Invisible and Voiceless:
Undocumented Immigrants on L.I. 

​*Accessible for Spanish speakers. Live interpretation available.
This workshop will utilize Image Theatre, a technique from Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, to explore the concepts of immigration and cultural dominance in America. Image Theatre employs the body as a tool to represent relationships, ideas, and emotions. Through a series of exercises, we will examine the concept of displacement, focusing on the forced movement of people from their local environments and occupations. By sculpting participants’ bodies, students will create images that reflect the sculptor’s impressions, exploring both internal and external oppression, as well as unconscious thoughts and feelings about the perception of the "other."

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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 committed to advancing cultural understanding within the diverse community it serves by using the  arts to promote constructive social change. For the past 20 years, YB has served as an artistic catalyst and a safe space to nurture local, national and international projects created by multicultural / intergenerational artists. TEY was founded by Puerto Rican artist Margarita Espada due to the lack of spaces for Latinx artists to create, present  and offer artistic programming to the community of color on Long Island. 
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 Long Island Community Foundation, The 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.
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