Carmen Tafolla one-woman performance
Award-Winning Author Carmen Tafolla in her critically-acclaimed one-woman theatrical performance...
Las Voces de San Antonio! (The Voices of San Antonio)
Wed., Feb 3, 2010 at 7 p.m.
Trinity University Attic Theatre, Room 327,
Ruth Taylor Theater Building
Free and open to the public
…a moving mosaic of San Antonio voices, rich with the language and the values of the bicultural West-Side, this fascinating performance ranges from the six-year-old to the elderly veteran, and from the tough chola dropout to the courageous college student. Experience a truly bilingual, transcultural tour through San Antonio’s barrios, and leave with an inspiring sense of how valuable each of us are, through our individual and our cultural diversity. Dr. Dorey Schmidt says of Tafolla’s performance, “You will laugh and cry, and celebrateyour own uniqueness.”
Dr. Carmen Tafolla has performed this one-woman show at Cornell, Ohio State, Universidad de Malaga, The National Museum of New Zealand, UNAM in Mexico City, and throughout Europe and the Americas.
One of the most anthologized of Latina writers, Tafolla is the author of more than fifteen books, including her latest collection of short stories, The Holy Tortilla and a Pot of Beans, which won the 2009 Tomas Rivera Book Award. She has also received the 1999 Art of Peace Award, recognition by the National Association for Chicano Studies for work which "gives voice to the peoples and cultures of this land," and was called by Roots author Alex Haley, "a world-class writer." A member of the Texas Institute of Letters and the San Antonio Women’s Hall of Fame, she has just been awarded the Charlotte Zolotow Award for Best Children’s Picture Book writing of 2010. Tafolla is currently a Visiting Faculty member in Mexican American Studies at UTSA.
Sponsored by Trinity University’s Mexico, the Americas, and Spain (MAS) program.
Las Voces de San Antonio! (The Voices of San Antonio)
Wed., Feb 3, 2010 at 7 p.m.
Trinity University Attic Theatre, Room 327,
Ruth Taylor Theater Building
Free and open to the public
…a moving mosaic of San Antonio voices, rich with the language and the values of the bicultural West-Side, this fascinating performance ranges from the six-year-old to the elderly veteran, and from the tough chola dropout to the courageous college student. Experience a truly bilingual, transcultural tour through San Antonio’s barrios, and leave with an inspiring sense of how valuable each of us are, through our individual and our cultural diversity. Dr. Dorey Schmidt says of Tafolla’s performance, “You will laugh and cry, and celebrateyour own uniqueness.”
Dr. Carmen Tafolla has performed this one-woman show at Cornell, Ohio State, Universidad de Malaga, The National Museum of New Zealand, UNAM in Mexico City, and throughout Europe and the Americas.
One of the most anthologized of Latina writers, Tafolla is the author of more than fifteen books, including her latest collection of short stories, The Holy Tortilla and a Pot of Beans, which won the 2009 Tomas Rivera Book Award. She has also received the 1999 Art of Peace Award, recognition by the National Association for Chicano Studies for work which "gives voice to the peoples and cultures of this land," and was called by Roots author Alex Haley, "a world-class writer." A member of the Texas Institute of Letters and the San Antonio Women’s Hall of Fame, she has just been awarded the Charlotte Zolotow Award for Best Children’s Picture Book writing of 2010. Tafolla is currently a Visiting Faculty member in Mexican American Studies at UTSA.
Sponsored by Trinity University’s Mexico, the Americas, and Spain (MAS) program.
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