Arts & Healing Across Communities uses performance, storytelling, ritual, and participatory theater to transform grief into resilience and isolation into solidarity. Rooted in the Filipino philosophy of Kapwa — shared humanity — this initiative invites Illinois communities into powerful spaces of reflection, healing, and collective engagement.
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Performance & Talkback I (3/28, 7pm – 9pm CST) at The Rizal Center
Meet the Artists
Ginger Nepomuceno is a healer, performance artist, and founder of River Movement, a woman-owned practice rooted in collective healing, ancestral remembrance, and liberatory leadership. Her interdisciplinary work weaves Hilot (Filipino Indigenous healing), Kapwa Psychology, Depth and Archetypal Psychologies, somatic practice, and Theater of the Oppressed to guide individuals and communities through transformation.
Her signature performance, Rivers Remember, blends monologue, chant, movement, and ritual to explore grief, migration, and belonging across the rivers of Manila, Chicago, and New Orleans. Through body, story, and spirit, Ginger invites audiences to see healing not as an individual act, but as a collective journey toward resilience and renewal.
Dr. Liz DeBetta is a nationally recognized scholar-artist-activist whose work bridges theater, creative writing, and social justice to advance trauma healing and community transformation. An award-winning solo performer and member of Actor’s Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA, she brings professional artistic excellence to deeply personal storytelling. She is the creator of Migrating Toward Wholeness, a trauma-informed, arts-based healing framework that integrates expressive writing, embodied performance, and collective narrative practice.
Her acclaimed solo show, Un-M-Othered, has been staged nationally and internationally, illuminating adoption, identity, and reclamation of voice through poetry and embodied performance. Through her teaching, scholarship, and community partnerships, Dr. DeBetta empowers marginalized communities to transform silence into story and story into resilience.
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