Memories
A musical and visual meditation on love, longing and womanhood expressed through stories, poetry, and song traditions of Kurdish women in Eastern Turkey and women in central Appalachia.
Conceived by Kyla-Rose Smith, Alexia Webster and Eva Salina.
Featuring oral and visual footage from interviews with Janet Marie Pace, Dana Keplinger, Mae Boggs, Medîne and Edûle Kılıç, Fatma “Kurdistan” Tekbaş & archival recordings from Alî Tekbaş
Memories was performed at the 2019 Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee and as part of the 2023 MATA Festival at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn, New York City.
Directed by Ashley K. Tata
Script by Mary Ellen Lough
Score by Kyla-rose Smith and Eva Salina
Scenic Design by Janet Pollock
Video Design by Alexia Webster
Projections by Xuan
Kitchen Percussion - Jess Tsang
Additional sound design by Kyla-Rose Smith and Chris Botta
With thanks to Fîdel Kılıç, Alî Tekbaş, Ayşenur Kolivar, Valerie Ison Horn, Nell Fields, Joy & Melissa, Gideon Crevoshay, those who welcomed and fed and shared with us in Hakkari, Mardin, Kentucky and West Virginia, our mothers and grandmothers, and our children.
In honour of the memories of Edule Kılıç, Mae Boggs, and Carol Ison
In loving memory of Edule Kılıç.
