Resilience Residencies

"Being an artist isn't easy. It's not something I do by choice. I make art to survive. I make art attempting to glean understanding. I make art to appease and chase demons away. I make art to remain sane in an insane world.

 

How do we live with ourselves when our elected leaders choose money over peace? How do we continue when we see genocide being committed? Women and children being slaughtered? More land being stolen under false pretense? How do we go on when lies are peddled as truth? When the aggressor plays victim?

When animals are pushed to the brink of extinction or enslaved, fattened and slaughtered for mass consumption? And trees are clear cut? 

 

At times, it is impossible to even breathe under the pressing weight of strife in this world. How do I survive? 

 

I make art.

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I scream, cry and beg for change in the words that I write... but it takes resilience and this itself comes at a cost.

 

The creation of work by activist artists is vital and Red Beti Theatre wants to support this documentation of truth through art.

 

I am pleased to launch our new initiative, Resilience Residences, we want to hear from you."