A joint screening event by ACAC and Jumana Emil ABBOUD (from Palestine), an artist participating in this exhibition in cooperation with Station House Opera. In 2016, Station House Opera began a series of workshops with artists, performers and others in Gaza to develop a theatrical work that brings them together in one space shared by Gaza and the UK. These resulted in a July 2018 performance linking the El Wedad Theater in Gaza City with the Battersea Arts Center in London and the Liverpool Arab Arts Festival. Many of the production participants still live in Gaza.
　After the screening, ZOOM will be connected for a talk by Julian Maynard SMITH and Taghrid CHOUCAIR-VIZOMO of Station House Opera (with consecutive interpretation). There is no charge to attend, but you can help with the crowdfunding that Station House Opera’s collaborators are raising.

In cooperation with Julian Maynard SMITH and Taghrid CHOUCAIR-VIZOSO

・Crowdfunding soughts by Station House Opera collaborators
Abeer AHMED’s fundraiser:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/reignite-hope-for-abeers-family?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=customer&utm_campaign=man_sharesheet_ft&attribution_id=sl:2faf2b15-f437-4f2b-bfed-41ea2ce760f8

Mariam NASSER’s fundraiser:
https://gogetfunding.com/homes-and-hope-help-us-reconstruct-our-lives-devastated-by-war/

・About the work
Join ACAC for a screening of At Home in Gaza and London, which follows the lives of people living in two locations separated by great political, economic and physical divides.
In 2016 a group of artistic collaborators in Gaza and London began a series of digital workshops as an alternative means to defy the blockade.
Out of the exchanges emerged a theatre piece where they appear together in a single space shared by audiences in both cities. The last live performances were in July 2018, connecting El Wedad Theatre with Battersea Arts Centre and the Everyman Theatre as part of LAAF’s 2018 festival in Liverpool.
At Home in Gaza and London follows the lives of people living in two locations separated by great political, economic, and physical divides. By using a mix of live-streaming and recorded video, a single performance space is created where artists work together. They occupy each other’s homes, streets and other social spaces. Sharing their everyday behaviour and concerns, as they dissolve into each other or become ghostly protagonists in the drama.
Many of the collaborators in the production are still living in Gaza. They have lost family members, friends, colleagues, and homes. One of them, Ayah Abdulrahman died of cancer in 2019, having received intermittent yet insufficient treatment due to the blockade on Gaza. All of the studios and theatres we worked in have been destroyed.

・Credits
Co-directed by Julian Maynard Smith & Taghrid Choucair-Vizoso
Co-devised and performed by: Ayah Abdelrahman, Abeer Ahmed, Tara Fatehi Irani, Ali Al-Hassany, Yoko Ishiguro, Mariam Nasser, Hamza Saftawi, Walid Tafesh and Owl Young.
Assistant Directors: Ebaa Rezeq and Amjad Shabat.
Technical & Sound Team: Matthew Wasser, Enrico Aurigemma, Alastair Armstrong, Alex Hewitt, Paul Thomas, Mohammed AlGhoul, Mohammed Salem, Sophia Tuffin, Hani Mortaja
Produced by Ania Obolewicz for Artsadmin
The journey has been supported by: Arts Council England, Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, Qattan Foundation, Battersea Arts Centre, Gaza Sky Geeks, Fusion, LIFT, Arab British Centre, Watermans.
With thanks to producers Victoria Lupton and Aimee Shalan (Pressure Cooker Arts), Najlaa Atallah, Yasmeen El-Khoudary.