Reading with Naghmeh Manavi

SITTING WITH DEATH
This session is dedicated to listening. Listening to poetry, listening to our insides, listening to each other. In two readings, artist-in-residence Naghmeh Manavi shares her own writings as well as writings that influenced her in the past months. 
During Naghmeh Manavi’s readings, we invite all emotions and thoughts that arise. Then, we take time to sit with them, find ways to share them and work with them in small groups. To support this process, the hosting team provides a framework of simple body practices and conversation techniques. 
This event is a continuation of the format PS: Syncretic Sites that was facilitated at Shedhalle in January. It seeks to continue the processing of deadly political violence and its impacts - on the lives of attacked, abducted, displaced and prosecuted people and their loved ones, on global and local politics, on bodies, emotional landscapes and relationships worldwide.

CONTENT NOTICE: The readings include darkness, thoughts on death and on killing.

SCHEDULE (You can enter the session at 16h, 17h, 19h or 20h. Leaving is possible any time)
* 16:00 light bodywork
* 17:00 Naghmeh Manavi, poetry reading
* 17:30 processing in small groups 
* 19:00 dinner
* 20:00 Naghmeh Manavi, reading “Letters to Death”- a series of letters written on a daily basis to death by Naghmeh. She explores her personal relationship with her own death and how it changes through time and geography as she travels. 
* 20:30 processing in small groups
* 22:00 end

Readings by Naghmeh Manavi
Hosted by Naghmeh Manavi, Thea Reifler and Lucie Tuma

Naghmeh Manavi is a freelance theatermaker and performer living in Tehran.
She studied theater at the Tehran University of Art. She has been working in performing arts as a writer, performer, director, and festival coordinator since 2010. As a creator she is interested in power structures in any kind of human relations, as a writer, she is writing essays and lecture performances on the intersection of political, personal, and neuroscientific matters, her early works were mostly around object theater and the relationship between a performer’s body, and the objects.