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SUMMARY:No Direction Home featuring Mo Omar
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with Student Action for Refugees (STAR)\, Counterpoints Arts presents No Direction Home live on Zoom for Refugee Week with guest headliner Mo Omar. \nBooking via Eventbrite \nAge 16+ \nSomali-born\, Cardiff-raised and London-based\, Mo Omar is a fast-rising talent with a unique perspective on culture\, faith and love. Recently making his TV debut on Harry Hills Clubnite on Channel 4\, Mo was also selected to perform in The Pleasance Comedy Reserve show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2019\, and was a finalist in the BBC Introducing Radio 4 Comedy Award. \nThis live online gig\, hosted by Edinburgh-award winning stand-up Tom Parry\, will also feature No Direction Home comedians Selam Mengistu\, Yasin Moradi and Pepa Duarte. \nNo Direction Home\, created by Counterpoints Arts\, Camden People’s Theatre and Tom Parry was founded in 2018. We run free workshops and have staged gigs across the country\, and since March this year have been working entirely online. \nPrevious gigs have featured guest headliners including Nish Kumar\, Lou Sanders and Romesh Ranganathan. \nSTAR is the national network of student groups working to improve the lives of refugees across the UK. It is made up of 50 groups at universities and colleges across the UK and a national team which co-ordinates and supports the groups. STAR groups are students’ union societies which are affiliated to the charity.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/no-direction-home-featuring-mo-omar/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:Tag It Right: Challenge the Online Narrative
DESCRIPTION:If you type ‘United Kingdom’ into google images what do you get? A map\, the flag and a picture of Westminster. How about ‘Australia’? A map\, flag and tourist icon. Now try ‘Yemen’. The images are of war\, cities in rubble and young men with rifles.\nWe rely on large tech organisations like Google and Facebook for a huge portion of our information. However\, these companies do not equally or fairly represent migrants or the countries they come from. This exposes a structural racism that homogenised and dilutes the narrative of particular regions and cultures. \n‘Tag It Right’ is a youth-led campaign from PopChange challenging how Internet content such as images and news are tagged\, filtered and presented in social media platforms and search engines\, reproducing biases and stereotypes in how we see migrants and refugees.\nThis event will launch the project at Refugee Week 2020 with a discussion about the biases within our media\, from how we tag our own photos online to the Western-centric algorithms within major companies like Google. It will aim to bring together varied perspectives through a diverse panel to talk about the impact online content has on our view of the world. \nHOW TO PARTICIPATE\n1. To be part of the live audience on Zoom\, you must register via Eventbrite. The link to Zoom will be emailed to you two hours before the event.\n2. You can also watch the live streams on Facebook without registering. To receive a reminder just before the event starts\, you can register and select “Receive a reminder” or RSVP on the Facebook event page. \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. www.popchange.co.uk
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/tag-it-right-challenge-the-online-narrative/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Pop Culture
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SUMMARY:Art Refuge and Aida Silvestri : online workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free online workshop led by Bobby Lloyd and Miriam Usiskin from Art Refuge\, and artist Aida Silvestri. \nThis will be an opportunity to learn about their practice and to participate in a creative session for their Coronaquilt Silhouettes project. \nAttendance is free as part of Refugee Week 2020. To reserve places please register via Eventbrite. \nArt Refuge uses art and art therapy to support the mental health and well-being of displaced people\, both in the UK and internationally. In addition to ongoing programmes with refugees in the UK and France\, the charity offers arts-based skills-sharing workshops\, crisis support and consultation to frontline staff\, currently in relation to Covid-19.  \nResponding in mid March to community level displacement due to coronavirus\, Art Refuge launched CORONAQUILT on Rituals of the Everyday\, with contributions from 25 countries so far; and is delighted to collaborate with Aida Silvestri on the CORONAQUILT SILHOUETTE initiative. \nAida Silvestri is a UK-based artist who creates work concerning sensitive issues of culture\, ethnicity\, identity\, health\, politics and the urban landscape. She holds a BA (First Hons) in photography from the University of Westminster\, London. She has experience in running workshops and public speaking on these issues. Her work explores new and unique approaches to documentary photography to raise awareness\, give voice to voiceless and to promote acceptance within communities.​ \nAll welcome. Age 16+
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/artrefuge-and-aida-silvestri-online-workshop/
LOCATION:London
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SUMMARY:Moving Worlds for Refugee Week 2020
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 (15-21 June 2020). Moving Worlds is produced by Counterpoints Arts\, which coordinates Refugee Week nationally. \nIn light of physical distancing restrictions\, this year’s programme is working digitally in order to facilitate home screenings and online post-screening conversations. Now more than ever\, we realise the need to stay socially and personally connected and to share compelling storytelling journeys. \nResponding to this year’s Refugee Week theme ‘Imagine’\, the programme itself is re-imagined as a weekly film festival with a curated programme of features and shorts exploring personal experiences of forced displacement\, stories of visualising one’s future and past\, as well as narratives of resilience\, change and hope. In addition to the selected films generously offered by our network of filmmakers\, we have also identified award-nominated films that can be accessed online via external websites. \nWe have chosen films that support the performance of many diverse voices and are dominated by powerful personal stories\, such as the story of Paul and Millie Cao in Oscar-nominated Walk\, Run\, Cha-Cha\, who transport us from the dance floor to the journey of their love story across the years. Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts’ For Sama and Hassan Fazili’s Midnight Traveler bring into focus stories about and by individuals and their families\, as they imagine and carve new futures with a camera or smartphone in hand. Both films celebrate innovative storytelling techniques while re-visioning documentary practice and first-person testimony. This year’s programme also features two short animation films (Escape from England & Space Refugees) for younger audiences by Claire Desenclos\, asking us to imagine how we would respond to the reality of becoming a refugee and searching for a safe place to seek refuge. \nWe invite you to screen any of these films in the comfort and safety of your home. We hope that they can generate meaningful conversations in person or virtually – find out more in the Locations section. We have also designed downloadable post-screening guides to encourage lively conversations across all ages. \nOur thanks to the creative and passionate filmmakers and producers who generously agreed to make their films available for Refugee Week 2020\, Moving Worlds package. This year’s programme is dedicated to all individuals currently experiencing forced displacement who may be experiencing precarious and challenging living conditions\, especially during this uncertain time. \nMoving Worlds UK is curated and programmed by Nelli Stavropoulou for Counterpoints Arts \nFull details: https://movingworlds.info/
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/moving-worlds-for-refugee-week-2020/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Film and Photography
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SUMMARY:Refugee Week
DESCRIPTION:Refugee Week is the UK’s largest festival celebrating the contributions\, creativity and resilience of refugees. Counterpoints Arts is proud to be national coordinator of Refugee Week\, as well as producing a flagship programme of Refugee Week events with partners including the V&A and Southbank Centre. \nRefugee Week 2020\, which has the theme of ‘Imagine’\, will be marked 15-21 June as a virtual festival in the UK and internationally. \nGet involved by joining a Refugee Week event or activity online\, or holding one of your own. \nFor more information about Refugee Week\, visit www.refugeeweek.org.uk.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form
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SUMMARY:Onjali Q. Raúf
DESCRIPTION:Author Onjali Q. Raúf will be reading from her award-winning novel The Boy at the Back of the Class. \nShe will also share an activity for young people based on the Refugee Week 2020 theme of “Imagine” \nPresented for Refugee Week 2020 by Countepoints Arts in association with Book Aid International \nIt wll be streamed live on Refugee Week Facebook\, followed by live Q&A with Onjali. \nOnjali Q. Raúf is the founder and CEO of O’s Refugee Aid Team\, a nonprofit that helps frontline refugee response teams across northern France and Greece; and Making Herstory\, which works to fight all forms of domestic abuse and human trafficking crimes in the UK. \n“Inspiring and sweet . . . [The Boy at the Back of the Class] is a beautiful\, open-hearted debut from Onjali Q Raúf that should help children be the best they can be and realise the power of kindness.”–Booktrust (UK) \nAbout Book Aid International \nBook Aid International is the UK’s leading international book donation and library development charity. Every year\, the charity aims to ship around one million brand new books to thousands of communities where people have very few opportunities to access books and read. \nBook Aid International works with an extensive network of libraries\, schools\, hospitals\, NGOs and other partners to ensure that the books it sends are accessible to all. The charity estimates that the books it provides reach over 19 million people every year. \nPhoto: Pål Hansen \nPost-event notes \nFacebook Live video (3.4K views)
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/onjali-q-rauf/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Literature & Spoken Word
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SUMMARY:Together Workshops online
DESCRIPTION:For Refugee Week\, Counterpoints Arts has commissioned three special online Together Workshops from theatre company PSYCHEdelight on the theme of Imagine. \nImagine a bunch of people from different ages\, cultures and languages coming together from all across the UK (and abroad\, why not!) to dream and have fun together for an afternoon. What would happen? \nDates: June 7th\, 14th & 21st (4.30-6pm) \nMore information and to express an interest visit the Facebook page \nAll welcome! No experience necessary. \nPSYCHEdelight is Theatre Company of Sanctuary shortlisted for the Community Integration Awards. They create socially engaged theatre and provide drama workshops as a place of expression and integration. Previous productions have included Borderline and Welcome to the UK.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/together-workshops-online/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200603T110000
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SUMMARY:Running arts workshops online
DESCRIPTION:What are the best ways to run arts & cultural workshops online? Ideas and tips ahead of Refugee Week 2020. \nIn the past few months lots of new work has been happening online . But how best can we engage with participants\, particularly refugees and asylum seekers? What technologies seem to work best and what activities and approaches? \nIn the run-up to Refugee Week 2020 this free seminar on Zoom will share learning from practitioners who have been working with groups online and remotely including: \nAmy Golding (Artistic Director\, Curious Monkey) \nJude Haste (Reading Refugee Support Group) \nLaila Sumpton (Poet and facilitator) \nWe will also invite participants to share their own experiences. \nFree booking via Eventbrite \nImage courtesy of Curious Monkey \nPost-event notes \nAttendance: 45 \nFeedback and evaluation via Auidence Finder
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/running-arts-workshops-online/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Learning
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SUMMARY:NIGHT & REFUGE - Live Writing Room by Caroline Bergvall
DESCRIPTION:Photo by Thierry Bal \n  \nCaroline Bergvall & Sonic Atlas present:\nNIGHT & REFUGE\nA collaborative poem writing event\nvia Zoom (a link will be sent to the participants on the day of the event)\nRecommended Age 14+ \nFree event\, tickets via Eventbrite \nA unique opportunity to witness the creation of a collaborative poem between five different UK-based poets of very different practices and reputations. \nFollowing a brief set by Bergvall\, the poets will be exploring themes of the night\, of seeking refuge\, and share their processes. This collaborative process is inspired by the tradition of Renga – an ancient and strict rule-bound Japanese form of collective writing. \nThe writing process\, its developments and the conversations between the poets will be visible throughout on a Shared Writing Desk. \nThe Live Writing Room has been developed by visual artist Mays Albeik who will act as the event’s Desk Manager. Sound mixing by Jamie Hamilton. \nThe conversations and the developing lines of the poem will be recorded by the project’s sound artist Jamie Hamilton. He will be editing and recomposing these for the next event: Berlin Poetry Festival\, 9 June. \nPoets filmed by project’s cinematographer Andrew Delaney. \nVahni Capildeo is a Trinidadian Scottish writer working on their eighth full-length book (their fourth from Carcanet Press). Recent collaborations include http://www.lightsitepoetry.com 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. \nCaroline Bergvall – (Host-poet of the event) French-Norwegian Anglophonic poet\, sound artist\, and writer\, who works across art forms\, media and languages. Recent book project: Alisoun Sings (Nightboat Books\, NY\, 2019). Awarded a Cholmondeley Award for her book and project Drift (2017). \nDate & Time: 20 May – 6 pm BST for 3 hours. \nThe event will close with a short reading by the poets.\nPart of Festival of Hope by 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/night-refuge-live-writing-room-by-caroline-bergvall/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Literature & Spoken Word
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SUMMARY:Coronaquilt Silhouette
DESCRIPTION:An Art Refuge Initiative \nArt Refuge uses art and art therapy to support the mental health and well-being of people displaced due to conflict\, persecution and poverty\, both in the UK and internationally. \nFollowing the success of their Coronaquilt Initiative\, Art Refuge in collaboration with artist Aida Silvestri and Counterpoints Arts are creating ways of engaging with how people are feeling during the coronavirus crisis. \nTogether we will offer art and word as a thread to initiate a dialogue in connecting people across the globe and to identify their current state of mind. We hope to promote collective and individual shared experiences by targeting this current situation that is common for everyone. \nCoronavirus has put the world on hold and people across the globe are in isolation. Many charities that usually support vulnerable people have either had to reduce their service\, move online or temporarily shut down. \nHow are vulnerable people coping with this added stress? What are the added challenges during this crisis? What are the concerns? \nWe are inviting individuals across the UK and internationally to take part in the Coronaquilt Silhouettes Initiative. We are also reaching out to charities and organisations both in the UK and internationally who work with people who have been displaced by conflict\, persecution or poverty\, and with people who are isolated for whatever reason\, including the Covid-19 pandemic. \nWe would like you to describe your mental health state during coronavirus with a word or a brief sentence/poem that summarises your feelings\, challenges and concerns around the current situation. As well as text\, we would also like you to submit either a profile silhouette or a profile picture. These components will be used to create a Coronaquilt Silhouette piece by the artist. Ultimately\, the smaller pieces will be stitched together to create a larger piece and printed onto a fabric. \n​What is a coronaquilt? \nThe Corona pattern is a traditional pattern\, a bit like a crown\, made up of triangles and squares\, which are then sewn together to make a patchwork cloth. \nWhat is the Silhouette Portrait? \nSilhouette portraits were popular during the Victorian era\, before the invention of photography and during its early years. The traditional method of creating silhouette portraits was to cut them out from a dark lightweight card and mount them on a pale or white background. Today\, they can be drawn\, painted or taken from existing profile photographs. \nWhat to do? \n\nTake a side profile picture against a pale or white background with your mobile phone\nDescribe your current state of mind with one word or a short sentence/poem.\nPlease tell us what is your heritage\nAdd location: City\, Country\nAdd: Date\nEmail it to: projects@artrefuge.org.uk\nWe can also arrange for Aida Silvestri to take your side profile image via Zoom or Whatsapp call.​\n\nWhat is next? \nOnce your picture and text are received\, the artist Aida will create a Coronaquilt Silhouette with your image and text. Ultimately\, the smaller pieces will be stitched onto a larger piece and printed onto fabric to create a large tapestry. \nNote: \nWe value your privacy and we will not share your profile photograph to the public. Please be aware that your silhouette and text/poems will be shared on different platforms and hopefully shown in an exhibition space soon. All contributions will remain anonymous on the final artwork. \nFacebook and Twitter @artrefugeuk \n\n\n\n\nImage: Coronaquilt Silhouette\, © Courtesy of Aida Silvestri & Art Refuge 2020 \nCheck out the free online workshop led by Art Refuge and Aida Silvestri for Refugee Week
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/coronaquilt-silhouette/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Craft & Design,Film and Photography
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SUMMARY:No Direction (At) Home
DESCRIPTION:Stand-up has gone online! \nJoin us for 60 minutes of lockdown comedy with No Direction Home\, the comedy collective produced by Counterpoints Arts featuring a brilliant mix of new stand-up talent. \nFor a free ticket please email hello@counterpoints.org.uk \nAge: 16+ \nNo Direction Home is led by Tom Parry and co-created by Counterpoints Arts with Camden People’s Theatre. \nDonate to support our work \nPhotos: Nour-anni Sisserian (by Jose Farinha) & Majid Adin (by Rosie Powell)
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/no-direction-at-home/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:Kent Refugee Week Conference
DESCRIPTION:Join us to explore how arts\, culture\, education and the media can bring communities together and help change the conversation about refugees. \nTo reserve a free place email tom@counterpoints.org.uk \nPlease let us know if you need support with travel\, childcare or in any other way. \nThe Kent Refugee Week Conference is an afternoon of inspiration\, networking and discussion in preparation for Refugee Week (15-21 June)\, which for 2020 has the theme ‘Imagine’. \nIn addition to two national conferences (London & Bristol) we are holding events around the country\, including in Kent to build on work done for the Platforma 5 festival last year and to look at how Refugee Week events across Kent and Medway can be better connected. \nWhether you’re involved in arts and culture\, sports\, education\, activism\, media\, community work and/ or are from a refugee background yourself – and whether you’re a Refugee Week veteran\, or getting involved for the first time – all are welcome! \nThe Refugee Week Conference in Kent is held in partnership with Platforma and produced by  Counterpoints Arts (Refugee Week UK Coordinators). Many thanks to Turner Contemporary for their support. \nWe look forward to seeing you there! You are invited to join us before the meeting (12.30-1.30) for a free tour of the new exhibition We Will Walk – Art and Resistance in the American South) \nImage: From “Why Margate?” workshop led by Aida Silvestri at Turner Contemporary for Platforma 5
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/kent-refugee-week-conference/
LOCATION:London
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SUMMARY:No Direction Home - Stand Up Comedy @ Migration Museum
DESCRIPTION:No Direction Home is a collective of stand-up comics from refugee and migrant backgrounds\, created in 2018 by Counterpoints\, Camden People’s Theatre and award-winning comedian Tom Parry. \nJoin us at the Migration Museum’s new venue in the heart of Lewisham Shopping Centre for a night of hilarious comedy hosted by Tom Parry with special guest headliners Charlie George and Kae Kurd. \nPlus: Tewodros Aregawe\, Edin Suljic and Selam Mengistu \nTickets £6. Concessions available on request. \nAbout No Direction Home \nCounterpoints Arts runs No Direction Home as part of our PopChange project\, in partnership with Camden People’s Theatre and comedian Tom Parry. It’s a unique course 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 (see video below). PopChange explores how the power of pop culture can be harnessed to shift the way we talk\, think and feel about migration and displacement. \n \nAbout Charlie George \nCharlie George is an award-winning stand-up comedian and writer. \nA former circus performer and dancer\, Charlie started doing stand-up in 2018 and\, since then\, has fast become one of the UK circuit’s most exciting new talents. A runner-up in both the prestigious Funny Women and So You Think You’re Funny? comedy competitions of 2019\, she has also performed stand-up on BBC Asian Network Live and the BBC’s No Country For Young Women Podcast. \n“Hilarious and no messin’. ” – BBC Asian Network Comedy \nAbout Kae Kurd \nSmart\, sharp and brilliantly astute\, Kae Kurd is a young British-Kurdish stand up making a serious name for himself. Passionate about making politics accessible to his peers\, his comedy presents beautifully crafted slick routines with confident cutting edge flair.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/no-direction-home-migration-museum/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:No Direction Home - Stand-up Comedy @ Stanley's Social
DESCRIPTION:No Direction Home is a collective of stand-up comics from refugee and migrant backgrounds\, created in 2018 by Counterpoints\, Camden People’s Theatre and award-winning comedian Tom Parry. \nJoin us at Stanley’s Social to see some of our newest members! \nAbout No Direction Home \nCounterpoints Arts runs No Direction Home as part of our PopChange project\, in partnership with Camden People’s Theatre and comedian Tom Parry. It’s a unique course 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. PopChange explores how the power of pop culture can be harnessed to shift the way we talk\, think and feel about migration and displacement. \nAfter the smash-hit success of its debut season\, and a sell-out gig at Southbank Centre\, come join us for more laughs from the latest recruits to our talented team of stand-ups.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/no-direction-home-stand-up-comedy-stanleys-social/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:Refugee Week Conference
DESCRIPTION:Join us to explore how arts\, culture\, education and the media can bring communities together and help change the conversation about refugees.\nThe Refugee Week Conference is a day of inspiration\, workshops and discussion in preparation for Refugee Week (15-21 June)\, which for 2020 has the theme ‘Imagine’. \nWe’re delighted to be holding two national conferences for 2020 – click the links for more information\, and to book your place: \n1. Refugee Week Conference London\nAmnesty International Human Rights Action Centre\, 10 February 2020 \nView the programme \n2. Refugee Week Conference Bristol (in partnership with Bristol Refugee Festival)\nTrinity Centre\, 13 February 2020 \nWhether you’re involved in arts and culture\, sports\, education\, activism\, media\, community work and/ or are from a refugee background yourself – and whether you’re a Refugee Week veteran\, or getting involved for the first time – all are welcome! \nIf you are a Refugee Week regular\, why not help us grow the movement by passing on an invite to someone who hasn’t been part of Refugee Week before? \nThe Refugee Week Conference is held in partnership with Platforma Arts and Refugees Network\, and produced by Refugee Week UK Coordinators Counterpoints Arts. \nLook forward to seeing you there! \nImage: Chefs from Welcome Kitchen and friends at Refugee Week Conference 2019 (c) Ambrose Musiyiwa
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugee-week-conference-3/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Learning
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SUMMARY:Li Dû Man Installation with Zehra Doğan: A Counterpoints Arts' Learning Lab Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:Location: Southwark Room\, Tate Exchange\, Tate Modern\, Bankside\, London SE1 9TG \nDate: 23 January 2020 \nTime: 2:00 – 4:00pm \nJoin us for a conversation with artist\, Zehra Doğan\, in relation to her installation and recent publication\, Li Dû Man (Left Behind).    \nThe Li Dû Man installation and publication was co-produced for the Who Are We? 2019 programme by Counterpoints Arts with The Open University and Tate Exchange in association with English PEN\, PEN International and Index on Censorship. \nLi Dû Man: As a journalist covering the clashes in Kurdish cities in Turkey\, 2015 – 2016\, Doğan took the small objects she found in the debris\, as testimony of a war no one was talking about. The Li Dû Man installation told the stories of those who fled or were killed\, via what they left behind –  inviting the audience into a conversation and to participate in the crafting and performance of stories about place and displacement. Li Dû Man also housed an experimental\, participatory press room where Zehra and her collaborator\, writer and activist Ege Dundar\, along with others wrote content and co-produced with visitors a newspaper for artists and activists imprisoned in Turkey. \nThe Li Dû Man publication reflects on the installation and the participatory letter-writing campaign together with Zehra’s journey as an artist\, activist and journalist.  It offers insight into the current situation in Turkish prisons\, where a number of writers\, academics and writers – many of whom are Zehra’s friends and collaborators – still remain. It also provides a practical and participatory case study on ‘artists at risk’ with a first-hand account and commentary from Zehra. \n\nContributors to the Learning Lab include\, among others: Zehra Doğan (Artist and Activist)\, Ege Dundar (Writer and Activist)\, Jo Glanville (Writer and Producer)\, Dan Gorman (Director\, English PEN)\, Jane Wells (Programme Manager\, Tate Exchange)\, Sahar Halaimzai (Communications and Campaigns Manager\, PEN International)\,  Dijana Rakovic (Producer\, Counterpoints Arts)\, Cat Lucas (Writer at Risk Programme Manager\, English PEN)\, Umut Erel (Senior Lecturer in Sociology\, The Open University)\, Hossam Fazulla (Director of Freedom of Artistic Creation Programme\, AFTE)\, Chrissie Tiller (Writer and Researcher)\, Aurelia Dondo (Europe Programme Coordinator\, PEN International)\, Monique Grimwade (Fellowship Officer\, Index on Censorship).    \nModerated by Áine O’Brien\, Co-Director\, Counterpoints Arts \nZehra Doğan is the founding editor of the all-female news agency Jin News Agency (JİNHA)\, one of the many media outlets to have been closed in Turkey in the wake of the failed coup in 2016. Doğan was among the journalists to be arrested and imprisoned\, serving almost three years in prison in Turkey on charges of ‘propagandising for a terrorist organisation’. She was finally released from prison in February 2019 and arrived in London in March 2019.  In April Doğan won the Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award for Arts and is currently Artist in Residence at English PEN. \nFor more information\, dijana@counterpoints.org.uk \nCredit: Tony Cenicula\, The New York Times Banksy’s mural in Manhattan\, New York\, displayed Zehra Doğan’s artwork in protest of her arrest.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/li-du-man-installation-with-zehra-dogan-a-counterpoints-arts-learning-lab-roundtable/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Learning
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SUMMARY:Picturing Climate at Tate Exchange
DESCRIPTION:A three day programme of talks\, workshops and performances\, bringing together an international network of arts organisations working with participatory methodologies to connect the arts\, environment\, migration and working with young people. Counterpoints Arts is a collaborative partner. \nWith Riera Studio/Cuba\, Most Mira/Bosnia and Auranitis Lifeline/Jordan. The Project’s team includes Agnes Czajka (The Open University)\, Eva Sajovic (artist\, photographer)\, Corinne Silva (visual artist)\, Jasmin Hasic (International Burch University\, Sarajevo)\, Dzeneta Karabegovic (University of Salzburg) and our Dijana Rakovic. \nPicturing Climate is hosted by The Open University\, and funded by AHRC. \nImage by Maja Milatovic-Ovadia.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/picturing-climate-at-tate-exchange/
LOCATION:London
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SUMMARY:No Direction Home : the next generation!
DESCRIPTION:In 2018\, Camden People’s Theatre\, Counterpoints Arts and award-winning comedian Tom Parry (Pappy’s; Badults; The Lost Disc) launched the No Direction Home standup programme – a unique new course for aspiring comics from refugee and migrant backgrounds. \nAfter the smash-hit success of its debut season\, and a sell-out gig at Southbank Centre\, come join us for more huge laughs from our talented team. \nFull details & booking: https://www.cptheatre.co.uk/production/no-direction-home-standup-night/
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/no-direction-home-the-next-generation/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:Pop Culture – Young People – Migration & Social Change
DESCRIPTION:#platforma5 \n21-22 October 2019\, Gulbenkian\, University of Kent\, Canterbury \nA 2-day ‘retreat’ as part of Platforma 5 \nIntroduction \nPop Culture and Social Change is a pioneering project from Counterpoints Arts exploring how the power of pop culture can be harnessed to shift the way we talk\, think and feel about migration and displacement. \nAs part of Platforma 5\, the fifth arts & refugees festival run by Counterpoints Arts\, we are holding an event in partnership with Gulbenkian exploring how youth-focused pop culture formats can create positive social change relating to migration and displacement. \nThe main part of this event is for invited participants only\, following an open call in July. If you would like more information about the outcomes\, or the project overall\, contact hello@counterpoints.org.uk \nOutline \nWe will focus on three pop culture strands: \n– Music\n– Videogames\n– Online TV \nAcross the 2-days there will be a chance to engage with all three areas in relation to social change / migration & displacement\, and the opportunity to focus on areas of particular interest. \nExamples \nDuring the retreat all participants will have the opportunity to engage with content from all three main strands. For example\, we will look at Bury Me\, My Love the recent videogame from The Pixel Hunt. And we will be considering: \n– Examples from mainstream and ‘alternative’ games \n– The impact of videogames on understanding of migration \n– Diversity within the games industry \n– How new games can be developed and distributed \n– Building a network of people with an interest in videogames & migration \n \nOn the evening of 21st October\, there will be a screening of the documentary MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. \nWith regards to music\, migration and displacement we will consider issues such as: \n– How artists are changing the distribution models for new music so as to be in more control of their output and create new opportunities \n– Approaches to bringing issues such as migration into artists’ creative output \n– How to make effective links between arts & activism \n– Learning from the musical archives \n \nAnd we will look at how online TV from BBC 3\, Netflix and others can engage wide audiences through drama and comedy. Questions to be considered might include: \n– What opportunities already exist for young creatives from refugee & migrant background? \n– What more can broadcasters do to increase opportunity? \n– Where are the potential crossovers between self-made content and  ‘broadcast’ content and where are the differences? \n– What might the industry look like five years from now?
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/pop-culture-young-people-migration-social-change/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Pop Culture
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SUMMARY:Platforma 2019 at Turner Contemporary
DESCRIPTION:Image credit: Chris Constantine \nJoin us for a week of participatory workshops\, conversations\, screenings and talks as part of a Turner Contemporary takeover by Platforma Festival. \nThe programme (coordinated by Tom Green and Dijana Rakovic at Counterpoints Arts) reflects upon several of the themes showcased in the work of the Turner Prize nominees\, such as migration\, displacement\, human rights and the politics of listening\, citizenship\, popular memory and contested histories. \nThe Platforma Festival for the arts\, refugees and migration brings together artists\, organisations\, funders and others for discussions\, workshops and the chance to share practice and showcase new work. The 5th Platforma Festival takes place across Kent & Medway. \nPlatforma Arts is produced by Counterpoints Arts\, a national charity working in the field of art\, migration and social change. \nAll activities are free and many of the workshops are suitable for families. \n#Platforma5\n\nMONDAY 21st \nRich Wiles\, Ongoing Journeys \nInteractive video based work – 12.00 to 17.30\, Monday 21st to Friday 25th \nOngoing Journeys is an intimate\, collaborative photographic exhibition and accompanying interactive multi-media web platform. It explores the idea of ‘family’ through the story of Rami\, Ruba and their children as they attempt to rebuild their lives in Yorkshire following their displacement from Syria. \nBringing together documentary photographs produced in the UK with family archive images and WhatsApp ‘still life’ images – the project probes ‘identity’\, ‘home’ and ‘resettlement’ and examines the notion of family and its fragmentation\, as experienced by millions of people today. \nRich Wiles is a socially engaged documentary photographer. Wiles returned to the UK in 2016 after more than 10 years based in Palestine (including 6 years living in a Palestinian refugee camp) and is currently trying to navigate through the UK’s immigration minefield with his wife\, herself a Palestinian refugee.  \n  \nAida Silvestri\, Why Margate? \nWorkshop – 12:00 to 16:00 \nQuestion: Why did you choose Margate as your home? \nInvitation: Transform Margate’s postcards with embroidery by adding your personal touch to produce fun\, colourful and alternative results. \nPlease note: You are welcome to bring your image\, but it has to be Black & White A5 image printed on a card. \nAida Silvestri is a UK based artist who creates work concerning the sensitive issues of culture\, ethnicity\, race\, identity\, health\, politics\, and the urban landscape. She holds a BA (First Hons) in photography from the University of Westminster\, London.  She has experience of coordinating photo-shoot sessions\, running workshops and public speaking. Her work explores new and unique approaches to documentary photography to raise awareness\, give voice to the voiceless and to promote acceptance within communities. \nSilvestri’s work has been shown in Folkestone at the Brewery Tap and Sassoon Gallery\, in London at Autograph ABP\, Photographers’ Gallery\, Saatchi Gallery\, Roman Road Gallery\, Mall Gallery and in France\, Greece\, Luxemburg\, Taiwan and Reunion Island.  She was voted one of the British Journal of Photography’s two ‘Best of Show Winners’ at the Free Range exhibition\, London in 2013 and was shortlisted for the 2017 Arendt\, European Month of Photography awards. \n\nTUESDAY 22nd \nAnna Ray and People United\, Home \nCrafting workshop – 12:00 to 16:00 \nIn 2018 over the course of seven months\, textile artist Anna Ray ran a series of workshops with a group of women in Ashford\, including recently resettled Syrian women. The workshops explored the ways in which ‘home’ can be represented. The aim of the project was to bring a new community together to discover commonalities and celebrate differences. \nThis group continues to make artwork together as friends\, meeting regularly to embroider and try out new skills learnt during the commission \nJoin the artist and some of the participants in a ‘making together’ workshop at Platforma 2019 alongside the original pieces made by the participants and Ray. \nHome was commissioned by People United\, the Diocese of Canterbury and Ashford Borough Council in 2018 and funded by Arts Council England. \n  \nSawt of the Earth\, Sawt of Margate \nField Sound Recording Workshop – 12:00 to 16:00 \nPlease join us in a workshop with Sawt of the Earth in collaboration with sound artist\, Mark Gergis. \nGergis will share some of his field recording works and explain how this process of capturing sound can be used in a variety of ways. The art and social and political power of field recordings as a means to capture the sonic traces of people\, landscapes and locations will be discussed. Workshop participants will have the chance to capture their own recordings of the sonic environment of Margate and will be shown how to edit these sounds and weave into stories. \nSawt of the Earth are a collective experimenting around the convergence between sonic memory and social collaboration\, exploring the practice of using acoustics as a plane of radical exchange between people\, time and space. \n\nWEDNESDAY 23rd \nAdam Chodzko\, A Hostile Environment 2019 \nConversation with the artist – 12:00 to 13:00 \nInternationally renowned Kent based artist\, Adam Chodzko\, presents his past and current work engaging with questions of displacement\, belonging and citizenship. Adam will be in conversation with Almir Koldzic\, Co-Director of Counterpoints Arts. \n  \nLocal Network: Creating an Archive \nNetworking event\, open to public – 14:00 to 16:00 \nExploring the history of arts\, refugee and migration projects in Kent. How might we work collectively to bring this archive to life? Led by local artists Julie Neville and Douglas Noble. \nAll welcome. To reserve a free place contact julie@jneville.co.uk \n  \nFarhad Berahman\, Memory\, Slow Portraiture and the Afghan Camera Box \nWorkshop -12:00 to 16:00 \nThe Afghan Camera\, or ‘kamra-e-faoree’ is still used as a traditional method of capturing memories by veteran street photographers in Afghanistan and Iran. The hand-made wooden camera acts as both the camera and darkroom\, thus working as a ‘2 in 1’ machine. This enables capturing and instant printing of photographs\, an individual copy handed to visitors upon processing of the image. This process of taking a photograph creates a space for exchange and conversation. \nJoin Berahman in the photographic process and in a hand colouring activity\, a technique of treating images dating back to the early 19th century. The production process underpinning ‘Afghan Camera Box (kamra-e-faoree)’ can also be seen in Marcia Chandra’s short film\, Conversation: Afghan Camera Box. \n  \nUmama Hamido\, On Akka’s Shore \nPerformance and screening 16:00 to 17:30 \nUmama Hamido is a Lebanese artist who is currently based in the UK. Through performance\, film\, sound and text she explores experiences of loss\, yearning\, and remembrance. Her work unearths the ever-present human threads of resistance within seemingly insurmountable structures of power. \n\n\n\n\n\nOn Akka’s Shore is a 60min cinematic performance combining film\, text\, soundscore and rap. The piece is concerned with the chaos of memory in relation to personal and collective history; a meditation on a past\, present\, and future that has been continuously disrupted. Hamido has developed this work with her old friend Jaz\, writing fictional memoirs based on Jaz’s experience of hallucinations and her own dreams\, which mirror and blend into one another\, to speak of a collapsing world\, out-of-body experiences and superpowers. They slip between Akka\, Jaz’s city of origin in Palestine\, a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon where he was born\, Beirut – Umama’s birthplace\, and London where they both currently live.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n‘Yesterday I dreamt that I was flying over the streets of Beirut. I was my camera\, my body and my eye and all of me was one with the lens. You asked me how it was. I told you\, the feeling resembles everything in it. Do you think places get stuck in time when we leave them?’  (Umama Hamido)\n\n\n\n\nOn Akka’s Shore was originally commissioned for SPILL Festival 2018: On Time. Supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation\, Pacitti Company and Artsadmin. \n\nTHURSDAY 24th \nFarhad Berahman\, Memory\, Slow Portraiture and the Afghan Camera Box \nWorkshop – 12:00 to 17:00 \nThe Afghan Camera\, or ‘kamra-e-faoree’ is still used as a traditional method of capturing memories by veteran street photographers in Afghanistan and Iran. The hand-made wooden camera acts as both the camera and darkroom\, thus working as a ‘2 in 1’ machine. This enables capturing and instant printing of photographs\, an individual copy handed to visitors upon processing of the image. This process of taking a photograph creates a space for exchange and conversation. \nJoin Berahman in the photographic process and in a hand colouring activity\, a technique of treating images dating back to the early 19th century. The production process underpinning ‘Afghan Camera Box (kamra-e-faoree)’ can also be seen in Marcia Chandra’s short film\, Conversation: Afghan Camera Box. \n  \nJillian Edelstein\, Transitional Portraits\, Photography and Displacement \nArtist talk and photographic workshop – 12:00 to 17:00 \nJoin us for a combined talk and participatory workshop with photographer\, Jillian Edelstein. Edelstein will present photographs from her forthcoming book Here and There: The Search for Great Aunt Minna\, which tells the story of her own family history of displacement. \nMixing photography with writing Edelstein often uses Instagram as a format to curate stories online – with images from Lesvos and Calais\, to meeting Venezuelan refugees in Colombia\, visits and post war trips to Rwanda\, Kosovo\, Bosnia\, El Salvador. And the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa. \nUsing mobile phones and a selfie printer to produce instant images\, the workshop will invite participants to explore a number of themes mixing writing with photography:  the familiarity of culture\, food\, clothing\, music; the fabric and texture of a known\, comforting\, familiar life and how that contradicts with one of non/unfamiliarity; exploring the same themes – music\, food\, culture\, a way of being and new and different rules – lending towards feelings of being ’the other’ and what emotions that stirs up. \n\nFRIDAY 25th \nHenna Asikainen\, Foraging ‘Omens’ Walk \nForaging ‘Omens’ Walk:  – 11.30 to 13.30 \nJoin Asikainen as she guides us on a foraging pathway from Turner Contemporary to 101 Social. \nAsikainen is a mixed-media artist\, born in Joensuu\, Finland.  Her work explores questions surrounding environmental justice\, climate change\, migration\, human relationships with nature and the interplay between social\, cultural and ecological issues. \nMany of Asikainen projects have a site-specific element with communal and social experiences and have been created with the participation of displaced peoples’ communities and especially migrants with a refugee background. \nMeet at front desk\, at 11.30am. \n  \nHeadway London\, Submit to Love Studios \nGallery talks\, sound installation and workshop – 12:00 to 16:00 \nSound Installation: 12 brain injury survivors share their stories in a sound installation. Listen to stories about their cultural\, geographical and physical displacement in an ever-changing world. Drawing on some key themes from this years’ Turner finalists\, these conversations provide a platform to unheard communities with intersecting identities and experiences. Project run by charity Headway East London. \nWorkshop: Led by the artists of Submit to Love Studios as they explore identity and model-making in response to Turner nominee Oscar Murillo’s work. \n10-Minute Talks: Talks will take place in the Turner Prize galleries\, at lunchtime\, please ask for the exact timings. Two members of the Headway group will reflect on the works in the Turner Prize exhibition – Lobna will reflect on the work by Lawrence Abu Hamdan\, and Chris on Oscar Murillo’s projects. \nHeadway East London is a charity supporting people affected by brain injury. They offer specialist support and services to survivors and their families\, whilst also campaigning for greater awareness. They also make art\, music\, food and culture at their Hackney hub. Their vision is to create a community where people with brain injury are valued\, respected and able to fulfil their potential. \n Submit to Love Studios is home to a group of mostly self-taught artists who have all survived brain injuries. They work collectively in an open environment and help bring out the best in each other. Their mission is “discovery through art”\, and the studio is based at charity Headway East London in Hackney. \n  \nJuan del Gado: Drifting Narratives \nScreening of Fleches Sans Corps (8 min\, 2003) – 11.30am to 12.30pm \nScreening of excerpts and a work-in-progress presentation by del Gado\, in relation to his current multi-screen project In the Shadow of the Midnight Sun. \nFollowing a refugee from Damascus in search of answers to his identity in Sweden\, In the Shadow of the Midnight Sun explores displacement\, global warming and belonging via a journey through the vast landscape of the Arctic. \n  \nA Counterpoints Arts’ Learning Lab in partnership with Plymouth College of Art \nThe Art of Networking and the Platforma Festival \nLearning Lab – 13:30 to 15:30 \nA map of the Platforma Festival 2019 spans across the edges and centres of local areas\, neighbourhoods\, arts venues and cultural organisations in Kent and Medway\, resulting in a rich range of creative connections and co-productions. It shows that the art of building networks lies at the very heart of the commissioning and co-curatorial process of the Festival. These are the networks that aspire to be collaborative and cooperative\, are often fluid and thrive on negotiating relationships\, mutual exchanges and the sharing of resources. \nJoin us for a reflective conversation before the Platforma Festival ends to help capture some of the concrete forms and potential legacies of these evolving networks. The dialogue will address questions emerging from the event\, how we move forward to develop tangible projects and what the implications may be for the institutions and organisations that we interact with. This conversation will include several of the artists\, cultural activists\, curators\, producers\, educators and participants who have helped shape and have fed into the reciprocal architecture of the Festival as well as invited participants including: Aida Silvestri (Artist & Community Organiser); Gurvinder Sandher (Artistic Director\, Cohesion Plus); Stephen Felmingham (Plymouth College of Art); Julie Neville (Platforma South East Coordinator); Tim Butcher (Department for People and Organisations\, OU); Tom Green (Counterpoints and  Platforma Coordinator). \nModerated by Áine O’Brien\, Co-Director Counterpoints Arts \nhttp://learninglabeditions.org/ \nhttps://www.plymouthart.ac.uk/ \n\n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/platforma-2019-at-turner-contemporary/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Learning
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SUMMARY:Music\, poetry & screenings @ Gulbenkian
DESCRIPTION:#platforma 5 \nAs part of our 5th Platforma festival we are co-curating a week of events at the Gulbenkian in Canterbury. The programme includes: \n21-22 October: Pop culture / Young People / Migration & Social Change – Pop Culture and Social Change is a pioneering project from Counterpoints Arts exploring how the power of pop culture can be harnessed to shift the way we talk\, think and feel about migration and displacement. (Invitation only) \n21 October: Pop culture\, arts & activism – 18.00-19.00: A free session open to all\, linked to our pop culture retreat. Followed by: 19.30pm Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. – a 2018 biographical documentary film about English rapper\, artist & activist M.I.A.. Directed by Steve Loveridge \n22 October: Popjustice scratch!\, 17.00:\nA free performance\, open to all\, by participants in the pop culture retreat. \n23 October: Tongue Fu\, 19.30\nTongue Fu is one of the UK’s leading spoken word shows. It is a riotous experiment in live literature\, music\, film and improvisation. Featuring top poets Anthony Anaxagorou\, Rachel Rose Reid\, Julian Knxx. Hosted by Francesca Beard \n24 October: No Direction Home stand-up comedy with guest headliner\, 19.00\nAfter a sell-out gig at the Southbank Centre in London\, and guest headliners including Nish Kumar and Romesh Ranganathan No Direction Home bring a hilarious line-up of comedians from refugee & migrant backgrounds to Canterbury for this one-off gig. Special guest headliners to be announced! \n25 October: The Last Tree\, 19.00\nA new feature film\, written & directed by Shola Amoo. Presented as part of Black History Month by Kent University Union. \n26 October: Platforma Family Day\,  from 10.00\nArtist and performer-led workshops\, performances and fun for the whole family\, around themes of home\, identity and migration. \n26 October: Rafiki Jazz – Up Close!\,  20.00\nAcclaimed by Songlines magazine as ‘The best of British’\, Rafiki Jazz bring their diverse and eclectic sound to Kent for a unique Platforma 5 performance. A collective based in the north of England\, comprising musicians from around the world\, their latest album\, ‘Har Dam Sahara’\, draws on the beauty and poetry of Pakistan & Senegal’s mystic Sufi traditions and ancient Middle Eastern Coptic\, Arabic & Hebrew roots.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/music-poetry-screenings-gulbenkian/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation
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SUMMARY:Building Alternative Food Systems
DESCRIPTION:The Arts\, Migration and Food Platforma 5 event\, part of Something Held in the Mouth\, a four day festival of food\, migration & the poetics of food\, organised by  Custom Folkestone. \n14:00 to 16:00 \nInterdisciplinary artist Dana Olărescu and social designer Paulina Sidhom are working with a food bank organiser in Peckham\, examining the system from how we make donations through to the user experience. Their work encourages us to reconsider our responsibility as citizens\, beyond existing power structures\, to redesign food systems collectively \nThey will run a participatory workshop on re imagining a better\, fairer (more nutritious) food banking and sharing system\, aimed at empowering those in need and those that donate. Looking at replacing dried\, canned foods with seasonal\, organic and locally-grown ones\, they aim to create a more holistic model prioritising nutrition and food literacy by reflecting on our contemporary disconnect from food. Come help them build it together. \n16:00 to 17:00 \nWhat role can arts & food projects play in developing understanding of migration & displacement? With May Project Gardens founder Ian Solomon-Kawall (KMT)\, Usman Khalid of Haven Coffee and Dana Olărescu and Paulina Sidhom. \nAbout the panel: \nDana and Paulina test the boundaries between art and design with collaborative work inspired by ecology\, wellbeing\, and non-formal education. They are currently developing a project on natural building and growing microgreens in London\, aiming to address people’s contemporary relationship to locally-sourced food. Previous projects include teaching gardening techniques to vulnerable adults\, and art installations challenging immigrant stereotypes\, with some on show at Tate Modern\, Museum of London\, Goldsmiths University\, and Incheon Arts Platform (South Korea\,) amongst others. @microlifeproject #microchangescreatewaves \n Ian (KMT) has over 20 years experience of working in activism and social change. He’s worked on raising awareness for a multitude of social issues using the powerful words and rhythms of Hip Hop music and a non-exhaustive passion for the environment and conservation\, combining his love for music and love for nature. KMT’S VISION – KMT uses the arts for social change to propose a provocation – Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable. His philosophy and working methodologies are grounded in a deep respect for the beauty and abundance of Pachamama (Mother Earth)\, linking the issues of global food security and local food growing systems\, to both entertain and educate. Projects form the rich tapestry that is the community-led food growing space May Project Gardens which he designed using permaculture principles. Here he mentors young people\, nurturing ideas and fuelling passions through music and a connection to the environment\, through a six month leadership programme\, Hip Hop Gardens. \n\nHaven Coffee was founded in 2018 by social entrepreneur and refugee Usman Khalid\, Haven Coffee is a coffee brand with a social mission\, running pop-up coffee shops for workspaces and events across London. We provide a coffee shop experience without you even having to leave the building. With our professionally trained baristas and organic high-quality blends\, Haven can give you that perfect cup of coffee you are looking for. What’s more\, each cup of Haven Coffee sold helps support and raise awareness for refugee communities across the UK\, from promoting refugee artists to organising events\, as well as providing barista training to those refugees who are looking to build a new professional life for themselves.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/building-alternative-food-systems/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Sustainability & Climate Justice
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SUMMARY:Something Held in the Mouth
DESCRIPTION:#platforma5 \nCustom Folkestone presents: Something Held in the MouthA four day festival bringing together artists and creative practitioners to present a diverse programme of art\, events\, workshops and talks about the poetics of food\, the politics of its migrations and the ways in which our bodies hold these stories. The festival convenes dialogues around the way food crosses boundaries and creates connections across the world\, as well as exploring the intersections between art\, food and local markets to forge new alliances through geopolitical conversations.  \nhttps://www.customfolkestone.co.uk \nEvents include: \n6 October  \n14.00: Building alternative food banks –  Interdisciplinary artist Dana Olarescu and social designer Paulina Sidhom will run a participatory workshop on re imagining a better\, fairer food bank system\, aimed at empowering those in need. Looking at replacing dried\, canned foods with seasonal\, organic and locally-grown ones\, they aim to create a more holistic model prioritising nutrition and food literacy by reflecting on our contemporary disconnect from food. Come help them build it together. \n16.00: Panel discussion – What role can arts & food projects play in developing understanding of migration & disaplacement? \n17.00: Join artist and musician Lucky Moyo for the latest East Yard Community Meal.  Custom will be collaborating once again with Dr Legumes and Docker Bakery to produce a Zimbabwean menu designed by Lucky Moyo and friends.  This time we are also going to welcome Lucky’s band of singers\, drummers and dancers to lead us in a musical community celebration! \nPart of the 5th Platforma Festival\, produced by Counterpoints Arts \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/something-held-in-the-mouth/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form
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SUMMARY:Learning Lab: Art\, Cultural Democracy and the City
DESCRIPTION:Image: Guy’s Map of Cork 1893 \nCities have the capability of providing something for everybody\, only because\, and only when\, they are created by everybody.   \n                    Jane Jacobs\, The Death and Life of Great American Cities  \nA well-crafted city can be repaired\, and a poorly crafted city can’t be…. I’m interested in this question of how can we build something that’s open  enough that it’s adaptive or resilient\, rather than something that completely serves a specified purpose? That’s my idea of the open city. \n                     Richard Sennett\, Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City \n  \nJoin us for a conversation focusing on who and what makes a city? \nCork city is facing a range of exciting\, overlapping developments with nonetheless physical and infrastructural possibilities and pressures. \nWhose interests and passions actually fuel and shape the current vision for the city? And how might we imagine – from the perspective of 2019 – Cork city in 2050? \nThis Learning Lab will take the form of a ‘think and do’ session bringing civic actors\, artists\, residents\, planners\, small business people\, activists and researchers to think and work together. \nOur aim is to collectively draft a creative ‘blueprint’ for the city\, to be adapted and used as a stepping off point for further conversations. \nQuestions guiding and framing this conversation include (among others): \n\nWhat are the current challenges facing the city and how might socially engaged art and culture be the catalyst for both immediate and slow change?\n\n\nHow is Cork becoming a welcoming city responding to a growing\, diverse demographic?\n\n\nHow might we work together around a common purpose and vision for the city\, even if personal and organizational needs appear to be differently aligned?\n\n\nWhat central role might young actors and new citizens play in the imagining and shaping of the city?\n\n\nWhat can we learn from self-organising and cooperative methods – through which citizens actively choose to navigate power differently? Who is already doing what and where in the city?\n\n\nHow do we create cross-sector coalitions and ways of working – forging pragmatic and creative alliances between small businesses and cultural and civic actors – where decision-making stems from the realities and experiences of diverse neighbourhoods and communities?\n\n\nHow do we avoid a growing disconnect and lack of trust between citizens’ vision on the ground and official policy and how might city planners and elected representatives liaise and learn from grass-roots projects?\n\n\nHow might cross-sector learning result in more powerful communication\, conversation and collaboration between city residents\, planners\, cultural and civic actors and activists and businesses?\n\n\nWhat are the challenges and opportunities on the horizon for Cork post-Brexit?\n\n\nWhat comparative learning can we gain from collaborative initiatives in other port cities?\n\n\nIs it possible to identify a shared city narrative that citizens and dwellers can\, in turn\, make their own?\n\nThe Learning Lab on Art\, Cultural Democracy and the City forms part of a two-day event with Create and partners Crawford Art Gallery (Cork)\, Counterpoints Arts (London)\, Cork City Arts Office and Heart of Glass (St Helens) in the context Create’s 2019 Networking Day for Collaborative Arts.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/learning-lab-art-cultural-democracy-and-the-city/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Learning
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SUMMARY:Networking Day in partnership with CREATE Ireland
DESCRIPTION:Image: Tania Bruguera’s Hyundai Commission\, Turbine Hall launch (2018). Credit: Kirsty O’Connor PA. \nWe are pleased to collaborate with our partners CREATE in Ireland in the context of a Networking Day for Collaborative Arts. Other partners include Crawford Gallery Cork and the Cork City Arts Office. \nThe Networking Day promises to open up a space to ask a shared and urgent question: how can collaborative forms of arts practice – engaging with the embodied experiences and knowledge of citizens – initiate and implement civic agency and significant momentum for social change? \nWe will begin the day looking at the role of the arts institution as constituent museum\, with a central focus on socially engaged artist Tania Bruguera’s work on the Tate Modern Turbine Hall Hyundai Commission. Bruguera will be joined b Cara Courage\, Head of Tate Exchange; Jane Wells\, Programme Manager of Tate Exchange\, and Tate Neighbours Natalie Bell\, Shamus Dark\, Debra Reis and Charles Yassin. This session will be chaired by Áine O Brien\, Co-Director Counterpoints Arts. \nFor more detail on the day\, the full range breakout sessions and parallel workshops\, see here.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/networking-day-in-partnership-with-create-ireland/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Learning
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SUMMARY:No Direction Home in Kent
DESCRIPTION:#platforma5\n\nIn partnership with Ideas Test\, Woodville Theatre\, Cohesion PlusNo Direction Home\, produced by Counterpoints Arts & Camden People’s Theatre\, has been running since September 2018\, with free coaching and paid performances for new stand-up comedians from refugee & migrant backgrounds. Led by award-winning comic Tom Parry\, the group have performed at 10 gigs in London & Edinburgh and worked with guest headliners including Suzi Ruffell\, Nish Kumar and Romesh Ranganathan.For Platforma 5 Tom Parry and members of the No Direction Home group will lead a series of free workshops and performances with people in Gravesend and Sheerness.Workshop dates \nGravesend: 24\, 25 September\, 1\,2 October (all 6-8pm) \nSittingbourne: 10 Oct (6-8pm)\, 12 Oct (4.30pm-7.30pm). 13 October (3-6pm) \nPerformances \nGravesend – The Woodville Theatre – 9 October\, 7pm  booking \nThe Ypres Tavern – Sittingbourne – 13 October\, 7pm \nIf you are interested in joining the free workshops and having a go at stand-up comedy\, please contact tom@counterpoints.org.uk \nAll applications are welcome\, whatever your background. No previous experience necessary! Age 18+ \nPart of the 5th Platforma Festival\, produced by Counterpoints Arts
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/no-direction-home-in-kent/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:Platforma 5 : Kent & Medway
DESCRIPTION:Image: A Hostile Environment 2019\, Adam Chodzko \n  \nThe biennial Platforma festival for the arts by\, with and about refugees and migration is produced by Counterpoints Arts. It brings together artists\, organisations\, funders and others for discussions\, workshops and the chance to share practice and showcase new work. \nThe 5th Platforma festival will take place across Kent & Medway this autumn. \nFor more information contact tom@counterpoints.org.uk \nPLATFORMA 5 : PROGRAMME \nSeptember/October: No Direction Home \nStand-up comedy workshops & performances in Gravesend & Sittingbourne  – Counterpoints Arts in partnership with Ideas Test\, Woodville Theatre\, Cohesion Plus. No Direction Home is produced by Counterpoints Arts & Camden People’s Theatre. \nSeptember/October: Hiphop and spoken word workshops with young people \nLed by Oliver Seagar with Pie Factory\, Music for Change and Counterpoints Arts. \nSeptember-October: Worse Things Happen At Sea\, Ramsgate\, 10.00-22.00 \nThis art installation by Mooch is a Morse code soundtrack within the Ramsgate lighthouse listing over a thousand names of vessels lost on the Goodwin Sands. Imagine how it feels to be lost in a storm at sea as the Morse distress call reminds you of the perils beyond the harbour walls\, over many centuries\, to the present day. \n14 September-13 October: Home – The Beaney House of Art & Knowledge\, Canterbury \nAn exhibition of artwork created by textile artist Anna Ray and a group of mothers living in Ashford ­ long term residents and recently resettled Syrian women. Over the course of seven months\, Anna worked with the group to explore the theme of ‘home’. The aim of the commission was to bring a new community together\, to discover commonalities and celebrate differences. Through weekly workshops\, the participants worked with drawing\, painting\, print\, felt­making\, weaving and stitch. As they made artwork together\, the women shared stories of their home­lives\, speaking of the joys of motherhood and the challenges they face. Since the project drew to a close last year the group have continued to make artwork together as friends\, drawing on the skills and confidence gained from this unique project. Home was commissioned by People United\, The Diocese of Canterbury and Ashford Borough Council\, funded by Arts Council England. (picture credit: Anna Ray) \n3-5 October: Music After Detention: Dover Residency \nMusic in Detention (MiD)\, in collaboration with musician Oliver Seagar are running a 3 day residency in Dover\, with musicians they worked with whilst incarcerated in the UK’s Immigration Detention System. Until 2015 there was an Immigration Removal Centre in Dover\, sited in Dover’s Western Heights Nature Reserve. Some of MiD’s musicians were held there. Includes: 5 October Music After Detention Gig @ The Lighthouse in Deal 20:30 – 23:00 \n3-6 October: Custom Folkestone presents: Something Held in the Mouth\, A four day festival bringing together artists and creative practitioners to present a diverse programme of art\,  events\, workshops and talks about the poetics of food\, the politics of its migrations and the ways in which our bodies hold these stories. The festival convenes dialogues around the way food crosses boundaries and creates connections across the world\, as well as exploring the intersections between art\, food and local markets to forge new alliances through geopolitical conversations. Events include\, 5 October\, Community Meal with menu designed by Lucky Moyo + music from Lucky & friends. \n7 October: Platforma 5 Launch event at Kent County Council\, Maidstone 17.00-18.30 \nA special event in partnership with Kent County Council for the official launch of Platforma 5 – contact tom@counterpoints.org.uk to reserve a free place \n9 October: No Direction Home at Woodville Theatre 19.30-21.00 \nStand-up performance featuring local people who have attended the workshops\, plus special guest headliners. From Counterpoints Arts in partnership with Cohesion Plus & Woodville Theatre. \n11 October: Building Partnerships\, Huguenot Museum\, Rochester 13.00-16.00 – How can museums and heritage organisations engage sustainably with refugees and migrants? \nA free seminar from Counterpoints Arts in partnership with the Huguenot Museum and The Migration Museum Project. \n11 October: Swale Festival of Light in Sittingbourne\, with Cohesion Plus \nFollowing workshops local schools to create lanterns around core values of respect\, excellence\, friendship and equality led by artists commissioned for Platforma 5\, a parade as part of a colourful community festival. \n13 October: No Direction Home at Ypres Tavern\, Sittingbourne 19.30-21.00 \nStand-up performance featuring local people who have attended the workshops\, plus special guest headliners. From Counterpoints Arts in partnership with Ideas Test \n15-30 October: Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children Art Project\, Sittingbourne Library \nYoung refugees and asylum seekers have created an art exhibition inspired by their journeys to Kent and hopes for the future. \n16-27 October: Why Folkestone? by Aida Silvestri\, Folkestone \nA new exhibition for Platforma 5 by the internationally-exhibited photographer Aida Silvestri. Presented alongside her whose previous workEven This Will Pass. \n18-25 October: Lilacs In Bloom by Joy C Martindale\, Jarman Building – University of Kent \nA participatory artwork made in collaboration with survivors of modern-day slavery and human trafficking. \n18 October – 8 November: Platforma 5 @ 101 Social Club\, Margate \nAs part of their Autumn/Winter programme\, 101 Social Club in Margate presents a series of installations\, screenings and talks \n21-25 October Platforma 5 takeover at Turner Contemporary & 101 Social\, Margate \nA week-long programme of artist-led engagement & talks linked to 2019 Turner Prize exhibition. Co-commissioned and co-curated by Counterpoints Arts and Turner Contemporary. \nIncluding: 23 October – “Creating an Archive” : Exploring the history of arts\, refugees and migration projects in Kent. How might we work collectively to bring this archive to life? Led by Julie Neville and Douglas Noble. \n21-26 October: Platforma 5 at Gulbenkian\, in partnership with Counterpoints Arts \n21-22 October: Pop culture / Young People / Migration & Social Change – retreat\, Gulbenkian Pop Culture and Social Change is a pioneering project from Counterpoints Arts exploring how the power of pop culture can be harnessed to shift the way we talk\, think and feel about migration and displacement. (Invitation only) \n21 October: Pop culture\, arts & activism – Gulbenkian 18.00-19.00: A free session open to all\, linked to our pop culture retreat. Followed by: 19.30pm Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. – film screening\, Guklbenkian\nA 2018 biographical documentary film about English rapper\, artist & activist M.I.A.. Directed by Steve Loveridge \n22 October: Popjustice scratch!\, Gulbenkian 17.00:\nA free performance\, open to all\, by participants in the pop culture retreat. \n23 October: Tongue Fu\, Gulbenkian\, 19.30\nTongue Fu is one of the UK’s leading spoken word shows. It is a riotous experiment in live literature\, music\, film and improvisation. Featuring top poets Anthony Anaxagorou\, Rachel Rose Reid\, Julian Knxx. Hosted by Francesca Beard \n24 October: No Direction Home stand-up comedy with guest headliner\, Gulbenkian.\nAfter a sell-out gig at the Southbank Centre in London\, and guest headliners including Nish Kumar and Romesh Ranganathan No Direction Home bring a hilarious line-up of comedians from refugee & migrant backgrounds to Canterbury for this one-off gig. Special guest headliners to be announced! \n25 October: The Last Tree\, Gulbenkian\nA new feature film\, written & directed by Shola Amoo. Presented as part of Black History Month by Kent University Union. \n26 October: Platforma Family Day\,  Gulbenkian\, from 10.00\nArtist and performer-led workshops\, performances and fun for the whole family\, around themes of home\, identity and migration. \n26 October: Rafiki Jazz – Up Close!\, Gulbenkian\, 20.00\nAcclaimed by Songlines magazine as ‘The best of British’\, Rafiki Jazz bring their diverse and eclectic sound to Kent for a unique Platforma 5 performance. A collective based in the north of England\, comprising musicians from around the world\, their latest album\, ‘Har Dam Sahara’\, draws on the beauty and poetry of Pakistan & Senegal’s mystic Sufi traditions and ancient Middle Eastern Coptic\, Arabic & Hebrew roots. \n26 October: They Came In Crowded Boats\, Tom Thumb Theatre\, Margate\, 13.30 \nThe Margate Film Festival presents a selection of short films that explore the motivations\, challenges and perceptions of global migration and refugee stories. \n26 October: Shiva Nova presents Romany Diamonds\, Quarterhouse Folkestone\, 19.30 \nThree generations of one traditional Gypsy Roma family playing acoustic magic with fire and soul; amazing audiences with back-to-front violin playing and soul-searching ballads followed by musical Gypsy mayhem. Plus: The World in a Tent Roma exhibition will be in the foyer all day hosting workshops in Roma music from 4pm-5pm and dance from 5pm-6pm for everyone to join in! \n27 October: Platforma 5 presents …. Quarterhouse\, Folkestone \nA series of presentations from artists who are part of the Platforma network in Kent and across England\, followed by discussions and networking. \n\nBackground \nPlatforma arts and refugee network supports and develops arts by\, about and with refugees and migrants from marginalised communities. It brings together groups and artists / performers of any background or political status (e.g. refugees and non-refugees). Platforma is run by Counterpoints Arts in partnership with organisations across the country \nPlatforma 1 took place in London (2011)\, followed by Manchester (2013)\, Leicester (2015) & Newcastle and the North East (2017).
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/platforma-5-kent/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation
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SUMMARY:No Direction Home @ Edinburgh Festival
DESCRIPTION:Booking \nNo Direction Home is a stand-up comedy group from refugee & migrant backgrounds mentored by award-winning comedian Tom Parry\, created and produced by Counterpoints Arts and Camden People’s Theatre. \nThe comedians come from countries including Iran\, Pakistan and Syria. All were new to stand-up but each of them has grabbed the chance to represent themselves on stage\, to talk about their lives\, their experiences and what they have observed. Most of all\, they are extremely funny. \nProceeds from the evening will be donated to the Refugee Survival Trust a Scottish charity providing practical support to asylum seekers and refugees\, especially those who are at risk of destitution. 100% of donations collected at the event will go directly to refugees and asylum seekers in the form of grants or bus passes. \nHosted in partnership with Refugee Survival Trust.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/no-direction-home-edinburgh-festival/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:Refugee Week: 'As Far As Isolation Goes' at Southbank Centre
DESCRIPTION:23 June\, Southbank Centre\, London. \nFree event \nExperience ‘As Far As Isolation Goes’ this Refugee Week. \nThe piece is a collaboration between live artist Tania El Khoury and musician and street artist Basel Zaraa. The incredibly moving piece is built on their previous collaboration entitled ‘As Far As My Fingertips Take Me’ in which El Khoury commissioned Zaraa to record a rap song inspired by the journey his sisters made from Damascus to Sweden. In ‘As Far As Isolation Goes’\, Zaraa and Tania worked together to create another iteration of their previous piece focused on mental and physical health experiences of refugees in the United Kingdom. Zaraa created a song inspired by conversations with friends and colleagues who have recently claimed refuge in UK. ‘As Far As Isolation Goes’ uses touch\, sound\, and interactivity to bring audience members in contact with those faced with inhumane detention centres and a mental health system that disregard their political and emotional contexts. \nSong Conception: Basel Zaraa \nMusic Production: Peter Churchill \nVocals and Lyrics: Jazzar & Shamma Iqbal \nWall Writing: Steaz \nWork commissioned by the Sick of the Fringe 2019. It was installed as part of our Who Are We? project at Tate Exchange. \nTania El Khoury is a live artist creating installations and performances focused on audience interactivity and concerned with the ethical and political potential of such encounters. Her work has been translated and presented in multiple languages in 32 countries across six continents\, in spaces ranging from museums to cable cars to the Mediterranean Sea. She is She is a 2019 Soros Art Fellow and the recipient of the 2017 International Live Art Prize and the 2011 Total Theatre Innovation Award and Arches Brick Award. Tania is currently a visiting assistant professor and festival co-curator at Bard College’s Fisher Center for the Performing Arts. She is affiliated with Forest Fringe and is the co-founder of the research and performance collective Dictaphone Group. She holds a PhD in Theatre Studies from Royal Holloway. In 2018\, a survey of her work entitled ear-whispered: works by Tania El Khoury took place in Philadelphia. \nBasel Zaraa is a spoken word artist and percussionist who writes on themes of exile and resistance. He has collaborated with a wide range of international artists including Akala\, Guildhall youth project (Im)possibilities\, Palestinian hip-hop group Katibeh Khamseh\, Arabic fusion band Raast and funk band Shokunin. He is part of the cast of PsycheDELIGHT’s ‘Borderline’ satire about the Calais camp\, in which he performs original music and DIY sound effects. He is also a visual and stencil graffiti artist and is currently touring with Tania El Khoury’s ‘As Far As My Fingertips Take Me’.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/as-far-as-isolation-goes-at-southbank-centre/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Performance & Dance
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SUMMARY:Refugee Week: No Direction Home with Romesh Ranganathan
DESCRIPTION:23 June\, 7pm\, Southbank Centre  \nTicketed: tickets from £12 \nBooking: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/134145-no-direction-home-2019 \nLaughter unites us: an evening of stand-up by comics from refugee and migrant backgrounds\, with guest headliners Suzi Ruffell and Romesh Ranganathan. \nNo Direction Home is a stand-up comedy group mentored by award-winning comedian Tom Parry. After a string of sell-out shows in London\, they will be bringing their unique brand of humour to Southbank Centre as the culmination of Refugee Week 2019. \nFeaturing: Arashk Farahani\, Nour-ani Sisserian\, Usman Khalid\, Majid Adin. \nGuest headliners: Suzi Ruffell (“A stand-up gem”\, The Guardian) and Romesh Ranganathan (“Irresistable gags”\, The Guardian) \nNo Direction Home is produced in partnership between Counterpoints Arts and Camden People’s Theatre. \nRomesh Ranganathan has sold out major venues across the UK with his stand-up\, including on his first national tour Irrational Live in 2016. He has made numerous TV appearances including with hit series The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan\, Just Another Immigrant and The Ranganation. \nSuzi Ruffell has performed stand-up shows across the country and appeared on Channel 4\, E4\, BBC3\, Comedy Central\, Dave & BBC Radio 4. She will be bringing her new show Dance Like Everyone’s Watching at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer. \nTom Parry is a member of the sketch troupe Pappy’s producing award-winning podcasts\, television and stage shows. He has written\, performed & directed work for stage\, TV and radio and his new stand-up show Parryoke will be at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer. \nMajid Adin is an artist and animator from Iran\, now living and working in London. Majid was shortlisted for the 2018 Groucho Maverick Award celebrating original\, creative artwork that seeks to challenge the status quo. \nNour-Ani Sisserian is an actor and theatre director based in East London. Acting credits include Welcome to the UK at The Bunker and Home Manchester\, Black Lives Black Words at the Bush Theatre. As an assistant director\, credits include a workshop at the National Theatre Studio. \nArashk Farahani is an Iranian performer and film-maker based in London who has recently started sharing his experiences through stand-up comedy. \nUsman Khalid is originally from Pakistan & now lives in London. As well as doing stand-up\, he is establishing a pop-up coffee business @havencoffee that supports refugees.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/no-direction-home-romesh-ranganathan/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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