Event
bala.fruta./bullet.fruit - A Performance and Conversation with Jesús I. Valles
3680 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104
![Jesus Valles](/sites/default/files/styles/max_325x325/public/2023-01/Jesus%20Valles.jpg?itok=E7JbxzKe)
Presented by the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
"My first bullet flew swiftly through the head of a would-be Mexican president, cut through a street block, a dance club, a Walmart, cut back through to a past never-ending, cut past and rattled in my brain until it bloomed into these words, into my living." bala.fruta./bullet.fruit. is the second solo show by Jesús I. Valles (they/them). In the end, bala.fruta./bullet.fruit. asks, "What might be the opposite of a bullet? Where might we find it?" The performance will be followed by a conversation between the actor-playwright and Jamal A. Batts, as well as a brief Q&A with the audience.
Co-sponsored by Penn's Africana Center; Center for Experimental Ethnography; Center for Latin American & Latino Studies; Department of English; Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies; Kelly Writers House; La Casa Latina; Mellon Just Futures; Sachs Program for Arts Innovation; and Wolf Humanities Center.