BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!!

(HOME/LAND 2022 + HOME/LAND 2023)

By popular demand, the immersive experience, HOME / LAND, returns for a third year! Focusing on displacement and houselessness, this work takes audiences on a journey through a fictional catastrophic event that brings audiences to a housing camp on the SW Waterfront at the historic Zidell Yards. Witness the world through the lens of Oregon’s not-too-distant history and imagine a better future.

HOME / LAND is an immersive journey along the paths of personal and collective memories. Within a context of critical instability, when displacement and forced migrations have caused many to leave their homes and everything they hold dear, audience members are each assigned a temporary unit in a fictional government-run shelter village called Lot 6B.

"The first part of empathy and change is listening. That's at the heart of this piece. It's to question ownership of land, being mindful that nature was here before you. Indigenous communities were here before you. What is home, and how have we treated the notion of 'home' and why put up borders and flags and keep people out?" - Erika Latta, Co-Creator.

HOME / LAND takes you on a journey to explore the past and present times experienced in Portland, Oregon, and the US at large. The show asks audiences to reflect on the forces that have worked over the centuries to bring living beings here as well as caused them to leave.

PERFORMANCES: August 30 - September 14; Thursdays - Sundays; 7-10pm
40 tickets a night, 1 person enters every 3 minutes, each ticket will be for an exact entry time. Show lasts approximately 1 hour.
Audience members will travel through the installation, approx ¾ of a mile, during the performance. 

LOCATION: 3121 South Moody Ave, Portland, OR 97239; PARKING ON SITE

TICKETS: $25 General Admission, $15 Students & Seniors, $5 Arts for All

SAFETY: Comfortable shoes recommended.
HOME/LAND is an immersive performance piece highlighting the issue of displacement and its various forms (i.e. direct/indirect, cultural, internal/cross–border). The installation includes elements that might not be suitable for some audience members. The following elements are present in this piece:
-moments of isolation
-moments in darkness
-prolonged periods of time in a small space
-close proximity to a performer
-moments of sudden and unexpected movements
-reference to death, houselessness, migration
Audience members sensitive to these elements and topics, please take note.

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SEPTEMBER 8TH SPECIAL EVENT: PANEL DISCUSSION & COMMUNITY CONVERSATION: Hand2Mouth presents a panel talk and community conversation inspired by the themes of its live performance installation event HOME / LAND exploring the history of displacement in Oregon diving into fictional and real-life oral histories of personal and societal displacement and forced evictions and homelessness.

The panel will consist of professional creatives, social change leaders and those directly working to counter current crisis’ of displacement, locally and globally, those working to instill the importance of seeing home and inclusion as essential to human dignity. 

TIME:  Sunday, September 8th | 4:30 pm 
ADMISSION to the Community Conversation:  Free
LOCATION:  3121 SW Moody Avenue, Portland, OR. 97239

FEATURED PANELISTS: Chisao Hata; The Coming Home Project at Vanport Mosaic. Makayla Caldwell; Outside the Frame. Stephanie Hooper; Network for Palestine

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RESOURCES:

We encourage you to consider donating to one of the many organizations doing the work to lift people up, provide basic needs, and give voice to the voiceless. Here are some organizations we recommend:

Outside In
Since 1968, Outside In has supported youth experiencing homelessness and other marginalized people as they move toward improved health and self-sufficiency. Driven to meet the changing needs of those it helps, the agency has created an all-inclusive and integrated system of cutting edge and sometimes controversial wraparound services that has transformed and saved thousands of lives over the years.
Mission: We help homeless youth and other marginalized people move towards improved health and self-sufficiency.

BLANCHET HOUSE
Blanchet House serves anyone who comes to our doors without judgment. We believe everyone deserves food, clothes, community, and hope.
On a mission to alleviate suffering and offer hope for a better life by serving essential aid with dignity.

Vanport Mosaic
The Vanport Mosaic is a memory-activism platform. We amplify, honor,  and preserve the silenced histories that surround us in order to understand our present, and create a future where we all belong.
The Vanport Mosaic’s work honors the experience of Portland’s underrepresented communities by surfacing, celebrating, and preserving their cultural and historical memories. One of our core values is: telling stories WITH and not ABOUT communities.

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AUDIENCES RAVE:

“That was a masterpiece of interactive theatre... At once deeply personal and universal, intimate and epic in scope, heartfelt and unnerving in all the right ways. A fascinating multi-layered examination of living through disaster, the illusion of permanence, the work our ancestors undertook simply to get us here, and what it means to really feel safe. I can't recommend this strongly enough.”   - William Thomas Berk, Playwright/Producer

“It was so lovely and the attention to detail was breathtaking. This is the first show I’ve been outside of the theatre space that really melds the outside world with the performance. The storytelling and the physical space co-existed so beautifully. The design and layout of everything also really allowed the stories to be heard, but not exploited. I was just filled with so many emotions.” - Yasmin Ruvalcaba, Artist

“HOME / LAND is a beautiful, haunting, thrilling, tremendous piece of art. It pushes the limits of what theatre can be and calls its audience participants in to contemplate the themes of displacement, safety, and community in an immersive experience that is heartfelt, sensitive, moving, and full of small surprises.” - Ashley Mellinger, Artist

"HOME / LAND is an artful composite of forgotten histories and their forgotten people, magically set underneath the Ross Island Bridge. I feel fortunate to have witnessed this worthy experiment." - DeReau Farrar, Musician/Artist

HOME/LAND is a collaboration between Portland’s Hand2Mouth Theatre, France's Begat Theater and NYC’s WaxFactory.