Fuel Theatre and collaborators will mark the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on Sunday 10th December 2023, and DaDa are pleased to be supporting the campaign.
This day marks the culmination of a project Fuel have been co-producing: Fly The Flag, a unique 5-year collaboration between arts organisations, artists, community groups and schools across the four nations of the UK, which has brought together young people since 2018, inspiring them to understand and uphold their human rights, and to use the arts as a tool to have their voices heard.
Fuel have invited friends from the theatre, arts and charitable sectors to celebrate the UDHR in their venues and communities, responding to the question: What do Human Rights mean for you? , and so DaDa collaborated with local Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists to explore respond to this prompt through their own artistic interpretation.
DaDa Artists Response to Fly the Flag
Below are video links to watch the response from our artists with BSL interpretation and captions. Check them out to find out what human rights mean to our DaDa artists.
Amina Atiq is a Yemeni-scouse published poet, award-winning community activist and performance artist, and is one of our DaDa Fellows. A BBC Words First 2019 Finalist and Young Associate for Curious Minds. Poet in Residence for Queensland Poetry Festival 2020-21 and Metal Southend.
Amina has developed her solo show, 'Broken Biscuits' to explore gran-mothers 1970s Yemeni-British household. In 2020, she produced a short documentary, 'Unheard Voices', commissioned by DadaFest capturing the stories of Yemeni shopkeepers in Liverpool. 'Unheard Voices' was later broadcast on Belgees TV and translated in Arabic.
https://youtu.be/HV7haeZTVSY
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Alia is an artist, educator & cultural producer. Her practice is based on storytelling techniques and traditions and, as well as performing, she curates cultural events and is a DaDa Fellow.
Her grounding in Social Anthropology, Applied Theatre and Development Education compels her to find ways of subverting dominant narratives. Her work resonates with principles of social and environmental justice, activism and equity as complex processes within deeply interconnected systems. Her practice in the community amplifies lesser-heard stories through co-produced creative outlets.
Alia is a BAFTA nominated performer, and we are thrilled to have her 'Fly the Flag' with DaDa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjFboynD6uU
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DaDa Artist Dolly Sen
Artist Dolly Sen was born in London, UK, currently residing in Norwich Norfolk. Their arts practice crosses writing, performance, film and visual art. Since 2004 she has exhibited and performed internationally. Their films have also been shown worldwide. Their journey as an artist has taken them up a tree in Regents Park, to California’s Death Row, to the Barbican, Tower Bridge and the Royal Academy, Trafalgar Square, and up a ladder to screw a lightbulb into the sky.
Their work is seen as subversive, humorous and radical. They are interested in debate and social experiment around themes of madness, sanity, the other, and acceptable behaviours, from an unusual and unconventional position of power. They are interested in society’s perception of mental health and madness – whether people think ‘it’s all in the head’ and not a response to social and political issues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV8wFjpbiaI
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More about ‘Fly the Flag’
You can look back over the past few years of Fly the Flag, such as Ai Wei Wei’s flag making pack, and from the schools Resource Packs available on their website.
To find out more about what is happening this year from the wider arts community, follow @fueltheatre (over on X formally known as Twitter and Instagram) and @we_flytheflag and follow the hashtag #UDHR75anniversary