The Hero’s Journey
The Hero’s Journey
by the Afri-Co-Lab Community Company
When:
Friday 14 June, 9-10pm
Saturday 15 June, 5:30-6.30pm & 9-10pm
Sunday 16 June, 9-10pm
Where: Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Bohemia Rd, Hastings TN34 1ET
Ticket Price (sliding scale): £15/£10/£5
The Hero’s Journey is an epic tale full of surprises, twists and turns with a large dash of local seasoning!
Afri-Co-Lab are throwing caution to the wind and building an epic adventure over 14 weeks with local artists, community performers and professional creatives. They are digging deep into who and what makes a hero, where this call to adventure will lead and what will be discovered along the way that will be the key to revealing the magic of Hastings!
The Hastings Museum and Art Gallery is the stage and you'll experience this story on the move; outside, inside and around the building, whilst wearing headphones. Though like all good adventures no-one knows where we will end up, but they have some amazing friends coming along for the ride. It's sure to be epic, joyous and heartfelt and much more. Are you game?!
Co-Directed by Anna Maria Nabirye & Darragh O’Leary
Part of Knotty, a festival of performance for the adventurous from 6 to 16 June 2024.
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Hi, I’m Darragh. I’m originally from Cork, Ireland and now live in St Leonards-on-Sea.
My work uses dance and movement to tell stories with a variety of different people from professionals to volunteers, community participants, young people and everyone in between.
For the first 10 years of my career I was a performer in musical theatre in the West End, around the UK and internationally.
As a choreographer and movement director my work now varies from musical theatre to plays, opening ceremonies for sporting events, flashmobs, wedding dances, movement coaching, physical theatre and music videos
My name is Anna-Maria and I use she/her pronouns. I am a Black, Ugandan-British person born and raised in London, living in St Leonards. I went to a state funded performing arts college and then to drama school to study acting..
I make my own work which varies from community workshops, plays, short films, experimental art films, zines, documentaries and projects that live in galleries. I mainly collaborate with other creative artists and some of these form on-going artistic relationships.
I run a micro ethical fashion brand called AfroRetro and a community arts company called Afri-Co-Lab with my sister, that champions creativity as means to explore culture and identity. Amplifying diverse representations of the experiences of Black women is at the heart of everything I do.
Afri-Co-Lab is built on the cultural mash-up of Ugandan & British culture. We work from the principles of inclusivity, anti-racism, anti-oppression, anti-colonialism and harm reduction. We are a Queer friendly, Black led organisation, giving voice and a home to Black and people of Colour in the East Sussex area whilst working to support cultural cohesion and a welcoming space for our white allies. We deeply understand the complexity of poverty, racism, and displaced trauma. We also understand and have experienced the power that community and creativity can have in overcoming obstacles. This is the why at the heart of everything Afri-Co-Lab does! Afri-Co-Lab is headed up by a small part-time & volunteer team all based in the local area.
We seek to provide space for artists and community to co-create, dream experiment and gather. We are a multidisciplinary space working through and across all mediums.
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The museum is set within its own grounds with free parking.
There is flat access throughout the building for wheelchair users and for people with limited mobility.
There are passenger lifts and an accessible toilet.
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Afri-Co-Lab Team
Co-Directors: Anna Maria Nabirye & Darragh O'Leary
Stage Manager: Beth O'Leary
Production Manager: Chris Williams
Community Engagement Lead: Deanne Naula
Set and Costume Design: Hattie Spice
Community Coordinator: Khadija Khan
Co-Producer: Lilly Babirye
Lighting Designer: Sherry L Coenen
Creative Community Company
Charlotte Stainton
Chiara Capraro
Denise Mathews
Dorcas Magbadelo
Freesia Bassett
Katie Taylor
Kay Johnson
Lauren Bishop Vranch
Naomi Burrell
Natascha Banziger
Pip Beattie
Pippa Johnson
Sarah Green
Saskia Gall
Sebastian Henry
Performing Community Company
Ade Thomas
Adeline Collingwoode
Andrew Wilkins
Anne-Marie Watson
Eve Loren
Iryna Kryvosheina
Kim Batty
Kirsty Grennan
Laura Dunton Clarke
Lauren Ding
Olivia Long
Vladyslava Karavan
Show Guide Community Company
Juliet Davies
Karen Arthur
Lead image by Caitlin Lock.
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