pitching Migritude

to people who have never seen it, heard of it, are totally new to even the concept, is a strange experience.

Last Sunday at this time, I was unloading props and materials at La Pena in preparation for the premiere.

For two years I've lived and breathed this work. It's integral to my waking and sleeping reality. And, increasingly, those around me have entered into the Migritude world, in different degrees.

So it's a little disorienting to go straight from the Bay Area buzz leading up the premiere, the roller-coaster exhilaration of the shows themselves, the rapturous response to them, to the NPN Annual Meeting, where I start from Chapter I:

Migritude is my spoken word theater show. Migritude is a word I coined to combine concepts of Migrant Attitude, to draw on the legacy of Negritude.............