Enrique’s Journey – A Honduran Immigration Story Travels from Literature to Encuentro 2014’s Los Angeles Stage

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By Fanny Garcia Founding Editor As a Honduran immigrant who has been living in Los Angeles for 27 years, I have never seen a story about Hondurans or Central Americans on a stage.… Continue reading

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A Dizzying Zoetrope Kaleidoscope Opens Encuentro 2014 at The Los Angeles Theatre Center

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by Selene Santiago Staff Writer A zoetrope is one of several pre-cinema animation devices that produce the illusion of motion by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that… Continue reading

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From Boyle Heights to Paris: What I Learned While Studying Abroad

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By Ricardo Alexander Ayala Guest Writer I am very fortunate. Not many young people in Boyle Heights have the opportunity to take a few months out of their lives to travel and study… Continue reading

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Fall in Love with the City’s River; Play the L.A. River

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By Fanny Garcia Founding Editor “Have you played at the L.A. River?” To such a question you might reply, “What? The Los Angeles River is all concrete and nothingness.” In the past, your… Continue reading

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For Mexican Independence Day: Lotería Poetry

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By Fanny Garcia Founding Editor In honor of the 204th anniversary of “El Grito de Dolores”, the pronunciamiento (declaration) of the Mexican War of Independence by Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla from the small town of… Continue reading

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Matriarchy Takes Flight Under Roots and Wings

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By Oscar T. Basulto Staff Writer I was nine years old when my uncle was murdered while selling oranges at Whittier Narrows Park. It was an early experience that made a long lasting impact… Continue reading

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Ceiling/Sky: Shakin’ Up the Northridge Quake

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by Natalie Mislang Mann Staff Writer As an admirer of composer John Adams and poet/activist June Jordon (1936-2002), I knew that Long Beach Opera’s Los Angeles premiere of I was looking at the… Continue reading

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Found: Migratory Dreams in Lost in Lvov

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by Ramona Gonzales Editor in Chief Schkapf is a place dedicated to “performance culture in Los Angeles” nestled in the middle of Theatre Row, a string of theaters along Santa Monica boulevard. This “Performing… Continue reading

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Lessons Learned as a Non-traditional (aka older) Transfer (aka product of a community college) Undergraduate Student

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By Fanny Garcia Founding Editor In 2009, after being laid off, I decided to go back to college. Since then, I have been on a roller coaster ride of emotions, academic setbacks and… Continue reading

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Five Ways World Cup Soccer is like the Performing Arts

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By Liana Arauz Staff Writer Nope, I’m not referring to the dramatics displayed by a certain Dutch player that left a whole Mexican nation heart-broken, and many more thinking he is more deserving… Continue reading

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