Devised by Andrea Caban And Julie Granata Hunicutt
A California Repertory Production
February 16 – 25, 2018
CSULB Studio Theatre
1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840
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The Dreamers are college students and adults without legal status who were brought into America by their parents as children. The story of their journeys and their fight to call America home is told in this production devised in collaboration with the California-Mexico Studies Center. Featuring testimonials and interviews from DACA students and community members, these stories of personal struggle invite the question: who gets to dream the American Dream?
Andrea Caban is a Voice and Speech professor at CSU Long Beach and the creator of several one woman shows that have been performed all over the country. Julie Granata-Hunicutt is a MFA Acting/Performance Pedagogy student at CSU Long Beach and a faculty member at Steppenwolf West. The Dreamers: Aquí y Allá is the second production in the Devising Democracy Series. Created in partnership with the California-Mexico Studies Center, a non-profit devoted to bringing educational institutions from California and Mexico together.
The California-Mexico Studies Center offered 160 Dreamers the opportunity to return to Mexico and re-enter legally into the U.S., through 6 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad programs from March 2014 to August 2017. Each participant was required to write a reflection paper on the ethnographic research they conducted on their experience and their family’s origins and migration. Unfortunately, the program was eliminated on September 5, 2017 when the Trump administration announced the rescinding of DACA, and cancellation of the Advance Parole provision that allowed the California-Mexico Studies Center to offer this life-changing experience. This play is based on the human stories written by the participants of this study abroad program, recounting their experience, and their attained identity as Mexicans rooted on both sides of the border:
Somos de Aquí y de Allá ! ~ We are from here and from there !
Photo courtesy: Bonnie Dolan
The California-Mexico Studies Center (CMSC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose mission is to research, develop, promote, and establish policies and programs between higher educational institutions and cultural organizations that will enhance the teaching, mobility and exchange of faculty, students, and professionals between California and the U.S. with Mexico and other nations in the Western Hemisphere. California-Mexico Studies Center was founded by California State University Long Beach professor Armando Vazquez-Ramos in 2010, as an extension of the California-Mexico Project that he has led since 1998 at the CSULB Chicano and Latino Studies department.
Schedule of performances:
Thursday, February 15 (Preview) ~ 8:00 pm
Friday, February 16 - Opening Night ~ 8:00 pm
Saturday February 17 ~ 2:00 pm
Saturday February 17 ~ 8:00 pm
Tuesday February 20 ~ 8:00 pm
Wednesday, February 21 ~ 8:00 pm
Thursday, February 22 ~ 7:00 pm (with pre-show conversation)
Friday, February 23 ~ 8:00 pm
Saturday February 24 - CMSC's Network Special Performance ~ 2:00 pm
Saturday February 24 ~ 8:00 pm
Sunday, February 25 ~ 2:00 pm
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