An interview with playwright Catherine Filloux on turning your body into a compass
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Lights in Chicago
A scientific mind and zen philosophy shape the photographic practice of Satoki Nagata as he continues his search to capture emotional truth in the streets of Chicago.
The Last Dream
With their parents facing deportation and an uncertain future looming, the children of TPS families have taken to the stage to share their stories.
Weaving Worlds
Her paintings are tapestries woven of all these stories; deeply personal, collective, intimate and vast. The paintings of Ana Maria Velasco are creating universes. An interview with the artist.
SaaWee; invoking the musical movement of shamanism.
Sita Chay delves into the creation and power of contemporary shamanic rituals; modern musical languages, Korean shaman rhythms, and folk mask movements all combine to ignite raw emotion and communal energy - a fight for the soul of the world.
Interpretations of Dreams
Like waking from a dream, Alba Páramo’s printmaking traces deep currents of symbolism through Tibetan art, pre-Columbian mythology, and her own life to pull you into a world at once familiar and strange.
Paintings of Light and Sound
Butoh and shadow puppetry may seem worlds apart, but for performing artist Deniz Khateri they offer opportunities to create the extreme images and living poetry that first captured her imagination in Iran.
We The People
What happens when a theater goes further than site-specific? When it embraces the ecology, the history, and the people you may get something akin to Carlos Uriona’s Double Edge Theater.
Trans-National
With grace and poignancy, LA resident, undocumented, and trans (non-binary) author Féi Hernandez examines the intersection of country and body.
The Experience of Translation
“I notice that when I speak in my respective languages, I almost transform in tone and personhood.” An interview with the book writer of the bilingual musical Azul Otra Vez (Blue, Revisited)
Painted Like Praying
“Who is she? Look longer. What is she thinking? Look deeper. The enigmatic oil paintings of New York-based artist Aya Ogasawara…” An Interview
Infinite Universe
Noella Borie introduces her newest animation - the metaphysical and deeply moving experimental short Infinite Universe. Watch it now!
Azul Otra Vez (Blue, Revisited)
“Language also contains culture; there are things that cannot be translated…” A conversation with Tatiana Pandiani on creating multilingual theater.
We Are Rice and Beans
a comic blog chronicling our day-to-day antics as a newly-wedded, nerdy, interracial couple.
Mani Kongo Lukeni
An excerpt from the art book:
Banned and hunted down by a jealous Queen and aunt, a young fisherman, Lukeni, is forced to find a new home in a constant-war era in pre-colonial austral Africa. His journey will lead him into knowing about his true origins and the evil spirit sleeping inside him...