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Date:
Fri., July 11
Time: 7:30pm
Suggested $2 Donation
Narrating
Identity, (Dis)locating Bodies
Partipating Artists:
Monica Enriquez-Enriquez, Sonali Gulati, Vanessa Huang, Mujeres
y Cultura Subterránea (Ines Morales and Susana Quiroz) and
Rebeka Rodriguez.
Exhibition Dates: July 11th - August
8th
Suggested Donation $2
Artist Talk: Saturday, June 12th @ 2pm
Suggested Donation $2
Narrating Identity (Dis)locating Bodies, is curated
by Monica Enriquez-Enriquez. The exhibition examines diasporic identities
through the use of multimedia installations representing both a
Latino and South Asian narrative. Monica Enriquez-Enriquez’s
mixed media installation, Fragments of Migration, uses video and
audio interviews to create a storyboard of Queer Asylees and Queer
Asylum Seekers. Three body-sized screens with rear projection serve
as dislocated frames exhibiting representations of loss, asylum
and institutional violence. The public display of bodies, voices
and sexualities of her participants paired with an inconsistent
audio underlines the complexity of maintaining a normative narrative
upon gaining asylum in the United States.
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Date: Thurs., July 17
Time: 7:30pm
Admission: $5 or Free with food dish
LUNADA: Literary Lounge & Open Mic
Featuring: Mamacoatl with special guests: Nina Serrano, Marina Lavalle
and Theresa Perez
Join us for a summer night of verse, song and community.
July’s LUNADA features San Francisco’s one and only
Mamacoatl and, as always, the open mic. The Bay Area’s only
full moon literary gathering, four years running!! Bring a poem,
bring an instrument, bring some food, bring your friends…
BRING IT.
Mamacoatl is a Border Crossing Diosa, Her performance is an innovative
fusion of diverse musical traditions. For those who demand comparison,
she’s somewhere between Lila Downs, Ani DiFranco and Nina
Simone, incorporating a fearless, feminine re-articulation of trova
(Latin American protest song) and spoken word infused with jazz,
funk and traditional Mexican sounds. MamaCoatl tells stories from
both sides of the border in a time when the streets across America
are filled with people using their voice to demand immigration reform.
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Date:
Fri., July 18 & Sat., July 19
Time: 7pm
Admission: $5
Film Screenings
Featuring: Queer Latino Films
More information to come
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Date: Thurs., July 24
Time: 8pm
Admission: FREE
Flor
y Canto en el Barrio: A Celebration of Latino Poetry
Brave New Mundo
Featuring: Javier O Huerta, Alejandra Mojica, Marc
Pinate/Tocayo and Las Manas Tres.
Join us at Galeria de la Raza, one of six venues participating
in the Flor y Canto en el Barrio kick off and Lit Crawl, on Thursday,
July 24. Translated to mean “Flower and Song in the Neighborhood,”
the festival brings young, unpublished poets alongside authors such
as two-time winner of the American Book Award, Alejandro Murguía,
and San Francisco Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman for poetry readings,
workshops, and a special exchange of culture and history. “Flor
y Canto is about the pursuit of peace through the celebration of
poetry, art, culture, and friendship,” said the event’s
curator and critically acclaimed poet Alejandro Murguía.
The Festival will begin on Thursday, July 24 with a kick-off party
at 6:00pm in Balmy Alley (24th St. between Harrison and Folsom)
and a Lit Crawl of both established and emerging poets. The Lit
Crawl will take place at over six different venues on 24th Street
(between Mission and Bryant). Poetry readings and workshops for
various ages and interests will continue throughout Friday and Saturday,
July 25 and 26. For locations of the poetry crawl or for more details
visit the Friends’ website at www.friendssfpl.org.
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Lit Crawl Schedule
of Venues:
6:00 pm— Balmy Alley, 24th St. between Harrison
& Folsom; Lit Crawl locations include:
7:00 pm—“Other Voices/Many Americas”
@
Café La Boheme 3318 24th St.
7:00 pm—“La Nueva Flor”
Philz Coffee 3101 24th St.
7:00 pm—“El Corazon de la Misión”
Sundance Coffee 3000 24th St.
8:00 pm—“Breaking Borders”
Accion Latina (El Tecolote Headquarters) 2958 24th St.
8:00 pm—“Fuerza: From Sor Juana
to the Mission”
L’s Café 2871 24th St.
8:00 pm—“Brave New Mundo – Cutting
Edge of the 21st Century”
Galería
de la Raza 2857 24th St. @ Bryant
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Date:
Friday., July 25
Time: 7:30pm
Admission: $8 (No one turned away for lack of funds)
Campy Ethnotopias
Featuring: Dimension of IS: A Spectacular Future &
LezBros
An evening of two experimental shorts that playfully explore the
future of ethnography and anthropology from queer, feminist and
multiracial perspectives, followed by a Q & A.
Dimension of IS: A Spectacular Future
Imagine a time in the near future, when ethnic and sexual “Others”
collaborate with cosmic and ancestral forces to prevent the conquest
of space by imperialist war mongers. Dimension of IS is
a postcolonial, sci-fi, performance-based video that humorously
speculates about the evolution of the phenomenon of world's fairs.
Dimension of IS co-creator, Heather Carducci defies societal
norms by combining and inverting opposites to form function.
She is founder of SpaceSuperStar Inc., a future virtual planet for
alien fashion and art. Gigi Otalvaro-Hormillosa, AKA Devil
Bunny in Bondage, is a San Francisco based interdisciplinary artist
who has received numerous awards and has presented her work all
over the world (visit www.devilbunny.org).
LezBros
It has been discovered that certain biological men display a special
affinity for the company of same sex desiring women – commonly
referred to as “lesbians.” This distinctive kinship
is often brotherly, inspiring the male to be endearingly termed
“Lezbro!” The short film LezBros explores this
unique friendship between guys and dykes in a sassy mix of faux-anthropology,
reality TV and a techno-pop music video.
LezBros creator and co-director, Dara Sklar playfully brings San
Francisco 's queer culture to life in popular shorts including This
is a Party, Toothbrush Tango” and “Day One: APeriod
Piece” that appear in film festivals worldwide. Writer and
producer, Brynn Gelbard, manages the production of television commercials,
music videos, shorts, and feature films in the Bay Area and U.K.
, including Ruby Blue and The Calling. Director
of photography and editor, Melinda Bagatelos, has lived behind the
lens, shooting and editing shorts and music video for many years.
Production designer, Lisa Donohoe, is a Bay Area decorative painter
that brings her creativity to set decoration and art direction in
videos, short, and feature length films worldwide.
The video completion phase of Dimension of IS
has been possible in part by the Ford Foundation, JP Morgan
Chase, the Andy Warhol Foundation, and Southwest Airlines through
a grant from the National Association of Latino Art and Culture.
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Date:
Fri., June 6
Time: 7:30pm
Suggested $2 Donation
Opening
Reception for The 10th Annual Queer Latino Arts Festival's 1st Exhibition
Maria: Politics. Sex. Death. Men.
Partipating Artists:
Keith Aguiar, Robert Guzman, Allan Herrera, Jody Jock, Jonathan
Solo, Ernesto Soprani and Leo Herrera.
(*** ADULT CONTENT. PARENTAL DISCRECTION ADVISED.)
Exhibition
Dates:Friday, June 6th – Friday, July 4th
Maria:
Politics. Sex. Death. Men. curated by Leonardo Herrera was the winning
proposal of a call to cuarortors, and was selected from seven curatorial
proposals submitted to a Review Panel composed by John Blanco (artist),
Raquel de Anda (Curator), Carolina Ponce de León (Curator),
Alberto Rangel (artist), and Rebeka Rodriguez (artist/educator).
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Date: Sat.,
June 7
Time: 7:30pm
Admission: $8
Reading
From Mario Golden's
"The
Love of Brothers"
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Date:
Thurs., June 12
Time: 7pm
Admission:$7
Film
presentation by the Latino Film Festival
Dias
de Boda by Juan Pinzas
Sonia,
la bella hija de un importante editor, va a realizar el sueño
de su vida casándose con Rosendo, un apuesto escritor con
tendencias homosexuales, que en realidad desea más el nuevo
premio literario que ha creado su futuro suegro que a su prometida.
La celebración de la boda traerá inesperadas sorpresas
para todos los invitados, sacando a relucir el lado más oscuro
de cada uno, lo que provocará que la flamante novia, que
tanto anhelaba este día, desee que nunca hubiese llegado
el momento de decir "¡Sí, quiero!".
Filmed
entirely in Galicia, the second Dogma film in Spanish cinema to
receive an Official Certificate tells the story of Sonia, the beautiful
daughter of an important publisher, and her upcoming marriage to
Rosendo, a handsome writer. Soon it becomes clear that Rosendo is
more interested in men and her father’s prestigious new literary
prize than he is in Sonia. The wedding ceremony brings unexpected
surprises for all the guests and causes the bride to wish she had
never said, “I do.” A fresh new comedy by Juan Pinzas,
who also directed the first Dogma certified Spanish film Erase Otra
Vez.
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Date:
Wed., June 18
Time: 3-5pm
Exhibition Dates:Thurs. June 19- Sun. Aug. 31, 2008
Fantality!
An offsite exhibition of work produced by four young artists participating
in the Youth Media Project at Galería de la Raza, which documents
the video, drawing, sculptural, and installation work developed
in a class entitled, Recording Every Corner (REC).
This exhibit is the outcome of a ten-week multimedia class conducted
by Jerome
Reyes and Ariel Roman that examines urban studies through issues
of immigration and cultural borders, both official and imagined.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, June 18, 2008, from 3-5 pm.
Exhibition Dates: Thurs. June 19, 2008- Sun., Aug. 31,
2008
Artist Workshops: August 2nd and 16th 2-4 pm
WHERE: Zeum 221 Fourth St. San Francisco, CA 94103
zeum website
Hours: Tues - Sunday 11am-5pm
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Date:
Wed., June 18
Time: 7:30pm
Admission: $5 or Free with food dish
LUNADA: Literary Lounge & Open Mic
Featuring: Yosimar Reyes
From the Mountains of Guerrero, Mexico comes Yosimar Reyes,
a Two-Spirit Poet/Activist Based out of San Jose,CA. His style has
been described as "a brave and vulnerable voice that shines
light on the issues affecting Queer Immigrant Youth and the many
disenfranchised communities in the U.S and throughout the world."
Yosimar’s distinct style has managed to get him to perform
form the Bay Area to New York City (always Representing East Side
San Jose and his beautiful Mexico).
He holds the title for the 2005 as well as the 2006 South Bay teen
Grand SLAM Champion and has been featured in the Documentary 2nd
Verse: the Rebirth of Poetry. (2ndversefilm.com)In the works he
has is long awaited chapbook: For Colored Boys Who Speak Softly…
and is static about an upcoming project with the one and only Carlos
Santana.
In the meantime Yosimar finds inspiration while waiting for the
bus and sharing PALABRA with his Abuelita always breaking it down
hood and speaking from a community spirit.
He currently lives in East Side San Jose.
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Date:
Fri., June 20
Time: 7:30pm
Admission: $5
Poetry
Readings Curated by Carolina Morales
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Date:
Fri., June 27
Time: 7:30pm
Admission: $8
Humor
y Joteria:
Performances by Dino Fox, "Coco" Ferrer
and Others
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Date:
Mon., May 19
Time: 7:30pm
$5 or free with food dish
LUNADA:
Literary Lounge & Open Mic
Featuring La Peña's Hybrid &
Experimental Performance Ensemble w/
DJ Agana on the 1s &2s
Celebrate
the full moon in May with a special sneak preview from PARADOX,
a new work by La Pena's Hybrid & Experimental Performance
Ensemble, directed by Marc David Pinate. A metaphysical exploration
into the power of performance to heal the spirit, PARADOX is both
story and non-story, theatre and non-theatre, teaching and non-teaching,
beingand non-being. It is the space beyond the logical or rational
where
opposites coexist and simultaneous truths converge. All is (n)One.
Date: Sun., May 18
Time: 7pm
$10 General // $7 Members & Students
Fandango
Jarocho
Featuring Felix "Liche " Oseguera
Along with: Los Soneros del Este and Lakin Valdez
Liche
Oseguera, from Coatzacoalcos, Veracurz, Mexico is a founding member
of son jarocho group Chuchumbe. An internationally-renown musician,
and luthier, Liche has traveled throughout the United States and
Europe performing and teaching el son jarocho. Liche will perform
with current participants in ongoing bay area workshops, followed
by a jarocho fandango in which the audience, musicians and dancers
are invited to participate. Special opening performance by Lakin
Valdez
Date:
Sat., May 3
Time: 8pm
$10 General // $8 Members
Butchlalis de Panochtitlan
in
BETTY & THE BARBER MONOLOGUES!
Butchlalis de Panochtitlan brings Betty and
the Barber to the Bay! Join the trio of multi-genre margin walkers
from the depths of Los Angeles as they perform an evening's worth
of monologues culled from their latest full-length production, The
Barber of East L.A. , as well as new works and
works that haven't seen the light of day in years. Meet and fall
in love with Betty Basta and Chonch Fonseca. Meet new characters
inspired by real
events (scary!) in a night of monologue madness conceived by Mari
Garcia, Raquel Gutierrez and Claudia Rodriguez. Butchlalis de Panochtitlan,
or BdP for short, is comprised of Mari Garcia,
Raquel Gutierrez and Claudia Rodriguez. This Los Angeles-based multimedia
performance ensemble renders cartographies of desire, identity,
and localized histories on the bodies they walk in as they perform
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Date;Thurs,
May 8
Time: 7:00- 9:00p.m.
$20 donations are greatly accepted
A
Photo Exhibition Benefiting Puente a la Salud Comunitaria
Come
join for live music, complimentary wine and snack, and a chance
to wn a beautiful hand-woven rug from Oaxaca
Puente a la Salud Comunitaria Mission Statement is partnering with
families, health workers, and farmers to promote the consumption
and cultivation of the highly nutritious grain amaranth, Puente
a la Salud Comunitaria is dedicated to the eradication of malnutrition
and the improvement of health in rural Mexico.
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Date:
Sat., April 5
Time: 8pm
$5-10 Sliding Scale
Out
The Black Hole:
An Evening with Norman Zelaya
Like a meteor hurtling through the vastness of space, writer and
performer, Norman Zelaya found himself caught in the gravitational
pull of domestic obligation and the responsibility that comes with
age. For three years, he drifted in the celestial ether. Then in
April of 2006, a flash was spotted, a speck of brilliance moving
slowly towards the nearest mic. Now, Norman is back to shake off
the galactic dust and share cosmic tails about running out of fuel,
an epic collapse and the journey back to himself.
Join Norman and special guests for an evening benefiting Galeria
de la Raza.
Special guests include:
Jaime Crespo, cartoonist and poet
Karim Scarlata, filmmaker
Estela de la Cruz, poet
Ethereal soundscape provided by DJ Aztec Parrot
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Date:
Fri., April 18
Time: 6-8pm
FREE
Paper
Jam Session
with Ana Fernandez & Joey Brunner
Paper Jam Sessions are an extension of Galeria de La Raza’s
Youth Media Project, which is an open lab dedicated to Mission youth
and adults as a studio laboratory consisting of lectures and hands
on workshops available to the public for free and is taught by professional
visiting artists and educators from Galeria’s art education
program.
Artist Lecture:
Ana Teresa Fernandez
Through performance-based paintings and video, Fernandez explores
the territories that encompass boundaries and stereotypes: physical,
emotional, and psychological. Fernandez subverts the typical folkloric
representations of Mexican women by changing the protagonist's uniform
to the quintessential little black dress, a symbol of American prosperity
and femininity and of the Mexican tradition of wearing black for
a year after a death. Her paintings portray actual performances
where Fernandez takes on the Sisyphean task of cleaning the environment
- sweeping sand on a beach, vacuuming a dirt road - to accentuate
the idea of disposable labor resources. Her work has been shown
at Fondation d'Art Jacmel, Haiti, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco,
Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico and most resently a solo
video exhibition at Queens Nails Annex in San Francisco.
Ana Teresa Fernandez received her Masters of Fine Art from the San
Francisco Art Institute.
Artist Workshop
Joey Brunner
Joey is a graduate of Galeria’s Emerging Educators program
and is finishing his architecture degree from The California College
for the Arts. He will be conducting a hands-on workshop on 3-D design,
which is based on issues of urban space, boundaries and monuments
through the usage of maps, electronic media and drawing.
Galería’s Youth Media Project is a mentorship program
serving at-risk youth, which aims to strengthen the relation between
creative activity, social awareness, and community building. Driven
by technological advances and mentorship, this experiential art
education program engages youth in the creation of art while examining
our local community’s social, cultural and political life.
The goals of the YMP are to engage participants in creative activities
that explore the significant links between their personal experiences
and the larger communities to which they belong. Students can also
receive training in building their portfolios for future education.
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Date:
Sun., April 20
Time: 7:30pm
$5 or Free with food dish
LUNADA:
Literary Lounge & Open Mic
Featuring: Naomi
Quiñonez & Erica Benton
Join
us in April as we celebrate the fertility of spring with two distinct
voices in poetry and song. Singer-songwriter, Erica Benton, lights
up the stage with powerful melodies set to acoustic guitar rhythms.
The award winning musings of acclaimed poet and scholar, Naomi Quiñonez,
will definitely lift us up and over.
Erica Nalani Benton is the proud daughter of Oceania. She was raised
in the bay area with roots in Guåhan (Guam), Hawaii, Europe,
and probably dozens of other places. She has sung all over the bay
area from SF Pride, to Chamorro Self-Determination Conferences,
to Youth Empowerment summits and local open mics. From her bedroom
to the stage, she uses music and creativity to inspire hearts and
minds towards, love, healing, self-determination, and freedom. She
loves eggs and rice for breakfast, and everday peoples strugglin
for dignity. Be her friend at myspace.com/ebadu. Hear her music
at myspace.com/ericanalani
Naomi Helena Quiñonez, Chicana poet and educator, is a recognized
American poet whose two collections, Hummingbird Dream/Sueño
de Colibri and The Smoking Mirror have received critical acclaim.
Her forthcoming collection of poetry is entitled Exiled Moon. She
co edited a groundbreaking literary anthology Invocation L.A: Urban
Multicultural Poetry which won the American Book Award and she also
co edited a highly regarded critical anthology Decolonial Voices:
Chicana and Chicano Studies in t 21st Century. Among her other achievements
are the Rockefeller Fellowship and the California Arts Council Award.
She is featured in Notable Hispanic Women and the Dictionary of
Literary Biography. Her poems and essays have appeared in noteworthy
collections such as the Colorado Review, the Library of Poetry Anthology
and the Encyclopedia of Latinas in the U.S. Quiñonez, who
has distinguished herself among a cadre of Chicano Poets informed
by the social change movements of the 1970s such as Lorna Dee Cervantes
and Gary Soto, is also part of a larger genre of U.S. ethnic writers
and she has appeared in programs with Quincy Troupe, Leslie Marmon
Silko, David Mura and Octavia Butler to name a few. Her work has
also appeared in multicultural anthologies such as From Totems to
Hip Hop, edited by Ishmael Reed.
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Date:
Sat., April 26
Time: 8pm
$5-12 Sliding Scale
Come
Fly With Me: A Celebration of Resistance
Featuring: Semilla &
Son Del Centro
The Sacramento
performance group, Semilla, presents a night to celebrate Resistance.
No more tears, fighting back with both song and dance. The
evening includes an opening ceremony, music, poetry, and an educational
segment on I.C.E. immigration raids. Special guest performance
by jarocho group, Son Del Centro.
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Date: Fri., March 21
Time: 7:30pm
Admission: $5 or Free with food dish
LUNADA: Literary
Lounge & Open Mic
Featuring Lorna Dee Cervantes & The Genie
Join us in March for the hyperreal, scratch guitar sounds of San
Francisco’s own, The Genie and legendary Xicana poet, Lorna
Dee Cervantes, winner of the American Book Award.
Lorna Dee Cervantes was born
in 1954. She is the author of From the Cables of Genocide: Poems
on Love and Hunger (Arte Público Press, 1991) and Emplumada
(1981), which won an American Book Award. She is also co-editor
of Red Dirt, a cross-cultural poetry journal, and her work has been
included in many anthologies including Unsettling America: An Anthology
of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry (eds. Maria Mazziotti Gillan
and Jennifer Gillan, 1994), No More Masks! An Anthology of
Twentieth-Century Women Poets (ed. Florence Howe, 1993), and After
Aztlan: Latino Poets of the Nineties (ed. Ray González, 1992).
In 1995 she received a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award.
The renown pioneer of "scratch
guitar", The Genie blends blues, jazz, electronica, bossa nova,
latin and middle-eastern rhythms via slide guitar, beatboxing, and
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The Genie
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Date:
Fri., March 7
Time: 6-9pm
Paper Jam Sessions!
Galería invites youth, their families,
and the general public to the launching of the Paper Jam Sessions!
The Paper Jams are an open studio and media laboratory consisting
of lectures, music and hands-on art-making workshops taught by professional
artists and educators from Galería’s Youth Media arts
education program. The sessions will take place on Friday, May 7
at 6p.m., at our Studio 24 media lab. (2851 24th Street @ Bryant
Street).
The first session will feature an artist talk by Mike Lai, a stencil
workshop conducted by Andre Eamiello, and the rhythms of DJ Chango
Julius.
Artist Talk:
Mike Lai will discuss his performance-based projects and present
various projects, which include: Bruce Lee Manicurist/ Golden Dragon
Massacre, an installation in which he recreated a typical Chinatown
backroom that holds after-hours Mahjong gambling and mayhem. The
project references the infamous 1970’s failed assassination
attempt —known as the Golden Dragon Massacre— by Chinese
teenagers in a San Francisco Chinatown back room. Lai’s work
often utilizes Bruce Lee’s legacy as a way to explore issues
of race, representation and cultural phenomena.
Artist Workshop:
Andre Eamiello is an alumnus of Galería’s Emerging
Educators program and a visual Bay Area artist. He will be conducting
a hands-on stencil design workshop based on the ideas of borders,
boundaries and translation through the usage of spray painting,
graffiti and drawing.
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Date: Fri., March 7
Time: 7:30pm
Opening Reception for
The invisible Nation:
a solo exhibition by Victor Cartagena
The Invisible Nation, an
evocative large-scale installation by Salvadorian artist, Victor
Cartagena. The exhibition will include sculptural works, video and
sound installations, as well as a public digital mural, which will
be displayed at our Bryant Street billboard.
Opening Reception: March 7th, 7:30 PM
Exhibition Dates:
Friday March 7th – Friday May 16th
Gallery Hours: Tue. – Sat. 12 – 6 p.m
Artist Talk: Saturday, April 26 2:00 p.m.
A conversation with Victor Cartagena and Roberto Varea, Director
of El Teatro Jornalero and chair of the Performing Arts Program
and Social Justice Center at USF.
Date: Fri., March 8
Time: 8pm
Admission: $8
International Woman's Day
La Ultima Palabra : If yours was the last Word…
what would it say?
Featuring: Mamacoatl, Leticia Hernández, Avotja,
Kriya Taber, Susana Aragón
Join us for a night of poetry at the closing night celebration of
a weeklong series of events in honor of International Women’s
Day. Curated by Mamacoatl. Mujeres despiertas, come and share this
guiso and bring your ULTIMA PALABRA!
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Date: Sun., January
27
Time: 2:30pm
Admission: $10 - $15 (Sliding scale)
Location: BRAVA Theatre,
2781 24th Street
Galeria de la Raza presents a BENEFIT film screening
and live music performance.
Directors John Leaños & Gustavo Vazquez present two new
films plus Oakland-based Latin fusion band CARNE CRUDA performs
en VIVO!
QUE VIVA LA LUCHA
A film by Gustavo Vazquez
QUE VIVA LA LUCHA is a documentary
that features a look at the sport of Lucha Libre or Mexican wrestling,
specifically the extreme version in Tijuana. It explores how individuals
are drawn to this grueling sport as either the wrestler or as a devoted
fan, many of whom come from the poor working class neighborhoods.
Universal themes of good vs. evil, the underdog beating the bully,
the noble hero outwitting the corrupt nemesis - all play out over
and over to generations of fans. The wrestlers fabricate unique characters
that their fans can embrace or insult, such as corrupt politicians
and cops, crime fighting heroes, mythological figures and villains.
Familiar traces of comic book heroes like Superman, Spiderman, action
fighting icons like Bruce Lee or a modern day Robin Hood combine to
form one of Mexico's favorite spectator sports.
DNN:
Dead News Network
A new animation by John Leaños and Sean Levon Nash
(16 min)
Peter Deadings heads this animated, bone-chilling
newscast from Mictlan. Tune in to see the results of Selection 08;
infórmate on the emerging theory of Global Chillin’;
and don't miss Breaking Deadline News of the Million Muetro March
on the Capital.
Director Bios
John Jota Leaños is
a multi-disciplinary artist and Assistant Professor of Community Art
and Social Practices at the California College of the Arts. Leaños’s
social art practice has focused on the convergence of memory, history,
social space and decolonization. His installation, digital media and
animation work has been exhibited at 2006 Sundance Film Festival,
the 2002 Whitney Biennial in New York, The San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art, MoCA of Los Angeles, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and San Francisco Art Commission Gallery. For more information about
John Jota Leaños and/or his work, http://www.leanos.net
Sean Levon Nash, Director
Of Choctaw, Muskogee Creek, Brulé and Comanche
descent, Sean Nash is an artist and educator living and working
in the Mission District of San Francisco. Though known primarily
for his Day of the Dead paintings, he was willing to work in a
less static medium, and to see the skeletons spring to life.
After studying art at U.C.Davis, he went on to produce paintings
in a range of different traditional styles. As his body of work
grows so do his means of expression expand. Nash uses tribute
and satire as tools to build awareness, and bring laughter, the
best medicine. For more information about Sean Levon Nash and
his work, see http://www.indiosarts.com
Gustavo
Vazquez is an independent filmmaker and videographer who
has directed over thirty productions, including documentaries, video
installations, and dramas. Some of his work focuses on the Chicano-Latino
experience and social and political commentary on the cultural dynamics
of the changing American landscape. Vazquez was commissioned to produce
and direct a video installation, "Who Am I?", for "Chicano Now," an
interactive, multimedia exhibit currently touring museums in the United
States.
Date: Sat., January 12
Time: 7pm - 10pm
Admission: $15 (door), $10 w/ donation (see below)
MACHA FEMME PRODUCTIONS & GALERIA PRESENT:
Black and Brown Visions
A community-building event addressing issues concerning our Black and Brown communities including live painting, graffiti slide shows, artist vendors, poetry, song, and hip-hop performances. With special guest MC: MYSTIC
Spoken Word & Musical performances by:
Rogelio Romero
Aixa Seales
Nazbah Tom and Suzanne del Mazo
Jaylon
mexica queen
Erica Benton
Khalil Anthony
Karina Gonzalez Youth dance crew:
Team Giggology Live Painting by Octavio de la Paz, Kristina Lovato-Hermann, and Joseph Greco and Melanie Cervantes Graffiti slide shows by Refa One “The Legendary 80s” (Bay Area Aerosol Heritage Society) and Janet Ishigame.
Donations needed for Peer Resource Center
(high school age youth)
Technology Equipment
1. fax machine
2. color printer
3. overhead projector
4. digital camera
5. video camera
6. stereo
7. karaoke machine
8. computer
9. scanner
10. flash drive
Art Supplies
1. paint brushes
2. acrylic paints, palettes
3. easels
4. canvases
5. spray paints for mural
6. magazines
Office supplies
1. lined paper/Xerox paper/ color paper
2. ink jet cartridges
3. dry erase markers
4. clipboards
5. binders, file folders, envelopes
6. journals
7. pens, pencils
8. markers, scissors, staple removers
9. poster boards/display boards
10. tape, glue sticks
11. calculators
Other Supplies 1. hot plate, cookware
2. paper plates and cups
3. herbal teas
4. nutritious food (canned or perishable),
snacks/drinks
5. yoga mats
6. karaoke cds
7. board games, cards
8. musical instruments
9. curtains |
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