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DESCRIPTION:5TH ANNUAL CÉSAR CHÁVEZ CONVOCATION\n\nWednesday, May 14, 2008\n7 PM at 
 the College Nine and Ten Multipurpose Room\nUniversity of California, Santa 
 Cruz\n\nPERFORMANCE ARTIST:\nGuillermo Gómez-Peña\n\nEL MEXORCIST 3\nA 
 new solo performance and final in the Mexorcist Trilogy\n\nContacts:\nLilly 
 Pinedo, Program Coordinator,  Chicano Latino Resource Center, 831/459-5449 
 and Jose Olivas, Coordinator of Co-Curricular Programs, College Ten, 
 831/459-5854\nThe Convocation honors the memory of  César Chávez, his 
 achievements, commitment to social justice/civil rights, his unrelenting 
 efforts to cultivate grassroots leadership, and his successful formation of 
 the United Farmworkers Union (UFW). This year, performance artist/writer 
 Guillermo Gómez-Peña,  artistic director of La Pocha Nostra,  will be our 
 honorary guest for the 5th annual César Chávez Convocation and  will 
 perform EL MEXORCIST 3.\n\nBorn in 1955 and raised in Mexico City, he came 
 to the US in 1978 and received both his B.A. (1981) and M.A. (1983) from 
 California Institute of the Arts; he also studied Linguistics and Latin 
 American Literature at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM, 
 Mexico City).\n\nOne of the most important and provocative performing 
 artist/activists working today, Gómez-Peña was the first Latino to win 
 the MacArthur 'genius' grant.  He is a regular contributor to National 
 Public Radio, a writer for newspapers and magazines in the US, Mexico and 
 Europe and a contributing editor to The Drama Review (NYU-MIT).\n\nHis 
 work, explores cross-cultural issues between the United States and Latin 
 America by revealing the labyrinths of identity and the precipices of 
 nationality. He does this by illustrating them through performance art, 
 video, audio, installations, poetry, journalism, critical writings, and 
 cultural theory. Gómez-Peña is considered an interdisciplinary 
 intellectual whose projects and books explores borders and cultural matters 
 in the mainstream of the U.S. and Latin America. His work exposes 
 immigration, cross-cultural identity, and the confrontation and 
 misunderstandings between cultures and races.\nIn his performance of El 
 Mexorcist 3, el brujo-poeta-activista Guillermo Gómez-Peña denounces the 
 anti-immigration hysteria and assaults the demonized construction of the 
 US/Mexico border-a literal and symbolic zone lined with Minute Men, rising 
 nativism, three ply fences, globalization, and transnational 
 identities.\n\nFollowing the performance, we open the doors to 
 participatory engagement through a Town Hall Meeting on Social Justice that 
 will be facilitated by Gómez-Peña.  The audience will be invited to an 
 "Open Mic" where they can "speak up" and "talk back."  Audience members can 
 share a personal story, voice an opinion, ask a question, pose an issue, or 
 read a piece of their own poetry. It is an opening to what we hope will be 
 meaningful community dialogue.\nIn past year's honorary guests for the 
 César Chávez Convocation have been Dolores Huerta, (2004) a legendary 
 union organizer and nationally recognized advocate for women and the poor; 
 as well as, renowned playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker and director Luís 
 Valdez (2005), the United Farm Workers president, Arturo Rodriquez(2006), 
 and executive secretary-treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of 
 Labor, AFL-CIO, María Elena Durazo(2007). This year we are honored to have 
 Guillermo Gómez-Peña  as our guest.\n\nThe community is invited to join 
 us for the 5th Annual César Chávez Convocation as we explore the role of 
 performance art as a form of activism and a platform for engaging social 
 justice issues.\n\nThe Convocation is production of the College Ten 
 Co-Curricular Programs Office, EL CENTRO: Chicano Latino Resource Center 
 and Community and Resource Empowerment (CARE) Council at the University of 
 California, Santa Cruz.\n\nSponsors of this event include:  The Center for 
 Labor Studies, Chicano Latino Research Center (CLRC) , Educational 
 Opportunity Programs (EOP),  Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative 
 Action, Division of Graduate Studies and the Alliance for Graduate 
 Education and the Professoriate (AGEP), Oakes College and Porter College.  
 Co-sponsors include:  Cowell, Crown, Kresge, Merrill and Stevenson 
 Colleges, Crown Oakes, and College Eight Student Senates, the Division of 
 Student Affairs and Rainbow Theatre.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/05/14/18499043.php
SUMMARY:Fifth Annual Cesar Chavez Convocation
LOCATION:College Nine and Ten Multipurpose Room\nUniversity of California, Santa 
 Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/05/14/18499043.php
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