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

Posted on November 18, 2011 by lamamitamala

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.

Where Mala Will Be This Weekend : After Dark at Woodlawn – Annual Halloween History Tour

Posted on October 27, 2011 by lamamitamala

Whose afraid of a little history? A little horror?

OCTOBER 29, 30 and 31, 2011

Creep Through One of the Nation’s Oldest Cemeteries and the

Final Resting Place of Notorious New Yorkers

This year, the spookiest annual Halloween event is getting a dramatic makeover. On October 29, 30 and 31, an early evening walk through Woodlawn comes ALIVE with real-life interpretations of NYC legends and lore, surreal tales of unsolved mysteries and murders, and more. Folklorist Elena Martinez leads the tours, accompanied by bagpipers and other mysterious characters. Flashlights required.

Two tours—6PM and 7PM nightly

COST: $20 admission fee.

Reservations are required for the Halloween tours. Call 718-920-1469

Meet at the Jerome Avenue Entrance
The Jerome Avenue Entrance is located near the intersection of Jerome Avenue and Bainbridge Avenue.

#4 train to Woodlawn Station

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

Posted on April 18, 2011 by lamamitamala

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

Save the Date: CLPP’s 30th Anniversary Conference April 8-10

Posted on February 11, 2011 by lamamitamala

Cross-Posted from VivirLatino

Yours truly, Mala, will be co-facilitating a workshop with two inspirational mujeres, T.K. of the New Mythos Project and Rachel Caballero, a Community Caregiver de Tejas on self-care and healing as an act of resistance against colonialism at the CLPP Conference April 8-10th in Amherst.

One of the things I will be sharing is how redefining media and using media to speak truth can be a healing and developmental process for M/Others, Mamis and Community Caregivers of Color.

I hope that those who can come out. I have never been to this conference so I don’t know how the space is like and that always makes me nervous and defensive. I will be blogging & tweeting as the network there makes possible.

You can find out more and register here.

Hablando Con Los Muertos

Posted on October 27, 2010 by lamamitamala

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…..

Posted on October 2, 2010 by lamamitamala

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

Posted on September 28, 2010 by lamamitamala

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.

Humbled and Blessed

Posted on February 1, 2010 by lamamitamala

This past Sabado evening, I had the pleasure of reading at the Bowery Poetry Club as part of the debut performance event of the NYC Latina Writer’s Group.

I have been doing this poetry reading cosa for quite a few years now and it never gets old. The nerves start to rattle, I get flushed, then I get up on stage or in front of the mic and I just go, vibe of the audience, spit, flow, speak, release. Whenever I get off the stage I need a smoke. I’m usually trembling and it takes a few minutes for me to regroup, center myself. It’s like an amazing orgasm with an amazing lover who yes, really loves you.

There were two things that made this last reading extra special. One, my mom showed up. It was a total surprise and a nice one. For all my locuras, my mother has been one of my greatest fans. She was there when I was barely 18 and first read at the Nuyoricans and here she is now, wondering why the fuck I haven’t published a book yet. It’s not always easy having your mom in the audience, especially when my poems talk about fucking alot of the time. Who wants to hear about their daughter’s sex life, fucked up relationships, and struggles with politics and identity? Apparently my mom does because she keeps showing up to hear what’s new and I love her for that.

Two, the event was livestreamed. I had so much love coming from the twittersphere, it was almost more than a twitterputa could take. Kai, Bianca, Kevin, Maia, Alex, Lenee…and a whole mess of other loves of mine thank you, thank you, thank you. Just knowing that you were there in your chosen places on this planet we share, watching me, sharing that moment with me, gets me all kinds of teary eyed.

One of the things that I have really felt in these two weeks without poroto, has been how blessed I am. I really have surrounded myself in real life and in virtual life (and in intersecting places) with such an amazing group of gente. There are people that I really respect professionally and can count on personally. They are my extended familia and you, here, reading this are too.

xoxox
Mala

My first reading of 2010

Posted on January 28, 2010 by lamamitamala

I haven’t written as much as I would have liked in this week that poroto has been gone.

Correction, I haven’t written as much poetry as I would have liked. I’ve written two pretty good blog posts: one about Haiti, the other about the SOTU by the POTUS (ja ja those acronyms crack me up).

Pero I am now in a corner and will probably have a poetry writing bender as I always like to do at least one new poem whenever I have a reading. I have a reading this Saturday, January 29, 2010, at 5:30 pm at the Bowery Poetry Club as part of the NYC Latina Writer’s Group.

For NYC peeps, the Bowery Poetry Club is located in Downtown Manhattan at 308 Bowery
(Between Houston and Bleecker)
You can take the F train to 2nd Ave, 6 to Bleecker.

Pero check this out peeps, you can watch me online. Apparently The Bowery Poetry Club livestreams all of its happenings, so from coast to coast, continent to continent you can hear me spit some poetic puterias.

la Mala at Hispanic Panic NYC Tonite!

Posted on September 30, 2009 by lamamitamala

3913934946_0df6370bd7_m I 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+

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