Whilst Alice Underground unsettle one's compass and Love Bombs and Apples' explorations invert cultural presumptions, Let Us In by A-Level drama students at Corelli College turn intercultural expectations inside-out in a different way.
London's Migration Museum Project--which, tellingly, after 3 years still does not have a 'home'--produced this event at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, comprised of 3 performances made by 3 different groups of students, who each sagely fielded questions from the audience following their respective showings. In the performance I saw, five young women (Ruth, Ayo, Khadija, Isatou and Elvine) of African, Caribbean or sub-continental origin, presented a tale spun out of refugee stories, placed before, during or after migration.
c. Migration Museum Project
The performance piece delivered poignant tales with wry humour and a
sophisticated understanding of crafting for the stage. Fuelled by an impassioned drive to tell their own and their ancestors’ stories, they perform with sass, skill and aplomb, representing refugees on a long boat journey; the Caribbean mother with very little English seeking work as a nanny; themselves as schoolchildren frustrated by the limited 'African history' classes repeated year after year. They also slip back in time and portray black slaves and white southern belles, white teachers amongst black girls condescending to the class. Their performances alternately represent and subvert the position of immigrants trying to 'fit in'. Each has a singing voice and stage presence to die for. They are aware they live in a country safe to tell these tales, and sacrifices people made to afford them the dream of a career on stage.
Meanwhile, Counterpointsarts and Platforma—refugee and intercultural arts network hubs— produced dis/placed, a week-long exhibition and 'Learning Labs' event, in the basement of the old Shoreditch Town Hall. The basement's peeling walls are an appropriate setting for films, photographs and performances taken or centred in refugee camps, or on the lives of refugees settled away from their homelands.
http://counterpointsarts.org.uk/event/displaced/
Meanwhile, Counterpointsarts and Platforma—refugee and intercultural arts network hubs— produced dis/placed, a week-long exhibition and 'Learning Labs' event, in the basement of the old Shoreditch Town Hall. The basement's peeling walls are an appropriate setting for films, photographs and performances taken or centred in refugee camps, or on the lives of refugees settled away from their homelands.
http://counterpointsarts.org.uk/event/displaced/
Platforma runs a biannual conference, the next being in
November 2015.
http://www.platforma.org.uk/pf_events/platforma-conference/
This year it comprises two events; the first is a free event which aims to 'explore new collaborations and networking between English and international artists' [Nov 4]; followed by a Conference from Nov 5-6 with an aim to 'bring together artists in all disciplines, organisations and academe with an interest in the arts by, about and with refugees.'
See more at: http://www.platforma.org.uk/pf_events/platforma-conference/#sthash.pJpPJiuF.dpuf
c. Z Soboslay 2015.
This year it comprises two events; the first is a free event which aims to 'explore new collaborations and networking between English and international artists' [Nov 4]; followed by a Conference from Nov 5-6 with an aim to 'bring together artists in all disciplines, organisations and academe with an interest in the arts by, about and with refugees.'
See more at: http://www.platforma.org.uk/pf_events/platforma-conference/#sthash.pJpPJiuF.dpuf
c. Z Soboslay 2015.
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