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NUESTRA PALABRA: Latino Writers Having Their Say AND EL ZÓCALO ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Celebrate Houston's Community Cultural Capital
Hispanic Heritage Month
Free. Reservations required. Donations accepted.
Tickets at www.NuestraPalabra.org.
https://www.alleytheatre.org/plays/production-detail/pyramid
Houstonians Shaping The Nation
Free reception 5 pm – 6 pm. Everyone is welcome. Bites, soft drinks, book signing.
Program 6 pm – 8 pm.
After party 8 pm – 9 pm. Meet the artists, and another chance to get your book signed.
This event will feature Houstonians from the Latino Community who have made a national impact.
This event will feature the Houston release of the new book The Tip of the Pyramid: Cultivating Community Cultural Capital by Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante. Diaz is a writer and activist originally from Chicago who moved to Houston to become the first Chicano to earn a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Houston. In 1998, he found Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say, Houston's first reading series for Latino Writers, which sparked a movement for art, culture, and civil rights. NP formed the foundation for the Librotraficante Caravan, organized to defy and defeat Arizona officials banning of Mexican American Studies. His book chronicles that history.
Russell Contreras is an alum of Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say, a graduate of Eisenhower High School and The University of Houston. He earned a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University. He is the national Race and Justice Reporter for Axios News.
Alvaro Saar Rios is a Texican playwright living in Chicago. He is an alum of Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say, a graduate of Lamar High School and The University of Houston. His plays have been performed in New York City, Mexico City, Hawaii, Chicago, St. Louis, Milwaukee and all over Texas. He has received playwriting commissions from various organizations, including Kennedy Center, Chicago Children’s Theatre, and Houston Grand Opera. His award-winning play Luchadora! is published by Dramatic Publishing Inc. Other plays include On The Wings of a Mariposa, Unmuted, and Carmela Full of Wishes. Alvaro holds an MFA in Writing for the Stage and Screen from Northwestern University. He is Playwright-In-Residence at Milwaukee's First Stage. Alvaro is a proud veteran of the US Army and an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Baldemar Rodriguez, Manager of Community Partnership, Alley Theatre.
Monica Villarreal is an interdisciplinary artist native to Houston. She is the founder of Creative Women Unite, a local feminist arts collaborative, and she is a traditional Aztec dancer with Danza Azteca Taxcayolot, a local group that practices indigenous traditions through spirituality and community-engaging performances throughout the nation and internationally. They will open the evening events.
Danza Azteca with:
Danza Chikawa Conroe Texas
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Danza Azteca Taxcayolot
Poet Lupe Mendez is a veteran alum of Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say where he made his literary debut. He went on to become one of the co-founder of the Librotraficante Caravan, and he is now Texas Poet Laureate.
You will hear a special announcement from Sixto Wagon about opportunities for Latino Artists through the BIPOC Arts Network Fund.
Mariachi performances by:
The duet of Jose Luis Rodriguez & Rigo Tapia.
Keira Dalila Martinez.
Eduardo Treviño.
Sponsors:
Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say
Alley Theatre
University of New Orleans Press
Houston Endowment
BIPOC Arts Network Fund
Advocates of a Latino Museum of Cultural and Visual Arts & Archive Complex in Houston, Harris County
The Mayor’s Hispanic Advisory Board
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Alley Theatre, 615 Texas St, Houston, United States
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