NEW EVENT ADDED to PANAMERICAN ROUTES: Aluna Theatre and TheatreBooks come together!
Join the Director of Parting Memories and co-editor of Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict, Roberto Gutiérrez Varela, for a candid conversation.
May 16th at 4pm at TheatreBooks (11 St. Thomas Street, Toronto, 416 .922.7175)
Roberto Gutiérrez Varea began his career in theatre in his native Argentina. His research and creative work focuses on live performance as means of resistance and peacebuilding, in the context of social conflict and state violence. Varea’s stage work in the United States has focused on Latino/Chicano theatre, and directing world or west-coast premieres of works by Migdalia Cruz, Ariel Dorfman, Cherrie Moraga, and Jose Rivera (among others). He is the founding artistic director of community-based performance groups Soapstone Theatre Company and El Teatro Jornalero!, and co-founder of the San Francisco-based collective Secos & Mojados. He is an associate editor of Peace Review (Routledge) and guest-listed the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics’ e-misferica. Varea is a founding faculty of the Performing Arts and Social Justice Program, and director of the Center for Latino Studies in the Americas (CELASA), at the University of San Francisco.
SEE Roberto’s Directorial work at the PANAMERICAN ROUTES / RUTAS PANAMERICANAS Festival in: PARTING MEMORIES by Performance Artist Violeta Luna May 17-19 @ 9pm; May 20 @ 4p at Theatre Passe Muraille (Duration: 50 minutes) PAN-LINGUAL
