Cycle 'Making History(s) VI': Performance - Conference 'Balfour Reparations (2025-2045)' by Farah Saleh

'Balfour Reparations (2025-2045)' is a fascinating performance-conference by Farah Saleh, a Palestinian dancer, choreographer, and academic, inviting us to explore and confront the UK's colonial legacy in Palestine. With a combination of history, fiction, and fantasy, Saleh examines the role of Arthur James Balfour - former Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary, and influential academic figure - in designing policies that denied political rights to Palestinians. With elements of critical fabulation and afrofuturism, this provocative work dialogues with archival material - videos, photographs, and documents - with imagined futures. Come to the year 2045 to be part of the Reparations Committee reflecting on a fictional apology letter, made public in 2025 by the UK government, promising reparations to the Palestinian people. What does responsibility look like? What might justice mean? Dive into the future and join the conversation. This activity will be in English without simultaneous translation.