MY FATHER’S KITCHEN

WED 08.03 & FRI 24.03 2PM & 5PM 120 mins £13 / £7 CONC

TONI-DEE PAUL (UK)

My Father’s Kitchen explores home-cooked food and family trees, whilst delving into the stories that unfold in her father’s kitchen, Toni-Dee Paul’s performance My Father’s Kitchen examines the relationship between an 8-year-old girl and her estranged father. It revisits their journey 12 years on, whilst simultaneously reflecting on hundreds of years of Jamaican history through memory and poetry.

It revisits their journey 12 years on, whilst simultaneously reflecting on hundreds of years of Jamaican history through memory and poetry. Toni-Dee is a theatre maker, collaborator, writer and performance artist from Leeds. Her practice explores identity politics,  memory and culture using auto-biography as stimulus for her work thus far.

My Father’s Kitchen is being shown alongside Daughters of The Curry Revolution and Asteroid RK1 as part of Hiraeth*.

* A Welsh word defined as homesickness tinged with sadness for the lost or departed. This experience combines three intimate performances exploring themes of home, family history and loss.

Ticket prices include admission to all three performances. For more information about Daughters of The Curry Revolution and Asteroid RK1 please click ‘ALL EVENTS’.

WED 08.03 2PM & 5PM RETHINK REBUILD SOCIETY

FRI 24.03 2PM & 5PM ST WILFRIDS ENTERPRISE CENTRE

 

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