Motus Monologues: UndocuAmerica Series

Motus Theater
  • 5.0 (9)
  • Arts

Experience powerful and moving stories from undocumented people on the front lines of U.S immigration policy. Hear Grammy award-winning artists such as Yo-Yo Ma and Arturo O’Farrill offer a musical response to each story. This series aims at interrupting dehumanizing portrayals of immigrants by encouraging thoughtful engagement on the challenges facing the undocumented community and the assets they are to our country. You can also listen to the companion piece podcast Shoebox Stories, where prominent Americans such as Jorge Ramos, Gloria Steinem, Nicholas Kristof, Art Acevedo, Maria Hinojosa, and John Lithgow "step into the shoes" of these undocumented leaders and read their stories. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes

  1. 07/03/2020

    Listen to your Heart

    Tania Chairez is a social entrepreneur and educator who grew up undocumented under the threat of Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona. In this episode, Tania shares her struggle to protect good parents, just like her own, from the attacks against the immigrant community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  2. 02/20/2020

    DEPORT ME

    Alejandro Fuentes-Mena’s tells the story of his hard working parents and shares his journey to becoming one of the first two DACAmented teachers in the country. Alejandro Fuentes Mena was born in Valparaiso, Chile and grew up in San Diego, California after the age of four. He received a B.A. in Psychology from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. Through Teach For America, Alejandro was one of the first two DACAmented teachers in the nation and is now in his fifth year of teaching in Colorado. He tells a story of his hard working parents and celebrates the assets he and his family are to our country. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  3. 01/17/2020

    I Was Made for the Light

    Reydesel, a legally deaf undocumented college graduate, shares how he went from suicidal to success after the DACA program was created that gave temporary legal status to undocumented people brought to the U.S. as children. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  4. 01/17/2020

    Returning to Myself

    Kiara tells a tender story of flying home to Mexico for the first time since she was four to see her ailing grandmother.* (*She was able to do this as part of the “Advanced Parole” program that once allowed youth with DACA status to leave the country for work, education, or humanitarian reasons. These visits are no longer allowed because Advanced Parole program was terminated in 2017.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  5. 10/02/2019

    The Meaning of Courage

    Cristian Solano-Córdova tells the story of strategizing to protect his eight-year-old sister, who is an American citizen, in the event her mother gets deported. Cristian is the Communications Manager with the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition. He is a former student body president of Metropolitan State University, and advocated for undocumented students at the Auraria Campus, and for immigrants at the Mental Health Center of Denver. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    The Meaning of Courage
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Experience powerful and moving stories from undocumented people on the front lines of U.S immigration policy. Hear Grammy award-winning artists such as Yo-Yo Ma and Arturo O’Farrill offer a musical response to each story. This series aims at interrupting dehumanizing portrayals of immigrants by encouraging thoughtful engagement on the challenges facing the undocumented community and the assets they are to our country. You can also listen to the companion piece podcast Shoebox Stories, where prominent Americans such as Jorge Ramos, Gloria Steinem, Nicholas Kristof, Art Acevedo, Maria Hinojosa, and John Lithgow "step into the shoes" of these undocumented leaders and read their stories. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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