Farida

What does identity consist of? How is it built up, broken down, preserved, changed and transferred? How do you form a new identity from a multitude of cultures, backgrounds and nationalities? What influence does the environment have on this?

Seeking answers, Farida engaged in conversation with individuals from diverse (migration) backgrounds and different socioeconomic positions. She incorporated these into her Work in Progress.

Spoken Word Fusion: Human Voices is a performance about identity, heritage, migration and trauma; with spoken word, theater and image. It highlights the differences as well as the similarities between Flemish, native and other cultures, with the necessary humor but also with room for vulnerability.

Farida (she/her) is a spoken word artist. She grew up in a Moroccan mining family in Limburg in the 1980s. She was fascinated by art from a very young age, but growing up, in the 1980s, in a family with a Moroccan mother and father, offered her no opportunities to pursue art education. Reading and writing did manage to develop. Language became a way for her to discover the world and make meaning of it

In 2017, she decided to actively create art: spoken word, visual art and theater. Her poems are socially critical yet connective. Through her spoken word, she wants to make sensitive topics discussable. Her visual work, canvases and installations, often connect to the themes in her writing.

In 2022, she will become the Limburg slam poetry champion. She is initiator of WOOM, women only open mic. A project in which, with the support of various partners, she conducted spoken word or slam poetry workshops for women who, for various reasons, were unable to connect with pre-existing initiatives.

Concept & Play: Farida – Directed by Bart Vanderheyden – With the support of. MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM/WIPCOOP, STUK, fABULEUS.

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