treya lam

“Another Land in the Sky” features an evening of live music, poetry, and film by Jess X. Snow and Treya Lam. Their show takes the audience on a journey across time: channeling matriarchal histories of Asian American resistance, the artists' own fractured relationships with their motherlands, and the authentic ways they heal trauma and build chosen family in the present day. In a moment of racialized and gendered violence, the artists invite the audience to hold our collective pain at the root, allow it to move through our bodies and back into the earth. The performance features the individual poetry and music of Snow and Lam, and concludes with their short film collaboration: Roots That Reach Toward The Sky (2023), an inter-generational drama about Chinese medicine, community art, and mutual aid.