Saturday, July 12, 4–7:30PM
FCCW: 3053 Rosslyn St. LA CA 90065
Info on our space here
Workshop capacity: 30
Performance capacity: 50
Free
taller de libro de ejercicios / workbook workshop 4:00–5:30PM
led by Gabrielle + Daisy in both Spanish & English
¡ acciones alegres ! / performance celebrations ! 6–7:30PM
Come activate joy with Experimentos en Alegría / Experiments in Joy, a two-part event transforming joy from feeling to practice. Gabrielle Civil and Daisy Magallanes will facilitate a bilingual Spanish/English workshop using the CO—CO Press workbooks, available en Español and in English, to explore joy, creativity, and diasporic identity. Performance celebrations by Civil, Magallanes, Guadalupe Carrasco Cardona, Megha Jairaj, and Awilda Rodríguez Lora will follow. Participants can come to either one or both parts of the program. ¡ All are welcome!
RSVP al taller de libro de ejercicios / workbook workshop
RSVP a las ¡ acciones alegres ! / performance celebrations !
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist, poet, and writer, originally from Detroit, MI. Her series of performance memoirs, a chronicle of performance body, includes Swallow the Fish (2017), Experiments in Joy (2019), (ghost gestures) (2021), the déjà vu (2022) and In & Out of Place (2024). She organized and compiled Experiments in Joy: A Workbook (2019) and coordinated the translation for Experimentos en Alegría (2023) published by Co-Conspirator Press. Foundress of The Black Weirdo School, she teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. The aim of her work is to open up space. Photo credit: Dennie Eagleson
Daisy Elizeth Magallanes (She/They) is the proud Chicana daughter of migrant parents from the sacred Caxcan land of Tlaltenango, Zacatecas. She is a Pushcart Nominated writer, translator, and educator whose work has been featured in Acid Verse Literary Journal, Brevity, the Black Warrior Review, Brooklyn & Boyle, Huizache, & Hypertext Review. Their poetry has been internationally recognized and exhibited in CDMX. They are currently the Managing Editor at Huizache which advocates for and platforms the new literary vanguard.
Guadalupe Carrasco Cardona has been an Ethnic Studies and Theatre educator for 23 years. She is dedicated to developing critical curriculum and facilitating cultural productions. She accomplishes this by fusing her curriculum and pedagogy with community cultural knowledge and a focus on auto-biographical counter narrative. Guadalupe has spent her personal life and career (re)membering herself and helps others on their quest for self-identity and the tools for telling their own stories.
Guadalupe is the chair of the Association of Raza Educators Los Angeles, co-founder of XOCHITL Los Angeles, member of LAUSD’s Ethnic Studies Curriculum Committee, member of Ethnic Studies Now Coalition’s Coordinating Committee, and founding member of the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Coalition.
Megha Jairaj is a transdisciplinary artist from Kerala, working toward the collaborative repair of interpersonal structures caught between caste, capital, and carcerality.
Awilda Rodríguez Lora is a performance choreographer and cultural entrepreneur. She challenges in her work the concepts of woman, sexuality, and self-determination. These concepts are explored through the use of movement, sound, and video as well as through literal instantiations of an “economy of living” that either potentiates or subtracts from her body’s “value” in the contemporary art market. Born in Mexico, raised in Puerto Rico, and working in-between North and South America and the Caribbean, Rodríguez Lora’s performances traverse multiple geographic histories and realities. In this way, her work promotes progressive dialogues regarding hemispheric colonial legacies, and the unstable categories of race, gender, class, and sexuality. Rodríguez Lora has been an invited guest artist at the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD), New York University, the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College Dance Center, and the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), among others. Her solo work has been recently featured at DEFORMES Performance Biennale (Chile), Posta Sur Performance Encounter (Chile), Independence Dom (Dominican Republic) and the Miami International Performance Art Festival (USA).
Rodríguez Lora is currently the founding collaborator of La Rosario in Santurce, where she is creating, researching, and producing her life project, La Mujer Maravilla, while developing new strategies for the sustainability of live arts in Puerto Rico. After more than ten years of work as a fully independent artist, she is committed to further studying how artistic economies can be harnessed to support alternative forms of life rooted in communality, creativity, and social justice. She is also the Academic Leader for the Dance Program at the Universidad de Sagrado Corazón