Counterpoints in Conversation is a brand new radio series on Resonance FM, in collaboration with Gaby D'Annunzio.
New co-commission with Whitechapel Gallery - To-Recite by Aliaskar Abarkas. Sign up for workshops across April and May.
The world’s largest arts and culture festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary.
A brand new digital art-meets-football project made with people from all over the world who now call Sheffield home, to celebrate the World Cup and Refugee Week.
A night of comedy featuring No Direction Home and the Palestine Comedy Club, presented by the University of Westiminster.
An intimate evening of storytelling, reflection, and conversation exploring the meaning of home, migration, and belonging.
A collective of filmmakers capture the lives of a people caught up in a conflict that has ravaged Sudan.
An audio-visual installation and community project by artist Kadir Karababa that explores how music carries memory, identity and a sense of home across borders.
A celebration of music and spoken word shaped by migration – co-curated by Anoushka Shankar and hosted by Nish Kumar.
Global bestselling writer and renowned activist Elif Shafak explores whether creativity can help heal our divided world.
Join a celebration of global club sounds and community at the Southbank Centre with Our Heartbeats DJ Crew for Refugee Week
A screening of exceptional short films selected by Sarah Agha for Arab Film Club, followed by a Q&A.
Past Events
For Nottingham Refugee Week, a special stand-up comedy gig from our No Direction Home collective.
Saxophonist and singer Conny Ottinger brings together musicians of different roots in her new band project with a special performance for Refugee Week.
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Alter, by Distanced Assemblage, is a visual arts co-commission between Counterpoints Arts and Southbank Centre, presented for the first time during Refugee Week 2022.
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Creatively Minded and Refugees - Arts, refugees and mental health report will be launched at Yorkton Workshops in London
Come together to share stories and notions of migration as we collectively create a hand-embroidered tablecloth border.
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Dear Laila shares the Palestinian experience of displacement and struggle through the story of one family. Presented in Kirkless as part of Refugee Week.
A Learning Lab on The Politics of Hospitality and the Refuge City, inspired by artist's Alketa Xhafa Mripa's dynamic installation 'Refugees Welcome' at York University's York Festival of Ideas, Saturday 17th June 2017.
