CITY SPACE - 43 Main St
EASTHAMPTON MA
4 Short Original Works on Social Justice
MAGDALENA GOMEZ
2024 Winner of the International Latino Book Awards,
Mi'ja, a memoir noir, Heliotrope Books.
"Gritty and lyrical...impressively idiosyncratic, while bristling with feminist and anti-establishment attitude.""
Washington Post
A fierce and compassionate anthem here. We need these songs, these words, these rhythms for this earthly dance."
Joy Harjo, USA Poet Laureate, 2019
Poet Laureate, Springfield, Massachusetts September 13, 2019 - September 13, 2021
2019 Recipient, Latina 50 Plus Award in Literature, Fordham University
2019 Latinx Exellence on the Hill Award, Black and Latino Legislative Caucus, Massachusetts, Statehouse
: Photo: Smiling woman with glasses leaning on her hands. She is wearing flower earrings and a colorful shirt.
The background is red
Washington Post
A fierce and compassionate anthem here. We need these songs, these words, these rhythms for this earthly dance."
Joy Harjo, USA Poet Laureate, 2019
Poet Laureate, Springfield, Massachusetts September 13, 2019 - September 13, 2021
2019 Recipient, Latina 50 Plus Award in Literature, Fordham University
2019 Latinx Exellence on the Hill Award, Black and Latino Legislative Caucus, Massachusetts, Statehouse
: Photo: Smiling woman with glasses leaning on her hands. She is wearing flower earrings and a colorful shirt.
The background is red
THE VELVETEEN
Created and Performed by Amy Dawn Kotel
Photo on Left: Stage has a chair and a pillow. A woman stands in the center in a pink rabbit outfit with arms and face raised upwards,
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Photo on Right: A darkly lit sage with a woman posed provocatively and scantily dressed in a blue playboy bunny outfit.
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A true story told through voice, dance, song, and puppetry, about a bunny rabbit and intergenerational trauma and love.
- Trigger warning: There are themes of Domestic Violence in this performance.
AMERICAN STINK BUG FLIES AGAIN
Created and performed by Jean Minuchin
Photo of space- emerging from a costume of the universe is a small human head with antenna popping out.
Whether or not you're familiar with the Stink Bug character... watch as this lovable and prickly bug takes on race, war and the cosmos. Created in a clown genre that provokes through grotesque humor, whimsy, and confrontation. Jean Minuchin plays an American Stink Bug who interacts with the audience to poke at America’s deep political and cultural divides.
- Trigger Warning:Scatological humor, Political topics, Audience interaction, Bug Clown
FIRST GENERATION ENSEMBLE
Montaser Abdelrahman, Monisha Gurung, Julita Hasani, Moise Jackobo, Divin Kasereka, Charlétte Marrero, Lali (Iliana) Quiles-Torres,
Photo on left shows a group of young people of varying races and ethnicities with arms raised in fists.
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Photo on right shows a cluster of figures in a sculptured embrace. The group is holding several drums.
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The Performance Project is a Springfield - based company that devises and produces multilinqual physical theater. The resident performing ensemble, First Generation, is a group of BIPOC, immigrant, and refugee young adults whose performances weave together theater, movement, music, stories, and dance. Their current show, Mother Tongue incorporates themes of language, culture, identity, diaspora, hypermasculinity, transphobia, racism, the school to prison pipeline and revolution.
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Mass Cultural Council
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World and Eye believes the arts are to be enjoyed and accessed by all. If you have a disability and need additional accommodations please let us know within 2 days of your event so we can make any necessary adjustments.
World and Eye believes the arts are to be enjoyed and accessed by all. If you have a disability and need additional accommodations please let us know within 2 days of your event so we can make any necessary adjustments.
