<strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">FYI,</span><br style="font-weight: normal;"><br style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Ching-In</span><br style="font-weight: normal;"><b><br></b>Culture Clash</strong> holds a unique role in American arts as
the most prominent Chicano-Latino performance troupe. For nearly two
decades, writer-actors <strong>Richard Montoya</strong>, <strong>Ric Salinas</strong>, and <strong>Herbert Siquenza</strong>
have imitated the workings of social anthropologists by digging deep
into America's racialized culture to formulate their outrageous brand
of "performance collage." The characters in <em><strong>Culture Clash in AmeriCCa</strong></em>,
like all of their memorable comedic sketches, are adapted from real
interviews and reflect communities in flux across the US. The troupe's
signature use of sociopolitical satire, vaudeville, mime and
spoken-word, dramatizes the disjointed voices of the socially invisible
including ghettoized immigrants in San Diego, a Muslim taxi driver in
D.C., and a Vietnam vet living in Tijuana.<br>
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<a href="http://culturalevents.ucr.edu/currentseason/Culture%20Clash%20in%20AmeriCCa.html">http://culturalevents.ucr.edu/currentseason/Culture%20Clash%20in%20AmeriCCa.html</a><br>
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<h4 class="date_price">Friday, January 16 at 8pm<br>
<strong>University Theatre</strong><br>
General $28 • Student $14</h4><h4 class="date_price"><span style="font-weight: normal;">-- </span><br></h4>~~~~~<br>Ching-In Chen<br>THE HEART'S TRAFFIC (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press forthcoming 2009)<br>
<a href="http://www.redhen.org/arktoi.asp">www.redhen.org/arktoi.asp</a><br><a href="http://www.chinginchen.com">www.chinginchen.com</a><br>