The Rite to Remember: Performance & Xicana/Indigena Thought

The Chicano/Latino Graduate Student Association and the (W)Rite to Remember Project proudly presents this weekend symposium on Performance & Indigenous Thought.

Friday May 20: Graduate Student Performances & Round Table (Reception 5-6pm)

Stanford graduate student works from the Rite to Remember course with Cherrie Moraga. Invited participants include Ju Yon Kim, Micaela Diaz-Sanchez, Adelina Anthony, Zamora, Ronak Kapadia and Eman Desoukey.

Sat May 21st (1-5pm): “The Art of Ceremony/the Ceremony of Art.”

(Reception 3-5pm)

Saturday will feature artistic collaborators from "The Hungry Woman" play production as well as Indigenous ceremonial practitioners in its discussion on Indígena/aboriginal aesthetics and ritual. Invited guests include Cherrie Moraga- (Stanford University) Writer & Director of The Hungry Woman; Jacqui Alexander- (U of Toronto) Santera Priest and transnational feminist theorist; Ines Hernandez Avila — (UC Davis) Prof in Native American Studies; Celia Herrera Rodriguez- (UCB, Ethnic Studies); Painter/Installation/Performance Artist & 30-year practitioner Indigenous spiritual traditions; Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie- (UC Davis Native American Studies) Curator of the Gorman Museum; Video Artist and Photographer; Alleluia Panis- Co-founder and Executive/Artistic Director of Kulintang Arts (www.kularts.org) choreographer in dance forms of traditional & tribal communities of the Philippines