Podcasts about Carmen Aguirre

Join Tamara for an interview with oil painter Carmen Aguirre, a Miami native who got her BFA Fine Art in Miami, and then went to Spain for graduate study with Valencian classical painter Amadeo Roca Gisbert.   Carmen moved to Savannah in 2016 and then spent about 10 years working for the former Grand Bohemian Gallery at the Mansion, eventually becoming Gallery Director. She is a figurative painter working in oil on canvas and/or panel. While she represents scenes of daily life, her objective is also to convey how the subject touches and inspires her.  Check out more of Carmen's work and follow her here:  https://www.instagram.com/carmenmaguirre/  https://www.carmenmariaaguirre.com/    Topics in their chat include: The sharp learning curve of her graduate program in Spain, where she was thrown into the deep end of representational oil painting; she reminisces about her college and grad school era of not being super concerned about what her art would lead her to, career-wise, but just being at peace about pursuing your art degree for learning's sake; living in Miami and attending Art Basel from when it began in 2002; how she moved to Savannah about 20 years ago after having visited her daughter here many times; how she met good friend and fellow painter Dana Richardson when coming across Dana painting in Forsyth Park; her preference for including a frame on her art to call it "finished;" lessons learned from a past solo show at the JEA in which she had 24 (!) paintings; what are mangroves?; her conceptual painting of an orange LifeSaver candy; her years of having real creative control over discovering new Savannah artists and bringing them into the Mansion's Gallery; her recent series of paintings exploring Daffin Park and depicting the sense of vast space there; and her goals for 2025 of: building up a big series of paintings, putting on a public show, and possibly starting a series of artist salons.   Tune in and get all the details! 

In this hour, true stories of taking center stage from a magician, a musician, a member of the underground resistance in Chile and a soldier stationed in Iraq. This hour is hosted by The Moth's Senior Director, Jenifer Hixson. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media. Storytellers: Notoriously quiet magician Teller (of Penn and Teller) discovers his love of magic. Musician Gaelynn Lea describes life on the road with a disability. Daniel Sperling attends Shabbat services while deployed in Iraq. Carmen Aguirre is a member of the underground resistance in Chile during Pinochet's regime.

Esperanza Soto welcomes new recruits to a U.S. drone centre. Run entirely on wind energy, the centre is part of the U.S. Army's Green Military Movement. One of the drone operators is a climate refugee from Vancouver. What choices will she make when climate refugees attempt to cross the border from Mexico?A heads up that this episode contains military violence, so keep that in mind when deciding when and where to listen.Rolling Hills, Green Pastures was written by Carmen Aguirre. Find the transcript here.Climate Change and Other Small Talk is  a worldwide tour for your ears - minus the carbon footprint and lost luggage. Audio dramas from 9 creative teams around the globe will entertain as well as explore our climate crisis. And maybe even what could get us out. --- FOLLOW US---Sign up for our newsletter to get bonus content including discussion guides and a listening party hosting guide: https://www.sunnydrake.com/climatechangeandothersmalltalkFollow Sunny, the series creator, on Instagram: instagram.com/sunny_drakeFollow Sunny Drake Productions on Facebook: facebook.com/sunnydrake.creationsTwitter: twitter.com/sunny_drake --- CREDITS ---Written and directed by CARMEN AGUIRREStarring: MONTSERRAT VIDELA SAMPER as Esperanza SotoLILI ROBINSON as The Drone Operator CHARLIE DEMERS as The Floor Supervisor and Friend Sound design and music by JOELYSA PANKANEA Episode Produced by ELECTRIC COMPANY THEATRE with support from SUNNY DRAKE PRODUCTIONSEpisode Producers CARLA RITCHIE and NATALIE LEFEBVRE GNAMEpisode Production Manager CARLA RITCHIEAudio mixing by HEATHER BROWN and RICHARD FERENRecording engineer MONARCH STUDIOS Special thanks to BC Arts Council, City of Vancouver Cultural Services, Canada Council for the Arts, Monarch Studios, and Progress LabElectric Company Theatre acknowledge the unceded, ancestral and traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) people. As artists who live, work and create on these lands, Electric Company strives to be allies with, to learn from and to acknowledge the rights of Indigenous Peoples. --- SERIES CREDITS for CLIMATE CHANGE AND OTHER SMALL TALK ---Created by SUNNY DRAKEProduced by SUNNY DRAKE PRODUCTIONS in association with WHY NOT THEATRELead Producers: FANNY MARTIN and NAJLA NUBYANLUVConcept Dramaturg: KEVIN MATTHEW WONGImpact Producer & Climate Dramaturg: CHAPRECE HENRY Communications Producer: DANIELA GERSTMANN Central Audio Producers: HEATHER BROWN and RICHARD FERENSeries funders: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts CouncilSee our website for full credits - it truly does take a village to raise a podcast.

Natércia Napoleão is a multifaceted Brazilian theatre artist and community advocate. Over the past eighteen years, she has had a wide influence within the Albertan theatre community, with experience in site-specific theatre, dance theatre, multimedia performance, television, musicals, and a wide range of classical and contemporary theatre. Performance highlights include the acclaimed Fado: The Saddest Music in the World (JAYMAC Outstanding Production Award) at the Firehall Arts Centre in Vancouver. Recent directing credits include Hummm (Climate Change Theatre Action/ New Harlem Productions); Orange Skies (Tarragon Theatre's Young Playwright's Unit); and the multidisciplinary theatre piece, Threshold (The Lobbyists collective/2021 Chinook Series). Natércia is an associate producer with Dora Award nominated manidoons collective having recently supported the sold-out production of esteemed playwright Yolanda Bonnell's White Girls in Moccasins, in co-production with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Natércia is currently developing her first full-length play, Michener Park, alongside renowned Chilean author, playwright and activist, Carmen Aguirre. As a community advocate, Natércia spearheads and contributes to grassroots initiatives regularly. She is a strategic planner working with institutions and companies exploring equitable practices, such as Musical Stage Co. and Outside the March. Natércia is the incoming CAEA representative for the Alberta North/N.W.T region. Intstagram: @natercia_napoleao Support Stageworthy Tip Jar: tips.pinecast.com/jar/stageworthy

After the initial trauma of fleeing home and arriving in a new country, refugees face years of complexities. Matt Galloway discusses ideas about home, community, gratitude and identity with two people whose families came to Canada as refugees: Carmen Aguirre, a theatre artist and activist; and Anh Ngo, an assistant professor at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Show notes below:   Talking Shit with Tara Cheyenne is a Tara Cheyenne Performance Production www.taracheyenne.com Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP  /  FB: https://www.facebook.com/taracheyenneperformance Podcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Music www.marcstewartmusic.com    © 2021 Tara Cheyenne Performance   Subscribe/follow share through Podbean and Google Podcasts and Apple Podcasts and Spotify.   Donate! To keep this podcast ad-free please go to:  https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/13386   Links:    http://carmenaguirre.ca/   https://www.electriccompanytheatre.com/electrics/   https://siminovitchprize.com/the-prize/past-prizes/2020-2/finalists/   About Carmen:   Carmen Aguirre, Core Artist at Vancouver's Electric Company Theatre and Artistic Associate of New Play Development at The Stratford Festival, is an award-winning theatre artist and author. She has written and co-written over twenty-five plays, the #1 international bestseller Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter (winner of CBC Canada Reads 2012), and its bestselling sequel, Mexican Hooker #1 and My Other Roles Since the Revolution. Currently, she is writing an adaptation of Euripides' Medea, Moliere's The Learned Ladies for Toronto's Factory Theatre, Fire Never Dies: The Tina Modotti Project for Electric Company, and an adaptation of Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker's The Many-Headed Hydra for The Stratford Festival's Seed Commission program. Her digital piece Floating Life, commissioned by Stratford, can be viewed on its website. Carmen has over eighty film, television and stage acting credits. Favourites include her award-winning work as Veronica in the Canadian premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgis's The Motherfucker with the Hat and playing the lead role of Daniela in Cecilia Araneda's stunning independent feature Intersection. Carmen is a 2020 Siminovitch Prize finalist, Canada's most prestigious theatre award. She is a graduate of Studio 58.   About Tara: Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg is an award winning creator, performer, choreographer, director and writer. Artistic Director of Tara Cheyenne Performance, she is renowned as a trailblazer in interdisciplinary performance and as a mighty performer "who defies categorization on any level" (The Georgia Straight). Tara is celebrated nationally and internationally for her unique and dynamic hybrid of dance, comedy and theatre. The string of celebrated full-length solo shows to her credit includes bANGER, Goggles, Porno Death Cult, and I can't remember the word for I can't remember, and she partners regularly on multidisciplinary collaborations, commissions and boundary-bending ensemble creations. When she isn't creating innovative movement for theatre, Tara performs around the world. Highlights include DanceBase/Edinburgh, South Bank Centre/London, On the Boards/Seattle USA, and High Performance Rodeo/Calgary. Recent works include The Body Project (premiering 2020/21 season), The River Project with dance artist Miriam Colvin and artist and activist Molly Wickham (premiering 2021 in Wet'suwet'en Territory), empty.swimming.pool with Italian dance/performance artist Silvia Gribaudi, (Castiglioncello and Bassano Italy, Victoria, B.C. and Vancouver, B.C.), how to be (Vancouver, B.C.) , and I can't remember the word for I can't remember (currently touring). Tara lives on the unceded and traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səlil̓wətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) / East Vancouver with her partner composer Marc Stewart.

Carmen Aguirre is a 4th-year medical student, visual jockey (VJ), and NFT artist. Here we sit down and discover what pushes her to continue developing her passions for medicine and artificial intelligence. You can find more info about her work here: https://linktr.ee/Neurite 0:00 Alex gives some background on NFT's 2:50 Background and Initial Involvement with NFT's 5:50 Seeing stigma around mental health conditions 9:10 Building a community around NFT's 9:40 The process of creating NFT's 13:20 Working for Ariana Grande 15:10 Working as a DJ and in music while in medical school 21:10 "Work is my life" - how Carmen balances the commitments 22:10 Time management 24:35 How a creative outlet benefited Carmen's mental health 27:25 Raising Money for mental health charities through NFT's 30:30 Going from animation to the drop process 34:00 Return of live music, graduating medical school and residency 36:45 The average medical student compared to the average 24-year old musician 39:15 How will technology change medicine in 10-20 years 41:00 Advice you would have given yourself going into your 20's Interviewer: David Wu Producer: Aaron Schumacher Art: Saurin Kantesaria

“You have to allow yourself to be a bad writer to become a better writer. That’s the biggest lesson I’ve learned.” - Mariló Núñez   This week’s guest is Chilean Canadian playwright and director, and Aluna’s playwright in residence, Mariló Núñez! Mariló is based in Hamilton, Ontario, and is the 2018 recipient of the Hamilton Arts Award for Established Theatre Artist. She was the founding Artistic Director of Alameda Theatre Company, a company dedicated to developing the new work of Latinx Canadian playwrights, and is currently obtaining her Ph D. in Theatre & Performance Studies from York University. She is also the writer of our next Studio Series presentation, El Retorno/I Return, a play that explores family, exile and revolution, and journeys into the heart of Latin American history.    In this interview we talk about Latinx identity in North America, the creation method of María Irene Fornés, writing race as a playwright, and her insights on developing a writing practice  Aluna Theatre’s Artistic Director Beatriz Pizano will direct Mariló’s upcoming Studio Series presentation, and recently directed another radio play available to stream right now - listen to Soulpepper Theatre Company’s Around the World in 80 Plays presentation of The Walls by Argentinian playwright Griselda Gambaro here!   SHOW NOTES: The Refugee Hotel, a play written by Carmen Aguirre and first produced by Alameda Theatre Company in association with Theatre Passe Muraille. Read more about the production history leading up to the premiere, and check out the show’s website for ‘blogu-mentary’ videos! In 2008, Stephen Colella and Erica Kopyto helped Mariló found the De Colores Festival of New Works, Canada’s first playwrights unit and festival dedicated to developing the work of Canadian Latin American writers. INTAR, or International Arts Relations Inc in New York City, is one of the United States’ longest running Latino theaters producing in English. Their Hispanic Playwrights in Residence Lab was founded by esteemed dramatist and teacher María Irene Fornés. Nilo Cruz, Migdalia Cruz, Cherrie Moraga, Caridad Svich, and Luis Alfaro were inspirations for Mariló as she ran Alameda Theatre Company. Mariló participated in the Fornés Playwriting Workshop in Chicago led by award-winning playwright and Fornés protégée Migdalia Cruz. She earned her Masters in Playwriting at Guelph University, and is currently earning her PhD at York University with a focus on race and theatre. Blood In Blood Out and American Me are films with Latino stereotypes that Mariló watched growing up. Mariló’s merienda: chips with Himalayan salt, which are perfect for weathering the storm that is COVID-19.   “Tienes que permitirte ser un mal escritor para convertirte en un mejor escritor. Esa es la lección más grande que he aprendido "  - Mariló Núñez   La invitada de esta semana es la dramaturga y directora chilena-canadiense, y la actual dramaturga en residencia de Aluna, ¡Mariló Núñez! Mariló con sede en Hamilton, Ontario, en el 2018 recibió el premio de artista teatral establecido por parte de los “Hamilton Arts Award”.  Fue la Directora Artística y fundadora de Alameda Theatre Company, una compañía dedicada a desarrollar el nuevo trabajo de dramaturgos latinx canadienses, y actualmente Mariló está obteniendo su doctorado en Estudios de Teatro y Performance en la Universidad de York. También es la escritora de nuestra próxima presentación del Studio Series, El Retorno / I Return, una obra que explora la familia, el exilio y la revolución, y viaja al corazón de la historia de América Latina.   En esta entrevista hablamos sobre la identidad Latinx en Norteamérica, el método de creación de María Irene Fornés, escribir personajes de diferentes razas como dramaturga y sus formas de desarrollar una práctica de escritura.   La directora artística de Aluna Theatre, Beatriz Pizano, dirigirá la próxima presentación del Studio Series escrita por Mariló. Bea recientemente también dirigió otra obra de radio disponible en línea disponible ahora: escuche la presentación de Soulpepper Theatre Company Around the World in 80 Plays “The Walls” de la dramaturga argentina Griselda Gambaro aquí!.   Bibliografía: El hotel de los Refugiados, una obra escrita por Carmen Aguirre y producida por primera vez por Alameda Theatre Company en asociación con Theatre Passe Muraille. Lea más sobre el historial de producción previo al estreno y visite el sitio web de la obra para ver videos de "blogs". En 2008, Stephen Colella y Erica Kopyto ayudaron a Mariló a fundar el Festival De Colores de Obras Nuevas, creando la primera unidad y festival de dramaturgos de Canadá dedicado al desarrollo del trabajo de escritores latinoamericanos canadienses. INTAR, o International Arts Relations Inc en la ciudad de Nueva York, es uno de los teatros latinos más antiguos de Estados Unidos que produce en trabajo en inglés. Su Laboratorio de Dramaturgos Hispanos en Residencia fue fundado por la estimada dramaturga y maestra María Irene Fornés. Nilo Cruz, Migdalia Cruz, Cherrie Moraga, Caridad Svich, y Luis Alfaro inspiraron a Mariló mientras dirigía la compañía de Teatro Alameda. Mariló participó en el Taller de dramaturgia de Fornés en Chicago dirigido por la galardonada dramaturga y protégée de Fornés Migdalia Cruz. Mariló obtuvo su maestría en dramaturgia en la Universidad de Guelph y actualmente está obteniendo su doctorado en la Universidad de York con un enfoque en razas y teatro. Blood In Blood Out y American Me son películas con estereotipos latinos que Mariló vio mientras crecía. La merienda de Mariló es: chips con sal del Himalaya, perfectos para pasar la tormenta que es el COVID-19.   All Merendiando episodes are in Spanglish, English, or Spanish. New episodes of Radio Aluna Theatre are released on Wednesdays. Follow and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, and wherever else you get your podcasts. Radio Aluna Teatro is produced by Aluna Theatre with support from the Toronto Arts Council, The Ontario Arts Council,  the Canada Council for the Arts, the Department of Canadian Heritage, and the Metcalf Foundation.   Aluna Theatre is Beatriz Pizano & Trevor Schwellnus, with Sue Balint; Radio Aluna Theatre is produced by Monica Garrido and Camila Diaz-Varela. For more about Aluna Theatre, visit us at alunatheatre.ca, follow @alunatheatre on twitter or instagram, or ‘like’ us on facebook.   Todos los episodios de Merendiando son en Inglés, Español y Spanglish. Nuevos episodios de Radio Aluna Teatro cada Miércoles. Síguenos y suscríbete a este podcast en iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, y donde sea que escuches tus podcasts. Radio Aluna Teatro es una producción de Aluna Theatre con el apoyo de  Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Department of Canadian Heritage, y  Metcalf Foundation.   Aluna Theatre es Beatriz Pizano & Trevor Schwellnus, con Sue Balint. Radio Aluna Theatre es producido por Camila Díaz-Varela y Mónica Garrido. Para más información sobre Aluna Theatre, visita nuestra página alunatheatre.ca, síguenos en twitter @alunatheatre o en instagram, o haz click en “me gusta” en facebook.

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Join us in talking with Carmen Aguirre - a Chilean-Canadian, award-winning theatre artist and author who has written and co-written over twenty-five plays, including Chile Con Carne, The Refugee Hotel, The Trigger, as well as the #1 international bestseller Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter. We talk about the role of race in Canadian theatre, and how systems of oppression have been transformed over recent years. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Carmen Aguirre is one of Canada’s most acclaimed authors. Her plays, several of which draw on her experience as a political refugee from — and resistance fighter against — the Chilean dictatorship of the ’70s and ’80s, have been produced all over North America. In a post-pandemic world, she will resume touring her latest, “Broken Tailbone,” a piece with live DJ in which Carmen herself reveals the cultural, political and very personal importance of Latinx dance halls and music by literally leading the audience through salsa lessons. Her first memoir, “Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter,” became a #1 bestseller in Canada, won Canada Reads in 2012 and has been translated into several languages. Four years later her book “Mexican Hooker #1 and My Other Roles Since the Revolution” was named a best book of 2016 by the National Post and CBC and was likewise a bestseller. Carmen is also an accomplished, award-winning actor, having appeared on stages throughout Canada and with several film and television credits to her name. The founder of the Latino Theatre Group in 1994 and more recently a co-founder of the Canadian Latinx Theatre Artist Coalition, she is now a Core Artist at Vancouver’s Electric Company Theatre.   In this interview with Pier Carlo Talenti, Carmen muses about how her experiences with danger — as a resistance fighter, a refugee, a Latina and an artist — have informed the way she leads.

Carmen Aguirre is one of Canada’s most acclaimed authors. Her plays, several of which draw on her experience as a political refugee from — and resistance fighter against — the Chilean dictatorship of the ’70s and ’80s, have been produced all over North America. In a post-pandemic world, she will resume touring her latest, “Broken Tailbone,” a piece with live DJ in which Carmen herself reveals the cultural, political and very personal importance of Latinx dance halls and music by literally leading the audience through salsa lessons. Her first memoir, “Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter,” became a #1 bestseller in Canada, won Canada Reads in 2012 and has been translated into several languages. Four years later her book “Mexican Hooker #1 and My Other Roles Since the Revolution” was named a best book of 2016 by the National Post and CBC and was likewise a bestseller. Carmen is also an accomplished, award-winning actor, having appeared on stages throughout Canada and with several film and television credits to her name. The founder of the Latino Theatre Group in 1994 and more recently a co-founder of the Canadian Latinx Theatre Artist Coalition, she is now a Core Artist at Vancouver’s Electric Company Theatre.   In this interview with Pier Carlo Talenti, Carmen muses about how her experiences with danger — as a resistance fighter, a refugee, a Latina and an artist — have informed the way she leads.

Show notes below: Talking Shit with Tara Cheyenne is a Tara Cheyenne Performance Productionwww.taracheyenne.comInstagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP  /  FB: Tara Cheyenne PerformancePodcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Musicwww.marcstewartmusic.com  © 2020 Tara Cheyenne Performance Subscribe/follow share through Podbean and Google Podcasts and Apple Podcasts/iTunes Donate! To keep this podcast ad-free please go to: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/13386Show Notes:Olivia C. DaviesOlivia C. Davies is a Vancouver-based performer, choreographer, and community-arts facilitator of Ojibwe, Finnish, French Canadian, and Welsh heritage. Her practice has intrinsic ties to feminist politics and social justice and explores the emotional and political relationships between people and places. Davies’ choreography transmits narrative. She has collaborated with Canadian spoken word artists Julie Peters (I Want, 2018) and Melissa Frost (Gidaashi, 2019), and with award-winning author Carmen Aguirre to adapt the short story Open Fire (2015). Davies combined forces with celebrated Coast Salish storyteller Rosemary Georgeson to create Crow’s Nest and Other Places She’s Gone (2017) exploring the shifting landscapes of refuge and dispossession experienced by Indigenous women. Directions (2018) was a site-specific activation of a residential property in East Vancouver that subverted the traditional view of audience/performer and was inspired by elements of the architectural design evident and the unseen forces of the natural world.Davies’ works traverse boundaries and challenge social prejudice, conveying concepts and narratives that open different ways to see and experience the world. She is a founding member of the Circadia Indigena Aboriginal Arts Collective, Crow’s Nest Collective, and MataDanze Collective (Toronto). Davies is the founding Artistic Director of O.Dela Arts. Her work has been presented across Canada in Ontario, Quebec, and BC since 2004.https://www.oliviacdavies.ca/ Olivia’s work at Dancing on the Edge Festival 2020: http://www.dancingontheedge.org/program/wishing-well/ Links to stuff we talked about: Mile Zero Dancehttp://milezerodance.com/2017/ Rematriate Collectivehttps://newjourneys.ca/en/articles/we-are-the-rematriate-collective Jenen Frei Njootihttps://ahva.ubc.ca/persons/jeneen-frei-njootli/ https://skwachays.com/ http://www.mauragarciadance.org/ Mariaa Randall http://www.dubaikungkamiyalk.com.au/?page_id=25 Bill Colemanhttps://www.bill-coleman.com/abouthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTo3GwkOmWU  Pacific Association of First Nations Womenhttps://pafnw.wordpress.com/ About Tara:Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg is an award winning creator, performer, choreographer, director and writer. Artistic Director of Tara Cheyenne Performance, she is renowned as a trailblazer in interdisciplinary performance and as a mighty performer "who defies categorization on any level"(The Georgia Straight).Tara is celebrated nationally and internationally for her unique and dynamic hybrid of dance, comedy and theatre. The string of celebrated full-length solo shows to her credit includes bANGER, Goggles, Porno Death Cult, and I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember, and she partners regularly on multidisciplinary collaborations, commissions and boundary-bending ensemble creations. When she isn’t creating innovative movement for theatre, Tara performs around the world- highlights include DanceBase/Edinburgh, South Bank Centre/London, On the Boards/Seattle USA, and High Performance Rodeo/Calgary. Recent works include The Body Project (premiering 2020/21 season) The River with dance artist Miriam Colvin and artist and activist Molly Wickham (premiering 2021 in Wet'suwet'en Territory), empty.swimming.pool with Italian dance/performance artist Silvia Gribaudi, (Castiglioncello, Bassano, Victoria, B.C. and Vancouver, B.C.), how to be (Vancouver, B.C.) , and I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember (currently touring). Tara lives on the unceded and traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səlil̓wətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation)/East Vancouver with her partner composer Marc Stewart.

Trigger Warning: This episode contains some sensitive talk about sexual assault. Our guest this week is a literal revolutionary, CARMEN AGUIRRE. Carmen is an author, actor, playwright, and activist. She was born in Santiago, Chile and has lived a life that most people may never experience even a slice of. We talk about her journey to Vancouver from the revolution in Chile, building community pockets, auditioning, bravery, insecurities, her ongoing PTSD, the “right” time to speak vs. listen, and so so SO much more!    Bella Ciao! is streaming On Reel Causes online from June 25th to July 16th at 11:59pm PST. Live Q&A will take place on July 9th at 5pm PST.   Stream now: https://www.reelcauses.org/bella-ciao/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bellaciaomovie/   Twitter: https://twitter.com/bellaciaomovie  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bellaciaomovie     Subscribe to our newsletter at https://www.firecrackerdepartment.com and follow us @firecrackerdept!  

Two long for Field Notes for your listening pleasure!First we spoke with Carmen Maria Aguirre about her exhibition at Roots Up Gallery, her role as curator of Grand Bohemian Gallery Savannah during the health crisis, and what she's got planned artistically now that we're sheltered in place.Then we talked with Harry DeLorme about his 30+ years making environmentally-conscious artwork, as well as all of the work that he's been doing for Telfair Museums as Senior Curator of Education as they work to get more content online.Two great interviews that you won't want to miss!

This week Monica and Camila spoke with Vancouver based theatre artist and proud leftist, Carmen Aguirre!  Carmen Aguirre is a Chilean-Canadian author, actor, and playwright. She’s a Core Artist at Vancouver’s Electric Company Theatre, and co-founder of The Canadian Latinx Theatre Artist Coalition or CALTAC. She has written and co-written over twenty-five plays, and she’s the author of 2 best selling memoirs. For our merienda this week, Monica enjoyed those little peruvian chocolates again and Camila ate a Colombian manjar de leche con bocadilla de guayaba! So tasty. Here’s a recipe on how to make your own Colombian arequipe/ manjar de leche/ dulce de leche at home!    Show notes: Electric Company Theatre, based in Vancouver  An article from Jacobin on, in Carmen’s words, “ultra right wing dictatorships” in Latin America - ‘Latin America’s Right-Wing Turn’ B by Guillermo Calderon  Rumble Theatre, basd in Vancouver  Carmen’s first memoir, Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter Canada Reads, an annual "battle of the books" competition organized and broadcast by Canada's public broadcaster, the CBC Blue Box, Carmen’s one woman show. Here’s a trailer!  George Stroumboulopoulos, Canadian media personality and former host of CBC’s The Hour. Here’s his interview with Carmen.  BBC Radio, who also interviewed Carmen  Wet'suwet'en resistance movement  against the Coastal Gaslink pipeline  The Cuban Revolution in the 60s - an article.  The Venezuelan Revolution at the turn of the century - an article titled ‘Chávez’s revolutionaries caught between legacy and change in Venezuela’ from PRI  Venezuela’s Communas, or the Law of Community Councils Recent Chilean uprising and protests Recent Argentinian elections  Recent Bolivian political crisis Neoliberalism  “Canada gives $2000 a month” aka the CERB program Plays Carmen has written  Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered James Faygan Tait, Canadian theatre artist Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado Conyuntura 2020, an international Latinx theatre gathering   the Canadian Latinx Theatre Artist Coalition or CALTAC  Beatriz Pizano, Lina de Guevara , Evelina Fernandez, Nancy Garcia Loza and Barbara Santos attended the Coyuntura, among others Monica Sanchez, theatre artist working at the University of Colorado The L Word, a queer television show  A Chilean once, or tea time Carmen’s book recommendations: The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic by Peter Linebaugh and Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants by Nandita Rani Sharma   ¡Esta semana Mónica y Camila tuvieron el placer de hablar con la artista teatral y orgullosa izquierdista Carmen Aguirre! Carmen Aguirre es una escritora, actriz y dramaturga Chilena-Canadiense. Carmen forma parte de la compañía de teatro Electric Company Theatre en Vancouver y es la cofundadora de la Coalición de Artistas del Teatro Canadiense Latinx o CALTAC. Ha escrito y coescrito más de veinticinco obras de teatro, y es autora de 2 libros de memorias más vendidos en Canadá. La merienda de Mónica esta semana fue nuevamente un pequeño chocolate peruano y Camila disfrutó de un manjar de leche con bocadilla de guayaba colombiano! Muy sabroso ¡Aquí les dejamos una receta sobre cómo hacer tu propio arequipe / manjar de leche / dulce de leche colombiano en casa! Bibliografía: Compañía de teatro, Electric Company Theatre, basada en Vancouver Un artículo de Jacobin sobre, en palabras de Carmen, "dictaduras de ultraderecha" en América Latina - "El giro a la derecha de América Latina" B de Guillermo Calderon  Rumble Theatre, Compañía de teatro en Vancouver Primera memoria de Carmen Aguirre, Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter “Canada Reads,” un concurso anual de "batalla de los libros" organizado y transmitido por una emisora ​​pública de Canadá (CBC) Blue Box, el solo show de Carmen. Aquí el trailer!  George Stroumboulopoulos, personalidad mediática Canadiense y ex presentador de The Hour en CBC. Aquí su entrevista con Carmen. BBC Radio, otra entrevista de Carmen Movimiento de resistencia Wet'suwet'en contra el gasoducto Coastal Gaslink Artículo acerca de la Revolución Cubana La revolución venezolana en el cambio de siglo: un artículo titulado Triunfo de Hugo Chávez en 1998: cómo era la Venezuela en la que triunfó Chávez hace 20 años (y en qué se parece a la actual) Artículo sobre “La Comunas de Venezuela” Artículo sobre la masiva manifestación en Santiago de Chile contra Sebastián Piñera Elecciones Argentinas 2019  La crisis política de Bolivia  Neoliberalismo “Canadá da $2000 dollares al mes”, el programa de ayuda financiera Canadiense “CERB” Obras escritas por Carmen Eduardo Galeano, periodista Uruguayo, escritor y novelista considerado James Faygan Tait, Artista de teatro Canadiense Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands de Jorge Amado Conyuntura 2020, reunión internacional de teatro Latinx. Coalición de artistas del Teatro Canadiense Latinx o CALTAC Beatriz Pizano, Lina de Guevara , Evelina Fernandez, Nancy Garcia Loza y Barbara Santos asistentes de “Coyuntura 2020”, entre otrxs Monica Sanchez, artista de teatro trabajando en la Universidad de Colorado The L Word, show LGBT de televisión La hora del té Chilena, “once”. Las recomendaciones de libros de Carmen Aguirre: The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic de   All Merendiando episodes are in Spanglish. New episodes of Radio Aluna Theatre are released every second Wednesday. Subscribe to this show wherever you get your podcasts.  Radio Aluna Teatro is produced by Aluna Theatre with support from the Metcalf Foundation, The Laidlaw Foundation, The Canada Council for the Arts, Toronto Arts Council, The Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council. Aluna Theatre is Beatriz Pizano & Trevor Schwellnus, with Sue Balint & Gia Nahmens; Radio Aluna Theatre is produced by Camila Diaz-Varela and Monica Garrido. For more about Aluna Theatre, visit us at alunatheatre.ca, follow @alunatheatre on twitter or instagram, or ‘like’ us on facebook. Follow and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Google Play, and wherever else you get your podcasts. Todos los episodios de Merendiando son en Inglés, Español y Spanglish. Nuevos episodios de Radio Aluna Teatro cada Miércoles. Síguenos y suscríbete a este podcast en iTunes, Google Play, y donde sea que escuches tus podcasts. Radio Aluna Teatro es una producción de Aluna Theatre con el apoyo de Metcalf Foundation, Laidlaw Foundation, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, y Toronto Arts Council. Aluna Theatre es Beatriz Pizano & Trevor Schwellnus, con Sue Balint & Gia Nahmens. Radio Aluna Theatre es producido por Camila Díaz-Varela y Mónica Garrido. 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Carmen Aguirre moved to Canada as a Chilean refugee and has navigated many identities since. She’s been a revolutionary, a writer, an actress, and a victim of a serial rapist. In this episode, we’re talking about her second memoir (the first being Something Fierce), Mexican Hooker #1: Art, Love and Forgiveness After Trauma. Our guest is Alina Anghel, the creative mind behind the Agency Life web series, an actress and writer from Vancouver. Heads up - this book discusses sexual assault.   

We started our show by talking about Inheritance: a choose-your-adventure ( a pick-the-path) experience and we also had the chance to talk with Eugene Crain about it. After listening to this amazing interview, we introduced Riot Girls, a feature film that will be screening in the Vancouver International Women in Film Festival. Continued with an interview with Lauren Grant who is the producer of Riot Girls, we found out that she will be holding a Script to Screen workshop for the festival! After a quick ad and psa break, we came back with a shout-out to Broken Tailbone which is being featured in Boca del Lupo. In Broken Tailbone, Carmen Aguirre leads a public Latin American dance lesson, woven with hilarious stories of her experiences in the hidden world of dance halls in Canada. We finished the show with talking about even more dance, the Vancouver International Dance Festival that's coming up this weekend!

“Esta obra está basada en un montón de sueños que yo tuve hace como 30 años, cuando estaba en la escuela de teatro en Vancouver y era la única persona latina en toda la escuela. Y tuve un montón de… »

In this hour, true stories of taking center stage from a magician, a musician, a member of the underground resistance in Chile and a soldier stationed in Iraq. This hour is hosted by The Moth's Senior Director, Jenifer Hixson. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media. Hosted by: Jenifer Hixson Storytellers: Teller, Gaelynn Lea, Daniel Sperling, Carmen Aguirre

On this special bonus episode of Well Reds, host Charlie Demers speaks with celebrated writer and performer Carmen Aguirre on intimacy, politics, culture, salsa, Marxism and the hidden dance halls of Canada. This episode features strong themes and language.Carmen's show 'Broken Tailbone' premieres February 13th, 2018 at Vancouver cultural diversity and innovation hub The Cultch! https://thecultch.com/

On this special bonus episode of Well Reds, host Charlie Demers speaks with celebrated writer and performer Carmen Aguirre on intimacy, politics, culture, salsa, Marxism and the hidden dance halls of Canada. This episode features strong themes and language.Carmen's show 'Broken Tailbone' premieres February 13th, 2018 at Vancouver cultural diversity and innovation hub The Cultch! https://thecultch.com/

This week, I interview author and theatre artist Carmen Aguirre. We talk about state terrorism, her childhood as a refugee, and processing trauma through art.

Auckland Writers Festival 2016 Our annual sell-out smorgasbord of stories – invariably funny, moving, and rousing – signals the start of three days of public programming. Eight writers deliver a seven-minute true story, propless and scriptless, inspired by the theme Altered States. Don’t miss the literary gymnastics of Chilean/Canadian playwright, actor, memoirist and former revolutionary Carmen Aguirre; NZ/Samoan poet Tusiata Avia; Christchurch raconteur Joe Bennett; Cambridge-educated trade lawyer and rising Zimbabwean star Petina Gappah; erstwhile Midnight Oil front man and politician Peter Garrett; New York woman of letters Vivian Gornick; author of the European sensation The Dinner Herman Koch; and the incomparable UK writer Jeanette Winterson.

Auckland Writers Festival 2016 Daughter of Chilean revolutionaries, and subsequently a political activist herself, Carmen Aguirre now lives in Canada where she is an actor and playwright. She is also the author of two memoirs: Something Fierce: Memoirs of A Revolutionary Daughter, and the newly published Mexican Hooker #1, in which she writes of confronting the man who raped her, and being typecast as maids and Mexican hookers. She speaks with Dan Salmon.

Performing within the Chilean resistance (6:32), the pull of revolutionary love (19:53), and extremely fascist great aunts (31:52).

En 2016 Carmen Aguirre regresa a la escena literaria con un nuevo libro, esta vez en el marco del Festival Internacional de Literatura Metropolis Bleu, que se lleva a cabo anualmente en Montreal. Ella hablará este domingo 17 de abril sobre su nuevo libro de memorias “Mexican Hooker Nº 1 And My Other Roles Since The Revolution”, “Prostituta mexicana número uno y mis otros roles desde la revolución”.

Libby Purves meets poet Wendy Cope; performer Julian Clary; poet Patrick Deeley and actor and playwright Carmen Aguirre. Wendy Cope OBE is a poet. A former teacher and television critic, she has written on a variety of topics including education, romance, religion, television and psychoanalysis. She has been commissioned by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust to write poems to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the playwright's death. In 2011 she donated her archive of correspondence and diaries to the British Library. Her book Life, Love and the Archers is published by Two Roads. Patrick Deeley is an Irish poet and former teacher and principal. He has published six collections of poetry including Decoding Samara and The Bones of Creation. In his memoir, The Hurley Maker's Son, he tells of growing up in rural Ireland with a wood worker father who made hurley sticks in his Galway workshop. The Hurley Maker's Son is published by Doubleday Ireland. Carmen Aguirre is an actor and playwright. She is the daughter of Chilean revolutionaries who, from the age of six, lived in exile in North America and as a young adult actively fought the Chilean dictatorship herself. In her memoir, Mexican Hooker #1: And Other Roles Since the Revolution, she tells of her personal struggles to find her own identity after the revolution. Mexican Hooker #1: And My Other Roles Since the Revolution is published by Portobello Books. Julian Clary is a comedian, performer and writer. He became a household name in the late 1980s and has appeared on numerous TV shows including Strictly Come Dancing, Have I Got News For You and is a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4's Just a Minute. He has starred in West End productions of Taboo and Cabaret, and appears in panto most years. He is on tour in his one man show, the Joy of Mincing and new children's book, the Bolds to the Rescue, is published by Anderson Press. Producer: Paula McGinley.

Carmen Aguirre