Art exhibit runs February 7 thru March 6, 2005.
Performing Democracy runs February 14-16, 2025
PHOENIX – The Arizona Latino Arts and Cultural Center (ALAC) will open La Resistencia/The Resistance visual arts exhibit, Feb. 7, and host Performing Democracy, Feb. 14-16.
The exhibit will present the works of 40 visual artists that will be displayed Feb.7 – March 6 at the Arizona Latino Arts and Cultural Center, 147 E. Adams, Phoenix, AZ. An opening night reception and program kicks off the exhibit, 6:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., on First Friday, Feb. 7. Admission to the gallery is free.
Performing Democracy will present a diverse array of short stage works and poetry with the artists’ take on free speech and creative expression by more than a dozen performers, Feb. 14 and 15, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., and Feb. 16, 2 to 4 p.m. Tickets are $15 for general admission and on sale at www.newcarpa.org.
“La Resistencia/The Resistance art exhibit is about the value and importance of free speech and artistic expression in the context of what democracy means to us,” said ALAC Executive Director Elizabeth Toledo. “This week, we’ve watched people in Arizona and nationwide march in support of the freedoms we should all cherish. The artwork being presented at La Resistencia/The Resistance is one manifestation of those same principles.”
“Poetry and theater, when it taps honestly into the culture and politics of our time, is by definition free speech and creative expression. It’s what democracy is all about,” said James E. Garcia, producing artistic director of New Carpa Theater Company and the project coordinator for Performing Democracy. “At its best, art includes everyone and gives voice to who we are, where our society is, and where it’s going.”
La Resistencia/The Resistance will include these artists and more: Tavo Barrios, Sofía Reyes, José Andrés Girón, Román Reyes, Piersten Doctor, Vanessa Zapata, Monica Villarreal, Jim Covarrubias, Hedi Treviño, Beto Márquez, Liliana De Leon Torcsiello, Anthony Mervin, Barbara Fancy and Yolanda David Gutierrez.
Performing Democracy will feature the work of: Claude Jackson, Jr., James E. Garcia, Christopher Danowski, Paco Madden, Belinda Acosta, Julie Amparano Garcia, Scott Illingworth, Oleksandra Oliinyk; poets Khloe Janel Richardson, Noha Siraj Lahani, Jorge Antonio Renaud, Chuck Thompson, and Edauri Navarro-Perez; guitarist and vocalist Ruth Vichules; and actors Kimberly Coleman, Cynthia Elek, Anastasia Levkun, Elizabeth Welles, Tara Jensen, Carin Counihan, and the Phoenix-based the sketch comedy troupe, Scratch.
La Resistencia/The Resistance and Performing Democracy are sponsored by the Arizona Latino Arts and Cultural Center, City of Phoenix Arts and Culture, New Carpa Theater Company, Latino USA TV, the Virginia C. Piper Center for the Arts at ASU and Canto Mundo.