This week Monica and Camila spoke with Vancouver based theatre artist and proud leftist, Carmen Aguirre!
Carmen Aguirre is a Chilean-Canadian author, actor, and playwright. She’s a Core Artist at Vancouver’s Electric Company Theatre, and co-founder of The Canadian Latinx Theatre Artist Coalition or CALTAC. She has written and co-written over twenty-five plays, and she’s the author of 2 best selling memoirs.
For our merienda this week, Monica enjoyed those little peruvian chocolates again and Camila ate a Colombian manjar de leche con bocadilla de guayaba! So tasty. Here’s a recipe on how to make your own Colombian arequipe/ manjar d...
This week Monica and Camila spoke with Vancouver based theatre artist and proud leftist, Carmen Aguirre!
Carmen Aguirre is a Chilean-Canadian author, actor, and playwright. She’s a Core Artist at Vancouver’s Electric Company Theatre, and co-founder of The Canadian Latinx Theatre Artist Coalition or CALTAC. She has written and co-written over twenty-five plays, and she’s the author of 2 best selling memoirs.
For our merienda this week, Monica enjoyed those little peruvian chocolates again and Camila ate a Colombian manjar de leche con bocadilla de guayaba! So tasty. Here’s a recipe on how to make your own Colombian arequipe/ manjar de leche/ dulce de leche at home!
Show notes:
- Electric Company Theatre, based in Vancouver
- An article from Jacobin on, in Carmen’s words, “ultra right wing dictatorships” in Latin America - ‘Latin America’s Right-Wing Turn’
- B by Guillermo Calderon
- Rumble Theatre, basd in Vancouver
- Carmen’s first memoir, Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
- Canada Reads, an annual "battle of the books" competition organized and broadcast by Canada's public broadcaster, the CBC
- Blue Box, Carmen’s one woman show. Here’s a trailer!
- George Stroumboulopoulos, Canadian media personality and former host of CBC’s The Hour. Here’s his interview with Carmen.
- BBC Radio, who also interviewed Carmen
- Wet'suwet'en resistance movement against the Coastal Gaslink pipeline
- The Cuban Revolution in the 60s - an article.
- The Venezuelan Revolution at the turn of the century - an article titled ‘Chávez’s revolutionaries caught between legacy and change in Venezuela’ from PRI
- Venezuela’s Communas, or the Law of Community Councils
- Recent Chilean uprising and protests
- Recent Argentinian elections
- Recent Bolivian political crisis
- Neoliberalism
- “Canada gives $2000 a month” aka the CERB program
- Plays Carmen has written
- Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered
- James Faygan Tait, Canadian theatre artist
- Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado
- Conyuntura 2020, an international Latinx theatre gathering
- the Canadian Latinx Theatre Artist Coalition or CALTAC
- Beatriz Pizano, Lina de Guevara , Evelina Fernandez, Nancy Garcia Loza and Barbara Santos attended the Coyuntura, among others
- Monica Sanchez, theatre artist working at the University of Colorado
- The L Word, a queer television show
- A Chilean once, or tea time
- Carmen’s book recommendations: The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic by Peter Linebaugh and Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants by Nandita Rani Sharma
¡Esta semana Mónica y Camila tuvieron el placer de hablar con la artista teatral y orgullosa izquierdista Carmen Aguirre!
Carmen Aguirre es una escritora, actriz y dramaturga Chilena-Canadiense. Carmen forma parte de la compañía de teatro Electric Company Theatre en Vancouver y es la cofundadora de la Coalición de Artistas del Teatro Canadiense Latinx o CALTAC. Ha escrito y coescrito más de veinticinco obras de teatro, y es autora de 2 libros de memorias más vendidos en Canadá.
La merienda de Mónica esta semana fue nuevamente un pequeño chocolate peruano y Camila disfrutó de un manjar de leche con bocadilla de guayaba colombiano! Muy sabroso ¡Aquí les dejamos una receta sobre cómo hacer tu propio arequipe / manjar de leche / dulce de leche colombiano en casa!
Bibliografía:
- Compañía de teatro, Electric Company Theatre, basada en Vancouver
- Un artículo de Jacobin sobre, en palabras de Carmen, "dictaduras de ultraderecha" en América Latina - "El giro a la derecha de América Latina"
- B de Guillermo Calderon
- Rumble Theatre, Compañía de teatro en Vancouver
- Primera memoria de Carmen Aguirre, Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
- “Canada Reads,” un concurso anual de "batalla de los libros" organizado y transmitido por una emisora pública de Canadá (CBC)
- Blue Box, el solo show de Carmen. Aquí el trailer!
- George Stroumboulopoulos, personalidad mediática Canadiense y ex presentador de The Hour en CBC. Aquí su entrevista con Carmen.
- BBC Radio, otra entrevista de Carmen
- Movimiento de resistencia Wet'suwet'en contra el gasoducto Coastal Gaslink
- Artículo acerca de la Revolución Cubana
- La revolución venezolana en el cambio de siglo: un artículo titulado Triunfo de Hugo Chávez en 1998: cómo era la Venezuela en la que triunfó Chávez hace 20 años (y en qué se parece a la actual)
- Artículo sobre “La Comunas de Venezuela”
- Artículo sobre la masiva manifestación en Santiago de Chile contra Sebastián Piñera
- Elecciones Argentinas 2019
- La crisis política de Bolivia
- Neoliberalismo
- “Canadá da $2000 dollares al mes”, el programa de ayuda financiera Canadiense “CERB”
- Obras escritas por Carmen
- Eduardo Galeano, periodista Uruguayo, escritor y novelista considerado
- James Faygan Tait, Artista de teatro Canadiense
- Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands de Jorge Amado
- Conyuntura 2020, reunión internacional de teatro Latinx.
- Coalición de artistas del Teatro Canadiense Latinx o CALTAC
- Beatriz Pizano, Lina de Guevara , Evelina Fernandez, Nancy Garcia Loza y Barbara Santos asistentes de “Coyuntura 2020”, entre otrxs
- Monica Sanchez, artista de teatro trabajando en la Universidad de Colorado
- The L Word, show LGBT de televisión
- La hora del té Chilena, “once”.
- Las recomendaciones de libros de Carmen Aguirre: The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic de
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