Shaeirat - Chambres d'échos

Fri, 12 Sep - Sat, 13 Sep

Villa Bernasconi

La Bâtie - Festival de Genève

SHAEIRAT turns Villa Bernasconi into a poetic labyrinth. Launched at the 2022 Avignon Festival, this international collective platform, created by and starring female poets, continues to showcase contemporary Arabic poetry in venues all over the world. Each room of the pink house echoes with the voices of four performers from Morocco, Palestine, Syria and Gaza. Soukaina Habiballah, Carol Sansour, Hind Jouda and Rasha Omran voice the world from a female perspective, face to face with their grandmothers (Dodo ya Momo do), their mothers (In the Season of Apricots), war (Gaza, Oh My Joy), and solitude (The Woman Who Lived in the House Before Me).