AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MONOLOGUE PROJECT
About Motus Theater’s collaboration with muralist Edica Pacha
From June-September of 2022, you can see 12 murals (six in Denver and six in Boulder, Colorado) featuring Motus Theater UndocuAmerica project monologists. created by artist Edica Pacha. Each mural includes a QR code to the English and Spanish video of the monologist reading their own story. Regardless of your belief about immigration policy, this project allows you to know more about the impact of current immigration policies on the lives of families with undocumented or DACAmented family members.
Tania ChaireS
LOCATION: Virginia Village Library - 1500 S Dahlia St, Denver, CO 80222
Listen To Your Heart
Tania Chairez’s story of resilience in the fight against human rights abuses and the citizen apathy which allows them.
Kiara Chávez
location: Valdez Library - 4690 Vine St, Denver, CO 80216
Returning to Myself
Kiara Chavez’s story of her battle against invisible borders in her journey toward who she is and loves.
ARMANDO PENICHE
LOCATION: Rino Art Park- 1900 35th St, Denver, CO 80216
This Beautiful Dark Brown Skin
Armando Peniche’s story of racial profiling experienced by a 12-year-old boy, and the danger of slanderous rhetoric to an undocumented man and his American son.
Alejandro Fuentes-Mena
Location: Eugene Field Library- 810 S University Blvd, Denver, CO 80209
Deport Me
Alejandro Fuentes-Mena’s story of hard work, familial love, and his journey to becoming one of the first two DACAmented teachers in the country.
laura peniche
Location: north boulder recreation center- 3170 broadway st, boulder, co 80304
Wandering in the Desert
Laura Peniche appeals to her fellow Christians to reflect on the impact of anti-immigrant policies on undocumented families in light of Jesus’s love.
Cristian Solano-Córdova
Location: Root Alley Gallery on the Hill - 1121 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80302
The Meaning of Courage
Cristian Solano-Córdova’s story of enduring courage in the journey across the border, through threats, and towards liberty.
Irving Reza
Location: North Boulder Rec Center - 3170 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80304
The Most Beautiful Monument
Irving Reza’s story of the risks he takes visiting his grandmother, and the importance of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Ana Karina Casas IbarrA
Location: East Boulder Rec Center - 5660 Sioux Dr, Boulder, CO 80303
Is that Justice?
Ana Karina Casas Ibarra’s story of her little brother’s deportation from the only home he has ever known, the city where he grew up - Boulder, Colorado. She asks if it is ‘justice’ to exile a teenager to a city in Mexico where he has never lived because of a marijuana possession charge.
Victor Galvan
Location: South Boulder Rec Center - 1360 Gillaspie Dr, Boulder, CO 80305
Checkpoint at FantasyLand
Victor Galvan’s story of perseverance behind the battle cry of an immigrant rights leader.
Reydesel Salvidrez-Rodríguez
Location: Schlessman Library - 100 Poplar St, Denver, CO 80220
Born for the Light
Reydesel Salvidrez-Rodríguez journey through the darkness and beyond the chains of anti-immigrant policy and rhetoric.
Tania Chairez
Location: Root Alley Gallery on the Hill - 1121 Broadway
Listen To Your Heart
Tania Chairez’s story of resilience in the fight against human rights abuses and the citizen apathy which allows them.
Kiara Chávez
Location: Las 10 Americas Carniceria - 887 30th St, Boulder, CO 80301
Returning to Myself
Kiara Chavez’s story of her battle against invisible borders in her journey toward who she is and loves.
Laura PEniche
LOCATION: CONFLUENCE PARK BIKE PATH - 2250 15TH ST, DENVER, CO 80202. NORTH-EAST SIDE OF RIVER
Wandering in the Desert
Laura Peniche appeals to her fellow Christians to reflect on the impact of anti-immigrant policies on undocumented families in light of Jesus’s love.