WHEN COMMUNITY IS HOME, AT YORKTON WORKSHOPS
When community is HOME is a week-long exhibition and a programme of workshops, performances, networking, supper clubs, podcasts, kite-flying and communal singing — curated by Counterpoints Arts, supported by Pearson Lloyd design studio. Counterpoints brings their network of collaborators to Yorkton Workshops to respond to the theme of Our Home through an exploration of the intersection of displacement, climate justice and wellbeing.
We feel privileged to be working in the beautiful gallery. The curated programme is full of opportunity to participate, meet the artists, witness talks and performances and eat delicious food… and gather at a time when creatively connecting with friends and strangers feels like an act of self-care and support for others.
The creative programme is a set of collaborations with artists, collectives and organisations. Some are ‘old’ friends and partners, and others are new to our ever growing network.
We are working with:
Climate Outreach
Unbound Philanthropy
Etaf
Nour Alsholi
Aditi Jaganathan
Zafeerah Heesambee
Tasnim Mahdy
John Hunnex
In The Mix
Compass Collective and Sarah Jackson / Nottingham Trent University
Kim Chin
Zhvan Theatre Company
Bosla Arts
Kites in Solidarity
Bint Mbareh
and others!
We will see you at Yorkton Workshops. The programme runs from 17th to 22nd June.
Image: Bosla Arts, The Art Persists podcast, Yorkton Workshops, 2023 © Paul Gilbey
Hope as Discipline: Ritualising Collective Liberation
For this Refugee Week, we will gather with Dr Aditi Jaganathan to moor ourselves in possibilities of hope as we organise for collective liberation.
Love letters to home by zafeerah heesambee
Artist Zafeerah Hessambee runs lino printing workshop exploring the meaning of HOME and where home is.
Cyanotypes – archives and markings of home by Tasnim Mahdy
Artist Tasnim Mahdy, in collaboration with curator John Hunnex, presents a workshop that explores the Juliana Anicia Codex through cyanotype printing. Participants will reflect on personal connections to home and migration, making visible the intangible marks of their histories.
Threading layers of Home by Kim Chin
Artist Kim Chin invites us into a reflective setting, to inspire a clearer understanding and vision of what “community” and “home” means to us, through sharing readings, textile-making, and conversations.
Flying Kites for Palestine by Zafeerah Hessambee and Kites in Solidarity
On Saturday 22nd June we will join the global movement from London to fly kites for Palestine.