“We need to share more of our culture and our connection like this,” she said, pressing her face against a section of fence to watch mariachis play and performers walk on stilts in Nogales, Sonora. “And it shows that we don’t need a border, we don’t need a wall. It just makes me happy to see this happening here.”

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Beyond the Wall uses giant puppets to bring people together across boundaries in celebration of our shared humanity. The first performance event took place in Nov 2017 at the US/Mexico border wall in Nogales Arizona/Sonora. 

After Public Works Department hosted Beyond The Wall on our Governors Island residency during the summer, I became keen to support this fantastic project.

So when asked if I'd like to be attached as a creative and producing consultant, I hastily agreed to jump on board Jess Kauffman & Ana Diaz Barriga's project and took an impromptu road trip from NYC to Nogales Mexico.
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For one week, working with the local communities in both Nogales Arizona and Nogales Sonora, I helped project manage the creation of fifteen foot puppets who met for a performance over the border wall.  

In 2019, I came on as a co producer where we created a day-long binational festival and art fair in Ambos Nogales, featuring 20 local artists, 13 local musicians/bands, and 5 new giant puppets created and decorated by local kids on either side of the wall.

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