MY REAL NAME
A Play Presenting the Voices of the Underground

Champaign, Candy, X-Tasy, Pleasure are just some of the adopted street names that go into creating the persona of prostituted human beings who have built their lives on creating a exploitive fantasy. Who are these people? Where are they from? How did they get to the streets? What were their real names before they had to create the multiple personalities that make it more bearable to get into the cars of strangers? More importantly, who are they outside the imprisoned definitions of an indifferent society. We all have facades that oppress us and stop us from digging to our essence. The heavier the burden of oppression, the deeper we have to dig to free our essence. Few know this better than children, women and men who have been sexually pimped by the greed and indifference of the streets.

People of all walks of life often feel they are labeled/named by others. Rarely are we allowed to label/name who we are. This reality is doubly felt by those who are oppressed by a series of unfortunate circumstances. The goal is to place a human face in front and not behind the solutions.

My Real Name is a play that raises the voices of those who have been muted by the world microphone. With a strong belief in rehabilitative art, My Real Name consists of stories of sexually trafficked  children, men and women who are willing to share their experiences with the help of dramatic flashback scenes of their lives. The performances are done by using a mixture of actual survivors and trained actors.

Goal

The goal of My Real Name is to help community organizations raise funds to help prostituted and trafficked persons. One New Earth partners up with various grass root organizations in different cities that are identified as concentrating their efforts in working with sexually exploited women and children from the streets.

Activism & Arts

Humanity is created from the rib of creativity, thus it makes perfect sense to inspire activism through the beautiful lenses of various artistic endeavors. One New Earth believes that the essence of high humanity is the ability to see the human canvass on one plane of existence. Having a specific trained talent is less important than the ability to creatively see humanity as united, with each strand possessing something worth contributing to our evolution. My Real Name is a glimpse into the realization of our ability to create oppression, which is only trumped by our potential to create the foundation for true emancipation.

Promoting Action

Trafficking is the 3^rd largest criminal activity in the world with sex trade being its most profitable sub-category. Victims are often exploited through the jagged avenues of prostitution and pornography. Upon hearing about the magnitude of sex trafficking, people oftentimes feel helpless in their reach to do something. Through the avenue of art, the audience is allowed to be part of the solution by simply being there and helping magnify the world microphone so that the brave voices that resonate from the stage can be heard. Furthermore, dialogue is stirred that outs this underground crime from the closet of darkness, thus promoting activism from and by the community. 

UPCOMING SHOW: September 27 @ Scott Theater. Toledo, OH
                            September 28 @ Doermann Theater @University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 
October 26 @ Ottawa High School Grand Rapids, MI 
November 9, 2007 @ Worth Gallery, UCB Berkeley CA
2008- University of Michigan- date TBA
October 2008- Phoenix, AZ
November 7-14 2008- GirlFest Honolulu, Hawaii

 Additional  shows will be posted soon
 
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