Name: IS/LAND - Until We Fill the Ocean
Start: 2025-11-15T15:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-15T17:00:00-05:00
Location: Main | Detroit Public Library

$IS\/LAND - Until We Fill the Ocean$

This immersive performance explores the intersections of poetry, embodied movement, and sound.
About this Event

Experience a powerful afternoon of experimental sound and movement, with IS/LAND, an interdisciplinary AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) Performance Collaborative. This immersive performance explores the intersections of poetry, embodied movement, and sound, from their forthcoming full-length memorial work, Until We Fill the Ocean—a tribute to the stories and poetry of detainees at Angel Island Immigration Station (1910–1940) in Tiburon, California.

IS/LAND’s work centers AAPI storytelling and lived experience, inviting audiences into a space of reflection, remembrance, and dialogue. Through interdisciplinary performance, they explore identity, migration, and collective memory with deep emotional and visual impact.

IS/LAND is a performance collaborative comprised of Asian Pacific Islander American and Asian artists, including movers Trish Abalo, ciale, Catherine Hepler, Chih-Hsien Lin, J. Amber Kao, writer/poet Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, and sound/visual artist Chien-An Yuan.