 We have such an amazing lineup for you. First, you're gonna see Yvonne Montoya of Saphos Dance Theater coming at us and doing some amazing work that brought me to tears when I saw it. Rebecca Deutsch and Rebecca of Rebecca Deutsch is gonna do some live work and video work. Just you wait and see who's gonna show up on that thing. And then we're gonna have Gail Fakett of Fakett Projects. So please stay tuned. These are all folks that we want to present at some point in the future. And you're gonna see their sort of postcard to ensemble theater now through the art shares coming at ya. Take it away. Hello everyone, I'm Yvonne Montoya from Saphos Dance Theater based in Tucson, Arizona. Originally we were going to present a work in progress showing of stories from home but what we are sharing instead is new work from our stories from home, the COVID-19 addendum. And in it, we are exploring new ideas of ensemble. Thank you for tuning in. Luz is a story about resilience. It's a play about survival and also magic. Luz is a 14 year old girl who is trying to grow up in a upside down world. She starts to hear voices and see ghosts and begins to think that she's God. It's also a story of my family. It becomes the story of my great-grandmother because over the course of the play, one of the ghosts that Luz comes to know is the ghost of her deceased maternal grandmother. And this is where our two stories begin to overlap. My family is from Lithuania and my great-grandmother was born in the forest outside of Vilnius to a family of poor Jewish peasants who could not afford to have her. She was one of seven children. So when she turned six, they found her a job in a neighboring village pouring hot coffee and tea for someone they knew and put her on a horse and sent her away. So she worked at this cafe for a year and by the time she was seven, she was so depressed and missed home so much that she found some strange courage and one day she stepped on top of the table in the middle of her shift and took a pot of boiling water and she poured it down her arms. When her parents saw her, they said, that's enough, we can't live like this. We're leaving Lithuania, we're moving to America. And soon after the Nazis invaded, my family survived because of that child and her brave, strange instinct. So I share this story because it teaches us supreme resilience. Now is the time for resilience, for survival. We are surviving in a crazy time. So what is my play now? Maybe just a reminder that you are brave, that you matter and that your instincts are brilliant. My name is Rebecca Deutch and I'm a playwright and a sculptor and an elementary school teacher in Oakland. I've devoted my life and career to guiding children through the creation of new performance and devised theater. I believe this is the way to create radical human beings that are ready to engage a changing world. This is a way of reifying courtesy. This is a way of creating democracy, fostering empathy and generating love. So I will leave you with this. For the past many weeks, we've been experiencing terrible wildfires in California. Two weeks ago, my childhood home burned. The fires exposed some incredible root systems of redwood trees. Root systems that I think will be instructive is the crazy thing about redwoods where they grow over 300 feet tall, but their roots are only five feet deep. They build their exceptional strength and resilience by reaching out sideways and intertwining their roots with the trees around them. I invite you all to intertwine your roots with us. Thank you. Thank you so much. I guess. Does it matter? No, I think you're good. 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I mean. We are saying so much with the art that we're making. And just these tiny postcards. I want to see everything and I want to see them now. Thank you. Thank you. Yvonne. Thank you. Rebecca. Thank you. Thank you to Gail and Manny. And please stay tuned. There are four more art shares of this diversity and this amazing impact we are going to do. And guess what? We're early. So we get 14 minutes. Just make sure you check the chat because there is a discreet Zoom link for our next session, which is the aesthetic equity field wide session. You do not want to miss this. We're going to have report backs from our morning sessions and our affinity groups and really come together for a very tight hour. So please be on time to come back in and it'll be this discreet Zoom link that you should be seeing in the chat. So, see you back at 2.30. Awesome. Thank you so much.