February 24-March 13, 2020
PUESTO DE PALABRAS: Open story sharing and writing space with Virginia Grise
Presented by CalArts Center for New Performance / Duende CalArts in collaboration with Automata
Inspired by her grandfather and uncle—Chinese merchants who operated a fruit and vegetable puesto in a Mexican market in Monterrey, Mexico—theater artist Virginia Grise opens up shop daily at Automata Arts and celebrates the day-to-day neighborhood encounters that “open hours” can foster. Drop in on Grise as she makes her writing practice public and invites you to share your own stories of the places, people and events that have shaped your personal narrative.
Puesto de Palabras is part of the development of rasgos asiáticos, a site-specific performance installation that premieres at Automata March 19–22, 2020. rasgos asiáticos delves into the intertwined histories of Mexican and Chinese immigration in the U.S. In a daily ritual of public interaction and exchange, Grise explores what it means to find one’s place in a new community, and gathers individual perspectives from the people whose lives are anchored in, or intersect, with Los Angeles’ Chinatown.
FREE // No RSVP Required
Upcoming rasgos asiáticos Events:
These Are My Papers
A Performance Talk by Virginia Grise
February 27, 2020 at 7:00 pm // Gateway to Nature Center
at El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument
130 Paseo De La Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90012
March 2, 2020 at 5:30 pm // ArtChangeUS
at California Institute of the Arts
24700 McBean Pkwy, Valencia, CA 91355
Part lecture and part performance, award-winning theater artist Virginia Grise speaks about moving bodies and porous borders as she shares both personal stories and historical research related to her newest theater project, rasgos asiáticos, a site-specific performance installation that premieres in Los Angeles later this March.
For details and related events, visit centerfornewperformance.org.
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AUTOMATA
504 Chung King Court
Los Angeles, CA 90012
automata-la@sbcglobal.net
Photo: Archival family photograph, courtesy of the artist.