A fascinating series of upcoming free events – not to be missed!

There’s No Place Like Home will comprise of an immersive installation by award-winning photographer Hoda Afshar; an artist talk with detainee, novelist and human rights activist Behrouz Boochani; readings by professional actors from Boochani’s prize-winning memoir No Friend But the Mountains; a talk with Omid Tofighian, the translator of Boochani’s book; the premiere of an original composition by Lincolnshire-based composer Simon Le Boggit; and a film screening of Remain (Afshar).

Programme:

24 April – 1 July: Remain by Hoda Afshar

24 April, 10am – 11.15am: Behrouz Boochani Artist Talk

24 April & 25 April, 11.30am – 1pm & 2pm – 4pm: Readings from No Friend but the Mountains (Boochani 2018)

24 April & 25 April, 1pm – 2pm: Premiere of composition commissioned from Lincolnshire-based composer, Le Boggit, as a response to the work of Afshar & Boochani

24 April, 5 – 6pm: Hoda Afshar Artist Talk

25 April, 12pm – 1pm: Meet the Translator

25 April, 5pm – 7pm: Film Screening & Discussion

26 April: Symposium discussing arts interventions & ethics in debates on detention & refugee experience (by invitation only)

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