Join us at Grand Union on Friday 1 November, 6–8pm for an evening of live performances for Digbeth First Friday. We are so pleased to welcome Linda Stupart, Hasti, and Kasra Jalilipour to celebrate Samhain through their performances.
Samhain is a Celtic Pagan festival which marks the ending and beginning of the year. This festival has historically been celebrated widely across Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man. With the coming of Christianity to the British Isles, Samhain shifted into what we now know as Halloween. It is the time of year when the veil between this world and the next is at its thinnest, leaving the boundaries between the two blurred and porous. We interpret Samhain as the beginning of Winter in the Northern Hemisphere, the Gaelic word for November, the celebration of the end of Harvest time, a queer turning, a time to venerate all ancestors.
Each of these brilliant artists will individually respond to this time of transition and change through poetry and performance. Two within the walls of the gallery, and one outside by the Grand Union canal.
