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Events Calendar
All Red CalacArts events are FREE unless otherwise
noted
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Pistolas y Rebozos
7th Annual International Women's Day Celebration
Music by Pistolera and Pearl
Word by Olga A. Garcia Echeverria and Sara R. Eslava
Performance by Maria Figueroa
Art by Yolanda Lopez
Film: Testimony: The
Maria Guardado Story
Friday, March 9, 2007
Film starts @ 4:30pm, performances start @ 6pm
Saville Theater @ San
Diego City College (14th & C St. Downtown)
FREE
San Diego City College World
Cultures Program presents the Red CalacArts Collective’Äôs 7th Annual
International Women’Äôs Day Celebration: Pistolas y Rebozos. This female infused
cultural happening will take place on Friday, March 9, 2007 with performances
starting at 6:00pm at the Saville Theater on the San Diego City College campus
(14th & C St. Downtown). At 4:30pm the film, Testimony: The Maria Guardado
Story, will precede the performances.
Founded seven years ago by Calaca
Press and taken on in 2004 by their project, the Red CalacArts Collective, these
International Women’Äôs Day Celebrations have become an artistic symbol of
strength for women performers in San Diego. Past celebrations included music,
poetry, teatro, speeches, dance and more, all affirming the power, intelligence
and beauty of female artists. This year’Äôs event, entitled Pistolas y Rebozos,
is co-organized with City College’Äôs World Cultures Program and will continue
with more of the same outstanding sisterhood empowering performances.
Headlining this year is the New
York City based rockin’Äô ranchera group, PISTOLERA, fronted by San Diego native
Sandra Velasquez. The Union-Tribune’Äôs ENLACE says: ’ÄúPistolera es fuerte.
Pistolera es peligrosa. Pistolera es roquerota y rancherota a la vez.’Äù Check
out Pistolera as they return to San Diego with their pistolas blazin’Äô away.
In addition, we have the soulful
R&B voice of up-and-coming local Latina singing sensation PEARL whose CD, Can
You Feel It,
integrates the soulful vocal stylings of a strong woman on the rise mixed with
an urban hip hop aesthetic.
Giving out word and wisdom with
poetry and performance are East LA’Äôs code-switching literary phenom OLGA A.
GARCIA ECHEVERRIA, whose book Falling Angels: Cuentos y Poemas is forthcoming from Calaca
Press, City College professor and teatrista extraordinaire MARIA FIGUEROA, and
rebellious Red CalacArtivista SARA R. ESLAVA.
In addition there will be
paintings displayed by National City artista YOLANDA LOPEZ and female vendors
selling their various wares.
And to kick it all off at 4:30pm
is Testimony: The Maria Guardado Story, a film by Randy Vasquez, which highlights the
life of Salvadoran political refugee Maria Guardado who returns to her homeland
and reminisces about repression, death squads, Archbishop Oscar Romero and her
continuing work as a human rights activist in Los Angeles. 64 min.
Music, poetry, art, film, and
more!
This event is free, open to the
public (including men!), and handicap accessible.
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3rd Annual
Chicano
Park Fundraiser
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Calacalandia
National City, Califas
Featuring Acteal, Los
Romanticos y mas
$20
Music, menudo, and
raffle.
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37th Annual
Chicano
Park Day Celebration
Saturday, April 23, 2007
Chicano Park
San Diego, Califas
Organized by the Chicano
Park Steering Committee
and sponsored by Red CalacArts
Collective.
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5th Annual
Dia de
los Muertos Commemoration
Friday, November 2, 2007
Calacalandia
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Calacazo:
10 Years of Calaca Press
Saturday, November 3,
2007
Venue and performers tba
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Red CalacArts Collective events are part of Razafest a (continuing) goodwill
series celebrating 36 years of Chicano art, culture and activism.
For more info visit www.saveourcentro.org
or email.
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Past Red CalacArts Events:
City College Chicano
Studies Fundraiser | Chuey’Äôs Cantina | Dec. 19,
2006
Hoilday CalacArts Bazaar
| Calacalandia | Dec. 10,
2006
4th Annual
Dia de los Muertos Commemoration | Calacalandia | Nov. 2, 2006
Fundraiser for Tommie
Camarillo | Calacalandia | July 30,
2006
36th Annual
Chicano Park Day Celebration | Chicano Park | April 22, 2006
Events at Chicano Perk
National City | March-September 2006
2nd Annual
Chicano Park Fundraiser | Calacalandia | March 26,
2006
Raza Spoken Here | Chicano Perk | Dec. 3,
2005
3rd Annual Dia de los Muertos
Commemoration: A Tribute to Fallen Comrades | Chicano
Perk | Nov. 2, 2005
35th Anniversary of Chicano Park Day | Chicano Park | Apr. 23, 2005
5th Annual International Women's Day
Celebration | Memorial Academy | Mar. 10,
2005
Waging Peace through Poetry | Memorial Academy | Jan. 28, 2005
2nd Annual Dia de los Muertos
Commemoration | Chicano Perk | Nov. 2,
2004
A Poetic Tribute to Malcolm X | Chicano Perk | May 18, 2004
Barrio BookFest 2004 | Memorial Academy | May 14-15, 2004
Calacas Contra la Guerra Poetry Reading
| Memorial Academy | Apr. 19,
2004
4th Annual International Women's Day
Celebration | Memorial Academy | Mar. 5,
2004
For the Hard Ones/Para las duras Book Reading | Casa del Libro |
Jan. 10, 2004
La
Calaca Review Book Release
Pachanga | ICE Gallery |
Dec. 6, 2003
1st Annual Dia de los Muertos Commemoration
| Chicano Perk |
Nov. 2, 2003
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Red CalacArts Collective, P.O. Box
2309, National City, Califas 91951
(619) 434-9036 | RedCalacArts@cox.net