MAY 15 / 6:00PM
Hosted by André Perez
Produced by Irina Zadov
Artists Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health, Youth Empowerment Performance Project, William Camargo + Yvette Mayorga, Dmitri Peskov
“Like all people, we perceive the version of reality that our culture communicates. Like others having or living in more than one culture, we get multiple, often opposing messages. The coming together of two self-consistent but habitually incompatible frames of reference cause un choque, a cultural collision.” – Gloria Anzaldua
The knit of identity is bound with contradiction and complexity. Join filmmaker André Perez, Rasquachismo artists William Camargo and Yvette Mayorga, dancer Dmitri Peskov, the Youth Empowerment Performance Project, and youth leaders from the Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health as we explore themes of displacement, wellness, shame, and the relationships between place and body, culture and identity. Through our multiple disciplines, we will interweave and reinvent our notions of home.