Dixon Place & National Queer Theater present In Partnership With the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs and NYC Pride Panel on LGBTQ human rights in Latin America Moderated by Marlene Ramirez-Cancio with Migguel Anggelo, Rachel Kara Perez, and Immigration Equality
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Join the Hemispheric Institute’s Marlène Ramírez-Cancio for an hour-long conversation with acclaimed performance and drag artist Migguel Anggelo and artist Rachel Kara Perez on LGBTQ pride and struggles in Latin America, and how the arts can transform society.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Marlène Ramírez-Cancio is Associate Director, Arts & Media, at NYU’s Hemispheric Institute. Hemi connects artists, scholars, and activists, forging spaces of creative inquiry and critical practice that enliven struggles for justice in the Americas. She initiated and directs EMERGENYC, Hemi’s emerging artist program, and the yearly Artist Residencies for local NYC artists. She has produced seven large-scale international Encuentros and curates Hemi’s Digital Video Library. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Marlène is also co-founder of Fulana, a Latina satire collective collective whose videos have been shown internationally and whose members teach satire and parody as critical tools for artivists.
Migguel Anggelo is a Venezuelan born / Brooklyn based multidisciplinary artist. His work explores the intersections of queer, Latino, and immigration identities, as well as the role of the artist in contemporary society. Migguel Anggelo is currently a 2020 Resident Artist of the NY Presenter Consortium and was previously a 2019 Joe’s Pub Working Group resident. As a musician, Migguel Anggelo has released two albums (Dónde Estará Matisse and La Casa Azul) and as a theater artist, has been awarded residencies to develop new works at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts (Philadelphia) and BRIC (Brooklyn). He has been featured in festivals like LPAC’s Rough Draft and Provincetown’s Afterglow and has served as a cultural attaché, under the auspices of the U.S. State Department, in two separate 10-city tours of Russia. Currently, Migguel has been rigorously developing and performing his outrageously queer and gender-bending concert experience, LatinXoxo, created with J. Julian Christopher, Jaime Lozano, and Srđa Vasiljević. He also conceived and performed So Close: Love and Hate, Another Son of Venezuela, I, Inmigrante, and Welcome to La Misa, Baby all co-created with Obie Award-winner David Drake. Migguel is concurrently developing several new works and recording projects, including an album entitled English with an Accent, and a multi-character and immigrant-driven musical entitled The Last Supper with Christina Quintana (CQ) and Jaime Lozano. For more, please visit: www.migguelanggelo.com
Instagram: @migguelanggelo
Rachel Kara Perez (she/they/RK) is an award-winning Queer, Black, Puerto Rican, and Cuban multidisciplinary artist, educator, and adoptee advocate who views the arts as an invaluable vehicle for healing and building community. A theatre artist, vocalist, mover, writer, and poet, her work spans multiple genres, contexts, and locales. @rachelkaraperez | rachelkaraperez.com
Jillian Leigh DeSimone has worked at Immigration Equality as their Annual Fund Manager since June of 2019. Prior to joining the team, she worked for both Ars Nova and The Public Theater, two non-profits in the arts with programs designed to break down barriers to theater access. Some highlights of those initiatives include Ars Nova’s Ticket Subsidy Program, which is dedicated to keeping most of the organization’s ticket prices between $5 – $15. There is also their Fair Pay Initiative, committing the organization to pay artists, staff, and fellows a fair living wage. At The Public, the Mobile Unit travels across the city and the boroughs with free Shakespeare productions aimed to engage all audiences, and Public Works invites community members onto the stage at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park each year to be sure the work is of, by, and for the people.
In her spare time, Jillian plays the Surdo in an all-female Afro Brazilian Samba Reggae drum corps called BATALA, is on the Membership Committee of the Greene Hill Food Co-Op, and volunteers for several non-profit theaters across New York City. She is a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College.
Regina King is a transgender singer from Guyana. She received asylum status in the United States with the help of Immigration Equality. Read Regina’s story at https://immigrationequality.
TUE JUN 23, 2020 7:00 PM (EDT) ON ZOOM
Performed live on Zoom to be live-streamed on Facebook Live.
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