Amant presents “Herstories and a Collaborative Future Beyond Tragedy”

Saturday, July 8, 2023, 4-6pm

As part of Natalia Lassalle Morillo’s En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy, a film and theater commission that reimagines the tragedy of Antigone with a cast of non-professional performers residing in Puerto Rico and within its diaspora in the United States, activist Iris Morales joins us for a conversation with Natalia and the project’s cast. Iris will talk about her life-long activism with Puerto Rican diasporic communities in New York, and about the crucial role Puerto Rican and Latinx feminists have played in the advancement of the social justice rights and liberation movements for the Puerto Rican communities in New York City.

This intergenerational dialogue bridges political activism and artistic creation, where the speakers will share their respective creative processes and discuss the importance of foregrounding affect and care, along with creative experimentation and imagination, in activism, community organizing, and collaborative creation processes.

Image: Women of the Young Lords Marching. Photo by Michael Abramson.