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SUMMARY:Together\, We Care - an evening of sharing & storytelling\, led by the Giant Dolls' house Project
DESCRIPTION:A box made by a member of the Giant Dolls’ house community. Credit: Dolls’ house Project. \n  \nAn event produced in collaboration between SCAN\, SBSBE*\, the Giant Dolls’ House Project and Oxfam GB \nAn evening sharing stories contributed through the Giant Dolls’ House Project\, stories of hope\, community\, and family told by Syrian playwright Anan Tello. Members of SCAN also made dolls’ houses reflecting on their Syrian heritage. \nFollow this link to book your ticket to the event. \nThis event showcase the Giant Dolls’ House Together\, We Care exhibition and the stories that created it. By asking refugee and non-refugee families to make a doll house that tells their stories of home\, community and belonging\, the project attempts to create solidarity and understanding across the political and socio-economic divide. \nMake your contribution to the Giant Dolls’ house exhibition ahead of the event. \nThis event is part of Refugee Week and the London Festival of Architecture. \n*SBSBE: Syrian British Society of the Built Environment \nAbout the Giant Dolls’ House Project \nThe Giant Dolls’ House Project is an inter­na­tion­al col­lab­o­ra­tive arts project. It engages local com­mu­ni­ties and rais­es aware­ness for home­less­ness and refugees. The aim of the project is to make peo­ple aware of the impor­tance of a home and com­mu­ni­ty for all and to cel­e­brate a unit­ed diversity. \nSince its start in Octo­ber 2014 the project has been to Dubai\, North Car­oli­na\, Goa\, Jor­dan\, Bournemouth and has been part of the Lon­don Fes­ti­val of Archi­tec­ture for five con­sec­u­tive years. The instal­la­tions cre­at­ed can be used as con­ver­sa­tion pieces\, to tell sto­ries\, or just to look at. Each instal­la­tion is very depen­dent on the dif­fer­ent col­lab­o­ra­tors over the years and demon­strates the diver­si­ty of groups involved in the project. We found that the dolls’ house can be used to explore ideas of iden­ti­ty\, both shared as well as per­son­al\, and that the dolls’ house project is always a good reflec­tion of the dif­fer­ent peo­ple who have cre­at­ed it. \nFur­ther­more\, the idea of ​‘just mak­ing’ has been a great suc­cess. What could be called casu­al craft; find­ing out by mak­ing\, tin­ker­ing\, using your hands and every­day mate­ri­als\, has been an impor­tant theme in the dif­fer­ent instal­la­tions. Think­ing through craft and mak­ing has res­onat­ed with the wide range of par­tic­i­pants who have par­tic­i­pat­ed in the project. \nThe project is the ini­tia­tive of Cat­ja de Haas who has con­duct­ed research into minia­ture and the home as part of her PhD by design. The project is run as part of her archi­tec­tur­al practice.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/together-we-care/
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Craft & Design
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SUMMARY:Listen to the World
DESCRIPTION:‘Listen to the World’ open mic nights at St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace are a place where the musical traditions and talents of migrants\, refugees and asylum seekers find a home among local artists. Counterpoints Arts is supporting this launch event\, taking place during Refugee Week. \nCome and join us\, as either a listener or performer\, everyone is welcome; British locals\, as well as those who have settled here more recently. We will be celebrating this year’s Refugee Week theme – We Cannot Walk Alone. \n‘Listen to the World’ Open Mic night is a live hybrid show where anyone in the audience\, professional or first-timer can come and sing or play an instrument\, online or in person (see more below).   \n  \nTickets\, for both in-person and online events – are here.\n\n  \nFeatured Artists\nBumi Thomas \nBumi is a contemporary Scottish Nigerian singer-songwriter whose ethereal voice stokes the soul transcendentally. Her acoustic and evocative style is inspired by her multicultural heritage expressed visually and sonically as invocations of non-linear identity. ‘I tell stories about movement\, migration\, displacement\, joy and humanity. \nHer cinematic sound combines jazz\, high-life rhythms\, palmwine grooves\, reggae and blues\, infused with folk and delivered with soul. Her musicality is rich in texture\, stimulating lyrics\, haunting melodies and raw emotion. BUMI earned her stripes on the live circuit and has shared the stage with many musical greats\, including Tony Allen\, Ginger Baker\, Keziah Jones\, Shingai Shoniwa\, Ayanna Witter Johnson\, Melody Gardot\, Rhiannon Giddens\, Laura Mvula\,  Les Amazones des Afrique\, Andrew Ashong and more. Playing sold out shows in  venues such as the London Jazz Cafe\, Roundhouse\, Somerset House\, Ronnie Scotts\,  Royal Festival Hall\,WOW (Women of the World) Festival\, Frieze Art Fair\,  eARTh\, Houses of Parliament\, Tate Modern  Autograph\, New Art Exchange\, Royal Opera House  London Palladium and the Royal Albert Hall. \nHer latest Ep ‘Broken Silence’ released June 2020 has been described as ‘Timely and visceral’ by the Sunday Times and ‘Strikingly Original ‘ by London Jazz News. The lead Single ‘Black Child’ was featured  LIVE on BBC Radio 4 Loose Ends  and  Edinburgh International Festival. ou can find Bumi on twitter\, instagram and facebook. \n  \nIbrahim Fanous \nIbrahim is a vocalist and kerar player\, composer and music producer based in London.  Born in Kassala\, a state in eastern Sudan\, Ibrahim began his vocal training at a young age in three different languages – Arabic\, Tigrinya and Amharic.  After successfully recording with the music ensemble\, AfriCairo in Egypt\, Ibrahim joined and performed with the acclaimed Nile Project in 2017\, touring north Africa\, US\, Europe and the UK\, including at the Barbican\, London.  In 2020 we were excited to welcome Ibrahim as a performer ‘in residence’ for St Ethelburga’s music and poetry open mic programme\, Presence.  Ibrahim’s YouTube account. \n  \nWhat happens at an open mic event?\nAlongside featured artists\, members of the audience can sign up to perform too.  You can respond to the theme of the evening\, ‘We cannot walk alone’ or with whatever is on your heart.  This is a fun\, relaxing evening where anyone; professional or first-timer\, can perform to an appreciative audience. Or you can simply come and listen.  You sign up for an Open Mic slot when you arrive at the event (online or in-person).  There are six slots and each slot is for one or two songs/ for 3-5mins. \nHybrid event – how to attend\nYou can attend Listen to the World online\, or in person at St Ethelburga’s.  Both Bumi Thomas and Ibrahim Fanous will be performing from St Ethelburga’s\, broadcasting live to guests online as well as to an in-person audience. \nAttending on zoom\, you will need: \n\nA zoom account (you can download a free Zoom account here to your computer\, or phone).  New to Zoom?  Watch this video to learn how to join a zoom event.\nReasonable wifi.\n\nIf you are attending in person\, St Ethelburga’s operate a COVID secure environment which includes the following conditions: \n\nTest and trace sign in using the NHS app and QR code\, or manually.\nA maximum of 30 people in the venue\, with seating set out 2m apart.  You can see the venue (Nave) here.\nGuests are requested to keep a 2m physical distance from others at all times\, unless attending with members of one other household\, or with members of their support bubble.\nGuests to wear masks at all times.\nPlease contact jo.winsloe@stethelburgas.org if you have any questions about attending in person.\n\nCo-ordinator: For all questions about the Open Mic event or to be added to the mailing list\, please contact Jo Winsloe Slater at  jo.winsloe@stethelburgas.org. \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/listen-to-the-world/
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:A Creeper\, Me & A Dead Bird
DESCRIPTION:A Creeper\, Me & A Dead Bird is a meditation on freedom\, repression\, and hope. \nA new performance piece by artist Kajoli Iloyak. \nWhen the Ivy does not find its tower. When the delicate creeper does not find a strong wall. Do we know how parasite plants can grow but can’t prosper? \nA woman should never be insecure. Should never be struggling financially\, spiritually\, emotionally. Should never rely on others. \nA dead bird doesn’t necessarily portend physical death\, but metaphorical death. This dead bird marks the end of your search and struggle. A new beginning is just around the corner. More specifically\, it symbolizes the end of something and the start of something else. \nTo watch the performance head to Counterpoints Arts Vimeo. Launch 10am on 14th June\, the start of Refugee Week. It will be available to watch to the end of the month. \nFilmed and produced by Manuel Vason. \nFor ages 16+
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/a-creeper-me-a-dead-bird/
CATEGORIES:Film and Photography,Performance & Dance
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210628
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SUMMARY:No Direction Home in Coventry
DESCRIPTION:As part of Coventry Welcomes\, Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 is producing a series of in-person and online gigs in partnership with Counterpoints Arts and our No Direction Home comedy project. \nGuest headliners include Shappi Khorsandi\, Nish Kumar\, Kai Samra and Rosie Jones. \nGigs will be hosted by Stella Graham. \nFull details here: https://coventry2021.co.uk/what-s-on/no-direction-home/ \nAnd here: https://coventry2021.co.uk/what-s-on/no-direction-home-coventry-showcase-online/
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/no-direction-home-in-coventry/
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:Ayanna Witter-Johnson: live performance at the V&A
DESCRIPTION:Image: Nick Howe. \n  \nA stunning live performance by Ayanna Witter-Johnson\, from the V&A’s Ancient Silver and Stained Glass Gallery. \nJoin us at Refugee Week Facebook page – Thursday 17th June @ 4pm –  for this very special screening of three tracks\, by the award winning musician of incredible talent. \nLook out for Ayanna’s portrait\, taken by Misan Harriman\, as part of this year’s We Cannot Walk Alone Refugee Week commission. \n  \nMore about the artist: \nSinger\, songwriter\, cellist Ayanna Witter-Johnson is a rare exception to the rule that classical and alternative r&b music cannot successfully coexist. \nGraduating with a first from both Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and the Manhattan School of Music\, Ayanna was a participant in the London Symphony Orchestra’s Panufnik Young Composers Scheme and became an Emerging Artist in Residence at London’s Southbank Centre. She was a featured artist with Courtney Pine’s Afropeans: Jazz Warriors and became the only non-American to win Amateur Night Live at the legendary Apollo Theatre in Harlem\, NYC. \nAs a composer she has been commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra\, Güerzenich Orchester\, Ligeti Quartet\, Kronos Quartet\, The Hip-Hop Shakespeare Company and as an arranger/orchestrator for the London Symphony Orchestra (Hugh Masekela\, Belief!) and the BBC Symphony Orchestra (Urban Classic). \nSince releasing her EP’s (‘Truthfully’\, ‘Black Panther’ & ‘Ella\, Reuben & Ay’) and her debut album ‘Road Runner’ via her own record label (Hill and Gully Records) working with producers Marc Mac (4Hero)\, James Yarde (Terri Walker\, Jamelia\, Eric Benet) and featuring artists including pianist Robert Mitchell and rapper Akala. Ayanna has collaborated with several artists including Anoushka Shankar and Nitin Sawhney\, extensively toured the UK and several countries in Europe\, whilst gaining a MOBO nomination\, receiving airplay on stations including BBC Radio 1\, 1xtra\, 2\, 3\, 4\, 6\, BBC London\, BBC Manchester\, Jazz FM and Scala Radio\, TV features on BBC One London News and London Live and producing three commercial music videos via her YouTube channel. \nA performer of extraordinary versatility her live shows are intimate journeys that chronicle her experience as a female artist in the 21st century. Because of her musical prowess\, mesmerising vocals\, non-compromising lyrics and ability to deftly reinterpret songs on the cello\, Ayanna is able to straddle both the classical and urban worlds effortlessly. She is the definition of eclectic soul. \nCurrently working on her sophomore album Ayanna has recently appeared on Channel 4 (Sing It Loud) and Later…with Jools Holland (BBC1) and is preparing to return to the live arena whilst working on a number of commissions for ensembles and orchestras in UK and Europe. \n \nSoundcloud  Twitter  Instagram  Youtube \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/ayanna-witter-johnson-live-performance-at-the-va/
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Moving Worlds 2021
DESCRIPTION:Moving Worlds is a programme of films available to watch at home during Refugee Week\, a UK-wide festival celebrating the contributions\, creativity and resilience of refugees (14-20 June 2021) \nResponding to this year’s Refugee Week theme ‘We Cannot Walk Alone’\, the programme is a curated programme of features and shorts exploring personal experiences of forced displacement\, stories of unexpected alliances\, unlikely friendships and stories that celebrate difference\, while inviting us to focus on how we can walk alongside one another. \nMoving Worlds UK is curated and programmed by Nelli Stavropoulou for Counterpoints Arts.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/moving-worlds-2021/
CATEGORIES:Film and Photography
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SUMMARY:Giant Dolls’ house project: Together\, we care.  Dolls’ house making workshop with Archimake
DESCRIPTION:A dolls’ house making workshop with Archimake for the 2021 Virtual Giant Dolls’ House installation ‘Together we care.’ We invite you to engage creatively with your experiences of this last year\, or of those close to you\, in solidarity and together with the 79.5 million displaced people\, through creating of your own dolls’ house. We will assemble all dolls’ houses into a Giant Dolls’ house. The larger the final installation\, the more we show that ​‘together we care’. The installation is in collaboration with Oxfam. \nBook your place for this making collective workshop via Eventbrite. \nThe deadline is June 14th and you can submit a picture of your dolls’ house anytime through the Giant Dolls’ House website. \nThe Giant Dolls’ House project is a social arts project that asks participants of all ages to make a dolls’ house in a shoe­box to engage them with their personal experiences and shows that all people are equally idiosyncratic. \nArchimake runs educational architecture and design workshops for young people encouraging creative\, independent thinkers and positive communicators. \nSee also the event of sharing stories contributed through the Giant Dolls’ House Project. – event link.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/giant-dolls-house-project-together-we-care-dolls-house-making-workshop-with-archimake/
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Craft & Design
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SUMMARY:Refugee Week 2021 at the V&A: We cannot walk alone
DESCRIPTION:Image: As Far As Isolation Goes\, by Tania El-Khoury and Basel Zaraa. Credit: Marcia Chandra. \n  \nWe’ll shortly be announcing the final exciting elements of our collaboration with the V&A. \nJoin us for a week long programme of online activities and in-person projects \nThe programme includes: \n  \nMisan Harriman: We Cannot Walk Alone \nat V&A’s Dome\, Main Entrance \nA new portrait series by acclaimed photographer Misan Harriman captures eight artistic and cultural figures sharing the message ‘We Cannot Walk Alone’ for Refugee Week 2021. The figures\, who range from children’s author Michael Rosen to aspiring pilot and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Maya Ghazal\, are people who have chosen to ‘walk alongside others’ in a range of creative ways\, showing that all of us have a role to play in creating a world where everyone is welcomed\, included and valued. \n\nFigures include:\n\nMichael Rosen\, Children’s Author and Poet \nYasmin Khan\, Author\, Broadcaster and Cook \nIkram Abdi Omar\, Model \nMaya Ghazal\, Pilot\, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador and Syrian refugee \nBishop Jonathan Clark\, Bishop of Croydon \nHossam Fazulla\, Filmmaker and Producer \nAyanna Witter-Johnson\, Cellist and Singer \nMaria Igwebuike\, Sustainable Lingerie Designer \n  \nOnline Workshop: Shemza Islamic Digital Painting. Supported by Art Jameel. \nOnline\, 12th June\, 10:30 to 12:30 \nCreate your own digital paintings inspired by the work of artist Anwar Jalal Shemza and objects from the V&A collection. Led by renowned multimedia artist Aphra Shemza\, develop your digital art skills while learning about the place of migrant voices within British Art History. \nBook your place here. \nThis workshop is centred around the shemza.digital project\, a collaboration with computer artist Stuart Batchelor and the Estate of Anwar Jalal Shemza. Shemza.digital is based on the work of Aphra’s grandfather\, British/Pakistani painter Anwar Jalal Shemza. \nNo previous experience needed. This event will take place through Zoom. For this workshop you will be use a free online digital painting tool that requires access to a desktop computer\, laptop or tablet. This workshop is for adults 18+ \n  \nOnline Workshops: This Home In My Hand with Samak Bilab Bi Delo. Supported by Art Jameel. \nOnline\, 14th June\, 18:30 to 20:30 \nWherever you call home\, this two part workshop invites you to explore the intersection of local industry\, heritage craft\, and material composition. How might these connections inspire regeneration and foster community? Hear about the work of Samak Bilab Bi Delo in Palestine and Jordan\, and take inspiration from the V&A collection to think about how objects from the past might inform contemporary design and change society. Participants will be invited to develop and share design ideas connected to their region. \nHosted by the founders of Samak Bilab Bi Delo\, a multi-national artist collective that combines art education\, heritage Palestinian craft and textile production\, and Jordanian artisanal dyeing. \nPart 1: The Museum in My Home – Redefining material; find a new perspective of personal possessions through an exploration of objects from the V&A collection \nPart 2: Hands on! How objects can inform contemporary design and change society \nBook your place. \nThis event will take place through Zoom. For this workshop you will need access to a desktop computer\, laptop or tablet.\nThis workshop is for adults 18+ \nwww.samakbilabbidelo.com\nwww.instagram.com/samakbilabbidelo \n  \nOnline Talk: LGBTQ/Refugee Week \nOnline\, 16th June\, 13:00 to 14:00 \nJoin the V&A’s award-winning LGBTQ+ guides for this special online tour created especially for Refugee Week. Celebrating the 2021 theme ‘We Cannot Walk Alone’\, this talk will share the remarkable stories of LGBTQ+ refugees who were trailblazers in their field of art or performance and paved the way for others. \nBook your place here. \nThis talk will take place over Zoom: you will require access to a desktop computer\, laptop or tablet. For adults 18+ \n  \nOnline Workshop: Shemza Digital Islamic Painting (13-15 Years). Supported by Art Jameel. \nOnline\, 22 June\, 17:00 to 18:00 \nCreate your own digital paintings inspired by the work of artist Anwar Jalal Shemza and objects from the V&A collection. Led by renowned multimedia artist Aphra Shemza\, develop your digital art skills while learning about the place of migrant voices within British Art History. Please note this online workshop is for young people aged 13-15. \nBook your place. \nParent/Guardian consent form. \nThis workshop is centred around the shemza.digital project\, a collaboration with computer artist Stuart Batchelor and the Estate of Anwar Jalal Shemza. Shemza.digital is based on the work of Aphra’s grandfather\, British/Pakistani painter Anwar Jalal Shemza. \nNo previous experience needed. Please get a parent or guardian to complete the consent form and email it to us ahead of the event.\nThis event will take place through Zoom. For this workshop you will be use a free online digital painting tool that requires access to a desktop computer\, laptop or tablet. \n  \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-2021-at-the-va/
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form
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SUMMARY:The Great British Fish & Chips
DESCRIPTION:The new project from reportage artist Olivier Kugler & writer Andrew Humphreys explores the history and present-day reality of Fish & Chip shops in the UK. \nCommissioned by Counterpoints Arts in partnership with Turner Contemporary and Canterbury Cathedral\, the work explores everyday stories of migration connected to Kent’s most celebrated high street food. \nPictures from around Kent\, telling stories of Fish & Chip shops owners and customers\, are beinge displayed on the exterior walls at Turner Contemporary from June 2021 as part of the Across Borders programme funded by Comic Relief. \nThere will also be an exhibition at Canterbury Cathedral. \nFish & Chips can be traced back to Huguenot and Jewish arrivals in the UK and people from all over the world continue to be central to the farming and fishing industries and the high street shops. \nAn associated schools project is running with Kent schools\, with work due to be displayed later this year. \nExhibition information: https://turnercontemporary.org/whats-on/great-british-fish-and-chips/ \nSome of the fish & chip shop owners featured in the work are pictured below at the exhibition launch.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/the-kent-fish-chips-project/
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:#MonthlyMeet: Refugee Week at your School
DESCRIPTION:Find out about getting involved in Refugee Week and becoming a School of Sanctuary \nA session for Primary and Secondary school teachers to find out about how you can take part in Refugee Week at your school\, and what it means to become a School of Sanctuary. \nHear from teachers about what they have done for Refugee Week and find out about the theme\, resources and activities available for Refugee Week 2021. \nEveryone welcome\, whether you have been involved Refugee Week before or not. \nWe aim to make these sessions accessible to everyone who would like to take part – if you have any access requirements\, please let us know when you sign up. \nRefugee Week is a festival celebrating the contributions\, creativity and resilience of refugees (Refugee Week 2021 is 14-20 June). It is managed in the UK by Counterpoints Arts. \nSchools of Sanctuary is a City of Sanctuary UK initiative to celebrate the good practice of schools who foster a culture of welcome and inclusion for all\, especially asylum seeking and refugee families. \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/monthlymeet-refugee-week-at-your-school/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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SUMMARY:#MonthlyMeet: Refugee Week in your Faith Community
DESCRIPTION:A gathering to share ideas about how faith communities can welcome and stand with refugees\, for Refugee Week and beyond \nLeaders and members of all faith communities are warmly invited to an online networking event to share learning and ideas ahead of Refugee Week 2021. Visit the Eventbrite page to book your place. \nRefugee Week is an annual festival celebrating the contributions\, creativity and resilience of refugees\, and there are many different ways that faith groups can take part. Refugee Week can also be a starting or focal point for the work faith communities do to welcome and stand with refugees the whole year round. \nRefugee Week 2021 is 14-20 June\, and the theme is ‘We Cannot Walk Alone’. \nWhether your faith community has taken part in Refugee Week before\, are getting involved for the first time or are just interested in finding out more\, all are welcome. \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) Marcia Chandra
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/rw-in-your-faith-community/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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SUMMARY:Game Time Happy Hour with Black Girl Gamers
DESCRIPTION:Join gamers\, comedians and artists over on Twitch as they compete in our livestreamed ‘Game Time Happy Hour’ hosted by Black Girl Gamers.  \nThey’ll be competing for the crown of “Tastiest Cake” in the bonkers game of Cake Bash\, while chatting about the games they’ve grown up with and are excited by now; together with the value of gaming communities\, and reflections on what’s happening around diverse representation in the gaming world. Guest players will be announced next week.  \nHosted by InDeeDee (Black Girl Gamers) and featuring contestants Evan Narcisse (Narrative Designer\, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales)\, Stephanie Ijoma (Founder\, NNESAGA) and Mo Omar (Comedian). \nThis is Counterpoints Arts’ first public gaming event commissioned through its Pop Culture and Social Change (PopChange) initiative on shifting narratives of migration and displacement. We invite you all to come watch the livestream\, cheer them on and join in the discussion (note: anyone can watch the livestream and chat box but to participate in the discussion you need to create an account on Twitch).  \nTips:  \n— Joining: Note that this is a livestreamed event on the Twitch platform. Anyone can watch the livestream but to participate in the chatbox discussion\, you will need a Twitch account (see details here for how to join).  \n— Registering: Get reminded about the event by selecting the event reminder on Twitch or registering on Eventbrite to be emailed a direct link to the livestream on the day. We’ll be sharing links to the livestream on social media.  \n— Chatbox Rules: The chat box will be moderated by Black Girl Gamers. Please note their rules for participating:   \n\nNo Racism\, anti-LGBTQA or ableism\, hate speech or sexism is permitted here. Our ban hand is strong. You have been warned. \nNo backseat gaming. \nBe respectful. \nOnly Mods are allowed to post links. \nNo self-promotion. \n\n— Rating: This game is rated ‘E’ for Everyone: Generally suitable for all ages. May contain minimal cartoon violence and/or infrequent use of mild language.  \nBlack Girl Gamers is an online safe space and platform that heightens the visibility of Black Women in Gaming and advocates for Diversity & Inclusion. Created by Jay-Ann Lopez in 2015\, they currently have over 7000 members from all over the world\, run amazing IRL events and create online content to support diversity and inclusion in the industry.  \nPopChange (Pop Culture & Social Change) is a pioneering initiative led by Counterpoints Arts exploring how the power of pop culture can be harnessed for social change in order to shift the way we talk\, think and feel about migration and displacement in the UK.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/game-time-happy-hour-with-black-girl-gamers/
CATEGORIES:Gaming,Pop Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210318T203000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210318T203000
DTSTAMP:20260430T003734
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Now – New Coalitions in Socially Engaged Digital Practice
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Mozilla Festival \nThis session builds upon Beyond the Now’s Season 2 theme of Mutual Aid. It will focus on digital platforms as experimental sites for socially engaged art practices. Digital spaces that re-imagine\, activate and facilitate cross-border solidarity\, creative exchange\, inclusion and racial and social justice. \nWe will explore the scope for projects which enable creative practitioners\, activists\, civil society organisations and other actors to re-imagine what community\, resilience and social justice looks like in the context of increasing intolerance and the shrinking of public space.  Specifically the potential for new collaborative architectures to be built through digital commissions that tackle topics such as countering digital hate\, freedom of expression\, security\, displacement\, democracy and mutual aid and care. \nSession panelists include Imran Ahmed (Director of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate); Kit Braybrooke (Digital Anthropologist and Director of We & Us); and Abdullah Alkafri\, (Dramaturge and Director of Ettijahat- Independent Culture). \nFacilitors/Moderators: Áine O’Brien (Counterpoints Arts) and Ailbhe Murphy (CREATE) \nJoin us for what we hope will be a lively conversation.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/beyond-the-now-new-coalitions-in-socially-engaged-digital-practice/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210318T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210318T200000
DTSTAMP:20260430T003734
CREATED:20210301T170450Z
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SUMMARY:No Direction Home with Nabil Abdulrashid
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of laughter hosted by the brilliant Mo Omar and featuring new comedians from the No Direction Home Collective: Meron\, Krzysia Blainska\, Abdul Tahhan and Nour-ani Sisserian. Plus special guest headliners Fatiha El-Ghorri and Britain’s Got Talent sensation Nabil Abdulrashid. \nProduced by as part of our PopChange programme. \nNo Direction Home is a pioneering project featuring stand-up comedians from refugee and migrant backgrounds\, mentored by award winning comedian Tom Parry. It was created by Counterpoints Arts in partnership with Camden People’s Theatre and Tom Parry. Since 2018 they have performed gigs around the country\, including at the Southbank Centre in London. \nGuest headliners including Romesh Ranganathan\, Nish Kumar\, Sindhu Vee\, Joel Dommett and Suzi Ruffell have also spent time with the group and shared tips and advice. 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.” \nRead an article about No Direction Home in The Guardian \nNabil Abdulrashid reached the final of Britain’s Got Talent in 2020 and will launch a nationwide tour later this year. \n \nFatiha El-Ghorri has performed at comedy clubs across the country and was recently a guest on the ITV show Jonathan Ross Comedy Club \n \nMo Omar is a fast-rising comedy talent with a unique perspective & TV appearances including on Harry Hill’s Club Nite. \n \nThis gig is presented in partnership with Refugee Action\, TERN & Haven Coffee
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/no-direction-home-with-nabil-abdulrashid/
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210317
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210320
DTSTAMP:20260430T003734
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SUMMARY:Pop Culture meets Social Change Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Counterpoints Arts and OKRE are delighted to be organising our first online ‘Pop Culture meets Social Change Retreat.’ \nTaking place over three days\, the retreat will bring together a range of selected individuals from the worlds of comedy\, video gaming\, broadcast\, visual and performing arts\, digital and news media\, the charity sector together with the fields of policy\, activism and philanthropy. \nThe primary aim of bringing different people and sectors to this retreat is to lay the ground for new cross-sector exchanges\, ideas and collaborations\, with a view to finding better ways to represent the lived experiences of diverse communities and audiences within pop culture. We hope to create a space to nurture and connect a growing body of artists and change-makers operating in the dynamic intersection of popular culture and social change. The timing of this retreat is shaped by a series of significant intersecting social and cultural events\, including COVID-19\, Black Lives Matter and the MeToo movement alongside escalating environmental crises. These have further exposed deep inequalities in our society\, further amplified by perceived ‘culture wars’ over history\, culture and identity. \nRead more about the retreat \nThe retreat is by invite only\, but we will be live streaming a number of sessions to Facebook and Youtube. Full schedule: \nOur conversations on Day One will kick off with a keynote provocation by Marcus Ryder\, a leading diversity champion and co-author (alongside Sir Lenny Henry) of the hugely influential book: Access All Areas: The Diversity Manifesto for TV and Beyond.  The day will also feature the launch of a new report: New Brave World: The power\, opportunities and potential of pop culture for social change in the UK by Alice Sachrajda\, Marzena Zukowska and K Biswas. This report sketches a map of an emerging pop culture for social change ecosystem in the UK\, drawing from the insights of many commissioned practitioners and pointing to the opportunities to both influence and invest in what is still a nascent nonetheless immensely vibrant creative space. \nDay Two will explore questions surrounding pop culture and social change through the lens of comedy. It will feature conversations and workshops with top comedians including Britain’s Got Talent superstar Nabil Abdulrashid about how comedy engages\, provokes and activates public conversations about migration. Writers\, including Brian Logan and Momtaza Mehri\, will reflect on how we might expand and embed a critical discussion about comedy across both analogue and social media. The day ends with a ticketed comedy gig hosted by the brilliant Mo Omar and headlined by Fatiha El-Ghorri and Nabil Abdulrashid. \nThe discussions and workshops continue on Day Three with a focus on the immersive world of video games. Ubisoft’s Kurston Timothy\, Code Coven’s Tara Mustapha and actor August Aiden Black from hit game Tell Me Why are among the speakers exploring representation and the opportunities and impact of bringing diverse perspectives into game design. Get involved in the lunchtime Let’s Play session and join workshops on writing\, real world impact and more with hosts including narrative designer Corey Brotherson\, UN Live’s Nikolaj Møller and award-winning studio ustwo’s Maria Sayans. Then join us over on Twitch with Black Girl Gamers as they livestream a ‘play and chat’ on the games that most inspire. \nThe popular culture for social change ecosystem in the UK is ripe with potential\, but there is much to be done in the context of building new relationships and brokering trust and connections across and between practitioners and industries. We hope that this retreat will bring us together as artists\, creative producers\, policymakers\, activists and funders for what promises to be a lively three days of talk\, collaboration and the imagining of future action.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/pop-culture-meets-social-change-retreat/
CATEGORIES:Pop Culture
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210312
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SUMMARY:Refugee Week 'Slow' Conference
DESCRIPTION:A series of free online workshops exploring arts and culture for change ahead of Refugee Week 2021 \nJoin us to gain new skills\, grow your networks and reflect on our work and practice\, in preparation for Refugee Week 2021 (14-20 June). \nWhether you’re involved in arts and culture\, sports\, education\, comms\, community organising\, a faith community\, social enterprise (or something else!) or are just interested in finding out more\, everyone is welcome! \nSee the full Slow Conference programme here\, and click ‘register’ to sign up to your choice of workshops. \nThe Slow Conference will kick off with a launch event on Thursday 04 February sharing everything you need to know to get take part in Refugee Week 2021. Sign up for the launch event here. \nRefugee Week is an annual festival celebrating the contributions\, creativity and resilience of refugees\, in which anyone is welcome to hold an event or activity. Refugee Week 2021 is 14-20 June\, and the theme is ‘We Cannot Walk Alone’. \nWhether you are new to Refugee Week\, or an experienced organiser\, this event will help you understand the theme\, learn about existing plans\, get inspired and make new connections. \nImage (c) Ambrose Musiyiwa
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-slow-conference/
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201217T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201217T121500
DTSTAMP:20260430T003734
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SUMMARY:شاركوا معنا في مهرجان أسبوع اللاجئ ٢٠٢
DESCRIPTION:لقاء باللغة العربية عن أسبوع اللاجئ وكيف يمكنكم المشاركة\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nهل أنتم مهتمون بالمبادرات الفنية والثقافية للجمع بين الناس ولزيادة الوعي عن تجارب اللاجئين؟ \nانضموا إلى لقائنا باللغة العربية من خلال تطبيق زووم لمعرفة المزيد عن أسبوع اللاجئ وكيف يمكنكم المشاركة. إن كنت فنان/ة ،ناشط/ة، مؤسس/ة لمشاريع أو فقط تريد أن تعرف المزيد فمرحباً بكم أينما كنتم. \nأسبوع اللاجئ هو مهرجان سنوي يحتفل بمساهمات اللاجئين، ويزيد من الوعي عن أسباب البحث عن ملاذ. \nهو دعوة مفتوحة لجميع المهتمين بتأسيس نشاط أو فعالية من خلاله. \nأسبوع اللاجئ ٢٠٢١ يبدأ من ١٤ حتى ٢٠ يونيو، وموضوع هذا العام سيكون (لا نستطيع أن نمشي وحدنا) \nاحجزوا تذاكركم المجانية هنا وسنرسل لكم رابط زووم للاجتماع عبر البريد الإلكتروني. \nمؤسسة Counterpoints Arts تنسق أسبوع اللاجئ في المملكه المتحده. \nAre you interested in how the arts\, culture and community initiatives can bring people together and help encourage understanding of refugee experiences? \nJoin us for an online session in Arabic to find out more about Refugee Week and how you can get involved. Whether you are an artist\, entrepreneur\, community activist or just interested in finding out more\, everyone is welcome\, wherever you are in the world. \nRefugee Week is an annual festival celebrating the contributions of refugees and promoting understanding of why people seek sanctuary. \nAnyone can take part by running their own event or activity. \nRefugee Week 2021 is 14-20 June\, and the theme is ‘We cannot walk alone’. \nImage (c) Joana Saramago
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/%d8%b4%d8%a7%d8%b1%d9%83%d9%88%d8%a7-%d9%85%d8%b9%d9%86%d8%a7-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d9%85%d9%87%d8%b1%d8%ac%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%a3%d8%b3%d8%a8%d9%88%d8%b9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%ac%d8%a6-%d9%a2%d9%a0%d9%a2/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201203T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201203T121500
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SUMMARY:#MonthlyMeet: Ask a Fundraiser with Miriam Sherwood
DESCRIPTION:Your fundraising questions answered at the December Refugee Week & Platforma Monthly Meet \nWhether you want to know more about where to find funding opportunities\, how to write a convincing application or are just wondering how to get started\, this Q&A session is a chance to put your question to straight to a fundraiser. \nMiriam is theatre-maker and arts fundraiser specialising in grant-writing and applications to Trusts\, Foundations and statutory organisations. Let us know your question via the sign-up form for this event\, and we’ll do our best to answer it! \nThis workshop is aimed at anyone working in the arts\, cultural or charity sectors\, and everyone is welcome. \nWe aim to make these sessions accessible to everyone who would like to take part – if you have any access requirements\, please let us know when you sign up. \nBook your fee place via Eventbrite
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/monthlymeet-ask-a-fundraiser-with-miriam-sherwood/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201105T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201105T121500
DTSTAMP:20260430T003734
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SUMMARY:Beyond Zoom: Offline and ‘hybrid’ approaches to creative projects
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first in a series of Refugee Week & Platforma Monthly Meets! \nThis first session will explore ways of doing creative work with communities at the current time that doesn’t rely entirely on working online. You will have the chance to hear from practitioners about different approaches \, ask questions and share your own experiences and ideas. \nFull details and free booking \nDetails of speakers to follow. \nRefugee Week and Platforma are holding friendly\, free 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. Everyone is welcome (and yes\, they are on Zoom )! \nWe aim to make these sessions accessible to everyone who would like to take part – if you have any access requirements\, please let us know by answering the question about access when you sign up for your ticket. \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 (Refugee Week 2021 is 14-20 June). Platforma and Refugee Week are run/ coordinated by Counterpoints Arts. \nImage (c) Ambrose Musiyiwa
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/beyond-zoom-offline-and-hybrid-approaches-to-creative-projects/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201030T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201030T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T003734
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SUMMARY:Bumi Thomas | Black History Month
DESCRIPTION:Bumi Thomas graces our Instagram this Black History Month with a very special performance of her songs\, accompanied by stories of her own Black heroes and heroines\, and also of identity\, migration and belonging. \nThe pre-recorded set\, in London’s iconic Oval House Theatre\, will be streamed at 7pm\, closing our ‘Black Heroes & Sheroes’ programme. This will be a poignant performance by the singer who experienced first hand the Government’s cruel hostile environment policies. Despite being born and living in this country for twenty years Bumi had to fight off a deportation order last year. She has turned those experiences into powerful body of work. \nAdding to her performance\, Bumi asks us to reflect on the story of Funmilayo Ransome Kuti\,  the Nigerian educator\, Suffragette and women’s rights activist\, and mother of  Fela Kuti\, the legendary socio-political leader and activist\, and father of Afrobeat. \nBumi will be performing with musicians Max Rad\, on ngoni\, and Oluwaseun Adeshino\, on acoustic bass. \nHead over to Bumi’s profile on our website to find more about this accomplished singer and artist. We see you on Friday! \nThe performance is filmed by Hossam Fazulla. \nCo-produced with the support of Longreel Records. \nImage credit: the Artist.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/bumi-thomas-black-history-month/
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201028T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201028T193000
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SUMMARY:Lucky Moyo | Black History Month
DESCRIPTION:We are incredibly proud to be highlighting the work of Lucky Moyo this Black History Month. Lucky has been a part of our Platforma Arts network for many years\, performing and collaborating as part of Festivals and participatory workshops. He is also one of the key artists in our work in the region of Kent. \nLucky will be performing a live music and storytelling set on our Facebook\, reflecting on his cultural and music heritage\, with stories that come across the borders. Tune in this Wednesday from 7:30pm. Lucky will be accompanied by musician Kenny Moyo. \nLucky’s artists profile is published on our Traces Project\, head over there to find our more about this versatile and experienced artist. \nA little more about Lucky: \nApart from being a singer and storyteller he is also a drummer\, dancer  and arts facilitator working with participants of all ages but often focusing on work in schools.\n\nLucky has truly international experiences\, having lived and worked in well over 45 countries. He’s played his music around the world in venues such as the Opera de Paris\, JF Kennedy Centre in Washington DC to wide audiences including people like the late global icon Nelson Mandela and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nLucky a passion though has always been in doing work in small rural schools\, village community halls\, prisons\, school and immigration centres where he says the arts make a difference.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/lucky-moyo-black-history-month/
CATEGORIES:Music,Performance & Dance
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201028T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201028T193000
DTSTAMP:20260430T003734
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SUMMARY:Launch: Digital City of Refuge
DESCRIPTION:A panel discussion on the digital representation of the city and its actors’ voices in the context of migration. \nJoin us for the launch of Digital City of Refuge: a collection of visual stories mapping the city of refuge as experienced and imagined by its actors in Athens\, Berlin and London. \nBooking via Eventbrite \nPanellists: \nMyria Georgiou (Professor\, Media@LSE)\nMarcia Chandra (Photographer\, Counterpoints Arts)\nDeena Dajani (Researcher\, IIED)\nRenée Ghammashi Abul-Ella (Founder and director at Al-Dar\, Berlin)\nAbdulrahman\, (Presenter of Beit-UK\, a video series supporting refugees\, London)\nMuhammad Ali Madanieh\, (Teacher\, husband\, father\, Syrian\, Athens)\nNatasa Vourna (Teacher\, activist\, Athens) \nThis visual storytelling project is associated with the project Resilient communities\, resilient cities? Digital makings of the city of refuge\, led by LSE in creative partnership with Counterpoints Arts and Proboscis. \nThe research project focuses on three urban neighbourhoods that received newcomers following the 2015-16 “migration crisis”: Athens (Downtown)\, Berlin (Neukölln) and London (Haringey). Through conversations\, focussed workshops and ethnographic storytelling walks\, the research explored the role of digital technologies and connectivities in mediating and managing the city of refuge by exploring three critical questions: \n— How are welcoming and inclusive cities constituted and communicated? \n— What are the obstacles to the city of refuge and how is it denied to those who need and desire it? \n— How is the city of refuge imagined and communicated as a sustainable\, and hopeful project? This event will launch the website\, digitalcityofrefuge.com\, which forms part of the wider research project Resilient communities\, resilient cities? Digital makings of the city of refuge. The project was funded through the LSE’s Institute of Global Affairs (IGA) as part of the Rockefeller Resilience Programme. \n‘Digital City of Refuge’ is produced by The Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Counterpoints Arts with photographer Marcia Chandra. \nRead more about the project’s research methodology\, results and publications.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/launch-digital-city-of-refuge/
CATEGORIES:Film and Photography,Learning
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201027
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201031
DTSTAMP:20260430T003734
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SUMMARY:Black Heroes & Sheroes
DESCRIPTION:This Black History Month we celebrate some of the black artists we work with\, who have either experienced displacement and/or make work that speaks of the interconnected themes of migration and racial justice. We’ve invited the artists to tell their stories through their work\, and tell stories of their own heroes and sheroes\, of contributions and histories that are an integral part of the culture and history of this country. \nOur Traces Project has two new profiles published to mark the Month. Mohammed Yahya is a Mozambican rapper who has performed internationally and has a socially engaged practice using music to build and inspire young people. Read Mohammed’s profile here. \nLucky Moyo\, musician\, dancer and storyteller has his own profile published on the Traces Project timeline\, and he also performs a vibrant Facebook live set on Wednesday 28th October\, at 7:30pm. \nThe final performance is by the brilliant British-Nigerian singer songwriter Bumi Thomas. At 6pm on Friday 30th October Bumi will present a set of her own songs and those of her heroes\, recorded in the iconic London Oval Theatre. Head over to our Instagram for this very special performance. Performance filmed by Hossam Fazulla. \nImage: Bumi Thomas. Credit: the Artist. \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/black-heroes-sheroes/
CATEGORIES:Learning,Multi-Art Form,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201023T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201023T201500
DTSTAMP:20260430T003734
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SUMMARY:RE:seeding\, in correspondence Performance to Camera by Jade Montserrat
DESCRIPTION:Online Premiere of Performance to Camera Commission + Q&A \nPart of performingbordersLIVE20 \nFriday 23 October / 7pm- 8.15pm \nFree tickets & English live captions: click here \nRE:seeding\, in correspondence is a new performance to camera suggesting that there is a connection between ourselves and the earth and that this line\, or connection\, like our communications with one another\, is drawing. \nDeveloped with film-makers Webb-Ellis\, Jade seeks to visualise these exchanges of energy\, the lines\, the communications\, and with that\, consider\, maybe on a global scale\, stewarding of our spaces. \nRE:seeding\, in correspondence documents processes of making virtual connections with a local community of people who have refugee status or are seeking asylum. Jade’s research topics on ownership\, body and land\, explored through a workshop with participants from MAFWA Theatre – an organisation in Leeds who make theatre with sanctuary seekers in Burmantofts\, Lincoln Green and Mabgate – included an exchange of materials: charcoal\, a sketchbook\, herb seeds and materials to grow them in with the intention of locating commonality through shared connection to earth\, soil\, and growth. \nA development of ‘Drawing as Contagion’\, a text and workshop devised in response to exhibition Instituting Care (Bluecoat; Humber Street Gallery) RE:seeding\, in correspondence extends Jade’s central idea that drawing is a mode of being or a mode of operating\, allowing further exploration of the question: What does it mean to survey and reclaim ‘environments’\, our relationship to space\, and where are potentials for reclamation or belongings? \nPerformance to Camera Collage by Jade Montserrat and Webb-Ellis \nEngagement and Project Management by Helen Moore \nThe online screening will be followed by a conversation between Jade Montserrat and Chandra Frank and a Q&A. \nCommissioned by performingborders\, East Street Arts and Counterpoint Arts for performingbordersLIVE20. Supported by Live Art Development Agency\, with funding from Arts Council England. \nBios \nJade Montserrat is an artist based in Scarborough\, England. She is the recipient of the Stuart Hall Foundation Scholarship which supports her PhD (via MPhil) at IBAR\, UCLan\, and the development of her work from her black diasporic perspective in the North of England. Jade works through performance\, drawing\, painting\, film\, installation\, sculpture\, print and text. Jade Montserrat is the recipient of the Stuart Hall Foundation Scholarship which supports her PhD (via MPhil) at IBAR\, UCLan\, (Race and Representation in Northern Britain in the context of the Black Atlantic: A Creative Practice Project) and the development of her work from her black diasporic perspective in the North of England. She was also awarded one of two Jerwood Student Drawing Prizes in 2017 for No Need for Clothing\, a documentary photograph of a drawing installation at Cooper Gallery DJCAD by Jacquetta Clark. Jade’s Rainbow Tribe project – a combination of historical and contemporary manifestations of Black Culture from the perspective of the Black Diaspora is central to the ways she is producing a body of work\, including No Need For Clothing and its iterations\, as well as her performance work Revue. Jade was commissioned to present Revue as a 24 hour live performance at SPILL Festival of Performance\, October 2018\, a solo exhibition at The Bluecoat\, Liverpool\, (Nov – 10 Mar 2019) which toured to Humber Street Gallery ( July-sept 2019) and was commissioned by Art on the Underground to create the 2018 Winter Night Tube cover. Iniva and Manchester Art Gallery have commissioned Jade as the first artist for the Future Collect project (2020). \nChandra Frank is a feminist researcher and independent curator who works on the intersections of archives\, waterways\, gender\, sexuality and race. Her curatorial practice explores the politics of care\, experimental forms of narration\, and the colonial grammar embedded within display and exhibition arrangements. Chandra earned a PhD in Media\, Communications and Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths\, University of London. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and exhibition catalogues\, including Feminist Review\, the Small Axe VLOSA catalogue\, The Place is Here publication and the collection Tongues. She recently co-edited a special issue on Archives for Feminist Review. Her curated exhibitions include Re(as)sistingNarratives(Amsterdam/Cape Town)\, Fugitive Desires(London)\, and Proclamation 73 (Durban) (co-curated with Zara Julius). Chandra curated the 2016 Archives Matter Conference at the Centre for Feminist Research at Goldsmiths. Currently\, Chandra is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Charles Phelps Taft Research Centre at the University of Cincinnati. chandrafrank.com \nFeatured image credits: Screen shot courtesy of Jade Montserrat. \nUPDATE \nWatch the performance online  \nWatch the post-performance discussion between Jade Montserrat and Chandra Frank
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/reseeding-in-correspondence-performance-to-camera-by-jade-montserrat/
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Multi-Art Form
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SUMMARY:Arts Council Project Grants - information sessions
DESCRIPTION:Hear the latest from Arts Council England about Project Grants. Presented by the Network for Arts and Social Outcomes. Book now for one of two free sessions: \nSession 1: 2-3pm \nSession 2: 3.15-4.15pm \nArts Council England (ACE) recently announced that it is reopening applications for its National Lottery Project Grants. \nACE has pledged to make the new fund more responsive to the needs of smaller independent organisations and individual practitioners during Covid-19. \nThe Network for Arts and Social Outcomes is delighted to be joined by: \n\nRichard Ings\, the NCJAA’s Relationship Manager at ACE and the London Area champion for Arts in Health\, Wellbeing & Criminal Justice.\nJohn McMahon\, ACE lead for Arts and Health.\n\nPlease join us if you are interested in learning more about Project Grants and the overall ACE Let’s Create strategy. \nThis event is intended for indviduals and non-NPO organisations. A separate event for NPOs will be announced shortly. \nIf you have a question for ACE (or any questions about the event) please email: hello@counterpoints.org.uk \nLive captions will be available. \nSpaces at this event are limited\, so please sign up to one of the sessions via Eventbrite if you would like to attend. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing a link to the Zoom address for the event. Please do not share this Zoom link – anyone attending will need to register on Eventbrite. \nSession 1: 2-3pm \nSession 2: 3.15-4.15pm \nThe event is being presented by a new network of “hub” organisations working across Arts and Social Outcomes including Arts & Homelessness International \, National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance\, LENS (Lived Experience Network)\, Music in Detention\, Counterpoint Arts/Platforma\, Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance \, Graeae\, Age of Creativity \nPhoto: Marcia Chandra/Counterpoints Arts \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/arts-council-project-grants-information-sessions/
CATEGORIES:Learning
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201003T123000
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SUMMARY:Over The Line : Compass Collective
DESCRIPTION:Compass Collective present a new online exhibition ‘Over-The-Line’. \nIn the past few months Compass Collective has been working with talented young refugees and asylum seekers to deliver an interactive website showcasing the immense talent these young people posses. \nThey have been meeting weekly on Zoom\, offering young people the option of joining music\, acting or writing breakout rooms. \nNow these rooms are being opened up and you are invited to  watch\, listen\, experience their fantastic work. \nCounterpoints Arts will be hosting the online launch\, so join us at 12pm on Sat 3rd Oct for the live launch and to hear directly from some of our young people as well as some of the coders involved in the project.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/over-the-line-compass-collective/
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation,Digital
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SUMMARY:Go Tell The Bees
DESCRIPTION:Planet Earth is in crisis. Digitally\, we are more plugged in than ever before\, yet so many of us talk of an increasing sense of disconnect from others and the natural world around us… \nThe idea of sharing important community and family news with bees is rooted across the folklore and mythological traditions of Wales and across the world. The story goes that\, whenever we fail to do so\, the bees will leave their hives and disappear from our area… \nOver the last four years the National Theatre of Wales TEAM has been embedded in the communities of Pembrokeshire\, exploring the key things that matter most for the people of the county. \nHaving decided on climate change and the environment as the most urgent issue\, Go Tell The Bees is the community’s co-created response – a bold new work that redefines the way in which theatre is made while telling a universal story of our human connection to nature and to each other. \nAlmir Koldzic\, Counterpoints Arts Director\, has been working with NTW as an Associate Artist and CO-Creator on the GO Tell The Bees project\, including helping to design a special Simple Acts programme – see the video below.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/go-tell-the-bees/
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200821T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200821T203000
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SUMMARY:No Direction Home featuring Sindhu Vee
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with Just Festival\, Edinburgh \nRegister with Eventbrite (free\, donations welcome) \nLive\, online laughter from our brilliant No Direction Home comedy collective\, with Pepa Duarte\, Selam Mengistu\, Krishna Vytelingum\, Meron Abera and Tewodros Aregawe plus special guest headliner Sindhu Vee. \nNo Direction Home\, created by Counterpoints Arts\, Camden People’s Theatre and Tom Parry was founded in 2018. We run free workshops for emerging comics from refugee and migrant backgrounds and have staged gigs across the country including at the Gulbenkian (Canterbury) and South Bank Centre (London). Since March this year the group have been rehearsing and performing online. \nRead more about No Direction Home in The Guardian \nJust Festival has been part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for 20 years\, and in 2020 are running an online programme of events. If you have any access requirements please email director@just-festival.org to discuss. \nAbout Sindhu Vee \nSince swapping a career in investment banking for one in comedy\, Sindhu has fast become one of the most exciting and sought-after talents on the UK circuit. Having previously been a finalist in both the coveted BBC New Comedy Award and New Act Of The Year competitions\, 2018 saw Sindhu take her eagerly-anticipated debut hour\, Sandhog\, to the Edinburgh Fringe. A hit with critics and audiences alike\, the show sold out its entire run (including multiple extra dates) and was nominated for the prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/no-direction-home-featuring-sindhu-vee/
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200821
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SUMMARY:No Direction Home (virtual) tour 2020
DESCRIPTION:Following the huge success of our summer Zoom gigs\, and an online performance in Edinburgh\, No Direction Home is taking to the (online) road for a series of stand-up comedy performances this autumn. \nAll gigs will have live captions unless otherwise stated. \nThe virtual tour will visit: \nEdinburgh (21 August) – tour preview featuring Sindhu Vee\, with Just Festivals \nCamden (12 September) – featuring Mo Omar\, with Camden People’s Theatre > Full details and booking \nBristol (27 September) – featuring Fatiha El-Ghorri\, with Bristol Refugee Festival and Bristol Student Action for Refugees (STAR) > Full details and booking \nLeicester (4 October) – guest headliner Dane Baptiste\, with Journeys Festival International & Big Difference  > Full details and booking  \nCoventry (18 October) – in partnership with Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 > Full details and free booking \nBirmingham (25 October) – in partnership with Celebrating Sanctuary Birmingham > Full details and free booking \nBradford (29 October) – in partnership with Biasan as part of the Intercultured Festival > Full details and free booking \nGravesend (16 November) – in partnership with Cohesion Plus\, with guest headliner Geoff Norcott > Full details and booking \nSouthbank Centre\, London (22 November) > In partnership with Southbank Centre\, with guest headliner Rosie Jones > Full details and booking \nFollow the No Direction Home Facebook page for further updates. \nAbout No Direction Home \nNo Direction Home is a pioneering project featuring stand-up comedians from refugee and migrant backgrounds\, mentored by award winning comedian Tom Parry. \nCounterpoints Arts runs No Direction Home as part of our Pop Culture and Social Change (PopChange) programme. Created in partnership with Camden People’s Theatre\, it’s an ongoing project of workshops\, mentoring and performance for new comics from refugee and migrant backgrounds. Since 2018 they have performed more than 15 gigs around the country\, including at the Southbank Centre in London. \nGuest headliners including Romesh Ranganathan\, Nish Kumar\, Sindhu Vee\, Joel Dommett and Suzi Ruffell have also spent time with the group and shared tips and advice. Media coverage has included BBC News and BBC World Service. \nNish 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.” \nIn 2020 No Direction Home has been running new groups online and staging our very first gigs on Zoom. We’re confident that working digitally will help us to reach more people than ever. \nFor Refugee Week 2020 we produced three online gigs with different partners\, reaching a total online audience of more than 800 people. In autumn 2020 we will be running a No Direction Home virtual tour\, kicking off online in Edinburgh. \nMedia coverage \nFeature article by Brian Logan in The Guardian\n“Coached by Tom Parry\, the comedy collective No Direction Home are bucking stereotypes about refugees and migrants – and thriving online during lockdown” \nFeature article in Red Pepper magazine\n“With casual xenophobia a comedy circuit blight\, No Direction Home is a welcome tonic.” \nGravesend Messenger \nWatch Tom Parry chatting with Nish Kumar about No Direction Home on Facebook Live \n \n \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/no-direction-home-virtual-tour-2020/
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:Caroline Bergvall: Night & Refuge
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to share this film of Caroline Bergvall’s Night & Refuge event\, a public collaborative writing event between five UK-based poets\, which took place over Zoom during the Covid-19 lockdown. \nThis unique event happened online on 20 May 2020\, from 6-9pm BST\, and spanned many  time-zones. The short film presented here\, edited in a visually and sonically startling way\, shows the five poets exchanging thoughts and processes while developing the shared poem. Curator and host-poet Caroline Bergvall had set a brief loosely inspired by the tradition of Renga – an ancient and strict rule-bound Japanese form of collective writing. The motifs to be explored followed the phases of the night and asked: what is the night\, what is refuge\, how does one seek refuge during this pandemic confinement? \nMany other writers started joining in spontaneously with comments and lines on Twitter at #nightandrefuge. They slowly became part of the event. The writing in progress was made visible to the poets and audiences alike through a Digital Writing Desk developed with visual artist Mays Albeik. \nFilmed and edited by Andrew Delaney. \nSound design by Jamie Hamilton. \nProduced by C. Bergvall. \nA Sonic Atlas Project. \n \nThe Poets: \nVahni Capildeo is a Trinidadian Scottish writer working on their eighth full-length book (their fourth from Carcanet Press). Recent collaborations include Light Site Poetry with Andre Bagoo\, linked to Capildeo’s Light Site (Periplum\, forthcoming 2020). Capildeo is Writer in Residence at the University of York and a Seamus Heaney Centre fellow at Queen’s University\, Belfast. \nWill Harris is a poet and critic from London. He has had work published in The Guardian\, The White Review\, the TLS\, and the LRB. He was the co-editor of the Spring 2020 issue of The Poetry Review. His debut collection RENDANG (Granta) is the Poetry Book Society Choice for Spring. \nLeo Boix is a Latinx bilingual poet born in Argentina who lives and works in the UK. Boix has been included in many anthologies\, such as Ten: Poets of the New Generation (Bloodaxe) and Un Nuevo Sol: British Latinx Writers (flipped eye). He is a fellow of The Complete Works Program and the recipient of the Keats-Shelley Prize 2019. Boix debut collection will be published by Chatto & Windus (Penguin/Random House) in 2021. \nNisha Ramayya grew up in Glasgow and is currently based in London. Her debut collection States of the Body Produced by Love (2019) is published by Ignota Books. Other publications include ‘Notes on a Means without End’ (2020) in Poetry Review; In Me the Juncture (2019) published by Sad Press; Threads (2018)\, a critical-creative pamphlet co-authored with Sandeep Parmar and Bhanu Kapil\, published by clinic. \n* \nMays Albaik is an artist whose interdisciplinary visual practice has literary writing at its heart and includes performance\, video\, and spatial installations. Holds an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design; a B.Arch from the American University of Sharjah. She has participated in exhibitions including Qala 0.8900 (Darat Al Funun\, Jordan); Glass Triennial (Woods Gerry Gallery\, USA); Sawt 2a (Grey Noise\, Dubai); Mind the Gap (Tashkeel\, Dubai)\, and Change Coordinates + Someone Else (1971 Design Space\, Sharjah). \n* \nCaroline Bergvall – Initiator and Host-poet of the event. Writer\, artist\, and performer who works across art-forms\, media and languages. The recipient of many international commissions\, she is a noted exponent of writing and performance methods adapted to contemporary audiovisual and contextual situations\, as well as multilingual identities and translocal exchange. Awarded the Heidsieck Art Literary Prize\, Centre Pompidou\, Paris (2017). Cholmondeley Award for Poetry for her book and project Drift (2017). Latest book Alisoun Sings (2019). Ongoing cycle of live works\, Sonic Atlas (2016-). \nNight & Refuge is a project within Bergvall’s ongoing cycle of interdisciplinary perfomances Sonic Atlas\, which explores languages in movement and in transformation through speech\, sounds\, songwork in a range of performative situations. It began with Ragadawn (2016)\, staged at daybreak in locations as diverse as Marseille and the Isle of Skye\, and continued with Conference of the Birds (2018) a discussion soundwork first presented at the Whitstable Biennale. \nYou can find out more about the project\, including the many twitter contributions\, on Caroline Bergvall’s website here: http://carolinebergvall.com/work/night-refuge/ \nHosted by event partners Cement Fields & Counterpoints Arts. Co-hosted by Festival of Hope\, Versopolis. \nThis event was made possible with funding from Arts Council England and support from Cement Fields and Counterpoints Arts.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/caroline-bergvall-night-refuge/
CATEGORIES:Literature & Spoken Word,Multi-Art Form
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