Mari Berekspresi! Perempuan & Keadilan
Photos by Gordon John Thomas & Maisarah Reckweg.
On Saturday night, one of the three sessions which was simultaneously held was Mari Berekspresi which was organised by Sisters in Islam (SIS) and facilitated by Shanon Shah and Ayam Fared. The purpose of this session was to encourage participants to share issues through performing arts.
During this session, participants shared their personal experience or stories their heard which touched on inequality towards women. After the performances, most participants could relate to each other and realized that their experiences were similar and cut across the different background they share.
After the sharing session, Ayam Fared facilitated the participants to create their own performances in groups based on the issues that was brought up in the previous session. The facilitator stressed that they are only two things which we need to hold a street performance or performing art:
1) Know your body (its strength and weaknesses).
2) Understand and explore the range of physical expressions of your body.
He later took the participants through a process on how to create their own performing arts and how to bring out the issues of concern through this method. The advantage of performing arts is that we do not necessarily need a hall, a theatre or a specific space to do our performance. It can be anywhere, whether on the streets or during a demonstration or even at a park!
These performances was later performed during Fiesta Feminista’s closing ceremony as well as FF’s Day of Action the morning after.
