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Author Archives: Jose Calderon
The Dog’s Will Opens – April 23rd
Dear Friends and Family,
In March I had the great pleasure of directing a staged reading of Stand and Deliver at Pasadena City College (PCC) presented in partnership with the Pasadena Playhouse. It was a great evening of theatre performed by a talented cast comprised of PCC students and professional actors. I’d like to thank President Miller, Dr. Jimenez y West and Dr. Olivo at PCC and Sheldon, Seema and Victor for offering me the opportunity to launch your initiative Mi Historia/Mi Manera with Stand and Deliver, a play close to my heart.
My next project, that I hope you can attend, is the classic Brazilian comedy The Dog’s Will Ariano Suassuna. I’m very excited about this play that throws open a wide door to a Latino culture that we know little about and reinforces the fact that to be Latino/Hispanic is not a monolithic moniker. The play is a very broad, bawdy and raucous comedy that cloaks a sharp critique of class and racial hierarchies in Brazil. These prejudices are revealed in the final act when the characters, all killed by the bandit Severina of Aracaju (See attached costume concept), are judged by Jesus and Mary.
My Director’s Notes, that I’ve attached, explain more in-depth my rationale for selecting this play.
I hope you can attend!
Alma
Alma Martinez, MFA, PhD
SAG-AFTRA, AEA, ANDA, SDC
Member, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Member, Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
LIMITED SEATING!
In the round!
THE UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE DEPARTMENT of THEATRE ARTS PRESENTS
The Dog’s Will by Ariano Suassuna
A satire on Human Frailties in the Form of a Miracle Play
Based on Ballads and Folk Tales of Northeastern Brazil.
The University of La Verne Theatre is proud to present the highly-acclaimed classic Brazilian comedy The Dog’s Will for seven performances, opening April 23rd. Written by renowned playwright Ariano Suassuna, and called Auto da Compadecida in Portuguese. The play is a broad comedy in the style of commedia dell’arte and a vigrousus and biting Marxist satire of the translator, the late Dillwyn F. Ratcliff has preserved with extraordinary skill the vigorous humor and biting satire of this remarkable Brazilian play.
The play features the lives of the audacious men of the backlands of Northern Brazil, who live by cattle raising and farming. The chief character is John Cricket (Alvaro Renteria), a petty thief, a crook, and especially a very fast talker. John Cricket and his friend Chico (Aaron Avalos) contrive a plan to acquire some money. After some twists and turns the play culminates in murder and a mass trial. Being the fast talker that he is, Cricket takes upon himself the task of defending the group of rogues before the amiable deity and in so doing achieves his own moral salvation.
Direction is by renowned artist and University of La Verne faculty member Alma Martinez, who brings her vast experience and love for theatre to this production. Martinez got her Ph.D. in Drama from Stanford University and has over 100 credits including Broadway, off Broadway, regional theatre and Mexican and European stages.
This is an opportunity to see a great play at an affordable price. The engaging performance shows
April 23rd to 25th at 7:30 PM, April 30th at 7:30 PM, May 1st and 2nd at 7:30 PM and May 3rd at 2:00 PM.
Tickets are $10 for general admission, $8 for seniors and faculty and $5 for students.
Reservations can be made at (909) 448-4386 or at theatrearts@laverne.edu.
United Voices on Waste Transfer Station Issue
Invitation to Latino and Latina Roundtable
Subject: Urgent re: Valley Vista Services Pomona Waste Transfer Station
Attached you’ll find a flyer with date, time, and location of Wednesday’s action against the Waste Transfer Station.
Please distribute widely. It would be great to have students, and other community activists from intersecting issues show solidarity and stand with us.
Encuentros Showing of “Farmingville” this Friday
FARMINGVILLE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: CARLOS G. PERRETT (cperrett@students.pitzer.edu, (979) 721-1977
ENCUENTROS to bring provocative, complex, and emotionally charged documentary
“FARMINGVILLE” to Benson Auditorium at Pitzer College
The screening will be hosted by ENCUENTROS April 24, 2015 in the Benson Auditorium at Pitzer College and is scheduled to commence at 1:00pm.
Following the screening, students and day laborers (jornaleros) from the Pomona Economic Opportunity Center (PEOC) will facilitate a discussion regarding the film and reactions to the film.
The screening if FREE and open to the public.
About the film: Farmingville (USA, 2003, 1:18 English/Spanish w/English subtitles) a film by Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini – The chilling hate-based attempted murders of two Mexican day laborers in the small town of Farmingville, Long Island catapult the population, and the immigration issue, into the national headlines, unmasking a frontline of the new border wars – suburbia. This bilingual, verité documentary allows many players in the story – long term residents, day laborers, elected officials, advocates on all sides of the issue – to speak for themselves, offering a rare and intimate glimpse behind today’s headlines. For more information about the film visit www.farmingvillethemovie.com.
The New York Times
“a thought-provoking documentary about how the area’s influx of illegal Mexican day laborers
brought racial tensions to the surface, made placid neighbors into militants, and spurred
arson, attempted murder and other hate crimes.”
Jami Bernard Daily News
“Farmingville is a primer for anyone – whether lawmaker or citizen – who cares to better
understand the usually unseen cost of America’s appetite for cheap labor.”
About ENCUENTROS: Founded in 2007, ENCUENTROS are weekly events organized in partnership with Day Laborers from the Pomona Economic Opportunity Center, the Rancho Day Laborer Corner, and Pitzer College students to address the alarmingly present-day inequalities, struggles, and barriers that day laborers face on a daily basis.
Daily Bulletin article: Cesar Chavez Pilgrimage March in Pomona
There were more than 200 that marched in the annual Cesar Chavez Pilgrimage march in Pomona but there were also hundreds more waiting and who joined the marchers in the quad area throughout the day at Garey High School. When the marchers walked into the quad area, the area was already filled with supporters. The largest turn-out ever for both the march and the fiesta afterward.
Daily Bulletin Monica Rodriguez: “This year’s walk theme was “Together We Move for Rights, Peace and Social Justice: Black Lives Matter, Remember Ayotzinapa.”
Organizers remembered African-Americans who have lost their lives around the country in violent acts involving law enforcement. A group of 43 students from the rural Ayotzinapa Normal School who disappeared in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero in September were also remembered.”
For picture with Maura Ayala and Councilwoman Cristina Carrizosa leading the march, See Link at:
http://www.dailybulletin.com/social-affairs/20150418/cesar-chavez-pilgrimage-in-pomona-draws-200
Free Transporation Bus Schedule for Cesar Chavez Pilgrimage from Schools
Free Transportation to Cesar Chavez Pilgrimage/ Saturday, April18
8:45 am: Bus will pick up at Pomona High School–drop off at the School District Building (800 S. Garey Ave.)
9:15 am: Bus will pick up at Ganesha High School–drop off at the School District Building
1:00 pm: Bus will pick up at Garey HS–drop off at School District Building
1:30 pm: Bus will pick up at Garey HS–drop off at Pomona HS
2:00 pm: Bus will pick up at Garey HS–drop off at Ganesha HS
Support Pablo “Chompo” Lopez
Pablo “Chompo” Lopez was diagnosed with Stage 3 Metastatic Neoplasm Malignant Testicle Cancer in January 2014. He is 1 in 8 million. He needs your support in achieving his First Triathlon as a Stage 3 Cancer Survivor during treatment.
Pablo has always supported the Latino and Latina Roundtable and our efforts. Please “Read the Update” below and donate. I did and will again.
-Jose-
miHistoria: Stage 3 Cancer Survivor
Memorial for PUSD Parent Blanca Mariscal
Join us in celebrating the life of Blanca Mariscal to be held at Cesar Chavez Park (2720 Barjud Ave.) in Pomona, California on Friday, May 17th beginning at 4:15 PM. – the day before our annual Cesar Chavez pilgrimage march and fiesta.
Blanca was a leader in the annual Cesar Chavez Pilgrimage march and festival held at Garey High School. She helped lead the parents in the last four years in making the food for the event and ensuring that all the proceeds would go toward stud…ent scholarships. Last year, before the pilgrimage march, she was part of a delegation of parents and students which participated in a visit to La Paz (Keene, CA) where Cesar Chavez is buried. After the visit, she continued to work on the annual pilgrimage but got very sick with cancer and ended up in the hospital. Although in the hospital, she continued to organize the parents for a very successful pilgrimage but, shortly after, passed away. The Cesar Chavez Pilgrimage Committee, along with the Latino and Latina Roundtable, PUSD parents and students, family, and other supporting groups will be commemorating the life of Blanca with a rock and plaque that was brought back from La Paz. The rock is from a creek that was used to build the base of Cesar Chavez’s gravesite. In addition, the school board has donated a tree that will be planted in her name.
Latino and Latina Roundtable Membership Meeting
The Latino and Latina Roundtable membership meeting that will take place this Saturday, April 11, from 1 – 3 PM at the Pitzer College Broad Center Room 208 (1050 N. Mills Ave. in Claremont). The meeting will include time for the committees to meet and summaries, updates, and discussions on the work of the various committees including: (but not limited to) a summary of the Cesar Chavez Breakfast, update on the Memorial at Cesar Chavez park remembering Blanca Mariscal set for April 17th and the Cesar Chavez Pilgrimage march and fiesta on April 18th, status of various clinics on DACA and DAPA, and the plans ahead.
Latino and Latina Roundtable Board