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Tripwires

My role in Tripwires consisted of developing ideas in a workshop environment as well as collaborating with fellow artists towards developing stories leading to a final show.

 

 

Tripwires was a training programme using the arts to create a safe space to explore and express ideas of freedom of expression, self-censorship, and offense. Each week there was a different theme – music, satire, acrobatics, banned plays, film, photography. the project gave me the opportunity to collaborate with artists such as Belarus Free Theatre, Burmese artist Htein Lin and young artists from Georgia and Abkhazia and Afghanistan as well as other Index on censorship contributors.

Tripwires used all art forms to process ideas creatively so exploring physically and intellectually what freedom of expression means to young Londoners today. The project created a space for people who express themselves in all sorts of ways to contribute to a debate.

 

 

The project culminated in an interactive multi-media performance about censorship and freedom of expression where participants asked the question: Where do you draw the line?

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Lika Abdalla, 2014, Sanchez Brown, Tim Porter, Rasheeda Ali, Ombre Films, Sankofa, Tripwires, Phakama, Queen Mary's, Jake Robert Boston, Project Phakama

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Tripwires performance

Read more Tripwires is a collaboration between Project Phakama and Index on Censorship. We use the arts to explore freedom of expression, offence and censorship with young Londoners. On Tuesday 19 and Wednesday 20 April 2011 we presented an interactive multi-media performance about censorship and freedom of expression at the Mile End Arts Pavilion. Film by Juancho Gonzalez

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Tripwires, Phakama

Dream. Cease. Repeat

Read more Do you have dreams you aspire to? Do you fight with every inch of your life to get what you are driven to achieve or do you fall by the wayside? From the battlefields of World War I, through the streets of East London in the 70’s, to a family home in 2014—three stories reveal the struggles of obligation and sacrifice and pose the question: What matters most to us? Dream. Cease. Repeat was a part of the Sankofa! Festival. This was created and produced by Phakama’s Spotlight interns – a team of emerging artists and producers aged 18-24 years old. The Creative Producer Internship was a six month paid opportunity for unemployed young people offering a training in the behind the scenes areas of the arts industry.Sankofa! Festival is the culmination of the project and marks an important moment in their careers as they take a leap into the unknown, move forward on their journeys and forge new creative identities. The show was written and conceived by: Lika Abdalla, Tim Porter and Abu Jafor. This video serves as document of the first ever performance of the show. It has been recorded by Ombre Films on Friday 25th of July 2014 at Queen Mary's University. Starring: Jake Robert Boston, Rasheeda Ali, Tim Porter, Miranda Magee and Sanchez Brown. Music: Speck - Untitled (Fuselab, fslab.net) Michael Jackson - Bad (1987, Epic) Prince & The NPG - Diamonds and Pearls (1991, Warner Bros Records) Memory Tapes - Today is Our Life (2011, Something in Construction)

Rasheeda Ali, Tim Porter, Lika Abdalla, Jake Robert Boston, Sanchez Brown, Project Phakama, Sankofa, Ombre Films, 2014, Queen Mary's

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