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Monday, January 14, 2013
UndocuNationBerkeley: Call for Artists
UndocuNationBerkeley: Call for Artists
The Center for Race and Gender (CRG), CultureStr/ke and the Department ofTheater, Dance and Performance Studies (TDPS)
is thrilled to announce this year's UndocuNation at UC Berkeley. We
will be bringing together artists, community members, students, faculty
and staff from California and the nation focusing attention on critical
issues affecting undocumented immigrant communities. Hosted by Bay Area
artist Favianna Rodríguez,
UndocuNation is an evening of culture jamming, visual art, and
performances addressing the devastating consequences of our country's
broken immigration system.
Artists
from different racial and sexual backgrounds, immigration history and
documentation statuses will be sharing artwork and cultural
interventions about the current immigration crisis through performances,
film excerpts, installations, music and readings. The collaboration of
these creative artists attempts to use images and stories to facilitate
dialogue that can inspire. UndocuNation, is also part of a series of
workshops that have been taking place nation-wide has been presented in
major U.S. cities, including at our own Bay Area Yerba Buena Center for
the Arts and at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC.
We
are currently seeking artists who may be interested in being part of
this celebration, and collaborate with artists, writers, and organizers
from across the country to build and support humane, just ways to
address our nation’s current immigrant crisis. The event itself is
comprised of a collage of artistic performances that allow creative
cultural workers to speak about their art to shift today’s understanding
of what "America" looks like. The UndocuNation event at UC Berkeley
will have a particular focus on undocumented immigrant communities and
the connections between the politics of immigration and education. In
addition, we seek to emphasize how the experience of being undocumented intersects with other political identities such as gender and sexuality, by including a number of performances that are queer-identified.
We welcome:
- poetry
- spoken word
- creative readings
- music
- video shorts
- scenes and skits for stage
- comedy
- paintings
- installation work
- ANY ARTISTIC & CREATIVE FORM OF EXPRESSION
Please
note that in collaboration with CultureStrike, UndocuNation, is an
evening with artists for immigrant justice. We seek artists that bring
visibility to the immigration debate, and similar to CultureStrike,
create a collective of artists across the nation who challenge dominant
anti-immigrant narratives and infuse the national narrative with
creative values- based, pro-immigrant images, ideals and stories. We
welcome interdisciplinary collaborations that foster an engagement with
the larger public and explore new models of art as a vehicle for
cultural change.
You have until JANUARY 20, 2013 to submit a piece of your artistic talent. To express your interest in participatng, questions or concerns please contact:
UC Berkeley Visiting Scholar
Judith Lee Stronach Baccalaureate Prize
&
Assistant Professor
Theater, Dance and Performance Studies
PLEASE SAVE THE DATE:
UNDOCUNATION
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE, UC BERKELEY campus
FEBRUARY 15, 2013
7:00 P.M. – 10:00 P.M
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