International Women’s Day
Sunday, March 8 | 12:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Free Admission
Celebrate International Women’s Day and our exhibition of arpilleras – all made by hand by Chilean women! California State University, Long Beach Professor Alicia del Campo and Art Historian and Curator, Isabel Rojas-Williams, and others will discuss the impact of art produced by women.
Join us for a day filled with activities including a poetry reading, interactive wall, performance of La Cueca Sola, lecture by Lucía Guerra Cunnigham and dramatized reading of an excerpt of a play.
Food will be available for purchase from LOBO Cuban Food.
Schedule of Events
12:30 PM – 4:00 PM / LOBBY
Interactive Wall: Join the conversation and tell us how you feel about the changing roles of women!
12:30 PM – 1:00 PM / LOBBY
Betsabé Mazzolotti’s Presentation of Arpillera Mural by MEMCH-LA Art Collective
Poetry reading of “La Arpillerista” by Marjorie Agosín, presented by Ana Lya Sater
1:00 PM – 1:30PM / LOBBY
Dramatized reading of an excerpt from “Tres Marías y una Rosa”, presented by Teatro al Sur (CSULB)
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM / VIVA EVENT CENTER
Women, Art & Activism – Panel discussion with Alicia del Campo (“Performing Protest, 1970s to today”) and Isabel Rojas-Williams (“Role of Women Artists in Chile’s Estallido Social”)
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM / LOBBY
Performance of “La Cueca Sola” led by Nancy Rivera, Betsabe Mazzolotti and Elsa Vasquez Martin, with an introduction by Juani Funez-González
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM / SCREENING ROOM
“Latin American Women: From Their Own Body and Soul” – Lecture by Professor Lucía Guerra-Cunningham
4:00 PM / MOLAA ENTRANCE
Performance of “Un violador en tu camino” led by MEMCH-LA, Spanish Graduate Student Association (CSULB), MOLAA staff / volunteers, and museum visitors
Featured Speakers
About Alicia del Campo
Alicia del Campo, PhD. is Full Professor of the Department of Romance, German and Russian Languages and Literatures at California State University, Long Beach. Anthropologist (U of Chile) and Doctor of Literature (University of California, Irvine). She is Director of the Spanish Program and co-director of the Latin American Studies Program at CSULB.
She has published numerous articles on Latin American Theater, social theatricalities and Latin American cultural studies in Chile, Brazil, Spain, Germany and the United States.
About Isabel Rojas-Wiliams
Isabel Rojas-Williams, an Art Historian and curator, served as the Mural Conservancy Los Angeles Executive Director from 2011-2016. A native of Chile and resident of Los Angeles since 1973, she became an immediate and passionate fan of the mural movement here. She is a longtime civic activist who served as Mayor Villaraigosa’s liaison to the Latino, the Asian, and the African American Heritage Committees. Isabel earned her graduate degree in art history from Cal State Los Angeles, and joined the faculty there in 2007.
About Lucía Guerra Cunnigham
Lucía Guerra is a Chilean author and emeritus professor of Latin American Literature at the University of California, Irvine. She specializes in Critical Theory, Gender Studies, and Creative Writing. She received the Plural Essay Award in 1987 for her essay "Cultural Identity and the Dilemma of Self in Latin American Women's Literature" and her book La mujer fragmentada: Historias de un signo was awarded the Casa de las Américas Prize in 1994. She has published more than seventy critical essays in scholarly magazines in Europe, Latin America, and the U.S.A.
About Juani Funez-Gonzalez
Juani Funez-Gonzalez, a political refugee from Chile, arrived in the United States in 1976. A university researcher in Chile, she was able to pursue her studies at the University of California, Irvine, where she obtained two Master degrees and her Doctoral degree in Social Sciences. She is currently teaching part-time at Orange Coast College, after being a full-time professor of U.S. History and Ethnic Studies for twenty six years. She has taught at the University of California, Irvine, the Universidad Autónoma de México, Baja California, in Tijuana, México, and the International House in Spain.
Ana Lya Sater
Ana Lya Sater works as a librarian that arrived to the US from Chile in in 1967. She received her degree from Universidad de Chile, Diploma en Bibliotecologia in 1964 and worked in the “Convenio” University of Chile-University of California from 1965-1967. She continued her education once in the US and received degrees from California State Univeristy Long Beach and UCLA.Slater has co-authored several papers with Ana Maria Cobos about Chilean exile published in “Papers of the Annual Meeting” of Seminars on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM).
Spanish Graduate Student Association (SGSA) is a graduate student collective based on the Spanish Program at CSULB devoted to the promotion of cultural and academic activities that highlight the contributions of Latin America and Spanish Literature, and Linguistics and cultural production in general such as art, film, and theater. SGSA collaborates with many other clubs on campus to promote awareness of key issues in Spain, Latin America and the Latino communities in the USA. We continue to promote the importance of being aware and knowledgeable of the current social issues affecting the community at large.
Women of MEMCh-Los Angeles (Movimiento
Pro-Emancipación de las Mujeres de Chile)
Ana Maria Cobos
Alicia del Campo
Lucy Corral
Sandra Cubillos
Juani Funez-González
Mary Gamboa
Betsabé Mazzolotti
Alicia Quezada-Diez
Marisol Quintana
Nancy Rivera
Isabel Rojas-Williams
Ana Lya Sater
Silvia Sepúlveda
Luz Tapia
Elena Valenzuela
Patricia Vargas-Cooper
Elsa Vásquez Martin