Fin de la Siesta - Review, Norwich 2023
Strangers in The Night Fin de la Siesta curated by Oihane Garcia of La Perspectiva Artists Collective, Norwich The Merchant House Norwich Friday, 02 June 2023 The literary side of Norwich came to the fore on Friday. An event curated by Oihane Garcia of Norwich-based Perspectiva artists collective, provided the sellout audience with a beautiful evening of poetry and music in Japanese, (via Chicago), Turkish, Cypriot and the Basque, as well as in English, whether as original writing, or in translation. Oihane Garcia. Photo Ardhin Hasa Along the way, the evening also provided moving insights to lives lived in translation, of bi-lingual people and into dramatic political and cultural changes that the past one hundred years have witnessed. The stories, which were revealed between performances by way of introductions, proved as vivid and enriching as anything scripted, sonically and poetically beautiful as they were. Gathered in the courtyard of The Merchant House c...