BEK Opening Week 2025: Everything Worthwhile is Done with Other People

Name: BEK Opening Week 2025: Everything Worthwhile is Done with Other People
Start: 2025-02-02T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-02-02T20:00:00+01:00
Location: Bergen Kjøtt

Schedule

Sun Feb 02 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Bergen Kjøtt | Bergen, HO

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This event is free and open for all.
Join us for a film screening and conversation with the artists: Everything Worthwhile is Done with Other People by Rehana Zaman and Everything Worthwhile Collective.
The film Everything Worthwhile is Done with Other People takes up the conversations, experiences and freedom dreams of a group of women affected by the carceral state, as encountered through the UK government’s hostile environment policy and prison system. This work began as a series of workshops led through Hibiscus Initiatives framed around questions of criminality, innocence and citizenship, perceived through the lens of gender, race and class.
EVERYTHING WORTHWHILE COLLECTIVE are a group made up of women from South Africa, Ghana, Jamaica, Albania, Nigeria and Iraq who came together around the workshops of the project (2018 – 2023). Through these sessions the technical facets of filmmaking were deconstructed, through theatre games and improvisation, camera and sound recording, storytelling and testimony. Central to this process of congregating has been the sharing of experiences, offering mutual support, advice and tactics to address the interminable limbo of unanswered applications for leave to remain or appeal for asylum, alongside applications for housing or urgent medical care, or the need to reconstruct some semblance of stability after the traumatic impact of detention or a prison sentence.
Over the course of the last seven years our ambitions to create a collectively authored film have been held and nurtured through many shared meals, blossoming friendships and periodic trips to the beach.
Over the course of this process a polyvocal hybrid film emerged, offering a small glimpse into a group’s attempt to connect and form against punitive contexts that strive to diminish, reduce and disappear. The work articulates how in spite of these conditions, solidarity and love, can and does prevail.
REHANA ZAMAN
Rehana Zaman is an artist living and working in London. Her work speaks to notions of kinship and sociality, seeking out possibilities of intimacy and transgression within hostile contexts. Conversation and cooperative methods sit at the heart of her films which extend into texts, performances and group work.
Accessibility
Bergen Kjøtt is an old factory currently working on improving access routes.
They welcome service dogs and provide restroom facilities accessible to all genders and adapted for wheelchair users.