Hello everyone!
How are we doing? I hope everything is good with you.
It’s 6pm on a Sunday, I’ve left this very late to write! I’ve had a busy week of job applications and interviews for jobs so my mind has been on etude as much. Given last week where I said I’d spend the time trying to find content warnings for the shows, I feel a little let down in myself that I didn’t make the time to do that. I could shrug and say life got in the way but if I do want to make etude the best it possibly can be then I need to make time for it. I think I’m mainly writing this little preamble to myself this week.
I know next week I won’t have much time to focus on etude but I’ll still try and send one off. My main aim with etude this year is to try and make it as accesible as possible and I know that If I rush it then it won’t be as good as it can be. Things take time and that’s okay. I just need to remind myself that from time to time.
Below are this weeks suggestions. I hope you enjoy them!
From £10
18th to 23rd January
From internationally acclaimed writer and one of the UK’s most prominent trans voices, Travis Alabanza (Burgerz), Overflow is a hilarious and devastating tour of women’s bathrooms, who is allowed in and who is kept out.
20th & 22nd January
From £3
What makes teenager undertake a lonely and dangerous journey to an unknown land? What situation leads parents to send their own children away in order to save them? What does it tell about the society we live in that millions of children cross the borders risking their lives on journeys that last for months or years in search of a future? 50% of the refugees in Europe are minors, and many of them are unaccompanied. Children and young people that come to Europe are moved by the instinct to survive, and are confronted with a system that protects them only temporarily. According to the German asylum law, no unaccompanied minor can be deported. In other words, children are safe until they are eighteen. But what future are we giving to these children if they are afraid to become adults?
Futureland is a science-fiction documentary piece with teenagers between 14 and 18 years old, who came to Germany by themselves from Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Guinea, Bangladesh. They crossed the world by foot, by boat, hidden in a truck and sometimes by a plane. Now they live in Berlin surrounded by social workers, youth welfare employees, tutors, and other young people like them, all coming from very different cultures.
dreaming/swimming by philisha kay
Ongoing
Free
“this performance, i built on the foundation of my own poetry instead of another artist's music for the first time - i'm looking forward to experimenting with my own voice as a tool even more in upcoming projects already”
20th Jan
Free
A high speed train races through Europe at a relentless pace. Images whizz past the window: exploitation and self-exploitation in an era of capitalism. Thomas Köck collects and collages scenes of crises, misjudgements, experiences of failure and paranoia, which define everyday life. The way in which a virus can corrode everything and make us question it all: two children wearing face masks and protective clothing stand outside the door of their father’s hospital room. He set himself on fire in the basement. They don't dare go in. In China, a man and a woman are on their way to the border to enter Italy as illegal immigrants, where they find the same working conditions they had at home: ‘Made in Italy’. A war reporter is stuck in a luxury hotel in the desert. The Amazon rubber boom of the 19th century impacts the fate of a dancer today. She practices the capitalist logic of self-optimisation in a crazy way. A war reporter is stranded in a luxury hotel in the desert. A man leaves his flat and travels out of the city to the margins of society, where he was brought up. A conductor says: "We took a wrong turn, decades or centuries ago, I don't know how long we've been driving around in circles here."
With "Paradise", Christopher Rüping stages a condensed version of Thomas Köck's complete "Klimatrilogie": "The text is pervaded by images, by historical and contemporary realities, by real people and places."
32 Rue Vandenbranden by Peeping Tom
22nd - 24th January
Free
32 rue Vandenbranden, directed by Gabriela Carrizo and Franck Chartier, takes us to a mountain landscape with only two rickety campers for shelter under a wide-open sky. We find ourselves in a small isolated community where the inhabitants are confronted with their loneliness. The focus in this creation lies on the internal forces that determine which turn the characters will take; their motives are being exposed and stripped of their consciousness. The borders between what happens in reality and what they believe that happens become blurred. They lose themselves in fear and remain trapped in their own isolation.
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Josh x