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
Screening of a live performance by Ayanna Witter-Johnson, filmed at the V&A.
As part of Coventry Welcomes, Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 is producing a series of in-person and online gigs in partnership with Counterpoints Arts and our No Direction Home comedy project. Guest headliners include Shappi Khorsandi, Nish Kumar, Kai Samra and Rosie Jones. Gigs will be hosted by Stella Graham. Full details here: https://coventry2021.co.uk/what-s-on/no-direction-home/ [...]
Moving Worlds is a programme of films available to watch at home during Refugee Week, a UK-wide festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees (14-20 June 2021) Responding to this year’s Refugee Week theme ‘We Cannot Walk Alone’, the programme is a curated programme of features and shorts exploring personal experiences of forced [...]
A dolls’ house making workshop with Archimake for the 2021 Virtual Giant Dolls’ House installation ‘Together we care.’
Refugee Week 2021 programme produced in collaboration with our colleagues at the V&A.
The new project from reportage artist Olivier Kugler & writer Andrew Humphreys explores the history and present-day reality of Fish & Chip shops.
Find out about getting involved in Refugee Week and becoming a School of Sanctuary A session for Primary and Secondary school teachers to find out about how you can take part in Refugee Week at your school, and what it means to become a School of Sanctuary. Hear from teachers about what they have done [...]
A gathering to share ideas about how faith communities can welcome and stand with refugees, for Refugee Week and beyond Leaders and members of all faith communities are warmly invited to an online networking event to share learning and ideas ahead of Refugee Week 2021. Visit the Eventbrite page to book your place. Refugee Week [...]
