Little Amal receives an international welcome ceremony and celebration by SBC Theatres, the international ensembles and Kadence Music.
Credits
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Danyar Abbasi
Abed
Aiman Khairallah Alattab
Hussein Al-Dhamari
Somya Mishra
Yathreb Ramadhan
Jawdat Saghir
Suliman Saleh
Matthew Sutherland
Majid Valadi
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Artistic Director: Rosie MacPherson
Producer: John Tomlinson
Digital Direcor: Smart Banda
Music Director: Mahendra Patel
Music By: Kadence Music
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We know what Welcome really looks like.
To celebrate the arrival of Amal (Good Chance and Handspring Puppet Company) to Coventry we are making a moment to remember.
We are The Welcome Party, a city wide group of people seeking sanctuary who come together each week to explore how creative writing, performance and music can bring people together.
As Amal enters the city we greet her with a poem and chant, we guide her and the 5,000 people of Coventry who are here to welcome her, through the city centre. We sing and dance, we call for the better treatment of refugees and asylum seekers from the top of our float. We welcome Amal to a city that we have made our home.
Creative Process
Stand & Be Counted worked with previous participants of Can You Hear Me, Now? and new members, to co-create the perfect welcome for Amal and the many people she represents.
Through creative activity we shared frank and open discussions about what welcome in Coventry feels and looks like, what we want to keep and what we need to improve. We celebrated and challenged each other to think big and be bold when asking for what we want and need as individuals and a community. Our performance parade is an instruction manual for utopia… with songs!
AMAL
Amal is a 3.5 metre-tall puppet of a young refugee girl, created by the acclaimed Handspring Puppet Company. Representing all displaced children, many separated from their families, Little Amal will have walked across Turkey, Greece, Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium and the UK, heading for a finale event in Manchester, England in November 2021. She will travel a remarkable 8,000km in total, celebrating the power of art and shared humanity wherever she goes.
