Guillermo Gómez-Peña
         Spoken Word Brujo
         Thursday, April 9, 2009, 8.pm
         Seaver Theater at Pomona College; 300 E. Bonita Ave, Claremont, CA 91711


         
 
         Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a performance artist/writer and the director of the art collective La Pocha Nostra. He was born in Mexico City and came to the US in 1978. Since then he has been exploring cross-cultural issues with the use of performance, multilingual poetry, journalism, video, radio, and installation art. His performance work and 8 books have contributed to the debates on cultural diversity, identity, and US-Mexico relations. In this performance, Gómez-Peña deals with the end of the Bush era and articulates the formidable challenges facing Obama. He also denounces the anti-immigration hysteria and assaults the demonized construction of the US/Mexican border. To this effect, the "border artist extraordinaire" uses acid Chicano humor, hybrid literary genres, multilingualism, and activist theory as subversive strategies. The picture of this narco-encounter was taken by Grace Davila in a dark and depressing street near Pomona College.

         FMI: Grace Dávila-López (x-18804) or Anne Tessier (x-72348).

        Taken from: http://www.latin-american-studies.pomona.edu/events.shtml