{"id":657813,"date":"2025-12-27T12:41:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T12:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/657813\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T12:41:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T12:41:22","slug":"stories-bring-us-closer-together-while-silences-only-ke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/657813\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stories bring us closer together, while silences only ke&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-c-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">Stories matter. Knowing each other\u2019s 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\ufeff \u2013 unchanging, pre-given, sharp at the edges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stories matter. Knowing each other\u2019s stories brings us closer, while silences, especially entrenched silences, only keep us apart.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[12450,40,168114,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-657813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-charity","9":"tag-immigration","10":"tag-the-arts","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115791585813305477","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}