Sahand Sahebdivani - Het Verre Woord

Stories never die. Even when the storyteller falls silent, they live on in us, like echoes that continue to resonate between the high mountains. When a father stops telling them, the son must do so. Stories never die. Even when the storyteller falls silent, they live on in us, like echoes that continue to resonate between the high mountains. When a father stops telling them, the son must do so. Sahand Sahebdivani (founder of Mezrab and Amsterdam Storytelling Festival) is the son of an Iranian revolutionary and breathes life into his old stories of resistance and flight in Theater Griffioen.

Sahand Sahebdivani - Het Verre Woord

Location

Griffioen

De Boelelaan 1111

1081 HV Amsterdam

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Contact

cultuur.griffioen@vu.nl

The Far Word

This experimental non-linear storytelling performance premiered earlier last year at Oerol and was warmly received, partly because of the unique form in which the stories are presented to the audience. The performance was rewritten after the recent uprising in Iran. Stories that, unfortunately, are very relevant again due to the recent events in Iran.

About Sahand

Sahand Sahebdivani (1980) is co-director of the Amsterdam Storytelling Festival and the most famous storyteller in the Netherlands. He performs on many national and international stages with solo shows, performances he created with Raphael Rodan and in larger ensembles. In 2004 he founded the Mezrab, which has since grown into one of the most important storytelling cafés in the world. Sahand arrived in the Netherlands at the age of three as a refugee from the Iran-Iraq war. The experiences of him and his family form the basis of most of his work.

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