Myths, Stories & Worlds: Studio Session
Date: Wed 27th Mar 2024
Time: 2pm - 4pm
Registration: Free
Find out more about Elisabeth Gunawan’s upcoming show, Unforgettable Girl.
A workshop for artists & creatives to reflect on their artistic voice and to hone their creative muscles
In this workshop, we will explore how everything we create as artists comes from a questioning of the world we live in and the way we grapple with the the mysterious and the unknown vis a vis our imaginations.
Myths begin from the ‘stories we tell ourselves’: we start with you and the worlds you inhabit. Then we discover seeds for creating theatre that awakens the imagination, that cultivates intimate human connections and allows us to collectively step into the mysterious and unknown.
In this experiential session, we will journey together to make our bodies available to intuition and imagination through a physical warm-up, we will then play with different writing and drawing prompts to reflect on our place in the world and the art we want to create.
I will give you tools to connect again and again to a source of your creativity—the rich mythological world inside of ourselves, and to bring it out through creative manifestations. Although I will be facilitating your process of reflection and creation, they will be individual journeys in which you teach yourself.
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About the Artist
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Elisabeth Gunawan 吳金栵 is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning writer and performer, as founder of the artistic collective Saksi Bisou, her work seeks to decolonise, transgress and empower. Her work has been supported by partners including New Diorama (Intervention01), the Royal Court, Barbican Centre (Open Lab), Lighthouse Poole (Sanctuary Program), Shoreditch Town Hall and The Pleasance, among others.
She wrote and performed Unforgettable Girl, which had its world premiere at Edinburgh Fringe 2023 at Pleasance as one of the winners of the Charlie Hartill Fund. The piece has received critical acclaim including 5-star reviews from The Stage, Theatre Weekly and The Reviews Hub, and won multiple awards including the OFFFest award at VOILA! Festival, Best Performer in a Play in The Stage Debut Awards 2022, Best Writing from Theatre Weekly’s Best of the Fest.
SAKSI BISOU is currently developing three new pieces: ’THREE SISTERS: SUBTLE, VAGUE & AMBIGUOUS’ is a dark comedy that explores stories as sites of struggle; ‘PRAYERS FOR A HUNGRY GHOST’ uses the myth of hungry ghosts to uncover the dehumanizing logic of model minority narratives; ‘PROMISED LAND’ explores the loneliness of the immigrant.
She is currently conducting her practice-based PhD at Goldsmiths University researching the bouffonesque and the grotesque through the lens of decolonization and intersectional feminism—a research that was rooted in her Developing Your Creative Practice project ‘Myths, Stories and Worlds’ research (née ‘Mythical Storytelling’, 2021) and her residency at Grotowski Institute (2021-2022).
She has worked as an actor, performer and deviser with Ad Infinitum, Flabbergast Theatre, and the David Glass Ensemble, and on multiple films with the artist Eelyn Lee. As a creative producer, she is passionate about the cultivation of historically marginalized genres and artists, collaborating with the traditional Indonesian dance company Lila Bhawa, and the music platform eavesdropping.
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Event Information
Duration: 2 hours
Age Guidance: 16+
Specific content: NA
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