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La Pocha Nostra Pedagogical Workshop  

Guillermo Gómez-Peña
February 13, 2021
5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Zoom - Must register by Feburary 1, 2021

La Pocha Nostra Pedagogical Workshop  

A performance pedagogy workshop will be held on February 13. The four-hour guided workshop introduces participants to the pedagogical foundations of LPN's interdisciplinary performance practice: the body as a site for creation, reinvention, memory, activism, and ritual. The application to participate in the online version of La Pocha Nostra's workshop is included below. Faculty, graduate students, and staff interested in activism, performance, and embodied pedagogies are encouraged to apply for a limited spot! Applications are due Monday, February 1. Descriptions of Gómez-Peña's talk and workshop follow. Please contact Dr. Paloma Martinez-Cruz with your questions.

Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Photo credit: Gomez-Pena broadcasting from his home zoom studio. Mission District, San Francisco, Califas. 2020. Photo by Zen Cohen, 2019.

Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a performance artist, writer, activist, radical pedagogue and artistic director of the performance troupe La Pocha Nostra. Born in Mexico City, he moved to the US in 1978, and since 1995, his two homes have been San Francisco and Mexico City. His performance work and 21 books have contributed to the debates on cultural, generational, and gender diversity, border culture and North-South relations. His art work has been presented at over one thousand venues across the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Russia, South Africa and Australia. A MacArthur Fellow, USA Artists Fellow, and a Bessie, Guggenheim, and American Book Award winner, he is a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines in the US, Mexico, and Europe and a contributing editor to The Drama Review (NYU-MIT), the Performance Art Week Journal of the Venice Biennale, and emisférica, the publication of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics (NYU).  

Sponsors include: Migration, Mobility, and Immobility Project; Wexner Center for the ArtsCenter for Latin American StudiesOffice of Diversity and InclusionDepartment of Dance