Volume 105- September 2008, Notes

Welcome to Teatro Latino Conversations Volume 105 for the month of September 2008.

1. Reason why episode is late

2. News/Announcements

a) VI International Seminar on Rito and Representation, La Habana, Cuba.

b) Congratulations are in order for playwright Magdalena Gomez.

3. A conversation with playwright Elaine Romero

4. Highlights for Episode 106

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1. The reason why this episode is late is due to hurricane IKE, which touched Louisville, knocking down trees, destroying a few houses, many cars, blocking roads and leaving the city without power for a few hours. Parts of the city were left without power for several days. I didn’t have power until 9 days after the storm passed. It wasn’t fun, but here we are once again.

2. News/Announcements

a) Conference in Habana Cuba

Seminario, Rito y Representación: Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba

VI Seminario Internacional

Rito y Representación

11 al 15 de febrero, 2009

El Seminario a realizarse en la Ciudad de La Habana, profundizará en la espectacularidad del rito, desde una perspectiva multidisciplinaria y estudiará diferentes aspectos relacionados con su vigencia y presencia en el quehacer de nuestros realizadores contemporáneos. Se ofrecerán conferencias interdisciplinarias,  clases magistrales teórico-prácticas impartidas por prestigiosos profesores, muestra teatral y danzaria en diversos espacios y exposición de artes plásticas.

Temas

- Tradiciones rituales y sus diversas formas de expresión  en la cultura contemporánea.

- Memoria colectiva e identidad cultural: construyendo una genealogía afrolatinoamericana.

- La mujer en la dramaturgia y el arte de la representación ritual contemporánea.

- El concepto de territorialidad y su proyección espacio-temporal en el discurso escénico.

- Performance y ritual.

- Experimentación de la posesión como técnica de actuación.

- Medios de comunicación audiovisual y prácticas rituales.

Cuota de inscripción: 100 USD ó 100 M/N.

Dra. Yana Elsa Brugal
Directora
Proyecto Cultural Arte-Tiempo
Cárdenas 114 (bajos) entre Gloria y Apodaca. La Habana Vieja. Cuba.
Teléfono: 537-8 612838
E-mail: yanaaisar@cubarte.cult.cu <mailto:yanaaisar@cubarte.cult.cu>
aisaryana@yahoo.es <mailto:aisaryana@yahoo.es>
Centro de Teatro de La Habana

b) Congratulations are in order for Magdalena Gomez

Springfield, MA. Playwright, Magdalena Gomez Wins National Award

The Black Women Playwrights Group (BWPG), a national organization
based in Washington D.C. since 1989, presented their first Whisper!
Laugh! Shout! Award to five women playwrights who have made
outstanding contributions to the field of theater. Springfield based
playwright, performer and educator, Magdalena Gomez, Co-founder and

Artistic Director of Springfield’ s Teatro Vida, a project of the
Latino Breakfast Club, was one of the recipients. Selection was by
nomination and a jury of nationally acclaimed theater professionals.
Keynote speakers included MacArthur Genius Award winner Playwright
Lynn Nottage, playwright Shay Youngblood and Professor Sydne Mahone,
editor of the ground-breaking book, Moon Marked and Touched by the
Sun, among many other distinguished speakers, presenters and
performers from around the country. The Awards Dinner, attended by
over 300 people, was held at the Hotel Orrington in Evanston,
Illinois. You may visit Ms. Gomez at: www.latinapoet.net. For more
information on the BWPG go to: www.blackwomenplaywrights.org.

3) A conversation with Elaine Romero, listen to the two of us gossip about theatre, work, and our own lives.

4) Coming up on Episode 106, a conversation with playwright Oliver Meyer.