You’re invited to a storytelling event and workshop hosted in collaboration by the Asian American Resource Center, Salvage Vanguard Theater, and Filipina-American theater artist Megan Tabaque. Drawing inspiration from the monsters, demons, fantastical creatures from Filipino Folklore, this community workshop centers around the sharing, adaptation, and preservation of personal family histories. Through a series of writing and story making exercises, together we will craft and share folktales of our own design. By awakening and leaning into traditional folklore, we hope that participants will make space for the invention of a new folklore—to carve out new shapes of Asian American identity in the continually unfolding diaspora. Free and open to the public. We invite participants and families to come with a friend or relative. Snacks and Beverages provided!
For more information, visit the AARC Eventbrite Page.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Megan Tabaque (she/her) Megan Tabaque is a Filipina-Canadian-American playwright, actor, and arts educator. Her work has been developed, commissioned, and produced by the Alliance Theater, Salvage Vanguard Theater, Tofte Lake Center, the Workshop Theater, Paper Chairs, Theatrical Outfit, and Vanderbilt University among others. She is a James A. Michener Fellow, Kundiman Fiction Fellow, Sewanee Writers’ Conference Scholar, Seattle Public Theater Emerald Prize finalist, Playwrights’ Realm Scratchpad Series semi-finalist, a 2021 Four Seasons Residency nominee, and the recipient of the Emory Playwriting Fellowship from 2021 to 2023. Megan earned her MFA in Playwriting and Fiction from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, TX.
ABOUT SALVAGE VANGUARD THEATER
Pushing the boundaries of experimental performance in Austin since 1994, Salvage Vanguard Theater is a nonprofit organization that provides accessible, affordable, artistic exchange between a diverse, inclusive community of artists and audiences through high quality experiences that foster experimentation and generate conversation.