La Pocha Nostra

La Pocha Nostra Performance and Artist Residency
October 22 – November 1.
Columbia College Chicago.

Call-For-Applications to the Fall 2009 Workshop is Open!
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For more information call 312-369-8829.

Renowned Mexican-American performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Pena and his San Francisco-based “trans-disciplinary organization,” La Pocha Nostra, will be a Critical Encounters Artist-in-Residence in partnership with the Institute, the Center for Teaching Excellence and the Center for Community Arts Partnerships. La Pocha Nostra will lead an intensive artist workshop incorporating and challenging ideas of race, gender, faith, and boundaries that will continue into the Spring semester and culminate in a group project as part of the 6th annual Gender Fusions. On October 30, La Pocha Nostra will debut a new performance on campus, Corpo/Illicito: The Post-Human Society #69, exploring the legacy of fear inherited by the Bush administration and the emerging culture of home, imagination and faith.