Where Did We Sit on the Bus?

During a third grade lesson on the Civil Rights movement and Rosa Parks, a Latino boy raises his hand to ask “Where did we sit on the bus?” and his teacher can’t answer the question. Told through rap, hip-hop, spoken word and live looping, Brian Quijada’s autobiographical Where Did We Sit on the Bus? is an electric one-man show that examines what it means to be Latino in America. The show began as a compilation of songs and poems recited by Quijada at the Nuyorican Poets Café in New York City and has been developed in stages such as Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago and The Millennium Stage at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. It now comes to Chicago for its world premiere in a production by Teatro Vista directed by the expert hands of Chay Yew, Artistic Director of Victory Gardens Theater.