Counterpoint Arts: The Open Fund for Organisations
MUSIC AND ART CAN INSPIRE SOCIAL CHANGE – The arts can surprise, move, provoke, befuddle and delight us. The artists can help us question and imagine new ways of how we can live better together.
MIGRATION IS NOTHING NEW – Migration is as old as the hills. It has shaped ‘who we are’ and ‘who we might become’. It’s part of our everyday lives – let’s engage with this historical and contemporary richness and keep the migration conversation moving.
Counterpoints Arts is a leading national organisation that seeks to use the arts to change the way we see migration and displacement. The London-based charity works with artists to produce projects that push boundaries and challenge stereotypes about refugees and migrants. Connecting artists with lived experiences of displacement, who produce quality music, with diverse audiences in mainstream cultural institutions is part of the mission to mainstream the conversation about migration.
In 2019 the charity will present live performances by musicians with refugee and migrant backgrounds. The performances will be included in the London programming for Refugee Week, a national arts festival coordinated by Counterpoints Arts, in venues such as the V&A Museum, Southbank Centre and others. The Festival’s theme in 2019 is ‘You, me and those who came before’.
A new project, led by an established hiphop artist working with a group of young people, will be presented as part of the organisation’s Platforma Arts regional Festival in October, delivered in collaboration with local partners in Kent.