Episode 61: Rad Pereira - Healing Justice Rising

<p><strong>Rad Pereira</strong> is an old soul-young heart theater artist, writer, educator, and community activist with a very clear sense of purpose and direction --- defined by questions like: How can we imagine, and manifest alternate futures together? Was my body conditioned to survive in a world not made for me? and Can the natural world function as a moral compass? </p><h2>BIO</h2><p>I am a multi-spirit mixed Black, Indigenous Brazilian, Jewish (im)migrant artist currently based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn). My creative practices range from social sculpture, to popular theatrical and TV/film performance, to participatory liberatory artmaking and healing that weaves together an Afro-futurist longing for transformative justice and queer (re)Indigenization of culture.</p><p>I put in a lot of hours to get to where, how and why I am today, with the guidance of many mentors and dedication to cultivating an ancestor led, faithful intuition. I was trained up in Eurocentric theatre and dance on scholarship at Interlochen Arts Academy and Pace University. I kept the parts of that training which were useful and shed the constricting parts. Since then I have been building connection with my ancestral modes of creativity, storytelling and next world building. </p><p>With my community I created <em>The (Im)Migrant Hustle </em>and produced <em>Bang Bang Gun Amok I + II at </em>Abrons Art Center<em>. </em>With their artner at <a href="https://youareherecreations.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">You Are Here</a>, LILLETH, they<em> </em>created <em>Media Tools for Liberation </em>at JackNY,<em> Decolonization Rave </em>and <em>Cosmic Commons</em>. In 2017 I was NYC Public Artist in Residence with my collaborators (Keelay Gipson, Britton Smith, Josh Adam Ramos), at the Department of Cultural Affairs and Children’s Services working with LGBQTIA foster youth;</p><p>As an actor and director, I have contributed to stories at HBO, CBS, MTV, National Black Theatre, MITU350, The Public Theater, La Mama etc., Shakesp