After Celebrating our 5th anniversary last year, we got to thinking… what now? We looked at our previous programs, we looked at each other, we looked at the world (yikes…) and wondered were do we belong in all of this.  Join us as we search a sense of belonging through stories, comedy and music in our temporary culture hub ‘De Werkplaats’.

Belonging noun

a feeling of being happy or comfortable as part of a particular group and having a good relationship with the other members of the group because they welcome you and accept you: A sense of belonging is one of humanity's most basic needs (Example)

GURBET* – OR HOW I BECAME RICH | SOULA NOTOS

“Gurbet – or how I became rich” is a personal and critical story about diaspora and the space in between where you are always longing and always on the way, but you never seem to arrive. The various languages that stumble inside of you make you feel like you are never entirely part of the place you are at the moment. But is it all sorrow and pain? Soula Notos takes you on a personal and sharp exploration of gurbet with lots of humor, movement and temperament. Maybe, just maybe, that space in-between is not that bad after all.
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* Gurbet:
1. A place, usually a foreign country that is far away from one’s homeland in which one lives for work.
2. The state or feeling of being a stranger and/or longing for one’s homeland.
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Soula Notos is a theater maker and performer of various styles: storytelling, spoken word, comedy, acting. She performed her previous solo “Who are you when no one is looking?” at various storytelling festivals (Oslo, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Prague, London) and also at Oerol and Festival Boulevard. She organises and hosts the bimonthly Soula's Storytelling Nights at Theater Kikker. Her work explores themes of migration, gender, belonging, humanization, identity, power relations, lightness, and freedom. She tries to connect, to change, to make people laugh, and to make visible what has stayed invisible. She wants to remember.

Audience reactions:

"Definitely go and see it, really a very beautiful performance!"

"A gem of a performance."

"Compelling and moving."

"A beautiful performance by Soula Notos about how migration gets under your skin, about being at home in multiple languages, multiple soundtracks and hybridity based on her mother's story. About reception, exclusion and exploitation."

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