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Created by TeAda Productions, and members of the Micronesian community in Hawaiʻi, across Micronesia, and abroad.
The second nationally touring play about MICRONESIANs in the U.S.
Join us for the Saipan Premiere at the 44th Flame Tree Arts Festival! This is a FREE, non-ticketed event, and we will be performing on April 24, 26 & 27, 2025.
Get your tickets to our Guam Premiere (May 2 & 3, 2025)!
Support the Nothing Micro About Micronesia TOUR!
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Nothing Micro About Micronesia 2025 MICRONESIA TOUR
- UPCOMING PUBLIC SHOW DATES -
Thursday, April 24th, 2025 @ 7pm (Flame Tree Arts Festival | Garapan, Saipan)
Saturday, April 26th, 2025 @ 7pm (Flame Tree Arts Festival | Garapan, Saipan) [1ST-HALF ONLY]
Sunday, April 27th, 2025 @ 7pm (Flame Tree Arts Festival | Garapan, Saipan) [2ND-HALF ONLY]
*The Flame Tree Arts Festival, is a free & non-ticketed event open to the public!
Friday, May 2nd, 2025 @ 7pm (University of Guam Fine Arts Theatre | Guåhan)
Saturday, May 3rd, 2025 @ 2pm (University of Guam Fine Arts Theatre | Guåhan)
Saturday, May 3rd, 2025 @ 7pm (University of Guam Fine Arts Theatre | Guåhan)
Visit THIS LINK to get your GUAM show tickets!
*All times GMT+10 (Chamorro Standard Time)
Following up their premiere run at Honolulu Theater for Youth in March 2024; a sold-out show in May 2024 at UH Mānoa Kennedy Theater for 7th Annual Asian Pasifika Theater Festival, ConFest 2024; and a successful Interisland Tour (Maui & Moku o Keawe, The Big Island) in Fall 2024; the cast and crew of Nothing Micro About Micronesia prepare for The 2025 Micronesia Tour, with shows at The 44th Flame Tree Arts Festival in Saipan; and University of Guam Fine Arts Theatre (Guåhan) in April & May, 2025.
NOTHING MICRO ABOUT MICRONESIA
Nothing Micro about Micronesia is a coming of age story about two Micronesian boys who encounter an unlikely place after a series of conflicts between them. They must navigate between the directions from elders and the government systems who have had an impact on their current lives and states of being/belonging. Join these friends as they take us through their lenses of island life in Micronesia while facing the rising tides of their transitioning ages, complicated family matters, new findings about the world and themselves, and uncertain futures.
Nothing Micro about Micronesia is an expansion of TeAda’s current touring show Masters of the Currents, created by Leilani Chan & Ova Saopeng, with Cultural Navigator Innocenta Sound-Kikku and contributions from numerous multi-generational Micronesian community members in Hawai’i. Nothing Micro came about as a result of Masters of Currents’ successful international tours and community engagement activities. As a result, community leaders have requested that TeAda Productions create new work that focuses on the continued discrimination and resilience of Micronesians. Like Masters of Currents, this new work combines community based story collection and social justice practices with devised ensemble techniques to create a theatrical performance built with the involvement of the Micronesian community.
PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT HISTORY
TeAda is committed to ensuring that the performers on stage come from the community the play is about. This means that the extensive, multi-year community workshops and devised ensemble process is key to both the development of the play and training for the actors. Over the last decade, Artistic Directors Leilani & Ova and the ensemble have conducted workshops with members of the Micronesian Community throughout Hawai’i, Guam, and the U.S. continent. Most recently, they traveled to Micronesia and had the honor of conducting workshops in schools in the Marshall Islands, Pohnpei, and Chuuk. Stories shared during these workshops have served as inspiration for Nothing Micro About Micronesia.
Many of the ensemble members performing in the touring production began as participants in these workshops. The core of the ensemble will be made up primarily of Micronesian, Pacific Islanders, and Native Hawaiian actors. Our artistic process starts and ends with conscious listening, community building, and creative courage.
Nothing Micro about Micronesia is bolstered by TeAda’s previous work, Masters of the Currents, by diving deeper into narratives of Micronesians in Hawai’i. The extensive community engagement prior to each show and Q&A’s after each show of Masters provide invaluable feedback, insights and inspiration. As a result of these successful residencies, community leaders have requested that TeAda create a new work that expands on the foundations laid by Masters of the Currents.
Nothing Micro world-premiered at the Honolulu Theatre for Youth in March 2024, toured the Hawaiian Islands in Fall 2024, and will be presented at the 44th Flame Tree Arts Festival in Saipan and University of Guam Fine Arts Theatre in Spring 2025.
As a pioneer in social justice theater, TeAda prides itself in developing shows with communities of color.
TeAda’s community engagement workshops, residencies, and intentional community building convenes our target audiences through a process that makes them feel seen, heard, and be an actual part of the continued development of the stories uplifted in current and future productions.
On Tour, TeAda includes community engagement and outreach activities. We are very proud to announce that our Spring 2025 shows are in partnership with, and will be presented by The Flame Tree Arts Festival (in Saipan) & The University of Guam Fine Arts Theatre.
NOTHING MICRO ABOUT MICRONESIA
PRODUCTION CREDITS
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Production Team
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The Micronesian community is incredibly diverse with various languages, ethnicities, islands, states and countries listed under this one geographic region and category– a region and category that has been imposed and not chosen by the people. This community can't be represented through a single story or play. We hope Nothing Micro About Micronesia will add to the legacy of Micronesian artistic works.
Email camba@teada.org to help expand/support our Continental & International Tours in 2025-2026 & beyond!
photos + media from masters of the currents
NOTHING MICRO ABOUT MICRONESIA Partners + Presenters
Honolulu Theatre for Youth is a performing arts venue that offers theatre and drama education for young people and families throughout the state of Hawai'i. They produce children's plays, offer education programs & professional workshops.
The Consortium of Asian American Theaters & Artists (CAATA) envisions a strong and sustainable Asian American theater community that is an integral presence in national culture—evocative of our past, declarative of our present, and innovative towards our future.
UH Hilo Performing Arts Center is the major performing arts educational and cultural center on the Big Island, serving as a joint special use facility for the University and Big Island Communities. The Performing Arts Center is primarily an instructional facility providing for the regular educational functions of the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, whose purpose is to offer significant educational and diverse cultural opportunities - where dialogue, the exchange of cultural and artistic ideas and co-curricular activities are encouraged.
Maui Arts & Cultural Center (MACC) is the most comprehensive multi-disciplinary arts facility in Hawai‘i, and a gathering place where people can celebrate creativity through personal and shared experiences of the arts. It is a world-class facility where popular and innovative performing artists can be enjoyed, connecting our community to the world. Looking forward to our coming years in the community, we continue to strive for the enrichment of life on Maui through personal and shared experiences of the arts: to engage, to inspire, to educate, and to broaden all of our horizons.
The Flame Tree Arts Festival is the longest running festival in the western Pacific and occurs on Saipan, the jurisdiction’s largest island and capital. The festival serves as a focal point for community pride and celebration of Chamorro and Carolinian heritage. Activities typically include music and dance performances; a visual art competition; showcases of traditional skills such as canoeing, carving, jewelry making and weaving; and traditional cooking demonstrations. Vendor booths sell handmade goods, both contemporary and traditional, as well as local food. The festival is an important way that Northern Marianas residents honor their Native heritage while acknowledging the blend of Asian, European and American cultures that also have shaped their history.
The University of Guam Theatre creates a space for majors of the Fine Arts Program pursuing the theatre track as well as UOG fine arts alumni and local playwrights to showcase their work. The UOG Theatre puts on four productions each year at the Fine Arts Theatre on campus, ranging from the theatrical classics of Shakespeare to Tennessee Williams to Lorraine Hansberry. Additionally, locally relevant productions, such as “I’Famaloan,” “Pågat,” and student-written one acts have drawn from the community for text and inspired meaningful conversations about place and identity.
Humanities Guåhan is an independent nonprofit organization that provides foundational support and educational programming for the people of Guam. The mission of Humanities Guåhan is to foster community engagement and dialogue, inspire critical thinking, celebrate community and enrich the quality of life of island residents through the power of the humanities.
Guam Council on the Arts & Humanities Agency exists to encourage and promote the artistic practice of our artisans and create opportunities for Guam residents to learn, experience, express, and appreciate art and artistic talent in all its forms.
MAHALO TO OUR FUNDERS & SPONSORS
This project was made possible with funding by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Theater Project, with lead funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Nothing Micro About Micronesia Tour was made possible with funding by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Theater Project, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the MAP Fund, and Kim Coco Iwamoto. Nothing Micro About Micronesia development and community partners include: Honolulu Theatre For Youth, Micronesians United-Big Island (MUBI), Western States Arts Federation, Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL), The County of Maui Office of Economic Development, The County of Maui, Northern Marianas Humanities Council, Commonwealth Council for Arts and Culture, University of Guam, Guam Council on the Arts and Humanities Agency, Humanities Guåhan, and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
Additional support provided by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts , Network of Ensemble Theaters’ Travel & Exchange Network (NET/TEN), and Hawai’i People’s Fund and Kim Coco Fund for Justice of the Iwamoto Family Foundation.
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Cultural Grant Program; California Arts Council The Local Impact (LI) program, and the Los Angeles County Arts Commission’s Organizational Grant Program (OGP).
