ARCHIVE: LIVABLE FUTURE IN RECALL

Livable Futures Community Archive Site Taken in October 2017

Q&A

LF: What makes more livable futures for you?

LROD: For me, a pursuit to re-imagine justice, resiliency, and love against the current oppressive or destructive ways of living would be a start in making the future livable. I believe it is crucial to create a realm of care, ethics, and compassion to work towards balance in our overly consumptive world. These liberal acts help to reconstruct/heal dilapidated structures in our social, economic, and industrial ways of living but prioritize these acts within the environmental sphere. As an artist, I think creating performative/experiential environments in a community of co-creation kickstarts the imagination needed to unlock the potential of our future.

• A livable future responds to crisis, injustice, and inequality.

• A livable future is continuously adapting.

• A livable future makes and holds space for all.

• A livable future is a possibility manifested through imagination.

• A livable future redefines freedom.

• A livable future is not always polite.

• A livable future is transparent.

• A livable future thrives in equity.

• A livable future redefines love and care.

LF: What are you reading, viewing, listening to right now?

LROD:

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (2017), Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (2019) by adrienne maree brown

Chicano and Chicana Art: A Critical Anthology by Jennifer A. González

Black Brown & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora (2009) edited by Franklin Rosemont and Robin D.G. Kelley

Dawn (2012) by Octavia E. Butler

On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein

The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Imprint) by Ronald Rael

LF: What practices are sustaining you?

LROD:

Sustaining my practice is daydreaming, hyper-creativity in co-creative environments, performance as protest, and ritualized self-care.

• Sun’s kiss on my skin

• The desert

• Aesthetics in environmental design

• Home

• Community

• Daily improvisation

• Mi Familia

• Napping

• Sustento

• Artmaking in all its capacities

• Deep conversations

• Immersing into books/movies/shows

• Truth

• The moment when I am told something is impossible

©LROD

Re-Creating the Stage Roundtable

Creative Discipline & Training During COVID-19

Panel #2 | 2:45pm - 3:45pm (PDT) | 5:45 - 6:45pm (EST)
Panelists: Elbert Joseph, LROD & Margaret Odette
ASL/English Interpreters: Rachel Judelson & Sho Devon Guion Grant
Moderator: Kezia Waters, KB Associate Theatre Director

I am honored to be apart of this wonderful panel this coming Saturday. Muchas Gracias to Jesús López Vargas for connecting with me and inviting me into this wonderful roundtable. Anyone can sign up to gain access to free events by visiting our website: https://www.kbtheatre.org/re-creating-the-stage.html

Adelante y see you there!

MORE ABOUT THIS WEEKEND

Re-Creating the Stage is a digital summer program produced & organized by K.B. Theater Company members & collaborators, offered to the public free of charge. This program is predominantly aimed at undergraduate/graduate-level students or young industry professionals in the U.S. who have lost their internships, apprenticeships & summer work opportunities due to the COVID-19 crisis. Our program consists of panels of both up-and-coming & established industry professionals as well as 1hr. creative workshops centered around the collaborative nature of theater-making & storytelling. Our program will begin on July 11th and run through August 15th, 2020.

PANELS

WEEK 1, PANEL #1 – Acting & Performance Saturday, July 11th | 1:30 – 2:30pm (PDT), 4:30 – 5:30pm (EDT) Category is: Navigating Culture & Identity in Acting & Performance Panelists: Terrell Donnell Sledge, Linedy Genao & Chris Mansa

WEEK 1, PANEL #2 – Acting & Performance Saturday, July 11th | 2:45 – 3:45pm (PDT), 5:45 – 6:45pm (EDT) Category is: Creative Discipline & Training During COVID-19 Panelists: Elbert Joseph, Margaret Odette & LROD (Laura Rodriguez)

WEEK 2, PANEL #3 – Theatre Directors Saturday, July 18th | 1:30 – 3:00pm (PDT), 4:30 – 6:00pm (EDT) Category is: Tokenization VS. Representation Panelists: José Carrasquillo, Rebecca Rivas & Mei Ann Teo

WEEK 3, PANEL #4 – Producers, Managers & Technicians Saturday, July 25th | 1:30 – 3:00pm (PDT), 4:30 – 6:00pm (EDT) Category is: Personal Finance & Self Sustainability in our Industry Panelists: Michaela Bulkley, Veronica Hernandez & Ross Jackson

WEEK 4, PANEL #5 – Producers & Leaders Saturday, August 1st | 1:30 – 2:30pm (PDT), 4:30 – 5:30pm (EDT) Category is: Producing for Social Change & Accountability Panelists: Jeffrey Lo, Arpita Mukhherjee & Víctor Élan Vázquez

WEEK 4, PANEL #6 – Producers & Leaders Saturday, August 1st | 2:45 – 3:45pm (PDT), 5:45 – 6:45pm (EDT) Category is: Inciting Change; How to be a Leader in the Arts & in our Communities Panelists: Patrice Amon & Armando Huipe

WEEK 5, PANEL #7 – Projections, Lighting & Sound Designers Saturday, August 1st | 1:30 – 2:30pm (PDT), 4:30 – 5:30pm (EDT) Category is: Skills Learned by Practicing Design & How to Navigate the Freelance World Panelists: Melanie Chen Cole, Sherrice Mojgani & David Murakami

WEEK 5, PANEL #8 – Costume & Set Designers Saturday, August 1st | 2:45 – 3:45pm (PDT), 5:45 – 6:45pm (EDT) Category is: Challenging Stereotypes in the Design Process Panelists: Valarie Sue Henry & Ramaj Jamar Schedule of Workshops

WORKSHOP

WEEK 6, WORKSHOP #1 – Creative Collaboration Saturday, August 15th | 1:30 – 2:30pm (PDT), 4:30 – 5:30pm (EDT) Category is: Creative Collaboration & Devising New Stories Hosted by: TBA, with Jesús López Vargas & Brandon Ray Alba

WEEK 6, WORKSHOP #2 – The Art of Storytelling Saturday, August 15th | 2:45 – 3:45pm (PDT), 5:45 – 6:45pm (EDT) Category is: How to Share Difficult Subject Matter Through Art Hosted by: Ryan Trecairtin, with Kezia Waters & Stephanie Carrillo Schedule of Affinity Spaces

AFFINITY SPACE

WEEK 1, AFFINITY SPACE #1 – The Latinx Community Saturday, July 11th | 11:00am – 1:00pm (PDT), 2:00pm – 4:00pm (EDT) Category is: Conversation with the Latinx Community Facilitators: Roslyn Cecilia Sotero & Addys Maria Castillo

WEEK 1, AFFINITY SPACE #2 – The Black Community Saturday, July 18th | 11:00am – 1:00pm (PDT), 2:00pm – 4:00pm (EDT) Category is: Conversation with the Black Community Facilitators: Kezia Waters & Addys Maria Castillo

WEEK 1, AFFINITY SPACE #3 – The Womxn / Fem Community Saturday, July 25th | 11:00am – 1:00pm (PDT), 2:00pm – 4:00pm (EDT) Category is: Conversation with the Womxn Community Facilitators: Roslyn Cecilia Sotero & Stephanie Carrillo

WEEK 1, AFFINITY SPACE #4 – The Asian & Pacific Islander Community Saturday, August 1st | 11:00am – 1:00pm (PDT), 2:00pm – 4:00pm (EDT) Category is: Conversation with the Asian & Pacific Islander Community Facilitators: Kelley Ho & Elijah Punzal

WEEK 1, AFFINITY SPACE #1 – The LGBTQIA+ Community Saturday, August 8th | 11:00am – 1:00pm (PDT), 2:00pm – 4:00pm (EDT) Category is: Conversation with the LGBTQIA+ Community Facilitators: Ezra Anisman & Elijah Punzal