THE TABLE — 21st June 2025

Posted on: 02/06/2025

Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery look forward to welcoming The Table this month... take a look and book tickets online below:
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THE TABLE — A Bold, Urgent Invitation to Act

A workshop sharing of a new play by Aisha Zia, directed by Sonny Nwachukwu. In partnership with Counterpoints as part of Refugee Week 2025.
21 June 2025. 6.00pm

In a world increasingly hostile to displaced people, The Table stands defiantly at the intersection of art and action. This daring new piece of modular theatre confronts the crisis faced by refugees and migrants head-on, weaving stories of survival, hope, and defiance with raw theatrical power. Told through real-life testimonies, original writing, and a concept that allows the piece to transform in every venue, The Table is not just a play—it’s a call to solidarity. Created to be dismantled and reassembled by different creative teams in different places, The Table invites local artists and communities to take ownership of the play, bringing new voices to the fore with every staging. Following a powerful work-in-progress showing in 2024, the project now moves towards its final phase, starting in Peterborough before embarking on a national tour in 2026

Pull up a chair. Take your place. Join The Table!

Workshop programme

Alongside the public sharing of The Table three incredible organisations and artists will be delivering free workshops that powerfully compliment the work you will see in the evening.

12:00 - Makan Workshop: will run a specially adapted version of their ‘How to Talk About Palestine’ workshop to compliment The Table. It will help you expand your skills when talking about Palestine and conversations around migration by offering communication tips on how to engage in such conversations, and by building your confidence to know how to respond to various arguments.

2:00pm – Muslim Girls Fence: A space for Muslim girls and women to fence. Muslim Girls Fence is a project collaboration between Maslaha and British Fencing and will be hosted by 62 Gladstone Street. Muslim Girls Fence aims to facilitate spaces at a grassroots level for Muslim girls and women to challenge assumptions and narratives relating to their gender, racial, religious and other identities through both physical and creative methods. This workshop is aimed at 16-24 year olds.

4:00pm - Flipping the Narrative - Sampling Words Workshop: Explore the narratives about you in the media, flip them, subvert them, make them speak your narrative. Sean Dendere leads this workshop.

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