MAU LIVE! theatre for empowerment

Upcoming performances of the Mother Tour:

Austin, TX May 9th and 10th

See Video Clip

The MAU Live! program inspires mothers face to face in venturing outside of traditional mother roles.

Currently, the star feature of MAU Live! is (M)other, exploring what it might take for the mothers of one country to authentically care about the mothers and children of another country. The show’s opening describes a fictional program, called “Baby Swapping,” created by the United Nations to generate care for the world’s children. In this small, limited pilot program, seven mothers from seven nations from around the world are required by their governments to swap their six month old babies with another mother from another nation for one month. What follows is an intimate look at one of these mother’s experience and her eventual realization of her interconnectedness with these other mothers, their children, and their nations.  

Beth Osnes states, “This show is the best way I could think to condense this last five years with Mothers Acting Up into a good night out. It maps out one path towards personal transformation from concern to action on behalf of the world’s children. It holds within it the wild hope that others, upon recognizing themselves along this journey, will feel inspired and fortified from this offering to chart their own audacious path towards the future.”  

Workshops accompany (M)other in order to provide skills and rehearsal space for activism. The workshops culminate with a public action – often a Girlcott (opposite of a boycott: a positive endorsement of a business whose practices or products positively impact the world’s children) – with workshop participants passionately speaking out for the world’s children.

The (M)other Tour, presented by MAU and Philanthropiece, will travel to cities across North America and parts of Asia and Africa from May 2008 - May 2010. This performance and workshop are designed to invigorate activism in communities across the nation and around the globe:

(M)other Tour Performance (See Video Clip)
Creating a Global Community of Mothers
Challenge limiting stereotypes of mothers that hinder civic participation
Inspire internal transformations – to move from concern to action

Workshops
Teach skills for effective public expression
Rehearse activism using these skills
Engage participants in actively devising solutions to obstacles
Model an activism specifically designed for mothers

Girlcott
Provide a REAL LIFE experience of MAU activism

MAU Live! is proof that not all activism is earnest. Bring the tour to your town today!
For a more complete description of hosting the tour click here.