KPFA La Raza Chronicles Tonight 7pm 94.1 www.kpfa.org
Tuesday Sept. 9, 2008
La Raza Chronicles fills the airwaves with its Spanglish enchantments with public affairs, news sin fronteras, musica y poesia. Nina Serrano interviews the dynamic poetry trio Las Manas about their original poems and spoken performance-art pieces- are you ready to be shocked with what is innovative and fresh in feminista Latina thinking? We will also hear from C`tone about the latest La Raza Chronicles Blogspot and the story of his involvement in community media. Mr Chuch brings us the buzz from the Streets of Aztlan. Emiliano Echevarria shares his expertise and fabulous collection of Musica de Cuba.
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
LM3 @ La Peña Hip Hop Theater Festival
We've been working hard adding some new spices here and there to bring our fuerte flava out in full effect. This will be the culmination of a lot work on our current piece and after this we will be moving on preparing for a full length show with La Peña's experimental Teatro in June and then on to Milta's obra maestra in the fall. So don't miss this show this friday! It's going to be so much fun and we go on first so don't be late! (and FRIDAY is MILTA's B-day so lets party!)
La Peña Hip Hop Theater
Las Manas Tres, Delina Brooks & El Teatro Campesino
Friday May 16, 2008
$10 - 8pm
Las Manas Tres "Mi Espacio" pokes fun and peels back the layers of community building and relationships, speaking from the in between spaces as hi-tech aztecs, cyber mamas and spiritual beings. Delina Brooks "Beauty, The Beast", a biographical dance-theater play of poetry, song, & dance. Guerrilla Radio by El Teatro Campesino is an acto tackling media reform and the National Association of Broadcasters.
Las Manas Tres (Maya, Milta and Cruz) are hybrid poetas bringing the fuerte flava, heating the heart and melting the mind from the Bay to L.A. Their stilo is characterized by a mixture of theater, spoken word and movement, centered around themes of social justice, sexuality, motherhood and the relationship between first and third world women. Born from the Las Manas Sisterhood Circle, individually these women are accomplished in their own right. As a trio they take their creativity to new heights using sisterhood and storytelling to inspire collaborative pieces that delve into pain, injustice, love, family, community, and identity, which conjure a potent potion to fend off the plague of self-sabotage. Their newest work pokes fun and peels back the layers of community building and relationships, speaking from the in between spaces as hi-tech aztecs, cyber mamas and spiritual beings. LM3 are always ready to bring the hotness. Yaddamean?
La Peña Hip Hop Theater
Las Manas Tres, Delina Brooks & El Teatro Campesino
Friday May 16, 2008
$10 - 8pm
Las Manas Tres "Mi Espacio" pokes fun and peels back the layers of community building and relationships, speaking from the in between spaces as hi-tech aztecs, cyber mamas and spiritual beings. Delina Brooks "Beauty, The Beast", a biographical dance-theater play of poetry, song, & dance. Guerrilla Radio by El Teatro Campesino is an acto tackling media reform and the National Association of Broadcasters.
Las Manas Tres (Maya, Milta and Cruz) are hybrid poetas bringing the fuerte flava, heating the heart and melting the mind from the Bay to L.A. Their stilo is characterized by a mixture of theater, spoken word and movement, centered around themes of social justice, sexuality, motherhood and the relationship between first and third world women. Born from the Las Manas Sisterhood Circle, individually these women are accomplished in their own right. As a trio they take their creativity to new heights using sisterhood and storytelling to inspire collaborative pieces that delve into pain, injustice, love, family, community, and identity, which conjure a potent potion to fend off the plague of self-sabotage. Their newest work pokes fun and peels back the layers of community building and relationships, speaking from the in between spaces as hi-tech aztecs, cyber mamas and spiritual beings. LM3 are always ready to bring the hotness. Yaddamean?
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Somos Medicina Announcement
International Women’s Day & Women’s Herstory Month
Celebration & 11th Year Anniversary
EXHIBIT & ART EVENTS
March 8th, 13th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 26th, 29th, 30th
All events at
Self Help Graphics & Art
3802 Cesar Chavez Avenue, East Los Angeles, CA 90063
(unless otherwise noted)
LOS ANGELES, CA (February 15th, 2008) --- The women of color art collective Mujeres de Maiz presents “Somos Medicina,” a month-long series of intercultural, intergenerational, and interdisciplinary art events celebrating our 11th Anniversary and 6th poetry and arts publication, in honor of International Women's Day, and Women's Herstory month; Seven events, One group exhibit, all happening throughout March 2008 Free and open to the public at historic community cultural center, Self Help Graphics & Art, Inc. (unless otherwise noted). For more information, please call (323) 359-6288 or visit http://www.mujeresdemaiz.net.
This monumental all woman production will be showcasing multi-media art, musical performances, independent films, along with holistic health workshops, and a roundtable discussion. Chicana veteran artists, community leaders, and emerging artists will be highlighting themes on women artistry, spirituality, native traditions, their relation to the earth, and urban reality.
The over 30 artists in the group show represent generations of the Chicana art movement, ranging from the indigenous focused work of Self Help Graphics co-founder and artist, Linda Vallejo, to the the politically and spiritually charged work of Yreina Cervantez and Celia Herrera-Rodriguez, both exhibiting artists in “CARA,” the ground breaking exhibition of Chicano art that is arguably the most important Chicano art exhibit of the last 20 years,
Different from both “CARA” and many current exhibits of Chicano art, “Somos Medicina” highlights the generations that have not been discussed since the prime of the Chicano art movement and its wonder years, and brings forth the women and Queer artists, so often overlooked in many of these “his”-torical exhibitions. This exhibit also highlights the “Generation X “and “Mex “ of women artists and their expressions being born from the Chicano art movement and moving forward to build a movement of their own.
This important exhibit is accompanied by a month-long series of events with all-women performers, poets, film makers, rappers, dancers, and theater artists coming together to honoring women’s herstory month and commemorate International Women’s Day in solidarity with millions of women across the world on March 8th and throughout the month.
The exhibit which opens on Saturday, March 8th at 5pm, is followed by a free live performance by women performers. A special Artist talk is scheduled for Wednesday, March 26th, with a who’s who of Los Angeles Chicana intergenerational visual and multi-media artists in a rare conversation, as these women of various generations come together to share stories, experiences, and visions.
A selection of the performing artists for the month-long series of events all listed below include; Las Manas, this generations all female spoken word collective representing the Bay area, as well as international spoken word artist and award winning poet, Gabriela Garcia Medina, and veteran Chicana poet Gloria Alvarez. Music and song performed by young women punksters, Mystery Hangup, Chicana indigenous M.C/rappers, Cihuatl-Ce, Guerrilla Queenz, and Lady Binx who hails from Texas; and women’s drum collective, recently debuting their CD, In Lak Ech. Also included in the series of events, a fresh theater performance by Teatro M3, the Queer Raza performance art of Butchlalis de Panochtitlan, and women of color film makers, Aurora Guerrero, and Claudia Mercado, and the Chicana gitana flamenca dancer and maestra, Briseyda Zarate. These not-to-be-missed performances, including artists, dates, times, and events are listed below and at http://www.mujeresdemaiz.net.
EVENT LISTING:
VISUAL & MULTI-MEDIA ART EXHIBIT March 8th-29th
Gallery Opening: Sat. 3/8, 5-7pm
"Somos Medicina" visual and multi-media art exhibit highlighting women artists. "In the spirit of our ancestors we are facilitating the creation this space/exhibit where there is dialogue about the contribution of women’s work to the decolonization and healing of our communities and selves." Invited artists include those whose work speaks of the political as well as spiritual alternatives to Eurocentric and patriarchal worldviews; embracing the "Medicina," the medicine that exists within all of us. Exhibit also open during our month of events and 3/15 and 3/22 (12-4pm).
Exhibiting Artists: Barbara Carrasco, Binx, Brenda Quintero, Carmen Kalo, Celia Herrera-Rodriguez, Dalila Mendez, Elena Esparza, Faviana Rodriguez, Gina Aparicio, Joanna “Mixpe” Ley, Lilia Ramirez, Linda Vallejo, Lucy Castro, Margaret Alarcon, Maria Castillo, Marisol L. Torres, Maritza Alvarez, Melanie Cervantes, Nayeli Guzman, Ofelia Esparza, Poli Marichal, Rachel Thorson-Veliz, Sandra de La Loza, Sara Margarita Martin, Sugey Salazar, Susana De Leon “Timoi”, Womyn Image Makers, and Yreina Cervantez.
LIVE PERFORMANCE EVENT Sat. March 8th 7pm
Live Art Show with teatro, dance, and performance art and song. PREMIERE of Limited Edition Full Color Mujeres de Maiz 'Zine.
Performances by: Las Manas (Bay area), Briseyda Zarate, Cyn da’Poet, Butchlalis de Panochtitlan, Xaris, Yei Tecpatl (San Jose), Deema Debis in collaboration with Lynnix, Gabriela Garcia Medina, and In Lak Ech
EVENT IN SOLIDARITY WITH WOMEN ACROSS THE WORLD- celebrating INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY –March 8th.
Celebration & 11th Year Anniversary
EXHIBIT & ART EVENTS
March 8th, 13th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 26th, 29th, 30th
All events at
Self Help Graphics & Art
3802 Cesar Chavez Avenue, East Los Angeles, CA 90063
(unless otherwise noted)
LOS ANGELES, CA (February 15th, 2008) --- The women of color art collective Mujeres de Maiz presents “Somos Medicina,” a month-long series of intercultural, intergenerational, and interdisciplinary art events celebrating our 11th Anniversary and 6th poetry and arts publication, in honor of International Women's Day, and Women's Herstory month; Seven events, One group exhibit, all happening throughout March 2008 Free and open to the public at historic community cultural center, Self Help Graphics & Art, Inc. (unless otherwise noted). For more information, please call (323) 359-6288 or visit http://www.mujeresdemaiz.net.
This monumental all woman production will be showcasing multi-media art, musical performances, independent films, along with holistic health workshops, and a roundtable discussion. Chicana veteran artists, community leaders, and emerging artists will be highlighting themes on women artistry, spirituality, native traditions, their relation to the earth, and urban reality.
The over 30 artists in the group show represent generations of the Chicana art movement, ranging from the indigenous focused work of Self Help Graphics co-founder and artist, Linda Vallejo, to the the politically and spiritually charged work of Yreina Cervantez and Celia Herrera-Rodriguez, both exhibiting artists in “CARA,” the ground breaking exhibition of Chicano art that is arguably the most important Chicano art exhibit of the last 20 years,
Different from both “CARA” and many current exhibits of Chicano art, “Somos Medicina” highlights the generations that have not been discussed since the prime of the Chicano art movement and its wonder years, and brings forth the women and Queer artists, so often overlooked in many of these “his”-torical exhibitions. This exhibit also highlights the “Generation X “and “Mex “ of women artists and their expressions being born from the Chicano art movement and moving forward to build a movement of their own.
This important exhibit is accompanied by a month-long series of events with all-women performers, poets, film makers, rappers, dancers, and theater artists coming together to honoring women’s herstory month and commemorate International Women’s Day in solidarity with millions of women across the world on March 8th and throughout the month.
The exhibit which opens on Saturday, March 8th at 5pm, is followed by a free live performance by women performers. A special Artist talk is scheduled for Wednesday, March 26th, with a who’s who of Los Angeles Chicana intergenerational visual and multi-media artists in a rare conversation, as these women of various generations come together to share stories, experiences, and visions.
A selection of the performing artists for the month-long series of events all listed below include; Las Manas, this generations all female spoken word collective representing the Bay area, as well as international spoken word artist and award winning poet, Gabriela Garcia Medina, and veteran Chicana poet Gloria Alvarez. Music and song performed by young women punksters, Mystery Hangup, Chicana indigenous M.C/rappers, Cihuatl-Ce, Guerrilla Queenz, and Lady Binx who hails from Texas; and women’s drum collective, recently debuting their CD, In Lak Ech. Also included in the series of events, a fresh theater performance by Teatro M3, the Queer Raza performance art of Butchlalis de Panochtitlan, and women of color film makers, Aurora Guerrero, and Claudia Mercado, and the Chicana gitana flamenca dancer and maestra, Briseyda Zarate. These not-to-be-missed performances, including artists, dates, times, and events are listed below and at http://www.mujeresdemaiz.net.
EVENT LISTING:
VISUAL & MULTI-MEDIA ART EXHIBIT March 8th-29th
Gallery Opening: Sat. 3/8, 5-7pm
"Somos Medicina" visual and multi-media art exhibit highlighting women artists. "In the spirit of our ancestors we are facilitating the creation this space/exhibit where there is dialogue about the contribution of women’s work to the decolonization and healing of our communities and selves." Invited artists include those whose work speaks of the political as well as spiritual alternatives to Eurocentric and patriarchal worldviews; embracing the "Medicina," the medicine that exists within all of us. Exhibit also open during our month of events and 3/15 and 3/22 (12-4pm).
Exhibiting Artists: Barbara Carrasco, Binx, Brenda Quintero, Carmen Kalo, Celia Herrera-Rodriguez, Dalila Mendez, Elena Esparza, Faviana Rodriguez, Gina Aparicio, Joanna “Mixpe” Ley, Lilia Ramirez, Linda Vallejo, Lucy Castro, Margaret Alarcon, Maria Castillo, Marisol L. Torres, Maritza Alvarez, Melanie Cervantes, Nayeli Guzman, Ofelia Esparza, Poli Marichal, Rachel Thorson-Veliz, Sandra de La Loza, Sara Margarita Martin, Sugey Salazar, Susana De Leon “Timoi”, Womyn Image Makers, and Yreina Cervantez.
LIVE PERFORMANCE EVENT Sat. March 8th 7pm
Live Art Show with teatro, dance, and performance art and song. PREMIERE of Limited Edition Full Color Mujeres de Maiz 'Zine.
Performances by: Las Manas (Bay area), Briseyda Zarate, Cyn da’Poet, Butchlalis de Panochtitlan, Xaris, Yei Tecpatl (San Jose), Deema Debis in collaboration with Lynnix, Gabriela Garcia Medina, and In Lak Ech
EVENT IN SOLIDARITY WITH WOMEN ACROSS THE WORLD- celebrating INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY –March 8th.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Jan. 23, 2008 UC DAVIS
For immediate release
Event Date: January 23, 2008, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Press Contacts: Lexer Chou 530.752.1426 / achou@ucdavis.edu
Sonia Montoya (530) 752-3372/ sdmontoya@ucdavis.edu
SISTER WHAT? SISTERHOOD! WOMYN WORD WARRIORS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23
7:00-9:00 PM, FREEBORN HALL, UC DAVIS, FREE
An evening of women’s voices raised in solidarity!
Davis, CA--In their first ever event collaboration, Campus Unions and the Women’s Resources and Research Center present “Sister What? Sisterhood! Womyn Word Warriors,” a spoken word event.
Held in Freeborn Hall, the event showcases four prominent women spoken word artists. Adriana Cabrera-García is a well-known transnational poet between Mexico and “el norte” who performed in 2007 Encuentro Internacional de Mujeres Poetas. and also an activist within the Chicana/o community in San José. Maya Chinchilla is a Central American poet performer, two-spirited diva, and a Renaissance woman filmmaker and activist scholar. She has several films under her belt, and is working on her first book of poetry. Chinaka Hodge is a writer and spoken word artist, and has been published in McSweeney’s anthology, My Words Consume Me and in Newsweek; and has made appearances on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. Finally, Mush is a soulful free spirit spoken word artist from the Bay Area, who sultry style of words that can transform into fierce vocal venom on call. Mush has also appeared on Def Poetry Jam, and will be starring in her upcoming one-woman play titled Regarding Women.
Spoken word is known as performance poetry, a form of literary art or artistic performance in which lyrics, poetry, or stories are spoken. It puts a dual emphasis on writing and performance. Unlike written poems, spoken word artists are not limited to words – they can also utilize body language and voice tone. While spoken word is often poetic in nature, it is also considered a literary form of storytelling or political commentary. Spoken word is another form of oral tradition as a catalyst for social change, according to internationally touring folk poet and progressive queer artist-activist Alix Olson, “Women, quite familiar with the tenet that ‘the personal is political,’ caught on quickly to slam poetry’s populist notion, and were more than ready to add their truth(s) to the tapestry, contributing invigorating voices of protest, reflection, and resistance…I have witnessed spoken word develop as one of the most undiluted expressions of art available to women, particularly as a vehicle for social change.”
“We hope to expose the Davis community to powerful women spoken word artists. These artists have a voice and they have so much to say about their community, issues in the world, and their own personal stories,” says Lexer Chou, program coordinator for UC Davis Campus Unions.
Campus Unions is the community center of the college that serves the students, faculty, staff, alumni and guests. By whatever form or name, a college union is an organization offering a variety of programs, activities, services, and faculties that when taken together, represents a well-considered plan for the community life of the college.
The Women’s Resources and Research Center provides educational programming to the campus community – students, faculty, and staff women about women’s issues and concerns, and promotes an understanding of the role and impact of gender in our lives and our society. The Center creates a creative working and learning environment to help women of diverse backgrounds achieve their intellectual, professional and personal goals; and advocates for women’s full inclusion, equality, and advancement.
Event Date: January 23, 2008, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Press Contacts: Lexer Chou 530.752.1426 / achou@ucdavis.edu
Sonia Montoya (530) 752-3372/ sdmontoya@ucdavis.edu
SISTER WHAT? SISTERHOOD! WOMYN WORD WARRIORS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23
7:00-9:00 PM, FREEBORN HALL, UC DAVIS, FREE
An evening of women’s voices raised in solidarity!
Davis, CA--In their first ever event collaboration, Campus Unions and the Women’s Resources and Research Center present “Sister What? Sisterhood! Womyn Word Warriors,” a spoken word event.
Held in Freeborn Hall, the event showcases four prominent women spoken word artists. Adriana Cabrera-García is a well-known transnational poet between Mexico and “el norte” who performed in 2007 Encuentro Internacional de Mujeres Poetas. and also an activist within the Chicana/o community in San José. Maya Chinchilla is a Central American poet performer, two-spirited diva, and a Renaissance woman filmmaker and activist scholar. She has several films under her belt, and is working on her first book of poetry. Chinaka Hodge is a writer and spoken word artist, and has been published in McSweeney’s anthology, My Words Consume Me and in Newsweek; and has made appearances on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. Finally, Mush is a soulful free spirit spoken word artist from the Bay Area, who sultry style of words that can transform into fierce vocal venom on call. Mush has also appeared on Def Poetry Jam, and will be starring in her upcoming one-woman play titled Regarding Women.
Spoken word is known as performance poetry, a form of literary art or artistic performance in which lyrics, poetry, or stories are spoken. It puts a dual emphasis on writing and performance. Unlike written poems, spoken word artists are not limited to words – they can also utilize body language and voice tone. While spoken word is often poetic in nature, it is also considered a literary form of storytelling or political commentary. Spoken word is another form of oral tradition as a catalyst for social change, according to internationally touring folk poet and progressive queer artist-activist Alix Olson, “Women, quite familiar with the tenet that ‘the personal is political,’ caught on quickly to slam poetry’s populist notion, and were more than ready to add their truth(s) to the tapestry, contributing invigorating voices of protest, reflection, and resistance…I have witnessed spoken word develop as one of the most undiluted expressions of art available to women, particularly as a vehicle for social change.”
“We hope to expose the Davis community to powerful women spoken word artists. These artists have a voice and they have so much to say about their community, issues in the world, and their own personal stories,” says Lexer Chou, program coordinator for UC Davis Campus Unions.
Campus Unions is the community center of the college that serves the students, faculty, staff, alumni and guests. By whatever form or name, a college union is an organization offering a variety of programs, activities, services, and faculties that when taken together, represents a well-considered plan for the community life of the college.
The Women’s Resources and Research Center provides educational programming to the campus community – students, faculty, and staff women about women’s issues and concerns, and promotes an understanding of the role and impact of gender in our lives and our society. The Center creates a creative working and learning environment to help women of diverse backgrounds achieve their intellectual, professional and personal goals; and advocates for women’s full inclusion, equality, and advancement.
Friday, November 30, 2007
My film in Boyle Heights Latina Film Fest
BHLIFE 2007 Program!!
My film THE LAST WORD plays on saturday afternoon (see below). Unless I can hustle a plane ticket I'm not sure I will be able to make it because I have a commitment in the bay that night...pero vamos a ver.
Much love, Maya
BHLIFE
* * * If you are interested in volunteering this year, please contact Selene at selene@casa0101.org * * *
BHLIFE 2007 - Program Schedule (subject to change)
Friday, December 7th
Boyle Heights Technology Youth Center
1600 East 4th St, Los Angeles CA.
BY INVITATION ONLY
Opening Night, 7:00p.m.
Doors Open
Screening, 8:00 p.m.
Conversations II
A Man of Two Havanas
With a childhood filled with bombings and assassination attempts on her father, the filmmaker explores her relationship with him and the Cuba he left behind. Through the prism of a daughter we explore the past, the present, and the nature of social responsibility and personal sacrifice.
Reception, 10:30p.m.
With special performance by Strangely Attractive
Saturday, December 8th
CASA 0101; 2009 East 1st St. 90033
Filmmakers Luncheon 12:00-2:00pm
Doc Program 1, 3:00-5:00pm
Little Giant
THE LAST WORD is about LAS MANAS, a fierce women of color writing circle and spoken word crew using sisterhood to create space for voices to be heard
Milagros: Made in Mexico follows the enterprising women of Guanajuato as they revive their economically fractured birthplace
Mi Corazon Program, 6:00-8:00 pm
Broken Hearts What's worse than finding out their lives are about to end in one tragic moment, all because of a promise made to a friend?
Late Bloomer
Afuera an Argentine girl who immigrates to the United States in search of a more promising life.
Blackout 3 Latina roommates and their all American neighbor remain enclosed during a Sunday night blackout.
Tomoko's Kitchen eight neighbors who have never met, suddenly are forced to come together after an apartment security system malfunctions.
Experimental Goddess, 9:00-10:00p.m.
Perrors Sin Amor
Mitosis The usual method of cell division in clay animation.
Entrega a Tiempo
Untitled Inspired by femme fatales, film noir, feminism, and the struggle against patriarchy.
Through the Water A video poem dedicated to the Aztec goddess of water
DreaMachine Lullaby A short about the Iraq war from the viewpoint of an American child
Caracol A garden snail faces the forces of nature
Chiquita Gordita La Chicana Laundry Pictures own Toy Television
Sardoodledom Sentence
Death Penalty Movie Join Ms. Pickles and the gang as they take you on a funtastical journey through the history of the death penalty!
El Segundo (Spanish) Travel through the unconsciousness and dreams of a man that ends with his own death
Reception to Follow at
First Street Studios
2026 E First St Studios Los Angeles CA
_________________________________________________________
Saturday, December 8th, at Tech Center
Boyle Heights Technology Youth Center
1600 East 4th St, Los Angeles CA.
Youth Made Program, 2:00-3:00pm
Loss of Innocence in Loisaida What happens when a young man finds out his girlfriend is the pharmacist's daughter?
My Shadows
Beauty Before Violence
Youth Workshop, 3:00-4:30pm
With Stephanie Saint Sanchez of, La Chicana Laundry Pictures
No Budget, No Problem
Cinematic Adventures Anytime Anywhere an At Any Price
To include special screening of:
Un Plato Mas Fiver Food is love but it can also be a cosmic force that
unites all Abuelitas
Death Penalty Movie
Chiquita Gordita
_________________________________________________________
Sunday, December 9th
CASA 0101; 2009 East 1st St. 90033
Early Program, 1:00-2:00p.m.
Buscate un Carrito A man is attacked by an army of shopping carts in the parking lot of a mall.
Perros Sin Amor A visual exploration of an artist's inner struggle.
Red Bird an inspiring story of friendship between a young painter WWII veteran.
Tomoko's Kitchen
Doc Program 2, 3:00-5:00p.m.
Last Cry in Havana
Closing night Program, 6:00-8:00p.m.
The Passion of the Christian L'Amour
El Segundo Travel through the unconsciousness and dreams of a man that ends with his own death.
A Few Hundred Blows Life can be lonely for a misfit who never had the chance to pop a pretty girl's bubble.
La Pared defies the Mexican concept of "Macho" as it explores the nature of human instinct and the concept of cause and effect.
Brooklyn Ciccio, weighted responsibility to take care of his dying grandfather isolates his struggles with a poverty stricken environment.
Conversations II Explores the evolution of the female role in the middle class of the Latin American society.
Isabel A man is disturbed by the strange appearances of a six-year old girl.
Awards Ceremony
Reception to follow at
Eastside Luv Wine Bar y Queso
...RESERVATIONS...
Tickets for this year's festival are:
$10 General Admission
$5 Students & Boyle Heights Residents
Saturday screenings and workshop at the Boyle Heights Technology Center: FREE
To make your reservation please visit the Casa 0101 website at www.casa0101.org and click on the "reservations" link.
Fill in your information and write the specific program you wish to RSVP for in the input box for "Event/Class Name."
My film THE LAST WORD plays on saturday afternoon (see below). Unless I can hustle a plane ticket I'm not sure I will be able to make it because I have a commitment in the bay that night...pero vamos a ver.
Much love, Maya
BHLIFE
* * * If you are interested in volunteering this year, please contact Selene at selene@casa0101.org * * *
Friday, December 7th
Boyle Heights Technology Youth Center
1600 East 4th St, Los Angeles CA.
BY INVITATION ONLY
Opening Night, 7:00p.m.
Doors Open
Screening, 8:00 p.m.
Conversations II
A Man of Two Havanas
With a childhood filled with bombings and assassination attempts on her father, the filmmaker explores her relationship with him and the Cuba he left behind. Through the prism of a daughter we explore the past, the present, and the nature of social responsibility and personal sacrifice.
Reception, 10:30p.m.
With special performance by Strangely Attractive
Saturday, December 8th
CASA 0101; 2009 East 1st St. 90033
Filmmakers Luncheon 12:00-2:00pm
Doc Program 1, 3:00-5:00pm
Little Giant
THE LAST WORD is about LAS MANAS, a fierce women of color writing circle and spoken word crew using sisterhood to create space for voices to be heard
Milagros: Made in Mexico follows the enterprising women of Guanajuato as they revive their economically fractured birthplace
Mi Corazon Program, 6:00-8:00 pm
Broken Hearts What's worse than finding out their lives are about to end in one tragic moment, all because of a promise made to a friend?
Late Bloomer
Afuera an Argentine girl who immigrates to the United States in search of a more promising life.
Blackout 3 Latina roommates and their all American neighbor remain enclosed during a Sunday night blackout.
Tomoko's Kitchen eight neighbors who have never met, suddenly are forced to come together after an apartment security system malfunctions.
Experimental Goddess, 9:00-10:00p.m.
Perrors Sin Amor
Mitosis The usual method of cell division in clay animation.
Entrega a Tiempo
Untitled Inspired by femme fatales, film noir, feminism, and the struggle against patriarchy.
Through the Water A video poem dedicated to the Aztec goddess of water
DreaMachine Lullaby A short about the Iraq war from the viewpoint of an American child
Caracol A garden snail faces the forces of nature
Chiquita Gordita La Chicana Laundry Pictures own Toy Television
Sardoodledom Sentence
Death Penalty Movie Join Ms. Pickles and the gang as they take you on a funtastical journey through the history of the death penalty!
El Segundo (Spanish) Travel through the unconsciousness and dreams of a man that ends with his own death
Reception to Follow at
First Street Studios
2026 E First St Studios Los Angeles CA
_________________________________________________________
Saturday, December 8th, at Tech Center
Boyle Heights Technology Youth Center
1600 East 4th St, Los Angeles CA.
Youth Made Program, 2:00-3:00pm
Loss of Innocence in Loisaida What happens when a young man finds out his girlfriend is the pharmacist's daughter?
My Shadows
Beauty Before Violence
Youth Workshop, 3:00-4:30pm
With Stephanie Saint Sanchez of, La Chicana Laundry Pictures
No Budget, No Problem
Cinematic Adventures Anytime Anywhere an At Any Price
To include special screening of:
Un Plato Mas Fiver Food is love but it can also be a cosmic force that
unites all Abuelitas
Death Penalty Movie
Chiquita Gordita
_________________________________________________________
Sunday, December 9th
CASA 0101; 2009 East 1st St. 90033
Early Program, 1:00-2:00p.m.
Buscate un Carrito A man is attacked by an army of shopping carts in the parking lot of a mall.
Perros Sin Amor A visual exploration of an artist's inner struggle.
Red Bird an inspiring story of friendship between a young painter WWII veteran.
Tomoko's Kitchen
Doc Program 2, 3:00-5:00p.m.
Last Cry in Havana
Closing night Program, 6:00-8:00p.m.
The Passion of the Christian L'Amour
El Segundo Travel through the unconsciousness and dreams of a man that ends with his own death.
A Few Hundred Blows Life can be lonely for a misfit who never had the chance to pop a pretty girl's bubble.
La Pared defies the Mexican concept of "Macho" as it explores the nature of human instinct and the concept of cause and effect.
Brooklyn Ciccio, weighted responsibility to take care of his dying grandfather isolates his struggles with a poverty stricken environment.
Conversations II Explores the evolution of the female role in the middle class of the Latin American society.
Isabel A man is disturbed by the strange appearances of a six-year old girl.
Awards Ceremony
Reception to follow at
Eastside Luv Wine Bar y Queso
...RESERVATIONS...
Tickets for this year's festival are:
$10 General Admission
$5 Students & Boyle Heights Residents
Saturday screenings and workshop at the Boyle Heights Technology Center: FREE
To make your reservation please visit the Casa 0101 website at www.casa0101.org and click on the "reservations" link.
Fill in your information and write the specific program you wish to RSVP for in the input box for "Event/Class Name."
Saturday, October 20, 2007
SOFRITO: Music of the Word
Come out to Sofrito this Sunday!!
Join us the 1st & 3rd Sunday of every Month
A new Open Mic Poetry/Music series
in English, Spanish, Spanglish y Lo Que Sea
THE MUSIC OF THE WORD
(LA PALABRA MUSICAL)
(Hosted by Eric Aviles & Avotcja)
@
SOFRITO
3451 International @ 35th Avenue Oakland, CA (510)533-3840 (plenty of free parking in the rear)
Sunday October 21st , 2007
MILTA ORTIZ
ABDUL KENYATTA
3 - 4:30PM No Cover
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
The last word
I finally uploaded a trailer for the Last word. Havent had much time to do much video but Im hoping to change that in May...Play it, rate it, comment, critque, make out with it...its less than a minute.
Friday, March 02, 2007
INCITE! Book release
I heard the event in SF was amazing! Packed and full of beautiful energy. I will be performing at the event in Oakland at Mills College March 8th with a crew of amazing performers. Im so honored to be a small part of this event.
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
FRIENDRAISER
Nov 18th FriendRaiser @ Galeria de la Raza 7pm
THIRD FRAME PRODUCTIONS and Galeria de La Raza Present:
FUNDRAISE THIS!
COME Support Women of Color Filmmakers
Support Independent Media Making!
Featuring two short documentaries
by Maya Chinchilla, Rinchen Lama and Lakeisha Coston
THE LAST WORD-featuring local artists
MADE IN BRAZIL-An inspiring story of a community..s search for self-sufficiency
Live performances by:
Maceo Cabrera Estevez: Cubana-unamerican performance artist
Maya -Digital Chapina
Rosa Gonzalez- Lucha One
Evan Hastings-the Puzzler
Cruz Grimaldo-Oaktown Shape Shifter
Xago Juarez- Xicano Word Wizard
Gabriela Garcia Medina-Cubana-Xicana reppin the city of Angels
Gerald Reyes-Pedagogical Super Poet
Anayvette Martinez- Urban GuaNica Mami
Milta Ortiz-Modern Salvi She-Ra
Somos ONE- Movimiento on a Microphone
Audio Stylings By
DJ OYE
Acoustic set by Entre Musicos
$5-10-20 sliding scale
(no one turned away)
www.myspace.com/dreamsatwork
mediamuxerista@yahoo.com
Where: Galeria de la Raza
2857 24th St. @ Bryant
San Francisco,CA 94110
info@galeriadelaraza.org
Tel:| 415.826.8009
Fax: 415.826.6235
Also Check out THE LAST WORD
Nov.15 SF International Latino Film Festival @ City College San Francisco 7pm
Monday, July 31, 2006
My Film the Last Word THIS WEEKEND
My Film shows on Sunday August 6th at 11:30 AM!!!
I would also like to share with you that I just
recieved a short film making grant from the San
Francisco Film Arts Foundation which gives me a year
mentorship and access to mentorship, workshops and
their facilities for ONE YEAR! (its a big deal) Lets
celebrate!
"Working for years in co-ed artistic spaces, these
women felt a need to develop a creative space for
women where their stories could be heard and developed
into creative works. The result was Las Manas a
diverse female spoken word/theater spitfire circle,
mixing in hip-hop and fuerte flavors with stories of
struggle, identity and the challenges that come along
with being a woman."
'The Last Word' Featuring: Rosa Gonzalez, Marisa
Castuera, Genevieve Debose, Gina Amato, Anayvette
Martinez, Cruz Grimaldo, Sasha Dobos Czarnocha, and
Maya Chinchilla
11:30 am SUNDAY Shorts Program #2:
(Regenerating through Creation)
Beat Back Bush Workout, Julia Ahumada Grob, 20 min
A Place to Begin, Monica Enriquez, 13 min
The Last Word, Maya Chinchilla, 27 min
12:30 pm Q & A with Filmmakers
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!!!
The Research Cluster for the
Study of Women of Color in Collaboration and
Conflict
presents:
***REGENERATIONS***
13th Annual Women of Color
Film and Video Festival
WHEN:
SATURDAY, AUGUST 5th, 2006, 5:30-10pm
The festival opens with refreshments, appetizers,
and music by DJ Emancipacion.
Program with opening remarks by
Dr. Angela Davis and the WOC Research Cluster
begins at 7:00pm.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 6th, 2006, 9:00am - 8:00pm
Festival Continues with shorts programs,
feature films by Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Vu T. Thu Ha,
and Closing Remarks by Rosa Linda Fregoso
WHERE:
PORTER COLLEGE
at the UCSC CAMPUS
FOR DETAILED PROGRAM INFORMATION VISIT:
http://www2.ucsc.edu/woc/wocff06/home.html or
e-mail: sandraca@ucsc.edu or cbello@ucsc.edu
13th Annual WOC Film and Arts Fest:
The theme of this year's Women of Color Film
Festival,
Regenerations, draws inspiration from the number 13
in
the Mayan calendar, which symbolizes transformation,
movement, and change. This event builds upon the
tremendous history established by previous film
festivals to bring emerging and well-established
filmmakers, artists, media activists and community
members to our campus. As the longest running
festival of its kind, the UCSC Women of Color Film
and
Video Festival has sparked dialogue across
communities
- locally, nationally, and trans-nationally - by
providing a platform for critical explorations at
the intersections of race, nation, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality.
FEATURING FILMS BY:
Osa Hidalgo de la Riva, Womyn Image Makers, Ly Thu
Anh, Karla J. Gallardo and Antonette Santiago, Karla
J. Gallardo, La Quita D. Keele, Tania Cervantes,
Alicia Butler, Sonali Gulati, Maori Karmael Holmes,
Oriana Bolden, Hong-An Truong, Claudia
Arteaga, Alicia Woods, Joanne Suh,
Maya Chinchilla,
Aishah Shahidah Simmons, T. Rahman, Roberta Marie
Munroe, Masami Kawai, Maryam Keshavarz, Soo Na, Vu
T. Thu Ha
PERFORMANCE BY
Adelina Anthony
dj emancipacion
Cihuatl Tonali
And that's not all!
Don't miss the
ART EXHIBIT
of the 13th Annual Women of Color Film Festival &
MALCS Summer Institute
(Re)Generations & Geographies
August 3-6, 2006
at the Porter College Bridge Gallery
FEATURING:
QUICA, Gina Aparicio, Pamela Chavez, Adriana Garcia,
Alma Lopez, Yolanda Lopez, Dalila Mendez, Yadhira
Perez, Gabriella Santos
*********************
Please spread la palabra! Don't miss out on these
exciting and historic events that feature the art,
scholarship, and activisms of Women of Color!
PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Monday, June 19, 2006
Las Manas-Featured Poets Sacramento
I just want to let you all know I will be in Sacramento this Friday with my 'Manas and maybe you can come through and taste a little of what we been cooking...abrazos
Tell your folks! Tell your Peoples!
LAS MANAS Spitfire Sister Circle will be featuring at
Galeria Posada w/ Los Escritores del Nuevo Sol
1421 R Street downtown Sacramento
7:30pm
Friday June 23
From Las Manas this friday:
Gina is an attorney, artist, and social justice activist from Los Angeles, California. Raised in both the Mexican and Italian traditions, Ginas fuerte flavor is as unique as her cultural identity. In addition to spitting fire in the Bay Area spoken word circuits, Gina is a samba dancer in San Franciscos Brazilian dance and percussion group, MaraReggae, and co-owns a jewelry business, Creadora Designs. Through her artistic, professional, and creative endeavors, Gina is committed to social justice and the empowerment of communities of color.
Maya is a Guatemalan poet, writer and the peoples documentarian. Currently she is finishing a documentary about women spoken word artists in the Bay Area called the Last Word. She also directed a documentary about a non-profit in Brazil entitled "Made in Brazil: Dreams at Work". She associate produced the documentary Reading Between the Rhymes about the use of hip-hop in education. Maya is a fervent advocate for immigrant rights, teaches workshops
to youth, opening hearts and minds to social justice and towards ending discrimination. As a co-coordinator of the End-Dependence Spoken Word/Artists' Collective, founding editor of LA REVISTA Santa Cruz, and performer in LAS MANAS and Epicentro poets, Maya enjoys organizing events showcasing artists who investigate and celebrate the intersection of politics, media and art.
Cruz is shape shifter turned poeta and playwright. She was born and raised in south-east LA (el ley) and made a woman in the Town (Oakland, if you dont know, now you know!) where she has resided for over a decade. As a thespian she has done everything from Shakespeare (with Hugh Richmond sand Colin Cox) to agit prop theater ( with Teatro Manos Arriba), to Broadway musicals (off Broadway, of course) to the original works of such avant-garde and brilliant playwrights as Rosa Gonzalez, Marc David Pinate and Luis Xago Juarez. She is perpetually enamored by her beautiful, adolescent son Elihu and is also currently enamored with everything hyphey and the Gospel according to Mary Magdalene , yaddamean?!
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Lunada Sunday June 11
LUNADA: Literary Lounge & Open Mic
Featuring Jaime Cortez
Co-Presented by Queer Latina/o Artists Coalition
Sunday, June 11 @ 7:30pm
Admission: $5 General (FREE with food dish or Galeria Membership)
Jaime Cortez is an artist, writer and cultural worker based in Oakland, CA. His visual art has been exhibited at numerous venues including the Oakland Museum of California, Huntington Beach Center for the Arts and in San Francisco art spaces including Southern Exposure, The Lab, Intersection for the Arts and Galería de la Raza.
A performer and writer his credits include stints at Theater Rhinoceros, Josie's Cabaret, BRAVA and the Cell and his writings include Besame Mucho, 2sexE and Queer PAPI Porn. He has edited an anthology entitled Virgins, Guerrillas & Locas for Cleis Press (1999) and is the author of a graphic novel, “Sexile” (Los Angeles: 2004).
Featuring Jaime Cortez
Co-Presented by Queer Latina/o Artists Coalition
Sunday, June 11 @ 7:30pm
Admission: $5 General (FREE with food dish or Galeria Membership)
Jaime Cortez is an artist, writer and cultural worker based in Oakland, CA. His visual art has been exhibited at numerous venues including the Oakland Museum of California, Huntington Beach Center for the Arts and in San Francisco art spaces including Southern Exposure, The Lab, Intersection for the Arts and Galería de la Raza.
A performer and writer his credits include stints at Theater Rhinoceros, Josie's Cabaret, BRAVA and the Cell and his writings include Besame Mucho, 2sexE and Queer PAPI Porn. He has edited an anthology entitled Virgins, Guerrillas & Locas for Cleis Press (1999) and is the author of a graphic novel, “Sexile” (Los Angeles: 2004).
Friday, May 05, 2006
Mujeres De Maiz-see me in print!
A poem of mine is in this Zine and is part of the exerpts on the website. How beautiful. Even though I have been performing this poem for a while its been a long time since I've published a poem. I will be working on a publication of my own this summer. Stay tuned.
After 8 years of hibernation...
Mujeres de Maiz Zine 2006
is ready to be printed!
We need your help to get started:
after months of planning and designing...
ZINE 2006
has become a beautiful 60 page booklet!
with over 20 poems,
and 20 full color pages of original works,
showcasing over 30 visual artists & poets,
Representing generations in a growing network of creative women of color,
pre-order to reserve
your copies today!
only $20 each!
A limited number will be printed so pre-order your copy soon!
$20 + postage & handling ($3.00) reserves your copy.
Follow the link below:
http://www.freewebs.com/mujeresdemaiz/zine.htm
If you know any digital printers who are able to donate their services,
please let us know!
This is a VERY grassroots project!!!
With your donation we will be able to publish and continue to build our women's creative network into a
real-time community organization!
Thank you for your support!
Mujeres de Maiz- Los Angeles
Contact: Margaret Alarcon
(323)533-1667
Monday, April 24, 2006
Las Manas in Chambana-ILLI-NoiZE
our stay here in Illi-NOIZE and our performance Friday night was OFF THE HOOK FOR SHEEEEZEEE. We wrote some cute little numbers that especially the oakland peeps would be able to groove on. Cruz and Genevieve did an awesome tribute to Oakland, Anayvette and I did a tribute to lonjas (thats love handles for the spanishly challenged) and Anayvette and Genevieve did a piece about Gentrification . All went off TIGHT-like. The audience was so great and so appreciative! WE LOVE IlliNOIZE!!! We love Champaign-Urbana (also known as Chambana)!!! Pictures soon to come.
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Spend the Night with Las Manas-Illinois
Pass the word and let us know of anything interesting to do in Chicago!
A Spoken Word Event Sponsored by CRC:
"Many Truths and Many Voices: Spend the night with Las Manas"
featuring
Cruz, Maya, Anayvette and Genevieve
Friday, April 21, 2006
CAFFE PARADISO
801 S. Lincoln
Champaign, Illinois
7 PM
"Las Manas", short for las hermanas or the sisters, is a diverse all
female spoken word performance collective and sister circle. The
members of Las Manas, which include Rosa Gonzalez, Cruz Grimaldo, Maya
Chinchilla, Gina Amato, Marisa Castuera, Sasha Dobos-Czarnocha,
Genevieve Debose, Susie Lundy and Anayvette Martinez, originally came
together in 2004 to cultivate a fierce feminine voice and sense of
sisterhood within the Bay Area spoken word scene. These Bay Area
funkdafied divas re-construct revolution on the daily through words,
actions,street-corners, classrooms and bedrooms.
The group believes
that there are "many truths and many voices."
Their performance style is characterized by a mixture of theater,
spoken word and dance centered around themes of sexuality, motherhood,
queerness and the relationship between first and third world women. Las
Manas was created out of the need for these women to find a supportive
space to nurture their creative spirits.
Individually these women are accomplished in their own right but as Las Manas they are able to take their creativity to new heights using sisterhood and storytelling to
inspire collaborative pieces that delves in pain, injustice, love,
family, community, and identity to conjure up a potent potion to fend
off the plague of self sabotage. Most recently they have performend at
the San Francisco Hip Hop theatre festival (2005), Hecho en Califas
Tour(2005), Teatro Luna and Galeria de La Raza, as well as cafes, schools,
taquerias and pupuserias all across da' Bay.
The event is paid for, in part, by the Student Cultural Programming Fee
and Student Affairs Program Coordinating Council. Other co-sponsors
include Gamma Phi Omega and Critical Research Collaborative.
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Puerto Rican Poetry Travels
I wrote this on the plane back home under the influence of flu medicine and exhaustion:
A solidarity baby travels
At the speed of yesterday
Encounters paradise and traffic jams
Hammocks for dreams and love-making
Pot holes and roads rarely travled
Heavily policed secondary sexualities
Sun-stroked economic hustlers beating down on imaginary countries
Associated states of yearning and just getting by
nationalistic flag waving
light blue for independence.
Don’t forget Puerto Rico,
where bilingualism
gives me hope of tropical utopia
Strangled in American dollars
Faulty freedoms comes at a price
blockading temporary travel for Cubans
stifling intellectual interchange
enduring temperamental transnational transgressors.
Legacies of Caribbean pirates dance on the sand to salsa backbeats
With rebellious dancehall reggaeton anthems from streetcorners
Grinding, slapping bodies
releasing tensions instead of dancing around the issues
From this pressure cooker of ownership
Air conditions, conditional flows
Get me stuck in random colonial moments
I revel in mixed conversations
Flirt with community and temporary latino-ness
Juggling my own schizophrenic bridge making
Ruptures in my centralamericanness
Forging traveled identity and generational self knowledge
Timeless transitions
Recognition in bicultural living
Seeking rican-struction to call my own.
A solidarity baby travels
At the speed of yesterday
Encounters paradise and traffic jams
Hammocks for dreams and love-making
Pot holes and roads rarely travled
Heavily policed secondary sexualities
Sun-stroked economic hustlers beating down on imaginary countries
Associated states of yearning and just getting by
nationalistic flag waving
light blue for independence.
Don’t forget Puerto Rico,
where bilingualism
gives me hope of tropical utopia
Strangled in American dollars
Faulty freedoms comes at a price
blockading temporary travel for Cubans
stifling intellectual interchange
enduring temperamental transnational transgressors.
Legacies of Caribbean pirates dance on the sand to salsa backbeats
With rebellious dancehall reggaeton anthems from streetcorners
Grinding, slapping bodies
releasing tensions instead of dancing around the issues
From this pressure cooker of ownership
Air conditions, conditional flows
Get me stuck in random colonial moments
I revel in mixed conversations
Flirt with community and temporary latino-ness
Juggling my own schizophrenic bridge making
Ruptures in my centralamericanness
Forging traveled identity and generational self knowledge
Timeless transitions
Recognition in bicultural living
Seeking rican-struction to call my own.
Sunday, December 11, 2005
FINALLY! DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE
BECA PREMIERE
DOCUMENTARIES/WORKS IN PROGRESS
THURSDAY, DEC. 15, 2005
BECA STUDIO 1 (CA128)
Reception begins at 6:15
*FREE*
IN MY UNCLE's FOOTSTEPSs…Producer Evangeline V. Fabia steps into the world of the Filipino martial art of Eskrima, uncovering the cultural roots and traditions that are passed on to practitioners of this ancient and graceful fighting form. With students: Bernd Kleinböelting, Kim Cao, John Hacker, Christian Geiger, Fey Adelstein, Tanya Lovejoy, Jason Francisco and Benny Kong
AMERICA's CHEMICAL ANGELS….Producers Oxana Chumak and Ralitsa Stoeva explore the dramatic debate behind a parent’s most wrenching decision…whether or not to feed their child mind-altering drugs for behavioral improvement or better marks in school. With BECA crew: Skye Christensen, Nicole Tse, Mark Collier, Scott Baldwin, Tim Kilkenny, Frank Clary, Daniel Randall and Pascal Garneau.
THE LAST WORD…Producer Maya Chinchilla explores the world of a fierce group of women who stake out their part of the Spoken Word performance scene while juggling relationships, jobs, children and community in their pursuit of creating a powerful collective of voice. With students: Lakeisha Coston, Daniel Vöelkel, Markus Harter, Thieny Hoang, Peter Sandifer.
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***Its also Vangie's birthday so we will definately be hanging out afterwards
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