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Motus Theater seeks to help us overcome our disconnection and be a part of the change
by Caitlin Rockett
ON THE BILL: INVISIBLE LINES — presented by Motus Theater. 2 and 7 p.m. March 5-8, Dairy Arts Center, Grace Gamm Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Tickets at thedairy. org.
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n Feb. 27, the day this edition records — people like Sabido — protectaken public sanctuary in a church to avoid hits newsstands, Rosa Sabido tion from deportation. deportation. Sabido was one of the people will have been in sanctuary at What has remained in place from the he visited. When Dyer started the Mancos United Methodist Obama administration is a 2011 policy Windows, Walls and Invisible Lines projChurch for 1,000 days. that designated churches, hospitals and ect, there were an estimated 25 to 30 peoThat’s two years and seven months schools as “sensitive locations,” places ple in 22 states who had taken public inside the small adobe building on Grand where ICE has been told not to enter sanctuary. The best estimate for people Avenue. She’s lost a lot over those thou- and arrest undocumented immigrants. who had taken nonpublic sanctuary in the sand days: big things, like her mother With the Trump administration recently United States was just over 100. So far, and her five dogs, and little Dyer has visited 21 people in THOSE BUILDINGS ON THE ROOFTOP things, like the view of sanctuary in nine states. by Rosa Sabito Sleeping Ute Mountain from March 5-8, Motus Like monsters, always looking at me, like taller walls of a the front porch of her home in Theater will present Invisible prison without end. nearby Cortez. Unable to Lines, based on Dyer’s phoThey are silent neighbors, witnesses of my lost sight when I look around leave the church for fear of tographs and reporting thus and nothing changes. I can almost being picked up by U.S. far. While Motus has always listen, the tick tock of that big clock, where the Immigration and Customs aimed to facilitate dialog time is always the same. Enforcement (ICE), Sabido around difficult social justice ...Always the same... Always the same… was unable to attend her issues, Invisible Lines is the This poem is about Ded Rranxburgaj (above) who has been in mother’s funeral in 2018. company’s most collaborative sanctuary in Detroit, Michigan, Sabido — a native of theater experience yet, profor more than two years. Mexico who’s called viding improvisational reenSouthwest Colorado home for actments of stories from more than 30 years — was one of nearly announcing plans to deploy law enforce- Dyer’s project, but also inviting the audi40 undocumented immigrants publicly ment tactical units to sanctuary cities ence to reflect on how to use their indiknown to have sought sanctuary in the around the country, it’s easy to wonder vidual skills to find a solution to what United States in 2017. That year began how long churches will remain safe plac- artistic director Kirsten Wilson calls a the largest wave of sanctuary-seeking es for immigrants. human rights crisis. immigrants in the United States since the In March 2018, Boulder Weekly’s Joel “We may lose DACA (Deferred Action 1980s, a result of the Trump administraDyer set out on the first leg of a project for Childhood Arrivals) in June and if we tion’s rolling back of Obama-era policies that aims to photograph and interview do, almost half my staff and the majority that provided immigrants without criminal everyone in the United States who has of my performers will not be able to work FEBRUARY 27, 2020
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BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE
