Podcast intro music: “The Club” from the musical In The Heights by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Original Broadway Cast Recording available at www.intheheightsthemusical.com, amazon.com, or iTunes.
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THE NEWS
1. 10-Minute Play Submissions
2. NACCS’ Joto Conference
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LOS COMENTARIOS DE CARLOS
1. What makes or defines an emerging playwright? vs What makes or defines an established playwright?
2. In The Heights, what others said vs what I say.
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THIRD EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS
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1. Teatro Bravo seeks ten-minute plays written by Latino playwrights under 30. If chosen, submissions will be included in the Latino Play Festival for January 2009 as staged readings. Possible production of plays may follow, pending funding.
Teatro Bravo produces plays that portray a variety of issues in the national Latino and/or Latin American community in both English and Spanish. For further information, please view our website: www.teatrobravo.org
The purpose of the contest
1. To promote new opportunities for young Latino playwrights.
2. To uncover the issues in the minds of younger writers, and portray them on stage.
3. To increase visibility of young Latino playwrights.
4. To discover new talent across the country.
General Guidelines:
1. The play must be ten-minutes or ten pages in standard play format with 12-point type and standard margins.
2. The play must be on any subject matter pertinent to either “contemporary Latino issues” or “Latino heritage,” broadly interpreted.
3. The plays may be written in English, Spanish, or Spanglish.
4. Technical effects must be kept simple.
5. Any number of characters is acceptable as long as it makes sense to the story the author is trying to tell. In ten minutes, the author may wish to concentrate on a small number of characters, but there’s always an exception.
6. The author owns all the rights, and will maintain them. We simply seek the right to present it once during the Latino Play Festival. We would renegotiate any future use.
7. We prefer new and unproduced work, but the play may be produced as long as the rights for this presentation are readily available.
8. We cannot pay for the staged reading section of the presentations, but would pay a royalty if the play is chosen for production.
9. Please include a copy of an identification that reveals age with your submission. Since some documents are private, you may wish to block out the i.d. number. All we need is a date that reveals age with your name on it. (When does one count as 30? By the deadline or the festival? We will count you as “under 30″ if that’s your age by the time the postmark or the electronic submission is made. )
10. If you’re mailing your submission, please enclose an SASE if you wish your submission returned. Otherwise, please write a note allowing us to recycle.
11. Playwrights may be notified shortly after December 1, 2008.
12. Please include contact information on your script: name, a phone number, or an email address.
Deadline: postmarked or emailed by October 1, 2008
Please send submissions to:
Hardcopy:
Teatro Bravo
Attn: Ten-Minute Play Contest
4211 E. Palm Lane #204
Phoenix AZ 85008
Or
Electronic submission: Teatrobravophx@aol.com
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2. 2nd NACCS Joto Conference oct. 9-11, 2008
Keynotes: Professor Michale Hames-Garcia from University of Oregon and L.A. based Performer Artist Adelina Antony.
Performances by Yosimar Reyes, Spoken Word Artist and Dan Guerrero performing his one-man show GAYTINO!
CALL FOR PROPOSALS/PAPERS
The National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Joto Caucus &
The California State University, Los Angeles’ Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities presents the
2nd NACCS Joto Caucus Conference
“Sacred Space Making: Mapping Queer Scholarship, Activism, and Performance“
October 10-12, 2008
California State University , Los Angeles
OBJECTIVE
On a daily basis queer communities across the globe create sacred spaces to resist the detrimental effects of globalization, capitalism, racism, anti-immigrant sentiments, war, patriarchy, homophobia, transphobia, and other forms of discrimination. Sacred spaces can be physical, social, political, and/or epistemological sites where queer politics, analyses, identities, and values are respected and cultivated. Sacred spaces work as centers of transformation and healing to end all forms of oppression.
In November of 2007, the NACCS Joto Caucus hosted its first conference at the University of Nevada , Las Vegas where we envisioned a queer homeland by bridging communities and resisting hate. This year’s conference envisions praxis of sacred space making, where queer scholarship, activism, and performance is discussed and shared. This conference will bring together various queer scholars, activists, artists, students, and members of the community to create sacred spaces that celebrate and honor the legacy of survival, resilience, and resistance among queer communities. We seek to map how sacred spaces allow dialogue on the evolution and revolution of queer scholarship, activism, and performance. In doing so, we continue to imagine and (re)create a queer homeland.
While this conference is being organized by a predominately Joto Chicano caucus, we welcome participation from all queer communities resisting to create spaces of equality, equity, safety, inclusiveness, and empowerment regardless of ethnic background, gender orientation, or nationality.
THEME
In the spirit of the above mentioned objective we invite proposals and/or papers from undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, community members, activists, and artists/performers. Rather than fostering a purely academic space, this conference encourages interactive workshops, presentations, and dialogues that encourage self-empowerment among participants. The conference will provide a forum for scholarship, activism, and performance that contributes to and informs (directly and indirectly) Jotería, all of our queer Chicana/o and Latina/o communities. We strongly encourage participation from community organizations and transgender people who would like to present their work as we strive to engage in authentic dialogue between/through activism, performance, and scholarship. Themes or topics may include, but are not limited to the following:
Art Interventions Immigration/Migration
HIV/AIDS Education
Identity Mental Health
Spirituality Indigenisma and Indigenismo
Public Health Queer Youth
Race, Class, Gender Literature
Safe Sex Practices Community Outreach
Transnationalism Feminism
Queer Communities Herstory/History
Transgender rights Queerstory
Film Human/Queer/Women’s Rights
Law LGTBQI Studies
Postcolonial Studies Globalization Studies
Mentorship Violence Intervention and Resistance
Ethnic Studies Women’s Studies
Proposals and papers are currently being accepted for:
1) Interactive workshops,
2) Roundtables,
3) Academic paper presentations/panels, and
4) Undergraduate student plenary (limited to undergraduate students only)
Please note that all submissions will be carefully assessed by a team of reviewers. The number of submissions accepted will be limited although we will work towards accommodating as many presentations as the schedule permits. Additionally, please note that all presentations (workshops, roundtable discussions, and academic panels) will be granted one hour of presentation time. Caucus members suggest that all presentations include time for interaction (question and answer) with the participants. A moderator or discussant will be assigned for each panel. Please note that presentations are defined as follows: Workshops consist of hands-on group facilitation. We encourage facilitators to develop activities to incorporate the participants into the discussion.
Roundtables consist of an open discussion ..ed topics. We encourage roundtables to include participants into the discussion of the topic(s) selected.
Panels consist of academic research presentations, reports, scholarly papers, or projects. These can be submitted individually (the program committee will group selected submissions into panels that are closely related). We encourage the submission of collective panels consisting of no more than three panelists.
The Undergraduate Plenary will be a special session during the program where selected undergraduates will present their research papers to the collective audience. Undergraduate students are strongly encouraged to submit papers related to the conference theme or other topics mentioned above.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION
For workshops, roundtables, and panels:
Please submit a proposal of 250 words describing the theme, goal, or activity planned. Proposals for panel and paper presentations should include information regarding how these scholarly works are relevant to the conference theme and goal. For submission of panels (of more than one presenter), please include a title for the panel, and individual titles for each presentation.
For the Undergraduate Plenary: (limited to undergraduate students only)
Please submit your academic paper (no more than eight (8) pages in length) with a title, proper citations, and a bibliography. Please indicate in your submission how your paper is relevant to the conference theme and goal.
Please include the following information with your submission:
1) Name(s) of presenter(s),
2) Presentation title(s),
3) University or Organization you represent,
4) City and State,
5) Type of submission (workshop, roundtable, panel, or undergraduate plenary),
6) Type of audio/visual equipment required. Note that limited equipment is available.
Submissions should be sent as word documents to naccs-joto@naccs.org
All proposals are due August 1st, 2008.
Proposals accepted into the conference program will be notified by August 15, 2008 via email.
If you should have any questions regarding this “Call for Proposals/Papers” please contact us at the email provided above.
Sincerely,
José M. Aguilar-Hernández, co-chair
California State University, Northridge
Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies
Emmanuelle J. Leal-Santillan, co-chair
Community Member
Youth Policy Institute – Youth Services
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What or who defines an emerging playwright? vs What or who defines an established playwright?
Answering these two questions is like trying to answer the famous question “who came first? The chicken or the egg?
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The following volume will be delayed until mid August due to the producers moving from the west coast to the east coast. At the same time because I will be attending the ATHE Conference where I will be interviewing several Latino theatre artists. Volume 103 is sure to be full of surprises.
