Name: Bite Size Blends
Start: 2025-03-22T19:00:00
End: 2025-03-22T21:30:00
Location: CitySpace

BITE SIZE BLENDS - A showcase of short works on social issues, giving the audience a taste of different disciplines, styles and sensibilities. The sets carry a variety of emotional tones from poetic to comedic to profound. Performers will address some of the most difficult questions of social justice with hope and grace.Magdalena Gomez- winner of the 2024 International Latino Book Awards forher book Mi'ja. Described by the Washington Post as "Gritty and lyrical...impressivelyidiosyncratic, while bristling with feminist and anti-establishment attitude.”Springfield Poet Laureate 2019-20Amy Dawn Kotel- is a dancer and storyteller. She is presenting a true story toldthrough voice, dance, song, and puppetry, about a bunny rabbit andintergenerational trauma and love. Trigger Warning- this piece contains themesof domestic violence.Jean Minuchin -is director of World and Eye Arts Center, fulfilling Jean’s lifelongpursuit to blend social justice, education and the arts. Her performance at CitySpace includes her clown character the “American Stink Bug”. The clown bugprotagonist pokes at humanity’s dark and dangerous corners through satyricalhumor told through storytelling, puppetry, and video.First Generation/ The Performance Project - The Performance Project is aSpringfield - based company that devises and produces multilinqual physicatheater. The resident performing ensemble, First Generation, is a group ofBIPOC, immigrant, and refugee young adults whose performances weavetogether theater, movement, music, stories, and dance.In the ensemble: Montaser Abdelrahman, Monisha Gurung, Julita Hasani, MoiseJackobo, Divin Kasereka, Charlétte Marrero, and Lali (Iliana) Quiles-Torres,Ticket Cost: from $5 - $25 - Includes card to culture, general admission andsupporter levels (go to ticket info below).