Arts & Activism: A Life Journey—LATC Encuentro 2014—Tues, Oct 28, 2014
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2014-11-06

Writer, producer, and performer Dan Guerrero travels through decades of Chicana/o and LGBT history illustrated through first-hand storytelling and historic photos. Through his own experiences, Guerrero speaks to the relationship between social and political movements and the artists who translate upheavals into cultural record. He explores the intersection of both Chicana/o and LGBT movements, addressing the importance of solidarity across cultural currents. Guerrero will then be joined in conversation with Olga Garay-English, former Executive Director of the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and celebrated cultural maven, who will address the issues from the perspective of arts enablers and the role they play in promoting innovation and cultural change.

The Los Angeles Theatre Center in association with the Latina/o Theatre Commons (LTC) proudly present Encuentro 2014: A National Latina/o Theatre Festival livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv from Saturday, October 18 through Monday, November 10.

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The most significant national gathering of Latina/o theatre artists to date comes to downtown Los Angeles' historic core and broadcasts world-wide. This historic, month-long event is the first national theatre festival to bring together: more than nineteen theater companies, 150 artists from the U.S. and Puerto Rico, seventeen works that explore the Latina/o experience on stage, two Pulitzer Prize-winning works, stories of violence at the border, pressing immigration concerns, the complexities of romantic relationships and families, and various free events.

TERTULIA EVENTS
These free tertulias, produced by the LTC, will help to deepen the conversations brought up in the productions presented in the 2014 LATC Encuentro. A tertulia is a social gathering or “salon” with literary and artistic overtones, especially in Spain and Latin America, where people informally meet to talk about current affairs and the arts. Click here for a full schedule of tertulia events. 

Join us via livestream on HowlRound TV at howlround.tv as we call upon the expertise of national and Los Angeles-based artists and scholars to engage audience members in panels, dialogues, speeches, and interactive events around diverse topics pertinent to the field.

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