THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: RICARDO ROMO ON THE GLASS ART OF GINI GARCIA, MARK GUERRERO’S EAST L.A. MUSIC STORIES WITH EDDIE DELGADO, CELEBRATING THE HISTORIC DENVER YOUTH CONFERENCE OF 1969 AND JESÚS TREVIÑO ON THE LEGACY OF THE DENVER YOUTH CONFERENCE.
This week Ricardo Romo brings us another Tejano Report. This time he explores the fantastic glass artistry of Gini Garcia. Gini is internationally renowned with several significant glass works: a commission work for the Vatican; a one thousand pound chandelier for the Lingner Castle in Dresden, Germany valued at $250,000, and a prodigious glass wall for a Marriott in Aruba. Wow, check out her cool art and Ricardo’s writing about it!
Also this week Mark Guerrero returns with his East Los Angeles Music Stories. These are a series of interviews Chicano and Latino musicians, singers and performers of the golden age of Eastside rock. This week he interviews Eddie Delgado one of the members of the sixties group The Ambertones.
This week marks the 54th anniversary of the Chicano Youth Liberation Conference convened in Denver, Colorado at the headquarters of Corky Gonzales’s Crusade for Justice. We celebrate this anniversary with three videos. One shows the preparations and convening of the conference attended by more than 1500 Chicano and Puertorican youth from throughout the United States. The other video showcases a rally at the steps of the Denver state capital where Chicano activists took down the Colorado state flag and raised the Mexican flag, symbolically reclaiming Colorado as part of the nation of Aztlan. And lastly, Jesús Treviño, who documented the original conference and rally in 1969, gives his considered thoughts on the historic legacy of the conference. Check out this important part of Chicano history!
Enjoy your week on Latinopia.
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