LIVE VIDEO READING ON SATURDAY, 4/4/20 AT 3PM!
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For the past six months, a team of poets, playwrights, illiustrators, and community organizers have gathered to write a play about the development and displacement that’s happening in the Frogtown and Rondo neighborhoods of Saint Paul. The show, titled HAPPY DISPLACEMENT, features the stories of a community near you as it struggles with gentrification. Funny, poignant, and often frustrating, it puts a very human face on the realities of “progress.”
Lollipops picked from coffins Paved over by wayward ways Prompt service when they walk in Seems my black butt been here fore days Hipsters wearing walkmans Darkness in their shades Gentrification ain't so bad. And, hopefully, you leave inspired and ready to join our community's fight against gentrification! |
CAST:
Myc Dazzle - Dame Jones Margret Lovejoy - Mercedes Jones Alia Jeraj - Sandra Katey DeCelle - Sasha/ Stage Directions Xais Vang - RayRay TouSaiko Lee - Chue Pao Lee Tia Williams - Ida Danielle Swift - Blou Raven Garrett Vollmer - Brenden Jay Kistler - Zeek Nehemiah Jett - Gerald Jones Susanne Lovejoy- Ida Jones WRITING TEAM: Margret Lovejoy, Xais Vang, Katey DeCelle, Terrance Shambley Jr., Mai Yee Vang, Dominique Jacobs, Myc Dazzle, Danielle Swift, Alia Jeraj, Tyler Olsen-Highness |