Proyecto Latina - October

This month join us at Proyecto Latina Open Mic. Swing by for poesía, chisme y más! Join us on Monday, October 20, 2008 @ 7 p.m. Held at Radio Arte, 1401 W. 18th Street.

Proyecto Latina is a monthly open mic bringing together the best emerging and established Latina poets, writers and performers.

Diana Pando will be reading a selection of poems that she is compiling for a future chapbook called The Daze and Nights of Mariposa Atómica. She is a poet / writer and likes to flex her public relation skills to support Latinos in the arts and nonprofits impacting Latina women and girls.

Diana’s kryptonite includes: Cupcakes, military history, coffee, social media and dancing with her niece in the aisles of el Gigante supermarket in Mexico City.

Her current projects include: Co-producer of Proyecto Latina Radio on 90.5 WRTE and one of the founders of Proyecto Latina, open mic a collaborative project between Tianguis Bookstore, Teatro Luna and Mariposa Atómica Ink. Recently two of her poems have been selected for a Mexican/Chicano anthology being published through DePaul University.

Over the summer she became Teatro Luna’s newest artistic associate. She is part of a writing ensembles for American Theatre Company’s Border Project Initiative, Teatro Luna’s Restaurant Spanish and a future Teatro Americano production. At this time she maintains a blog called Art Botanas. She is a current member of the Latina Leadership Council of the Chicago Foundation for Women and the Latino Giving Circle of the Chicago Community Trust.

Her vision is to continue to build community between the arts and philanthropic community.
She is the former managing director for Teatro Vista and has worked with DeLaTorre Fine Arts, Teatro Luna and Luna Negra Dance Theatre as well as a former contributing writer for Dinero Magazine. She has been a local featured poet for Palabra Pura an open mic initiative through the Guild Complex.

She has also been a contributing writer for the critically acclaimed Teatro Luna show MACHOS. Currently, she is thrilled to be a Sr. communications trainer for the Community Media Workshop helping nonprofit organizations tell their stories and promoting news that matters.