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\u0122ertr\u016bdes ielas te\u0101tris, \u0122ertr\u016bdes str. 101a An undercover police officer disguised as a clown, a man in drag losing his high heels in a riot, trees planted in the middle of a motorway: the autobiographical lecture performance ‘We Have Never Been Here Before’ asks what the shape of hope in the dark is and how we can remain empowered when our worlds are being ripped apart and life itself is threatened with extinction.<\/p>\n For a decade, The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination<\/em> (Labofii) has brought artists and activists together to carry out theatrical direct actions across Europe. But for its 18th<\/sup> experiment the collective is retreating for a moment to the relative safety of the stage to collectively ask some disturbing questions about how to change our world. We Have Never Been Here Before takes the audience through a blast of autobiographical stories of resistance where the impossible merges with the improbable. Sitting uncomfortably between witty confessional, popular education and an absurd rehearsal for the apocalypse, including a game show-like \u201ccall a friend\u201d skype conversation with key thinkers such as David Graeber and Naomi Klein, We Have Never Been Here Before is a journey of empowerment in a time when hope seems so slippery. Do we have the courage to take life so seriously that we are prepared to lose everything in order to protect it?<\/p>\n Performed by John Jordan, labelled a \u201cdomestic terrorist\u201d by the UK police and \u201cmagician of rebellion\u201d by the press, the performance is set to a live soundtrack by his son composer Jack Jordan. The show is combined with a four-day workshop on “art, activism and climate change\u201d<\/a> run by Labofii co-founder Isabelle Fremeaux, which asks: \u201cWhat holds us back from action that is appropriate to the scale of the social and ecological crisis unfolding today?\u201d<\/p>\n
\nTuesday, May 5, 19.00
\nWednesday, May 6, 19.00 \/ this show is sold out!
\nIn English
\nDuration 1 h 20
\nTickets at Bi\u013ce\u0161u Parad\u012bze (www.bilesuparadize.lv<\/a>),\u00a0New Theatre Institute of Latvia, Miera str. 39-2 (payment in cash only).
\nTicket prices – 10 eiro and 7 eiro (discount for pupils, students, retired people and people with disabilities).<\/p>\n