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Artist Commissioning Program Presents World
Premiere of "SHOOTER,"
Experimental Theater Project by 2019 Awardee Yogi (Y?)
Guyadin
Queens, NY—On August 3rd at Jamaica Arts Center, artist and educator
Yogi (Y?) Guyadin will premiere SHOOTER, an experimental theater project that
explores complex power dynamics between gun violence victim and perpetrator.
Commissioned by the
Queens Council on the Arts’ Artist Commissioning Program, the two-part
project includes an exhibition demonstrating the collaborative work Y? has done
with local community members and a culminating, autobiographical performance
that tells the intense and heart-wrenching narrative of how guns impacted a
young man growing up in Jamaica, Queens.
“My main inspiration for this project came from wanting
to explore how we all play roles of victim and perpetrator. This is not just a
piece about guns, it is much deeper,” explains Y? Guyadin. “I chose to make it
about gun violence because it relates to my personal experience. It was
important to me to connect this personal narrative to larger issues that are
plaguing the society.”
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