2022 Fall Propagating Cultural Power: Outward Mobility in the Age of Late-Stage Capitalism
Fandango por La Humanidad: Jarochicanos
Jarochicanos is a music collective based out of Chicago dedicated to the practice and preservation of traditional Afro-Indigenous Son Jarocho music from southern Veracruz, Mexico. They began in 2008 as a youth workshop learning to play Son Jarocho, and throughout the years developed into a collective of educators, organizers, and artists leading numerous initiatives and […]
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Dancing Through Prison Walls
Dancing Through Prison Walls is a California-based dance and performance project whose mission is to dance with, choreograph with, and tell stories within embodied carceral landscapes and beyond, amplifying voices of incarcerated people, and addressing mass incarceration. Begun in 2016, the work embraces a porous community of incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, and 鈥渇ree world鈥� dancers, choreographers, […]
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Ethio Blue: Concert & Conversation with Meklit Hadero
Meklit Hadero is an Ethiopian-American vocalist, songwriter, composer and former refugee, known for her electric stage presence, innovative sound and vibrant cultural activism. Meklit鈥檚 performances have taken her to renowned stages across four continents. Her last album topped world music charts across the US and Europe, and was named amongst the best of the year […]
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Art & Resistance Among Immigrant Children
Based on ten years of work with immigrant children in two different border states — Arizona and California —聽Drawing Deportation聽gives readers a glimpse into the lives of immigrant children throughout 300 children’s drawings, theatre performances, and family interviews. Silvia Rodriguez Vega is a community engaged writer, artist, and educational practitioner. She is an Assistant Professor […]
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It’s OVAH! A Ballroom Extravaganza
Join us for a night of education about Black/Latinx Queer Ballroom culture, skills workshopping in key Ballroom categories, and friendly competition in a mock Ball! 鈥淚t鈥檚 OVAH! A Ballroom Extravaganza鈥� is a one-of-a-kind immersive experience in the history, culture, and art forms that live in Ballroom, the Black/Latinx queer competitive tradition that brought you Voguing, […]
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Stringing Ourselves Back Together: Storytelling and Paper Mache Doll Making Workshop
The paper-mache doll is a distinctive traditional craft that became the dear play object and companion for many children in central Mexico. Today, this tradition is struggling to survive, being kept alive only in workshops of the few artisans who continue to produce paper-mache dolls, not for monetary gain but for continuity of this beautiful […]
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100 Years From Mississippi
Tarabu Betserai Kirkland – Director/Producer Tarabu鈥檚 background as a Media Artist, Producer and Administrator includes twenty years in Public Radio having served as General Manager of radio station KPFK-FM in Los Angeles, Assistant Manager of KPFA in Berkeley where he co-founded the Third World Media Department and helped establish national radio training programs for producers […]
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B谩mbula and Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba: Re-remembering the Place of Dance in Latinx Life
Dr. Jade Power-Sotomayor is a Cali-Rican educator, scholar and performer who works as Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at UC San Diego.聽 Her research interests include: Latinx theatre and performance, Dance Studies, nightlife, epistemologies of the body, feminist of color critique, bilingualism, and intercultural performance in the Caribbean diaspora. Dr. Power-Sotomayor […]
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The Womxn Who Rock: Making Scenes, Building Communities
Michelle Habell-Pall谩n, Professor, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies at, University of Washington, is Director of the Certificate for Public Critical Race Scholarship and co-directs the Womxn Who Rock: Making Scenes, Building Communities Oral History Archive. She co-curated/authored the bilingual exhibit & bilingual book聽American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Sonnet Retman is an Associate Professor of […]
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Feminista Frequencies: The Cultural Power of Producing and Archiving Community Radio
Community radio, led by Chicanas and farmworkers in rural areas, has a history of connecting more isolated communities with the world around them. Dr. Monica De La Torre鈥檚 book聽Feminista Frequencies: Community Building Through Radio in the Yakima Valley聽centers the work of Radio Cadena KDNA 91.9 FM in Granger, Washington and the cultural power Chicanas forged […]
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Great Leap’s FandangObon
Founded by Nobuko Miyamoto and Quetzal Flores, Great Leap鈥檚 FandangObon convenes into one circle the participatory music and dance traditions of Fandango of Veracruz, Mexico rooted in African, Mexican and indigenous music; Japanese Buddhist Obon circle dances in remembrance of ancestors; and West African dance and drums of Nigeria, Mali, and New Guinea. As we […]
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Son de Madera Concert
Son de Madera is an artistic group who specializes in the interpretation and composition of one of the traditional musical genres of southern Mexico: the Son Jarocho. Formed in 1992, Son Jarocho rises from the heart of fandango. Son Jarocho music travels through the world creating and recreating sounds that are nourished by a deep […]
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GET UP, STAND UP !!!
My Mother always told me stories. I began telling stories formally when I was in high school in Chicago (St. Ignatius) in the 60鈥檚, stories of Africa and the struggles of African-Americans for freedom. In 1992 I met Joel ben Izzy from Berkeley, CA who was introduced to me as a professional storyteller. 鈥淵ou mean […]
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where the horizon meets the earth: An Artist Talk
Virginia Grise will discuss the evolution of her career as a theatre artist, from聽blu聽to her most current project,聽Riding the Currents of the Wilding Wind,聽inspired by聽Helena Mar铆a Viramontes’ epic novel聽Their Dogs Came with Them. The talk will include excerpts of her work and her methodological and artistic practices for聽creating ecologies of care in the face of […]
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LAnded: Diaspora and the Southeast Asian Refugee
LAnded: Diaspora and the Southeast Asian Refugee Phung Huynh will present her art projects that are deeply informed by her experience as a Southeast Asian refugee of Cambodian, Vietnamese, and Chinese ancestry. As an artist living in diaspora, Huynh will discuss how her projects challenge western beauty standards through images of Asian female bodies vis-脿-vis […]
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Beyond the Wall: Fronteriza and Feminist Imaginaries
This talk offers an alternative mapping and framing of the U.S./Mexico border through the documentation and analysis of feminist projects in the borderlands. I use these examples to ask how we can imagine the borderlands as a space of feminist resistance, conviviality, agency, and creative community building, one that differs from the rhetoric of invasion, […]
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Featuring Vijay Gupta & Dominic Cheli: Practicing Change
Vijay Gupta is a violinist, speaker and citizen-artist dedicated to creating spaces of wholeness through music. Vijay鈥檚 work embodies his belief that the work of artists and citizens is one: to make a sadhana – a daily practice – of the world we envision. Hailed by The New Yorker as a 鈥渧isionary violinist…one of the […]
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Armon铆a Cuscatleca – Musical and Creative Peacebuilding in Rural El Salvador
Pablo M茅ndez Granadino is a professional violinist and community music workshop leader. His career as a freelance musician has landed him recordings and performances with the Mariachi Divas, Emmanuel, Rumbankete, Metalachi, Charangoa, Charanga Cubana, Adhesivo, Grupo Friguey, Larry Harlow, Alfredo de la Fe, Chayanne, los Hermanos Flores, Charlie Zaa and other latin bands coming in […]
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La Ofrenda: How Sacred Space Creates Connection
When creating an ofrenda 鈥� we are creating a sacred space. This space reflects what is known 鈥� a confidence. It represents identity (personal, emotional and cultural). The ofrenda offers CONNECTION, to understanding the struggles, sacrifices, creativity, resourcefulness, and wisdom of the ancestors. The ofrenda informs our resiliency and creativity, bringing forth the wisdom to […]
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Dancing Against Erasure: Armenian Dance in Diaspora as Cultural Reclamation and as Radical Politics
Natalie Kamajian is a Ph.D.student in Culture and Performance at UCLA. She is a practitioner and teacher of Armenian vernacular dances, which are largely understudied within the fields of both Dance and Armenian studies. Her research inquiries stem from an in-depth dance practice spanning several years in Armenia. Her PhD project is a multilingual study […]
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