Performances

"Woman / Immigration / Fight or Flight" Story of Creation

Shooka Afshar wrote this opera, based on her life story, and about all the women in the world who go through hardship of immigration, in order to build a better life.

Matt Savage, Piano and Arrangment

This Opera was born at the heart of the Pandemic 2020. Therefore all the recordings of this Opera has been done only by one singer, and a piano.

In 2023 Shooka and the Safarani Sisters again performed this Opera at the Museum of Fine Arts. This time, with the limited budget of post pandemic, they were able to bring a new beautiful creativity to this project.

Shooka Afshar is hoping to receive funds from donators and organizations who support women's rights and artists like herself, in order to perform her Opera, with full cast and full production.

This Opera was premiered at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA on March 18th 2021 Online.

ACT I of this Opera, portrays the labels the society and the families put on people, right from childhood. (Everywhere in the world is affected by these labels. It is universal)

ACT II of this Opera, is portraying the process of immigration to a modern country, with the expectation of not seeing discrimination anymore ... Yet, the results tell a different tale...

ACT III is calling out to women in the world, to have each other's backs and empower one another. For the only way of healing these wounds, starts within ourselves and through kindness.

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The Manipulation Project, Italy : Video TBD

A Mixed Media Performance, Composer Shooka Afshar

July 2022, Biella Province, Italy

Artist in Residency near Milan, Italy

Premiere: Casa Regis Cultural Center, Italy 13th July 2022

Shooka and her amazing team of painters, dancers and musicians spent the month of July in an Artist in Residency near Milano, Italia, creating this amazing mixed media art about the process of "Being Manipulated", based on Shooka's Graphic Score composition.

"I always compose to heal!", Shooka Afshar