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Please join us for a performance from José Torres-Tama on Thursday, March 28 at the Performing Arts Center at 7:30 PM! Introduced by Professor José Ballesteros and co-sponsored by ILC.
José Torres-Tama is an Ecuadorian-born interdisciplinary troublemaker. He is an award-winning performance and visual artist, published playwright and poet, photographer and journalist, and arts educator with the Ogden Museum in New Orleans. From 2006 to 2011, he contributed post-Katrina commentaries that aired on NPR's “Latino USA.” He exposed the myriad human rights violations Latin American immigrant reconstruction workers endured while heroically contributing to resurrect the flooded port city. He has contributed articles on art and activism to HowlRound Journal, the PBS Blog, Syracuse University’s Public: A Journal for Imagining America, among others. In 2022, he was nominated for a prestigious 2022 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts in Theatre, and was previously nominated for a US Artists Award. Since 1995, he has toured nationally and internationally, and performed at experimental theater festivals in Slovenia, Poland, Mexico City, and Toronto. Institutions such as Brown University, Duke, Cornell, LSU, Vanderbilt, and others have presented his genre-bending performances. At the university / college level, he teaches creative writing and the development of performance art practices for the stage. torrestama.com
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