Almost Live episode #164
Imagine swimming for your life.
Swim is a meditative audio experience that imagines the effects of migration on the self. The project guides the audience through to the finish of a treacherous swim from Güzelçamlı Turkey to the Greek Island of Samos, a distance of 8km (the length of 160 Olympic swimming pools) to cross into asylum. Loosely inspired by the ancient epic poem, Laila & Majnun, Swim imagines the physical, mental, and spiritual tolls of displacement.
Amy will be joined by creators Jivesh Parasram and Tom Arthur Davis.
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Guest Bios
Jivesh Parasram is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist of Indo Caribbean descent (Cairi/Trinidad & Tobago). Jivesh grew up in Mi’Kma’Ki (Nova Scotia) before moving to Tkaronto (Toronto). In 2009 he co-founded Pandemic Theatre, through which much of his work has been created, often in close collaboration with co-founder Tom Arthur Davis. He is a recipient of two Harold Awards for his service to the independent theatre community in Tkaronto, including the Ken McDougall Award. Jivesh won the 2018 Toronto Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award, and was a member of the second cohort of the Cultural Leaders Lab with the Toronto Arts Council and the Banff Centre. In 2018, Jivesh took on the position of artistic director for Rumble Theatre. He lives primarily in the unceded Coast Salish territories (Vancouver, BC).
Tom Arthur Davis is a theatre artist, producer, and project manager based on Lekwungen Traditional Territory. In 2009, he co-founded Pandemic Theatre (then less distastefully named), for which he has acted as the Artistic Director. Tom has also worked with Why Not Theatre as a Managing Producer, the Toronto Fringe as a program director, and with PuSh International Performing Arts Festival as the Interim Director of Programming. Currently, he is working with the BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres, helping to organize their annual Indigenous youth conference, Gathering Our Voices. His works for the stage include Mahmoud (co-writer), Take d Milk, Nah? (co-creator/dramaturge), The Only Good Indian (co-creator), and SWIM (co-writer).
