000
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SUMMARY:Art\, Rights & Resistance
DESCRIPTION:How can art change the conversation about migration and those who seek refuge? \nJoin Autograph for an afternoon of discussion\, exhibitions\, photography\, food and sharing. In collaboration with Counterpoints Arts. \nGrappling with notions of displacement and exile\, Autograph’s current exhibition Hélène Amouzou: Voyages raises important questions on what it means to seek refuge and what it feels like to belong. Many of the works on display were created while the artist was seeking asylum in Belgium\, part of a two-decade long journey seeking safety and citizenship. \nInspired by Voyages\, join us for a free afternoon of discussion\, exhibitions\, photography\, food and sharing – exploring how art can change the conversation about migration and those who seek refuge\, bringing to light new stories about freedom and identity. \nFull details and free booking: https://autograph.org.uk/events/art-rights-resistance/
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/art-rights-resistance/
LOCATION:Autograph\, Rivington Place\, London\, EC2A 3BA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Film and Photography
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231031T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231031T120000
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SUMMARY:Trigger and Maison Foo : theatre\, food and a culture of belonging (online)
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Platforma festival 2023\, theatre companies Trigger and Maison Foo share their experiences of working with food and hospitality to engage with asylum seekers and help change narratives around displacement. \nA free online event on Zoom : reserve a free place via Eventbrite \nThere will be the opportunity for a Q&A\, to share your own experiences and to network online. \nTrigger \nNorth Somerset arts charity Trigger are creators and producers of bold\, unforgettable live events. \nFor this discussion they will be talking about Humanity Hotel\, an ongoing project supporting the wellbeing of asylum seekers housed in hotels across North Somerset. \nIn May 2022\, North Somerset become host to hundreds of asylum seekers forced to leave their homes and families\, and now displaced in the UK. \nHoused in rurally isolated areas\, this community rely solely on agents in Bristol to support their wellbeing needs\, from legal advice to English lessons. \nOn their arrival\, Trigger mobilised to offer support. Pulling together a network of local people\, they were able to help with donations of phones and other essential items; they’ve facilitated car shares and free public transport\, signposted legal advice\, arranged volunteer opportunities and brokered relationships with the local football club for regular games. \nOver the last six months Trigger have facilitated a regular creative and cultural programme. From art making to cooking\, sewing and ceramics\, Trigger are working in collaboration with local artists\, musicians\, arts venues and community organisations to deliver creative\, educational and participatory workshops for this community. \nwww.triggerstuff.co.uk \nFollow Trigger on Facebook\, Twitter or Instagram \nMaison Foo \nMaison Foo are makers of theatre\, art and community\, and a proud Theatre Company of Sanctuary. For this event they will be talking about their project A Seat At Our Table. \nOn October 2022\, Maison Foo and their Creative Sanctuary Group took over the grand Georgian dining room at Pickford’s House in Derby\, to reimagine what and whose stories are told in buildings such as these. \nThe project aimed to give people across the UK with Refugee and Asylum Seeker status\, a positive platform from which to tell and share their stories with audiences and beyond\, in places where their voice has previously been unheard. \nAudiences were invited to take a seat at the dining table\, to listen to personal and intimate stories about the familial and universal experience of food and mealtimes. Challenging the perception of who should be seated at the table of grand stately homes and paving the way for a new future…one that is open and accepting of all regardless\, of their background and journey to the UK. \nCo-created with Maison Foo’s Creative Sanctuary Group (a diverse collective of People Seeking Sanctuary in Derby)\, the project began with weekly gatherings to cook and to share favourite memories of mealtimes. These stories then formed part of ‘A Seat At Our Table’ a live multi-sensory storytelling experience co-hosted by the group. \nA Seat At Our Table was originally commissioned by Derby CAN (Arts Council England Producing HUB) in partnership with Derby Museums and Oddfellows UK. \n‘Dear Guests\, we welcome you to come and sit at our table and listen to our stories. Inspired by our love of cooking\, food\, and memories of family kitchens all over the world; these are stories we would love to share with you.’ The Creative Sanctuary Group x \nwww.maisonfoo.co.uk \nFollow Maison Foo on Facebook and Twitter \nImage: Maison Foo’s A Seat At Our Table\, Photo by Jon Legge \nPart of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/trigger-and-maison-foo-theatre-food-and-a-culture-of-belonging/
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Platforma,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Climate Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Image: House-of-Weaving Song by Dhaqan Collective © Luke O’Donovan \n  \n“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation\, and that is an act of political warfare.” \n“The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.” \nAudre Lorde \n  \nAs part of this year’s Platforma Festival programme in the Southwest of England\, we have organised a Climate & Displacement mini-retreat\, taking place between 3-4 November at Hawkwood College\, Stroud. \nWith social and environmental issues intensifying\, and general discourse steered towards greenwashing and short-term solutions\, we need new approaches\, ideas and collaborations. With this challenge in mind\, we are organising a retreat that will convene a group of women artists\, who make work about community\, collectivism and solidarity. \nCould co-habiting in this way allow us to share our diverse methods\, processes\, struggles\, and accomplishments? Women have always convened. By giving a platform to women who are already developing work addressing answers to contemporary issues\, the retreat will provide an opportunity to start reciprocal conversations and engage intersectionally with womanhood\, migration and belonging in a self-directed\, non-hierarchical context. \nWe will host around twenty women in a generous\, intimate\, networking space that is about exchanging knowledge\, experiences\, practices and ‘making’ something together. \nThe retreat is co-designed and co-produced in collaboration with socially engaged artist Dana Olărescu. \nThis gathering is inspired by the fact that for the current Platforma Festival we organically commissioned and co-commissioned projects on migration and displacement by women artists\, who will be part of the retreat (artists Kaajal Modi and Dhaqan Collective – co-commissioned with Art Reach; and with Creative Kernow\, artists Sovay Berriman and Abigail Reynolds). This inspired us to want to re-imagine ways of gathering and collaborating led by women artists and activists\, including beyond this retreat.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/climate-retreat/
CATEGORIES:Learning,Sustainability & Climate Justice
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SUMMARY:Re-imagine Community Practice: Cooperation Disco + Arty Farty Karaoke (Bristol)
DESCRIPTION:What is the migrant arts community?\nA cluster network under specific labels? The act of solidarity over trauma? Or can we take a different approach?\nJoin Bristol-based performance artist Howl Yuan on this social gathering\, featuring friendship\, celebration and joy-making practices. \nDate: Saturday 4th November 2023\nTime: 2-7PM\nVenue: Mill Room\, St. Anne’s House\, St Anne’s Rd\, Brislington\, Bristol\, BS4 4AB \nIn Cooperation Disco\, the group will engage with map making\, games and celebratory dances to build connections and solidarity across people and places in the UK. It’s a seemingly mighty task that we’ll face together with creativity and playfulness! Here everyone has a place. \nArty-Farty Karaoke is a multilingual karaoke practice. It embraces the act of ‘singing along’ and ‘singing with’ as the collective cheerful connection-making method. \nHowl invites migrant artists\, performance makers\, cultural producers and their allies to come and share your need\, support\, voice and joy. \nBook your FREE place by emailing Platforma producer Tasnim Siddiqa Amin at tasnim@counterpoints.org.uk with your name\, your link with Bristol and South West and whether you identify as a migrant performance practitioner (including artists\, producers\, advocators\, thinkers). \nThis event is co-facilitated with Ania Varez. \nLight refreshments will be provided.\nTimings:\n2PM – Welcome\n2.30PM – 4.30PM Cooperation Disco\n4.30 – 5PM Break\n5 – 7PM Arty-Farty Karaoke \nAnia Varez (they/them) is a Venezuelan dance artist and community worker based in Bristol. They graduated with honors from the London Contemporary Dance School. Ania makes experimental and collaborative performances\, working with other dancers\, artists of other disciplines and with people who don’t identify as artists yet. They have worked with Lisa May Thomas\, Laila Diallo\, Terrestrial\, Fair Play Productions and Shotput Theatre. Their own work has toured internationally (Taiwan and South Korea) as well as in the UK\, including SPILL Festival. They are a member of Interval\, an artist support network in Bristol. \nHowl Yuan\, or Yuan Cheng-Po\, is a Taiwanese performance maker/writer/curator/researcher. His interests cross cultural identity\, mobility\, site/place/space and decolonised narratives. His works span different formats but are primarily performance-based\, and are presented in theatres\, galleries\, festivals\, beaches or gardens. \nImage credit: Howl Yuan \nThis event is co-commissioned by Counterpoint Arts and performingborders \nPart of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/re-imagine-community-practice/
LOCATION:St. Anne’s House\, St Anne's Rd\, Bristol\, BS4 4AB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Learning,Music,Performance & Dance,Platforma
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SUMMARY:Name Me Lawand (Gloucester)
DESCRIPTION:Lawand is a young Kurdish boy\, deaf since birth. At five years old his future in Iraq looks destined to be limited and lonely. In desperate search of a better life in a world where he can communicate\, his family decide to leave their home. After a treacherous journey and a year in a refugee camp\, the help of a deaf volunteer brings them to Derby where Lawand joins the Royal School for the Deaf. As he grows older\, the film follows his dramatic progress learning British Sign Language\, revealing a bright\, charismatic and inquisitive boy\, who discovers friendship and a new way to express himself. But just as Lawand is joyfully finding his place in the world\, the family face deportation from the UK. \nEmploying a striking lyrical and observational visual style\, writer-director Edward Lovelace spent four years filming Lawand\, learning British Sign Language himself. In this moving and inspiring portrait\, we follow Lawand’s evolution from extreme isolation to becoming able to be his true self. This is a story about the strength that language gives us\, whatever form it takes\, and of the power of friendship and community. \nName Me Lawand is a Pulse Films production with support from BFI Doc Society Fund (awarding National Lottery funding) and Electric Shadow Company. \nPresented as part of the Platforma festival 2023\, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England. \nBook tickets
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/name-me-lawand-gloucester/
LOCATION:Gloucester Guildhall\, 23 Eastgate Street\, Gloucester\, GL1 1NS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Film and Photography,Platforma
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SUMMARY:No Direction Home comedy featuring Sami Abu Wardeh (Gloucester)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special night of stand-up comedy from the brilliant No Direction Home collective\, hosted by Stella Graham with guest headliner Sami Abu Wardeh. \nBook tickets \nPrior to the gig a delicious Pay As You Choose feast will be served by FOOD SPEAK EAT with DJ accompaniment from Liam Large playing original vinyl from Sudan\, Columbia\, Ethiopia\, Eritrea and more. Food served from 2-6:30pm. \nSami Abu Wardeh is a character comedian described by The Guardian as “blissfully funny” after a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival \nStella Graham is a comedian\, writer and podcast host. “Fun and original… everything a good comedian should be: self-assured\, likeable and\, crucially\, funny” \nNo Direction Home is a comedy collective run by Counterpoints Arts for new performers from refugee and migrant background. Performing in Gloucester will be Loraine Mponela and Anastasia Chokuwamba. \nTV comic and stand-up Nish Kumar\, says: “The No Direction Home comedians are a very exciting\, interesting and creative bunch of people to be around. And they are very funny. The material is really good.” \nPresented by Gloucester Guildhall and Counterpoints Arts as part of the Platforma festival 2023. \nBook tickets
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/no-direction-home-comedy-featuring-sami-abu-wardeh-gloucester/
LOCATION:Gloucester Guildhall\, 23 Eastgate Street\, Gloucester\, GL1 1NS\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:No Direction Home with Rob Delaney and Michael Akadiri
DESCRIPTION:The latest show in our Autumn season at Soho Theatre will be hosted by Michael Akadiri with guest headliner Rob Delaney. Performing alongside them from the No Direction Home Collective will be Lorain Mponela and Anastasia Chokuwamba. \nBook Tickets \nPresented by Show And Tell with Counterpoints Arts\, the gigs feature line-ups of new voices from refugee and migrant backgrounds alongside some of the biggest names in British comedy. \nNo Direction Home was established by Counterpoints Arts with Camden People’s Theatre and top stand-up Tom Parry\, who has mentored the group. \nThey have already won over audiences in a variety of venues in London and around the country\, and have now secured their second West End run. \nTV comic and stand-up Nish Kumar\, says: “The No Direction Home comedians are a very exciting\, interesting and creative bunch of people to be around. And they are very funny. The material is really good.” \nNo Direction Home performers are new talents with backgrounds in countries including Syria\, Iran\, Iraq\, Ethiopia and Mali. \nYasmeen Ghrawi says: “No Direction Home is a space to show up/stand up\, a space to be seen and heard\, a space of celebration. We come from places of varying remoteness to the UK\, some of us fresh off the back of a truck\, others migrated here years ago. We hope to keep sharing the love – and our jokes.” \nShow And Tell is an award-winning production company of live comedy\, with a national and international programme of events. With teams in London and New York\, we seek to play an integral role in the live performance careers of many world-class and emerging talents in both the UK and US.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/no-direction-home-with-rob-delaney-and-michael-akadiri/
LOCATION:Soho Theatre\, 21 Dean St\, London\, W1D 3NE
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