(via Welcome to CherrieMoraga.com)

San Francisco, CA (December 7, 2011) – After a fifteen-year hiatus, Brava Theater is proud to welcome award–winning writer and director„ Cherríe Moraga, back to its stages to celebrate its 25th anniversary with the world premiere of her new play, New Fire – To Put Things Right Again.

Co-produced with cihuatl productions, and conceptually created and designed by Celia Herrera Rodríguez, this new work follows the sacred geography of Indigenous American mythologies to tell a 21st century story of rupture, migration and homecoming.  Countering new-age apocalyptic predictions for 2012, NEW FIRE takes a mythic and modern-day look at the conditions of our times.   The play follows one woman’s dreamscape ceremonial journey upon the eve of her birthday, expertly interweaving humorous encounters with tricksters and allies of every ilk who act as her guides on the road to remembering a stolen past.  New Fire will inspire and challenge its audiences to regain an American history erased in post-colonial textbooks.

The world premiere production runs January 11 – 29, 2012 at the Brava Theater (2781 24^th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110).

I’m so envious of anyone in SF who got to see this [review links pretty pls.??]. Guessing/hoping it’ll be performed elsewhere eventually though. 

sexartandpolitics:

Kent Monkman - Artist and Model, 2003
20” x 24”
acrylic on canvas
collection of the artist
(click through for super hi-res)

Monkman writes that by inserting himself in the series, he “relate[s] the importance of this historical event to [his] own identity as a Native person”. In his decision to create Share in his own image, the artist blatantly references his own sexuality as a site of power. Share and her overt sexuality are always the focus of each work, with a blunt refusal to play second fiddle or to be upstaged by even her own lover’s death. Minh-ha writes that “the return to a denied heritage allows one to start again with different re-departures, different pauses, different arrivals.” By making himself the subject of his intervention on 19th-century colonial art, Monkman is effectively creating a place for himself, a place that previously did not exist, in the history books.

e-misférica | The Noble Savage Was a Drag Queen: Hybridity and Transformation in Kent Monkman’s Performance and Visual Art Interventions by Kerry Swanson

loveandzombies:

fuckyeahwomenwriters:

Leslie Marmon Silko

1948-

Leslie Marmon Silko is a Native American writer born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She grew up near the Laguna Pueblo Reservation, and her experience with the tribe had a large impact on her writing. While still in school Silko penned a short story titled The Man to Send Rain Clouds. This story brought her a lot of attention, and she was awarded the National Endowment for the Humanities Discovery Grant. Her first novel, Ceremony, was published in 1977 and quickly became a critical success. In 1981 she won the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant. She quit her job teaching to work on what would be her second novel. It would take her 10 years to complete.

Themes: Native American Experience, Women’s History, Nature, Race

Novels

• Ceremony
• Almanac of the Dead
• Gardens in the Dunes

Poetry and Short Story Collections

• Love Poem and Slim Canyon
• Rain
• Sacred Water: Narratives and Pictures
• Yellow Woman
• Storyteller
• Western Stories
• Laguna Women: Poems

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