[NEohioPAL] Gum-Dip Theatre presents Three Countries, One Mother a Solo Performance Inspired by the Bhutanese-Nepali-American Community

[Katie Beck]

Gum-Dip Theatre premieres Three Countries, One Mother, a solo performance
featuring Lead Artist NimBrother (Neema Bal). *The play opened 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*

Featuring NimBrother

Directed by Katie Beck

Devised in collaboration with Benjamin Rexroad, Phul Bal, Lakpa Bal


*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
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.neohiopal.org/pipermail/neohiopal-neohiopal.org/attachments/20220804/2adff399/attachment.htm>