Mi Historia, Mi Telar: Entre Hilos de Colores Sanan mis Dolores
My Story, My Weaving: The Threads are my Medicine
Ja weya ob’aj wij, ex weya nchemaj: Txol qa tkyqil tkolor lan nq’anin weya qa b’an ta’ intini
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
Tickets: bit.ly/MamWeaving2026
$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.
Mi Historia, Mi Telar / 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