Theatre Productions

Slave – A Question of Freedom

A Symposium - ‘Experts by Experience’

 

Riverside Studios

Thursday 7 November, 2024

(Immediately following the Matinee performance - run time 75 minutes)

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Led by Dr Rubina Jasani, there will be a round table symposium ‘Experts by Experience’ at each venue where they will share their own experiences and people will be able to ask questions before and after seeing the play.

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For the Lowry Salford and Shakespeare North Playhouse discussions are to be led by Dr Rubina Jasani from the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Unit at The University of Manchester alongside women from Women Asylum Seekers Together. WAST women are experts by their lived experience and will share some of their stories which resonate with Mende’s story in Slave – A Question of Freedom.

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In London and Bristol speakers are representatives from the charities Waging Peace, Stop the Traffick, Unseen and the Bakhita Centre at St Mary’s University London.

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Since 2010, Caroline has continued to raise awareness of modern slavery through other projects and also the situation in Sudan with the Mende Nazer Foundation (MNF). In 2017 Mende and Caroline, travelled together undercover to the Nuba Mountains to take medical aid and hear testimony from victims of slavery escaped slaves to report back to the UK government. Subsequent work has seen the building

of a clinic and installation of water pumps.

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This thought-provoking round-table discussion will explore the issue of modern slavery and the challenges faced, particularly by women, in negotiating a place of safety through the asylum system.’

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£5 per person for Symposium alone. Free entry to ticket holders.