Revisit Cartography, an exploration of our lives through the lens of four refugees. Created by Kaneza Schaal & Christopher Myers
Presented in partnership with UNHCR as part of World Refugee Day.
What are the journeys you have made? What maps guided you through? Reexperience theater at its best in this new work designed for audiences young and old. Brought to you by Brooklyn based artists, Kaneza Schaal & Christopher Myers, journey with four young people as they leave their worlds behind and begin new. Combining simple storytelling with interactive video technology, Cartography engages you from start to finish. Performed by a diverse company of actors from El Salvador, Syria, Lebanon, and Rwanda, this is theater for our times, theater for all ages, and theater at its most relevant.
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Be engaged with dazzling visual tools like map-making along with performance elements such as filmmaking and dancing. Sculptures create an array of visual journeys; sound sensors respond to actors’ voices, activating a virtual storm; and cellphones are used to mark memories and distances traveled.
Developed in part at NYU Abu Dhabi, including the work of NYUAD Interactive Media graduates.
In 2016, theater artist Kaneza Schaal and sculptor and author Christopher Myers, spent one month in Munich, Germany with a group of 25 young people. These 9-17 year olds were refugees seeking asylum in Europe who had come Syria, Mali, Afghanistan, Eretria, Somalia, Iraq, and Nigeria. They had walked through forests, taken inflatable rafts across the Mediterranean, found their way on trains and in cars, traversing the treacherous personal, political, and literal terrain of migration across Europe. They had encounters with people smugglers, border authorities across multiple countries, and primarily with the unknown landscape of their own future. Many of these young people had come alone. Through mapmaking and storytelling we aimed to provide the young people a framework from which to unpack the complexities of their maps both internal and geographic.
When: Friday, June 19, 2020 at 8 PM – 10 PM
Where: Online
Schedule:
- 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM - Virtual perfromance
- 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM - Live virtual Q&A members of the company, UNHCR, and The Arts Center
Image Credit: NYUAD Arts Center
Age
3+
Price
Free
Telephone number
+971 2 628 4000
Links
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Abu DhabiOnline