Arts OneQueen Mary University of LondonMile End Road
2-hour workshop experience with Stacy Makishi that is part story, part participatory ritual, part workshop, part shame exorcism, part queer dyspraxic dancing the electric slide.
Stacy Makishi is a transplant from Hawaii who found paradise in Dalston, London in 1994. She has been making art for over 30 years. Her work ranges across solo performances for stage, large-scale outdoor participatory projects and intimate one-to-ones. Also a teacher, director and mentor in international demand, Makishi believes in art’s transformative power and strives to share her creative process with others in order to put more aloha into the world.
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How to Make Rice explores the Bengal Delta, its close connections to growing and eating rice, and its relationship to song, poetry and religion. Though not a history lesson, the play is an indictment of the legacy of British colonialism in the region.
Made by South Asian artists in the UK in collaboration with artists in Kolkata and Bangladesh, this play was partly devised collaboratively after interviews with British South Asian diasporic community groups.
Plus, see a queer reimagining of Jibananda Das’ iconic love poem Bonolata Sen, among other treats!
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