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Copla: A Sharing of LGBTQ+ Migrant Stories and Song
February 27 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Free
In this session, we will explore the power of identity through creativity, by looking at this project and performances created by and for LGBTQ+ migrants, and discuss social, cultural, and geographical displacement, celebrating the resilience of those who don’t “fit in” through music and humour.
The creators of Copla: a Spanish Cabaret and participants from The Love Tank, an LGBTQ+ migrant organisation, who developed a performance in response to Copla, will join us. We will share footage from these events and discuss the next steps for the project.
Copla is a genre of Spanish music that was repressed during Franco’s dictatorship but later embraced by drag artists and queer communities as a form of resistance. Copla: a Spanish Cabaret brings these powerful songs to life in English, with a fresh take for today’s audiences: www.coplacabaret.com
About the facilitator
Alejandro Postigo (he/him) is a theatre maker and playwright inspired by the merging of music and identity in the performing arts.
During the last ten years, he’s developed The Copla Musical, a theatre project involving the adaptation of Spanish folkloric songs with queer, cultural and political undertones.
The Copla Musical'(2014-2023), has been performed in Europe and America, most recently at the Kings Head in July 2023.
Recent research has led him to address the cultural and linguistic barriers found in Anglophone theatre contexts, and to champion the artistic contributions of audible minorities in my show Miss Brexit'(2022).
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