in the space between

 by Mona Kasra and Adam M. Kassim

workshop reading

At Universalist National Memorial Church

FEBRUARY 21 - 22, 2027

Part of this year’s

Voices From a Changing Middle East Festival

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INTHE SPACE BETWEEN

In the aftermath of a shattering crash, a child carrying a handful of seeds sets out on a journey across the Middle East in search of a grandparent's lost garden. Created by Iranian-American new media artist, projection designer and interdisciplinary scholar Mona Kasra and Palestinian-American theater maker and director Adam M. Kassim, In the Space Between explores migration, wars, displacement, resilience, and the friendships that help us carry what cannot be repaired. 

Blending humor, magical realism, and multimedia performance, two storytellers move between characters, memories, dreams, and generations as they struggle to piece together a fractured world of family stories, languages, and places left behind. Memories unravel and the boundaries between past and present, storyteller and story, slowly dissolve, revealing unexpected connections shaped by the complexities of Middle Eastern diasporic life, including longing, belonging, and the search for home across generations..