Family performance: How Can We Tell It?

Come along to this spellbinding, interactive performance with local storytelling trio East3, as they explore the importance of celebrating and sharing your language and culture through song, dance, stories, and folktales.
Rooted in real London stories from Bangladeshi, Jewish, East End communities and more, this performance will dive into the multicultural fabric that makes London – and specifically east London – what it is, as well as the power of lived language, translation, and creativity.
This performance is interactive, inclusive, and open to children and families of all ages. There will also be small tasters available of food from some of East London’s many cultures (Covid-allowing).
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East3 is made up of storytellers Shamim Azad and Sef Townsend, and musician Paul Burgess. Dedicated to celebrating London’s diversity through intercultural collaboration and sharing, East3 has performed at events and festivals including the Tower Hamlets Boishaki Mela, and Great Day Out in Victoria Park.
 
East3 emerged from the East storytelling project run by Bethnal Green-based Daedalus Theatre Company in association with BSK UK and Rua Arts. This long-running initiative, led by Shamim, Sef and Paul, has brought together people from East London’s different cultures, religions and ethnicities to share their stories and songs. It’s given a great many people, often with no prior performance experience, a chance to develop storytelling skills through a programme of sharing events, coaching, and performance opportunities.
 
You can see examples of stories from East3 and a range of guest artists and community participants at eastarchive.com and find out more about the East storytelling project at daedalustheatre.co.uk
Shamim Azad
Shamim Azad is known as one of the best Bengali poets and Storytellers in UK. She has been writing since 1970 and published 37 books. She loves to tell stories ranging from Bangladeshi to European folktales. Her performance fuses the lines between education and entertainment and rooted in Asian folk, oral traditions and heritage.
 
Sef Townsend
Sef is a storyteller who, for more than 35 years, has worked around the world with refugees, and those in detention; as well as with audiences in schools and museums; churches, mosques and synagogues. He has a love of bringing people of together and of sharing their languages, stories and songs.
 
Paul Burgess
 An East London-based theatre designer and musician, Paul has designed for numerous UK and international venues. He’s artistic director of LGBTQ+ led Daedalus Theatre Company, and co-director of Ecostage and Scale. He plays the violin in The Black Smock Band as well as writing and arranging music for theatre.
 
Access Information
Nunnery Gallery has step-free access throughout from street level, including to the accessible toilet, and is service animal friendly. This venue does not have a hearing loop system.
Accessible parking is not available on-site but blue badge parking can be found 500m away on Fairfield Road.
If you have any questions regarding accessibility at this venue or event, would like to make us aware of any access requirements that you have in advance of visiting, or would like this information in an alternate format including Easy Read, please email nunnery@bowarts.com or call 020 8980 7774 (Ext. 3)
Travel Information
Opening hours: Tues-Sun, 10am to 4pm
Address: Nunnery Gallery, 181 Bow Road, London, E3 2SJ
Nearest station(s): Bow Road (District and Hammersmith and City lines) is a 6-minute walk away, and Bow Church (DLR) is a 3-minute walk away.
Bus: 205, 25, 425, A8, D8, 108, 276, 488 and 8 all service the surrounding area.
Bike: Bicycle parking is located at Bow Church Station. The nearest Santander Cycles docking station is at Bow Church Station.