Poet, playwright, musician and performance artist, Lenelle Moïse, creates jazz-infused, hip-hop bred, performance texts about Haitian-American identity, creative resistance and the intersection of race, class, gender, sexuality and spirit.
More info at http://www.lenellemoise.com
Art allows a voice for support and for protest, and like a hammer can help build movements and help tear down what stands between us. The central theme of my work is the absolute imperative that human creatures recognize their symbiotic relationship with the rest of the planet. We cannot fix anything alone without recognizing what these connections offer us: peace, empowerment, rationality, deep roots. Bugs, bats, vines, eggs, seeds and bones mix and intertwine in my work. They loop into lungs and out of mouths. They tie everything together: the workers, the ants, the despots, the tree roots.
Andrea Assaf is a performer, writer, director, educator and activist. MA in Performance Studies, BFA in Acting, NYU. Performance work ranges from spoken word to original, community-based, interdisciplinary or cross-cultural theater. Original works include: Eleven Reflections on September poetry series; Fronteras Desviadas / Deviant Borders with Mujeres en Ritual Danza-Teatro; and solo performance Globalicities. Directing includes: breaking letter(s) by Suheir Hammad; Womb-Words, Thirsting by Lenelle Moise; Shekadii Walaalo / Sister-Story by the Walaalo! Somali Sisters Collective; and Parang Sabil by Kinding Sindaw. Residency awards: Hedgebrook and Contacto Cultural. Memberships: Alternate ROOTS, CAATA, and RAWI (Radius of Arab American Writers).
Caron Atlas is a cultural organizer working to support and stimulate arts, media, and culture as an integral part of social change and civic participation. She directs the Arts & Democracy Project of State Voices and the Arts & Community Change Initiative of the Pratt Center for Community Development. She is also a consultant to Fractured Atlas and the Ford Foundation, and teaches in New York University’s Art and Public Policy program.
Guerrilla Girls On Tour is a New York City based touring theatre company that creates fresh and original comedies celebrating women’s history -- past, present and future. All of our work is presented using masks and draws from a variety of classic theatre techniques such as physical theatre, vaudeville and parody resulting in our own unique style that allow us to imaginatively portray a wide range of characters and scenarios with minimal technical elements.
