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The 2012 De Colores Festival
Alameda Theatre Company is delighted to announce the playwrights selected for the 2012 De Colores Festival...
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The Tina Modotti Project The Tina Modotti Project is an examination of the famous 1920s photographer and revolutionary's life. It explores the tension between giving one's life to one's art and giving one's life to a cause. Modotti strove to find a balance between the two; her complete surrender to a cause meant the death of her art, and, ultimately, herself. The role of art in politics and politics in art was a core query in her life. The play asks the question: what is the purpose of art in the face of human suffering? About The Playwright Carmen Aguirre is a Vancouver-based theatre artist who has worked extensively in North and South America. She has written and co-written twenty plays, including The Refugee Hotel, premiered by Alameda Theatre Company, nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play. Carmen has over sixty film, television and stage acting credits, and has directed over a dozen plays. She is an instructor in the acting department of Vancouver Film School and facilitates Theatre of the Oppressed workshops with communities around British Columbia. She has recently published her first book, Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter, which has landed on the “Best Books of 2011” following lists: The Globe and Mail, The National Post, Quill and Quire. It was long-listed for the B.C. National Award for Canadian Nonfiction and for the international Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Nonfiction. It was chosen as a BBC Book of the Week in the United Kingdom and is the winner for CBC Canada Reads 2012. The Dutch and Finnish editions will be coming out this Spring. Carmen is working on a new play called The Tina Modotti Project. She is a graduate of Studio 58.
Arrested tells the tale of Ricky, a young man who enters a journey of self-discovery after being kicked out of his house at the age of 15. Part transient, part saavy street kid, he finds himself taking risks in an attempt to improve his situation while trying to avoid trouble. Trouble, however, seems to follow him everywhere. He is ultimately forced to face the biggest obstacle of his life. About The Playwright José Arias is excited to be joining Alameda Theatre Company once again this year. Born in El Salvador he was raised in Toronto and studied music, acting and dancing at the Claude Watson School for the Arts as well as the Randolph Academy. He has been an active member of Actra Toronto since 1999 and in 2008 received the Craft Award for best performance from Marketing Magazine. Selected theatre credits include Grease! The Musical & South Pacific. He was last seen on the Comedy Network in Almost Heroes. Many thanks to Marilo for having welcomed him into the Alameda family.
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La Danza del Venado By Ari Belathar Inspired by Ari Belthar’s experience of illegally crossing the border into the United States as a child, La Danza Del Venado is a multidisciplinary play, exploring the deep contradictions generated by the migration and displacement of human beings who are forced to cross the oceans, the rivers and the deserts of this world. It tells the story of a group of migrants whose clandestine journey into the north is hindered when they find themselves lost in the middle of the Sonora Desert in southern Arizona —a harsh and desolate area that for hundreds of years has stolen the souls of its travelers. About The Playwright Ari Belathar (formerly known as Emma Ari Beltrán) is a Mexican poet and playwright in exile. Between 1994 and 2001 she facilitated creative writing and popular theatre workshops for indigenous women and children throughout Mexico and founded the first Mexican community radio station during the student strike at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1999. After being kidnapped and tortured by the Mexican National Army in 2001 due to her work as an independent journalist and human rights activist, she escaped to Canada. A participant in Artscape’s Gibraltar Point International Artists Residency Program, she has published poetry in literary journals and anthologies around the world. Belathar served as Writer-in-Residence through PEN Canada’s Writers in Exile Program at the University of Windsor in 2006, that same year she took part in the Wired Writing Studio at the Banff Centre for the Arts. In 2009, Brandon University appointed her as the university’ first Writer-in-Residence. As a result of this nine-month appointment, Belathar published her first collection of poetry in English, The Cities I Left Behind by Radish Press. In the summer of 2010 Scirocco Drama published The Taxi Project --a collective play about exile, originally produced by PEN Canada, with Ari Belathar as lead-writer.
Camila’s Bones In a dystopian world where conception is the currency and, at times, the price for freedom, Camila a young foreign worker escapes from the City’s labour-camp to find herself a banned contract as surrogate mother; things worsen as the biological couple disappear and the refugee-police tighten the net around Camila and her, soon to be deported, unborn child. About The Playwright Born in Colombia, Amerindian mutt filmmaker Alejandro Valbuena moved to Canada at the end of the century, an abundance of professional projects already under his belt. Valbuena quickly became a member of the Director’s Guild of Canada and worked as a 1st Assistant Director in a number of films, TV series and M.O.Ws. Alejandro’s filmmaking has been awarded support by the B.C. Arts Council, Bravo!FACT, the Greenlight Fund, and the Ontario Arts Council. His work has been screened at numerous festivals including: NY-DFA, Clermont-Ferrand, Oberhausen, London IFF, Dance West, Basel IFF, Sapporo IFF and Vancouver IFF, Toronto’s Inside Out, Lisbon’s InShadow and recently received awards at imagineNATIVE and AluCine. His film, Burnt, was programmed on all Air Canada flights, and was included at the prestigious Smithsonian Museum. Additional career highlights include working with Deepa Mehta, and Don McKellar. Fiction work includes include Marietta & the Design of The New Angels and Barrio Shots, which was short-listed for The Walrus magazine’s annual SLS competition. His plays include Marietta (Phoenix Theatre, Victoria), Solita y Martirio and Camila's Bones, which will be in Alameda Theatre’s De Colores festival this year. Alejandro has been invited to attend the Hi-Rez New Media Intensive at the Banff Centre in March 2012.
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