Looking forward to this performance!
Mapa Corpo 3.0
A live art ritual involving body-based practice and spoken word

Featuring Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Saul Garcia Lopez
Mexico/USA/Canada

Friday Nov 8, 8pm, Urban Shaman Gallery, 203-290 McDermot
With support from: The Canadian Consortium on Performance and Politics in the Americas, Urban Shaman Gallery & The Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies

Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a performance artist, writer, activist, radical pedagogue and director of the performance troupe La Pocha Nostra. Born in Mexico City, he moved to the US in 1978. His performance work and 10 books have contributed to the debates on cultural diversity, border culture and US-Mexico relations. His art work has been presented at over eight hundred venues across the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Russia, South Africa and Australia. A MacArthur Fellow, Bessie and American Book Award winner, he is a regular contributor for newspapers and magazines in the US, Mexico, and Europe and a contributing editor to The Drama Review (NYU-MIT). Gómez-Peña is a Senior Fellow in the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, a Patron for the London-based Live Art Development Agency and in 2012 he was named Samuel Hoi Fellow by USA Artists.

Saul Garcia Lopez trained as a Contemporary Dancer and graduated as Psychologist at the National University in Mexico City. Moreover, Saul Garcia graduated as an Actor and Director at the Mexican Ensemble Theatre. He completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Directing at VCA, Melbourne University, Australia and a Drama and Film Honors Degree at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Saul Garcia has worked professionally in Germany, Colombia, Mexico, South Africa, UK and Australia. Currently, Saul Garcia continues working as a professional performer and is a year 2 PhD candidate in Theatre Studies at York University in Toronto. As a scholar he has presented papers in different international conferences.