Discover Jessica Ashman’s Dawta at Flatpack Festival

An exciting new audio-visual project by artist animator and musician Jessica Ashman will premiere at the Flatpack Festival Autumn Edition on Saturday 25 September. Book now to witness this sci-fi inspired work live at MAC, Birmingham.

Combining experimental animation techniques and live musical performance – guitar and loops from Jessica Ashman, and drums from visual artist Bimpe Alliu – this AV show explores the idea of inherited cycles of trauma in Blackness through a time traveller called Dawta. Inspired by archival research into trans-racial adoption and her own family history, Dawta is a story of escaping the past through the imagining of an unknown future; through the imagining of an unknown hope.

Flatpack Festival presents a feast of screenings and audiovisual performances from 23 to 26 September, check out the full programme here.

Dawta is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and is produced by Animate Projects.