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Bangla Drama, shared

By DaedalusAdmin on Tuesday, October 28, 2014

One of the great privileges of being part of A Season of Bangla Drama is meeting the other people involved. There’s an amazing community of performance-makers here in Tower Hamlets, and this festival really illustrates how Bangladeshi culture in the borough can become a catalyst for something truly diverse and cross-cultural. Our project is a perfect example: a collaboration between Daedalus and Bisho Shahitto Kendro.

Here are some photos (credit: Ziaur Rahman Saklen) of members of our East storytelling group with other participants at the SOBD sharing event last weekend.

You can see us perform at Queen Mary, University of London, on 7th November, 7:30pm. More details are here or you can just go ahead and book tickets online here.

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Our Word is Our Weapon

By DaedalusAdmin on Monday, October 27, 2014

The latest reading group meeting took place last week. Get in touch for the details of the next one.

In the meantime, as a follow-up to that, here’s the speech in which Subcommandante Insurgente Marcos announced the end of his existence, and, to whet your whistle, a rather good quotation from it:

It is our conviction and our practice that in order to rebel and to struggle, neither leaders nor bosses nor messiahs nor saviors are necessary. To struggle, one only needs a sense of shame, a bit of dignity, and a lot of organization.

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A Season of Bangla Drama, 2014

By DaedalusAdmin on Monday, October 13, 2014

We’re very excited to be part of this. Details to follow, but in the meantime, here’s the festival trailer:

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Placards!

By DaedalusAdmin on Sunday, October 5, 2014

From our Radical History Project workshops at Ovalhouse, as part of Fun Palaces today. Photos: Andy Bannister

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Radical History at Ovalhouse

By DaedalusAdmin on Saturday, October 4, 2014

Tomorrow we’re at Ovalhouse as part of Fun Palaces. As part of our Radical History Project, we’re working with The Black Smock Band, inviting the public to join us 2:30-4:30 in updating protest songs and writing placards, before a gig/demo in the cafe at 5pm.

Info on Ovalhouse Fun Palaces weekend can be found here, or there’s a Facebook event for our workshop and gig/demo.

We hope to see you there!

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Upcoming events

By DaedalusAdmin on Saturday, September 20, 2014

Join our mailing list to be kept up-to-date (there’s a signup form on the right). But here’s a summary:

Oct 5th – We’ll be taking part in the Fun Palace weekend at Ovalhouse, working with The Black Smock Band, as part o the development of our Radical History Project. Join us 2:30-4:30 to create new lyrics for protest songs and write some placards, then come along when we occupy the cafe at 5, for a gig-cum-demo!

Oct 22 – The next meeting of the Radical Performance Reading Group. Next book: Our Word is Our Weapon by Subcommandante Marcos – drop us a line to be added to the Reading Group email list (separate from our main mailing list).

Nov 7th – We’re very honoured that The East storytelling group will be part of The Season of Bangla Drama. We’ll performing at Queen Mary, University of London, at 7:30pm.

Hope to see you soon!

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Can you move on without forgiveness?

By DaedalusAdmin on Thursday, September 4, 2014

Richard Wilson, activist, writer and one of our main collaborators for A Place at the Table, is on the panel for this discussion at St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, on whether forgiveness is the only route to healing after a traumatic event. It’ll be well-worth attending.

Details are here.

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East on TV

By DaedalusAdmin on Monday, August 25, 2014

Shamim Azad, the poet and storyteller who is one of the professional artists supporting our East storytelling project, will be talking about East‘s participation in the Tower Hamlets Season Of Bangla Drama, along with representatives from other participating groups. It’ll be on Channel One Europe at 7.30pm this evening. Tune in!

And here’s a blog post about SBD from Queen Mary, University of London, which will be the venue for East.

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The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven

By DaedalusAdmin on Tuesday, August 5, 2014

The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven, directed by the brilliant Susan Worsfold, a Daedalus Associate Artist, opens in Edinburgh tonight. Do try to see it if you’re in town!

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’84-’85 Miners’ Strike Project

By DaedalusAdmin on Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Here’s ’84-’85 Miners’ Strike Project, a video by Sean Yongxiang Li which re-imagines the community events organised in support of striking miners. Our regular collaborators The Black Smock Band appear as the in-house band. It’s a great piece; both thoughtful and powerful. And it’s a great inspiration for our upcoming collaboration with the band on The Radical History Project (working title), about which more soon…

’84-’85 Miners’ Strike Project from Sean Yongxiang Li on Vimeo.