In this episode of What Takes Root, Chilean actress and activist Evaluna Valdivieso describes how she came to see herself as both an artist and an activist. She shares the story of her company, Teatro La Crisis, and the projects she’s created about feminist movements, violence against lesbian women, and the unequal impacts of the climate crisis in the Global South.

Evaluna also speaks about what she calls the Latin American wound, the deep and ongoing impact of colonization, dispossession, and inequality, and how that history shapes both her art and her activism. Through theater, she explains, art can open space for people to connect, to grieve, and to imagine what a more just and equal society could look like.

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