Visual Arts & Film

Unpacking Black and White

Unpacking the woes of life of a migrant woman through poems, enactment, music, and installation art.

  • Dates 1 Oct - 20 Oct
  • Time Available On Demand (45 minutes)
  • Venues Digital Fringe
$12.00
Sessions & Tickets
A portrait of Puva P Arumugam against a white background. Puva is a Singaporean Indian woman and she is dressed in a black Kurti with printed collars and is wearing her grandmother's sarong which is green and red batik floral prints. Half of her face is painted white with two black tear drops shown and her head is tilted to the right and she is gazing at the side as she holds her book of poems entitled Black and White.

Image Credit: Shastra Selvananthan

  • Directed by: Dr Puva P Arumugam

  • Performed by: Dr Puva P Arumugam & Mr Poly Varghese

  • Music by: Mr Poly Verghese

Gemz Creative Arts presents - Unpacking Black and White - an original multimedia enactment of the reading of poems written by Dr. Puva P Arumugam from her book Black and White - A Collection of Poems II.

Dr. Puva P Arumugam, a multilingual migrant playwright/poet, is inviting you to join her on an online journey where you get to listen, watch, and feel her emotions as she captures real scenarios that happened in her life via enactments and installation art depicting cultural context. Her poems will bring topics such as migrant guilt, loneliness and mental health and wellbeing to the fore.

As Gemz Creative Arts is keen to feature diasporic artistes and be a platform for migrant artistes, this performance will also feature the music of Mr Poly Verghese who is a renowned Indian musician and actor trained in Indian classical music and stage acting. He will also be part of the enactments that accompany the readings of the poems.

About Gemz Creative Arts

Dr Puvaneswari (Puva) P Arumugam is a Singaporean Indian woman who migrated to Australia nearly two and half decades ago. Puva is an author, playwright, and poet. With a PhD in Theatre and Cultural Studies, she has written and published a range of publication across several genres. She has also staged and directed several of her plays in Australia and Singapore. Puva is currently the Artistic and Creative Director of Gemz Creative Arts, a Melbourne based Creative Arts Company.

  • Duration: 45 minutes

  • Event Accessibility: Deaf or Hard of Hearing Rating: Partially Accessible

  • Age suitability: PG

  • Full: $12.00

  • Concession: $8.00

  • Extra Applause: $15.00

  • Blak Tix: $10.00

Sessions: Digital Events

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Date Time Venue

Tuesday, 01 October 2024 -
Sunday, 20 October 2024

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Digital Fringe

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