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SPRING Academy: Political Future Imagination hosted by Khadija El Kharraz Alami

Please note: there is space for 20 participants per course.

This trajectory invites participants to explore theatre as a site for political speculation and social imagination. Theatre is often understood primarily as a space of representation; but what happens when it is approached instead as a laboratory for collective exploration and critical thinking? How does fictionalising the past, the present, or the future on stage become a political act? Can theatre function as a space of rehearsal for possible futures—and if so, what kinds of futures might those be?

Host

Khadija El Kharraz Alami (1987, Amsterdam) is an actress, theatre maker and performance artist. She also works as a dramaturg, co-researcher and director. In 2014 she graduated from the HKU, University of the Arts Utrecht, after which she worked as an actress at theatre companies including HNT, NNT, Thalia Theater, Theatre Nationale de Strasbourg and Grande Loge.Simultaneously, she’s set up her own creative practice working in both Belgium and the Netherlands from 2015 onwards.

Dates & times

  • Thu May 14: 18.00-20.00 
  • Fri May 15: 10.00-17.00 (incl. breaks) 
  • Sat May 16: 9.30-20.30 (incl. breaks) 
  • Sun May 17: 11.00-21.00 (incl. breaks) 

Costs

€142 incl. tickets for all performances in this package (excluding optional performances), €150 if you wish to buy a passe-partout (with special Academy discount).

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Included

Performances:

  • Wait to be seated – She She Pop & Sandbox Collective 
  • What will we do without exile? – Basel Zaraa 
  • Home Bound – Luke George & Daniel Kok 
  • asses.masses – Patrick Blenkarn & Milton Lim 
  • The Meeting – Maarten Heijnens  
  • SHRINE – Khadija El Kharraz Alami 

Masterclass:  

  • She She Pop & Sandbox Collective  

Talks:  

  • Topic Talk: Performing Spaces  
  • Opening and Reflection session with Khadija El Kharraz Alami  
  • After talk with Basel Zaraa, Patrick Blenkarn & Milton Lim
  • Bar talk

Lunch: Provided on 15th, 16th and 17th of May  

Optional events (sign up required):  

  • TiNTiY & Everything Falls Dramatic – Sung Im Her  
  • Opening night After Party  
  • Reading Group with Khadija El Kharraz Alami  
  • SWEAT (anthem) – Milla Koistinen + After Talk  
  • Sweet Spot – Harald Beharie + After Talk  
  • Club Night in EKKO  
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