Mission Statement Goals

2005-2006 // Touring Season 2004-2005 // Touring Season: The Bombs and Butterfly Tour 2004 // Creation Myth Project— Henry Street Settlement’s Abron Arts Center 2003 // Sisters in the Smoke— HERE Arts Center (New York) 2002 // Sisters in the Smoke— Vittum Theater (Chicago) 2000 // Mangoes, Cigarettes, and My Mama's Hands— Chopin Theater (Chicago)

Goals

Mango Tribe hopes to accomplish its mission by:

1. providing a safe space for APIA girls and women to develop their creative voices and build their artistic skills in creating a full theatrical collaborative production;
2. engaging in an artistic process which liberates and expands creativity through the exchange of ideas and techniques between APIA women writers, dancers, musicians, visual artists, and performers;
3. empowering APIA women through the art of storytelling to speak their personal truths, value their experiences, and honor their courage, strength, and conviction;
4. exploring theatrical modes of transforming personal stories into spiritual, political, and social consciousness;
5. collectively participating, learning, critiquing, and dialoguing to create a compelling APIA women-led production that makes critical observations of our local, national, and global communities;
6. creating complex and human images of APIA women to contrast existing racist, token stereotypes;
7. reflecting an APIA hybrid culture that challenges the boundaries between the personal and the political, past and present, reality and mythology, urban and suburban, male and female, national and international, high art and popular culture, and western and non-western;
8. and by preserving cultural and immigrant histories of survival, resistance, and continual healing through multimedia productions produced, written, and performed by APIA women.