About this Event
Join Motus Theater for a special Immigrant Heritage Month kickoff performance of powerful personal stories of undocumented leaders from Motus Theater’s award-winning UndocuAmerica project. Featuring UndocuAmerica monologists Laura Peniche, Tania Chairez, and Alejandro Fuentes-Mena uplifting the assets immigrants bring to our communities and challenging inhumane immigration policies.
6:30-7:30pm: before the performance: Join us for tea and cookies for the art exhibit - on view prior to each unique Motus Theater performance in June at the Evan’s school (June 1, 8th and 22nd):
June 8: . Exhibition Reception 6:30-7:30pm;Performance 7:30-9pm. Motus UndocuAmerica monologist Victor Galvan and Motus JustUs monologist, Candice Bailey share personal monologues about their experiences of multinational private Pr*son corporations & immigrant detention centers. Music from Spirit of Grace.
June 22: . Exhibition Reception 6:30-7:30pm; Performance 7:30-9pm. Motus’ arts-based Immigrant Heritage Month / LGBTQIA+ Pride event of the season with monologues from TRANSformative Stories and UndocuAmerica projects by LGBTQIA+ immigrant monologists.
The June 1st performance and exhibition kicks off Motus’ Denver event series “There no THEM in U.S.”, a celebration of art and stories that help US in the U.S recognize our shared humanity through powerful personal stories at the intersections between immigrant rights, LGBTQIA+ rights, racial justice and criminal legal reform.
Motus Theater’s “There’s no THEM in U.S.” series is part of RedLine Contemporary Art Center’s 2024 annual exhibition Stories_UnderScored.
About Redline’s Stories_UnderScored, seeks to center stories that are widely known in the communities from which they come, and which are foundational to our collective memory. RedLine acknowledges that it is often stories and histories that are taught or published that dominate a collective understanding of the past to inform our understanding of the present and future. Stories_Underscored seeks to broaden this understanding by presentings a yearlong series of contemporary art exhibitions, programs, performances and events that tell stories less shared but are unequivocally central to our collective memory and histories. Stories_Underscored will present stories shared by artists and community partners, offering opportunities to explore the ancestries where these stories originate.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Evans School, 1115 Acoma Street, Denver, United States
USD 25.00
