A weekend of solidarity with the indigenous people of El Salvador…In San Francisco
A weekend of solidarity with the indigenous people of El Salvador…
Fri, Jan 14 – Hip Hop Concert
Sat, Jan 15 – Indigenous Dancers, speakers, food and community award ceremony
Sun, Jan 16 – Mayan Ceremony
Details below:
FRIDAY – January 14, 2011
– HIP HOP POR LA PAZ –
8:00pm-12:00pm
@ Women’s Building
3543 18th St., San Francisco, CA 94110
$10 donation
Performing:
Reyes del Bajo Mundo – O.N.S. El Sonador – Amazon Blew – Geo Kiburym – Rap Squad – Santos – Inner City Dwellers Conflikto Armado – El Comandante Izalco – Wanako – Kingz & Marmota Fu – Browny Loco – Lirico Dios
Also included:
Alex Sanchez-Executive Director of Homies Unidos live via Skype, – Homies Unidos Callejeros Graff & Visual Art – Coperativa Cuscatlán via www.ustream.com
TV Channel/Cooperative Cuscatlán Radio Subersivar – Cinema Feliciano Ama – Question Everythink – Tigres Y Violetas – El Jorge
SATURDAY – January 15, 2011
– SPIRIT OF MEMORY –
14TH Annual Commemoration of La Matanza
2:00pm – 7:30pm
@ Women’s Building
3543 18th St., San Francisco, CA 94110
$6 donation
After the tragic events of La Matanza in 1932, an unknown number of Salvadoran indigenous people perished, estimated between 10,000 and 30,000 people. As a result, native communities in El Salvador took their ceremonies and culture into hiding. 78 years after these events, communities have re-emerged and are being recognized officially by El Salvador’s government. We gather our collective Spirit of Memory with our Bay Area community and utilize it to discuss traditional culture and bi-nationality through discussion, song, and ceremonies.
Program:
Opening Prayer – JR Leywa, Wailaki, Round Valley Indian Reservation – Lenca-Poton Passage Song – Guanajuato Purepucha Dancers – Lenca Emplumado Dancers – Film: ‘Discovering Dominga’
Presentations:
Julio Leyva—Comite de IzalqueñosDra. Concepcíon Saucedo-Martinez, Comisión De La Verdad 1932Dra. Robin Maria DeLugan, Assistant Professor-Anthropology, UC Merced
Community Honorees:
Miguel “Gavilan” Molina – KPFA Radio “La Onda Bajita”Lizbett Calleros – Central American Resource Center (CARECEN)Tory Canby, Teacher & ArtistAlejandra Calderon – former Executive Director, HOMEY
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Sunday, January 16, 2011 (9am)
– Mayan ceremony –
Conducted By: Pascual Yaxon Saloj & Maya Caqchiquel
@ Pine Lake Park – Sloat Blvd & Vale Avenue, San Francisco (by Stern Grove)
Free
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