[Antiracism] PLEASE CIRCULATE

[Yvonne Mendez]

Below are dates and descriptions of our summer events and a graphic below.
Please circulate to your lists and I hope you and come!

New WORLD Theater¹s New Works for a New World Summer Playlab begins
June 15

Letters & Journals: An Evening with Suheir Hammad
Open Studio 
Thursday, June 15 at 8 PM
Holden Theater, Amherst College
Acclaimed poet Suheir Hammad will read from letters and
journals drawing from her personal experience as a Palestinian American,
extensive research on the history and literature of Zionism, and recent
visits to Palestine.  In this work, Hammad seeks to create a safe space
where difficult  confessions can be expressed, and artist and audience can
sit together as fragile, connected humans.  She approaches the complex
issues of Palestinian and Israeli relations with empathy and humanity,
seeking to present a view point that too often goes unreported,
misrepresented, or misunderstood.


Dreamscape  -  Open Studio
A work in progress with Rickerby Hinds and Manu Mukasa of Keeping It Real
Friday June 23 and Saturday June 24 at 8 PM
Holden Theater, Amherst College
 
December, 1998. Southern California. Four police officers fired 24 shots at
an unconscious 19-year old woman killing her while she lay locked in her
car.They were charged with criminal wrong-doing and cleared of charges in
May 1999. 
 Taking the inner monologue as a form, playwright Rickerby Hinds paints us
the picture of the life of Myeisha Mills. Her innocence and youthfulness
contrast on the stage with descriptions of her death, her autopsy and the
extraction of the bullets from her body. Hinds creative re-telling of this
all-too familiar story of police violence and the African American community
forces us to confront our continued tolerance of systemic and brutal racism
in this country.
 

Scourge
Marc Bamuthi Joseph
Friday June 30 and Saturday July 1 at 8 PM
 An exorcism and re-imagination of traditional theatrical genres, Scourge
offers a powerful, political and revolutionary look at Haiti in its 200th
year as a sovereign nation. In this new work, acclaimed performer Marc
Bamuthi Joseph fuses hip-hop, spoken word and live music in an exploration
of the narrow space between history, myth and speculation in this poignant
look at the tragic and complex history of the artist¹s native Haiti.
Bursting the boundaries of racism and ignorance to reach a new kind of
understanding, Scourge is a rich collaboration between Bamuthi Joseph and a
host of veteran talents: renowned Latin Jazz composer John Santos,
choreographers Rennie Harris and Adia Whitaker, and director Kamilah Forbes.
 

Un/knowing Desire and Empire
An Open Studio with Mango Tribe
Saturday July 1 at 12 PM
 Desire. Empire. Our daily doings, our passions, and the wars around us are
intertwined. Breath, the erotic core, and the global struggle to survive are
inextricably linked. Un/knowing Desire and Empire is as much a presentation
of historical fiction that delves into the fantastical as it is an erotic,
primal story told through breath, gesture, and movement; elements of
character, sentience, and society unveil through the purity and synergy of
art itself. By complicating the dualities of traditional/modern,
personal/global, erotic/platonic, mundane/magical, Un/knowing Desire and
Empire honors Mango Tribe's cultural heritages and multi-layered identities,
reflecting a new hybrid aesthetic in an increasingly diverse America.


Project 2050 DeConstructing Dualities:
DeCLASSifying Minds, Understanding VERSatility
July 14 and 15 at 8 PM
Bowker Auditorium, University of Massachusetts Amherst
 
This year, Project 2050 looks at duality, difference, division and the
contradictions of living in the United States of America.  As demographics
and politics shift, youth find themselves caught between worlds:  between
childhood and adulthood, between racial and cultural identities, between
gender and sexuality, between economic class realities, between geographic
borders.  DeConstructing Dualities explores the in-between spaces, the
double consciousness, the border lands, and the liminal zones.  In a world
where dualities are often exploited, how do these identities divide or unite
us?  What happens at the intersection of class, race and gender?  How do
issues such as immigration and the increased patrolling of borders affect
our families and communities?  Through poetry, Hip Hop and theater, Project
2050 breaks down barriers to embrace multiplicity and celebrate versatility!
 

Visit our website for ticket information, venues and more.
www.newworldtheater.org

Or call NWT at 413-545-1972







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