Stories matter. Knowing each other’s stories brings us closer, while silences, especially entrenched silences, only keep us apart. Counterpoints Arts focuses on the stories of refugees, migrants, exiles, minorities and anyone who has experienced some kind of displacement and estrangement, with the aim of bringing neighbourhoods and communities together, and strengthening social and cultural ties. We live in a world in which we are constantly pushed into boxes and tribes, and told to remain there once and for all. Identity, the way it is generally defined, resembles a static bloc – unchanging, pre-given, sharp at the edges.
