Founded in 2007 by Daniel Goldman, CASA – meaning ‘home’ in Portuguese and Spanish is one of the UK’s biggest champions of cultural exchanges between Latin American and UK based artists. An arts organisation programming predominantly theatre, their well known and respected festival has enjoyed 9 editions, with its 10th taking place this July. Taking over the helm of both the organisation and festival this year is CASA contributer Cordelia Grierson, the newly appointed Artistic Director who has helped shape CASA’s journey behind the scenes within the past 8 years. Talking ahead of this year’s festival, Cordelia tells us more about what to expect as well as the event’s newly introduced multi-disciplinary element.
Commencing on Monday 17th June, Refugee Week UK will witness various arts events take place in various locations. Acknowledging the stories of refugees and asylum seekers, this crucial week offers a voice to the often marginalised, allowing for conversations to take place to promote collaboration and a sense of community. One of this year’s projects is Cohere – an immersive installation originating from award winning poet, Zaffar Kunial’s writings. Using his words as a starting point, four visual artists, Geoff Brokate being one of them would go on to craft creations as a response, resulting in Cohere. Ahead of the installation’s first showing, Geoff talks to us about the event’s creative process, responses from creatives towards the initial workshops and what audiences can expect!
