An added event to the 2016 Shomburg Symposium, <em>Shifting Identities: Expressing AfroLatinidad</em><strong><em>, </em></strong>we will present<em><strong> Self -Portrait Family</strong></em>,  a public participatory performance by Shaun Leonardo.

[caption id="attachment_4111" align="alignleft" width="300"]<img class="size-medium wp-image-4111" src="http://tallerpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ICantBreathe_still6-copy-300x170.jpg" alt="Shaun Leonardo, &quot;I Can't Breathe&quot; - performance still, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY, 2015" width="300" height="170" /> Shaun Leonardo, "I Can't Breathe" - performance still, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY, 2015[/caption]

In this performance Shaun Leonardo draws on his own family history and readings linked to identity politics of the Dominican Republic from colonial and post-colonial literature, developing a non-linear narrative about identity that participants from the audience are asked to embody and perform as newly bestowed identities.  Leonardo is a multidisciplinary artist who uses modes of self-portraiture as a means to convey the complexities of masculine identity and question preconceived notions of manhood.

Tickets for the performance is available for purchase below.

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