Last autumn, as part of our Across Borders programme and Platforma 6 festival, we produced a series of poetry workshops with refugees and asylum seekers in towns around Yorkshire.
We commissioned a shortfilm about one series of workshops and the subsequent performance
The project was curated by poet Kayo Chingonyi whose first collection Kumukanda won the Costa Prize and whose new collection, A Blood Condition, is shortlisted for the Forward Prize. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Studies at Durham University. It was produced for Counterpoints Arts by Bea Colley
The workshops and performances took place in the following locations:
– Barnsley, with Barnsley Feels Like Home – led by Andrew McMillan
– Halifax, with St Augustine’s Centre and Halifax Festival of Words – led by Khadijah Ibrahiim (pictured)
– Rotherham, with British Red Cross and Grimm & Co – led by Helen Mort
– Bradford led by Anan Tello, in partnership with Artworks Creative Communities.
