Co-Hostings: All the Whistlers
Aliaskar Abarkas, Arts Catalyst
28 June | Time: 14:00 - 16:00 | Venue: City of Sanctuary Sheffield
ABOUT THE SHOW
Join Aliaskar Abarkas and All the Whistlers for a workshop exploring the power of non-verbal language. Through the simple yet resonant act of whistling, we’ll come together to listen, make sound, and co-compose a tune to carry with us — and to whistle, collectively or alone. As part of All The Whistlers, Aliaskar has collaborated with diverse creative networks and participants, documenting the process leading to musical compositions, visuals, and performance.
Co-hostings by Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad is a project developed with over 40 refugees and asylum seekers at City of Sanctuary Sheffield.
This last stage of the project brings to life a two-year engagement process that Bahbak undertook at City of Sanctuary and that was centred on issues around belonging, safety, and rootedness in Sheffield, and the role that English language and its translations hold. This process will lead to the creation of an illustrated English language phrase book, co-authored with the participants in 7 languages and illustrated by Danielle Rhoda, that will also inform new public artworks. The drawings and illustrations accompanying the phrase book offer a nuanced visual journey into the stories, situations and desires that participants shared and co-edited over time. A programme of workshops and performances will unfold at Arts Catalyst in 2025 in collaboration with Migration Matters Festival.
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Aliaskar Abarkas is an Iranian artist based in London. Committed to alternative and communal art education, he employs a choreographic and sonic approach to facilitate dynamic interactions between individuals, guiding a transition from isolated experiences to collective expressions. Engaging closely with institutional infrastructures, Aliaskar proposes and tests methodologies that reimagine open contexts within which his practice evolves and circulates, leading to contingent shifts in the dimensions of ideas and material forms. In All The Whistlers, he collaborates with diverse creative networks and participants in a collective process that culminates in musical compositions, visual scores, and performances.
Aliaskar holds a fellowship at Sadler’s Wells / Rose Choreographic School (London, 2024–26). Recent interventions have been supported and presented at The Barbican Centre, ICA, The Mosaic Rooms, TACO!, Pushkin House, Cubitt (London), CAPC (Bordeaux), and LOCALES (Rome). Aliaskar’s upcoming projects will be realised at Scuola Piccola Zattere (Venice, Italy) and the Singapore Art Museum.
Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad designs across multiple scales, from public spaces to games, objects, and interiors. His work combines anthropology, aesthetics, and play, developing methodologies through real-life projects that actively engage the public in design processes. Hashemi-Nezhad has developed projects, and led masterclasses in the UK and internationally. His collaborations include the Serpentine Galleries, Greater London Authority, Victoria and Albert Museum, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Shanghai Biennale, and Liverpool Biennial, among others.
Danielle Rhoda is an illustrator/ animator originally from Poland and currently based working between Manchester and London. Danielle gravitates towards illustrating different people and depicting diversity in a delicate and sensitive but naive way.
EVENT INFO
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FREE ENTRY
Please purchase a free ticket via the available ticket links.
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Doors Open: 18:30
Running Time: 19:00 - 21:00
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This event will take place on the ground floor at Gut Level, which is wheelchair accessible.
The building has an accessible toilet.
For more information, please visit: https://gutlevel.co.uk/venue-accessibility
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18+
Themes of deportation, homophobia, sexual and physical abuse
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Photography Credit: Arthur Pequin