be:longing/Shostakovich. Presented by Alexina Hawkins and be:longing. Ainslie Arts Centre, Braddon. Tuesday, August 22, 7.30pm. Tickets $25/$15. Bookings: eventbrite.com.au/e/belonging-shostakovich-tickets-36846403585 or 6182 0000 (business hours).
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Art – especially modern art – often has an autobiographical element. be:longing/Shostakovich is an event inviting the audience to contemplate the kinds of situations that drive artists to communicate and create in the context of a range of pressures and through media that are born of cultural complexity and collaboration.
It's an exchange between authors from be:longing magazine and Australian classical musicians that tells several stories of varied perspectives, interwoven with the thread of humanity that connects us all.
be:longing, launched in Canberra in 2016, publishes contemporary works exploring personal experiences of migration, cross-culture, nostalgia and belonging, and encourages an inclusive, open discourse on the intricacies of a multifaceted cultural existence.
Soviet Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his third string quartet in 1946, suffering immense compositional and personal pressure to submit to the pressures of a nationalistic political ideology that was enforced to regulate and resist the influence of "external" musical cultures on Stalin-era Soviet music played in the public sphere.
The musicians performing are Kristian Winther (violin), Ioana Tache (violin), Alexina Hawkins (viola), Thomas Marlin (cello). They will also perform some other items with special guests, cellist David Pereira and violist Tor Fromyhr.
The featured writers are Dunja Cvjeticanin, Vesna Cvjeticanin, Abeir Soukieh, Dejan Stevanovic, Anita Patel and Akka Ballenger Constantin.
