HOME/LAND at Hand2Mouth

HOME/LAND Returns!!

By popular demand the immersive experience, HOME / LAND, returns for a third year! Focusing on displacement and houselessness, this work takes audiences on a journey through a fictional catastrophic event that brings audiences to a housing camp on the SW Waterfront at the historic Zidell Yards. Witness the world through the lens of Oregon’s not-too-distant history and imagine a better future.

HOME / LAND is an immersive journey along the paths of personal and collective memories. Within a context of critical instability, when displacement and forced migrations have caused many to leave their homes and everything they hold dear, audience members are each assigned a temporary unit in a fictional government-run shelter village called Lot 6B.

"The first part of empathy and change is listening. That's at the heart of this piece. It's to question ownership of land, being mindful that nature was here before you. Indigenous communities were here before you. What is home, and how have we treated the notion of 'home' and why put up borders and flags and keep people out?" Erika Latta, Co-Creator.

HOME / LAND takes you on a journey to explore the past and present times experienced in Portland, Oregon, and the US at large. The show asks audiences to reflect on the forces that have worked over the centuries to bring living beings here as well as caused them to leave.

Performances:

August 30 - September 14; Thursdays - Sundays; 7-10pm

40 tickets a night, 1 person enters every 3 minutes, each ticket will be for an exact entry time.

Show lasts approximately 1 hour.

Audience members will travel through the installation, approx 3⁄4 of a mile, during the performance. Comfortable shoes recommended.

Location:

3121 South Moody Ave, Portland, OR 97239

PARKING ON SITE

Tickets: $25 General Admission, $15 Students & Seniors, $5 Arts for All

Co-Creators: HOME / LAND is a collaboration between Portland's Hand2Mouth Theatre (Geo Alva, Michael Cavazos, Lucille Dawson, and Jonathan Walters), WaxFactory (Erika Latta), France's Begat Theater (Dion Doulis and Karin Holmstrom).

Cast: Pedro Dominguez, Jenni GreenMiller, Nurys Herrera, Ashley Song*, Marissa Sanchez and Danny Walker

Director: Michael Cavazos

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

Audiences Rave:

“That was a masterpiece of interactive theatre... At once deeply personal and universal, intimate and epic in scope, heartfelt and unnerving in all the right ways. A fascinating multi-layered examination of living through disaster, the illusion of permanence, the work our ancestors undertook simply to get us here, and what it means to really feel safe. I can't recommend this strongly enough.” - William Thomas Berk, Playwright/Producer

“It was so lovely and the attention to detail was breathtaking. This is the first show I’ve been outside of the theatre space that really melds the outside world with the performance. The storytelling and the physical space co-existed so beautifully. The design and layout of every- thing also really allowed the stories to be heard, but not exploited. I was just filled with so many emotions.” - Yasmin Ruvalcaba, Artist

"HOME / LAND is an artful composite of forgotten histories and their forgotten people, magically set underneath the Ross Island Bridge.I feel fortunate to have witnessed this worthy experiment." - DeReau Farrar, Musician/Artist

Hand2Mouth: Hand2Mouth is a group of artists who make plays and places for people today. We celebrate the potential of the live encounter and investigate the passions of our hearts and times in order to build new windows that open to the world. Driven by connection and joy, we use evolving methods to create original performance events that are bold and accessible.

For more information about H2M, visit us online at www.hand2mouththeatre.org.