Month: October 2024

Major Projects Participation

Dysbiosis Creative Nature Workshop

By on Monday, October 21, 2024

Come along to a relaxed, creative workshop exploring our relationship with nature, part of A Season of Bangla Drama 2024. The theme for this year’s festival is hope. Nature has long been a source of endless inspiration for creativity. It inspires a lot of emotions and brings hope to many of us; something we look forward to exploring in this iteration of DYSBIOSIS.

Discover unknown pockets of nature within Tower Hamlets’ cityscape. This can unlock stories old and new about our multifaceted relationship with nature. Hosted at Mile End Park’s Ecology Pavilion, this workshop offers a chance to explore your creativity. Interdisciplinary artists Paul Burgess and Tasnim Siddiqa Amin will guide the session. There will also be a discussion around how local issues such as air pollution connect with global challenges like climate change. You’ll create a personal artistic response and collaborate on a group piece. A light lunch is included.

Join us to be guided through a creative process that explores your own responses to the themes. No experience necessary!

We are a cross-disciplinary, queer-led theatre company that explores big ideas. We manage intergenerational, cross-cultural projects and activities in Tower Hamlets and beyond. This workshop is part of the larger Dysbiosis project exploring our social and personal relationships with nature and has mainly been developed with the support of Queens Theatre Hornchurch and the Havering Changing.

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The Company

THE FINAL TRUMPET

By on Sunday, October 20, 2024

Daedalus Assistant Director and Producer Tasnim Siddiqa Amin is joining with theatre-maker Yael Elisheva to present her new play, The Final Trumpet, at this year’s A Season of Bangla Drama. Yael, who will be directing, is also part of the team creating our Dysbiosis project, and it’s always extremely rewarding to see creative relationships from our own work blossoming in other projects by other companies.

The Final Trumpet is a story about a mother and daughter who are homeless as a result of flooding.  They join millions of other present-day Bengalis in a search for refuge in their own country. From village to village, they hear stories which come from folklore and Islamic legends. These revolve around the reasons for so much disturbance in the natural world. Follow them on their journey in one woman’s mission to find refuge. Her inquisitive ten-year-old daughter is intent on finding out why this has happened. The unfortunate circumstances highlighted in these folk tales also allude to “global warming.” 

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Artist Spotlight Major Projects

Artist Spotlight: Shakira Stellar

By on Tuesday, October 8, 2024

For our seventh DYSBIOSIS artist spotlight we turn to the exciting, socially engaged work of multidisciplinary musician, composer, theatremaker and poet Shakira Stellar. In the first DYSBIOSIS R&D, Shakira crafted an ambient soundscape using lichen as a musical score, imitating its structures and textures using a synthesiser. During the second R&D, Shakira delved deeper into the symbiosis between the drummer and the earth, treating music as a dialogue of vibrations and frequencies. Through this exploration, Shakira sought to subvert the ancient notion of the “Great Chain of Being,” reimagining rocks and minerals not as the lowest, but as vital, resonant voices in the cosmic symphony.

Tell us about yourself and your creative practice

I’m a multidisciplinary artist, primarily working as a drummer and composer, but I’m also a poet and theatremaker. I fuse these mediums and approaches all the time and love doing so. I follow what sparks my interest and love to try new things so my practice is always developing and growing, which leads me to meet and work with new people, which is so wonderful. I love to learn new things, I’m so happy when I am, so who knows where my artistry will go!

How does your heritage influence the way you view/value nature? 

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