BEAF 2023: Stateless
Joli Vyann’s Stateless has been reimagined for BEAF 2023 Arts Festival. Get ready for an immersive acrobatic performance like no other.
For BEAF 2023 Arts Festival, Joli Vyann has worked with participants of BEAF Arts Co’s Seeking Refuge Project. The soundtrack combines voices from the refugees with the experimental sounds from Japanese composer Nao Masuda and Iranian musician and asylum seeker Babak Barbod. Here Babak shares his thoughts and experiences.

“Collaborating with Nao has been very enjoyable,” explains Babak. “I’m always looking for new experiences and I feel that the only place that reminds us humans that we are all equal and have a common language is art.”
Seeking Refuge is an ongoing initiative working with people seeking asylum in the UK and young unaccompanied refugees, through regular creative workshops. “[Projects such as Seeking Refuge], in my opinion, is a positive thing,” confirms Babak.
“It causes artists from different countries who have been forced to seek refuge in England to gather together and produce artistic works. It gives them hope.”
Stateless 2023 is taking place upstairs at Bournemouth Foodbank on 23 June and 24 June from 7-8pm as part of BEAF 2023 Festival and Refugee Week. Tickets are now on sale. This is a fundraising event, so all ticket sales will be donated to the Foodbank.