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Gita Hashemi with guest artist Heather Hermant
4-6 PM: Participate in the performance
6:30 PM: Gita Hashemi and Heather Hermant perform
Part of the event RENDEZ VOUS FRANAIS FARSI hosted by Le Labo, 4-9 PM
Wonders of the Sea 6:30 PM performance will be followed by the screening of a video by Maryam Taghavi, followed by a conversation with the artists at 8 PM moderated by Maggie Flynn. Please visit http://lelabo.ca/en/node/503 for more info on the event and location.
This event is free and open to all.
The event will be streamed live at:
http://new.livestream.com/accounts/8276625/francaisfarsi
This event will be streamed live on Oct 9th,
Please visit earlier to register and be able to participate and discuss online..
From: 4:00PM Toronto EST / 1:00PM San Francisco PST / 11:30PM Tehran IRST / 20:00h UTC
To: 9:00PM EST / 6:00PM PST / 4:30AM IRST / 1:00h UTC
Main performance: 30PM EST / 3:30PM PST / 2:00AM IRST / 22:30h UTC.
In 1765, Mirza I’tisam al-Din, a munshi in the service of the East India Company traveled to England on a mission from the Mughal Emperor of India, Shah Alam II, to translate and explicate the emperor’s letter in which he sought his British counterpart’s support against his domestic enemies. Firmly loyal to the East India Company, the commander of British forces in India suppressed the letter and later presented the 100,000 gold rupees sent as gift by the Indian Emperor to the English King on his own behalf and that of the Company. His mission betrayed, Mirza returned to Bengal to witness the rapidly expanding British colonization of India.
In this first site-specific performance of her new project, Gita Hashemi collaborates with guest artist Heather Hermant, fusing embodied calligraphy in Farsi with live reading in English to revisit and retrace Mirza I’tisam al-Din’s journey. Passages, I: Wonders of the Sea explores East-West encounters and notions of wonder, curiosity, desire, spectacle and spectatorship through the perspective of a pre-colonial subject whose account is the first travelogue of Europe written in Farsi.
The performance will open as a participatory space from 4 to 6 pm during which the audience may engage in the performance processes and interact with the artists. Gita Hashemi and Heather Hermant will perform again at 6:30.
Passages website: http://passages.subversivepress.org
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