Performance description
28 June, 9.30 pm
Zieleniak Market,
Street Art Festival
Plant Manifesto - a performative event combining theatre and movement. Drawing inspiration from the workings of the plant world, we explore themes such as migration, community, boundaries and responsibility for our shared world.
Plants do not recognise hierarchical authority. They form communities based on the relationships between the organisms that make them up. They know that all are essential to the survival of the plant and animal community, because we are one. Plants limit their growth when resources become scarce; they look after future generations. And what about us?
Article 7 of the Plant Manifesto reads: “The Plant Nation recognises no borders. Every living being has the right to move about and to choose where to live.” Article 14 of the Declaration of Human Rights reads: “Everyone has the right to seek and enjoy asylum in another country in the event of persecution.”
This is not enough. It is not enough to have the right to migrate whilst fleeing persecution. Migration is either a necessity or a choice. We should be able to migrate at any time. Animals migrate; plants migrate. Migration is a natural strategy for survival; to block it is to curtail dignity.
Movement is, at the same time, so much more. It is the very essence of life.
Creators:
Emil Al-Khawaldeh, Alicja Borkowska, Weronika Chinowska, Adrien Cognac, Magdalena Duszyńska-Sasin, Tatiana Dzivakova, Wojtek Kaniewski, Natalia Lis, Pavlo Luhovyi, Svitlana Makedon, Łukasz Nadwodny, Stanley Ndua, Piotr Pieczyński, Mikołaj Poncyljusz, Michał Rezazadeh, Syfon Studio, Emilia Szuchniewicz, Marek Śmietana, Magdalena Walusiak, Łukasz Wójcicki, Luxuan Wang.
Performing on 21 June will be:
Emil Al-Khawaldeh, Weronika Chinowska, Natalia Lis, Svitlana Makedon, Mikołaj Poncyljusz, Michał Rezazadeh, Emilia Szuchniewicz, Marek Śmietana, Vera Popova, Magdalena Walusiak, Łukasz Wójcicki, Luxuan Wang.
Practical information
The performance will take place using Silent Disco headphones in an open-air setting at the Zieleniak Market. Please arrive half an hour before the performance begins to collect your headphones.
We will provide interpretation into Polish Sign Language and English.