Thu, Aug 01
|Arthouse at Blue Star
Intimate Conversation with Laura Varela & David Zamora Casas
Please join us for an evening of film, poetry, and an intimate conversation with award-winning filmmaker Laura Varela and renowned Queer Xicanx Interdisciplinary Artist David Zamora Casas. Slab Cinema presents this Xicanx Month special event. See more details below.
Time & Location
Aug 01, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Arthouse at Blue Star, 134 Blue Star, San Antonio, TX 78204, USA
About the Event
Thursday, August 1, 2024, 7 pm Slab Cinema Arthouse
Join us for an evening of film, poetry, and an intimate conversation with award-winning filmmaker Laura Varela and renowned Queer Xicanx Interdisciplinary Artist David Zamora Casas. Immediately following the screenings David Zamora Casas’ will discuss and share a work in progress performance for his Democratizing Racial Justice Residency for Dia de los Angelistos Nov.1. An intimate conversation and Q&A with both artists will follow the performance.
Run of Show Line Up:
(). UN TRIP is a split-screen jazz and liberation documentary based on “Un Trip through the Mind Jail” written in 1969 by the beloved Xicanindio poet Raúl R Salinas while he was incarcerated at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. This film is about transformation through political education in the community (initially a community of the incarcerated). The film also explores contemporary issues like imprisonment, community destruction, gentrification, and the profound impact of cultura…