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YAQUI & BÉAL: YOEME AND IRISH IN CONVERSATION
May 6, 2023 @ 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
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A Fulbright Ireland project, Yaqui and Béal: Yoeme and Irish in Conversation is a theatrical exploration of commonalities between Native Americans and Native Irish. Part scripted/part devised, this dramatic piece combines family legends and wisdom from Irish and Yoeme elders, with conceived work that includes audience input. This performance is being composed by theatre-makers from University of Galway Master’s program.
Age: All ages.
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Chair: Dr Nessa Cronin (Moore Institute, Centre for Irish Studies, UoG)
Panel: Esther Almazon (Playwright, Fulbright scholar); Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley (History, UoG), Mary Harney (PhD scholar, Irish Centre for Human Rights, UoG), Owen Ward (Office for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, UoG)
Supported by:
Department of Theatre, University of Galway
BOOKING: YAQUI & BÉAL: YOEME AND IRISH IN CONVERSATION – Galway Theatre Festival
Award: Fulbright U.S. Student Award
Institution: Arizona State University
Year: 2022
Esther AlmazA¡n (Yoeme/Yaqui) is a Tucson Native who earned her MFA in dramatic writing from her home institution, Arizona State University. As a theatre artist, she has received the Kennedy Center Latinx Playwriting Award for Distinguished Achievement, the ariZoni Theatre Awards of Excellence, is a Eugene OaNeill NPC semi-finalist, and a recipient of the Gammage Theatre Scholar Award. At NUI, Galway,A EstherA will conduct her research project,A Yaqui and BA©aloideas: Yoeme and Irish in Conversation, exploring the mutual understanding of overcoming adversity between Native Irish and Native Americans. Her Fulbright performing arts project, presented at NUIas OaDonoghue Theatre, will memorialize the Irish/Native American connection of generosity and mutual support in a devised theatre production incorporating family legends of surviving hardships through difficulties such as the COVID-19 pandemic, colonization, and mass migration.