From: Borderlands Theater <info@borderlandstheater.org>
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2021 1:11 PM
Subject: Open Process with Dr. Ernesto Mireles
A postcolonial framing of Antigone at the Border
Open Process Forum
with Dr. Ernesto (Todd) Mireles
Join the artistic team in dialogue with Chicanx scholar, Ernesto Mireles, to continue our development of Antigone at the Border through a postcolonial framework.
Tune in
Saturday, February 27 at 10am
on the Borderlands Facebook page.
As recipients of the New England Foundation for the Arts National Theatre Project grant, the artistic team behind Antigone at the Border will spend the next 18 months reimagining and reworking Antigone at the Border as an in-person, site specific theatrical event through the collaboration of brown artists with ancestral roots in Southern Arizona, Mexico, and the Tohono O'odham nation.
Taking a deep dive into the systems of repression and colonial roots from which U.S. immigration policy was created, the lead artists developing Antigone at the Border are working with scholars to gain a better understanding of how power and violence are used to control populations who prior to the European conquest freely migrated and traded up and down the Americas for millennia.
Borderlands Theater and our artistic collaborators, Teatro Bravo, invite the public to join us for a behind the scenes look at how we are creating new work responsive to the political and social climate we are in.
About the Speaker
Ernesto Todd Mireles, MSW, PhD is a full faculty member at in the Cultural and Regional Studies undergraduate program and the Social Justice Community Organizing master's program at Prescott College. He is also the coordinator of the Frantz Fanon Community Strategy Center at Prescott College. Dr. Mireles received his Ph.D. from the American Studies department at Michigan State University. His research interests include, Xicano/Xicana literature and history, insurgency, organizing, grassroots party building. Dr. Mireles spent many years working as a professional organizers in several different fields. He has been trained and has trained others in union, electoral and Xicano movement organizing. His 2020 book Insurgent Aztlan: the liberating power of cultural resistance is an International Latino Book Award winner.
Antigone at the Border
50% off the stream rental cost now through February 28!
USE DISCOUNT CODE: s0ph@cles7
In conjunction with our open process forum with Dr. Mireles on February 27, we are making Antigone at the Border available at a discounted rental rate. Watch it for the first time or refresh your memory to get the most out of Dr. Mireles' discussion.
Antigone at the Border was a ground breaking theatre event, both in it's form and the process by which it was created. The work remains a searing postcolonial discourse on our broken immigration system exposing the physical and psychological toll on brown communities who serve as both enforcers and enforced.
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