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Voces de Liberación (Voices of Liberation) Time Line Kick Off for Latino Heritage Month! Opening Reception, Cuba: Beauty and Decay, A Photographic Journey with
Photographs by Vivian Stephenson A Havana native and tireless traveler, Vivian Stephenson returned to Cuba in 1999 and 2002 after a long absence, writing a four hundred-year history of Cuba in pictures with her Nikon 80. In this exhibit Stephenson offers us a splendid series of photographs of the cities of Havana, Trinidad, and Sancti-Spíritus. Stephenson will talk about Cuban architecture and history. Vivian Stephenson has been named one of the San Francisco Business Times “100 Most Influential Women” in the Bay Area. She chaired the Mills College Board of Trustees from 2002 until 2009. Carlota Caulfield is a Poet and Professor of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies at Mills College. “Creating Street/Protest theater (DIY Theater)”: El Teatro Campesino was founded in 1965 as the cultural arm of the United Farm Workers; the original actors were all farm workers. Early performances were on flat bed trucks in the middle of the fields in Delano, California where they enacted events inspired by the lives of their audience. The founder and initial director of the troupe, Luis Valdez, is a Chicano from a migrant farm worker family. He attended San Jose State University, worked briefly with the San Francisco Mime Troupe and returned to Delano to found the troupe. Valdez later gained fame for his play Zoot Suit (which was produced on Broadway and made into a film starring Edward James Olmos), and for directing the Ritchie Valens biopic La Bamba. Teatro Campesino's early performances drew on varied theatrical traditions, such as commedia dell'arte, Spanish religious dramas adapted for teaching Mission Indians, Mexican folk humor, a century-old tradition of Mexican performances in California, and Aztec and Maya sacred ritual dramas. Although the troupe began by entertaining the farm workers, within a year of their founding they began to tour to raise funds for the striking farm workers. By 1967, their subject matter had expanded to include aspects of Chicano culture that went beyond the fields: education, the Vietnam War, indigenous roots, and racism. In 1971, they moved their headquarters to San Juan Bautista and adapted traditional religious plays La Virgen del Tepeyac and La Pastorela for Christmas celebrations. As Chicano culture began to receive unprecedented attention in the United States, Valdez taught drama at the University of California, Berkeley and Santa Cruz. El Teatro Campesino is still housed in San Juan Bautista. The company continues their yearly Christmas pageants, alternating annually between La Virgen del Tepeyac and La Pastorela. They also did revivals of Zoot Suit in 2002 and 2007 at their playhouse, as well as a Southwestern tour of the production in 2004, and have also toured nationally and internationally. In addition, the company has conducted various types of theater workshops for communities and educational institutions. Official website: Teatro Campesino Dinner Honoring Latina Heritage Month Soups: Sopa de Pescado (Fish Soup) Sweet Pureed Plantain Soup (Vegan) Appetizers: Melted Chihuahua Cheese and Refried Beans with Blue Tortilla Chips Salads: Cactus Salad with Fresh Crumbled Cheese Meat Entrees: Chicken Mole with Rice and Beans with Epazote Cuban Roasted Pork with Fried Plantains Empanadas Argentinas Vegetarian/Vegan Entrees: Roasted Chayote with Garlic and Tomatillo Salsa Vegan Tamales Drinks: Agua de Tamarindo Orange and Passion Guava Agua Fresca Dessert: Tres Leches Cake Mexican Tea Cookies Our thanks to Bon Appetit for their preparation of this delicious menu! "Krudas," Queer/Transgender People of Color Film Series Folkloric Dancers
Guest Speaker Chicana Author and Activist “Elizabeth Martínez’s work comprises one of the most important living histories of progressive activism in the contemporary era.… [Martínez is] inimitable … irrepressible … indefatigable.”—Angela Y. Davis A Chicana activist, author, and educator for over 50 years, Elizabeth “Betita” Martínez has published six books and many articles on social movement in the Americas . Her best-known work is 500 years of Chicano History in Pictures, a bilingual history that became the basis for the video she co-directed. Her collection of essays published by South End Press is entitled De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century. Other books include Letters from Mississippi and The Youngest Revolution: A Personal Report on Cuba. After graduating from Swarthmore College, which awarded her an honorary doctorate in May 2000, she worked in the United Nations Secretariat as a researcher on colonialism in Africa, as an editor at Simon & Schuster; and as Books and Arts Editor of The Nation magazine. During the 1960s, she was one of two Chicanas who served full time in the Black civil rights movement with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), in the South and as a coordinator of its New York office. In 1968 she joined the Chicano movement in New Mexico where she founded the bilingual movement newspaper El Grito del Norte (1968-1973) and co-founded the Chicano Communications Center, a barrio-based organizing and education project. As an activist against the Vietnam War, she travelled to North Vietnam in 1970 and was arrested in New York City. Since moving to the Bay Area in 1976, she has taught Ethnic Studies and Women’s Studies in the California State university system, organized on Latino community issues, conducted anti-racist training workshops, and worked with youth groups. She ran for governor of California on the Peace & Freedom Party ticket in 1982, and has received many awards from student, community, and academic organizations. In 1997 she founded the Institute for MultiRacial Justice, a resource center to help build alliances among peoples of color. In 2001 she attended the U.N. World Conference Against Racism in South Africa as a delegate from the Women of Color Resource Center in Oakland, California. She is one of 1000 women from 150 countries nominated for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize. Her daughter Tessa is an actress and co-founder of San Francisco’s Latina Theater Lab. About her latest book, which she will sign and sell at the Mills event: 500 Years of Chicana Women's History 500 Years of Chicana Women's History 500 Years of Chicana Women’s History offers a powerful antidote to this omission with a vivid, pictorial account of struggle and survival, resilience and achievement, discrimination and identity. The bilingual text, along with hundreds of photos and other images, ranges from female-centered stories of pre-Columbian Mexico to profiles of contemporary social justice activists, labor leaders, youth organizers, artists, and environmentalists, among others. With a distinguished, seventeen-member advisory board, the book presents a remarkable combination of scholarship and youthful appeal. Dance Join us as we close Latina Heritage Month 2009 with our customary and wildly popular dance, featuring a live Latin band – plus lessons for those of you who have always wanted to dance to Latin music! Sponsors Mills College Heritage Months are supported in part by the Ethnic Studies Fund. To learn about and donate to the Fund, please click here: Ethnic Studies Fund. Many thanks for your generosity in support of Ethnic Studies and students of color at Mills. |
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Come celebrate Latinas who have fought for justice and peace for hundreds of years and to this day.
Take a walk through history as you view the Latina Heritage Month Timeline. From Lola Rodriguez de Tio to Dolores Huerta
to Sonia Sotomayor (and many more!), enjoy the beautiful timeline that commemorates these admirable women.
the opening reception for Mills Trustee Vivian Stephenson’s photo
exhibit of her native Cuba, with written commentaries by Professor Carlota Caulfield—also from Cuba.
Learn how to create street theater from the “maestros”: San Juan Bautista’s Teatro Campesino! Don’t
miss this special hands-on workshop, designed to promote the use of art as a tool for social change
and inspire community involvement, social consciousness, and political action.
Come meet one of the mothers of the Chicana/o movement —and an internationally recognized leader
for multiracial justice. Founder of the Institute for Multiracial Justice, Elizabeth “Betita” Martínez
has been involved in most of the movements for social justice in the U.S. of the past half century and
has authored many widely acclaimed books and articles that are used by educators and activists. She
will share some of her experiences, especially with regard to women activists and leaders, and will be
signing copies of her latest book, 500 Years of Chicana Women’s History.©2010 Mills College. All Rights Reserved. Home | Terms of Use | Policies | Directions | Contact Us |
