Vashon Island Events: Blue Heron Art Center presents “From the Heart” – Vashon Island Real Estate
March 20, 2009 at 4:27 am Leave a comment
Vashon’ Island’s Blue Heron Art Center presents a one woman show by Jude Narita on Saturday, March 21, 8 pm
Tickets: $14/$16 – Includes Post Show Wine Reception with Q & A
Call 206.463.5131 for reservations.
Award winning playwright performs at Heron
VAA honors National Women’s History Month with a special, one night only performance by award-winning Los Angeles playwright, Jude Narita. She will perform her one-woman show, From the Heart, a celebration of Asian and Asian American women and the universal truth that connects us all to one another.New York City’s 2007 Asian American Theater Festival. Another of her plays, Walk the Mountain, had two separate theatrical runs in New York City in 2006. Narita’s plays have been seen many Los Angeles venues including the Los Angeles Theater Center, Highways Performance Space, Electric Lodge, Fountain Theater, 24th Street Theater, East West Players, Japanese American Theater and many more.United States for over 18 years.
Called ‘profoundly moving’ by the Los Angeles Times, Narita’s play skillfully explores the lives, experiences and expectations of different Asian and Asian American women with courage, honesty and fearless celebration. She artfully transcends “Asian” issues to celebrate our differences and ultimately illuminates our universal similarities.
Narita performed From the Heart in
Narita was named one of the “50 Asian Americans Who’ll Be Making a Difference” by Asian Week, The Voice of Asian America, and one of the “Top 100 Asian Americans in the Nation” by Trans-Pacific Magazine. Other awards include: the 2006 Western Arts Jerry Willis Award for Artistic Excellence and Extraordinary Leadership in the Performing Arts Community, the Integrity Award from the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival, a Los Angeles Fellowship, a National and two California Civil Liberties Grants, eight L.A. Cultural Affairs grants, and a Rockefeller from UCLA Asian American Studies. Narita has toured her work around the
A master at breaking down stereotypes, Narita creates real people with hopes and dreams.Narita takes her audiences on a journey of emotions, memories, and dreams—with the final embracing of one’s own heritage. The women characterized in “From the Heart” include: A Korean student, struggling in her new American high School; a Cambodian refugee amazed by America’s abundance, yet haunted by memories; a Japanese American woman and her mother’s memory of internment; a little girl caught in the bombing of Hiroshima; a young Chinese American seeking her own all-American identity, until she learns about early Chinese miners in California.
“…funny, sad, shocking, enlightening, empowering, heart-warming and vitally relevant to all of us…a consummate work of art and marvelously entertaining,” according to The Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
“Narita’s passion is the passion of an artist: her song, the song of a warrior…Every vignette is solid, every character fully realized. Narita knows how to tell a story, convey the heart of a character, and take us into a different culture, all at once. It’s an amazing accomplishment,” said The San Francisco Bay Guardian.
This event is sponsored in part by Poets and Writers, Inc and the Durfee Foundation. Show will be followed by Q & A and wine reception.
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