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DESCRIPTION:Bessie Award–winning artist Okwui Okpokwasili integrates movement, song, 
 text, and visual imagery in Poor People’s TV Room, giving voice to the 
 oppressed while shedding light on women’s enduring power. Inspired by 
 Nigerian political history, the performance integrates the buried 
 narratives of women in the country and resonates with present actions and 
 political resistance throughout the world. The work was inspired by two 
 historic incidents in Nigeria: the Women’s War of 1929, a resistance 
 movement against British colonial powers; and the Boko Haram kidnappings of 
 more than three hundred girls, which launched the Bring Back Our Girls 
 movement. Women were central to these campaigns, and have played essential 
 and powerful roles in Nigeria’s independence. Poor People’s TV Room 
 envelops the viewer in a multidimensional world to look at issues of 
 gender, culture, identity, and women’s strength, where the past is alive 
 and unleashed in the present.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/03/08/18807242.php
SUMMARY:Okwui Okpokwasili | Transform Fest Spring 2018
LOCATION:Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\n701 Mission Street\nSan Francisco, CA 
 94103
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/03/08/18807242.php
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