Mi Historia, Mi Telar: Mi Historia at Eastside Cultural Center – Oakland, CA

Mi Historia, Mi Telar:

Mi Historia, Mi Telar: Entre Hilos de Colores Sanan mis Dolores

My Story, My Weaving: The Threads are my Medicine

is a visual art and performance project created by members of the Indigenous Maya Mam immigrant community of East Oakland in our ongoing collaboration with NAKA Dance Theater and EastSide Arts Alliance. Our project integrates personal and collective narratives, movement and textile art inspired by the weaving traditions practiced by women from Xjan Xwan Atitan, Chimb’al and Torasant, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.

July 18-19 & 25-26

Saturdays and Sundays

2pm

EastSide Cultural Center

2277 International Boulevard

Oakland, California

Eastside Arts Alliance is ADA accessible.

*ASL Interpretation on Saturday July 25 only

*Haptic tour and audio description on Sunday July 26 only. Haptic Tour begins at 1pm.

The work is primarily in the Maya Mam language.

English subtitles are available on Saturdays 7/18 and 7/25.

Spanish subtitles are available on Sundays 7/19 and 7/26.

La obra está hablada en el idioma Mam.

Tendremos subtítulos en inglés los sábados 18 y 25 de julio.

Tendremos subtítulos en español los domingos 19 y 26 de julio.

Tickets- $20 general; $10 students/seniors (NOTAFLOF)

LAIR is sponsored and co-produced by EastSide Arts Alliance and NAKA with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Fleishhacker Foundation, EastSide’s individual donors, the California Arts Council & the Kenneth Rainin Foundation.

Hilos de Colores / NAKA Dance Theater is supported in part by the California Arts Council, CE Artist & Creative Grant, Akonadi Foundation, The Center for Cultural Power, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco Grants for the Arts, Fleishhacker Foundation, and Kenneth Rainin Foundation. NAKA Dance Theater is a fiscally sponsored project of Dancers’ Group.

Photos: Scott Tsuchitani