FUTURE/PRESENT Alvarez, Daniela; Uno, Roberta; Webb, Elizabeth M
12/2023
eBook
Open access
Building on five years of national organizing by Arts in a Changing America, an artist-led initiative that challenges structural racism in the art world, FUTURE/PRESENT includes a range of poetry, ...essays and criticism, visual and performance art, artist manifestos, interviews, and reflections on community practice.
In the two decades since the first edition of Contemporary Plays by Women of Color was published, its significance to the theatrical landscape in the United States has grown exponentially.
Work by ...female writers and writers of color is more widely produced, published, and studied than ever before. Drawing from an exciting range of theaters, large and small, from across the country, Roberta Uno brings together an up-to-date selection of plays from renowned and emerging playwrights tackling a variety of topics. From the playful to the painful, this revised and updated edition presents a rich array of voices, aesthetics, and stories for a transforming America.
INTRODUCTION Roberta Uno
FUTURE/PRESENT,
12/2023
Book Chapter
This book is the resonance of a five-year cultural organizing journey across America.¹ Through words, images, sound, movement, and actions, its contributors speak a collective text that is an echo ...from within, directions home, instructions from the future, and the whispered wayfinding of ancestors. This text is the weaving forward of deep listening and revelation. It is the joy, fury, and balm of unceded lives, land that remembers, bodies refusing to be mapped. It is the assertion that our future is in our presence now.
The seeds for this book were planted in 2014 when I gathered twelve artists, academics,
This Call was spearheaded by ArtChangeUS, the Center for Cultural Power, First Peoples Fund, the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, Race Forward, and Sipp Culture. It was written in ...2020 by Michele Kumi Baer, Jeff Chang, María López De León, Tara Dorabji, Kassandra L. Khalil, Lori Lea Pourier, Favianna Rodriguez, Nayantara Sen, Carlton Turner, Roberta Uno, and Elizabeth M. Webb, in consultation with Ananya Chatterjea, Ananya Dance Theatre; Sonya Childress, Perspective Fund; Pamela J. Peters; Randy Reinholz, Native Voices; Lula and Erwin Washington and Tamica Washington-Miller, Lula Washington Dance Theatre; Dyani White Hawk; and Carrie Mae Weems. It
Analyzes the issue of censorship in relation to how it has influenced anti-apartheid South African playwright/director Mbongeni Ngema's theatrical style and the evolution of his style from the ...socio-political context in which he works. Illuminates the playwright's strategies for overcoming censorship. Discusses his most well-known work, "Sarafina!" (PA)
