Nat Raha

Nat Raha

Dr Nat Raha is a poet and activist-scholar, and Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies at the Glasgow School of Art. Her work is of an experimental queer lyric, attending to the everyday of marginalised lives, histories of struggle and resistance to racial capitalism, of humans and the more-than-human. She works through de/re/materialising sound, form and syntax, on the page and in performance. With Mijke van der Drift, Nat co-edits Radical Transfeminism zine, and is currently co-authoring a book Trans Femme Futures: An Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds (forthcoming, 2024).

Epistolary (on carceral islands) Performance

A performance addressing the history and development of island prisons across the globe through the colonial project of the British Empire. The work travels from Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth, to outposts of ‘empyre’ such as Spike Island, Ireland, and to the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal. The performance will take the form of a sonically expansive, trans-historical poem-letter addressed to ancestors incarcerated for anti-colonial revolt. Raha considers what the rise and fall of these carceral islands can teach us about contemporary abolitionist struggles, from a transfeminist perspective. 

Co-commissioned by TULCA and Edinburgh Arts Festival 2023.

Image: Aliven Sarkar, Andaman Cellular Jail, Andaman and Nicobar. Source: Wikicommons

Venue: Nuns Island Theatre, Galway
Dates: 12 November | 2pm
Tickets: Book here

Access: Nun’s Island is a step free venue. There is a single accessible parking space across the road from Nuns Island Theatre. There is no accessible bathroom at Nuns Island Theatre. The performance will be captioned.