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CANCELLED - Travelling sources

Festival
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In light of recent events, it is not possible for Jewish-Palestinian professor Ariella Aïsha Azoulay to come to Brussels. Therefore, after careful deliberation with Travelling Sources' curators Hari Prasad Sacré, Arshia Ali Azmat & Hoda Siahtiri, we have decided to cancel the three-day festival.

Read the curators' statement here.

Travelling sources is a three-day art & reflection festival curated by Hari Prasad Sacré, Hoda Siahtiri & Arshia Ali Azmat about communities travelling imperial borders carrying endangered sources of storytelling. The audience is reconciled with the tales and voices of worlds silenced by imperial history.

Travelling sources invites Ariella Aïsha Azoulay to guide us on a scholarly, cinematographic and narrative journey on stolen art, skills and resources stored and exhibited in imperial museums. Azoulay invites us to an anti-colonial travel (originally from the French ‘travail’; painful and laborious effort, including that of displacement) in the steps of those – people and objects - who were thrown into such a journey. She revisits displaced communities’ rights (including those fleeing into Europe now) to the stolen objects exhibited in colonial museums. 
 

• Hari Prasad Sacré obtained a doctoral degree in educational sciences from Ghent University with his dissertation entitled Reading Illiteracy. His research discusses new forms of illiteracy arising in displaced communities travelling imperial borders. Overall, his academic and artistic work explores cultural translation as a pedagogical project for dialogue, solidarity and emancipation.

• Arshia Ali Azmat is a graphic designer, community organiser and researcher affiliated with VUB. Her artistic and graphic work focuses on linking personal and global histories through storytelling and archival explorations. She is also contributing to a research project on vacant spaces in the city and their transformation from temporary occupation sites to permanent social infrastructures. 

• Hoda Siahtiri is an audio-visual and performance artist and researcher. Her artistic and educational background is in cinema and performing arts. She defines herself as a storyteller who narrates and mediates voices that have been silenced in the past. Siahtiri’s work centers around the feminine body, knowledge and ancestral heritage. She conducts a PhD-research on the singing tradition of Bakhtiari women in the west of Iran.