Immigrant Voices on Long Island:
​Staging Resistance

​*Accessible for Spanish speakers. Live interpretation available.
This workshop uses Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed techniques to explore the experiences of immigrant communities on Long Island. Through movement, improvisation, storytelling, and Image Theatre, participants will examine themes of identity, migration, discrimination, belonging, and community power.

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Margarita Espada is an award winning  performer, educator,  cultural maker, researcher, and activist in the fields and studies of physical theater, body and embodiments, settlers-colonialism, race, ethnicity and migration. As the founder and director of Teatro Experimental Yerbabuja, Espada has created a vital platform for Latinx, Black, Indigenous, and artists of color on Long Island. Her organization provides resources, opportunities, and a supportive community for artists to create, showcase their work, and engage in activism. Espada's leadership in this endeavor has earned her widespread recognition and numerous awards, including the prestigious Martin Luther King Living Legend Award.​
Teatro Experimental Yerbabruja, Inc. is a Latino-led arts and social justice organization on Long Island that uses theater, culture, and community action to amplify immigrant voices, challenge inequality, preserve cultural identity, and create spaces for healing, resistance, and collective change. teatroyerbabruja.org
Stage the Change is co-sponsored by Stage the Change, Inc.
The Tilles Center for the Performing Arts and Hauppauge Public Schools.
Stage the Change programs are made possible with funds from the
Arts Reach Fund at The New York Community Trust, Long Island; the Long Island Unitarian Universalist Fund at New York Community Trust; and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the
​Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
This work is supported by Long Island Grants for the Arts through funds provided by the office of the Governor and the
New York State Legislature, and administered by The Huntington Arts Council. 
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