BECOMING ALMAN (Exhibition + Closing)

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Exhibition 10am - 7pm 
Closing 7.00pm - 9.30pm

“Becoming Alman” is an exploration of identity and nationality through performance and visual art. It will feature an interactive installation from Jingyun Li around language, a documented intervention from jô osbórnia, visual artwork from Elif Çelik and a performance led by Lora Krasteva. 

Open from 10 am - 7 pm drop by to enjoy the art work, learn more about the Becoming Alman process and leave your own contributions.

The event is free, but please reserve a ticket below. 

The performance is in English, with other languages featured. 
Curated by Lora Krasteva, in collaboration with jô osbórnia, Elif Çelik & Jingyun Li
With contributions from Eda Özkan, Ezzio Dante Debernardi Pizarro, Antonia Giesen, Sabir Maharramov, Fortuna Hernández, Mubaraka Farahmand, Shamayel Shalizi, Franco Fernando Toledo Flores, sondos  shabayek, Murad Yuzbashov, Jota Ramos, Elsner Torres 
Produced by Claire Gilbert

With thanks to Beyza Yavuzradas, Aija, Harkiran Kelsi, and the interviewees who wished to remain anonymous. 

Lora Krasteva

... is a Bulgarian artist based in Sheffield, UK. Her lived experience of migration in 6 different countries and her recent insights from applying for British citizenship, is what led her to this project.
Lora is part of Global Voices Theatre, a theatre company dedicated to introducing international theatre by long-term excluded creatives in the UK. She creates devised, socially engaged theatre with professionals and other community members alike. She has worked with Arts & Homelessness International to advocate for a place for creativity in homelessness provision. Lora is a member of What Next? and a founding member of Migrants in Theatre, the movement advocating for a better representation of 1st generation immigrants both on and off stage.

jô osbórnia

... is a poet, performer and translator. In her work, she‘s interested in questions of gender and colonialism. More specifically, she tries to reflect, from her position as a travestimigrant in europe, on poetic and performative languages that might be implied by an anti-colonial thought/attitude inside the metropolis. Her writing is mostly in Portuguese/BrazilianBrasilian and German.

Jingyun Li

... studied Media Studies (Bachelor) with a minor in Chinese Languages and Literature at Fudan University (China), Duke University and the University of California, Santa Barbara (USA) as well as International Dramaturgy (Master) at the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands). After stints as a dramaturg at Opera Forward Festival 2019 at Dutch National Opera and Holland Festival, she came to Germany in 2019, where she interned at Komische Oper Berlin and jtw spandau. Her own projects thematically focus on sexuality, cultures, and languages, and are therefore interdisciplinary and multilingual. Li currently co-curates the international programme of Stadttheater Spandau GbR and works at APAL@AmnAsian and the Performing Arts Festival.

Elif Çelik

... was born in Ulm in 1997 and has been studying fine arts at the Stuttgart Art Academy since 2016. She is currently attending the class of Alisa Margolis. In her work she shows how extrinsic conditions of her social environment unbalance or manipulate the orientation process of her German-Turkish identity. As a Muslim woman, she tries to open a discourse with her painting. She wants to confront the viewers with the fact that she and other people in Germany are exposed to constant observation because they do not fit the norm of the majority of society

This is the third Becoming [...] after Czech Republic at Teren (March), Romania at Replika (April) and ahead of Britain at Bloc Projects (June). 

Perform Europe is an EU-funded project aimed to rethink how performing arts works are presented across borders in a more inclusive, sustainable and balanced way by testing new touring and distribution practices and providing policy recommendations for a future EU support scheme. This 18-month journey includes a research phase, launching a digital platform, testing a support scheme, and designing policy recommendations.