On September 15-September 17, core members Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Balitrónica Gómez, and Paloma Martínez-Cruz of the transdisciplinary arts organization La Pocha Nostra will offer a FREE artist-scholar residency on the OSU campus. This three-day "Living Altars" workshop centered on rituals of remembrance and bereavement.
This intensive workshop provides participants with an introduction to La Pocha Nostra’s signature pedagogical tools that have been at the forefront of hemispheric performance and politics for over 30 years. Offered not only as a laboratory for participants with formal arts practices, this special invitation is offered to students, activists, scholars, and community members as a means to develop new models for relationships between artists and the social circumstances of Columbus, Ohio. Pocha Nostra founder Gómez-Peña and core members Balitrónica Gómez and Paloma Martínez-Cruz will facilitate performance rituals, exercises, and games as well as the foundational “Pocha Nostra Jam Session.”
The first workshop will take place on Thursday and Friday from 3:00-8:00 p.m. at the Barnett Theater on OSU Campus, and on Saturday, September 17 from 4:00-7:00 p.m. at Columbus’ historic Green Lawn Cemetery. Participants are required to attend each day and stay for the duration of the scheduled time!
There are LIMITED SPACES for this workshop. Interested?
Registration for this event is now closed.
Sponsored by Latina/o Studies and the Center for Ethnic Studies; College of Arts and Sciences; Department of Spanish and Portuguese; Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts; and the Department of Dance
Questions: Please contact Paloma Martínez-Cruz at martinez-cruz.2@osu.edu.
