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The UK’s Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) passed a BDS resolution today. 📣

It took an amazing group a lot work, but the vote was overwhelmingly in favour.

Next Wednesday! Please do join us for our last Quorum of the semester, online or in-person.

lol. Reminds me I'll need to add a definition of "performative" to the intro once I get there...

Poster for Quorum with the Queen Mary University of London logo and a teal and white marble accent bar on the right hand side of the page. It reads: "Shane Boyle, Marxism and Theatre Ecology: The Metabolic Performances of Otobong Nkanga and Zina Saro-Wiwa. This talk looks to demonstrate the usefulness of Marxist ecological thought for performance studies by examining several recent works by Otobong Nkanga and Zina Saro-Wiwa that engage with the colonial histories of resource extraction in West and Southwest Africa. These performances—staged atop abandoned mines and oil pipelines—give aesthetic form to what Marx called the “metabolic rift” between humanity and nature. 26 March, 6PM, Rehearsal Room 2, ArtsOne, Mile End Rd, E1 4PA, London."

Poster for Quorum with the Queen Mary University of London logo and a teal and white marble accent bar on the right hand side of the page. It reads: "Shane Boyle is Senior Lecturer in the School of the Arts at Queen Mary University of London. His books include The Arts of Logistics: Artistic Production in Supply Chain Capitalism (Stanford 2024) and the co-edited collection Postdramatic Theatre and Form (Methuen Bloomsbury 2019). For the 2024-25 academic year, Shane is a Global Dis:connect research fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich."

Tickets now available for Shane Boyle (@shaneboyle.bsky.social)'s presentation "Marxism and Theatre Ecology: The Metabolic Performances of Otobong Nkanga and Zina Saro-Wiwa", 26 March 6PM: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shane-boyl...

Poster for Quorum with the Queen Mary University of London logo and a teal and white marble accent bar on the right hand side of the page. It reads: "This project, for which Patrick was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, is based on his experience serving on the commission charged with conducting community-based oversight of the San Diego Police Department. It is both ethnographic ­– providing a perspective on the inner workings of policing in a large city – and theoretical – using the tools and methods of theatre and performance studies to understand police practice and to argue for an abolitionist future. 19 March, 6PM, Rehearsal Room 2, ArtsOne, Mile End Rd, E1 4PA, London."

Poster for Quorum with the Queen Mary University of London logo and a teal and white marble accent bar on the right hand side of the page. It reads: "Patrick Anderson is a Professor in the departments of Communication, Ethnic Studies, and Critical Gender Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow. He is the author of Autobiography of a Disease (Routledge, 2017) and So Much Wasted (Duke University Press, 2010) and the co-editor, with Jisha Menon, of Violence Performed (Palgrave, 2009). His most recent book, The Lamentations: A requiem for queer suicide, was released by Fordham University Press in 2024."

Tickets now available for Patrick Anderson's presentation "Ephemeral Terror: Policing and Performance Theory", 19 March 6PM: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/patrick-an...

Taking the wifey to the cat cafe for International Women's Day

Collage of photographs, headlines, banners, and posters about student rights, border control protests, and educational activism that Unis Resist Border Controls hosted, facilitated or participated in.

Today marks our 9 year anniversary 🎉

For close to a decade, this migrant-led campaign has worked diligently to end #HostileEnvironment policy in UK higher education.

Our direction has changed. Read our "New Ways of Working" statement & get involved: linktr.ee/urbc

Bizarre statement @ucu.org.uk.

For 6️⃣ years you refused to work with us to end #HostileEnvironment policy in UK HE. As this policy extend to other areas, instead, you capitulate to the very neoliberal, marketised dynamics that harms migrant students & all staff alike.

🧵

She says thank you! :)

My partner ran the London Winter Run 10K today :) So proud of her!!!!

Tickets now available for Dr Cecilia Wee's presentation "Making narratives as an act of decolonial resourcing", 12 Feb 6PM: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cecilia-we...

Poster for Dr Cecilia Wee's presentation "Making narratives as an act of decolonial resourcing", containing the following bio of Dr Wee: "(she/they) is a UK-based Peranakan artist, curator, researcher, educator, and equalities activist. Cecilia works with diverse media including illustration, printmaking, sound, performance and text, creating experimental strategies and environments for dialogue, resistance and flourishing. Their practice explores bonds created through formal and informal learning spaces, such as cultural institutions, and the legacies of trade union and community organising. Cecilia wrote their PhD on the documentation of Live Art. She has created artist works, books, and exhibitions with organisations including Akademie der Kunste Berlin, NHS Grenfell Health and Wellbeing Service and Tate Modern. Cecilia is Tutor at School of Communication, Royal College of Art and part of ecologies and economies artistic duo (CWxWC). www.ceciliawee.com".

We kick off with Dr Cecilia Wee's "Making narratives as an act of decolonial resourcing" on 12 February. Online and in-person at the ArtsOne building at 6PM. Refreshments and nibbles will be available for in-person attendees after the presentation. Tickets here: t.co/Gu11uHQCAX

Programme for the Spring 2025 semester of Quorum: 12 February, Cecilia Wee; 19 March, Patrick Anderson; 26 March, Shane Boyle; 30 April, Mojisola Adebayo (online only). All presentations both online and in-person at 6PM

Quorum returns—and debuts on BlueSky! We look forward to welcoming you to ArtsOne on our Mile End campus for presentations from the following artists and/or academics:

Mysterious indeed why this would appeal to me, who'd've thunk it (the subtitle is even better btw)

Starting this soonish and it will be the first piece of fiction that I'll've read in many many years

Donate to Help Mai and her family leave Gaza before it’s too late, organized by Mai Mohammed Hello world, it’s Mai I am fundraising to survive from … Mai Mohammed needs your support for Help Mai and her family leave Gaza before it’s too late

I don't have much, but I have matched my donation to the above by donating here; I encourage everyone to do the same. www.gofundme.com/f/help-mai-a...

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Grunwick strike, Townsend Theatre Productions is bringing back WE ARE THE LIONS, MR MANAGER which tells the story of Jayaben Desai. They are now raising funds to take the show on the road starting autumn 2025: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/we-are-the...

Alaa Shehada is bringing his show Horse of Jenin to London!! Excited for this, please join me in getting tix: www.pleasance.co.uk/event/horse-...

This immediately made me think of Sean Bonney

Palestine is a maritime nation. Her poets dream of Mediterranean billows. Her children learn to dive and swim in the sea and play football on the sand. Her cuisine boasts fruits of the sea prepared in inventive ways. Palestinian families picnic on her beaches up and down the coast. Palestinian seaside homes open their shutters to Mediterranean air and water. Even as Palestine’s famed ports –Haifa, Jaffa, Acre– were usurped in the Nakba, Palestinians remain stubbornly attached to their sea. As Palestinians in Gaza await the fleet of Israeli and US warships “transforming the sea into one of the fountainheads of hell” — in echoes of Darwish’s Memory — the Mediterranean awaits their return.

Palestinians *will* return to their sea:

www.madamasr.com/en/2023/10/1...