This is a four-day festival of new and avant-garde performance from the
Vortex and
Avant Theatre Project, designed to explore the many permutations and intersections of
Latinx identity in the 21st century and beyond, featuring work from playwrights, solo performers, and improv troupes exploring and critiquing the ways that Latinidad engages with questions of race, ethnicity, color, gender, sexuality, religion, class, and citizenship. Jesus I. Valles’ one-man show
(Un)Documents is part of this. The
Latinauts' improvised sci-fi telenovelas are another. Also, Sin Verguenza from the reigning Queen of Texas Burlesque,
Chola Magnolia; readings of plays by
Krysta Gonzales and
Briandaniel Oglesby; and a workshop of
Glass Half Full’s collaboration with Jesus I. Valles and
Gricelda Silva, which will use the myth of
El Cucuy to speak about ICE and the Border Patrol. ¡Oralé!