From: marc@borderlandstheater.org
Sent: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 5:01 AM
Subject: Rent Antigone / Last Lunada of 2020
Missed it? Rent Antigone, On Demand!
Whether you missed it
or simply have to see it again.
Antigone at the Border
Video on demand now available to stream at your convenience through December 23.
Our three-night, live and streamed performance of Antigone at the Border was a HUGE SUCCESS! On behalf of Borderlands Theater staff and artists and our collaborating partner, Teatro Bravo, we wish to share our profound gratitude for everyone that watched and for all the compliments and words of support for this timely project. Antigone at the Border is the quintessential medium and message for the moment we are in.
Here's what playwright and MacArthur genius Luis Alfaro (Electricidad, Oedipus el Rey, Mojada) had to say:
Bravo to Pinate for mixing the ancient Greek text with the ancient Meso-American, and our complicated history of the Americas, at the place where drama and political discourse collide... Leading the charge is a brilliantly reimagined Antigone as a Queer Chicana DACA recipient and Humanitarian Aid Worker leading the familial dynasty into a bloody discourse on loyalty and fate. We are at once roaming through the Arizona desert swept up in an epic tale of border life ... while Pinate uses the ancient Greek text as a launching point into a deeper examination and meditation on our own political strife.
... I call a jealousy foul on the use of drones to capture beautiful scenes in and out of the desert (no one told me we could use drones to create cool Zoom imagery!). I also loved the use of language here. You had me at Antigone's Spanglish declaration; "My huesos are tired", and a marvelous riff on liberation, "Brown people are stem cells… we can become weapons of change…"
Bravo to our colleagues in the Southwest who have never stopped being brave in their art making.
Don't miss your chance to see this ground breaking experience
of theatre, cinema, and digital media.
After December 23 it will be gone forever.
Final Performance of the Season!
December Lunada
Featuring
Manuela Arciniegas
&
Chibbi Orduña
Monday, December 14th, 2020
6pm PST /5 PM MST
Live streamed on BT's Facebook and Youtube
Manuela Arciniegas is an Afro-Dominican drummer, healer priestess, doll maker, and social justice warrior. She writes songs that are spirit messages from her ancestors, and invitations into collective consciousness for the world. Mother of 4, funder, teaching artist, ethnomusicologist in the making, she has performed with the all-women's band she founded Legacy Women, everywhere from Lincoln Center to south bronx community gardens. Music is medicine and life, and the words of aché, fueled by fire and cooled by the river —run through her.
Chibbi Orduña is a Mexican-born, Texas-raised queer poet and actor. He is the founder of Laredo BorderSlam, a founding member of Write About Now, and has self-published 2 books. He has toured across the country performing his poetry, and his work has appeared in OutSmart Magazine, The Latino Book Review Magazine 2020, and has been featured online on Are Mitu, George Takei, SlamFind, Poetry Slam Inc, Button Poetry, and Write About Now.
Lunada 2020 Season
Episodes
Available NOW
on
Borderlands YouTube
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