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ToGather: Susan Hefuna

An exhibition and performance, this is a Manchester International Festival, world premiere.

ToGather

: Susan Hefuna

Featuring a major public performance and a wide-ranging exhibition, Susan Hefuna’s timely, poetic work addresses some of the most potent issues of our time: migration, movement and sensations of separation.

This is a past exhibition which ran from 30 June 2017 to 3 September 2017.

The focal point of ToGather will be a free public event to which everyone is invited. Local residents, originally from as far afield as Iran and Sierra Leone, will trace individual paths through Whitworth Park. Their movements will be echoed by dancers from Studio Wayne McGregor, inspired by the emotions enjoyed and endured by migrants as they walk around their new hometowns. The performance includes an original score by Scanner and a digital experience realised by International Magic. Recognising the social importance of food to migrant communities, there will be a wide range of food and drink available on the day. The exhibition will take the form of a ‘mental map’, installed in several rooms at the Whitworth and parts of Whitworth Park. A series of palmwood structures, inspired by boxes seen on the streets of Hefuna’s native Cairo, will be joined by a rich selection of drawings, vitrines, personal objects and a new digital work, all on themes of migration and separation, gathering and togetherness. ToGather’s multiple parts will combine into a hugely moving whole, a work of great significance and power on this most urgent of subjects.

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