Back at boarding school I listened to John Denver on my walkman: ‘i’m leaving on a jet plane’ and ‘Take me home, country road’. I was 13, it was the 80’s and my taste in music was still developing.
I’m off on the same journey I took at the end of every term, home, to my parents. This is not my first trip to South Africa. This time is different though.
Exactly 100 years after the end of the First World war we will be examining the borders of the future. Come and watch and listen to our new story: Ladies’ Choice.
Ladies’ Choice is a conversation between my mother, a friend and I about being an expat, setting boundaries, fighting old patterns and the sea. How do we carry our past into our future? Which smells, sounds and images travel with us?
We will be performing in a military bunker right on the edge of the sea. It will be a totally unique experience – a one time only experience.
More about Ladies’ Choice @UN/SETTLED festival.
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For this performance Rona Kennedy enters into dialogue with her mother and her friend Lola. They talk about drawing lines in the sand, shaking scorpions out of your shoes, learning new languages and unpacking boxes. They dance, sing and ask questions to the sea. They are digging for memories, self justifications and blind spots. They are expats, but exactly does that mean?
This performance is part of Migrating Dialogues, a story-project about migration, power and privilege. The makers invite you to share stories and so join a collective process of thinking about displacement, decolonisation and taboo.
Where do you draw the line?
Third day of our residency in KAAP in Bruges. We are floating in a sea of sounds, voices and images. Great food, cosy atmosphere, friendly people and plenty of space to experiment. We will have to make choices and kill our darlings, but not yet.
We are excited to be taking part in this superb festival in Ostend and Bruges this summer and autumn: UN/SETTLED at KAAP arts centre. Its a festival about the feeling of being unsettled, not belonging, being on the move,…Migrating Dialogues feels perfectly at home in this journey.
Our audiovisual installations will be in Vrijstaat 0 between 20-25 August and we will be there for Intimate storytelling sessions on 25 August.
We will be performing intimate stories in a first world war military bunker at the sea in Ostend on 11 november for small and select publics during the day.
There are lots of interesting visual artists and performers taking part so definately check out KAAPs website of download the programme online HERE
looking forward to seeing you there!
FAHREN: Rona, Fabian en Helena
We Did it! When we say that, we mean YOU DID IT!
Thankyou for supporting our first crowdfunding project.
We
raised more than 100% of our goal of 2400€. With 76 supporters we raised 107% We will use it wisely to get ourselves set up and get the next podcasts made!
We will be organising exclusive dates for our supporters to take part in our audio visual installation and dialogue sessions. We will be sending postcard sets to supporters and looking forward to entering into migrating dialogues with you all!
Fabian leaves for Chile and Paraguay this week with his recording equipment and a bag full of questions (and Belgian chocolate).
In july we will be going on a short residency at KAAP, a comtemporary arts centre in Bruge/Oostend to rework our materiaal and to take part in their festival UN/SETTLED.
Thanks again for your support!
FAHREN collective: FABIAN, RONA, HELENA
