Beyond Borders
A season of collaboration and conversation across an Anglo-Middle Eastern axis.
Sarah Chew & Molly Beth Morossa in association with Critical Mass are delighted to announce the launch of a new mini season, to be held at Omnibus Theatre, Clapham between 13th and 25th March.
Beyond Borders is presented by a collection of female theatre artists who care about intercultural communication and collaboration, and feel passionately about the need to address the rise in hard borders and cultural and ethnic exclusion, from a political and from a personal perspective. This year, the focus is on Britain and the Middle East.
How do we live on the safe side of a hard border, yet engage with atrocities on the other side?
Brexit, Trump’s travel bans and deportations, the global rise of the far Right;
Every day, maps are developing ever more hard lines.
Lines people cannot cross, however artfully they tread.
Beyond Borders will look at what we might do with those hard lines. And how we might hope to progress beyond them.
SUPPORTED BY ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND
13th – 25th March | Omnibus Theatre
BEYOND BORDERS: IMPROBABLE DEVOTED AND DISGRUNTLED CONFERENCE
Tues 13 March, 6pm
Improbable present the Improbable Devoted and Disgruntled conference – asking “What Are We Going To Do About Borders?”
FREE EVENT.
BEYOND BORDERS: LIPSTICK
Fri 16 – Sat 17 March, 7:30pm | 4pm
Part theatre, part drag cabaret, Lipstick: a fairy tale of modern Iran is inspired by time writer/director Sarah Chew spent in Tehran during the Green Uprising of 2010.
£6
BEYOND BORDERS: PRIVATE DANCERS – BELLY TO BURLESQUE
Wed 14 March, 7.30pm
Egyptian trained belly dancer, burlesque star and academic Faustina Fahrenheit will take participants through the history and practice of Middle Eastern and Western erotic dance forms, exploring how sensuality is constructed across different cultures.
£15
BEYOND BORDERS: DRAWING A VEIL
Thurs 15 March, 7pm
When a woman wears the veil she is seen as oppressed. When Salome wears seven veils she’s seen as sexy. Egyptian born artist Layla Mohammed will lead a themed life drawing class to explore our reactions to the veiled female form.
£15
BEYOND BORDERS: AMIE TAYLOR: STORYTELLING FOR 3-7 YEAR OLDS
Sun 25 March, 10:30am
This unique family event will take the fairytale elements of Lipstick as a starting point to explore themes of cultural and gender integration, through storytelling, puppetry and creative play.
£6