Every year ¡Oye Group! provides a fellowship opportunity to one artist to dig in and develop new exciting work without any strings attached or expectations of performance. They also host and curate our annual Oye Avant Garde festival. The course of the fellowship is theirs to decide while ¡Oye! Group supports the artist by providing:
Financial support by dedicating $1,000 each to three different projects throughout the season
Rehearsal space for the writing/development of one work
Administrative and production support
A monthly meeting with the ¡Oye! Group’s Artistic Director to provide guidance, advice, or any other support the artist feels necessary.
We are so excited to introduce Vanessa Pereda, our inaugural artist fellow for our 2020-2021 season. Vanessa is a multi-disciplinary Chicana actress, singer, puppeteer, playwright, and proud arts-ed programmer, teaching artist, and community builder based in BK.
Meet the Artist
Vanessa Pereda
VANESSA PEREDA is an actor, playwright, and arts educator in NYC. As a working Latina artist, Vanessa fiercely stands by the idea of leading by example and showing that female artists of color can thrive and carve their own path to success in theater. Vanessa believes in making theatre accessible for all and giving back to her community through the arts. She is passionate about her work as a teaching artist and prides herself in the work that she does on behalf of the communities of color she has the honor of working with. She is determined to create more opportunities so all artists of color can thrive and have an equitable place at the theatrical table. vanessapfelix.com
What will Vanessa be working on?
The Ancestors Trilogy
A trilogy including a lost preparation ritual, a modern Chicana fairy tale with music, and a war dance. All three center around a Chicana experience, the cost of assimilation, the myth of the “American Dream,” and how the modern lens of feminism, especially in Latinx communities, informs how Chicanas/Latinas work, dream, thrive and persist in the present and root in their ancestral past.
Project 1: Oye! Avant Garde Night
OYE! Avant Garde is a festival celebrating new performances by artists in theater, dance, film & more from NYC. ¡OYE! Avant-Garde was created as a platform to celebrate and share the city’s unique converging arts communities.
Due to the Pandemic we've taken this year ¡OYE! Avant Garde Night online - opening our doors Performers around the world.
Avant Garde Night will take place Friday March 5, 2021 starting at 7 pm EST.
We will be accepting:
4-6 Multi-disciplinary, visual, theatrical artists will be given up to ten minutes each and a full technical team to experiment beyond the boundaries of their traditional work through a work-in-progress excerpt. Each festival culminates in performances of theater, dance, film & more.
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