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Crossroads Events Presents Tejano Music Festival At Barrientos MACC
Austin Classical Guitar And the Long Center
Present Vicente Amigo
El Cantante Alex Rivera Es Muy Popular
America Ferrera is returning to ABC
Special Exhibit: Life and Death on
the Border 1910-1920 through April 3,
2016 at Bob Bullock Texas State History
Museum.
Center For Mexican American
Studies , Associate Director John Morán
González extends a cordial invitation to
view the Bullock’s latest special exhibi-
tion,
Life and Death on the Border
1910- 1920 . The exhibit was proposed
and curated by the Refusing to Forget
Project, of which Morán González is a
founding member.
Life and Death on the Border
1910-1920 re-examines the events and
context around the racial violence on the
Texas and Mexico border in the early
1900s, including the armed guerilla
uprising by los sediciosos and the subse-
quent communal punishment of the Texas
Mexican community by the Texas
Rangers. Through display of rare artifacts,
photographic records,court documents,
newspapers, family histories, and eye
witness accounts, this poignant exhibition
will provide a fresh perspective on a little-
known story that shaped the Mexican
American civil rights movement and
continues to have lasting impact today.
Cherríe Moraga, noted play-
wright, poet, and essayist will be
speaking at two Texas Universities.
At The University of Texas at
Austin : Conversation with Cherríe
Moraga: Feminist Identity and
Education,
Wednesday, March 23 | 11 a.m. -
12:30 p.m. at LBJ Student Center
Ballroom.
At Texas State University:
Cherríe Moraga | Off the Map: Chicanas
Writing Our Way into Being
Wednesday, March 23 | 6 p.m. - 8
p.m. at Alkek Library Teaching Theater.
Cherríe L. Moraga grew up
two blocks from the San Gabriel
Mission, just east of East Los Angeles.
Her Mexican elders have all
passed on, as she continues to write in
their name.
Moraga plays and publications
have received national recognition,
including a TCG Theatre Artist Resi-
dency Grant, the NEA’s Theatre Play-
wrights’ Fellowship, and two Fund for
New American Plays Awards. In 2007,
she was awarded the United States Artist
Rockefeller Fellowship for Literature
and is a recipient of The American
Studies Association Lifetime Achieve-
ment Award, as well as the “Pioneer”
Award from the Lambda Literary
Foundation.
Moraga is the co-editor of This
Bridge Called My Back: Writings by
Radical Women of Color. Winner of the
Before Columbus American Book
Award, Bridge’s 4th edition was pub-
lished by SUNY Press in 2015.
Moraga’s most recent non-fiction col-
lection is A Xicana Codex of Changing
Consciousness:Writings 2000-2010
(Duke University Press). She is also the
author of the now classic Loving in the
War Years: Lo Que Nunca Pasó Por Sus
Labios (1983) and The Last Generation
(1993). In 1997, she published a memoir
on motherhood entitled Waiting in the
Wings and is presently completing
another memoir entitled The Native
Country of My Heart. Moraga has also
published three volumes of drama
through West End Press of
Albuquerque, New Mexico. They
include: Heroes and Saints and Other
Plays, Watsonville/Circle in the Dirt,
and The Hungry Woman/Heart of the
Earth.
A San Francisco Bay Area play-
wright, Moraga has premiered and devel-
oped her work at theatres
throughout San Francisco. Brava’s
production of “Heroes and Saints” in 1992
received numerous awards for best original
script, including the Drama-logue and Critic
Circles Awards and the Pen West Award.
Her plays have also been presented through-
out the Southwest, as well as in Los Angel
Chicago, Seattle and New York. In 1995,
“Heart of the Earth,” Moraga’s adaptation
of the Popol Vuh, the Maya creation myth,
opened at the Public Theatre and INTAR
Theatre in New York City. Her
most recent play, NEW FIRE—To Put
Things Right Again, a collaboration with
visual artist, Celia Herrera Rodríguez, had
its world premiere at Brava Theater Center
in San Francisco in January 2012. Over
3,000 people witnessed the work in its 10-
day run. In 2015, she was awarded the MAP
Fund/Creative Capital grant for her new
play, “Mathematics of Love” to premiere in
2017 in San Francisco.
For nearly 20 years, Moraga has
served as an Artist in Residence in the
Department of Theater Performance Studies
at Stanford University and currently also
shares a joint appointment with Compara-
tive Studies in Race & Ethnicity. She
teaches Creative Writing, Chicano/Latino
Theater, Indigenous Studies, Playwriting
and more.
Cherríe Moraga is a founding
member of La Red Xicana Indígena, an
advocacy network of Xicanas working in
education, the arts, and indigenous women’s
rights. She is a mother and a grandmother,
by blood and heart, several times over. She
calls Oakland, California, home.
Noted Playwright Cherríe Moraga To Speak At The
University of Texas and At Texas State University
Special Exhibit: Life and Death on the Border 1910-1920 At
Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum
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The City of Austin and more than 300 other law enforce-
ment agencies across Texas are conducting a state-wide
warrant round up. Beginning Saturday, March 5, 2016,
officers from the Austin Police Department, Travis and
Williamson Counties and other agencies across the state
will be addressing citizens who have failed to comply
with their court order or have outstanding tickets with the
court.
You may pay your fines via the court’s website at
www.austintexas.gov/public or by phone with a credit
card at 512-974-4800. If you cannot afford to pay, you
may call or appear at the Austin Municipal Court to dis-
cuss options available to you. If you voluntarily come to
the court, you will NOT be arrested. Now is the time to
resolve your outstanding matters with the court.
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Austin Classical Guitar (ACG)
in partnership with the Long Center is
honored to present one of the greatest
masters of flamenco, Vicente Amigo.
With a special sense for the instrument
that gives his music an intimacy and
rhythmic brilliance, he is widely
regarded as one of the most outstanding
guitarists of his generation.
Vicente and his troupe will
perform on March 23, 2016 at 8pm in
the Long Center’s Dell Hall with
complimentary pre-concert tapas served
beginning at 6:30pm courtesy of our
friends at Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
Amigo began his solo career in 1988,
appearing at the Festival Nacional del
Cante de las Minas de la Unión ,
winning the ‘Bordón minero’, first prize
in the Guitar Competition. Soon after, he
won the Concurso Internacional de
Extremadura. His recognition as an elite
flamenco guitarist was secured in May
1989 when he won unanimously the
‘Ramón Montoya Award’ at the XII
Concurso Nacional de Arte Flamenco de
Córdoba .
Another breakthrough came in
1991 when Amigo shared the stage with
Paco de Lucia during the international
guitar festival “Leyendas de la Guitarra”
in Seville. Since his first album, “De mi
corazón al aire,” released in the same
year, through the next two albums
“Vivencias Imaginadas” (1995) and
“Poeta” (1997), his reputation as a
world-class artist grew, along with
opportunities to share stages with
musicians like John McLaughlin, David
Bowie, Stanley Jordan, Al Di Meola,
Keith Richards, Bob Dylan, Milton
Nascimento, Joao Bosco, Phil
Manzanera, Paco de Lucía, and Camarón de
la Isla, among many others.
In 2001, Amigo received a Grammy Award
for “Ciudad de las ideas.”Over the past
decade, Amigo’s incredible global appeal
has given him the opportunity to perform in
many parts of the world, from the Far East
to Cuba, Morocco and Tunisia to South
America. From his childhood in the small
village of Guadalcanal, Spain, the guitarist
has been a great student of culture. His
exposure to a wide range of musical
expression and rhythmic possibility has
allowed Amigo to expand beyond his
trademark “roots of flamenco” approach to
incorporate a mix of what he calls “other
feelings, outside roots.”
About Austin Classical Guitar:
Austin Classical Guitar (ACG) is the
leading classical guitar nonprofit organiza-
tion in the United States. Founded in 1990,
ACG presents more than 50 world-class
performances annually through seven major
concert series, reaching more than 15,000
people each year. ACG promotes lifelong
learning in the arts through free outreach
concerts in the schools, Community Guitar
Ensembles, the critically-acclaimed ACG
Youth Orchestra, and adult enrichment
classes. At the heart of the organization’s
mission is ACG Education, a programbegun
in 2001 and now bringing transformative
classical guitar instruction in for-credit
classes to over 3,500 students each week in
55 Austin schools. Through its ground
breaking online curriculum resource and
teacher training workshops, ACG
Education is changing the scope of class-
room-based classical guitar education
worldwide. For more information, visit
http://www.austinclassicalguitar.org/
Austin Classical Guitar and the Long Center
Present Vicente Amigo
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Alex Rivera es originario
de Mazatlan Sinaloa, nace un 10
de septiembre de 1982, en sus
inicios fue muy difícil sobresalir,
ha pertenecido a bandas como
Banda San Angel, Banda Perikos,
Banda Brisas, a partir del año
2000 la suerte empieza a cam-
biarle y sobresale como composi-
tor, pues sus temas han sido
grabados por artistas de la talla de
Chuy Lizarraga, El Coyote,
Banda San Jose de Mesillas.
German Montero y hasta el artista
internacional Diego verdaguer ha
interpretado alguno de sus temas.
En el año 2010 se lanza
como solista con un gran éxito en
todo México y EEUU algunos de
los éxitos que ha logrado colocar
en el gusto del publico ya como
solista podemos mencionar “Dime la
razón” “Al final de nuestro Amor”
Actualmente se encuentra promo-
cionando su tercer sencillo “Vuelve
pronto”
Resistencia Bookstore
(4926 E Cesa Chavez St,Unit
C1) presents,Indigenous Healing
and Medicine Making Class with
Marika Alvarado, Founder of Of
the Earth Healing on Sunday,
March 6 at 11 AM - 5 PM.Event
also sponsored by Red Salmon
Arts and AKR.
Resistencia Bookstore
invites the publicfor part one of a
class on indigenous healing and
medicine making class.The class
start at 11:00 AM-5:00 PM with
an hour break for lunch.The first
class will focus on the wellness
and body.After lunch, we will be
working on making medicine so
you will have an item to take
home.
This class is free and open
to the public but you must
RVSP: [email protected]
About Marika Alvarado:
Marika Alvarado is the founder of
Of the Earth Healing and is a
direct descendant of generations
of Medicine Women: traditional
native healers of spirit and body,
midwives, and plant medicine
practitioners.
Her family was raised to be
in harmony with the Earth, the
seasons, and the plants. The plants
provided their means of living and
and healing. The healers in my
family tended the sick, the injured,
and the women when they were
with child and when they gave
birth.Tickets Available
www.resistenciabooks.com
Resistencia Bookstore Presents Indigenous Healing
and Medicine Making Class
Cantante Alex Rivera es muy popular
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For the sixth consecutive year,
Austin based Crossroads Events presents
the Mexican American Experience a two
day concert showcase, making a return
to the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican
American Cultural Center (ESB-MACC)
on the north shores of Lady Bird Lake in
the Capital city. OnWednesday, March
16th and Thursday, March17th,attendees
will enjoy a sample of Texas music – by
Texas artists. The cultural event is cited
as “ a real contribution to our commu-
nity” by Gavin Lance Garcia, board
member of the Music Commission.
.Admission is free.
This year, Crossroads Events
will present outstanding Texas based
artists who represent a segment of young
singer/songwriters and musicians who
are making their mark on a genre of
music with origins to the 19th century
that is a result of a mixture of cultures
from Mexico, Texas and German,
Polish, and Czech immigrants. Every
generation that continues to explore and
perform this genre of music has added
their own style, based on their current or
past influences and it’s reflected in their
music.
The music made by these artists
is an example of the identity and culture of
Mexican Americans.Crossroads Events
provides a showcase of these artists for
individuals and families to enjoy these
rhythms, along with the culture and food.
The Mexican American Experience is
collaboration with the ESB-MACC and the
City of Austin.
The artists featured on Wednesday,
March 16th include:David Farias – Album
of the Year – Conjunto (2013). Farias is the
former leader and vocalist/accordion player
for Tropa F.;Yayo Castillo y Rumores –
Founded by brothers Yayo, Arturo and
Ignacio Castillo several decades ago They
remain popular and in demand with their
recordings and performances.;A –T Boyz –
Austin Music Awards – 2010 › Best
Performing Bands (Indie – Top 10) –
Founded as Alma Tejana by Francisco
“Paco” Rodriguez and his three sons
Raphael, Fernando and the late Paquito
;Tejano Highway 281 – Best New Group
of the Year (2012).
On Thursday, March 17th, bands
include AJ Castillo – Best New Male Artist
(2010 winner); Top 5 Nominee for Male
Vocalist of the Year (2015);Angel Gonzalez
y Vimana – Top 5 Nominee for Best New
Male Artist (2013 and 2014); also performs
Freestyle;Lucky Joe – Best New Artist –
Male (2014 winner) He is singer/
songwriter and accordion player; Monica
Saldivar, the 2015 Austin Tejano Music
Coalition Tejano Idol first place winner.
Music begins at 6:00pm on both
days, with the grounds open to the public
at 5:00pm . No ice chest allowed at the
event and established Austin based
businesses will be onsite with food and
beverages . Local non-profit and commu-
nity organizations will be on site to
provide information.
Parking is by permit only at the
ESB-MACC during this event. A shuttle
service is available from Martin Middle
School and Fiesta Gardens at no cost for
event attendees.
The event anticipates continuing
to reach a broad and diverse audience,
based on the prior success of attendance
by citizens, as well as tourists who seek
the wide variety of entertainment this city
has to offer. . Attendees are encouraged to
take lawn chairs .Links: A video from the
2011 production:
www.mexicanamericanexperience.org/
and the main website
http://crossroadsevents.org/
About Crossroads Events –
Crossroads Events Presents Tejano Festival At Emma S. Barrientos MACC
Lucky Joe Performs Thursday
Mission:• To promote the culture, music,
dance and achievements of the Mexican
American community.• To tell those
stories through cultural and educational
presentations.• To host family oriented
events that celebrate the successes of the
Mexican American
community.
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City of Austin
Purchasing Office
The City of Austin Purchasing Office invites you to view current
bid solicitations at http://www.austintexas.gov/purchase/vs/p4.htm.
Vendors are encouraged to register on-line in the City’s Vendor Self
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America Ferrera is
returning to ABC.The
Ugly Betty alum —
poised to return to the
screen in NBC midseason
comedy Superstore —
has launched a production
company and signed an
overall deal with ABC
Studios.
Ferrera has launched Take
Fountain Productions
and, via her deal with
ABC Studios, will de-
velop
new projects for cable
and broadcast. The
actress has also tapped
Gabrielle Neimand,
former vp of
Narrative Films at Partici-
pant Media and The Last
Exorcism producer, to run
development and
production.
Take Fountain has also sold
its first two projects — comedy
Plus One to ABC and drama Social
Creatures to younger-skewing
sibling cable network ABC Family.
Plus One, which has received a
script commitment at ABC follow-
ing a competitive bidding
process,is a single-camera family
comedy. The potential series is told
from the point of view of three
millennial siblings who find their
places in the family upended when
they discover they have a fourth
sibling who is everything they are
— and more.
Valentina Garza
(Bordertown, The Simpsons) will
pen the script and exec produce
alongside Ferreraan Neimand.
Social Creatures, mean-
while, has received a script com-
mitment from ABC Family —
which was rebranded as Freeform
in January. The drama follows the
explicit lives of six young friends
living in New York City who are
trying to create meaningful rela-
tionships in the hyper-digital age.
Ryan Piers Williams, who
created the drama, will write the
script, exec produce and direct,
should Social Creatures move to
pilot. Take Fountain and Teri
Weinberg, via her Yellow Brick
Road banner, will also exec pro-
duce. The drama will serve as a
reunion for Ferrera and Weinberg,
who collaborated during ABC’s
Ugly Betty. Ferrera is repped by
CAA, Authentic Management and
Peikoff Mahan; Garza is repped by
UTA and Industry Entertainmen.
America Ferrera is returning to ABC
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Mexico will bring a showcase to
SXSW 2016. A number of companies
such as AEM, SRE, ProMéxico,
Mexico Tourism Board, INADEM, Tec
de Monterrey,INCmty, Startup México,
Dalus Capital and Nxtp.Lab,will pre-
sent Casa México at The Emma S. Bar-
rientos Mexican American Cultural
Center ( 600 River St. )
The showcase will run from
Friday, March 11, 2016 to Monday
March 14.Attendees can experience the
best of Mexico in Entrepreneurship,
Innovation, Art, Tourism, Culture,
Tequilas, Mezcals, Mexican Wines and
Mexican Food.
For information visit:
casamexicosxsw.com
SXSW announced its 2016
SXSWAméricas All Latino Showcase
on Saturday, March 19, at the SXSW
Outdoor Stage at Lady Bird Lake,
featuring a stellar line-up representing a
wide variety of musical styles.
This year’s performers include
Intocable, Grupo Fantasma, Systema
Solar, División Minúscula, 3BallMTY,
and more to be announced.
Gates will open at 12:00PM with the
first act starting at 2:00PM.
Headlining the show is Intocable,
whose Tejano/Norteño fusion has
become the blueprint for dozens of
others, cementing them as the most
influential group in Tejano music today.
This showcase is free and open
to the public with a Guest Pass; sign up
online and add it to your SXSW GO
app.For SXSW Music showcases, and
more Visit the SXSW Outdoor Stage
webpage for more information.
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SXSW Presents All Latino
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