Archive
3 Dec 2015
A poetry & music scratch night, bringing together London poets from refugee and migrant backgrounds and contributions from live music & spoken word experts Tongue Fu.
6 Nov 2015
Platforma Festival - Ismail is seeking a new life... Leeds Studio in association with West Yorkshire Playhouse presents Nine Lives by Zodwa Nyoni
5 - 6 Nov 2015
Learning
Platforma Festival - The 3rd Platforma Conference will take place 5-6 November 2015 in Leicester. Plus Platforma International 4 November.
5 Nov 2015
Platforma Festival - Award-winning theatre company Transport returns with a multi-media sea saga at the Y Theatre in Leicester.
5 Nov 2015
Learning
Image: Everyday on Canalside, Marcia Chandra, 2015 Date: Thursday 5 November – 2015 Time: 11:40 – 1:00 pm Location: De Montfort University, Leicester LE1 9BH The 2015 Budget painted a very […]
4 Nov 2015
Platforma Festival - Internal Terrains by Natasha Davis is a participatory performance that explores life as a choreography of decades.
30 Oct 2015
Learning
Counterpoints Arts’ Learning Lab in partnership with the Centre for Sex, Gender and Sexualities, University of Durham, the Performing Arts, University of Northumbria, Platforma Arts + Refugee Network and The Forge, reflects on the performance, film and installation work of London-based artist and researcher, Natasha Davis.
20 Oct 2015
Learning
Learning Lab focuses on the social and cultural value of craft as a form of place-making when produced by migrant and refugee women.
10 Jul 2015
Learning
The Tricycle Theatre and Counterpoints Arts invite you to take part in a conversation about the value of the arts for young EAL learners.
21 Jun 2015
Multi-Art Form
Talk with Mary Mitchell, poet George Szirtes and Syrian musician Maya Youssef - in collaboration with The Continuum Ensamble.
20 Jun 2015
Multi-Art Form
It’s your story too! – Refugee Week family event organised in partnership with the V&A Childhood Museum
20 Jun 2015
Music
Special performance for Refugee Week 2015, bringing together singer-songwriter Josephine Oniyama and members of the UK-based Heritage Survival Band from Harare.
19 Jun 2015
Music
We are hugely excited to confirm that the latest edition of our Celebrating Sanctuary London at RichMix will be headlined by the award winning and all round fantastic Akala.
18 Jun 2015
Music
The Queen of Mbira Music from Zimbabwe plays a rare London gig at Just Festival Westminster, as part of a short UK tour celebrating Refugee Week
16 - 21 Jun 2015
Multi-Art Form, Visual Arts
A week-long programme of events, featuring over 40 artists responding to global demographic shifts and unprecedented levels of human displacement.
16 - 25 Jun 2015
A car loaded with personal possessions turned into a living space – an impossible home for a “modern nomad unable to belong and grow roots”. This personal yet universal […]
16 Jun 2015
In association with the Migration Museum Project 16 June: 3:30 – 6 pm The Ditch, Shoreditch Town Hall, 380 Old Street, London Artists are often astute observers of the […]
10 Jun 2015
Learning
The awe-inspiring images of photographer Sebastião Salgado are celebrated by director Wim Wenders.
2 May 2015
Multi-Art Form, Visual Arts
The Southbank Centre and Counterpoints Arts are pleased to invite you to join us in celebrating our brand new exhibition: Adopting Britain - 70 Years of Migration
2 May 2015
Learning
A special event for holders of a Changing Britain day pass for 2nd May at Southbank Centre. To what extent have the various moments of migration to the UK shaped the cultural fabric of the nation?
21 Apr 2015
Counterpoints and Index on Censorship present Whose Story Is It Anyway?, a night of writers, discussion and refugee representations. Join us at Richmix to hear about the representation of refugees in novels and plays.
17 Apr - 6 Sep 2015
Multi-Art Form, Visual Arts
Adopting Britain: 70 Years of Migration exhibition - presented by the Southbank Centre in partnership with Counterpoints Arts
25 Feb 2015
Learning
An interactive IPortrait researched, designed and produced by Counterpoints Arts, Moving Lives is an online platform and living archive of migrants' stories.
20 Feb 2015
Multi-Art Form
The Everyday on Canalside project is launching its participatory arts website. The project is a portrait of a place and its people and has been up and running for the past year.
20 Feb 2015
Learning
Our upcoming Learning Lab centres around issues of arts, gender and human rights, through the one-woman show Welcome to Dreamland by Zlata Camdzic and Anna Ehnold-Danailov.
13 Feb 2015
Learning
Event for museum and gallery professionals interested in connecting with refugee and asylum-seeker organisations.
10 Feb 2015
Learning
Join us for a day of information sharing, workshops and talks about Refugee Week and how to support it for 2015.
26 Jan 2015
Multi-Art Form
We are living in the midst of huge demographic shifts and unprecedented levels of human displacement. More than ever before, we need bold and imaginative interventions to help us […]
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