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5x15: Akram Khan, Sebastian Barry, Hassan Akkad at The Tabernacle

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Time 19:00
Date 26/01/17
Price £26.75
  • Produced by The Tabernacle
  • Price Full Price; £26.75, Concessions: £16.05
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5 speakers 15 minutes each.

5×15 is an initiative of Rosie Boycott, Daisy Leitch and Eleanor O’Keeffe. We produce evenings of inspiration and entertainment for some of the world’s leading organisations and some of the world’s most discerning audiences.

Ruth Ibegbuna

Ruth Ibegbuna is the founder and CEO of RECLAIM, an award-winning social action and youth leadership programme based in Manchester, with a focus on working class young people being seen, being heard and leading change. Before this, Ruth worked as a senior teacher in a South Manchester state school and supported young people in obtaining some of the best GCSE results in the country. Ruth was named Manchester Peace Activist of the Year 2008, received the Manchester City Council Women’s award for Outstanding Contribution in 2009, and was awarded the 2011 National Business in the Communities Sieff award for best collaboration with business to benefit society. Ruth was also a member of the Independent Commission on Youth Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour, which brought forward strategic proposals for the sustainable reform of relevant services for children and young people, including the youth justice system. She was a 2013 Clore Social Fellow and is an Ashoka UK Fellow. This year, Ruth was listed in The Sunday Times as one of the 500 most influential people in the UK, in The Debrett’s 500 2016. She was also listed by Virgin and Ashoka as one of the top six female change makers internationally. Her book, On Youth showcases the stories of five RECLAIM Alumni.

Alistair Spalding

Alistair Spalding is the Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Sadler's Wells. Alistair's first job in arts management was at the Hawth Theatre, Crawley, where he was a programmer from 1988-1994. Over six years between 1994 and 2000, Alistair was the Head of Dance and Performance at the Southbank Centre in London. Alistair was also appointed as a national member of the Arts Council of England Board in January 2009. He was awarded Le Chevalier des Artes et Lettres by the French Embassy in October 2005 and in June 2012 he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen’s Birthday honours list, for services to dance.

Akram Khan

Akram Khan is one of the most celebrated and respected dance artists today. In just over 16 years he has created a body of work that has contributed significantly to the arts in the UK and abroad. His reputation has been built on the success of imaginative, highly accessible and relevant productions such as Until the Lions, Kaash, iTMOi (in the mind of igor), DESH, Vertical Road, Gnosis and zero degrees. An instinctive and natural collaborator, Khan has been a magnet to world-class artists from other cultures and disciplines. His previous collaborators include the National Ballet of China, actress Juliette Binoche, ballerina Sylvie Guillem, choreographers/dancers Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Israel Galván, singer Kylie Minogue, visual artists Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley and Tim Yip, writer Hanif Kureishi and composers Steve Reich, Nitin Sawhney,Jocelyn Pook and Ben Frost. A recent highlight of his career was the creation of a section of the London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony that was received with unanimous acclaim. He is an Honorary Graduate of University of London as well as Roehampton and De Montfort Universities, and an Honorary Fellow of Trinity Laban. Khan is also an Associate Artist of Sadler’s Wells, London and Curve, Leicester. He was awarded an MBE for services to dance in 2005.

Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His novels and plays have won the Costa Book of the Year award, the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year, the Independent Booksellers Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He also had two consecutive novels, A Long Long Way (2005) and the top ten bestseller The Secret Scripture (2008), shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize. His latest novel is Days Without End (2016), which has been shortlisted for a Costa Book Award.

Hassan Akkad

Hassan Akkad arrived in the UK after 87 days of travelling, fleeing his home and job as an English teacher in Damascus, Syria. He shares a story and experience of many refugees fleeing conflict, a story that we hear reports of on the news but that the majority of people have no experience of. Hassan has told this story in a ground-breaking way. Having filmed his entire Journey on a GoPro camera, his footage and story were part of the BBC2 documentary Exodus: Our Journey to Europe. Now living in London, he’ll reflect on how his journey and resettlement have impacted upon him.

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