'GHOORNI - a disastrous cycle' by Ayna Arts

"Drama performance about a young person piecing together their grandfather’s arrival in the UK from Bangladesh in the '70's, when due to the colonial legacies of conflict and poverty he left a country with little climate impact to work in a UK industry with high climate impact. This climate impact would be damaging mostly his own home country rather than the country he ended up working for. His grandchild is climate vigilant through their lessons in school, but only through the grandfather's story do they realise the global system that brought them here is the same as that which is destroying the climate especially for Bangladesh. Performance will be followed by a Q+A session.

About the company: ‘Ayna’ (mirror in English), also means ‘come along’. Ayna Arts is a platform for creative people to come together to empower and express themselves. The group aims to develop individuals’ creativity, sense of community and explore social and humanitarian issues that affect our community through theatre. Ghoorni is a new theatrical development following their well received play 'Orna' which explored the issues of abuse and oppression of women.

Part of the Crossing Footprints event series for Manchester Histories.

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