Radio Teco Cultura

Today we talk to legendary photographer and artist Joe Ramos Joe talks to us about his impressive exhibition currently viewable at the Monterey Museum of Art titled Mixed Up - Connected. This exhibition highlights years of people who have influenced Joe's life including people from his mixed Filipino and Mexican heritage. Make sure you visit the exhibition before April 21, 2024!

On today's episode we have the privilege of speaking to Cuban born jazz musician Harold Lopez Nussa.  Harold currently lives in France and joins us from a busy cafe in Paris, so please excuse the background noise. Harold and I talk about his recent album Timba a la Americana, his family, and his love for the Bay Area  especially after a recent performance at Berkeley's Freight and Salvage.

For 48 years, The San Francisco-based American Indian Film Festival has been a sort of sacred cinema space, celebrating and uplifting the experiences of Natives through film while also providing  Native filmmakers and actors with a platform to showcase their work. As the opening date for this year's Festival nears, we sit down with Mytia Zavala, the daughter of the festival's founder, Michael Smith. Smith died suddenly in 2018, leaving Zavala to carry on her father's legacy. Here is our conversation.

Acción Latina's very own Rebeca Abidaíl Flores sits down with legendary poeta, Juan Felipe Herrera. Juan Felipe served as the U.S. Poet Laureate; they had a conversation in the Laurate Lab Wordist Studio.

With El Tecolote celebrating another year around the sun we wanted to share with you another Radio Teco rewind as we go back to our conversation from last year with El Tecolote founder Juan Gonzalez.

Full Queer: Wrestling for Rights, is a safepace for camp and queerness in Pro Wrestling, and aims to affirm queer and marginalized identities in and out of the ring.  And given the mainstream rise in queerphobia across the country, we wanted to learn more. Joining us on this episode are three folks involved in Full Queer. Mexican American rising wrestling star Brooke Havoc, and co producers Marco Rodriguez and Jetta Rae Robertson. 

On this episode Rebeca Abidaíl Flores, an artist and Cultural Arts Manager at Acción Latina hosts our Capturing The Moment: Photo Panel & Art Walk back in April 2023. Learn how legendary artists like Susan Cervantes, Juan Fuentes, Joe Ramos and Josué Rojas have influenced the art scene of San Francisco's iconic Mission District.

On this episode we have the privilege to talk to two leaders of the Latino community in the Pico neighborhood down in Santa Monica. Film director, actor, and founder of Good Omen pictures Frankie Garces and Alex Aldana the executive director of Pico Youth and Family Center. Frankie and Alex talk to us about their upcoming short film En La Arena a film that covers how their neighborhood has dealt with gentrification through the years, something our community here in San Francisco can relate to.

On this episode of Radio Teco Cultura we speak to the CEO of Rising Rhythm Dance Company, Jessica Recinos. We talked about her upbringing in the Mission and how dance has always been a part of her life. Jessica also talked about how research on her families lineage became a delightful dance project.

On this episode of Radio Teco Cultura we are joined by the iconic Chicana artist and educator, Amalia Mesa-Bains. Despite being a mixed-media artist for the last five decades, Amalia's first ever retrospective exhibition, titled “Archaeology of Memory,” opened at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) on Feb. 4. The show, which is a must see, will be on display until July 23, 2023.

On this episode of Radio Teco Cultura we are joined by the renowned photographer, Joe Ramos.

El Tecolote contributor Edaena Salinas spoke to the campaign manager for Mission Loteria, Luis Quiroz. Edaena and Luis talk about what the Mission Loteria is, how to play, and how this amazing tradition supports local businesses and artists. To learn more about the Mission Loteria head over to www.missionstreetsf.com/loteria To learn more about the upcoming Lovers Lane event on Balmy Alley head over to https://www.instagram.com/p/CnxYDxpy47R/

In this next episode, we are joined by Guillermo Alarcon, the Founder and Creative Director of the forthcoming video game, Mictlan: An Ancient Mythical Tale. Mictlan, which is scheduled to launch in the winter of 2025, is the first open world meso-american themed video game and takes place in the 16th century during Spain's invasion of what is known today as Mexico. Earlier this year, we interviewed Guillermo and asked him about what inspired this first of its kind project, why the inclusion and representation of indigenous people in media and video games is needed, and the challenges that exist in making a dream project like this become a reality.

In this next episode, we are joined by the legendary San Francisco percussionist and Latin Rock legend, Leo Rosales. Leo broke out with the Latin Rock band Malo, and is now with Momotombo SF, who will headline Accion Latina's Encuentro del Canto Popular this year on Dec. 4 at the Chapel on Valencia street. In this episode, Leo opens up about his skyrocketing to music fame, how addiction led him away from performing, and how he eventually refound his love for music. Get your tickets for the 2022 Encuentro del Canto Popular!

In this next episode, we are thrilled to be joined by none other than El Tecolote founder, Juan Gonzales. In this episode, our cohost Monti Rossetti not only sits down with Juan Gonzales to discuss the founding of El Tecolote, but also takes us way back to the beginning of Juan's childhood in Stockton California, how he became interested in journalism in the first place, and shares from milestones and anecdotes of why el tecolote is el voz del pueblo.

In this episode of Our Cultura Podcast, Acción Latina's Executive Director Fátima Ramírez interviews award-winning Tejana singer, Isabel Marie Sánchez. In July, Isabel Marie performed a tribute to the late Tejana legend, Selena, at the San Francisco Symphony. In this episode, Isabel Marie discusses what it was like to be signed to Q Productions, the label owned by Selena's very own father Mr. Abraham Quintanilla, and how she is using the advice that she received to make her own voice heard.

On this episode with talk to artist and activist Andreina Maldonado. She is a Venezuelan multidisciplinary performing artist, cultural worker, educator, and registered Integral Yoga teacher based in Yelamu, Ohlone Territory colonially known as San Francisco, California.

Today we talk to one of the most important members of our community, Paul Flores. Paul talks to us about how art has always been an important part of the Mission's culture and we also talk about projects he's a part of including the “Somos Esenciales / We Are Essential”, a bilingual, multimedia performance and research project. For more information on “Somos Esenciales / We Are Essential”, visit Paseo Artístico.

In this next episode, Bárbara, Annaya and Jasmine not only reflect on the powerful conversations they had throughout this series, but also on what they learned from each other, what black marronage means to them, and how they celebrate their black radical joy.

In this next episode, Bárbara, Annaya and Jasmine speak with Dr. Marie Nubia-Feliciano, an Afro Boricua ethnic studies professor at Cal State Fullerton. Nubia-Feliciano talks about growing up on the eastern Puerto Rican island of Culebra, her own journey in academia, and talks about the importance of an ethnic studies education and how that can be a vehicle for self discovery.

In this next episode, Bárbara, Annaya and Jasmine engage in a bilingual conversation with three AfroLatinx college students, Lyrik Azteka Shears, Trent Rodgers and Erykah Rodríguez Freire. From them, we learn about their journeys, identity, and their embracing of their blackness.

Welcome to another episode of Our Culture's series, AfroLatinx Soundscapes. This is a series created by SF State Ethnic Studies ​​Assistant Professor in the Latina/o Studies Department, Bárbara I. Abadía-Rexach, and SF State students, Annaya Jones and Jasmine Guadalupe Figueroa Casillas. In this next episode, Bárbara, Annaya and Jasmine engage in a bilingual conversation with the artivists cofounders of a local Bomba group, Taller Bombalele, Julia Caridad Cepeda Martínez And Denise Solis.

For the month of May we will publishing one episode every Sunday in collaboration with AfroLatinX Soundscapes Podcast created by SF State student's Annaya Jones and Jasmine Guadalupe Figueroa Casillas and Professor Bárbara Abadía-Rexach. With the AfroLatinx community being such an important part of our culture, this first episode goes over AfroLatinx identity and who is AfroLatinx.

El Tecolote contributor, Edaena Salinas, chats to the fifth-generation San Franciscan, author Anne Evers Hitz. They discuss the books that Anne has written that cover a wide variety of San Francisco's history including The Ferry Building and the Emporium Department Store, which is now the Westfield Mall.

Guatemalan rapper and activist Rebeca Lane joins our show to talk about her performance at the 40th Annual, Encuentro Del Canto Popular. hosted by Accion Latina. She also discusses her path to creating music and the journey she's been on so far.

We start 2022 by remembering one of our leaders who passed away December 26, 2021, Juan Pablo Gutierrez. On this episode, we go back and listen to an interview Juan Pablo Gutierrez did with us on November of 2021.

This week we are joined by a member of one of the most legendary families of our Mission District, Rio Yañez. Rio discusses with us the influence his mother, Yolanda Lopez, and father, Rene Yañez, left on him, his future in art, and the importance of activism through art.

In this episode, we are joined by LGBTQ artist, activist, and the director of El Colectivo Del Rescate Cultural, Juan Pablo Gutierrez . We discuss how the Día De Los Muertos ritual procession came to be, the impact and influence that the AIDS pandemic of the 1980s had on the ritual procession, and honoring nuestros muertos during the era of COVID-19.

On this episode of Our Cultura Podcast we speak to local artist and writer Chris Cuadrado. Chris works with a lot of youth, especially young Latino men, as the Principal Program Coordinator for the DJ Project at Horizons Unlimited in San Francisco. One of his main focuses is making sure the backwards patriarch style of life doesn't continue with future generations in our Latino culture.

On this episode of “Our Cultura” we speak to SF-based photographer Mabel Jimenez. Mabel gives advice to future photographers and also talks about her amazing work covering San Francisco's reaction to the COVID pandemic.

Writer and educator Dr. Oriel María Siu joins us today to chat about her new book titled, "Christopher the Ogre Cologre, It's Over!". This book is the second part of a series written by the Central American author that is aimed to help tell the truth of colonization and imperialism in the Americas as well as help future generations feel more represented in children books. Dr Siu also tells us about her upbringing in Honduras, moving and teaching in LA and Seattle, and returning to Honduras with her daughter to focus on writing.

Durante el mes de mayo, el mundo fue testigo de la violencia contra el pueblo palestino de parte del gobierno israelí. Y hoy, hablamos con Felix Kury, un hombre Salvadoreño de raíces Palestina quien fue profesor el la universidad estatal de San Francisco y fundador de la clínica Martín Baro en la misión de San Francisco. Felix nos habla de la historia de su familia, su experiencia con el racismo, y porque todos debemos apoyar la liberación de Palestina.

On our first episode of Our Cultura Podcast we have the new Executive Director of Acción Latina, Fatima Ramirez, on as a guest. Fatima tells us about her path to Accion Latina, the inspirations she followed to get to where she's at now, and also her plans for the future of the, San Francisco based, Latino culture organization.