26 Mar In the Street. Stories about housing in/justice
În Stradă. Povești despre ne/dreptatea locative (In the Street. Stories about in/justice housing) is a coupé theater performance which puts the spotlight on housing as a fundamental right and the scale of housing problems faced by an overwhelming majority of the population, from precarious rents to forced evictions.
Using the forum-theatre method, În stradă discusses two themes alternately: evictions and rents. Forced evictions, deeply unfair, violent and traumatic processes that violate fundamental human rights, continue to happen in Romania and leave precarious people homeless.
Overpriced and unaffordable rents in proportion to wages, difficulties in finding rents, landlords refusing to rent based on various discriminatory criteria (ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, etc.), lack of tenancy agreements and the constant danger of losing rent are another facet of housing injustices.Looking at these situations as part of a wider spectrum, where the interests of the free market take precedence over the lives and well-being of the majority of people, we see how housing difficulties affect a large part of the population.
În stradă brings together several stories of housing injustice, illustrating that housing problems are not individual hardships, but a crisis of capitalist society, where housing security has become an affordable privilege for the few. The performance is a call for awareness, action and solidarity for the respect of the fundamental right for housing.
Acting: Mădălina Brândușe, Ioana Chițu, Flory Iwy, Cristina Mitroi, Andrei Șerban
Music: Maria Sgârcitu
Project team: Alex Horghidan, Mișa Dumitriu, Ioana Florea, Laura Trocan, Rareș Ignat, Carolina Vozian
The project In the Street – Voice of Housing is co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how the project results may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding beneficiary.
Where/When? april 11th, 19:00, @ZIZ, Str. Paris 5