Abstract

This free arts event is a celebration of International Women’s Day (March 8) and interculturality. This evening’s unique collection of items will explore diverse ways of performing.

Performers will share insights on the journeying to progress equality, social justice, arts-based research and the physical setting of performance, such as space, light, sound, objects and intercultural dialogue.

Performances will be:

• Women in Music Research: Creating Music for Sensory Integration Therapy – Valerie Ross

• Fearless Futures: An expression of the need for gender equity – Hanna McCloskey

• A woman in a man’s world: piping through gender – Cassandre Balosso-Bardin

• A piano and flute duet, on original music composed by Siddharth Pandey – Siddarth Spandey & Patrick Olsen

• Performing Interculturality – Afrodita Nikolova & Victor Roy

• Pass the Mic: Feminism in Hip-Hop – Aya Waller-Bey

• ‘Let all the world in every corner sing’ by Greta Tomlins – Homerton Charter Choir conducted by Daniel Trocme-Latter

• Reflect and Recover: a performance poem exploring the experiences of trafficked women in arts interventions – Sumita Pujara

• The performance of vulnerability – arts research-in-practice – Hilary Cremin & Pamela Burnard

• Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination: celebrating artists as community connectors – Ruth Sapsed

• ‘Cupcakes’ – A poem perfomed from her collection ‘Cherry Pie’ – Hollie McNish

• Singing sisterhood across the race divide – Elizabeth Mackinlay

• A performance by Daisy Corder (Year 11 trumpeter) with Sarah Bentley (Head of Music and Performing Arts Highbury Grove School)

Attendance is free, but register at http://homertoniwd2016.eventbrite.co.uk to ensure you get a place!