“I was moved to tears when my daughter and I saw Free Land and I have been raving about it ever since. I am glad to have such a wonderful young performer understand the plight of the ancestors and to remember those that came before us on this land”.
Corrina Gould
Ohlone/Muwekma/Chochenyo, Founder of Indian People Organizing for Change
“Free Land is wonderfully fast-paced, energetic and sensitive… an engaging human spark. Ariel Luckey models awareness, action, respect and joy in the work toward recognition, reconciliation, social justice and wholeness”.
Peggy McIntosh
Author of “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”
“Free Land captivated me… Ariel brings a desperately needed understanding of inclusion and integration that radiates from the platform of diversity and history. My students were completely moved… Free Land utilizes expressive arts in a highly grounded academic and emotional program to define the real history of these "United" states in hopes of someday having a free land for all to live”.
John Agnelli
Director, Student Development and Campus Activities, PACE University, New York
"Free Land is emotionally powerful and accessible to a wide array of audiences. Ariel Luckey’s critically important work addresses the past and current relationship between white settlers and native people. The question of how land was stolen, which is at the heart of Free Land, is a shadow issue that our culture must deal with if we are ever to make peace with nature and native people."
Toby McLeod
Director and Producer, In the Light of Reverence
“Our students were blown away by the power and punch of Free Land… an intimate and honest, yet expansive and powerful performance piece… Free Land gives us a critical history lesson, an on-target hip hop performance, a story of growing up in white America, and the real truth behind the high price paid for Free Land“.
Steve Chabon
Dean of Student Life, Drew High School, San Francisco
"Ariel Luckey is one of those rare souls who can combine a passionate commitment to social justice with first-rate artistic sensibilities, creating in the process an experience for his audiences that is beyond merely moving: it is transformative. He also provides a shining example for those of us who are white and male, by challenging us all to be better allies in the fight for equity and true freedom."
Tim Wise
Antiracist educator, Author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
"Ariel Luckey is a stellar performer whose one-man-show takes audiences from laughter to tears to deep reflection and back again. Free Land reaches into the hearts of us all, offering hope for continued healing as well as inspiration to take up responsibility to search within ourselves for deeper understanding and personal action steps.”
Shelly Tochluk, Ph.D.
Chair, Education Department, Mount St. Mary's College
“Ariel Luckey's performance of "Free Land" is mesmerizing and brilliant, crystalizing United States' history as has never before achieved. Centering his analysis on the massive transference of land from its original inhabitants to European settlers, he tells that story through investigating his own family history, a coming of age story like no other.”
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Ph.D.
Professor, Historian, Author of Roots of Resistance, A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico
