2 + Power + Imagination + Latinidad + Indigeneidad

Experimental charlas una mezcla de conversatorios virtuales, sobre historia, arte, feminismo, comunidad  y autodeterminación – Conversations about history, art, feminism, community and self-determination. 

EastSide Arts Alliance and NAKA Dance Theater Present:

Actriz, Artista Performera y Activista: Violeta Luna 

Indigenous Queer Latinx Escritora y Racial Equity Advocate: Ana Cecilia Perez 

Tuesday August 24th @ 7pm

Artists and thinkers present excerpts from their literary and artistic work to discuss how their practice is woven into the power of the community.

Actriz, Artista Performera y Activista

Violeta Luna is a San Francisco-based performance artist. Her works reflect and inquire upon the relationship between theatre, performance art and community engagement. Working in a multidisciplinary space that allows for the crossing of aesthetic and conceptual borders, Luna uses her body as a territory to question and comment on social and political phenomena. She has performed and taught workshops in the U.S. and abroad in places ranging from the Bay Area to most of Latin America, as well as in countries such as Rwanda, Egypt, India, New Zealand, Japan, and Canada to name a few. Luna’s work has also been featured in several recent and forthcoming books like “Performing Ground: Space, Camouflage and the arts of Blending In,” and “Freak Performance: dissidence in Latin America Theater.” Her collaborations include work with the Bay Area-based immigrant women’s rights organizations Mujeres Unidas y Activas and La Colectiva de Mujeres, as well as the performance collective Secos & Mojados. Luna is a Creative Capital and National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC) Fellow and artistic member of The Magdalena Project: International Network of Women in Contemporary Theatre. 

Indigenous Queer Latinx Escritora y Racial Equity Advocate

Ana Cecilia Pérez is a decolonizing Pipil Nahua from Cuzcatlan and the founding director of Decolonizing Race and the Latinx Racial Equity Project.  Ana is an anti-racism, equity and liberation trainer and healer, social justice warrior and a writer.  Ms. Perez has directed multiple organizations and held senior positions, including executive director, in civil rights, national and international organizations.  Prior to her social justice experience, Ana worked as a print and radio journalist. Ms. Perez and her family fled the Salvadoran civil war in the early 1980s.  Ana Perez is queer, a martial artist and mother.  She now lives in Inverness Park on unseeded and occupied Miwok territory.