For Immediate Release
Contact: Brent E. Beltrán, (619) 434-9036 or RedCalacArts@hotmail.com
New Activist Arts Organization
to Commemorate Day of the Dead
Red CalacArts Collective's
First Annual
Dia de los Muertos Commemoration
What: Dia de los Muertos Commemoration
Who: Red CalacArts Collective
When: Sunday, November 2, 2003 at 4:00pm
Where: Chicano Perk Cafe, 129 25th St., San Diego, CA 92102
Featuring presentations by: Sara Durán, Olga A. García,
Victor Payan, Christian Ramírez, Miguel-Angel Soria, and
MariaJulia Urias.
The Red CalacArts Collective presents our 1st Annual Dia de los Muertos Commemoration on Sunday, November 2, 2002 at 4:00pm at Chicano Perk Cafe (129 25th St., San Diego, CA 92102) in Sherman Heights. Chicano Perk is a community oriented Chicano owned business (for more info email info@chicanoperk.com).
This event is free and open to the public.
The 1st Annual Dia de los Muertos Commemoration will feature poetry and music honoring those that have passed on including performances by community poets Sara Durán, Olga A. García, Miguel-Angel Soria and MariaJulia Urias. Plus, música para los muertos by activist singer-songwriter Victor Payan. There will also be a special presentation by human rights activist Christian Ramírez detailing the thousands of border deaths that have occurred due to Operation Gatekeeper.
Join us for an evening of socially conscious word and song honoring those that have passed on.
More about the featured presenters
Sara Rebeca Durán Garibay is a founding member of
the guerrilla theatre troupe, Teatro Con Safos, is the author
of the chapbook Machetes y Mariposas and is currently doing
her undergraduate work. East LA writer Olga Angelina García
Echeverría holds an MFA from the University of Texas
at El Paso, is co-poet on the Calaca Press spoken word CD, When Skin Peels,
and will soon publish a book of short stories called Con el
nopal en la frente and Other Urban Tales from the Barrio.
Victor Payan is a member of the Save
Our Centro Coalition, co-founder of
the Keep on Crossin' movement, host of the Roots Rock Raza music
series and Everythings Aloud open mic. His website is www.flyingserpent.net. Christian Ramírez is a graduate
of SDSU, was featured on the Calaca Press spoken word CD,
Raza Spoken Here 1, and is the director
of the American
Friends Service Committee's U.S./Mexico Border Project. Miguel-Angel Soria is a graduate of
USD, a former Mechista, and founding member of the Taco Shop Poets.
He is the proud father of newborn son Daniel-Alejandro Emiliano
Soria. California native MariaJulia Urias is a Chicana
first and artist second, is the author of the chapbook Con Fuerza,
and is a founding member of the Red CalacArts Collective.
The Red CalacArts Collective, a project of the independent Chicano literary publisher Calaca Press, is a not for profit multidisciplinary arts and activist organization that focuses on creating, publishing, producing, and presenting Chicano, Latin American and indigenous related art focusing on issues dealing with human rights and social justice. For more info email RedCalacArts@hotmail.com or call (619) 434-9036.
This event is part of Razafest a (continuing) goodwill series celebrating 33 years of Chicano art, culture and activism. For more info visit www.saveourcentro.org or email centrowatch@aol.com.