In celebration of Immigration Heritage Month, The Tank and ID studio theater
are hosting a two day event featuring a virtual presentation of the play "Los Niños Perdidos" / "Lost children: a piece in twenty questions" and panel discussions featuring immigration policy experts (6/24) and immigrant artists (6/25).
"Lost children: a piece in twenty questions" is a monologue adapted from the Spanish version of "Tell me how it ends: an essay in forty questions" (Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award ) by Valeria Luiselli, based on her experiences working as a volunteer translator for migrant children seeking legal representation.
Los Niños Perdidos is presented by ID Studio Theater and The Tank as part of CyberTank.
Following the performance on June 25, 2021 at 7pm, there will be a panel inviting immigrant artists to reflect and respond to the piece.
Panelists will include:
Carlo Albán: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Alban
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0016243/ https://www.instagram.com/seveninbinary/?hl=en
Dauris Martinez: https://www.instagram.com/daurisdm/?hl=en
Montserrat Vargas: https://montserrat-vargas.com/ https://www.instagram.com/montserratvargas_h/
Rocío Mendez: https://www.rociomendez.com/
Bios:
Denise Bell (Amnesty International) is the Researcher for Refugee and Migrant Rights, and was previously Senior Campaigner for Refugee and Migrant Rights, leading implementation of Amnesty International I Welcome campaign on refugee rights. She came to AIUSA from the U.S. Department of Justice, where she was an Attorney Advisor on the New York Immigration Court. She was a Sudan Country Specialist for AIUSA and the campaigner for its Darfur campaign. She has worked in various capacities on forced displacement issues since the mid-1990s, when she worked with refugees and IDPs in Croatia following the Dayton Peace Accord. She is barred in the state of New York and sits on the City Bar’s Immigration and Nationality Law Committee.
Paola Luisi (Families Belong Together) Paola has over a decade of experience in progressive politics, campaigning, and storytelling. Before joining Families Belong Together, she was the Communications Director for the International Planned Parenthood Federation’s Western Hemisphere, where she worked on reproductive health and rights across Latin America. She is a veteran of the Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama presidential campaigns, has a Master’s Degree in Foreign Policy from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and a Bachelor’s Degree in History and Economics from the University of Maryland. Paola is a native Spanish speaker, a fluent French speaker, is conversational in Portuguese and Italian, and knows a bit of Russian. She has traveled to over 30 countries, is a proud first generation Uruguayan-American, and is an objectively terrible but avid CrossFitter.
Casey Revkin (Every. Last. One.) Casey Revkin is a co-founder of Every. Last. One., a nonprofit dedicated to expediting the release of immigrant children from detention and federal custody foster care in the United States. She served as California Director of Immigrant Families Together, a national rapid-response fund dedicated to reuniting immigrant families separated at the U.S./Mexico border. Since June 2018, she has coordinated the release and payment of bonds of dozens of parents from the Adelanto Detention Center outside Los Angeles, providing them with food, clothing, shelter (in her own home or those of volunteers from across Los Angeles County), and transportation back to their families.