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The Imagine-a-nation of Lala Child: An Inspirational Book Opening A Whole Wide World of Possibilities - Softcover
Synopsis
One Small Child... One Whole World, Wide-Open With Possibility. Spiritual, epic, poetic, and deeply profound; Lala will capture and transform your heart. Welcome to 1890 Lovely, Kansas, a drought-stricken all-negro town, where a Chinese man rides a dust storm into ten year old Lala's home and wins her Mamalou's heart, spurring the gossipy shock of everybody else. Lala s lyrical and imaginative child s eye lends fresh perspective to ages old racial issues, washing us all with the sweet wisdom of an old soul in a small body. Full of humor, love and the beauty of life, adults and children alike enjoy this gem of a reading experience. The Imagine-a-nation of Lala Child is a powerful play that is part of the nationally touring Freedom Stories of Lala. It has been rendered in a storytelling form that crys out to be read aloud to yourself, your children or friends. The Imagine-a-nation of Lala Child is not just as heart-warming entertainment, but also a profound teaching story that facilitates radical growth and transformation in us all.
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About the Author
I collect tangible heroes imperfect and lovable from all times and all nations, races and creeds with their adventure-plot-metaphors that we, ourselves, live to inspire all people to lead boldly authentic, everyday lives deeply connected to themselves each other and this earth. I pair complexity to simplicity fold panoramas into packages challenge one voice to speak many. I leave room for music, dance, and physicality. embodying the teller in mind, heart, and soul. The kitchen becomes a stage the classroom a theater every human a storyteller. The tales become common discussed over tea, simmered with dinner written in letters rippling. . . into our lives. Rivera is the Artistic Director of Rising Sun Dance and Theater in Santa Cruz, CA and Taos, NM. She is the author of eight plays, four books and numerous essays and dance productions and lives in an earthship on the mesa outside Taos.. Visit her at www.risingsundancetheater.com or on her blog at www.risingsundancetheater.com/wpblog or on Facebook as Rising Sun.
Review
Told from the perspective of Lala, an incredibly imaginative and spirited African-American girl in the all-black town of Lovely, Kan. in the 1890s, the play captures the innocence and rapture of childhood while also centering on topics of race, gender and love. The story follows Lala's experience when a mysterious Chinese man named Longshoe rides into town on a dust storm, bringing new perspective and change to a dull town. The wise teachings of Longshoe and the town s reaction to the change that Longshoe brings sparks questions of race, religion and the beauty of life.
This play ...chases away any trace of reality. Cook transports the audience to the dry, dusty, enchanting world of Lovely, Kan. Evident in the title, the play has a mystical, marvelous, imaginative appeal to it. The childlike enthusiasm and sheer appetite for life that Lala displayed had transported me to my own childhood, anxious for what the world might bring. Full of giggles and wide-eyed wonders, Lala made me ...see the world as the giant playground that I once viewed it as. While I am surely not in Kansas anymore, after seeing the imagination and beautiful hopes that Lala had for her world, I looked around the world that I live in and saw it slightly prettier than remembered. --City on the Hill Press, theatrical review ----City on the Hill Press, theatrical review
The first story, which opened last weekend, is The Imagine-a-Nation of Lala Child. Lala is the daughter of an emancipated slave who lives in an all Negro town in Kansas in the 1890s. There is one white resident, the elderly woman who donated the land so the town could exist. Lala is 10 years old and her most endearing quality is her imagination. She imagines a world in which all people can live peacefully together, regardless of age, skin color or religious beliefs. … I left the theater after this performance elevated, transformed and in awe at the talent of Ms. Cook. --Santa Cruz Sentinel, theatrical review --Santa Cruz Sentinel, theatrical review
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- PublisherRising Sun Pressworks
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0984813217
- ISBN 13 9780984813216
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages152
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