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Stories of Migration & Music with Motus Theater and the Boulder Philharmonic String Quartet
Apr
26
4:00 PM16:00

Stories of Migration & Music with Motus Theater and the Boulder Philharmonic String Quartet

Motus Theater and Being Better Neighbors present a performance of civic love stories from Motus Theater’s UndocuAmerica project, with musical responses from the Boulder Philharmonic’s String Quartet. In this special collaboration, Motus monologists who are   immigrants with DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) perform artfully crafted personal stories about their lives underscored by violinist Anthony Salvo. The Boulder Philharmonic String Quartet performs musical responses to each story curated by Fernanda Nieto. Featuring music of Dvorak, Heins, Ponce and more; with stories of Motus monologists Laura Peniche, Alejandro Fuentes Mena and Cristian Solano-Córdova

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TRANSformative Stories at UCCS
Apr
23
2:00 PM14:00

TRANSformative Stories at UCCS

  • University of Colorado Colorado Springs (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Motus Theater’s TRANSformative Stories features transgender and non-binary leaders sharing powerful, autobiographical monologues about their hopes, dreams, and experiences navigating oppression and liberation. Featuring personal stories by Rev. Nicole Garcia (she/her), Jahmil Roberts (he/they), and David Breña (he/him), accompanied by live musical underscoring from acclaimed Colorado violinist Anthony Salvo

Please register for exact location on the UCCS campus.

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TRANSformative Stories at CU Denver
Apr
15
4:00 PM16:00

TRANSformative Stories at CU Denver

Motus Theater’s TRANSformative Stories features transgender and non-binary leaders sharing powerful, autobiographical monologues about their hopes, dreams, and experiences navigating oppression and liberation. Featuring personal stories by Ruby Lopez (she/her), Raye Watson (they/them), and David Breña (he/him), accompanied by live musical underscoring from beloved Colorado violinist Anthony Salvo.

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Motus Playback Theater - Boulder Arts Week
Apr
5
7:00 PM19:00

Motus Playback Theater - Boulder Arts Week

Motus Theater invites you to a special adventure of improvisational theater where you share a short reflection or a story, and then watch a diverse group of professional improv actors enact YOUR story on the spot using movement, music, and dramatic spoken word. The stories may be funny or sad; memories from long ago or yesterday. The audience and performers co-create a theater event whose subject is the life experiences of the people attending the show. Join us for an abundant exchange interconnecting our shared humanity through music, story, poetry, and improv theater.

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Motus Playback Theater
Mar
1
7:00 PM19:00

Motus Playback Theater

Motus Theater invites you to a special adventure of improvisational theater where you share a short reflection or a story, and then watch a diverse group of professional improv actors enact YOUR story on the spot using movement, music, and dramatic spoken word. The stories may be funny or sad; memories from long ago or yesterday. The audience and performers co-create a theater event whose subject is the life experiences of the people attending the show. Join us for an abundant exchange interconnecting our shared humanity through music, story, poetry, and improv theater.

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Bolder. Boulder. Better. With Motus Playback Theater at the City Council Chambers!
Feb
8
2:00 PM14:00

Bolder. Boulder. Better. With Motus Playback Theater at the City Council Chambers!

  • Penfield Tate II Municipal Building, Boulder City Council Chambers (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

What is your vision for Boulder over the next 20 years? What community issues are most important to you? What community assets are unseen or underutilized in the Boulder Valley that could support our shared future? Do you want to feel seen and heard by policy writers for the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan?

Motus Theater invites you to a special adventure in improvisational theater where you share a short reflection or a story about your vision for Boulder, and then watch professional improv actors enact YOUR story on the spot using movement, music, and dramatic spoken word. 

The city of Boulder is developing the next Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan (BVCP) to set priorities and goals for the future and the BVCP writers want to hear from YOU! Motus Playback Theater is here to help you express what you feel will build “A Boulder Future.” By sharing our stories we can influence the direction of Boulder for the next 20 years!

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Bolder. Boulder. Better. With Motus Playback Theater
Jan
25
7:00 PM19:00

Bolder. Boulder. Better. With Motus Playback Theater

  • Canyon Theater at the Boulder Public Library (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

What is your vision for Boulder over the next 20 years? What community issues are most important to you? What community assets are unseen or underutilized in the Boulder Valley that could support our shared future? Do you want to feel seen and heard by policy writers for the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan?

Motus Theater invites you to a special adventure in improvisational theater where you share a short reflection or a story about your vision for Boulder, and then watch professional improv actors enact YOUR story on the spot using movement, music, and dramatic spoken word. 

The city of Boulder is developing the next Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan (BVCP) to set priorities and goals for the future and the BVCP writers want to hear from YOU! Motus Playback Theater is here to help you express what you feel will build “A Boulder Future.” By sharing our stories we can influence the direction of Boulder for the next 20 years!

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Civic Love Stories with Trans & Nonbinary Leaders
Nov
15
6:30 PM18:30

Civic Love Stories with Trans & Nonbinary Leaders

  • Canyon Theater at the Boulder Public Library (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Doors open for tea and cookies reception at 6:30p.m. followed by a 7p.m. performance of Motus Theater's TRANSformative Stories monologues for the Boulder Library’s Civic Dialogue series. In this special performance, transgender and nonbinary leaders perform artfully crafted personal stories about their hopes, dreams, and experiences of negotiating oppression and liberation, with live musical underscore. Colorado’s most diverse improv troupe, Motus Playback Theater, will then support the audience to reflect together on gender and reenact reflections on the spot. Regardless of your ideas about legislation focused on transgender & nonbinary people, come together for tea, cookies, and community to hear stories from your transgender & nonbinary neighbors so we all know more about the people impacted by anti-transgender legislation.

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Motus Theater Playback Improv
Sep
7
7:00 PM19:00

Motus Theater Playback Improv

Motus Theater invites you to a special adventure of improvisational theater where you share a short reflection or a story, and then watch a diverse group of professional improv actors enact YOUR story on the spot using movement, music, and dramatic spoken word. The stories may be funny or sad; memories from long ago or yesterday. The audience and performers co-create a theater event whose subject is the life experiences of the people attending the show. Join us for an abundant exchange interconnecting our shared humanity through music, story, poetry, and improv theater.

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TRANSformative Stories at the Longmont Museum
Apr
11
7:00 PM19:00

TRANSformative Stories at the Longmont Museum

Motus Theater & the Longmont Museum present TRANSformative Stories, featuring transgender and non-binary leaders performing artfully crafted personal stories about their hopes, dreams, and experiences of negotiating oppression and liberation with live musical accompaniment. Join together as a community as we celebrate the humanity, joy, and gifts of gender diverse leaders who are on the frontlines of dehumanizing rhetoric and policies. Monologists include Raye Watson (they/them), Ruby Lopez (she/her) and Dr. Morgan Henry Seamont (he/him).

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Motus Theater Playback Improv
Apr
6
7:00 PM19:00

Motus Theater Playback Improv

Motus Theater invites you to a special adventure of improvisational theater where you share a short reflection or a story, and then watch a diverse group of professional improv actors enact YOUR story on the spot using movement, music, and dramatic spoken word. The stories may be funny or sad; memories from long ago or yesterday. The audience and performers co-create a theater event whose subject is the life experiences of the people attending the show. Join us for an abundant exchange interconnecting our shared humanity through music, story, poetry, and improv theater.

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Motus Theater Playback Improv
Feb
10
7:00 PM19:00

Motus Theater Playback Improv

Motus Theater invites you to a special adventure of improvisational theater where you share a short reflection or a story, and then watch a diverse group of professional improv actors enact YOUR story on the spot using movement, music, and dramatic spoken word. The stories may be funny or sad; memories from long ago or yesterday. The audience and performers co-create a theater event whose subject is the life experiences of the people attending the show. Join us for an abundant exchange interconnecting our shared humanity through music, story, poetry, and improv theater.

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Motus Playback Improv Theater: Featuring JustUs Monologist Terri House
Dec
2
7:00 PM19:00

Motus Playback Improv Theater: Featuring JustUs Monologist Terri House

  • Arapahoe Center (theater in Old Town Lafayette) (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Motus Theater invites you to a special adventure of improvisational theater where you hear Motus JustUs monologist, Terri House, share a personal story about the criminal legal system’s impact on her and her family. Afterward, we will reflect as a community on ways we each have negotiated love, judgment, and systems of harm in our own lives, and then watch as professional improv artists enact OUR stories on the spot. Musician Adolfo Romero will underscore the stories from the audience as we co-create a theater event whose subject is the life experiences of the people attending the show. What’s your story?

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