© Camille Gladu-Drouin
Floconie
In Floconie, the inhabitants enjoy a dazzling peace guaranteed by the sparkle of its snowflakes, unaware that the heart of each snowflake requires a speck of dust to exist.
Floconie is a hybrid performance at the intersection of oral storytelling, stage writing, and visual art. The project takes the form of a participatory and interdisciplinary tale, in a space with no frontal separation between the stage and the audience.
This residency at the Théâtre Aire Libre, near Rennes, takes place within an international context through the MONDE·S Festival. This phase will allow to test the fiction of Floconie with a different audience, in order to explore its resonance as a metaphor for a broader Western territory. The proximity of the Courrouze neighborhood, built on the ruins of one of France’s oldest weapons manufacturing sites, will also inform the research, particularly through meetings with former workers, centered on the question: “What is it like to manufacture weapons?”
On Saturday, March 28, a discussion with Hoda Adra will take place regarding the creation of this participatory story.
Credits
Conception Hoda Adra
Hoda Adra
Born in Lebanon, raised in Saudi Arabia, and adopted by Montreal, Hoda Adra creates at the intersection of writing, poetry, drawing, and performance. Her practice is rooted in oral tradition as a space of resistance. Her works investigate gender apartheid, aborted oral history, and the hold governments have over our bodies. Inspired by childhood, surrealism, and quantum physics, Hoda favors lo-fi to create urgently. To remind us that—for the duration of a story (and since the dawn of time)—our constellated hearts are spaces for collective reimagination.
Since 2019, weaving residencies at the Banff Centre Spoken Word Program, MAI, and Théâtre Prospero, and with the support of LA SERRE — arts vivants and CEAD, Hoda has created her solo piece L’histoire de comment je me suis séparée en deux (The Story of How I Split in Two). Her poems and translations have appeared in magazines and anthologies including Le Merle, El Ghourabaa, Al Hayya, Diverses Syllabes, Estuaire, and Another Room to Live in. In 2021, her translations of Palestinian oral history archives, collected in Voices of the Nakba, earned her the PEN Translates Award. Her voice has been heard at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, the International Literature Festival, and the Festival du Jamais Lu. In 2024, she received the Joseph S. Stauffer Prize, awarded by the Canada Council for the Arts to promising artists. In 2025, Hoda mounted her first solo exhibition of drawings at Galerie C.O.A.