From: Borderlands Theater <info@borderlandstheater.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 9:10 AM
Subject: Honoring Silviana Wood / LUNADA
3 Big Events this weekend!
October LUNADA and Honoring Tucsonense playwright Silviana Wood
A virtual reading of
Amor de Hija
by Silviana Wood
Saturday October 17 - 7pm
A drama about a four generations in a working class family set in Arizona. When Consuelo's father dies her mother, Doña Cuquita, rapidly deteriorates physically, mentally, and emotionally. Part of the "sandwich generation" Consuelo's world is turned upside down as she is pulled between taking care of her mother and the needs of her own family. A seminal work of Chican@ Theatre's dramatic canon.
Featuring: Annabelle Nuñez, Ernesto Portillo, Jr., Rebeca Cartes, Zarco Guerrero, Julian Cardenas, Veronica Conran, Sol Pinate, Nicholas Rivas, Angelina Duarte, Esther Almazan, Bianca Regalado, Charles Castillo, Jonathon Heras, Ammi Robles. Directed by Marc David Pinate
Click here for more details on BOTH events
Borderlands Theater's RAICES series presents:
A Tribute to Silviana Wood
Tuesday, October 20 – 6:00pm
Live streamed on BT's Facebook & YouTube pages
This project is supported by Arizona Humanities.
Join Borderlands Theater digital content producer, Veronica Conran, and a circle of elders who share oral histories of art and culture of the Chicano movement in Tucson along with memories of Silviana Wood. Confirmed panelists include: historian and community organizer, Lupe Castillo; community organizer Ramona Grijalva; Borderlands Theater founder and Teatro Libertad member, Barclay Goldsmith; Teatro Libertad members, Teresa Jones, Arturo Martinez, Mujeres que Escriben co-founder with Wood, Valerina Quintana; and the guest of honor, Silviana Wood.
Special messages from City of Tucson Mayor Regina Romero and Pima County Supervisor Betty Villegas.
The first and only Chicana playwright born in Arizona to have a published anthology of plays - Silviana Wood is a writer, activist, performer, teacher, single mother, and in many ways, folklorist of the Mexican-American border culture of Southern Arizona. Her code-switching mastery of the the barrio vernacular known as caló distinguishes her works. Winner of countless awards and recognitions, her wit and word play rival that of Cantinflas and Tin Tan. From humble beginnings in Barrio Anita, Wood earned a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Arizona. Energized as a young woman by the Chicano civil rights movement in Tucson she started Teatro del Pueblo with her brothers and some friends in the early 1970s.
In following years she would be a central figure of the collective, Teatro Libertad, and launch Teatro Chicano with her students at Pima Community College. Over the next four decades her works would be produced around the country and in Mexico. Many Tucsonans best remember her character of Doña Chona, a barrio archetype who gave advice and chisme (gossip) on KUAT's "Reflexiones" bilingual television show for some fifteen years.
Addressing issues of social justice, linguistic marginalization, oppression, class, gender and sexuality, the dramatic works of Silviana Wood resonate as much today as when they were first written and produced.
October Lunada
Featuring
Anna Flores and Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro
Friday, October 16 6pm PST
Live streamed on BT's Facebook and Youtube
Anna Flores is a writer and actress born in Nogales, Arizona. She is a co-founder of the New Carpa Theater Collective,and MFA candidate at Arizona State University. Anna's poems are featured in Write On Downtown Literary Journal, Arizona Republic Newspaper, Arizona's Best Emerging Poets Anthology, and Shrew Literary Zine among others. When she isn't writing or reading, she enjoys cooking, telling stories with her family, taking naps with her pets, and speaking about the desert with her friends.
Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro is a Puerto Rican writer. She's published books that promote the discussion of Afroidentity and sexual diversity. She is the Director of the Department of AfroPuertoRican Studies, a performative project of Creative Writing based at the Casa Museo Ashford in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She is also the founder and chair of Ancestral Black Women, in response to the call by UNESCO to celebrate the International Decade for People of African Descent. She was invited by the Her short story collection Las negras, winner of the 2013 National Short Story Prize from the PEN Club of Puerto Rico, explores the limits of the development of female characters who challenge hierarchies of power.
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