halka: spells for gentleness
// Collectively improvised multimedia performance w/ Vivek Venkatesh, Owen Chapman, Ivar Bjørnson, Annabelle Brault, Danji Buck-Moore, José-Luis Cortés Santander, Martin Lalonde, and Veronica Florence Mockler, Performed at St. Jax Church on October 14 + 15, 2022, Montreal, Quebec //
Halka means gentle and subtle in Urdu. Through Halka, we explore the ethos of slow and purposeful creation. What does it mean to be gentle in the face of harshness? How lightly do we need to be to float and yet feel anchored?
Poster Design: Emma June Huebner. Image credits: Youth Documentary Interns Hunnayna Hemed, Kendra McDonald, Kaymarie Sutherland.
related projects + links
HALKA Event Captured in New Text by Jad Orphée Chami
Two Nights of Spellbound Performances: Halka at St-Jax Church
Landscape of Hate Summer Residency 2022 // A ten-day residency and series of performances featuring audiovisual experimentation between some of the Halka artists.
Landscape of Hate // Landscape of Hate is an improvised multimedia project with the objective of promoting and favouring the public voice in framing pluralistic dialogues about how we negotiate various forms of hate in our society.