Vision...
We are all searching for something: understanding, love, inspiration, validation. Life is a pursuit for illumination, the truth from our experiences.
And if it can be said that art imitates life, shouldn't art reflect that deep rooted quest; that yearning for wisdom and insight?
All too often we rely on inadequate means of solving problems; ones that isolate and divide us. We are offered options that repress, pen-in, and punish instead of restoring, uniting, and informing. Recognizing this deficit, I use the arts to transform society, to bring us back to the collective path and ignite the spirit with beauty and truth.
Welcome to my quest: artivista!
upcoming :
"Telling Stories to Change the World: Global Voices on the Power of Narrative to Build Community and Make Social Justice Claims" will be published by Routledge on May 26, 2008!
To order copies visit: Routledge Press
Telling Stories to Change the World is a powerful collection of essays about community-based and interest-based projects where storytelling is used as a strategy for speaking out for justice. Contributors from across the globe—including Uganda, Darfur, China, Afghanistan, South Africa, New Orleans, and Chicago—describe grassroots projects in which communities use storytelling as a way of exploring what a more just society might look like and what civic engagement means. Together, these projects demonstrate the contemporary power of stories to stimulate engagement, active citizenship, the pride of identity, and the humility of human connectedness.
The Brecht Forum will be hosting our book party on Friday, June 20th at 7:30 PM.
451 West Street (between Bank & Bethune Streets) , New York, NY 10014
(212) 242-4201
great news
The Storytelling Project curriculum (Teaching about Race and Racism through Story Telling and the Arts) is now available for free download (pdf).
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Immigrant Affairs Commissioner Guillermo Linares awarded me a certificate of recognition
for my work in immigrant communities.
The Associated Press featured me in an online, multi-media article about artists in America who explore issues of immigration.
The NY Daily News wrote a feature article on me and my work (pdf).