America is in the Heart
Thursday, April 30
7pm | 10 Lafayette Avenue, FL 4
America is in the Heart is an adaptation of what is considered to be the first novel, of the same name, that depicts the Filipino-American experience, written by Carlos Bulosan and published in 1946. Adapted for performance, America is in the Heart will serve as a means of building solidarity across class, age and race; shedding light on how forgotten ancestors contributed to and built the labor movement in 1930s California while asking, “how can we follow in their footsteps?”
$5-20 | Pay what you can
About Luz Lorenzana Twigg
Luz Lorenzana Twigg is a playwright, dramaturg, doula, and folk herbalist. Her practice explores diasporic identity, ritual, theatre as a living archive, as well as ancestral healing as the gateway for reimagined theatrical pedagogy and praxis.
Additional support: Williamstown Theatre Festival (2024) Fresh Ground Pepper (2024), MacDowell (2023), Dean’s Grant at Columbia University (2021). Her plays include The Whale and The Redwood; The Trouble With Paradise (Semi-Finalist, O’Neill 2024); Electra (Semi-Finalist, O’Neill 2022), which has received support from the Stavros Niarchos Institute for Public Humanities and the SheLA Summer Theatre Festival, and Platinum Record (MaArte Theatre Collective). She is published in Decentered Playwriting, a teaching volume of decolonial playwriting techniques from Routledge Press. MFA in Playwriting: Columbia University, David Henry Hwang, and Lynn Nottage.
“Our residency will focus on reworking our text to build a highly mobile, immersive apartment-style piece that both invites audience members to learn from Filipino-American labor history and rehearses Democracy through participation and newfound solidarity”
Directions | This event takes place at L10 Arts and Cultural Center, on the 4th floor. accessible via elevator. Please allow extra time to arrive, check in, and get settled before the [WIP] begins.
By Subway:
Take the 2, 3, 4, 5, B, D, N, Q, R trains to Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center station
Take the G train to the Fulton Street station
Take the C to Lafayette Avenue station
By Bus:
Take the B25, B38, or B51 to the Fulton St/Lafayette Av stop
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