IHRAF 25: Protest, Passion, Power

Sunday, December 14th @ 3pm

Pause

Music

Songs, Dances, and Poetry of Social Consciousness

Owen Valentine- Vocals, Composer, Producer,Instrumental
Ayana Wild - Vocals, Dancer, Songwriter

ALALA AND THE SCARMAN

Short Play

Vick Liu

Silma Sierra Berrada - Playwright
Emilio Maxwell Cerci - Director

Alala & The Scarman follows a student activist and her immortal lover as protest politics collide with intimacy, asking how trauma and desire shape what it means to survive and love in a hostile world.

Content Advisory: references to racialized violence and lynching, frank sexual language (including masturbation and pornography), protest-related danger, drug use, and strong language.

A Troubling State

SOLO Spoken Words

Oscar Sanders

Theatrical Social Justice Spoken Word Poetry Performed In Thirteen Different Characters

Say Something

Short Play

Nicholas Bompart/ Bompart Productions

Chole Pellicano - Stage-manager

Marco Lando - Photographer

Lorenza Bernasconi - Rae

James Murphy - James

Rick Reid - Carl

Tal Shashoua - Nina

Mindy Skates - Mara

In a near-future world where surveillance drones police “Civic Harmony” and even emotion is regulated, five ordinary people find themselves tangled in a web of loyalty, resistance, and silence. When a fugitive activist seeks refuge in a civil servant’s apartment, old friendships collide with new fears, exposing the thin line between safety and conscience. Blending poetic realism and political tension, "Say Something" explores how truth survives in an age where speaking out can erase who you are...and where saying nothing might cost even more.

Content Advisory: Themes of authoritarian surveillance, state violence, psychological manipulation, and oppression. Contains scenes of emotional distress, implied detention, and moral betrayal.

PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS: "Ode to Eno Peeing in Duchamps Urinal," "Mother's Milk," and "Licking the Wound."

Musical Spoken Word

Screaming Mimes Theater Company

Mark Blickley, he/him - Writer
Joe John Battista - Director
Zoe Anastassiou - Actress
Claudio Paciocco - Musician
Alex Notkin, he/him - Musician, Actor

Screaming Mime Theater Company's production of PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS consists of three short performance pieces with music, "Ode to Eno Peeing in Duchamp's Urinal," "Mother's Milk," and "Licking the Wound." All three works are ekphrasis collaborations---each text is based on a visual image created by three international artists that are displayed on stage. Come take a quick plunge into a Liquid Life of intimate secrets and secretions.

Jesus and George Michael

Interdisciplinary

Poppy Louise Miller

Madison Moser - Dancer

The piece is born out of a response to the political erasure and fragmentation of one's national identity. It is about how being from somewhere can become a liability. How the state can shrink your voice into something barely audible. How resistance can take many forms—subtle, chaotic, ritualistic—and still remain unanswered.
Content Advisory: Blood, Noise