The Exile Speaks: Going from border to border
What does freedom mean when you are officially free, yet live every day with the fear of being detained? Artists with lived experience speak about exclusion, confinement and life in the margins. People who commit no crime, yet are treated as criminals and locked up, simply because they don’t have the right documents. This evening stories and performances are showed about immigration detention, border policing, exclusion and racist systems that decide who is allowed to stay and under what conditions.
In this programme Souleymane Abdou Idi Performer Gladys Nagadya Dancer & spoken word artist Justine Sunna Dancer & spoken word artistMore about the performance
Through spoken word, dance, and dialogue, the impact on a human being becomes visible:
How do you stay calm when your life is constantly put on hold? How do you hold on to your dignity when you are not allowed to do anything?Does anger help, or does it drain you?Where is the kindness?
During this evening there will be conversations with the audience. Because these borders do not affect only ’the other’. This is the society we all live in. Who, then, commits the real crime?
