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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.

    • Contact Info

      MACLA

      510 S. 1st Street
      San Jose, CA 95113

      Phone: 408-998-2783

      Fax: 408-998-2817

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    • Member Reviews

      • 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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