[NEohioPAL] Solo Performance Inspired by Bhutanese-Nepali-American Community Premieres

[Katie Beck]

Gum-Dip Theatre Presents Three Countries, One Mother, a Solo Performance
Inspired by the Bhutanese-Nepali-American Community

AKRON, OHIO, June 24, 2022 — Gum-Dip Theatre premieres Three Countries, One
Mother, a solo performance featuring Lead Artist NimBrother (Neema Bal).
The play opens on July 22 and runs through August 14, 2022 on Thursdays,
Fridays, Saturdays, and Mondays at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 3 p.m. at the
Balch Street Theater (220 S. Balch St).

Using storytelling, poetry, movement, and song, Three Countries, One
Mother examines
the history and culture of the Bhutanese-Nepali-American people who were
displaced from their homeland as part of the Bhutanese Refugee Crisis in
the 1990s and early 2000s. This play is inspired by the true story of
NimBrother’s family– members of the Tamang tribe, an ethnic group in the
Bhutanese-Nepali community. The Tamang tribe speaks their own Tibeto-Burman
language and has a diverse spectrum of influences on
spirituality--including Buddhism and indigenous shamanism.

Spanning generations and countries, this deeply personal narrative weaves
together family stories and shamanic ritual to explore the impact of
cultural legacy on an individual. The audience is invited to journey with
Neema through his cultural inheritance as part of a quest to better
understand himself.

NimBrother is a physical theatre artist who presents the stories of his
community in a way that not only reflects and heals the traumas from the
past, but also creates a space for reimagining a positive future. He is a
former refugee from the Bhutanese-Nepali-American community who resettled
in Akron in 2013 and became a citizen of the United States in 2019.

The project is a 2019 Arts Challenge Winner
<https://knightfoundation.org/press/releases/knight-foundation-names-16-winning-ideas-in-2019-knight-arts-challenge-akron/>
from John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and also funded by MAP Fund
<https://mapfund.org/2020-map-fund-finalists/>, Ohio Arts Council, GAR
Foundation, and Akron Community Foundation.

*Three Countries, One Mother*

Created by NimBrother and Katie Beck

Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Mondays at 8 p.m.

Sundays at 3 p.m.

July 22 to August 14, 2022 (No show on July 30)

Choose-What-You-Pay tickets, $20 suggested donation

Tickets: catac-akron.com/three-countries-one-mother

About Gum-Dip Theatre

Gum-Dip Theatre is a community-based theatre company that celebrates,
challenges, and reinvents identity in the Rust Belt through story circles,
unique happenings, and choose-what-you-pay performances. In the past 6
years, GDT has produced over 90 performances in 42 different locations of
original theatrical content focused mainly on the stories and histories of
the marginalized. GDT is a resident theatre company of Center for Applied
Theatre and Active Culture, a leadership consortium that nurtures theatre
research and performance in Akron. GDT believes that the theatre is a space
for practicing different factual and imaginary versions of ourselves, for
representing the narratives that are often ignored, and for elevating
voices and identities that are not included in the mainstream.

More information about GDT: www.gumdiptheatre.com

Contact GDT

Katie Beck, Co-Artistic Director

www.gumdiptheatre.com

katie at gumdiptheatre.com

(330) 962-2690
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