Lunchtime Talk
Fri 31 Jul 2020 13:00-14:00 at YouTube Live
Democracy, Theatre and Race
In this lunchtime talk artist, writer & Studio Resident Javaad Alipoor asks how theatre and digital art might just be able to contribute to the big political questions of the 21st Century?
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Speaker
Javaad Alipoor
An artist, director, writer and activist who regularly makes theatre with and for communities that don’t usually engage in the arts.This Lunchtime Talk will be broadcast live on Watershed's YouTube channel
Coming out of lockdown, the whole shape of the world has changed. The old international models of collaboration have been shaken by a global lockdown, and by the need to rethink power structures inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement. In this talk Javaad Alipoor will set out a ideas inspired by his recent work on the manifesto for his theatre company; and ask how theatre and digital art might just be able to contribute to the big political questions of the 21st Century: what do we really know about the heritage of race and colonialism we all live with; how do we defend democracy; how do we link the local to the international?
Javaad Alipoor is an artist and writer. His recent work for theatre includes Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran and The Believers Are But Brothers. Both opened at the Edinburgh Fringe where they won Fringe First awards. Rich Kids was due to transfer to London to Battersea Arts Centre before the pandemic, and Believers transferred to The Bush before touring nationally and internationally. Former ACE Changemaker and Associate Director at Theatre in the Mill and Sheffield Theatres, he directed a new adaptation of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest for The Crucible in 2018.
Join us on Fri 31st July, 13:00-14:00 for the talk and to take part in the discussion afterwards.
