Aluna Theatre is ahead of the Games, proudly presenting a New Festival of Theatre for Human Rights: Panamerican Routes / Rutas Panamericanas . From May 15-27 , 2012 Aluna hosts some of the most exciting intercultural and interdisciplinary theatre practitioners from the Latin American Diaspora. Joyful, thoughtful, angry, and passionate: these are the new voices of our Panamerican reality.

Our Feature performances  connect   Toronto to the Latin American Diaspora. The first week features International artists:  

Loco7 (from Bogotá via New York) brings stunning dance-theatre and larger-than-life puppetry to the stage with Urban Odyssey

Violeta Luna (Mexico City via San Francisco) offers a more intimate  look at the  border-crossing experience in   Parting Memory .  

Week two features Canadian artists with:

Aluna Theatre ’ s award-winning Nohayquiensepa (No one knows)  a dance-theatre / multimedia tour de force

Carmen Aguirre's Blue Box (produced by nightswimming and New World):   a lively glimpse into a revolutionary ’ s life from the writer of Refugee Hotel and the CBC Reads winner, Something Fierce.

Also on offer: Showcase performances by emerging artists and a work-in-progress by a local hero:

Mayahuel Tecozautla's take on IXOK', a script based on the testimony of Guatemalan women who survived the Mayan genocide of the 1980's (week one)

Showcase night: Wednesday May 16 we open our stage to a cabaret of works in progress by local artists!

Rosa Laborde brings us a tragic comedy about the end of the world in Marine Life (reading, week 2)

Check the Aluna website for more details: 

a Conference about theatre, displacement, the law, and the place of new creation in social justice.

a Workshop series for artists with international masters: in Dance Theatre Puppetry, Performance Art, and Collective Creation for Playwriting and Transformative theatre

a Photography exhibit as part of the CONTACT festival: "Across the Americas"