¿Donde Esta Mi Gente?
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Event Description
¿Donde Esta Mi Gente? is bringing together some of the bay area’s most exciting writers, poets, comedians, and performers to speak on the theme of immigration, strength, resilience, hilarity, what makes a good or bad immigrant, and how to survive the next four years.
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Curator: Baruch Porras Hernandez
Baruch Porras Hernandez is a PushcartPrize nominated writer, named one of the 13 BayArea writers to watch of 2016 by 7x7 Magazine. He’s a Lambda Literary Fellow in Poetry, is the Voice of Shipwreck SF, and regularly hosts shows with KQED.
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Event Readers
Eloisa Bravo
Eloisa Bravo has performed everywhere from SF Sketchfest to the Purple Onion, The Rumpus, Tourettes Without Regrets, and Co Produces Cheaper than Therapy. Find out more at eloisabravo.com
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Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is an artist of mixed Pakistani and Lebanese descent. He has performed with Radar Productions, The Stud, throughout the U.S, Colombia, Pakistan and Dubai. Find out more at https://zulfikaralibhuttoart.com/
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René Vaz
René Vaz curates and hosts the Voz Sin Tinta and Uptown Fridays, and is a lecturer at San Francisco State University. His book, "The Planet of the Dead", is forthcoming from Nomadic Press.
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Amanda Muñiz
Amanda Muñiz
is a writer from Puebla, Mexico currently studying English Literature and Latino Studies at San Francisco State. She is inspired by her parents, the migrant experience, the land she has trekked over, and chisme. |
Javier Zamora
Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and migrated to the US when he was nine. He is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow and holds fellowships from CantoMundo, Colgate University, MacDowell, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Yaddo. His first book Unaccompanied is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press, September 2017
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