In conjunction with their upcoming production of A. Rey Pamatmat?s Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them, Mu Performing Arts is presenting a community forum, BEFORE ?IT GETS BETTER?: SUPPORTING LGBTQI YOUTH, on Sunday, February 26, 2012 at Augsburg College, Christensen Center ? Marshall Room, 22nd Ave South at 7 ? Street in Minneapolis at 1pm. Admission is free and reservations are required. Click here to reserve your ticket.
Moderated by Jason Jackson, a program assistant with Out for Equity, Shawyn Lee, a gender-queer identified Korean adoptee Ph.D. student will be among the panelists who will share what it means to be an LGBTQI youth in America today, and discuss how family, race, economics, media, and government policy impact their lives and where they can go for support.
BEFORE ?IT GETS BETTER?: SUPPORTING LGBTQI YOUTH is co-sponsored by SOY (Shades of Yellow), in partnership with Augsburg College office of Pan Asian Student Services and office of LGBTQIA Services. For more information about the forum: Before ?It Gets Better? or Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them, please contact Mu Performing Arts at 651-789-1012 or go online at www.muperformingarts.org.
Click here to read about EDITH CAN SHOOT THINGS AND HIT THEM by A. Rey Pamatmat at Mixed Blood Theatre, March 13-April 1, 2012
Mu Performing Arts
Mu was first founded in 1992 as Theater Mu, a theater company dedicated to bringing Asian American voices to the stage in the Twin Cities at a time when Asian American theater did not exist in the area and the Asian American community was rarely recognized. After forming Mu Daiko, a taiko drumming ensemble, the company rebranded itself as Mu Performing Arts, reflecting their broad artistic base of theater, taiko, and artist development. Mu Performing Arts remains Minnesota?s only pan-Asian performing arts organization, and has grown into the second largest Asian American performing arts company in the United States. In 2011, Mu Performing Arts published a new anthology of plays through Temple University Press, Asian American Plays for a New Generation. Six of the seven plays included were commissioned and/or produced by Mu. Each season, Mu produces three mainstage plays and one mainstage taiko concert, along with numerous artist development programs and other special events. Celebrating its 20th Anniversary mainstage season, Mu Performing Arts continued its string of ?Best of? top end of year picks by The Minneapolis Star Tribune and St. Paul Pioneer Press, with last year?s musical offering Little Shop of Horrors. In the last three seasons, seven out of nine productions have been listed on end of year lists. www.muperformingarts.org.
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