Photo by Heather Cohn. Post curated by Corinna Schulenburg. Ever since Flux co-created the Breathe Free performances with New Sanctuary Coalition, we’ve been committed to showing up for them regardless of whether there’s a specific artistic project involved. The need is dire and we must hold ourselves accountable to using our citizenship in solidarity with…
(Post by August Schulenburg.) On Saturday August 1st, the Breathe Free producing team met at Judson Memorial Church to discuss next steps for Flux’s partnership with New Sanctuary Coalition of NYC. You can learn about past Breathe Free activities here. The Breathe Free team in attendance was: Jerry Polner, Ravi Ragbir, Kia Rogers, August Schulenburg, Jason Tseng, and Christine Zagrobelny….
(Post by August Schulenburg.) On May 24th, Flux and New Sanctuary brought scenes from the first incarnation of Breathe Free to the La Plaza Cultural Community Garden as part of the 2015 Loisaida Fest. We brought Mother of Exiles and Gang of Witnesses, and in between those performances, Ravi Ragbir from New Sanctuary spoke about their work. It…
(All photos by Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Mother of Exiles. Post by Corinna Schulenburg.) From the Creative Partners of Flux and all of us on the Food:Soul committee, thank you to everyone who made Breathe Free possible. A packed house at Judson Memorial Church showed up for free food, poetry, plays, dance and screenplays–even an interactive information circus–all on the…
(Post by Jason Tseng. Picture by Anna Rahn of multiple BREATHE FREE rehearsals.) I wasn’t planning on getting my hands dirty. When I was asked to join the planning committee for Flux’s Food:Soul – BREATHE FREE event, I soon learned that the day of the event I would be out of town on a business trip….
(Post by Christine Zagrobelny.) Early in my research for this piece, these removal numbers from the Department of Homeland security, stretching from 1892 to 2013 caught my attention. I wanted to understand how the staggering jump during the last ~10 years happened. I took a preliminary look at the history of immigration legislation, but the…
(Photos and post by Emily Hartford. Pictured: Collin McConnell, Antonio Minino, Daryl Lathon, Carl Li, Stephanie Willing, Lori E. Parquet.) Whenever I read or think about our country’s immigration policies— the way we talk about the laws that alter so many families’ lives, the ways we deal with the people who come in search of the American…
“Give me your tired, your poor,/ Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…” Emma Lazarus’ famous poem, inscribed as a welcome to immigrants on the Statue of Liberty, is the inspiration for the title of our next Food:Soul. BREATHE FREE will use poetry, short plays, devised work and participatory theatre to empower dialogue about immigrant…
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