Hello and welcome to Refugee Nation. We have been working on this project since 2005, it's been two years! We started at the 1st International Conference on Lao Studies in DeKalb IL with the help of a grant from the Multi-Arts Produciton Fund/Rockefeller Foundation. At that conference we met Laotian scholars and community organizers from around the country and the world. We then began interviewing Laotian Refugees and their children. We drove form Elgin to Minnapolis St Paul and back to Chicago. We've been to New England, Seattle, Atlanta and all over California talking to Laotians around the country trying to get a better understanding of our community.
Yesterday we did a workshop performance at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica California. Whew! It was scary, we weren't sure we were ready, but we did it! The show is now an hour long. Now we have the core of our show. Over thenext four weeks we will be writing, rehearsing and getting in shape four our New York debut... well, actually it willb e PREVIEW performance. June 22-24, 2007 in NYC (for tickets go to http://www.naatf.org/index.php?page_id=165)
Check out our web page for more info.
http://www.teada.org/refugee-nation.html
Also check out these sites for informaiton, video and a RADIO show on KPFK!
Legacies of War:
http://www.legaciesofwar.org/community-work/refugee-nation-theater
KPFK radio show:
http://64.27.15.184/parchive/mp3/kpfk_070524_070100mr_thur.mp3
YouTube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-7lcuO4zx8&mode=related&search=
If you are Laotian and want to contribute your story, find out more about us, or bringus to your town, email us at refugeenation@gmail.com
Upcoming Shows - In the Works:
APPEARANCES:
January 29, 2012
Sunday 5-7pm
Latino Theater Company Play Reading
Los Angeles Theater Center
514 S. Spring St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
March 13, 2012
UCLA Asian American Studies 187A
Professor Valerie Matsumoto
"Exploring Ethnic Cultural Arts through Oral History"Professor Valerie Matsumoto
March 29, 2012
Thursday 6:30-9:30pm
Break the Silence Open Mic held at
The Manazar Gamboa Community Theater
1323 Gundry Ave. Long Beach, CA, 90813
http://oneimagination.weebly.com/events.html
April 4, 2012
Wednesday 11-1pm
Cal Arts in Valencia
Theater History
Professor Chantal Rodriguez E108
UPCOMING SHOWS:
Los Angeles, CA
Produced by TeAda Productions and The Latino Theater Company
May 31 - June 24, 2012
Thursday-Saturday 8pm, Sunday 3pm
General $30|Students/Seniors/Groups: $20
Los Angeles Theater Center
Thursday-Saturday 8pm, Sunday 3pm
General $30|Students/Seniors/Groups: $20
Los Angeles Theater Center
514 S. Spring St
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Fall 2012-Portland, OR
Fall 2012-Vermont
Stay tuned for times and locations.
