Indigiqueer Identity: Reclaiming Past, Present, and Future
Directed and produced by Carolina Hoyos
Original work written and performed by Jean Decay, Samantha Bowling, Honokee Dunn, Carolina Hoyos
Join us Wednesday, February 2nd, 7-8pm PT, for a free YouTube Watch Party with Live Chat to celebrate these artistic voices!
With colonization came an end to self-expression. The patriarchy welcomed shame into our existence. These Indigenous solo performers—Two Spirit, Queer, TransFemme, and Pan—refuse the colonizer narrative, sharing vivid stories comparing La Virgen to Malinche to Frida Kahlo as society’s confusion between Indigenous and Catholic figures, discovering queerness while performing mission work with the Presbyterian church, claiming the power to declare pronouns, and finding joy in exploring gender transition to ultimately celebrate being Two Spirit. Join us as we reclaim and celebrate our Past, Present, and Future with these newly commissioned works.
Presented FREE to the public through February 28th, this program is supported in part by an arts grant from the City of West Hollywood.
Program
Bodies That Lie
by Jean Decay
Chicanx Mayan
Missions
by Samantha Bowling
Cherokee, Algonquin descent
What Are Your Pronouns?
by Honokee Dunn
Choctaw Chicanx
Coming Out
by Carolina Hoyos
Quechua-Kichwa
Runtime: 55 minutes
About the Artists
CREDITS
Directed and Produced by
Carolina Hoyos
Executive Produced by
Ann C. James, Christopher Maikish, Michael O'Hara
Guest Directed by
Samantha Bowling
Filmed and Edited by
Allison Faith Sulock
Audio Engineering by
Hannah Cairo
Graphic Design by
Raven TwoBirds Arbuckle
Anishinaabe-Choctaw
Special Thanks:
The song "A Woman Under the Influence" is presented during Bodies That Lie courtesy of artist Trap Girl. Projected music video created by Jean Decay, Ben Decay, and Amy Zapata
The songs “Bang Bang Bang” presented during Coming Out and “When The Song Begins" presented during curtain call are courtesy of artist and composer Carolina Hoyos / A Girl I Know
Production Legal provided pro bono by Paul Hastings LLP
Barmey Ung, Covid Compliance Officer
Celebration Theatre gratefully acknowledges that we operate on the traditional lands of the Tongva, Kizh, and Chumash peoples – including the Gabrieleño, Fernandeño, and Ventureño; members of the Takic and Chumashan language families; and other Indigenous peoples who made their homes in and around the area we now call Los Angeles.
This program is the first of two grant-funded projects centering new works by Indigenous and queer artists. Our next project this fall, with the support of an Impact Project Grant from the California Arts Council and continued support of the City of West Hollywood, will fund the workshop presentation of a new full-length work by an Indigiqueer artist. For this project, we will continue building the relationships we have started with local tribal leaders to further engage and lift up those communities. If you have interest in participating in these efforts, please reach our new works team at literary@celebrationtheatre.org.
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