Performance Notes

Once a week since the beginning of the year, the girls and young women of the Tet Ansanm Leadership Group for Girls at Flanbwayan Haitian Literacy Project have been exploring collective cultural MEMORY, the EMOTION of leaving home, and a CELEBRATION of life.
Since I have had the pleasure of working with these lovely young people for two years, embarking on our newest collaboration has been grounded by a beautiful familiarity.

This past week, in an attempt to find new ways of connection, I asked what each of them got from the process of story creation, and I was surprised by their response:

A few of the writers expressed loving having an opportunity to write!
Some stated: They have become more expressive
They have become less shy and more open.
They have pushed out of their shell
They have developed compassion and tolerance for those around them.

Not expecting this response, I pushed some more:
Connection, cooperation, confidence – which was explained as connecting with each other and the material, cooperating with one another to create a unified story while learning how to give and receive effective criticism, confidence to write and get up and perform.

Pushing just a little bit more, we revealed:
Finding the humanity in each other, in the stories that connect us – in this instance immigration – and in the audience who will receive and process their tales.

They are ready. We are ready. Please come and support the work they have prepared.