With SAMKOME we want to meet outside Our Lady Church and share a ritual of difference and to holding each other's grief. The gathering is woven together by Afghan, Palestinian, Bosnian, Norwegian and Jewish voices and melodies.
Mia Habib Mia Habib is an Oslo-based dancer and choreographer and with Mia Habib Productions she engages in and facilitates laboratories and research with a range of specialists, including artists, researchers, political activists and others.
In the Norwegian public, she has become involved in themes of artistic freedom and racism related to the free performing arts field. In addition, she is one of the founders of the group Jewish Voices for Fair Peace, a network of Jews and people with Jewish roots in Norway who stand in solidarity with Palestine. She will also be a participant at at the Vestfrontmøtet talk "Power in war and conflict" on tuesday 30th july.
LES INTERVJU MED MIA HABIB HER
How to grieve,
how to move through despair,
how to hold ourselves and each other.
How to house the pain of others.
Samkome is a try. An attempt. In impossible situations. In spaces which have already collapsed. There is no other way than trying. Together. This is an attempt for today. An attempt of grieving.
How to continue to live,
how to host what feels impossible,
how to open for a soft meeting.
How to mend. Song, poetry and fire move us through this together – friends and strangers.
“We are, at present, swimming in a sea of grief. That sea includes death, but it is also so much larger, encircling all sorts of sorrows. In a better world, many of these disappearances would be avoidable, even unimaginable. For now, given the loss-filled waters we inhabit, how to better navigate through them, and without drowning? How to shift course, veering closer to a more humane self and society?”
Excerpt From Rebellious Mourning, Cindy Milstein
Facilitated by: Mia Habib Productions with guests.
Artistic leadership and concept: Mia Habib in collaboration with Ariel Efraim Ashbel
Musical process leader: Siri Gjære
With: Zaineb Abdulsatar, Zryan Farman Amin, Ariel Efraim Ashbel, Kathy Barolsky, Siri Gjære, Mia Habib, Azra Halilovic, Shams Jabari, Ishan Momand, Beate Esthersdatter Myrvold
Producers: Ida Frømyr Borgen, Nicolai Lopez
Co-producers: Dance House Oslo, CODA- Oslo International Dance Festival, DansiT, Rosendal Teater, Olavfest, Embassy of Movement
Collaborators: Multicultural Information and Dialogue Center, Trondheim
Supported by: Art Council Norway
Samkome was awarded a Big Pulse Dance Alliance Development Support Grant, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
Photo: Aimé Dabbadie