… It’s obviously about the music, but it’s using the music as a tool for something much bigger,” said 26-year-old Aguirre, a Boyle Heights resident and member of the L.A. Nearby them on a recent Sunday night at La Cita were the other “Chulitas” in the crew, who were there to spin records from the DJ booth that spanned from 1970s funk to cumbias, merengue and old school hip-hop. Tovar, who rocked a cool ’70s vibe with a mane of black curly hair and body-hugging green jumpsuit, was dancing under a homemade sign hanging off the small stage emblazoned with the word “Chulita” (Cutie) on one corner, and “El Disco es Pura Cultura (Records Are Culture) on the other. Sporting a blue striped short-sleeved jumpsuit and silky red hair accentuated with short bangs, Maryann Aguirre danced next to her friend Linda Tovar in a downtown L.A.
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This event is made possible with support from the Art and Design Lecture Series at Texas State University and the Humanities Institute at the University of Texas at Austin.
Introductory remarks will be provided by Jason Reed, co-founder and director of Borderland Collective and Associate Professor of Photography at Texas State University.
Emerging Objects, a company co-founded by Rael, is an independent, creatively driven, 3D Printing MAKE-tank specializing in innovations in 3D printing architecture, building components, environments and products. Rael’s research interests connect indigenous and traditional material practices to contemporary technologies and issues. from Mexico and Earth Architecture (2008), a history of building with earth in the modern era to exemplify new, creative uses of the oldest building material on the planet. He is the author of Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (2017), an illustrated biography and protest of the wall dividing the U.S. Join us on October 7 at 5 PM CDT for a lecture by author and design activist Ronald Rael. Rael holds the Eva Li Memorial Chair in Architecture and a joint appointment in the Department of Architecture and the Department of Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley. This event is made possible with support from the Center for Texas Music History and the Center for the Study of the Southwest, both at Texas State University. In 2020, Nina celebrates seven years of sobriety and continues to create and connect with her audience through music, art, and life experiences she shares openly.
In 2014, Nina began her journey as a solo artist and soon released her debut album The Beat is Dead on Cosmica Records (2016). Three years later Girl in a Coma was signed to Joan Jett's Blackheart Records, thus beginning many years of extensive traveling, creating, and performing for audiences around the world both as a headlining act as well as a direct support for several highly acclaimed artists. Please join us on October 15 at 6 PM CDT for an on-line performance event with Nina Diaz. Tune in to our Instagram where the event will broadcast on IGTV.Ĭonsidered "one of the two or three most exciting, scary-good vocalists in rock today" (David Brown, KUT/NPR), Nina Diaz began her musical career at the age of thirteen when she co-founded the all female rock group Girl in a Coma (2002–2018).
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