PANGEA WORLD THEATER
711 W LAKE ST NO 101, MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55408 www.pangeaworldtheater.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: PANGEA WORLD THEATER ILLUMINATES THE HUMAN CONDITION, CELEBRATES CULTURAL DIFFERENCES, AND PROMOTES HUMAN RIGHTS BY CREATING AND PRESENTING INTERNATIONAL, MULTI-DISCIPLINARY THEATER.

PRODUCTIONS & PRESENTATIONS SEPTEMBER 27-29, 2019: PRESENTED PRATIK MOTWANI'S ONE-MAN SHOW AT THE SOUTHERN THEATER OCTOBER 14-NOVEMBER 17: INDIGENOUS VOICES FESTIVAL DECEMBER 7-8: CASTLES BY KAT PURCELL. KAT PURCELL, ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCY AT PANGEA WORLD THEATER, SHARED THE RESULTS OF THEIR EXPERIMENTATION, EMOTIONAL-VOCAL-EXCAVATION, AND ARTS-INTERVENTION DRAMATURGY. MARCH 6-14: SUENO BY JOS RIVERA, DIRECTED BY LESLIE ISHII, PERFORMED AT THE LAB THEATRE. A CONTEMPORARY ADAPTATION OF SPANISH GOLDEN AGE CLASSIC LA VIDA ES SUENO (LIFE IS A DREAM), SUENO FOLLOWS THE LIFE OF YOUNG PRINCE SEGISMUNDO, HEIR TO THE SPANISH THRONE, WHO IS IMPRISONED AT BIRTH. THE RUN OF THIS PLAY, SCHEDULED TO END MARCH 22, WAS CUT SHORT DUE TO COVID-19. NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIRECTING & ENSEMBLE CREATIONJULY 2019: PANGEA WORLD THEATER AND OUR COLLABORATING PARTNER ART2ACTION HOSTED THE 2019 NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIRECTING AND ENSEMBLE CREATION: MENTORSHIP INSTITUTE. JULY 10 11, FIRST PEOPLE'S GATHERING ATTENDED BY 14 INDIGENOUS ARTISTS JULY 12 22, WE CONVENED THE FULL MENTORSHIP INSTITUTE, WITH 23 LOCAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS, AND 14 MENTEES. THIS INSTITUTE INCLUDED TWO FIELD TRIPS: O MENTEE AND LOCAL ARTISTS ON A LAKE STREET TOUR THAT INCLUDED PLAZA CENTENARIO, MERCADO CENTRAL, AND BDE MAKA SKA FOR INTRODUCTION TO MINNEAPOLIS O ALL PARTICIPANTS CONVENED FROGTOWN FARM IN ST. PAUL FOR CEREMONY AND WORKSHOP BY SHARON DAY AND SEITU JONES JULY 23, "A WIDENING OF OUR CIRCLE" INSTITUTE PUBLIC SHARING OF LESSONS, NEW WORKS, METHODOLOGIES. THIS GATHERING WAS ATTENDED BY OVER 70 PEOPLE, INCLUDING PANGEA AUDIENCE AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS, PAST INSTITUTE PARTICIPANTS, FUNDERS, AND STAKEHOLDERS IN THE FIELD. THE ENTIRETY OF THIS INSTITUTE WAS DOCUMENTED BY MINDTWIST PRODUCTIONS. THIS WAS THE THIRD YEAR WORKING WITH KERYL MCCORD OF EQUITY QUOTIENT AS AN EVALUATOR OF THE INSTITUTE. MS. MCCORD MET WITH PANGEA WORLD THEATER AND ART2ACTION SEVERAL TIMES DURING THE YEAR TO IMPROVE INSTITUTE FACILITATION AND STRUCTURES. IN FEBRUARY 2020, PANGEA WORLD THEATER STAFF TRAVELED TO TAMPA, FLORIDA FOR IN-PERSON PLANNING OF THE NEXT ITERATION OF THE INSTITUTE, WHICH WAS SCHEDULED TO TAKE PLACE IN JUNE 2020, BUT WAS POSTPONED AND RE-STRUCTURED AFTER THE ONSET OF COVID-19. ONGOING PROJECTS LAKE STREET ARTS! OUR LAKE STREET ARTS! PROGRAMMING CONTINUED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR WITH PUBLIC EVENTS AT LOCATIONS ALONG EAST LAKE STREET, CONVERSATIONS, AND COMMUNITY GATHERINGS.A. ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE: TO RESPOND TO THE LOSS OF SPACES AND VENUES THAT SERVED THE QTPOC/LGBTQ2+ COMMUNITY, WE HAVE INTENTIONALLY STEPPED UP TO SERVE QUEER/TRANS ARTISTS, AND CONTINUED AN ONGOING PARTNERSHIP WITH MOTHER GOOSE'S BEDTIME STORIES, A MONTHLY CABARET THAT PRIMARILY FEATURES QUEER AND TRANS ARTISTS OF COLOR. WE HOSTED FOUR EVENTS BY MOTHER GOOSE'S BEDTIME STORIES, AND EACH WAS HIGHLY ATTENDED BY THE LOCAL QTPOC/LGBTQ2+ COMMUNITY. WE CONTINUED OUR ONGOING PARTNERSHIP WITH OYATE HOTANIN'S MONTHLY BUFFALO SHOW THROUGH THIS SERIES. B. LAKE STREET STORY CIRCLES: AUGUST OCTOBER 2019, WE PRODUCED LAKE STREET STORY CIRCLES, WHICH INCLUDED A SERIES OF STORY CIRCLES AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS IN THE EAST LAKE CORRIDOR, INCLUDING RICARDO LEVINS MORALES'S ART STUDIO, THE ENTRANCE TO THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER OFF LAKE STREET, THE LOCATION OF THE NOW CLOSED BABYLON COLLECTIVE, INGEBRETSEN'S, AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS' HOUSES. THESE STORY CIRCLES CULMINATED IN A PUBLIC PERFORMANCE THAT TOOK PLACE IN THE PANGEA WORLD THEATER STUDIO OCTOBER 3-4, 2019. THESE PERFORMANCES WERE BOTH SOLD OUT, AND GREATLY APPRECIATED BY AUDIENCES.C. DA DE LOS MUERTOS COMMUNITY ALTAR: NOVEMBER 2, 2019, LOCAL VISUAL ARTISTS TOMS ARAYA BIAGETTI AND KIERAN MYLES ANDRS TVERBAKK WILL CREATED AN ALTAR INSPIRED ART INSTALLATION FOR DA DE LOS MUERTOS AT PLAZA CENTENARIO. THIS EVENT INCLUDED A VISIT AND SPEECH FROM FAMILY MEMBERS OF EMILIANO ZAPATA, AS WELL AS PERFORMANCES FROM LOCAL LATINA/O/X ARTISTS. D. PANGEA ARTISTS ENVISION: THIS WAS A SERIES LAUNCHED IN JUNE, 2020 TO RESPOND TO THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD AND THE SUBSEQUENT UPRISINGS THAT GRIPPED MINNEAPOLIS AND THE NATION. PANGEA CHARGED EACH MEMBER OF OUR STAFF TO CURATE AND PRODUCE AN ARTISTIC EVENT THAT WOULD PROMOTE HEALING IN MINNEAPOLIS IN THE WAKE OF THE UPRISING, AND STAND FOR JUSTICE. THE FIRST EVENT IN THIS SERIES WAS AN ONLINE STAGED READING OF "OPEN WATER," A PLAY BY PANGEA RESIDENT STAGE MANAGER SUZANNE VICTORIA CROSS. RACE: NORTH AND SOUTH ON THE GREAT RIVERPANGEA HAS CONTINUED OUR PROGRAM RACE: NORTH & SOUTH ON THE GREAT RIVER. WITHIN THIS PROGRAM IS THE MULTI-DISCIPLINARY PERFORMANCE PIECE RIVER SOLS WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY DIPANKAR MUKHERJEE AND CARLTON TURNER, DIRECTED BY MEENA NATARAJAN. IN JULY 2019 AND NOVEMBER 2019, CARLTON TURNER CAME TO MINNEAPOLIS FOR ONE-WEEK RESIDENCIES IN WHICH CARLTON TURNER, DIPANKAR MUKHERJEE, AND MEENA NATARAJAN INTENSIVELY WORKED ON RIVER SOLS. NATARAJAN AND MUKHERJEE TRAVELLED TO MISSISSIPPI IN EARLY NOVEMBER. WE COVERED A LOT OF GROUNDWORK ON THE SCRIPT DURING THIS TIME, ALLOWING OUR EXPERIENCES IN INDIA AND MISSISSIPPI TO INFLUENCE THE WRITING AND ALSO CREATING AN AESTHETIC STRUCTURE FOR RIVER SOLS. WE ALSO MET OVER ZOOM THROUGH FALL AND AFTER COVID. BECAUSE OF COVID, THEIR PLANNED RESIDENCY IN MISSISSIPPI FOR TWO WEEKS IN MARCH, A WEEK IN MAY AND IN NORTHERN MINNESOTA FOR A WEEK IN JULY TO COMPLETE THE SCRIPT FOR RIVER SOLS AND ADD ELEMENTS SUCH AS SOUND, ANIMATION AND OTHER DESIGN ELEMENTS GOT CANCELED. PANGEA HAD BOOKED THE PREMIERE OF RIVER SOLS AT ASIAN ARTS INITIATIVE IN PHILADELPHIA, AS WELL AS A SECOND PERFORMANCE AT IGNITE THEATER IN DALLAS, TEXAS, BUT UNFORTUNATELY UNDER COVID-19, WE NO LONGER KNOW WHEN THIS PREMIERE WILL OCCUR IN PERSON. INDIGENOUS VOICES NOVEMBER 2019, WE SUCCESSFULLY PRODUCED THE INDIGENOUS VOICES FESTIVAL, IN WHICH WE FULLY PRODUCED THE PLAY DON'T FEED THE INDIANS WRITTEN BY MURIELLE BORST TARRANT, PRESENTED THOMAS LABLANC'S ONE-MAN SHOW TATANKA ABOUT DAKOTA RESISTANCE TO COLONIZATION, PRESENTED TWO BROTHERS BY THE IKIDOWIN YOUTH ENSEMBLE, AND PRESENTED TWO STAGED READINGS OF WORK IN PROGRESS BY INDIGENOUS PLAYWRIGHTS CAROLYN DUNN AND SHARON DAY. DURING THE FESTIVAL WE ALSO COLLABORATED WITH THE NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE TO HOST A DISCUSSION REGARDING RACISM IN SPORTS, WHICH OCCURRED DAYS BEFORE THE WASHINGTON FOOTBALL TEAM WAS TO PLAY IN MINNESOTA AND AS PART OF THE LEADUP TO THE PROTEST OF THEIR RACIST TEAM NAME LED BY INDIGENOUS ACTIVISTS. OVERALL, OUR FESTIVAL WAS WELL ATTENDED, AND WE WERE PROUD TO SEE MANY MEMBERS OF THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY ATTEND.

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