Expanding on the multi-disciplinary ethos of the Canticle of the Birds exhibition, this workshop will celebrate multiplicity and a diversity of perspectives, with the creation of a collaboratively translated poem.
This workshop will invite the group to consider the spirit of Farid al-Din Attar’s 12th-century Persian poem The Conference of the Birds, which inspired the Canticle of the Birds exhibition, to create their own new work that incorporates the voices of all the participants, drawing from translations and interpretations of the original text.
The session will play with themes of translation and transformation that emerge when drawing on an artwork from a different medium, language, and historical period that still speaks intimately to our present moment of multifaceted struggles.
This workshop will be led by writer and translator Elhum Shakerifar. She is a BAFTA-nominated producer, curator, poet and translator; she runs the London-based company Hakawati (‘storyteller’ in Arabic).
All levels welcome.
