Tag: Storytelling
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Mayan War Room
The Mayan War Room was a collaborative exhibit and pop-up campaign office for the Justice 4 Luis grassroots movement, hosted by the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (MCCLA). I worked with José Góngora Pat and his family in Teabo, Yucatán to curate the exhibit, which featured embroidered protest posters and altar mantels sent from…
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Unsettled/ Inquietos: A collaboration with El Tecolote, the bilingual newspaper of the Mission!
Adriana Camarena is proud to collaborate with Accion Latina to create and distribute “Unsettled/Inquietos,” a series of literary non-fiction essays based on portraits of working class and poor residents of the traditionally Latino Mission District of San Francisco. The essays will be published in English and Spanish in the bilingual El Tecolote newspaper of Acción…
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My Mission Blood: Tales From The Block!
My Mission Blood: Tales from the Block! is a collaboration with residents born and bred in the Mission District of San Francisco. Contributors sent an old photo of themselves on Mission streets, with a caption. The photos provide insight into the visual and narrative streetscapes that these residents built block-by-block. With pain, we see their…
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Campfire: Eviction Community Stories
On January, 17, 2014, the “village” gathered around a campfire to hark the horrors of no-fault evictions of lifelong Mission residents and other San Franciscans provoked by rampant real estate speculation in the City. Fourteen brave storytellers shared their horrific experiences. Below is the resulting documentary film series Campfire: Eviction Community Stories, consisting of a…
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La Llorona: A Public Lamentation on Ellis Act Eviction (Video)
Over the last three decades, several waves of tech booms and housing bubbles have eroded the character of this multi-racial, predominantly Latino, working class neighborhood. As lower income workers are pushed out of their homes by the shenanigans of private property markets catering to high earning professionals, the cultural diversity of the Mission is supplanted…