Indigenous Roots and NAKA Dance Theater invite you to a community gathering with food and performance excerpts of Y Basta Ya!
Y Basta Ya! is a multidisciplinary and multilingual performance project highlighting stories of Indigenous and Latine immigrant women. NAKA developed the work with Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA), a grassroots organization in the San Francisco Bay Area that promotes individual healing and community power. Y Basta Ya! engages an intimate and personal exploration of issues of race, gender violence and invisibility, and their individual and collective effects on survivors.
Our intention is to cultivate a space where community members take ownership of the poetic representation of their own stories. We are thrilled to be partnering with Indigenous Roots in St. Paul, MN and Angelica Bello’s Circulo de Mamitas to host performance and sharing events between
NAKA builds long term relationships with community participants through deeply embedded engagements. The performance work emerges from a series of events and gatherings that deepen relationships with our community partners. Our process cultivates leadership and self-determination, activating community power through artmaking activities like collage, drawing, movement and storytelling.
Photo by Scott Tsuchitani
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Y Basta Ya! (Enough!) is made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Kenneth Rainin Foundation Open Spaces Grant, the City of Oakland Neighborhood Voices Grant, MAPFund, East Bay Fund for Artists, California Arts Council, San Francisco Grants for the Arts, the San Francisco Arts Commission, Zellerbach Family Foundation, the Rainin Fellowship, Dance/USA and many generous individual donors. Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists is made possible with generous funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
General Operating support was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Y Basta Ya! is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by La Peña Cultural Center, Rosy Simas Danse and NPN. More information: www.npnweb.org.