06 Nov Palm Springs Life article on our project just out.
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10 Oct Meet our Community Engagement Facilitators
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Dear Crisalida Community,I'm back in New York and Autumn is gorgeous. After a month in the desert it sure is nice to be around the lush landscape of Hudson Valley.I...
02 Oct Arts and the Craft of Activism.
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words...
23 Sep Laying it down! Giant and Verz, DMHS, Galilee Center, 24th St. Theater!!!
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They won hearts and minds, and that's what really counts. Giant and Verz kicked it hard and with big love at the Tilted Kilt Open Mic Final last Wednesday night...
18 Sep From EL GRITO to the SALTON SEA…
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September 14thThe week started on Sunday with a blazing afternoon at El Grito, the annual music/culture/community festival in Coachella's Rancho Las Flores Park. I arrived at 3:30 under 110 degree...
14 Sep Angels in America — Coachella style.
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DESERT MIRAGE HIGH SCHOOL - COACHELLA Meet playwright, actor, theater-maker, and long-time dedicated theater teacher Carlos Garcia. Carlos and I talked in the black box theater in Desert Mirage High...
09 Sep Indio Trifecta
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It was another amazing day in the Coachella Valley. Started off with a visit to the S.C.R.A.P. Gallery, on the Riverside County fairgrounds, a place where the discarded becomes renewed,...
07 Sep A Day of the Living in Coachella
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RAICES Cultural CenterGiant blocks of Styrofoam carved with a chainsaw and hours of sanding into massive skulls for the day of the dead. Teens and their volunteer mentors sweating head...
04 Sep Ms. Can-do and Mr. Cutz
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Hooked up the magnetic logos for my first day in the community. And away we go…Long good visit with photographer, educator and multimedia artist Jacalyn Lopez Garcia at College of the...
03 Sep Crisalida BEGINS!
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Happy to announce that the McCallum Theatre's CRISALIDA COMMUNITY ARTS PROJECT has started as of 9AM today! I arrived from NYC last night, picked up my Dollar Rent-A-Car, settled...