JUNE 3RD, SLOTTSBIOGRAFEN
The Summer Symposium of Literature and Theory and Nordic Africa Institute present:
The World Script Premiere of
BWAGAMOYO: THE FATHER (PART II OF MIGRITUDE)
Written and performed by Shailja Patel
June 3rd, 7.30pm – 9.30pm
Tickets: 80 kr (50 kr for students, pensioners, NAI staff)
Performance followed by a question and answer session with the artist.
I want to make a dragons head, an angel, a devil. All experimentation implies great risk. (Ingmar Bergman, born and raised in Uppsala)
The most telling and compelling line of a mans body is that where his neck meets his shoulder. (Shailja Patel, Bwagamoyo The Father: Part II of Migritude)
What does the tortured masculinity of Ingmar Bergman have to do with Kenyas post election-violence? How do Nordic myths of male sacrifice gyrate the hips of small brown boys in colonial Zanzibar? Find out on June 3rd, at the historic Slottsbiografen, Uppsala, Ingmar Bergman's first cinema. Shailja Patel, African Guest Writer at the Nordic Africa Institute, will ritually and poetically dismember and hang nine constructions of masculinity - then resurrect them with a song of redemption. This unforgettable evening of experimental performance, poetry and staged reading, is the world script premiere of Bwagamoyo - The Father, the second movement in Patels four-part epic creative journey, Migritude.
Kenyan poet, playwright, theater artist and political activist, Shailja Patel, has brought audiences to their feet from Cape Town to Vienna. CNN calls her "the face of globalization as a people-centered phenomenon of migration and exchange."
