Holding Ground
Camden People's Theatre, NW1 2PY , [Venue Details]A multilingual solo performance exploring lineage and home-making through story, song, and quilting. Holding Ground invites audiences into a tender, participatory act of remembrance, repair, and connection across distance.
Holding Ground is a multilingual live performance that weaves story-theatre, song, and poetry to explore home, memory, and connection across distance. Rooted in the artist’s South African - German heritage, it reflects on life between languages, homelands, and generations through quilt-making and beadwork.
At its core is a patchwork of modern-day “love letters” - WhatsApp messages, voice notes, screenshots, and music links - transformed into quilted squares. This evolving quilt becomes a soft archive of care, an attempt to hold what is often intangible or fleeting.
The work draws on personal narrative and research into the visual poetics of German Blaudruck/Isishweshwe textiles and Southern African beadwork love letters, tracing material heritage movements through German–South African trade histories into personal meaning-making.
These communal traditions, alongside stories passed down by grandmothers at the sewing machine and photo album, shape a performance that is both intimate and resonant. Audience members are gently invited into the act of quilting - passing a pin, holding the image - participating in a shared practice of “holding ground.”
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Admission
Min: £12.00
Max: £25.00
Performer name: Nomakhwezi Becker
Age restriction: 14+
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Holding Ground
Wednesday, 20 May 2026 @7.00pm
Camden People's Theatre, NW1 2PYMore Information
A multilingual solo performance exploring lineage and home-making through story, song, and quilting. Holding Ground invites audiences into a tender, participatory act of remembrance, repair, and connection across distance.
Holding Ground is a multilingual live performance that weaves story-theatre, song, and poetry to explore home, memory, and connection across distance. Rooted in the artist’s South African - German heritage, it reflects on life between languages, homelands, and generations through quilt-making and beadwork.
At its core is a patchwork of modern-day “love letters” - WhatsApp messages, voice notes, screenshots, and music links - transformed into quilted squares. This evolving quilt becomes a soft archive of care, an attempt to hold what is often intangible or fleeting.
The work draws on personal narrative and research into the visual poetics of German Blaudruck/Isishweshwe textiles and Southern African beadwork love letters, tracing material heritage movements through German–South African trade histories into personal meaning-making.
These communal traditions, alongside stories passed down by grandmothers at the sewing machine and photo album, shape a performance that is both intimate and resonant. Audience members are gently invited into the act of quilting - passing a pin, holding the image - participating in a shared practice of “holding ground.”
Admission
Min: £12.00
Max: £25.00
Performer name: Nomakhwezi Becker
Age restriction: 14+
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