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MACLA

MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana is an inclusive contemporary arts space grounded in the Chicano/Latino experience that incubates new visual, literary and performance art in order to engage people in civic dialogue and community transformation.

Founded in 1989 as the result of a broad community mobilization in the City of San Jose and nationwide on behalf of multicultural arts, MACLA has promoted, since its inception, a vision of arts programming as a vehicle for civic dialogue and social equity. A hybrid urban arts space located in downtown San Jose and rooted in the Chicano/Latino experience, it intersects many communities, cultures, and aesthetic approaches. From this genesis in advocacy and activism, MACLA has evolved into a community-based arts organization identified in 2003 by Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley as Santa Clara County’s “most practiced and mature site of cultural-citizenship-building through participatory arts.”

More than 30,000 children, youth, young adults, families and community residents participate in the fifty programs MACLA produces each year in four core program tracts.  These are Visual Arts, Performance and Literary Arts, Youth Arts Education, and Community Development Through the Arts. The cross-pollination of Latino and non-Latino audiences has been a distinctive feature of MACLA since its inception. The patrons, audiences, and participants are 70% Latino and 30% non-Latino. A large part of the programs are geared towards creating opportunities for interaction between traditional audiences and new art forms and emerging artists.

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  MACLA

  510 S. 1st Street
  San Jose, CA 95113

  Phone: 408-998-2783

  Fax: 408-998-2817

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  • Event Name: San Jose Poetry Slam
    "I can't wait to experience it!"
    Comment posted by: Tavius Dyer from San Ramon, CA, May 21, 2009
    

    I am a spoken word artist who has never slammed. I saw the movie, though. I've never been. I hope to come down soon and rep the scene!

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    I am a spoken word artist who has never slammed. I saw the movie, though. I've never been. I hope to come down soon and rep the scene!

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  • Event Name: Who Does She Think She Is? - Documentary Film Screening
    "Documentary in English"
    Comment posted by: Alejandra from CA, Mar 18, 2009
    

    This documentary is in English. Sorry, no Spanish subtitles for the version we will be screening this coming Saturday at MACLA.

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    This documentary is in English. Sorry, no Spanish subtitles for the version we will be screening this coming Saturday at MACLA.

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  • Event Name: Junot Diaz Reading and Book Signing
    "brief life of oscar"
    Comment posted by: patty from CA, USA, Sep 08, 2008
    

    The best book I ever read that I didn't understand.

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    The best book I ever read that I didn't understand.

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  • Event Name: The Ghost Riders
    "Travelling The Trail of Tears"
    Comment posted by: Peter Moeau, Rongowhakaata tribe, great-great-greatgrandson of Te Kooti Rikirangi from Te Karaka (4022) Aotearoa NZ, Sep 16, 2007
    

    Nga mihi aroha no nga iwi maori o Aotearoa. E te rangatira, e te kairaranga purakau, e te hoa, tena koe! Vincent - I was privileged enough to see your work, and to meet you in Wairoa, Aotearoa NZ... Expand

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    Nga mihi aroha no nga iwi maori o Aotearoa. E te rangatira, e te kairaranga purakau, e te hoa, tena koe! Vincent - I was privileged enough to see your work, and to meet you in Wairoa, Aotearoa NZ a number of years ago at the Inaugural Indigenous Film Festival. Thank you for such a powerful statement. I had to stand and acknowledge the deep-felt emotion that your work invoked in me. This was the right way for me to talk to you, brother to brother, through whaikorero. As well, seeing Ron His Horse is Thunder reminded me of the healing powers of the descendants of those who suffered way back then. He reminded me of how men of today need to talk to the men of tomorrow and teach them the ways of the old people. He embodied the spirit of his tipuna, Sitting Bull. My aroha goes to you both, and to our tipuna who have already walked their trail of tears. Collapse

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• Past Events

  12/05/09	The 408 Sessions - Youth Slam Poetry League Open Mic MACLA
  11/06/09- 01/02/10	Cultural Disjuncture MACLA
  11/04/09	Literary Event with Gustavo Arellano MACLA
  10/23/09- 10/25/09	Imperial Silence - Una Ópera Muerta MACLA
  10/15/09	Artists' Talk at MACLA MACLA
  09/27/09	Comedy for the People Starring Marga Gomez MACLA
  09/04/09	20th Anniversary Block Party Celebration MACLA
  09/03/09- 10/24/09	La Reconquista MACLA
  09/03/09	Glass Blowing Lecture and Demonstration San Jose State University
  06/05/09- 06/06/09	Summer Slumberfest '09 - 24-Hour International Open-Mic MACLA
  04/29/09	How We Look at Art & Collecting 101 MACLA
  04/23/09	Reading and Q&A with Author Stephanie Elizondo Griest MACLA
  04/22/09- 05/16/09	11th Annual Latino Art Auction & Exhibition MACLA
  04/16/09- 04/18/09	Robert Karimi - Performance Artist In Residence MACLA
  03/27/09- 04/03/09	Youth Poetry Slam MACLA
  03/27/09	Youth Poetry Slam MACLA
  03/21/09	Who Does She Think She Is? - Documentary Film Screening MACLA
  02/06/09	Los Palabristas - Spoken Word Performance MACLA
  01/31/09	Joshua Walters - Madhouse Rhythm MACLA
  01/26/09	Youth Poetry Workshop with Joshua Walters MACLA
  01/26/09- 05/25/09	San Jose Poetry Slam MACLA
  01/23/09- 04/24/09	Youth Poetry Class MACLA
  11/07/08- 01/03/09	Urban Veritas
  10/30/08	Ama - The Memory of Time, A Documentary MACLA
  10/09/08- 10/10/08	Cabaret Unkempt MACLA
  09/20/08	Junot Diaz Reading and Book Signing San Jose State University Theatre
  09/06/08- 09/07/08	Summer Slunberfest Oh Eight MACLA
  09/05/08- 10/25/08	The Art of Style MACLA
  02/01/08- 03/22/08	Beyond Child's Play MACLA
  12/28/07	Open Mic - Lucia Misch MACLA
  12/22/07- 12/23/07	Open Mic - Mike McGee, A 24-Hour Solo Solstice Reading MACLA
  11/30/07	Open Mic - Elijiah Rios MACLA
  11/30/07- 01/19/08	Shifting Dreams, Migrating Realities MACLA
  10/26/07	Quinteto Latino featuring Jose Luis Hurtado Montalvo Arts Center
  10/25/07	Quinteto Latino featuring Jose Luis Hurtado MACLA
  10/24/07	Quinteto Latino featuring Jose Luis Hurtado San Jose State University - Concert Hall
  10/22/07- 10/23/07	Quinteto Latino featuring Jose Luis Hurtado - Open Rehearsal and Educational & Community Concert MACLA
  10/05/07- 11/10/07	FotoFolio: Youth Amplified MACLA
  09/12/07	Baile La Onda; Una noche de rocanrol mexicano de las 60's MACLA
  08/23/07	Chicana/o Biennial Performance Art Night MACLA
  08/01/07- 09/22/07	The Chicana Chicano Biennial MACLA
  07/12/07- 07/13/07	Comedia A Go-Go MACLA
  06/27/07- 07/14/07	Gente, Casas y Barrios MACLA
  05/26/07- 05/27/07	Milta Ortiz - Scatter my Red Underwear MACLA
  05/17/07	El Silencio de Neto Biblioteca Latinoamericana Branch Library
  04/28/07	Rachel Victoria Rodriguez Biblioteca Latinoamericana Branch Library
  02/02/07- 04/07/07	Domestic Alchemy MACLA
  12/15/06- 12/16/06	Kristina Wong - Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest MACLA
  12/01/06	Portrait of Artists as Latino Immigrants MACLA
  11/12/06	Think Again MACLA
  10/25/06- 12/23/06	Culture of Violence: Work by Victor Cartagena MACLA
  10/20/06- 10/21/06	Octavio Campos - Luna Del Pinguino MACLA
  10/05/06	What Are You Doing Tonight? MACLA
  09/27/06	Coca Mama MACLA
  09/15/06- 11/17/06	Youth Poetry Workshops MACLA
  09/10/06	Think Again MACLA
  09/01/06	Interversiones MACLA
  08/23/06	Historias del desencanto / Stories of Disenchantment MACLA
  08/11/06	Praba Pilar's Computers Are A Girl's Best Friend MACLA
  08/07/06- 10/07/06	Frontera Electronica MACLA
  07/07/06- 07/22/06	Our Space- Youth Narratives MACLA
  07/06/06	First Annual Frida Kahlo Fundraiser MACLA
  07/02/06	A Preview Screening of Transition MACLA
  06/27/06- 06/28/06	Cazuza - o tempo não para / Cazuza - Time Doesn't Stop MACLA
  06/18/06- 06/18/05	Open Mic at MACLA MACLA
  06/18/06	Think Again! Poetry Slam MACLA
  05/24/06	Tijuana Jews MACLA
  05/13/06	Headrush in the Throwdown MACLA
  05/12/06- 06/03/06	The 8th Annual Latino Art Auction MACLA
  04/09/06	Open Mic at MACLA MACLA
  04/08/06	Butchlalis de Panochtitlan - Teenage Papi: The 2nd Coming of Adolescence MACLA
  03/16/06	Maria Elena Gaitan - The Adventures of Connie Chancla MACLA
  03/10/06- 04/29/06	Tortillas, Chiles and other Border Things: Consuelo Jiménez Underwood MACLA
  02/24/06- 02/26/06	New Year's Day: A Multicultural Exploration on New Beginnings MACLA
  02/23/06	Maribel Alvarez -Participatory Arts Within the Cultural Ecology of Silicon MACLA
  02/16/06- 02/26/06	New Year's Day: A Multicultural Exploration on New Beginnings Ayer Education Center
  02/12/06	Open Mic Featuring Poet Mike McGee MACLA
  02/10/06	Gaytino! MACLA
  01/25/06	See Us/Los Vemos: La Frontera Asiatica MACLA
  01/18/06- 02/25/06	Traces/Rastros: Recent Work by María Magadalena Campos-Pons MACLA
  12/07/05	Artists’ Talk MACLA
  12/02/05	Latino Author Series - Luis Urrea Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library
  11/30/05	See Us/Los Vemos MACLA
  11/19/05	Community Celebration Day MACLA
  11/13/05	The Delivery Room - Jeff Fitzgerald MACLA
  11/11/05- 12/31/05	Intersections: Reflections of Home & Migration MACLA
  11/10/05	SEXILE
  11/04/05	Latino Author Series - Salvador Plascencia MACLA
  10/29/05	Paul Flores Presents: The Rain MACLA
  10/28/05	FIYAH! MACLA
  10/26/05	See Us / Los Vemos October Film Slam MACLA
  10/21/05	Latino Authors Series - Manuel Munoz MACLA
  10/19/05	Artists' Talk MACLA
  10/16/05	Birth of a NASIAN MACLA
  10/07/05	Latino Authors Series MACLA
  09/24/05	Ghetto Fabulous: The Be-Sides of Hip Hop Film Festival MACLA
  09/23/05	Ghetto Fabulous: The Be-Sides of Hip Hop Film Festival MACLA
  09/16/05	Teatro Luna's S-e-x-oh! MACLA
  09/14/05- 10/29/05	Can Control: Urban Transformers MACLA
  09/11/05	The Delivery Room MACLA