Select readings from my play, The Good Manners of Colonized Subjects + guided writing/creativity exercises
Date: Tuesday, November 9
Time: 10am to 11am, Mountain Time (US) online via Zoom
a Free event.
You’ll receive a ZOOM link by Monday, November 8
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https://www.shebanacoelho.com/events/goodmanners
ABOUT THE EVENT
I feel I'm just re-emerging into my art-making/performing. I want to renew my commitment to helping dismantle the scaffolding of colonization in all its forms. I feel sharing excerpts from my first solo play is the first step. The play is a journey in memoir and movement that explores the impact of the European colonization of India, art and fear on one human. I’ll read some scenes and poems and then invite the audience to create from the encounter with them, using the language of the senses, so the responses to hearing about colonization enters the body, spirit, imagination - and the audience also creates something new.
This format of an artist sharing their arte and then immediately following, a guided facilitation to create in response is part of new series I’ll be curating called “one story inspires another.” This sharing creativity is the core of all my work, but especially now, after all we have lived these two years - I feel more moved than ever to cultivate this sentiment, and live it and share it.
Mera nam kya hai. Mei kahaan se aayi hoon. The wanderers wander in Urdu and the kings die in English. Everyone has lost the first song.
ABOUT THE GOOD MANNERS OF COLONIZED SUBJECTS
A solo play about a human animal, fragmented by colonization, displaced by immigration, who journeys through memoir and myth to confront fear and reclaim lost poetry and myth, indigenous to her spirit, collective to the species. Written and Performed by Shebana Coelho.
Performances: Santa Fe Women’s Play House, Santa Fe (August 2018); The Arts at Marks Garage, Honolulu HI (October 2018), American Samoa Community College (January 2019), The Barn at Gravity Hill (Titusville, NJ April 2019), NuWorks 2019, New York City's Pan Asian Repertory Theatre (June 2019), Maple Street Dance, Albuquerque NM (December 2019).
Read more about the play | Watch clips
photos by Genevieve Russell
Outside the whole world sings but you have gone
and invited fear in for tea and you must be polite
the good manners of colonized subjects being what
they are
and when the dancers come knocking on the door
you sit there….
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