Photo Flash: URBAN ODYSSEY and More from Aluna Theatre's PANAMERICAN ROUTES Festival, 5/15-27

Urban Odyssey by Loco7 is the opening play of Aluna Theatre's Panamerican Routes / Rutas Panamericanas: a new theatre festival for Human Rights featuring a new generation of innovative Canadian and Latin American voices that will converge on Toronto from across the continent from May 15-27 at Theatre Passe Muraille. See photos from Urban Odyssey and other upcoming productions below!

Urban Odyssey plays May 15 @ 8pm, May 16-19 @ 7pm and May 20 @ 2pm.

Urban Odyssey depicts the experience of immigration to America through movement and visual theatre: exploring the joy, fear, alienation and struggle that reveals the allure, disillusionments and rites of passage to achieve the American Dream. The inevitability of a new American culture opens up in this voyage from leaving ones homeland, to finding a new country, to making a new home and setting down roots.

Visit alunatheatre.ca for information, detailed schedules and/or to purchase tickets.

Next at the festival is Parting Memories by Violeta Luna (from Mexico City via San Francisco), running May 17-19 @ 9pm, May 20 @ 4pm. A collage of actions by Violeta Luna based on the Border TRIP(tych) collaboration with the San Francisco-based collective Secos & Mojados.

Parting Memories engages us with an immigrant's moment of parting. As she readies herself for the crossing, she begins to take inventory of what she will take with her, and what she will forever leave behind. Forever condemned, or freed, by the space in-between the land she parts from, and the land awaiting on the other side, in the cracks and fractures of the borderland, she has to rebuild a new identity and sense of self. Parting transforms shards of memory into "dreams" of possibilities in a new landscape.

PANAMERICAN ROUTES / RUTAS PANAMERICANAS in association with Theatre Passe Muraille, runs May 15-27, 2012, with performances Tuesday to Saturday - various start times from 7pm; Sunday matinees. Theatre Passe Muraille MainSpace is located at 16 Ryerson Ave.

Urban Odyssey by Loco7 - May15 @ 8pm, May 16-19 @ 7pm, May 20 @ 2pm

Parting Memories by Violeta Luna - May 17-19 @ 9pm, May 20 @ 4pm

IXOK' by Carmen Samayoa and Edgar Flores - May 18, 19 @ 10:30pm, May 20 @ 6pm

Nohayquiensepa (No one knows) by Aluna Theatre - May 22-26 @ 7pm, May 27 @ 2pm

Carmen Aguirre's Blue Box by Carmen Aguirre - May 22-26 @ 8:30pm, May 27 @ 4pm

Marine Life (Reading) by Rosa Laborde - May 27 @ 6pm

Tickets range from $15 to $30, Festival Pass is $100 (plus HST)

Box office: 416-504-7529 or www.artsboxoffice.ca.

Photos courtesy Aluna Theatre.