3-12th June, 18:30-20:30, London, Northampton and Birmingham

Join us for an exciting creative workshop where you’ll be involved in helping Nastazja and Abi inform the shape of a theatre installation piece .

These are creative workshops for participants who are;

Polish (or Polish heritage)

Armenian (or Armenian heritage)

Migrant (first, second, third generation – we don’t mind)

British (interested in learning more, and sharing cultures)

You may be an artist, you may never have done anything creative! We welcome everyone.

If attending please bring with you:

· A favourite recipe (written, you don’t need to prepare it!)

· An old family photograph (print or digital)

Delivered by: Nastazja Domaradzka & Abi Zakarian

Produced by Claire Gilbert

Armenians have their Dolma. The Poles have their Gołąbki. This workshop sets out to explore the culinary, historical and cultural parallels between Poland and Armenia whilst hoping to build a community of migrant voices that understand that so often our past shapes the presence and informs…what we store in our kitchen cupboards.

This creative workshop is held in collaboration with FINDING LARGE MONUMENTS TO BE DESTROYED, a theatre installation piece created by Polish director Nastazja Domaradzka and British Armenian writer Abi Zakarian. Produced by Claire Gilbert, this piece imagines the meeting between the two artists’ grandmothers, whose lives have been shaped by invasions, war and Western interference. The piece travels throughout the UK, and hopefully beyond, to create a community held together by shared history as well as future hopes.

Who builds monuments? Who writes history? Who owns the past?

FINDING LARGE MONUMENTS TO BE DESTROYED is a theatre installation piece created by Polish director Nastazja Domaradzka and British Armenian writer Abi Zakarian.

Produced by Claire Gilbert

Supported by Battersea Arts Centre.

Seed commissioned by Royal & Derngate Generate

In collaboration with the Armenian Institute

Workshop series funded by Polish Cultural Institute as part of Polish Heritage Days activities, wider project funded by Arts Council England.

Workshops:

3rd June, Birmingham, Register: HERE

5th June, Northampton, Register: HERE

9th June, London, Register: HERE

10th June, Northampton, Register: HERE

12th June, Birmingham, Register: HERE