“Emma Goldman Speaks”at the Haskell Opera House this Sunday

This coming Sunday, September 15, at 3 p.m., the Centre des arts de Stanstead and the Bishop’s University’s Foreman Art Gallery will present “Emma Goldman Speaks,” a work of historical fiction focused around a speech that project creator Adam Kinner believes infamous activist and feminist Emma Goldman could have given in Vermont in 1907.

The Haskell Opera House, being situated on the border, could have been the place where the event took place, according to Kinner, who shared that he has long wanted to bring the words of the activist to life and to recreate the ambience that could have been triggered by it.

For this event, multidisciplinary artist Adam Kinner asked Sahar Sepahdari-dalai, a New York artist of Iranian descent, to act as the modern-day interpreter for Goldman. She will be accompanied by local musicians who will play a music score adapted to the ambience given by the speech. They are Isaiah Ceccarelli, Marie-claire Durand, Eugenie Jobin Tremblay, Adam Kinner, Brett Nelson and Sarah-jeanne Riberdy.

A mix of poetry and historical fiction, this speech represents some of the Emma Goldman’s main ideas of society, and is linked to the changing and charged reality of the border. The performance is the result of a residency at Bishop’s University’s Artlab held between October 2018 and August 2019.

This performance is the first of the season for the Centre des arts de Stanstead.

All are welcome and admission is free.