Join us for the Roots Unbound Showcase on June 20th at 3:00 PM at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center for a community gathering honoring stories of identity, loss, healing, and return. The showcase will primarily feature dance by Gabriel Gutierrez, a Chicago native, adult adoptee, reconnecting P’urhépecha Native, and founder of MOFundamentals, the only foster- and adoptee-led dance program in the United States. Now based in Los Angeles, Gabriel is a hip hop artist and artivist whose work highlights the resilience of the foster and adoptee community through movement, drawing on narratives of foster-care memory, P’urhépecha, and street dance culture, manhood, houselessness, survival, and grief. Through performance and storytelling, the event will celebrate the power of art to affirm lived experience, build connection, and imagine more healing futures.

Discussion with Gabriel Gutierrez, and Director/Founder of BlackAdoption Project & Roots Unbound, and Gina Miranda Samuels to follow the show.