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On Monday, November 13th, Kristina Wong will be presenting a work-in-progress performance of her new show Kristina Wong: #FoodBankInfluencer. Kristina was the recipient of the 2023 Joan D. Firestone Fund awarded by En Garde Arts. The Joan D. Firestone Fund is a five-year program that presents an unrestricted award of $18,000 to a theatre artist to support the development of a new work at the intersection of theatre and social change.
Kristina will be sharing stories and slides of her work as a food bank influencer in Los Angeles, the Navajo Nation and beyond. Peppered with Karaoke songs with her original lyrics, Kristina will help us to look at the future of emergency food. If food banks were originally a stop gap for a temporary crisis and now have become a permanent part of American survival, does this mean we are in a perpetual state of crisis?
Kristina Wong is the recipient of a Doris Duke Artist Award, one of only six artists awarded throughout the country. She is a Guggenheim fellow and a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Drama.
The Joan D. Firestone Fund recipient of 2024 is Taibi Magar. She is the Co-Artistic Director of the Philadelphia Theatre Company. This award will provide her with the resources to begin work on her newest project SkāaliChāelh-tenaut, a riveting story about a whale violently captured by the Miami Seaquarium who died in captivity despite a decades long battle by the Lumi Nation to bring her home.
The committee choosing the recipient consisted of: Kim Bendheim, Linda Chapman, Joan D. Firestone, David Henry Hwang, Lynn Nottage and Kristina Wong. Public sharings each year are part of the En Garde Arts Uncommon Voices series.
The event will begin at 7 pm and be held at Theater 511 at 511 West 54th Street. Cash Bar