Love's Labour's Lost
Shakespeare's GlobeSE1
Sun 2 Aug13:00
£88Seventy minutes, no interval, no concession to comfort.
Sun 2 Aug
2 eventsThu 6 Aug
3 events
This week's argument: This Week: Sound, Streets, Memory →Summer Scholars Lunchtime Talks
British LibraryNW1Thu 6 Aug13:00
FreeJoin us for two lunchtime talks.Reimagining Indigenous Female PowerCarmen Ávila reflects on the creative and research process behind her historical novel The Fall of the Rain Kingdoms, inspired by the life of the Indigenous Mexican ruler Lady Six Monkey which took place during the 11th century and was depicted on pre-Hispanic codices. Through this work, Ávila examines the intersections of memory, female power, and literary imagination and combines historical reconstruction with speculative and feminist storytelling to recover the voices of Indigenous women erased from dominant history.From Battlefield to ClassroomDinos Pappas explores how education became a central tool of U.S. federal policy toward Native Americans, from 19th-century assimilation campaigns to later movements for self-determination. Drawing on our holdings, he considers government reports, Indian school materials, reform literature and Native student writing and explores how schooling was used to reshape Native identity and how Native communities challenged, adapted and reclaimed education as a space of cultural survival and sovereignty.
Matthew Bourne's New Adventures - The Car Man
Sadler's WellsEC1RThu 6 Aug14:30
£15The sort of thing that ends up in someone's best-of-the-year list despite not being widely attended.
Dreamscape
Arcola TheatreE8Thu 6 Aug19:00
£20Inspired by the shocking true story of the night 19-year-old Black woman Tyisha Miller was shot dead by four California police officers, this electrifying fusion of beatboxing, rap and hip-hop dance reimagines her final living moments.
Fri 7 Aug
1 eventSat 8 Aug
3 eventsDreamscape
Arcola TheatreE8Sat 8 Aug15:30
£20Inspired by the shocking true story of the night 19-year-old Black woman Tyisha Miller was shot dead by four California police officers, this electrifying fusion of beatboxing, rap and hip-hop dance reimagines her final living moments.
Love's Labour's Lost
Shakespeare's GlobeSE1Sat 8 Aug19:30
£88Seventy minutes, no interval, no concession to comfort.
Matthew Bourne's New Adventures - The Car Man
Sadler's WellsEC1RSat 8 Aug19:30
£15The sort of thing that ends up in someone's best-of-the-year list despite not being widely attended.
Thu 20 Aug
1 eventTue 25 Aug
1 event- This week's argument: This Week: Sound, Streets, Memory →
Summer Scholars Lunchtime Talks
British LibraryNW1Tue 25 Aug13:00
FreeJoin us for two lunchtime talks.Jumbie Dance – Writings of ResistanceIn researching the slave history of Montserrat, it is not surprising to note that the African spiritual practices of the island in the 18th to 20th centuries have been systematically and deliberately erased, ensuring that only the Eurocentric religious practices remained intact. Montserrat has suffered further, from migration in the 1950s to a brain-drain in the 1980s and more recently the evacuation and displacement of at least 8,000 people due to volcanic eruption of 1995. Yvonne Weekes gives voice to a culture which has slowly been erased and excavates the Montserrat Jumbie Dance through essays and poems.Dance and American Folk DramaIn the early twentieth century, many American theatre-makers looked to dance and ritual as ways of creating a distinctly American folk drama. They were inspired in part by European experiments in poetic and dance drama, but also by ideas about Native American performance, which they often treated as a source of authentic connection to place. At the same time, Native communities were being restricted in their own ceremonial practices, revealing a deep contradiction at the heart of this search for national theatrical form. Daniel Ibrahim Abdalla explores the diverse ways in which American theatre drew on Indigenous dance as both an artistic model and a cultural fantasy.