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2022 February

Archive 2022 February

Our Winter 2022 season ran from 15 – 18 February 2022 at the Birmingham Rep

Installation: Birmingham Map, LET’S GO OUT FOR A WALK?
Francesc Serra Vila’s LET’S GO OUT FOR A WALK? is a bespoke performative piece designed specifically for senior citizens. Individual participants were invited on a journey to connect their memories from the past to the present. This project is a continuation of the Visual Arts Residency programme that Francesc started…
Installation: Birmingham Map, LET’S GO OUT FOR A WALK?
Francesc Serra Vila’s LET’S GO OUT FOR A WALK? is a bespoke performative piece designed specifically for senior citizens. Individual participants were invited on a journey to connect their memories from the past to the present. This project is a continuation of the Visual Arts Residency programme that Francesc started…
Installation: Birmingham Map, LET’S GO OUT FOR A WALK?
Francesc Serra Vila’s LET’S GO OUT FOR A WALK? is a bespoke performative piece designed specifically for senior citizens. Individual participants were invited on a journey to connect their memories from the past to the present. This project is a continuation of the Visual Arts Residency programme that Francesc started…
Installation: Birmingham Map, LET’S GO OUT FOR A WALK?
Francesc Serra Vila’s LET’S GO OUT FOR A WALK? is a bespoke performative piece designed specifically for senior citizens. Individual participants were invited on a journey to connect their memories from the past to the present. This project is a continuation of the Visual Arts Residency programme that Francesc started…
Mining Stories by Silke Huysmans & Hannes Dereere (Belgium) – 60 min
Mining Stories is a documentary theatre performance that follows a mining disaster in the region of Minas Gerais, Brazil, where Silke grew up as a child. Through interviews collected both in Europe and in Brazil, an intriguing journey unfolds visiting several topics such as memory, politics, religion and storytelling. Silke…
A Universal Story by David Espinosa (Spain) – 65 min
Following research into objects as a narrative element, David Espinosa Cerdán has tried to dramatise universal history from his own perspective, creating an audio-visual journey through some of the events that constitute the development of humanity. This unique history class tells a brief and unfinished story, using object manipulation, choreographic…
A Universal Story by David Espinosa (Spain) – 65 min
Following research into objects as a narrative element, David Espinosa Cerdán has tried to dramatise universal history from his own perspective, creating an audio-visual journey through some of the events that constitute the development of humanity. This unique history class tells a brief and unfinished story, using object manipulation, choreographic…
Opening Talk
BE FESTIVAL is committed to excite audiences, open perspectives, and offer an opportunity to model alternative realities. As such, we are launching our February Season with a talk, where everyone is invited to participate. In 2020, at the height of the pandemic, we pivoted and presented BEatHOME - our online…
Stickman by Squarehead Productions (Ireland/Germany) – 40 min
On stage lies a man, and a stick. In the background a large flat screen TV flickers, and comes to life. The TV reads “MAN / STICK”, as if to clear up any doubt as to what is right in front of us. This is not a story. Yet over…
In Conversation with Amerah Saleh (Let’s Grieve) & Francesc Serra Vila (LET’S GO OUT FOR A WALK?) – 60 min
Join this conversation featuring two artists talking about the intimate projects they created specifically for BE FESTIVAL in collaboration with communities from across Birmingham. Let’s Grieve by Amerah Saleh is curated through a collection of stories about the experience of grief. It explores how we mourn, cope with loss, the…

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