[CW-Grad] Reminder: Today! Ella Diaz on Chicana/o Performance and Art History

[Bryan G Bradford]

Subject: UCR Theatre Lecture - Ella Diaz on Chicana/o performance and art history: TODAY!
Please join the Department of Theatre and the Center for Ideas & Society
for a special guest lecture on
Chicana/o performance and art history

Ella Diaz, Visiting Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute
The Necessary Theater of the Royal Chicano Air Force
and the Performance of Memory

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2011
12:30 - 2:00 pm
Symposium Room, INTS 1113

The Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF) is a Chicano/a arts and community-service organization that originated in 1969, in Sacramento, California, during the Chicano Movement. Most scholarly writings on the RCAF focus exclusively on the collective's contributions to Chicano/a visual art forms, mainly the silkscreen poster and murals. In "The Necessary Theater of the Royal Chicano Air Force and the Performance of Memory," Dr. Diaz analyzes the form and function of the group's air force persona over forty years. Locating the RCAF's early contributions to Chicano/a Theater, Dr. Diaz uses historical and theoretical paradigms in the Chicano/a and Latina/o Theater Arts, providing critical lenses for understanding the RCAF in the twenty-first century.

Dr. Diaz holds a PhD in American Studies from the College of William and Mary. She presently teaches in The School of Interdisciplinary Studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work is published in Imaginarte and Chicana/Latina Studies.  She is also director of the film, The Ancient Documentaries of Southside Park.

Reception with light refreshments to follow talk

Information:  Tiffany Lopez, Associate Professor, UCR Department of Theatre
tiffany.lopez at ucr.edu<mailto:tiffany.lopez at ucr.edu><mailto:tiffany.lopez at ucr.edu>
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