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SUMMARY:Flamm x Counterpoints - [Dis]Location Artists Exchange
DESCRIPTION:Counterpoints and Flamm have been working together since the first edition of the Festival in 2023\, when the organisations co-commissioned projects as part of Flamm and Counterpoints’ Platforma Festival in South West in 2023. \nFor Flamm 2026\, we have co-commissioned SHARP’s project Once We Were Held and are working together on an artist exchange to explore the Flamm 2026 theme of [Dis]Location. \nFacilitated by artist Sovay Berriman\, one of the co-commissioned artists in 2023\, three Flamm artists are paired with three Counterpoints artists. \nThe artist pairs are: \n\nKatie Ethridge & Boseda Olawoye\nRachael Jones & Anca Dimofte\nAlice Mahoney & Kaajal Modi\n\nEach pair exchanges on their socially engaged work\, ideas and interests through a series of conversations in the run up to Flamm 2026. These exchanges will be documented and shared online\, and the group will come together for a special episode in Sovay’s Meskla Podcast post Festival. \nWe are also holding a live podcast event during the festival to highlight the conversations around [Dis]Location\, with Sovay Berriman & Liverpool Biennial 2025 Curator Marie-Anne McQuay\, hosted by Jelena Sofronijevic of EMPIRE LINES podcast. \n  \nAbout Sovay Berriman\n \nSovay Berriman is an artist working for 25+ years\, based in Cornwall with a practice spanning sculpture\, drawing\, film\, broadcasting\, research and social learning situations. Sovay’s work reviews and questions systems and structures of power\, challenging us to claim agency and responsibility for the roles we play in the ecosystems we occupy.  \nSovay was the Clore Visual Art Fellow 2023-24\, with a secondment with National Theatre Scotland and a published outcome\, ‘ReWilding Arts Leadership’. In 2023 Sovay was commissioned by Hospital Rooms to make a new permanent commission for Longreach House\, Cornwall Hospitals Trust. Between 2022-25\, Sovay delivered ‘MESKLA | Brewyon Drudh’ a multi-platform project that explored contemporary Cornish cultural identity and its relationship with heritage\, land\, and extraction industries. ‘MESKLA’ was funded by Arts Council England\, Feast and Historic England and encompassed new sculpture and film\, workshops and podcasts and culminated in the 2025 exhibition ‘Catching Copper’ at East Pool Mine in partnership with The National Trust. \nSovay has a long standing commitment to artist-led activity\, including via co-running ‘Agile Structures’ (2020 – 2025) with artist Sara Bowler\, and as consultant and co-director for ALIAS (Artist Led Initiative Advisory Service) 2009-2018.  \nsovayberriman.co.uk\n@sovayberriman \n  \nThe Artist Pairs\n\nKatie Ethridge with Boseda Olawoye\nKatie Etheridge is an artist\, performer and community engagement practitioner with 25 years experience connecting people and places through playful\, inventive and interactive performances and artworks. With her company Small Acts\, Katie creates and produces a diverse range of socially engaged projects working with communities in Cornwall and nationally. Small Acts specialise in connecting people face-to-face to create participatory live art that brings individuals and communities together through small acts that make a big difference. \n \nFind out more about Katie’s Flamm 2026 Project \nBoseda Olawoye (known as Bo) is a Nottingham based independent creative producer/ consultant who is dedicated to making innovative arts projects in collaboration with diverse communities\, young people (13+)\, marginalised groups\, artists and public partners. Her work explores race\, identity\, place and social justice issues. Bo has worked with Beam- Arts for people & places (North)\, INIVA (London)\, Edinburgh Art Festival\, The Imperial War Museum (UK) Counterpoints Arts (London)\, The Evans Foundation(EU)\, idle women (Lancashire) and artist/activist Emory Douglas (USA). \nBoseda was awarded a research grant from the Churchill Fellowship (2023-24) to find out how grassroots black-led arts organisations in Chicago (USA) use creativity as a tool for social change and similar models internationally. \n \n  \nRachael Jones and Anca Dimofte\nRachael Jones is an artist-filmmaker and researcher whose practice often extends to involve others in the filmmaking process. Sometimes participants are objects with their own agency\, and as a result her films are made up of multiple interacting assemblages. Often working with archive images\, she blends old photographs with newly created visuals\, incorporating both analogue and digital formats that create playful tension in her films. Interested in what can come out of research\, embodiment and participation\, Rachael’s films retain traces of process-driven interactions\, using experimental filmmaking\, sound and animation techniques to creatively connect participants with place. She is involved in land-based\, alternative and sustainable practices\, using found materials and handmade processes where possible. \n \nFind out more about Rachael’s Flamm 2026 Project \nAnca Dimofte is a Romanian-born artist living in London\, working across video\, mixed media\, and performance. With a background in documentary filmmaking\, her practice is informed by feminist and social justice struggle\, embodied histories\, and lived experiences of migration. Her work explores how memory\, stories and trauma are carried in the body\, shaping individual and collective doorways for transformation\, solidarity\, and political resistance. \n \n  \nAlice Mahoney and Kaajal Modi\nAlice Mahoney is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice investigates the entangled relationships between materiality\, place\, and human and non-human systems. Her work is grounded in an exploration of ecological and socio-historical interconnectedness\, with particular attention to the layered geographies of post-industrial landscapes and their associated watercourses. \nWorking with clay\, sound\, and found or waste materials\, Mahoney engages with environments understood as cyclical\, impermanent\, and continually shifting. Her sculptural\, research-led processes examine the residues of extractive industry alongside organic\, cultural\, and ecological regeneration\, situating her practice within wider conversations around land use\, memory\, and repair. Through embodied experience\, speculative enquiry\, and collective memory\, she seeks to reimagine how we might reconnect with these places\, foregrounding the potential of art to act as a conduit for relational\, restorative\, and re-enchanted engagements with landscape. \n \nFind out more about Alice’s Flamm 2026 Project \nKaajal Modi is a multidisciplinary artist-educator mediating material engagements with food\, land and water to explore the politics of how humans relate to the world through our bodies and our imaginations. Kaajal works with communities (social\, cultural\, microbial\, technological\, ecological) to explore knowledges on how we live well together in the present\, in ways that can inform speculations about resilient and abundant futures. Her practice is rooted in co-creation\, and incorporates listening\, recording\, fermenting and foraging to create lively and situated encounters between people\, organisms and ecosystems in ways that invite critical reflection and action. \n  \n  \nFlamm is funded by Experience Bodmin through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund; Cornwall Council and Arts Council England\, with Artists Exchange co-supported by Counterpoints and Flamm. \n  \nAbout FLAMM\nflamm noun; plural noun: flammow\n1. flame\n2. also used in flamm nowedh adj. meaning brand new \nFlamm is a visual art-led event that brings internationally and nationally important work to Cornwall\, enables ambitious new work by locally-based artists and engages communities and visitors in its multi-layered programme. Flamm is part of Creative Kernow. \nFor its pilot year\, Flamm was based in Redruth and took place over the weekend of 21-22 October 2023. The event used a variety of spaces throughout the town for screenings\, exhibitions\, activities\, talks and performances. For 2023\, Festival team worked with the theme of Change\, you can see some highlights of the festival here. \nThe vision is for Flamm to continue as an annual or biennial event\, moving across Cornwall\, with a new location and theme for each iteration. \nThis year\, the Festival will be in Bodmin on 28 Feb and 1 Mar 2026\, with a festival theme of [Dis]Location. \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/flamm-x-counterpoints-dislocation-artists-exchange/
LOCATION:Flamm Festival\, Krowji\, West Park\, Redruth\, Cornwall\, TR15 3GE
CATEGORIES:Learning
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SUMMARY:Palestine Comedy Club film UK release
DESCRIPTION:A major new documentary feature film: on release across the UK from 27th February\nWhen six Palestinian comedians hit the road to tour a stand-up show across Palestine and Israel\, their search for humour amidst the injustice of everyday Palestinian life becomes a plea for humanity against in the face of brutal war. \nFull details of UK screenings and related events: toughcrowd.uk/screenings \nWhat’s funny about life under occupation? Palestine Comedy Club is a rollercoaster road-movie that follows six Palestinian stand-up comedians from Haifa\, Ramallah\, Jenin\, Hebron and the Golan Heights who devise and tour a stand-up comedy show exploring the unlikely\, often dark humour that circles the complex question of Palestinian identity. \nDespite the cultural and security challenges of touring six Palestinian comedians – all with different travel permissions – across checkpoints and borders to six theatres in Palestine and Israel\, audiences flock to the shows and the tour gains momentum through increasing public demand. \nWord spreads internationally and they are invited to London for a series of gigs starting\, tragically\, on Oct 7th\, 2023. Just as war breaks out at home\, the comedians prepare to perform in English for the first time to an increasingly conflicted British public. Suddenly\, the mission to connect with audiences with thoughtful humanity becomes an existential imperative. \nDirected by Alaa Aliabdallah and Charlotte Knowles \nProduced by Charlotte Knowles \nExecutive Producers: Carri Twigg\, Mikail Chowdhurry\, Farzana Rahman\, Esther van Messel and Maryam Pasha \nProduced in association with Counterpoints Productions
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/palestine-comedy-club-film-uk-release/
CATEGORIES:Comedy,Counterpoints Productions
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SUMMARY:Once We Were Held – SHARP
DESCRIPTION:An immersive installation created with sound\, scent\, visuals\, sculpture and LGBTQIA+ history. \nInspired by the Bethany Project in Bodmin – a radical place of rest and care for people with HIV/AIDS in the 80s and 90s – this installation invites us into a space of rest\, reflection and queer community. \nReclaiming daffodils as a symbol of queer resilience\, the installation connects LGBTQIA+ care with the landscapes of Cornwall. \nDeveloped with Queer Kernow and supported by Screen Cornwall & Creative Kernow Associates’ Immersive Innovation programme (part-funded by Cornwall Council from the Culture and Creative Industries Innovation Fund). Co-commissioned with Counterpoints Arts. \n\nSHARP’s Website\nSHARP’s Instagram\n\nAbout the Artist\nSHARP is a queer\, working class\, socially engaged artist\, activist\, and producer whose interdisciplinary approach incorporates experimental video\, photography\, sculpture\, and sound installations. Their work investigates the human condition from a queer perspective\, focusing on themes of remembrance from both personal and collective experiences. \nBased in Cornwall\, with a studio at Trewarveneth in Newlyn\, SHARP works across the UK and internationally. Their artwork is represented in several private and national public collections\, including Leeds Art Gallery\, Bradford Museums and Galleries\, and the Salford University Art Collection. Recently\, SHARP received an Artist Award from the Henry Moore Foundation and\, in 2024\, won the overall title at The Exeter Contemporary Art Prize. \nCurrently\, SHARP is exhibiting in the Plant Dreaming exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery and in She Sells Seashells at the Alice Austin House on Staten Island\, New York. Most recent exhibitions and performances have taken place at venues such as The Loading Bay Bradford City of Culture\, Yorkshire Sculpture Park\, Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange in Cornwall\, The Whitaker Museum\, Cartwright Hall Bradford\, VOID Derry\, and The Gallery 78 in Reykjavik\, Iceland. \nSHARP was the lead artist and creative director of the queer contemporary arts and heritage project KOMPAS with Queer Kernow and Decoder. The installation Once We Were Held was inspired by the research on this project.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/once-we-were-held-sharp/
LOCATION:St Petroc’s Church\, Church Square\, Priory Road\, Bodmin\, Cornwall\, PL31 2DP
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Bibby Boys
DESCRIPTION:Bibby Boys documents the experience of the men aboard the Bibby Stockholm barge and the community that rallied around them. It is a collaborative photographic series by Theo McInnes and Thomas Ralph.\nFree Admission \nPrivate View\, Thursday 19th March\, 18:00-21:00. RSVP HERE \nCounterpoints Arts is one of the partners supporting the exhibition. \nIn late 2023\, while visiting Portland\, McInnes and Ralph overheard the phrase “Bain’t narn of we” used to describe the men housed aboard the newly arrived Bibby Stockholm. In old Dorset\, it means “ain’t one of us”. Hearing this prompted them to consider who these men were\, and how they would experience the island as their temporary home. \nThe Bibby Stockholm\, a repurposed maintenance barge moored off the island\, was used by the UK government to accommodate people seeking asylum. Many of the men onboard had fled persecution\, war\, or climate-related displacement\, only to find themselves confined in conditions Amnesty International described as “utterly shameful” and “reminiscent of the prison hulks of the Victorian era”. Promoted as a cost-saving alternative to hotel accommodation\, the Bibby Stockholm became a highly visible symbol of a deterrence-led asylum policy. \nThe Isle of Portland is a small peninsula connected to the Dorset mainland by a single road. Known for its quarries\, prisons\, and industrial port where the barge was moored\, the island has a rugged character shaped by industry\, remoteness\, and long-standing economic challenges. Portland and neighbouring Weymouth include several neighbourhoods ranked among the most deprived in England\, reflecting persistent barriers to housing\, employment\, and access to services. With the arrival of the Bibby Stockholm\, the island became a focal point of a fierce national debate on migration. \nFor many\, boarding the barge did not feel like a choice. Several men later described feeling compelled to go onboard\, fearing homelessness or negative consequences for their asylum claims if they refused. As they waited in limbo for interviews\, often for multiple years\, the men faced a series of severe challenges. These included an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in the water supply\, restricted movement\, sustained racist and xenophobic protests\, the threat of removal to Rwanda\, and the death of Leonard Farraku onboard. All of this unfolded alongside the personal trauma many carried and deep uncertainty about their futures. Leonard’s death raised serious questions about the adequacy of mental health care and safeguarding within the asylum accommodation system\, deepening concern about the human cost of prolonged limbo. \nIn late 2024\, the decision not to renew the barge’s contract was widely understood as a response to mounting criticism of its human and financial cost. This followed sustained pressure on the newly elected government\, driven in part by collective strikes organised by the men onboard and by continued solidarity from organisations including Care4Calais\, Stand Up To Racism\, and the local Portland Global Friendship Group. \nFormed by Portland residents\, many of whom were strangers before the barge arrived\, the Portland Global Friendship Group offered practical support including help with Home Office applications\, transport\, clothing\, and access to services\, alongside companionship and advocacy. Operating amid local and national hostility\, the group became a visible presence of welcome on the island. Through shared time and activity\, gardening\, walks\, games\, art\, and volunteering became spaces of mutual exchange. Rather than a one-way act of assistance\, the group grew through reciprocity\, with care and responsibility shared between the men onboard and the wider Portland community. When the barge closed\, both the men who had fought for its end and local residents were left to say goodbye to a community formed under conditions no one had chosen. \nMcInnes and Ralph worked slowly and collaboratively\, prioritising time\, consent\, and repeated encounters. With no access to the barge itself\, they worked from the outside\, observing how the men lived and navigated this period of limbo on the island. Over more than a year\, the connections formed between the artists\, the men onboard\, and the wider community shaped both the work and its meaning. \nMainstream media frequently reduces asylum to crisis or threat. Bibby Boys offers another way of looking\, grounded in proximity\, exchange\, and relationship. The tensions surrounding this work are not abstract: when a small preview was shown in Dorset\, the exhibition was vandalised. That act\, occurring alongside a swell of welcome and support\, reflects the contested ground this project occupies and why exhibitions encouraging dialogue and reflection remain necessary. \nArtist Bios\nTheo McInnes (b. 1992) is a photographer and filmmaker based in London. His practice centres on people and the ways they navigate the world\, using photography and film as vehicles for exploration\, attention\, and empathy. Working across portraiture\, social documentary\, and observational filmmaking\, McInnes focuses on human presence\, character\, and lived experience\, often engaging with communities observed from the margins. His directorial debut\, the short documentary The Fanciers\, received recognition at DOC NYC and Bolton International Film Festival\, and was nominated for Best Short Documentary at the Melbourne International Film Festival. McInnes is a multiple-time Portrait of Britain winner\, selected in 2019\, 2020\, and 2024\, and shortlisted in 2023. He received the Social Documentary Photography Award for Best Series for Showland\, and has been awarded Rugby Photographer of the Year twice for his documentary work on the Men’s Six Nations. \nThomas Ralph (b. 1989) is a film director\, writer\, and socially engaged artist from Dorset whose work is driven by political inquiry and an interest in lived experience. Working across film and photography\, his practice explores culture\, community\, and representation. His commercial work has received nominations and awards from Cannes Lions\, British Arrows\, D&AD\, and the UK Music Video Awards. In 2024\, he was a Portrait of Britain winner. Alongside his commissioned practice\, Ralph develops long-form narrative and documentary projects. He is currently co-writing the feature film Precious Things and the television miniseries The Laughter Of Our Children with Liam Papadachi\, and is adapting writer Max Porter’s arms trade soliloquy Wild West into a short film.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/bibby-boys/
LOCATION:Photofusion\, 2 Beehive Place\, London\, SW9 7QR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Photography
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SUMMARY:About Us! Artists Scratch Showcase 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Southbank Centre and Counterpoints Arts invite you to submit your work to be screened or performed during a supportive artistic group session at 7pm – 10pm on Sunday 22 March 2026. Sign up to present your work (or work in progress) and engage in discussions with a room full of like-minded artistic experimenters. All artists selected to present will receive £150 to cover their time and expenses.. \nAs part of the session\, after the performances the artists and audience will discuss any shared or contrasting themes and talk about craft. There are also opportunities for networking and gaining industry advice. \nCounterpoints Arts also have a capacity to support artists from the global majority with advice on project development\, fundraising\, and networking. Contact at Counterpoints is Dijana Rakovic\, Senior Producer dijana@counterpoints.org.uk \nApplications to present work are open to artists aged over 18 from a global majority background (or tackling the subjects of diaspora and migration)\, whether you’re a writer\, musician\, dancer\, filmmaker\, designer or anything in between. \nPlease submit your application by 11.59pm on Wednesday 25 February. Six artists will be selected to share their work. This selection will be curated by Awate. If your work is not selected we’d still love you to come as an audience member to give feedback and share ideas. \nFull details and application form: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/artist-call-out-about-us-artists-scratch-showcase-2026/
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/about-us-artists-scratch-showcase-2026/
LOCATION:Purcell Room\, Queen Elizabeth Hall\, Southbank Centre\, London SE1 8XX
CATEGORIES:Multi-Art Form
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SUMMARY:Artists Against The Far Right - Together March
DESCRIPTION:Join Counterpoints in the Arts Bloc at the Together March on 28 March!\n\nWe invite artists\, creatives\, arts organisations\, partners and supporters to walk with us at the Together Alliance March. Bring your work\, your art\, your placards and your chants. At a time when division is being weaponised\, we believe in the power of the arts — and in the power of gathering together — to imagine and demand something better. Let’s make creativity visible in the movement for justice.  \nWe’ll have some placards available\, please sign up if you’d like one\, and to give us an idea of numbers.  \nSign up to join us at the march!\nMeet on Park Lane at 12pm – exact location on What Three Words. \n\n—\n\nAbout The Together Alliance\nThe Together Alliance is made up of hundreds of civil society organisations representing over 7 million people. They are backed by thousands of everyday people from all over the country: trade unionists and environmentalists\, community activists and faith leaders\, musicians\, athletes\, entertainers and elected representatives. \nThe community is rapidly growing and are mobilising in communities across the country – members represent over 7 million people mobilising for love\, hope and unity in the face of hate\, fear and division\, raising their voices to stop the rise of the far-right. More information about the March route\, accessibility and speakers here.
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/together-march/
CATEGORIES:Community & Participation
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