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21 Apr

Posted at 21:14h in by

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_single_image image="395" img_size="full" add_caption="yes" alignment="center" qode_css_animation=""][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1524345271574{padding-top: 35px !important;}"]A reflection on Billie Holiday’s haunting “Strange Fruit,” this performance juxtaposes the image and sound to convey the strange and violent sterility of whiteness. The piece relates the masked black laundress hanging white articles of clothing, mourning and seething the blood of black laboring bodies bleached.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

21 Apr

Posted at 21:12h in by

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_single_image image="393" img_size="full" add_caption="yes" alignment="center" qode_css_animation=""][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1524345140165{padding-top: 35px !important;}"]Inspired by the origins of toy theater and the American tradition of role playing/board games, We’ll Fight with You! is a piece about the struggle of housing activists against foreclosures and displacement. Using real stories and actual people of the campaigns lead by City Life/Vida Urbana in the Boston area; the short play presents situations and lived experiences of the movement. The story is told by “trainers” of housing speculators in a role-play style workshop where they act as housing activists for the purposes of understanding the “enemy” and more effective entrepreneurship of the real estate industry. The result is a mix of empathy, hate and love for one the main pillars of the United States of America, private property.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

21 Apr

Posted at 21:09h in by

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_single_image image="391" img_size="full" add_caption="yes" alignment="center" qode_css_animation=""][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1524344947412{padding-top: 35px !important;}"]In September 2015, artists of AgitArte and Papel Machete collaborated with El Puente CADRE artist and self-taught quilter Sylvia Hernandez to develop and present a cantastoria street theatre performance and quilt that traces the history and development of the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) from slavery to mass incarceration and the killing of black men and women by police in the United States. The piece was first performed at El Puente's annual ¡WEPA! Festival for Southside Performing Arts, and a second time with youth artists of El Puente's For The Movement Theatre Collective (FTM), both in the Southside of Williamsburg (Los Sures), Brooklyn. The project is envisioned as a touring piece that can be shared and expanded on with different communities, and was presented in over 20 cities in the US and Puerto Rico during the When We Fight, We Win! book tour. In addition to performing, Dey illustrated and designed the quilt.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

21 Apr

Posted at 21:03h in by

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_single_image image="389" img_size="full" add_caption="yes" alignment="center" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

21 Apr

Posted at 21:00h in by

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_single_image image="386" img_size="full" add_caption="yes" alignment="center" qode_css_animation=""][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1524344420565{padding-top: 35px !important;}"]Presented during Honk! Festival in Somerville, MA in 2013, and in collaboration with City Life/Vida Urbana and Rude Mechanical Orchestra, AgitArte | Papel Machete created the characters, Fannie and Freddie (based on the government-sponsored enterprises, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) in protest of predatory lending practices and calling for the immediate halt to foreclosures and evictions. This project was created in support of City Life/Vida Urbana’s anti-foreclosure campaign.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

21 Apr

Posted at 20:45h in by

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_single_image image="384" img_size="full" alignment="center" qode_css_animation=""][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1524343496451{padding-top: 35px !important;}"]"To experience both the inner poetry of Julia de Burgos’ words and the poetics of the house, the artist created a “casita” for Julia. The paper architectural installation explores the way in which the intimate space of home relates to the intimate space of poetry. It is a rhetorical object that both convinces and engages the public to respond. In La casita de Julia, Julia’s poetic image creates a space that lifts off from the page allowing ourselves to drift into her poetry." -The Loisaida Center ¡MÁS! [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...