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Choman Hardi

Contains 10 collection items, 8 performances, 18 in total. Currently showing 18 in total.
Choman Hardi (Kurdish: ‫چۆمان هەردی‬‎), is a contemporary Kurdish poet, translator, and academic. She arrived in United Kingdom in 1993 as a refugee and studied psychology and philosophy at Oxford and University College London respectfully. She did her PhD at University of Kent focusing on the effects of forced migration on the lives of Kurdish women from Iraq and Iran. She has published two collections of English poems, Life for Us (Bloodaxe Books, 2004) and Considering the Women (Bloodaxe Books, 2015), which received a recommendation from the Poetry Book Society and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize in 2016. Her translation of Sherko Bekas’s Butterfly Valley (ARC, 2018) won a PEN Translates Award.
Hardi has been a former chairperson of Exiled Writers Ink! She was Poet-In-Residence at Moniack Mhor Writers Centre (Scotland), Villa Hellebosch (Belgium), Hedgebrook Women Writers’ Retreat (USA) and The Booth (Shetland). In 2014 she moved back to her home-city of Sulaimani to teach English and gender studies at the American University of Iraq (AUIS), becoming chair of the department of English between 2015 and 2017. In 2015 she founded the Center for Gender and Development Studies at AUIS and led the establishment of the first inter-disciplinary gender studies minor in Iraq.
  • Transparencies of publicity-shot photo-session

    Collection item: Transparencies of publicity-shot photo-session

    c 2001
    Envelope of twenty pocketed sleeves of transparencies of a studio session involving Roger Robinson, Francesca Beard, Choman Hardi, Jacob Sam-La Rose, Mat Fraser and Malika Booker, collectively and individually. Some of the latter also feature Breis, but he’s not in the group shots. Believed to be an exercise in creating useable publicity photos for these ...
  • Death of Fear

    Performance: Death of Fear

    22 June 2001 at 
    BAC (Battersea Arts Centre) (503)
  • Audio recording of Stand pt I

    Collection item: Audio recording of Stand pt I

    11/09/2001
    Minidisc recording of first half of ‘Stand’ show at BAC, 11 Sep 2001. Featuring Adrian Mitchell, Sharrif Simmons, Choman Hardi, Ahmed Hardi & Jared Louche.
  • Audio recording of Stand pt II

    Collection item: Audio recording of Stand pt II

    11/09/2001
    Minidisc recording of second half of ‘Stand’ show at BAC, 11 Sep 2001. Featuring Adrian Mitchell, Sharrif Simmons, Choman Hardi, Ahmed Hardi & Jared Louche.
  • Stand

    Performance: Stand

    9 November 2001 at 
    BAC (Battersea Arts Centre) (503)
  • Story of my Life

    Performance: Story of my Life

    27 September 2002 at 
    BAC (Battersea Arts Centre) (503)
  • Audio recording of The Story of my Life pt I

    Collection item: Audio recording of The Story of my Life pt I

    27/09/2002
    Minidisc recording first half of ‘The Story of my Life’ show at BAC, 27 Sep 2002, featuring Jonzi D, Hugh Collins, Lucy English, Choman Hardi & Nii Parkes.
  • Audio recording of The Story of my Life pt II

    Collection item: Audio recording of The Story of my Life pt II

    27/09/2002
    Minidisc recording second half of ‘The Story of my Life’ show at BAC, 27 Sep 2002, featuring Jonzi D, Hugh Collins, Lucy English, Choman Hardi & Nii Parkes.
  • Babel

    Performance: Babel

    29 October 2002 at 
    Southbank Centre (29)
  • Video recording of Babel

    Collection item: Video recording of Babel

    29 October 2002
    Mini-DV tape of Babel show at South Bank Centre, featuring Choman Hardi, Zena Edwards, Fatima Kelleher, Khan Singh Kumar.
  • WWW

    Performance: WWW

    6 June 2003 at 
    BAC (Battersea Arts Centre) (503)
  • Audio recording of WWW pt I

    Collection item: Audio recording of WWW pt I

    06/06/2003
    Minidisc recording of first half of ‘WWW’ show at BAC, featuring Lemn Sissay, Zena Edwards, Stacy Makishi, Jacob Sam-La Rose, Jared Louche, Julian Fox, Skorpio the Nemesis, Totlyn Jackson, Francesca Beard, Coman Hardi & Salena Godden
  • Audio recording of WWW pt II

    Collection item: Audio recording of WWW pt II

    06/06/2003
    Minidisc recording of second half of ‘WWW’ show at BAC, featuring Lemn Sissay, Zena Edwards, Stacy Makishi, Jacob Sam-La Rose, Jared Louche, Julian Fox, Skorpio the Nemesis, Totlyn Jackson, Francesca Beard, Coman Hardi & Salena Godden
  • Pick 'n' Mix

    Performance: Pick 'n' Mix

    24 September 2004 at 
    BAC (Battersea Arts Centre) (503)
  • Audio recording of Pick 'n' Mix pt I

    Collection item: Audio recording of Pick 'n' Mix pt I

    24 September 2004
    Minidisc recording of first half of ‘Pick ‘n’ Mix’ show at BAC, featuring Nick Makoha, Steve Tasane, Totlyn Jackson, Lucy English, Jacob Sam-La Rose, Choman Hardi
  • Audio recording of Pick 'n' Mix pt II

    Collection item: Audio recording of Pick 'n' Mix pt II

    24 September 2004
    Minidisc recording of second half of ‘Pick ‘n’ Mix’ show at BAC, featuring Nick Makoha, Steve Tasane, Totlyn Jackson, Lucy English, Jacob Sam-La Rose, Choman Hardi
  • Spaghetti Junction

    Performance: Spaghetti Junction

    7 October 2004 at 
    Poetry Café (5)
  • Fuse

    Performance: Fuse

    3 November 2004 at 
    Theatre Royal Stratford East (2)
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