Taken from recent performances of our spoken video piece Border Remixeado at the Bowery Poetry Club (NYC) and MACLA (Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana. San Jose, Califas). Thanks to Nayla Altamirano, Ariana Perez, Gary Glazner, Fred Salas and Eliel Lucero.
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RISE UP & DANCE
TODOS SOMOS ARIZONA
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SALVADOR DURAN
VERBO•BALA
presenting the spoken video piece “Border Remixeado“
& sonidero danceparty
SHAUN HARRIS
& full band
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Cypress Hill canceled their concert at the Rialto for Friday 5/21 in opposition to SB 1070. So it’s time to RISE UP & DANCE, showing the world that not all of Arizona agrees with that law and others of its type. Bilingual political theater, hip-hop, special speakers & a blowout danceparty. All of it a fundraiser for Derechos Humanos Arizona, an organization working everyday to protect the civil rights of those who need it most.
¡STOP THE RAIDS!
¡STOP 1070!
¡DEFEND ETHNIC STUDIES!
...¡BAILEMOS!
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viernes EL 21 DE MAYO DE 2010
8pm. All ages.
Suggested donation at the door:
$5 students / $7 community
The Rialto Theater
318 E Congress St
Tucson, Arizona
We were recently asked by our compañeras at Galeria de la Raza (a dope gallery in San Francisco’s Mission District) to design a billboard in response to SB1070, the bill recently signed into law by Arizona govenor Jan Brewer. Both as individuals and as a collective we denounce the law for as bad policy and as an attack on our communities. Most of us were born in Arizona, and we refuse to be silent as the state takes actions that harken back to the days of the indigenous genocide and the Bisbee Deportation of 1917.
Todos somos Arizona. ¡Qué vivan los Capitol 9!
“Looking Forward Into History” by Verbobala
This image depicts one of nine students arrested by police on April 20, 2010 after chaining themselves to the Arizona State Capitol building as an act of nonviolent protest against Senate Bill 1070, widely seen as a misguided and racist anti-immigrant measure. After being taken into custody, the protesters began to sing “We Shall Overcome,” an anthem of the African-American civil rights era.
Verbobala (verbo-bala “bullet verb”) is a multimedia performance collective based out of Mexico City and Tucson, Arizona. Using remix as creative process, the group bends diverse media and genres into performance art, installation and dance parties. Political and linguistic borders are meant to be crossed. www.verbobala.com
Still from video by Dennis Gilman.
Read an official summary of the law and the critique of the many myths in the media hype around SB1070, written by friend of Verbobala, excellent poet, and Arizona police officer Corbet Dean.
Here’s a short article written by Stephen Lemons at the Phoenix New Times on the billboard and the growing number of acts of civil disobedience to protest the law. The original video of the “Capitol Nine” being arrested at the State Capitol, shot by Dennis Gilman. WATCH THIS:
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Learning Services, Office of Diversity, & Campus Life proudly present Celebration of Academic Achievement
Writing Matters: Writers with Purpose, Writers with Voice
12:30p.m. – 1:30p.m.
Schoening Conference Center
3C Building on AWC Main Campus
Presentation is FREE!
Open to the Public
Transfix 1996–2010
Multi-media performance installation
A retrospective by Vessel
In collaboration with Verbobala,
SonicAnta, Chris Loomis Photography
and PHX: Fringe
Friday, April 2nd 2010
monOrchid gallery
214 E Roosevelt St, Phoenix, Arizona. 6pm-11pm. All ages. Free.
March 15–20, 2010
MACLA in partnership with the National Performance Network
presents:
VERBOBALA Performing Arts Residency
Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA)
510 South First Street
San Jose, CA 95113
This weeklong residency features special events for teens, community workshops, a Sonidero dance party and a public performance of Border Remixeado.
Wednesday, March 17, 3:30–5:30pm
Teen programs
Poetry Workshop
Wednesday, March 17, 7:00pm
Youth Poetry Slam & Open-mic
Free Admission
Thursday, March 18, 8:30pm
Sonidero Verbobala
$10 at the door, $8 advance/students
Advance tickets available via www.brownpapertickets.com
Friday, March 19, 8:00pm
Border Remixeado
$10 at the door, $8 advance/students
Advance tickets available via www.brownpapertickets.com
ONE WEEKEND ONLY in NYC
VERBOBALA SPOKEN VIDEO
[méxico df / tucson arizona]
PRESENTS
BORDER REMIXEADO
a poetic conjuring in 12 parts
video & bilingual spoken word
FRI. MARCH 12 2010
8pm • $8
and
SPOKEN VIDEO 101 WORKSHOP
building multimedia poems
SAT. MARCH 13 2010
noon — 1:30pm • $5 — 10
at the
BOWERY POETRY CLUB
308 bowery between houston & bleecker
f train to 2nd ave, 6 to bleecker
NEW YORK CITY
brought to you by
Bowery Arts & Sciences’
World of Poetry series
World of Poetry is partially funded by
the National Endowment for the Arts and
the New York State Council on the Arts.
foto: Claudia Ayala
]]>Flagstaff, AZ Sat. 2/20: Sonidero Verbobala & Sambátuque @ The Green Room, 15 N Agassiz. 9pm, 21+. Free.
Flagstaff, AZ Wed. 2/24: Logan solo, poetry feature @ FlagSlam, Studio 111 (111 S. San Francisco). 8pm.NYC Fri. 2/26: Logan solo, poetry feature @ Nuyorican Poets’ Cafe, 236 East 3rd Street Between Ave B & C. 9pm. $7.
NYC Mon. 3/1: Logan solo, poetry feature @ Bar13 louderARTS slam, 35 East 13th Street @ University Place). 7pm. $6.
NYC Sun. 3/7: Logan solo, poetry feature @ Culture Shock: the melting pot of raw arts. 200 Orchard (just below Houston). 7pm. Free.
NYC Thurs. 3/11: Sonidero Verbobala. More info TBA.
NYC Fri. 3/12: Verbobala Spoken Video presents “Border Remixeado” @ Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery. 8pm. $8.
NYC Sat. 3/13: Verbobala video performance workshop @ Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery. More info TBA.San Jose Tues. 3/16: Spoken video / workshop @ high school. Private.
San Jose Wed. 3/17: Spoken video / workshop @ high school. Private.
San Jose Thurs. 3/18: Master class @ MACLA, 510 S 1st St. More info TBA.
San Jose Fri. 3/19: Sonidero Verbobala @ MACLA, 510 S 1st St. More info TBA.
San Jose Sat. 3/20: Verbobala Spoken Video presents “Border Remixeado” @ MACLA, 510 S 1st St.Sierra Vista, AZ Fri. 3/26 Logan solo @ Cochise College Writing Celebration, Ethel Berger Center, 2950 E Tacoma St, 10am.
Sierra Vista, AZ Sat. 3/27 Logan solo, writing workshops @ Cochise College Writing Celebration, Sierra Vista campus, 901 N Colombo Ave.Phoenix, AZ Thurs. 4/1: Private party @ Phoenix Fringe Festival.
Phoenix, AZ Fri. 4/2: Transfix Retrospective. Vessel / Verbobala collaboration, installation & performance @ monOrchid, 214 E Roosevelt St. Free.Ciudad Juárez, Mexico Sun. 4/25: Logan solo poetry performance @ Espokenwordeando Festival. More info TBA.
Yuma, AZ Wed. 4/28: Verbobala Spoken Video presents “Border Remixeado” @ Arizona Western College.
Jerome, AZ Sat. 5/1: Sonidero Verbobala & Sambátuque @ The Spirit Room. 8pm. $5. 21+.
“llege al otro lado le prometo a mis hijas y esposa mucho billete verde gracias dios mio por cuidar mi camino. diciembre 2009 celso ramirez peña †”
“I arrived to the other side I promise to my daughters and my wife lots of green bills thank you my god for protecting my journey. december 2009 celso ramirez peña †“
