[altroots] Re: Jose Torres Tama Keynote on Performance Art @ "Americans for the A rts" Austin, TX

My dear cyber arts aficionados: 

I often write from a variety of cities on the road, and presently, I am in 
Austin of big Texas for the ?American for the Arts Conference.?  I am here as a 
?Keynote Speaker? in the pre-conference sessions to present a performed 
analysis entitled ?Performance Art as A Creative Strategy to Empower 
Marginalized Communities.?  In short, this presentation explores how I employ 
performance art as a creative tool to empower African American and Latino youth 
and other disenfranchised communities across the country through residency 
projects such as the ?Youth Performance Projects? and the ?MediAmerica 
Intergenerational Performances.?  

Covering ten years worth of residency work across the country, I comment on 
performance art as a genre where the mythology of personal stories are 
cultivated, spoken and performed and performance as a creative forum for 
cross-cultural collaborations across the borders of age, class and race.  I 
will have more on the text of this presentation and performance art as genre to 
inspire cultural empowerment available on the web site soon. 

I may see some of you here.

Gracias,

Jose Torres Tama
www.torrestama.com


Visual & performance artist, writer, director and youth educator, Jose Torres 
Tama is on the move again with multidisciplinary projects that explore the 
immigrant experience, the American Dream mythology and the effects of media on 
our lives. Cultivating young voices through his ?Youth Performance Projects,? 
he offers African American & Latino teens a creative forum for cross-cultural 
collaboration and self-empowerment through performance of their personal 
stories. His ?MediaAmerica? intergenerational projects employ performance art 
as a strategy to critically analyze the media and address the misinformation it 
generates about diverse cultures across the country. His solo shows are hybrid 
spectacles of theater and performance art--informed by bilingual texts, spoken 
word, visual tableaus, movement and rituals of fire.

Upcoming Residency & Performance Projects 2005

Austin, TX: American for the Arts June 10
Keynote Speaker ?Performance Art as a Creative
Strategy to Empower Marginalized Communities?

New Orleans, LA: Ogden Museum of Southern Art July 10
Panel Discussion ?What is Performance Art?? 

Arden, NC: Alternate ROOTS Annual Meeting Aug. 13
?Channeling the Spirits? Performance

New Orleans, LA: Bishop Perry Middle School & Ogden Museum Sept. 5-30
?Living History Youth Project? a visual & performance project with middle 
school teens exploring the legacy of New Orleans? 
?Free People of Color?
Funded by Alternate ROOTS C/APP Grant & the Ogden Museum

Knoxville, TN: Carpetbag Theatre Inc. 10-16 
?Between the Pen & the Sword? Solo Performance & Youth Workshops 
?Show What You Know? Theater Festival 
and NPN Residency Project

Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Artist in Residence Oct. 20-30
Performing ?Between the Pen & the Sword? 
& Student Workshops 

For bookings: jose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx or 504.948.4607
ArteFuturo Productions 2322 Dauphine Street
New Orleans, LA 70117

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