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    Reading of: Digging Up The Dirt

    Reading of: Digging Up The Dirt

    Presented by Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center and ProArts Collective at Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center.

    February 11, 2012

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     Written by Chrríe Moraga
    Directed by Amparo Garcia Crow

    "Inside the poet's head, somewhere in the fragmented Chicano nation of Aztlán. . .an old story of loving to death."

    ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

    Cherríe L. Moraga is a playwright, poet, and essayist whose plays and publications have received national recognition, including TCG Theatre Artist Residency Grantin 1996, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Theatre Playwrights Fellowship in 1993, and two Fund for New American Plays Awards. Moraga is the co-editor of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, which won the Before Columbus American Book Award in 1986. For over ten years, Moraga has served as an Artist in Residence in the Department of Drama at Stanford University and currently also shares a joint appointment with Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.


    Post Performance talk with playwritght Cherríe Moraga immediately following performance.

     


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        Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center.

        600 River Street
        Austin, TX 78701

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        February 11, 2012

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         Event starts at 2pm

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