Breaking Silence: Across Borders

The third episode of our podcast mini-series, Breaking Silence,
looks at the silencing of cultural identity across national,
ethnic and religious borders and ways in which international
artists are unearthing these issues in their work.


Artistic Director Josephine Burton speaks to
theatre-maker Krzysztof Czyzewski, whose
Borderlands project aims to revive the multicultural heritage of
Poland’s Sejny region in the aftermath of war; Kurdish singer
Nawroz Oramari, who was forced to flee his
homeland of Iraq for his politically-charged music and eventually
seek asylum in Europe; and theatre director Athina
Kasiou about the Cypriot endeavour to claim authorship
of its own identity and how her work and that of her fellow
artists navigates this.


Through conversations with a range of acclaimed speakers across a
range of disciplines, Breaking Silence explores ways in which
voices, stories and cultures have been silenced both in current
times and recent history, when silence can be a positive force
for change, and what role the arts can play in breaking silences.


Links


Citizens of the Word Choir:
https://www.citizensoftheworldchoir.org/ 


Photo credit


Cast members in Borderland Foundation's 2008 production The Sejny
Chronicles at La MaMa Experimental Theater Club in New York as
part of the Borderlanders: Finding Their Voice festival.
Photography by Jonathan Slaff.





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