LIBERTY FESTIVAL: HERE/NOT THERE
Sat, 23 Jul
|The Old Library
Here/Not Here combines Krump dance, Visual Vernacular (a visual signed poetry) and street football trickery. Each of these visual and physical languages provides a different way of communicating for both the Deaf and hearing performers and the audience.
Time & Location
23 Jul 2022, 12:00
The Old Library, 116-118 New Cross Rd, London SE14 5BA, UK
About the event
Here/Not Here
An immersive, site-specific performance by Bim Ajadi.
A hip hop music drama, Here/Not Here combines Krump dance, Visual Vernacular and street football trickery.
Funky, funny and thought-provoking, HERE/NOT HERE explores how we all try to find our place. It showcases a new visual language for story-telling combining sign, dance, music and Visual Vernacular (a visual signed poetry).
Directed by Bim Ajadi, led by disabled artists, and written by Britain’s foremost advocate for Hip Hop, Jonzi D, HERE/NOT HERE can be fully enjoyed by both Deaf and hearing performers and the audience.
There are four performances taking place on Saturday 23rd July, at the following times:
12pm, 2.30pm, 5pm, and 7pm. The duration of each performance is 45 mins
Tickets are also available for a workshop that will take place 10:30am - 11:15am
You can also book to attend a Q&A discussion panel that will take place at 3:30pm - 4:15pm.
Here/Not Here is a Liberty produced event as part of Liberty Festival and Lewisham Borough of Culture.
Tickets available from: https://www.wearelewisham.com/event/here-not-here/