Phase 3: Bringing communities together
For the final phase of the work in the UK, all three community groups come together for an intensive five-day artistic residency in the Workshop Theatre at the University of Leeds in July 2026.
The aim of this residency was to use art and creativity to critically discuss commonalities and shared ideas of communication across the three separate community groups.
The work was led by a creative team put together by Mafwa and the research team of Dr Matthew Elliott and Dr Kirrily Pells.
The residency utilised a range of arts-based practices to develop a new piece of performance to ask questions about cross-community communication. Bringing together music, movement, theatre and moments of interaction, In Other Words was shared with invited audiences in the Workshop Theatre on 24 and 25 July.
Find out about the first two phases of this work.
Team
Director – Tamsin Cook
Musician and Composer – Thandanani Gumede
Performance Artist and Facilitator – Mahshid Alavi
Theatre Facilitator – Ali Campbell
Assistant Director – Thiptawan Uchai
Project Founder – Professor Jane Plastow
Principal Investigator – Dr Matthew Elliott
Co-Investigator – Kirrily Pells
Project Manager, University of Leeds – Fiona Blair
Documentary Filmmaker – Matylda Wierietielny
Technician – Alex Robinson
Photographer – Annabelle Cohen
Chaperone – Ellie Cansdale
Chaperone – Grace Wilkinson
Stage@Leeds – Steve Ansell and Amy Kennedy