Las Dos Brujas Writers' Workshops

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Just out from the Dramatists Guild: "On the Art of Adaptation." With thanks for the shout out to fellow playwrights Patricia Milton and Geetha Reddy. And to Central Works for the stellar productions! https://www.dramatistsguild.com//california-north-art-adap.

HERE HE COMES . . . (Limited time 20% discount code for friends: CGarcia20.) http://centralworks.org/king-of-cuba/... With Marga Gomez, Steven Ortiz, Letitia Duarte, Ben Ortega, Elaina Garrity, Marco Aponte, and legendary percussionist Carlos Caro

Calling all New York City Brujxs! Our friendship began in a creative writing class in LA almost 30 years ago. Literary community matters! Please join us for conversation, readings, and refreshments! xo, Cristina

2 days til Opening Night!

Hi Bruj@s, tickets for opening night of The Lady Matador’s Hotel are going fast! Reserve your tickets soon (and don’t forget the discount code: OLE!).

Bruj@s, ticket sales are live for The Lady Matador's Hotel. Use the discount code OLE! for early bird tickets on any performance before October 27th!

This Sunday two of our brujxs, Sandra Garcia Rivera and Manny Lopez, are reuniting in NYC for a reading at a new tertulia in El Barrio, at Cafecito del Arte, at 108th (Lex & 3rd). These two poets bonded at Las Dos Brujas Writers Workshops many moons ago, creating verses with Juan Felipe Herrera and Cristina Garcia under the red rocks of New Mexico. Now they both live in NY, and will see each other for the first time since the desert to share poems. If you are in NY, roll through and conjure some love for our brujxs.

Hola pueblo, I wanted to share the news with you, for those who do not live locally in the SF Bay Area and may not be aware, that sadly Galeria de la Raza has been evicted from their space on 24th St in the Latino Cultural Corridor. Despite years, and recent months of intense work, trying to negotiate a permanent lease with the landlord, including involvement with city Supervisors, they have been forced to close the gallery which was a revolutionary arts space founded by arti...vists of the Chicano movement 50 years ago. As was mentioned and evident during the LDB 2017 conference, the Mission District has been pushing back, resisting and fighting the forces of displacement and gentrification for decades. As SF & Silicon Valley are groud zero for the tech industry, some battles have been successful, others have been devastating. During LDB's 2017 workshops series, Galeria de la Raza housed Laleh Khadivi's master workshop, the film screenings, and the Lunada Literary Lounge - the monthly full moon reading that I curated for the last eight years - where Chris Abani, Denise Chavez, Cathy Arellano, Claire Calderon and many of our community read. This article shares valuable history about the movement and founders that created the space, the journey to keep it going, and the next steps as Galeria enters into exile for at least two years, awaiting completion of a new home. I am sharing because I wanted to remind you that you were a part of an important history. This physical space that housed and nurtured our work less than two years ago, is now gone. They will be at 1470 Valencia Street (between 25 & 26) an interim space until their new home is complete. I remind you to support our cultural institutions, and treasure the memories of this space. It served to nurture me as an artist when I started writing - first published in a zine they produced - providing space for artistic cultural intellectual exchanges with a diverse community of Chicano / Latino artists (before Latinx existed as a term), and offered a space for our communities of color to hold space and unite in experimentation, creation, and liberation. As we come from communities of migration and struggle, in this manifestation or the next, Galeria de la Raza will always be a space to "exist, resist, indigenize, decolonize." Galeria de la Raza... Presente! ~sgr See more

My new play! Staged readings on Sun. 11/18 in San Francisco. Stellar cast. Original, live music and choreography. Join us.

Come join us in Brooklyn!

This interview, just out, is mostly about researching and writing my recent novel, HERE IN BERLIN.

Our first radio interview for King of Cuba Stage Premiere 7/21 thru 8/19 - We are on at midway point (30 minutes) Cristina Garcia and Marga Gomez on the KALW mic. Pls click below.

HERE HE COMES . . . (Limited time 20% discount code for friends: CGarcia20.) http://centralworks.org/king-of-cuba/... With Marga Gomez, Steven Ortiz, Letitia Duarte, Ben Ortega, Elaina Garrity, Marco Aponte, and legendary percussionist Carlos Caro

Genius performer Marga Gomez plays El Comandante as you've never seen "him" before! KING OF CUBA opens July 21st! Tickets now available: http://centralworks.org/king-of-cuba/

Just signed this letter regarding Junot Díaz. It calls for empathy, acknowledgement, true reckoning, and way overdue apologies. And it leaves room for transformation. Please read and share.

Bruj@s! This coming Thursday I have the pleasure of hosting Devi S Laskar and Cinelle Barnes in conversation about Cinelle's new memoir, Monsoon Mansion. Come spend the evening with us!