Wednesday, August 12, 2009

a shout out...

It's late and I need to get to sleep, but just wondering how you're all doing? What are you working on? What are you excited about, what's challenging, what's cool?

I'm working on Canta y no llores: El Dia de los Muertos Festival for Miracle. You can visit our blog for a peek at the thinking...

Best wishes and abrazos to you!

Friday, June 12, 2009

Hi all:
Olga thanks for posting this and for the pic in which we all look muy cool. I was surprisingly inspired by the conference and delighted to meet with all of you on our own. I'm currently writing down some thoughts and when I finish I'll post them though they do not relate to Latino theatre per se but to the way in which independent artists can get their work out into the world and create an economic model that can sustain them. More food for thought. Also, it's so important to encourage our new generation of artists to write for the theatre and to tell our stories in the most universal of ways. We all know this but we have to repeatedly say it, right?

Monday, June 8, 2009

What is this?


Rodrigo Garcia, KJ Sanchez, Jess Moreles, José González,
Antonio Sonera, Diane Rodriguez, Andres Alcalá, Jesus A. Reyes,
Olga Sanchez, Jessica Moya, Christopher Acebo, Mark Valdez
& Elisa Marina Alvarado (photo by Alison La Rosa)

There we were, in Baltimore at the TCG Conference, June 2009. We were having a good time, but we wanted more, and we had known that we'd want more even before we'd arrived! Diane Rodriguez felt it and Jesus Reyes sent the email: who wants to meet for lunch on Saturday? Unfortunately Karen Zacarías couldn't make it (her daughter was having her first dance recital on Saturday!) but the rest of us said yes and showed up, abrazos all around, introducing ourselves, talking a bit about our work while we ate our turkey wraps and potato chips. What came up: play & playwright networking, partnerships, staying in touch. Then too soon it was time to go, y más abrazos ~ but from that meeting this blog was born, so that we can meet more often online at least.

José González posed a question, and again we said yes, we'd think about it and respond:

What does it mean to be a Latino Theatre Community?