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Guillermo Gómez-Peña Unplugged

A Brand New Spoken-word Monologue by el Mad Mex

Location

Proscenium Theatre

Date & Time

September 13, 2016, 7:00 pm9:00 pm

Description

Guillermo Gómez-Peña, aka “El border brujo,” draws from his 30-year archive to present a unique perspective on the future of the Americas. He invokes performance art as a form of radical democracy and citizenship. Combining spoken word poetry, activist theory, radical storytelling and language experimentation, Gómez-Peña comments on the art world, academia, new technologies, war and violence in the United States, organized crime in Mexico, gender and race politics, and complications surrounding gentrification.

This event is free and open to the public.

This event is sponsored by the Latino/Hispanic Faculty Association; the Dresher Center for the Humanities; the Global Studies Department; the Department of Theatre; the Office of Institutional Advancement; and the Modern Languages, Linguistics and Intercultural Communication Department.

Photo credit: Piero Viti