Reinventing the Margin
Christopher Hibma
Executive Director | Arts & Culture | Board Member Nonprofit | Transnational Collaborator
I have worked alongside many great playwrights in the course of my career, and I would never deign to believe that I count myself among their lot. But, a few months ago, my good friend and colleague Abdullah Alkafri of Ettijahat-Independent Culture challenged me to write a piece for his latest endeavor called "Reinventing the Margin". I invite you to read my deeply personal first foray into this genre called "The Beauty of Sadness".
In Abdullah's words –
"In this project, we hope to showcase a series of original theatre texts, artist testimonies, personal experiences, multidisciplinary works, and academic research papers, all commissioned for this platform. The works of our contributors chart a conceptual framework with which we can consider complementarities between migration and performing arts. On this platform, we are sharing our ignorances, our concerns, and our confusions about the complexities of our present and future. We are sharing our modest experience of talking about Syria – The Catastrophe – eleven years after the theft of its revolution, the fragmentation of its social fabric, and the ransoming of its humanity. When we observe Syria’s image as it is portrayed around the world, we face a petrifying scene plagued with problems, and yet also great hope. This project is a collaboration among friends from different generations and fields of interests, each contributor willing to ask bold questions and participate according to their individual experience and knowledge. In this sense, we believe that the project is not the fruit of Syria alone, but a smorgasbord of works that spotlight Syria and many other global contexts, paralleling each other in importance."
Performing Arts Programmer and Producer for contemporary Music, Theater, Dance, Spoken Word & New Media projects. Residing on ancestral Tongva land.
2 年Bravo for putting yourself out there to contribute! Can't wait to read it!
SoulCenter, Founder
2 年Congrats?