Monologue performances showcasing the complex lived experience of adoption

I’ve recently returned from an incredible trip to the Netherlands for the INEA Congress and Festival. While at the Congress, I had the privilege of meeting Colombian intercountry adoptee, José Montoya who performed his monologue live, entitled Grief. It was an excellent performance exploring a topic in adoption that many fail to grasp or understand, unless they’ve also lost their entire kin, culture, country and identity. I hope you will watch Grief to gain some understanding from lived experience and a very talented person, José Montoya.

After the Congress, I reached out to Jose and he shared with me his other performance, capturing his personal journey as a Colombian intercountry adoptee. It is one of the most in-depth performances I’ve watched that expresses so much of the complexities we intercountry adoptees live. I highly recommend you watch this performance if you wish to better understand our lived experience as intercountry adoptees. What a talented and clever person José is!