This event that brings together artists, scholars, and community activists for a full-day of open discussion on immigration issues with Teatro Vivo’s bilingual theater production of La Victima as a context for the conversation. La Victima originally written by El Teatro De La Esperanza,tells the story of suffering, injustice and fragile hope in the lives of Mexican immigrants in the United States and it reminds us that we continue to live inside that history.
Austin’s Teatro Vivo has brought “La Victima” back to the stage to encourage reflection and activism in the arts and to build humanistic understanding around the immigrant cause.
PlaticArte Program and Panelists Saturday March 24
9:00 am Welcome and Introductions
Mike Martinez, Austin City Council
9:10-10:40 am
Necessary Theatre,The Role of Chicano Theatre in a Society in Crisis
Jorge Huerta, Professor, Theater Historian, UC San Diego
Deborah Paredez, Professor,Theater and Dance Dept., UT
Rupert Reyes, Artistic Director of Teatro Vivo / Former
Member of El Teatro de la Esperanza
Scenes from La Victima
10:45-12 noon
Immigration Issues
Nestor Rodriguez,Professor Univ. of Houston
Gloria Lopez Gonzalez, Professor UT Austin
Sandra Valenzuela, Travis County Immigrant Study
12 noon
Lunch Conjunto Aztlan performs songs from El Movimento
1:00 pm
Heather Courtney, Director/Producer,
Letters from the Other Side and Los Trabajadores
1:25 – 2:15
Immigrant Voices
Luis Orozco, Lanier High School
Rebecca Acuna, UT Austin graduate 2006
2:15 – 2:40
Jesse Salmeron Director/Producer,
Undocumented and Imprisoning Innocence
2:45-3:50 Immigration – Current Action
Rebecca Bernhardt, ACLU Update on Hutto Residential Facility
Ana Yan ez Correa, Texas Criminal Justice Coalition
Angela Valenzuela, Professor, University of Texas
3:50-4:00
Concluding Remarks
Emilio Zamora, University of Texas at Austin
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