Sunday, Feb 16, 2025 at 5:00pm
Schedule Of Events
5:00 pm : Matchstick Percussion
Our Strike Anywhere Initiative aims to broaden the repertoire by incorporating more inclusive and accessible instrumentation. Pieces under this Initiative are designed to be playable using compact instruments. We aspire to cultivate a more diverse musical landscape, enabling performances in non-traditional venues and facilitating participation by lower-income schools and ensembles due to the affordability of the instruments required. This initiative aims to expand the accessibility of the percussion repertoire by restricting instrumentation to portable, common instruments and objects. Through this new repertoire, they hope to reach new audiences by removing the limiting factors in choice of venue, as well as inspire audiences and expand their idea of what percussion music can be. The first round of commissions for this project have been funded by the Racial Justice, Anti-Discrimination and Democratic Practices Creative Activity Grant through the College of Arts & Architecture at Penn State and include works by Joshua Mallard, Han Hitchen, Jamie Koller, and Tucker Johnson.” All Ages
5:30 pm : Tintas DC
Oye DC is a night of English, Spanish, and Spanglish storytelling and poetry that celebrates Latine voices from across the Washington metro area. The performance features a diverse cast of poets each with their own unique style and technique. The poets represent various countries across Latin America as well as the Latine experience in the United States. The performance will showcase both new and existing work from each of the poet’s respective portfolios. Poets will also have the opportunity to collaborate on new material and do a series of two person plus poetry readings and performances. The poems will explore a variety of topics and issues, including gender roles and dynamics, family, racism, immigration, language, intimate partner violence, misogyny, and homophobia. The show will balance both the struggles of Latine people with the joys that come from being in community with one another.
The Latine community is super diverse, and we want to make sure that audience members who look and sound like us, feel and recognize that all our stories are worthy to be shared on stage. We want to help jumpstart the necessary dialogue that wrestles with the topics we are often scared to bring to light. This will be done in a thoughtful approach that is not solely focused on the trauma but also celebrates the beauty of being people of resilience. Every poem will be rooted in the lived experiences of each poet and will reflect their own relationship with the language and culture of having roots in Latin America. The cast will include immigrants, second / third generation, Afro-Latines, Latines with roots in the southwest, the coasts, Spanish, English and Spanglish speakers.
The common thread is that each poet will be a current resident of the Washington metro area. Since D.C. is made up of a wide range of Latine folks - immigrants, transplants, visitors - we want to reflect those experiences and stories on stage because this is what makes our home unique. Through the use of authentic storytelling each poet will respond, react and share what it means to be Latine. The intention is to help show that we are not a monolith community, but still share some similarities. Oftentimes, we are not given the space to lift up this complicated truth, and we want to do so through storytelling. Stories have the power to help people understand the human impact of being boxed in and lumped together. We want to explore the nuances of what makes us Latine people. Run Time: 75 minutes. Ages: Ages 18 and Older (Adults Only)
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