Name: Riven
Start: 2025-06-12T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-06-27T22:00:00-04:00
Location: Sure We Can

Riven

Sure We Can

A documentary play shedding light on the invisibilized world of wastepickers, a community responsible for sorting 60% of global recyclables

<ul><li>Doors open + pre-show: 7:00PM <em><em>(during pre-show we invite you to explore the space, dive into some of the research behind the project and experience the environment of the recycling center and culture from which this show sprung)</em></em></li><li>Show begins: between 7:15PM-7:20PM</li><li>Show ends: 9:00PM</li></ul><p>No intermission</p><p>For matinee:</p><ul><li>Doors open + pre-show: 2:00PM <em><em>(during pre-show we invite you to explore the space, dive into some of the research behind the project and experience the environment of the recycling center and culture from which this show sprung)</em></em></li><li>Show begins: between 2:15PM-2:20PM</li></ul><h4>Show ends: 4:00PM</h4>

<p><em><em>A site-specific docu-fiction play about waste pickers</em></em></p><p>Taking place at <strong><strong>Sure We Can</strong></strong>, a recycling center in Brooklyn, <em><strong><strong>Riven</strong></strong></em> invites you into a powerful journey. You’ll walk into Forró music and dance, get taken away by the stories of waste-pickers, and end your night in the healing beats of cans and drums.</p><p>The play follows Alessandra and Melina: two women from the global south working at a waste picking cooperative - a place where recycled materials are sorted and people are rescued from neglect. Side by side, they share not only a lifetime of sorting the accumulated discards of a society that has failed them, but also a promise: to survive and to stay bound to each other.</p><p>Riven was born out of a research and interview process on the reality of waste pickers of Brazil – a community of invisible environmental agents responsible for picking and sorting 90% of the country's recycled materials. Although the research was initiated in Brazil, the play aims to raise awareness and give voice to the global community of pickers, accounting for more than 20 million people around the world.</p>

<p>Riven was conceived by Marina Zurita and created in collaboration with Josanna Vaz and Laila Garroni</p><h4><br></h4><h4>Josanna Vaz as Melina</h4><h4>Dee Beasnael as Alessandra</h4><h4>Lucas Santana as Can Spirit</h4><h4>Ananda Barnes as Dance Spirit</h4><h4><br></h4><h4>Live Music by Juan Sebastian Monsalve</h4><h4>Guest Starring Mambembé</h4><h4><br></h4><h4>Directed and Written by Marina Zurita</h4><h4>Co-Directed and Movement Directed by Acadia Barrengos</h4><h4>Costume and Props Designed by Patricia Marjorie</h4><h4>Costumes assisted by Whitney Fabre</h4><h4>Lights Designed by Josh Martinez-Davis</h4><h4>Lights assisted by Maya Strauss</h4><h4>Video and Projections by Guilherme Pedra</h4><h4>Produced by Giorgia Valenti</h4><h4>Partner Produced by Sure We Can</h4><h4>Associate Produced by Group Dot Br and Covi Brannan</h4><h4>Executive Produced by Regina Maurício da Rocha</h4><h4>Stage Managed by Josephine D'Arcy and Erin Grey</h4><h4>Marketing by Luísa Galatti</h4><h4>Public Relations by Ron Lasko</h4>

<p>This play has been developed thanks to the support from NYSCA, NALAC, The Kennedy Center and the A.P.E.</p><p>Previous iterations for the development of Riven have been supported by The Women's Fund, BRICArts and the Brooklyn Arts Council, Target Margin Theater, Theaterlab, NYFA, Et Alia Theater and the NYC Media and Entrateinment. </p>

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