VIDA Live 2 @ Contemporary Arts Center
Series of Live Events to Empower the Latin Community
& Celebrate Our Poets & Musicians
Saturday, April 20 from 2 to 4:30pm
Contemporary Arts Center @ 900 Camp Street
$5 contribution at the door
Series of Live Events to Empower the Latin Community
& Celebrate Our Poets & Musicians
Saturday, April 20 from 2 to 4:30pm
Contemporary Arts Center @ 900 Camp Street
$5 contribution at the door
Celebrating Latin American Poets & Musicians for Poetry Month
& Addressing the Immigration Crisis & Border Issues
Poets: Linett Luna Tovar - Melinda Palacio
José Fermin Ceballos Poet & Musician
Roberto Carrillo Musician
Writers: Yulene Velásquez & Marlon Torres
& Performance Activist José Torres-Tama
In the wake of the 2018 Tricentennial, the most neglected story of last year’s celebration of New Orleans and its 300 years were the contributions of the Latin American immigrant community
to the reconstruction of post-Katrina New Orleans.
VIDA IN NEW ORLEANS provides a cultural arts platform by bringing together our Latin American writers, poets, and activists to acknowledge the existence of our communities in the metro New Orleans area,
and amplify our voices.
The first VIDA Live event launched at the Ashé Cultural Arts Center on February 9, and these public performances are meant to increase awareness of the cultural contributions of our Latin American community,
and celebrate the published poets, writers, and musicians featured in VIDA In New Orleans.
This VIDA Live 2 event takes place at the Contemporary Arts Center, located at 900 Camp Street.
ArteFuturo Productions is working with Kaisas Peguero, the CAC’s Education & Public Programs Manager.
The CAC will host an event that celebrates Latin poets, performers, writers, and musicians on
Saturday, April 20th.
VIDA Live 2 begins at 2pm,
and we ask for a modest $5 contribution at the door.
VIDA means LIFE, and our VIDA LIVE events honor the Latin American immigrant community that has given their sweat, labor, and love to the reconstruction and resurrection of New Orleans in the near fourteen years post-Katrina, states Torres-Tama, VIDA founder.
Featuring:
Linett Luna Tovar
poet, activist, and scholar working on her Masters,
will perform bilingual works honoring our Latin immigrant women.
Melinda Palacio,
award-winning poet, will perform pieces from her book
How Fire is a Story, Waiting.
José Fermin Ceballos,
a celebrated musician and now published poet,
will perform his musical ballads on immigrants
and the intrinsic humanity of people in search of a dream.
Roberto Carrillo
will perform his original songs
that are odes to the immigrant children.
Yulene Velásquez,
writer, educator, and singer,
will offer a piece on the current Venezuelan crisis
from the perspective of a Venezuelan artist forced into exile.
Marlon Torres,
activist and SPLC organizer,
will offer his piece on being the son of Mexican immigrants
and the dehumanization of immigrants by this current administration.
José Torres-Tama,
performance activist will perform a new piece in progress titled
United States of Amnesia: from Fugitive Slave Act to Zero Tolerance,
which just received a development award from Alternate ROOTS in Atlanta.
Also, he will perform excerpts of his award-winning solo
Aliens, Immigrants, & Other Evildoers,
fresh from a sold-out Houston performance.
& Addressing the Immigration Crisis & Border Issues
Poets: Linett Luna Tovar - Melinda Palacio
José Fermin Ceballos Poet & Musician
Roberto Carrillo Musician
Writers: Yulene Velásquez & Marlon Torres
& Performance Activist José Torres-Tama
In the wake of the 2018 Tricentennial, the most neglected story of last year’s celebration of New Orleans and its 300 years were the contributions of the Latin American immigrant community
to the reconstruction of post-Katrina New Orleans.
VIDA IN NEW ORLEANS provides a cultural arts platform by bringing together our Latin American writers, poets, and activists to acknowledge the existence of our communities in the metro New Orleans area,
and amplify our voices.
The first VIDA Live event launched at the Ashé Cultural Arts Center on February 9, and these public performances are meant to increase awareness of the cultural contributions of our Latin American community,
and celebrate the published poets, writers, and musicians featured in VIDA In New Orleans.
This VIDA Live 2 event takes place at the Contemporary Arts Center, located at 900 Camp Street.
ArteFuturo Productions is working with Kaisas Peguero, the CAC’s Education & Public Programs Manager.
The CAC will host an event that celebrates Latin poets, performers, writers, and musicians on
Saturday, April 20th.
VIDA Live 2 begins at 2pm,
and we ask for a modest $5 contribution at the door.
VIDA means LIFE, and our VIDA LIVE events honor the Latin American immigrant community that has given their sweat, labor, and love to the reconstruction and resurrection of New Orleans in the near fourteen years post-Katrina, states Torres-Tama, VIDA founder.
Featuring:
Linett Luna Tovar
poet, activist, and scholar working on her Masters,
will perform bilingual works honoring our Latin immigrant women.
Melinda Palacio,
award-winning poet, will perform pieces from her book
How Fire is a Story, Waiting.
José Fermin Ceballos,
a celebrated musician and now published poet,
will perform his musical ballads on immigrants
and the intrinsic humanity of people in search of a dream.
Roberto Carrillo
will perform his original songs
that are odes to the immigrant children.
Yulene Velásquez,
writer, educator, and singer,
will offer a piece on the current Venezuelan crisis
from the perspective of a Venezuelan artist forced into exile.
Marlon Torres,
activist and SPLC organizer,
will offer his piece on being the son of Mexican immigrants
and the dehumanization of immigrants by this current administration.
José Torres-Tama,
performance activist will perform a new piece in progress titled
United States of Amnesia: from Fugitive Slave Act to Zero Tolerance,
which just received a development award from Alternate ROOTS in Atlanta.
Also, he will perform excerpts of his award-winning solo
Aliens, Immigrants, & Other Evildoers,
fresh from a sold-out Houston performance.