7pm Friday July 10, 2009, Resistencia Bookstore, casa de Red Salmon Arts, 1801-A South First St.,
Before she takes off to Minneapolis, Minnesota join us for… ON THE MOVE: an evening of Readings, Celebration and Music featuring Virginia Grise with guest Barbara Renaud Gonalez & music by Alexandro Hernández.
Virginia Grise will read excerpts from new work, including her play blu (winner of the Kennedy Center and Kendeda Award for playwrighting). She will also give us a sneak peak of The Panza Monologues DVD to be released at the end of the month. Barbara Renaud Gonzalez will read excerpts from her new novel Golondrina, the first Chicana novel to be published by UT Press. They will be joined by musician Alexandro Hernández.
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Artists Bios
Virginia Grise is a Chicana cultural worker who has performed nationally and internationally at venues including the Jose Marti Catedra in Havana, Cuba and The University of Butare in Rwanda, Africa. Her published work includes The Panza Monologues (Evelyn Street Press) and an edited volume of Zapatista communiqués entitled Conversations with Don Durito (Autonomedia Press). Her play blu was a recipient of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Art’s Latino/a Playwrighting Award and Alliance Theatre’s Kendeda Award. Virginia holds her MFA in Writing for Performance from the California Institute of the Arts, where she studied with multidisciplinary artist Carl Hancock Rux.
Barbara Renaud Gonzalez is a writer/journalist and activist based in San Antonio Texas. Her essays/articles have appeared in diverse anthologies and magazines, including The Nation; The Progressive; Ms. Magazine; The Los Angeles Times, and many others and her commentaries have aired on NPR’s Morning Edition and LatinoUSA. Golondrina, her highly anticipated first novel, was published by UT Press in the Spring of 2009.
Alexandro D. Hernández is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and active performer in California and Texas. Hernández is a recipient of the Durfee Master Musician/Apprentice grant under close instruction of César Castro, a son jarocho maestro from the legendary Grupo Mono Blanco of Veracruz, México. He has toured with Chicano music veterans Quetzal and currently works with the Caribbean son jarocho group Zócalo Züe and hip hop artists Olmeca and Maya Jupiter. In 2008, he served as musical director and composer of The Panza Monologues at Plaza de la Raza and was recently commissioned to write original music for behind barbed wire, a youth theatre piece about the border wall.
The Panza Monologues DVD…Coming this Summer!
Watch the trailer
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