Hostos Center presents “Where You From? What You Be About?”
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Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture
presents ‘Where You From?
What You Be About?’ a solo performance
by Eric Avilés created as an
artistic response to his cousin’s assassination
by a rival gang member
in Chicago.
Winner of the 2018 New York Innovative
Theater Award for Outstanding
Full Length Script and
nominated for Outstanding Solo Performance,
the play delves into the
connection between poverty, racism,
and gang violence.
The performance takes place on
Friday, March 20, 7:30 p.m., in the
Repertory Theater at Hostos Community
College, 450 Grand Concourse at
149th Street .
Reserved seating is $10, and $5 for
seniors and students. Tickets can be
purchased at (718) 518-4455 or www.
hostoscenter.org.
The box offi ce is open Monday
to Friday, 1 to 4 p.m. and two hours
prior to performance.
Set in Chicago’s historically
Puerto Rican neighborhood of Humboldt
Park and directed by Chicago
native Edward Torres, the performance
moves seamlessly through
Eric Aviles will perform at the Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture on Friday, March 20.
Photo courtesy of Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture
time frames in a coming-of-age journey
that revolves around a cousin’s
funeral.
The cousin’s death, due to a shooting
by a rival gang member, becomes
the catalyst for one man to confront a
buried truth while facing the effects
of growing up surrounded by poverty,
violence, and the need for healing.
Alongside Avilés’ solo performance,
which embodies characters
past and present and, at times, infuses
humor to drive home the more
salient themes, there are video projections
and a live DJ.
‘Where You From? What You Be
About?’ was a phrase commonly used
in the 1980s in the disenfranchised
communities in Chicago.
The questions are meant to uncover
with which gang someone may
be associated.
Avilés himself, who found his way
out of the Chicago gang culture, received
a call in the middle of the
night from his aunt informing him
that an unidentifi ed assailant with a
pistol killed his cousin.
At his cousin’s funeral, the casket
was decorated with gang mementos.
The death spawned a sense of urgency
in Avilés, which led to his writing
‘Where You From? What You Be
About’” to address how poverty perpetuates
crime and violence, and to
show that there are impoverished
youth who seek a better way of living.
The gang culture of claiming your
neighborhood, causing community
divisions, still exists in Chicago today.
By telling the story of how one
man and his family reconciles the
death of a family member due to gun
and gang violence, Avilés seeks to
help answer such questions as: How
do communities come together to
help our youth? How do we create
peace in marginalized communities?
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Friday, March 20h.
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pending.
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