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Live Action Mala Alert: El Museo del Barrio’s SUPER SABADO: Cuéntame! Celebrating Oral History

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El Museo del Barrio in Spanish Harlem, NYC has been very generous with me y inviting me to participate in events. Tomorrow, Saturday, November 19th, I am lucky enough, thanks to Maria Morales, to be participating in their Speak Up! segment of el Museo’s Super Sabado Cuéntame! Celebrating Oral History day.

SPEAK UP!
7:00 -9:00pm, El Café
María Morales hosts an evening of fresh faces and contemporary voices in today’s spoken word movement. Def Poetry’s Anthony Morales features alongside Nancy-Arroyo Ruffin, Jennifer “Skye” Cabrera and Maegan Ortiz. (ages 18+)

The event is FREE and open to the public and I am looking forward to sharing a little bit of history – personal and political with some of you.

NYC : Mala in Resurrection, A Night of Poetry, Performance & Art, Easter Eve.

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I am honored and blessed to be a part of this event and those who come can be blessed to by a most divine power. I will be doing a performance version of a poem/piece that I performed at Hispanic Panic! and that was published in the book, The Best of Panic!.

Saturday April 23, 2011 from 6 to Midnight,
Performances start at 8pm
$5.00 DONATION
CASH BAR

RESURRECTION will be an evening of multimedia performance poetry by New York City’s Latin@ avant-garde elite, incorporating spoken word, dance, music, visual effects and art exhibit.

Presented by The Organization of Puerto Rican Artists, inc. O.P.Art
in collaboration with The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center and HISPANIC PANIC!

At The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center
107 Suffolk Street, New York NY
Room #309 and Teatro Kabayito
Between Rivington and Delancey,
F, J or M train to Delancey/Essex.

PRESENTING: POETRY, PERFORMANCE
Aravind Adyanthaya
J Skye Cabrera
Lola von Miramar (Larry La Fountain-Stokes)
Maegan La Mala Ortiz
Carlos Manuel Rivera
Vanessa Martir
Charlie Vazquez/Steven Maldonado

***WARNING*** THIS SHOW WILL CONTAIN ADULT THEMES

VISUAL ART EXHIBIT AND SALE
Showing recent works:
Everardus Bogardus , Andricel Yanela Peña,
Giovanni Caravaggio, Pepe Villegas, Rafael Rosario-Laguna,
Luis Carle, and Peter Madero III

The Organization of Puerto Rican Artists, Inc. (O.P.Art). Is a non-profit organization sponsored by The New York Foundation for the Arts, and is a 501(c)(3) Tax-exempt organization.
www.op-art.org

Hablando Con Los Muertos

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A few weeks ago, I was honored to participate in a very special Dia de los Muertos (early) event sponsored by el Museo del Barrio at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, NYC.

El Museo basically commissioned poets (myself) included to write calaveritas, short often tongue in cheek rhyming poetic tributes based in Mexican Day of the Dead traditions, for some of the dearly departed resting in Woodlawn, all whom played a role in Latino history in NY.

This made me nervous as hell.

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And for my Next Act…..

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This is my next poetic exercise. I am excited to try my hand at a new poetic style and getting to play dress up. If you are in the NYC area RSVP and come through.
Gracias to el Museo del Barrio for choosing me to take part in this exciting event.

Woodlawn Cemetery, 501 East 233rd Street, Bronx, NY
Sunday, October 10, 2010
2:00pm – 4:00pm
FREE ADMISSION

Prepare for the most lively cemetery experience of the year. As part of Nueva York, El Museo is partnering with the Woodlawn Cemetery and City Lore to offer a walking tour of the final resting places of renowned Latinos Celia Cruz, Carmen Miyares de Mantilla, Juan Machado, and others. Learn more about these notables through Calaveras, a form of poetry created during Day of the Dead celebrations to humor celebrities, performed on-site by poets and spoken word artists.

Please note: Participants should meet at the entrance of The Woodlawn Cemetery, located at the Jerome Avenue entrance.

Subway Directions: Take the #4 train (Lexington Avenue express or local) to the end of line – Woodlawn Station. At the base of the station, walk about a half block, and the Jerome Avenue entrance will be on the right.

RSVP required at www.elmuseo.org/en/event/nueva-york-woodlawn-cemetery

NUEVA YORK en el Cementerio Woodlawn en el Bronx

Domingo 10 de octubre del 2010
2:00pm – 4:00pm
Cementerio Woodlawn, 501 Este de la Calle 233, Bronx, NY
Entrada: Gratis

Prepárate para la visita al cementerio más alegre del año. Como parte de Nueva York, el Museo del Barrio se ha asociado con el cementerio de Woodlawn y City Lore para ofrecer un recorrido a pie de los sitios donde descansan latinos y latinas ilustres que forman parte de la historia de Nueva York, incluyendo Celia Cruz, Carmen Miyares de Mantilla, Juan Machado, entre otros. Aprende más sobre estos notables a través de Calaveras, una forma de poesía recitada durante el Día de los Muertos con la que con humor e ironía se honra a los familares difuntos, y que será presentada por poetas y artistas in situ.

El grupo se reunirá en la entrada del cementerio Woodlawn, ubicada en la Avenida Jerome y la Avenida Bainbridge.

Cómo llegar: Toma el tren # 4 (Avenida Lexington expreso o local) hasta Woodlawn, la última estación. Una vez en la calle, camina media cuadra y verás a tu derecha la entrada al cementerio sobre la Avenida Jerome.

Reserva tu asistencia: www.elmuseo.org/en/event/nueva-york-woodlawn-cemetery

Maegan la Mala at Hispanic PANIC! Tonite in NYC

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For the third time, yours truly, VL’s own managing editor, Maegan la Mamita Mala Ortiz will be reading at Hispanic PANIC!, a reading series featuring queer Latino writers hand picked by Charlie Vazquez.
That’s happening tonite
8 pm sharp at Nowhere, 322 e. 14th st, NYC.

Featuring: Orlando Ferrand, Alicia Anabel Santos, Aaron Powell, Maegan La Mala Ortiz, Miguel Angeles, and Cristy Road.

This will be my third PANIC! and I am so excited. I will be reading all unread materials in what I am calling my Spikchick Triptych. You will just have to come and hear if you want to know what the three “panels” are. Charlie, who has been featured here before does a magical job of curating (and sharing his own work). The readers are always amazing and the audience spectacular.

For those who haven’t attended a PANIC! reading before, you can read all about it in this piece that was featured in Viva!, the Latino pullout section of the New York Daily News. The feature article was written by fellow PANIC! writer Erasmo Guerra.

Hope to see some of you there.

Who’s Your Mama : Event at Food for Thought in Amherst on November 13th

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Cross-posted from VivirLatino

223I met the organizer of this event, TK, at the Allied Media Conference this past summer. Another amazing mami media maker puts together an amazing event. Those in the Amherst area represent and support.

NOVEMBER 13, 2009 * 7PM
Food for Thought Books

Please join us for a very special evening of women’s voices and responses to benefit To Tell you the Truth. Featuring Who’s Your Mama: Unsung Voices of Women and Mothers (Edt. by Yvonne Byone) Contributors: JLove Calderon (We Got Issues!/ That White Girl), Marcella Runell Hall Hall (Hip Hop Education Guidebook) and Marla Teyolia (Empowered Mama!). On site childcare provided.

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la Mala at Hispanic Panic NYC Tonite!

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3913934946_0df6370bd7_mI am so excited to be a part of Hispanic Panic tomorrow nite and I hope that some of you in the NYC area can join this fabulous collection of Latino poets and writers that Charlie Vazquez, the host, has brought together.

HISPANIC PANIC! w/ Brandon Lacy Campos, Maegan ‘La Mamita Mala’ Ortiz, Erasmo Guerra, Robert Vázquez-Pacheco, Cristy Road, and Claudia Narvaez-Meza.
Wednesday, September 30th @ Nowhere, 322 E 14th St, NYC, 8PM, 21+

Mamita Mala Spits Her Mami Historia Via Poetry at bluestockings NYC

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It feels like it’s been forever since I’ve stood in front of an audience and spit some poetry and truth me told i have a few new ones rolling around in the space between mi vientre y mu boca pero I don’t think they are ready yet.

I will be reading at bluestockings , Friday September 18th @ 7PM as part of a mama storytelling salon featuring Kerry Cohen, Vikki Law , Jennifer Silverman and me.

Hope to see some of you there.

NYC: Can You Support a Mother and Her Child Today? Will You Witness Justice for Aniysah?

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dsc_03711-300x199Packing the court room and the streets outside the court house shows that their is an entire community behind Angeline and her child.

Are you going to be in the NY city area Monday, August 24th? Come to Aniysah’s court date and show the judge and the law guardian you care! Even if you can’t make it, invite your friends who can! there’s an attachment below that you can copy and send to your folks!

The next court date is August 24th, 2009 at 11AM and the address is :

IDV Part

Courtroom E-123, Annex Building

Justice Fernando M. Camacho

Queens County IDV Court,

Queens County Supreme Court

Criminal Term 125-01 Queens Blvd

Kew Gardens, New York 1141
If using public transportation such as the train or bus:
Subway: E, F to Kew Gardens
Bus: Q60
If they are driving or carpooling:

The courthouse is located at the intersection on 82nd Ave. and Queens Blvd. which is one block south of Union Turnpike. They can mapquest the directions. www.mapquest.com.

There is also parking: A municipal parking lot is located behind the building at the intersection of 126th St. and 82nd Ave. Which is directly situated behind the courthouse.

Random Notes from Netroots Nation 09

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I need to write some more in depth posts pero I’m really feeling not so hot emotionally right now. I’ve started the posts pero don’t know how to continue.

Mira, I don’t want to come off as a malagradecida pero it is emotionally taxing coming to mainstream events, even those that bill themselves as progressive. I had to deal with my annual attack by a man of color which then sets off some really not good feelings on space and safety and support. Add to that mix tokenizing by people who allegedly are my colleagues and allies pero can’t be bothered to properly link, mention url names, and exclude people from panels as a way to punish people for their outspokeness and you end up with an unhappy mala.

It’s interesting for me to compare this experience from experiences at the Allied Media Conference for example, where things weren’t always easy pero if I needed a shoulder to cry on just to release from all the frustrations, I could find one. Here, not so much. There is no circle of sanity here like there was in Detroit which had it’s owned gendered and personal dynamics. I was verbally attacked here at NN09 by another Latino blogger and am disliking the politics of erasing people on multiple levels, personal and political, that I have been confronted with. There was one moment today that I considered just going home early.

I will write more and get into a few things in more depth pero now I’m just tired and will try and sleep. Tomorrow is the Latino caucus and a kiss in! I haven’t been kissed yet at this conference/convention, motivention so that could be a good thing.

Pucker up baby and kiss it