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Hosted by Las Reinas Chulas, this evening featured performances by Compañía CroMagnon, Bocabilidades, La Bruja de Texcoco, and Teatro Breve.

Hosted by Las Reinas Chulas, this evening featured performances by Jess Dobkin, Teatro Breve, Mahina Movement, and Héctor Canonge.

Hosted by Las Reinas Chulas, this evening featured performances by Pancho López, Aliza Shvarts, Andrés Carreño, and Kegels for Hegels.

Hosted by Las Reinas Chulas, this evening featured performances by César Martínez, Marcela Rodriguez, Cata Pereda & Natalia Pérez Turner, Malik Gaines, and Luis Tareke Ortiz Cisneros & José Antonio Cordero Chávez.

Not One Woman Less

Biography

Las Pussy Queers is a collective made up of Irakere Lima (Actress) and Larissa Polaco (Producer). In 2016, they decided to unite their acting and production skills to get naked in body and soul. They have presented their work at the Festival Internacional de Cabaret in the editions XIV, XV, XVI and also in the first edition of the festival Tiempo de Mujeres 2019 in 2019.

Luna and Vecky

Biography

Teatro Breve is a Puerto Rican theater company with a unique, irreverent style. Their content is original.

Description:

On February 22, 2019, the Supreme Court ruled the absolute prohibition of marihuana in Mexico unconstitutional. A bill permitting the regularization of cannabis is currently up for debate in Congress. While legislative changes are well underway, there are still a number of challenges in terms of cultural awareness, particularly the stigmatization facing both marihuana users and cultivators. Together with the Hemispheric Institute, a group of Mexican artists are developing a campaign that uses humor and art to change perceptions and stigmatizing attitudes. Cartoons and animations will be distributed in Mexico City and throughout the country with the help of publicity on public transportation and in the various State Secretariats.

Conveners:

Jesusa Rodríguez (Mexico, 1955) is a scenic creator. From 1980 to 2018, she directed and performed in opera, theater, and political farces. Since December 2018, she has been a Senator in Mexico. Her greatest achievement was, and still is, to accumulate disgrace. She was awarded Best Actress at the Festival of the Americas in Montreal, 1989, and is a recipient of a 2000 Obie Award, with Liliana Felipe.

Diana Taylor is University Professor and Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at New York University. She is the award winning author of multiple books, among them: Theatre of Crisis (1991), Disappearing Acts (1997), The Archive and the Repertoire (2003), and Performance (2016). Her new book, ¡Presente! The Politics of Presence, is forthcoming with Duke University Press. Taylor is director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics which she helped found in 1998. In 2017, Taylor was President of the Modern Language Association and was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2018 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Science.

Participants:

This panel explores different approaches to the use of humor and laughter as an activist tool while addressing their particularities when deployed in public spaces.

Biographies

Jacques Servin began his current adulthood by inserting a swarm of kissing men to a shoot-'em-up video game just before it shipped to store shelves. Finding himself fired and momentarily famous, he opted to go into weird activism. Since then, as co-founder of the Yes Men (www.theyesmen.org), he's worked for entities such as Exxon, Dow, Monsanto, and the US Chamber of Commerce, as well as for the New York Times, the New York Post, and the Washington Post, all without their approval.

Ana Francis Mor (Ana Francis López Bayghen Patiño) was born in Mexico City on July 11, 1973. She studied acting at the Foro Teatro-Contemporáneo and received her degree in Performing Arts at the Universidad de Guadalajara. She was awarded the 2011 Omecihuatl Medal for her work as an artist and LGBTTTI feminist activist. She is a co-founder of the performance company Las Reinas Chulas, which counts 50 theatrical productions among their many accomplishments. At the end of 2014, the Legislative Assembly of Mexico City awarded Las Reinas Chulas the Medal of Merit in the Arts for over 15 years of work promoting culture in the nation’s capital.

Arturo Hernández was born in Mexico City. He is the mastermind behind “Supercívicos.” He is a true Chilango (born and raised in Mexico City), and was one of the first VJs for MTV Latinoamérica. He worked for Sony Entertainment Television and the Discovery Channel before creating his own content. His production company was in charge of producing Comedy Central Latinoamérica’s ROAST with actor Hector Suárez. “Houston tenemos un programa” (Houston, We Have a Program), was one of the earlier iterations of “Supercívicos,” which became an internet phenomenon after it was canceled for its high level of political critique. @arturoelpantera

Marlène Ramírez-Cancio is Associate Director, Arts & Media, at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. In her role, she heads up the curation and production of Hemi’s large-scale, biannual Encuentros; curates HIDVL, a growing digital video library that archives and circulates the work of politically engaged artists; directs EMERGENYC, Hemi’s emerging artist program focused on art and activism; initiated and runs Hemi’s Artist Residencies for local NYC artists; and has co-created initiatives like the Helix Queer Performance Network, supporting queer artists of color and fostering intergenerational mentorship.