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Performance

mandla
as british as a watermelon

Saturday, 12.8.2023 Friday, 11.8.2023
5pm

 

My name is mandla. It means power. I gave it to myself.

 

Writer and performer mandla has a selective memory and is scrambling to piece together a life mostly forgotten in the name of survival. Through the exploration of mandla’s fragmented asylum and migration memories, as british as a watermelon asks questions about belonging, trauma and forgiveness. Told through an unflinching autofiction narrative weaving poetry and storytelling, the visitors are invited to watch as mandla rises from the dead to reclaim a misplaced power.

 

About the artist

mandla is a queer Zimbabwean writer, performer and curator. mandla is agender and has no pronouns. mandla’s work typically explores an intersectional existence enforced on the artists’ body as a result of the world we live in. Recently, mandla art has been seen at the Journeys Festival International in Leicester and in the Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester.