ASSEMBLE Festival: A CARNiVAL BETWEEN WORLDS

Friday, 3 May 2024
7:30 pm 8:15 pm 19:30 20:15

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ASSEMBLE Festival: A CARNiVAL BETWEEN WORLDS

Book Tickets

Date: Fri 3rd May 2024
Time: 7.30pm - 8.15pm
Early Bird: £12.50
Standard: £14

Please join us for a post-show dialogue after the show

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Join artistic duo BRiGHTBLACK for a soaring visual and electronic music experience. Drawing from the stories of women, non-binary and trans people of colour from across the UK, BRiGHTBLACK have created a video game world that reflects these stories, accompanied by a live performance of electronic music.

Experience the story of a black woman in the midst of the Battle of Lewisham, the story of a mixed race woman wrongfully adopted into a white family, the story of a young person going through the menopause in their 20s. Journey through their stories and a soundtrack to their worlds.

This is a standing event, but there will be seats available in the performance space. Please get in touch if you have any access needs.

Reviews

"Art to question the world, to be seen, heard, felt, smelt and acted upon"
- THREE WEEKS ★★★★★
"A glimpse of the future of entertainment."
- CULTURE WHISPER ★★★★★
"No one will forget this."
- AUSTRALIAN STAGE ★★★★★
Thank you for creating spaces where people of colour, particularly of marginalised gender, can feel in the majority, can feel represented and can feel heard. The world you created was so powerful I often find myself daydreaming about it." - Erin James [Multi-disciplinary artist]

Gallery

A woman with a games controller and a man with synth on stage playing music in front of giant projected image of a video game slum street

A woman and a man on stage playing music in front of giant projected image of a statement about freedom, justice and power

A close up of a woman with a game controller and a man playing a synth module in front of a large projection

A close up of a woman playing a keyboard and another woman playing a video game live in front of a large audience

An image of a crowd watching a woman and a man on stage performing a live AV set

About the Artists

BRiGHTBLACK is a company of two artists Myra Appannah and Simon Wilkinson, from POC / neurodiverse backgrounds whose works have toured to 36 nations on 5 continents over the last decade from Tate Modern to an abandoned toilet in the Arizona desert. We explore the radical potential of immersive technologies to create artworks which aim to disrupt, democratise and decolonise, giving power back to the individual and their communities.

"One of the most influential UK immersive productions of the last twenty years" [UKRI]

"A real game changer." [Design My Night] ★★★★

Website: http://www.bright-black.org
Instagram: @BRiGHTBLACK_PRODUCTIONS
Facebook: @BRiGHTBLACK_UK