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Samra Mayanja – SCREAM CHOIR

SCREAM CHOIR is a workshop for people who have ever had words stuck in their throat, have struggled to speak and/or police their thoughts.

SCREAM CHOIR is led by Samra Mayanja, who has initiated several SCREAM CHOIR events in the past. For this edition, Samra will be joined by Mary Osborn (Live Art Development Agency) and they will focus on stories of the voice, vocal improvisations, speaking, screaming and listening.

The aim is to listen to each other, make soothing sounds and improvise together. If that’s new for you, we’ll learn together.

SCREAM CHOIR is a precursor to THE CALL CENTRE performance night on Saturday 7 February, curated and hosted by Samra Mayanja and featuring London based band Riot and the Ether. The event is co-presented by Newington Green Meeting House and Live Art Development Agency.

What to expect

Workshop participants will improvise with their voices and bodies. The workshop will split into two 50 minute sessions, with a 15-20 minute break in the middle. There may be some shouting and screaming in the vocal improvisations.

Please email [email protected] if you would like more information on what to expect.

SCREAM CHOIR is co-presented by Newington Green Meeting House, Live Art Development Agency, supported by the Grand Camp Maisie Fund.

The Grand Camp Maisie Fund was created by the will of the late LGBTQIA+ leading gay rights campaigner activist and journalist Andrew Lumsden. New Unity at Newington Green Meeting House is grateful to be awarded support for this event as part of a wider programme curated by independent producer Nikki Tomlinson and New Unity’s General Manager Nick Toner. Content produced and published as part of the programme does not necessarily reflect the position of the Grand Camp Maisie Fund

Samra Mayanja

Samra Mayanja is an artist working across performance, installation, film and writing. Her practice considers the illegibility of the body and the absurdist impulse to seek what is irretrievably lost. A continuously hopeful but seemingly futile act of searching runs through her work and manifests in performances that blend improvisation, slapstick, poetic monologues and tender vocalisations. Samra has performed and exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries and theatres, including Cambridge Junction, The Oval, Centre for Live Art in Yorkshire, Somerset House, Tetley (Leeds), MAMA (Rotterdam), Kampnagel (Hamburg), Transmediale (Berlin) and LIVE Biennale (Vancouver). Samra writes weekly about performance, audiences and the loose choreography that is humanity on her Substack P3RFORMANC3 PRINC3SS.

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Mary Osborn

Mary Osborn has been Director of Live Art Development Agency since October 2024. Previous to this, she has worked as a producer, curator and supporter of interdisciplinary performance practice, ever since she developed chronic stage fright during her Masters degree at Queen Mary University of London (2012). She is interested in quiet voices in life, art and public speaking.

Access Information

About the venue:

The Meeting House building is accessible for wheelchair users and has a disabled toilet. 

For any specific accessibility requirements or for any venue queries, please email: [email protected].

 

Banner image credit:

SCREAM, Samra Mayanja (2020)

Part of Samra Mayanja and Riot + the Ether – THE CALL CENTRE

Artist in Residence Samra Mayanja curates a special edition of THE CALL CENTRE co-presented with Newington Green Meeting House.

Samra Mayanja and Riot + the Ether – THE CALL CENTRE

Artist in Residence Samra Mayanja curates a special edition of THE CALL CENTRE co-presented with Newington Green Meeting House.

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