The 'We Are Telling Our Stories' artists-in-residence program is helping youth develop and share their own stories through performance using voices, bodies, classmates, props and other theatrical tools.
two Mana Academy students are of mixed El Salvadoran and Samoan heritage. Through a jointly written poem, the duo is exploring what it means to be biracial and some of the difficulties that they say have come along with it.
"No matter what we do, we are sisters and we are mixed — no matter what people say about us," Julia Herrera Falute said. program culminated in a performance last week at West Valley Performing Arts Center for the participants' families and friends. However, organizers plan to continue it next year. "West side, as someone who's grown up here, has always been code word for many other things, right, and has been often criminalized or not a place where people have had the opportunity to tell their stories in their way and in their voice and about what is important in their lives," Martinez said. participants — many from families of color — did not shy away from difficult topics in their storytelling.
For Agnelli Hernandez-Ramos, 17, performing her poem "You're being dramatic" is empowering. piece is a rebuttal to the times Hernandez-Ramos' concerns and those of larger Latino communities have been downplayed and dismissed.
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