David Botello

LATINOPIA ART CHICANO TIME TRIP

Latinopia Art Chicano Time Trip from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Wayne Healy and David Botello have collaborated as a two-man mural team for more than forty years. Working as East Los Streetscapers, … [Read more...]

LATINOPIA ART AZTLÁN ART SHOW

In 2003, Frank Garcia curated the first Aztlan Art Show at the dA gallery in Pomona, California. The show brought together different generations of Chicano and Chicana artists. Since that time, the … [Read more...]

POLITICAL SALSA Y MAS with SAL BALDENEGRO 9.15.19 “VOTING AND SELF-DETERMINATION”

September 15, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

Voting and self-determination… People love to complain about the government (what it does, and more often, what it doesn’t do) and the elected officials in charge of the government, conveniently forgetting that they—at least the registered voters among them—elect those who run the government. Voting turnout (number of people who actually vote vis a vis […]

TALES OF TORRES 9.07.19 REVIEW OF PLAY “ALWAYS RUNNING”

September 8, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

World Premiere of Play Based on Esteemed Memoir “Always Running” It got a standing ovation on opening night recently and it was well deserved. It just may keep pulling in satisfied audience by the time its run is complete at the end of October. “It” is the play that’s based on the iconic memoir by […]

LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG HERMAN SILLAS 9.01.19 “THE MEANING OF LABOR DAY”

September 13, 2015 By Tia Tenopia

The three-day Labor Day holiday fills our beaches with folks, and portable barbeque grills. Most celebrants view Labor Day as the last day of summer or the day before children return to school. Few know the history of this holiday. In fact, the thought that workers are entitled to a paid holiday and need only […]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA del ZOCOTRO 9.01.19 “LA BORINQUEÑA”

August 31, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

Si hubiese alguna duda de que los eventos recientes en Puerto Rico han trastocado el territorio, permítaseme un ejemplo. La Borinqueña que es el himno nacional que se canta cuando se levanta la bandera o inicia algún acontecimiento, ha sido reescrita. La música del español Félix Astol Artés apareció en 1867 como una danza habanera. La […]

LATINOPIA WORD XOCHITL JULISA BERMEJO “OUR LADY OF THE WATER GALLONS”

By Tia Tenopia on May 26, 2013

Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo is a poet and teacher from Asuza, California. She volunteered with No More Deaths, a humanitarian organization providing water bottles in the Arizona desert where immigrants crossing from Mexico often die of exposure. She read her poem, “Our Lady of the Water Gallons” at a Mental Cocido (Mental Stew) gathering of Latino authors […]

Category: LATINOPIA WORD, Literature

LATINOPIA SHOWCASE “LOVE IN THE TIME OF ALBINO”

By Tia Tenopia on April 13, 2014

Gabriel Carmona and Branden Selman are the founders of Nac Film Theory, an independent film company based in Nagotchoches, Texas. Both of these talented filmmakers produce, direct, film, edit and act in their independently produced films. Latinopia is proud to showcase the poignant “Love in the Time of Albino,” another independent production by this talented […]

Category: Cinema/TV, LATINOPIA SHOWCASE

LATINOPIA EVENT 1966 UFW PEREGRINACIÓN (PILGRIMAGE) MARCH

By Tia Tenopia on March 19, 2013

The effort to organize farm workers under a union contract has been a long and difficult struggle. In 1965, César Chávez and Dolores Huerta created what would become the United Farm Workers Union. From the onset they faced many obstacles, not the least of which was how to get dozens of California grape growers to […]

Category: History, LATINOPIA EVENT