A table full of family artifacts. A room full of voices. Two different landscapes soaked in a past full of defiance and resistance. Two different women shaped by a world they did not want to inherit.
This workshop sets out to explore how the stories we tell among our families and communities builds a legacy for the future and informs how we remember the past. Utilising how our childhood stories and cultural legacies shape our understanding of, and journey through, our lives and the wider world; the workshop aims to create a magical-realist setting within which to share and intersect our collective stories like modern folk tales.
This creative workshop is held in collaboration with FINDING LARGE MONUMENTS TO BE DESTROYED, a theatre installation piece created by Polish director Nastazja Domaradzka and British Armenian writer Abi Zakarian. Produced by Claire Gilbert, this piece imagines the meeting between the two artists’ grandmothers, whose lives have been shaped by invasions, war and Western interference. The piece travels throughout the UK, and hopefully beyond, to create a community held together by shared history as well as future hopes.
Join us for an exciting creative workshop where you’ll be involved in helping Nastazja and Abi inform the shape of the theatre installation piece. Exercises and prompts will draw out your personal stories and memories to help create written and audio storytelling.
We’ll be recording verbatim stories for possible audio use in the finished production (anonymised for privacy); so please bring your memories of childhood stories your family shared with you. We will send consent forms in advance, and have them in person on the day – should you have any questions please don’t hesitate to email Producer Claire on info@clairegilbert.co.uk
Length: 2 hours
Delivered by: Nastazja Domaradzka & Abi Zakarian
Produced by Claire Gilbert
For attending you will be paid £30 in cash or voucher dependent on your preference.
Who builds monuments? Who writes history? Who owns the past?
FINDING LARGE MONUMENTS TO BE DESTROYED is a theatre installation piece created by Polish director Nastazja Domaradzka and British Armenian writer Abi Zakarian.
Produced by Claire Gilbert
Supported by Battersea Arts Centre.
Seed commissioned by Royal & Derngate Generate
In collaboration with the Armenian Institute
Funded by Arts Council England