For Secondary School Educators
Exploring Identity through the Power of Storytelling
The Music Center & LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes bring attention to curriculum, which focuses on content that integrates the arts, history, storytelling, and narrative with the themes of cultural legacy and personal identity.
Featuring presentations by:
· Olga Loya: Storyteller, performance artist, writer, and teacher, Olga Loya uses a dramatic mix of Spanish and English to share traditional tales from Latin America, as well as stories from her own varied and colorful life growing up in East Los Angeles.
· Barbara Clark: A passionate advocate of both the written and spoken word. As a storyteller, Barbara shares both vilvely accounts of her personal experiences in Los Angeles and touching memories from her youth while growing up in a small East Coast community.
· Paul Guzman: Direct descendent of three of the founding families of Los Angeles and descendent of Prospero Dominquez, a Gabrielino-Tongva who was granted a tract in San Gabriel Valley.
With additional presentations by:
· Facing History and Ourselves: Through an interdisciplinary approach that links history, literature, and ethics, Facing History and Ourselves connects history to moral questions inherent in a study not only of violence, racism, and anti-Semitism, but also of courage, caring, and compassion.
· KCET Departures: Youth Voices: An oral history project, interactive documentary, a community engagement tool, and a digital lieracy project that gives voice to the people, places or things that define the neighborhoods of our city.
· LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes celebrates and cultivates an appreciation for the enduring and evolving influence of Maxican and Mexican-American culture, with a specific focus upon the unique Mexican-American experience in Los Angeles and Southern California.
LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes | 501 North Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
