Sonya Lindfors & Maryan Abdulkarim
We Should All Be Dreaming
- 23.11 — 24.11 2024
- portuguese premiere
- CAM - Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian - Estúdio
- €10 (See discounts)
- ages 16+
- 3h
- English and Portuguese with surtitles in English and in Portuguese
We should all be dreaming radical, utopian dreams of common futures.
We Should All Be Dreaming is an ongoing project by choreographer Sonya Lindfors and writer and activist Maryan Abdulkarim that focuses on the radical potential of collective dreaming. At the Alkantara Festival, the project takes the form of a performative dinner party.
The evening unfolds over three hours as a series of gentle invitations to dream radical, utopian dreams of collective futures. Around a shared meal, participants are invited to spend time together: discussing, listening, moving, and dreaming.
We Should All Be Dreaming creates a space for a softer form of resistance to the grim realities of the world around us – and one that is well within everyone’s reach.
*This performance includes a vegan dinner by Joy Food Experiences, and an invitation to speak to others and occasionally move around the space.
Credits
Concept by Sonya Lindfors and Maryan Abdulkarim Working group Sonya Lindfors, Maryan Abdulkarim, Roy Boswell, Erno Aaltonen, Esete Sutinen, Danai Anagnostou, Pazilaiti Simayijiang Local co-dreamers Joy Food Experiences, Raquel Lima, Paulo Pascoal Welcoming Sybille Vooduness Co-producers Spring Performing Arts Festival, Baltic Circle, Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux
Sonya Lindfors is a Cameroonian-Finnish choreographer and artistic director that also works with facilitating, community organizing and education. In 2013 she received a MA in choreography from the University of the Arts Helsinki. Founding member and Artistic Director of UrbanApa, an inter-disciplinary and counter hegemonic arts community that offers a platform for new discourses and feminist art practices. Lindfors makes her own and collaborative works such as performances, curated programs and performative actions. Her recent works We Should All Be Dreaming (2018 -),...
Maryan Abdulkarim is Helsinki based writer and activist. She’s interested in themes relating to freedom.
