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SANCTUARIES
“If one of art’s essential fronts is to make us feel, to make us understand others on a deep, indescribable level, then Sanctuaries succeeds.”
An operatic meditation on gentrification and erasure set at Portland's Memorial Coliseum — the grounds on which hundreds of Black-owned homes were destroyed by the city in the 1950s.
What echoes of the past surround us — presently manifested ? . . .
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co-created by Darrell Grant,
Anis Mojgani and Alexander Gedeon
directed by Alexander Gedeon
music | Darrell Grant
libretto | Anis Mojgani
conductor | Lars Campbell
set | Yuki Izumihara
costumes | Alison Heryer
lighting | Carl Faber
photography | Intisar Abioto
Darrell Grant, Anis Mojgani and
Alexander Gedeon were awarded the
2020 MAP Fund in support of Sanctuaries.
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Presented by Third Angle New Music.