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Award-winning Playwright, Poet and Activist
Magdalena Gómez Performs at the Green Street Arts center on Friday, October
19 at 8pm
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Green Street
Arts Center Presents Second Installment in the Latina Voices Series
Middletown, Conn, October 9, 2007—Since
she began writing as an 8-year-old in the South Bronx when it was burning,
Magdalena Gómez has railed against oppression, racism, sexism, and other
forms of dehumanization in her extensive body of work. Ms. Gómez has
been a featured reader and keynote at Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of
Music and the Smithsonian Institute, as well as church basements, hospitals
and prisons. She will perform Why I Became a Loud Puerto Rican
(and other impolite stories) as part of Green Street Arts Center’s
Latina Voices series on Friday, October 19th at 8pm.
General admission is $8; tickets for students, senior citizens and Green
Street members are $5. Green Street is located at 51 Green Street,
Middletown, CT. Some content may be inappropriate for children age 13 and
under. For more information, please visit: www.greenstreetartscenter.org or
call (860) 685-7871.
Before the performance, members of the Green Street Arts Center staff are
hosting a potluck dinner. Bring your favorite dish to Green Street, OR if
you don’t have time to cook, bring a donation of peanut butter, jelly, bread
or crackers for Green Street’s After School Arts Program. The potluck is
FREE and will take place from 6:30pm to 7:30pm. To RSVP for the potluck,
call (860) 685-7871.
The Latina Voices series continues every third Friday of the month
through December with performances by playwright Carmen Rivera (Nov. 16) and
guitarist Lorena Garay (Dec. 21).
“Poetry is soul jazz that erupts from the relationship between poet and
listener…It is not simply spoken word art it is the very act of
living when we make contact, impact, and finally land in each other’s
territory, crossing the boundary between you and me, them and us.”—Magdalena
Gómez
About Magdalena Gómez
Magdalena Gómez has been a performance poet since 1970 when she was
still in high school. Her writing has been called ferocious and
compassionate, resolutely Puerto Rican, full of vivid emotions, sensually
exalting and confrontational.
Gómez has won several awards including the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s
Playwriting Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts development grant, a
First Place award from Stages Repertory Theater in Texas for her full length
play You Don’t Look It and First Place in the West Coast 10-Minute
Play contest for The Andalusian Dream. Her plays toured nationally
with Enchanted Circle theater for six years.
For more information about Magdalena Gomez, visit:
http://www.amaxonica.com/
About the Green Street Arts Center
The Green Street Arts Center, now in its third year of programming, was
created to serve as both an anchor to the revitalization of the North End of
Middletown and as a unique artistic and educational resource for residents
of the neighborhood and the region. It is the result of a major
collaboration between Wesleyan University, the North End Action Team (NEAT),
the City of Middletown and other community and arts partners. The facility
offers a fully-equipped sound/recording, videography, digital photography,
writing and graphic arts lab. It also features two visual arts studios for
drawing, painting and sculpture, a dance studio and a performance studio
with seating capacity of 100.
