FAROUT Live Arts Festival Basel Zaraa — Dear Laila

performance

Dear Laila, you are now five years old and you have started to ask me where I grew up and why we cannot go there. This is my attempt to give you an answer.

The seeds of Dear Laila were planted when Basel Zaraa’s five-year-old daughter started asking him about his childhood home. Unable to take her there, he decided to try to bring that place to her, creating a model of her childhood home in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus.

Dear Laila shares the Palestinian experience of displacement and resistance through one family’s story, exploring how war and exile are experienced through everyday, domestic and public space. An intimate and interactive installation experienced by only one viewer at a time, Dear Laila uses memory storytelling and tactile details to bring this now-destroyed place to life.

Dear Laila is an interactive installation that is experienced by a single viewer at a time.
Each experience lasts about 15 minutes.

Credits

Translator and Script Editor: Emily Churchill Zaraa 

Sound Engineer: Pete Churchill 

Commissioned by Good Chance Theatre, with support from Arts Council England

Dear Laila is presented at Periferico Festival in collaboration with FAROUT Live Arts Festival, ZUT! Foligno, Anti Festival Kuopio (FI), Mladi Levi Festival Ljubljana (SLO).

This presentation takes place with the support of Perform Europe within the project ‘HOME – the memory of displacement and resistance of the Palestinian diaspora in Europe’.

Perform Europe, supported by the European Union, is a funding scheme for the European performing arts sector. It facilitates international networking and supportsvinclusive, diverse, and eco-friendly touring projects across the 40 Creative Europe countries. Perform Europe emphasises practices rooted in sustainability and inclusivity, aiming to transform the performing arts sector and ensure a balanced distribution across the continent.
Perform Europe is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union and implemented by a consortium of six organisations: IETM – International network for contemporary performing arts, European Festivals Association (EFA), Circostrada, European Dance Development Network, Pearle * – Live Performance Europe and IDEA Consult.
  • Duration 15' circa

    • This show: is enjoyed while seated, actively involves the audience (1 person at a time), via audioguide (in English, Arabic, French, Italian and German ,as preferred), is accessible to people with mobility disabilities, if accompanied,
    no LIS translation is provided.
    We will be happy to answer all your questions, write to us at farout@base.milano.it

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