Upcoming Events

Since lockdown began in March 2020, LPN has presented an ongoing series of Zoom broadcasts. We have hosted bi-monthly virtual events including spoken word solos, poetry slams, intellectual salons, classroom visits, international performance workshops & festivals  - involving all Pocha Members and special guests from around the world.

So far in this virtual series, LPN has performed in bi-monthly, wild online events with Dreamocracy in America , Rev Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir and Grace Space (NYC). Please scroll through the past events section to see what we have been up to during lockdown!

If you are interested in hosting a virtual event featuring LPN please contact us! pocha@pochanostra.com

THIS UPCOMING WEEKEND!! Starting this Friday (Sept 4, 2020) at 12:00p PST, LPN is showcasing our Live Art + Film Festival featuring work by the incredible participating artists from our first ever Virtual School of Dreams & Psychomagic.

Last weekend this virtual festival live-stream was abruptly impacted by tropical storm Laura.

The details: The full video/festival will be viewable from THIS page anytime from:

Friday, Sept 4 at 12:00P PST to Sunday, Sept 6 at 11:59P PST

Don't forget to watch anytime before Sunday at midnight when this video & festival will spontaneously self-destruct!!

LPN’S 2020 VIRTUAL SCHOOL ALUMNI ARTISTS ARE: Freyr Marie, Marcus Kuiland-Nazarioh, Irisdelia Garcia, Marie Markovic, Elisabetta Lambertini, Tanya Marie Vlach, Christopher Michael Gutierrez B. Aquarius Funkk, Noelle Ghoussaini, Shannon Rose Riley, Susana Plotts-Pineda, Kayla Chambers, Natacha Voliakovsky, Courtney Desiree Morris, Leni Hester, Kate Barry, Pocha Pena, Victor Payan, Alex Bradley, lwrds duniam, Eréndira Bravo, Indira Montoya, ximena huizi, Claudio Carvalhaes, Amber Phelps Bondaroff, Angie Bautista, Brock Hessel, Jessica Fitzgerald, Vinicius Davi, Chanel Matsunami Govreau, Lorena Peña, lo bil, Chelsea Markuson & Rae Goodwin

Full Information & Registration Information online HERE.

In 2020, La Pocha Nostra hosts our legendary performance workshop online with sessions held once a week over 3-weeks in August. We welcome artists & activists from everywhere to participate! This year’s intensive will be instructed and produced by LPN core members Gómez-Peña, Emma Tramposch, Balitronica Gómez, La Saula & LROD.

Sessions will also include surprise guest artists and luminaries of the performance art world!!

Themes of exploration for this year’s workshop: LPN’S pedagogy focuses on the human body as a site for creation, reinvention, memory and activism. This year -  in response to our immediate present - we will focus on the following themes: Artistic tools & strategies for combating systemic racism, the politics of isolation, virtual “presence”, ritual strategies to connect with humanity, notions of self and collective, cultivating community, action and activism outside of the public realm, the possibilities for presenting live art  & pedagogy in the virtual.

Gómez-Peña Unplugged

July 3rd, 2020 6:00 pm PST

UPDATE: The complete files of Gomez-Pena Unplugged are currently censored. As soon as the entire event is available we will post it here. Thank you for joining us, muchas gracias!

Curated by Gómez-Peña & La Pocha Nostra in dialogue with Grace Exhibition Space NYC

HOW TO SURVIVE THE APOCALYPSE

An evening of body-based performances & strategies to cross virtual space.

Grace Exhibition Space (NY), La Pocha Nostra (US/Mexico) & The Norwegian Theater Academy (Norway) join forces to host an unprecedented evening of experimental performance involving artists from multiple countries performing in simultaneity alongside a live electronic composer and a vocalist.

FEATURED ARTISTS:

La Pocha Nostra ~ LROD & La Saula (USA/Mexico), The Ecosexuals Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens (US), VestAndPage (Germany/Italy), Kira O’Reilly (Finland/Ireland), Eleonora Fabião (Brazil), Marilyn Arsem (USA), Willem Wilhelmus (Finland), Cesar Martinez (Mexico), Martin Renteria & Sharmel Altamirano (Mexico), Music by Ulf Knudsen (Norway)& Vocals by Micha Espinosa (The Borderlands).

This event is free to but we are strongly encouraging donations to the individual artists & Black Lives Matter.

PRESS RELEASE including link to view the event HERE.

Photo: La Saula by Juan Carlos Ruiz Vargas.

Register via Eventbrite here.

Fifth ‘encuentro’ trans-fronterizo of poetry performance and inverted languages. A Remix of glitch, tongues, multi-lingual spoken word, spanglish, gringoñol, and more locuras…

Sliding Scale Donation $5-$15 USD (to help keep the doors of La Pocha Nostra and Dreamocracy in America open) Limited capacity: First come first served - 200 max.

The event features the following artists from Mexico: Lechedevirgen Trimegisto, Rocio Cerón, Eugenia Chellet. And from the USA: Micha Espinosa, Logan Phillips, Jose Torres-Tama, La Pocha Nostra (Saula, Emma, Balitronica, LROD, Gómez-Peña) with Democracy in America (Pocha Peña & Victor Payan) and Dramaturgical Support by Paloma Martínez Cruz.

This video contains a series of excerpts from Gómez-Peña's collaborations with Dreamocracy in America featuring spoken word texts commenting on the current two global pandemias alongside earlier work from his "living archives". This was his first virtual performance during lockdown.

https://dreamocracyinamerica.org/

POSTPONED

Gómez-Peña, Saula, Balitronica & LROD are in residency at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theater in Tallinn, Estonia leading a 2-week pedagogical project with students as part of the "Contemporary Physical Performance Making" Program. Information about the program online HERE.

POSTPONED

Presentation of new solo performance WE ARE ALL ALIENS – And other tales of Radical Imagination (2020) with BALITRONICA GÓMEZ.

10-day Pocha Nostra Posnacional residency in Mexico City. Featuring a performative launch for the brand new Glosolalia book - Spoken word events open to the public during the first week of March.

"Glosolalia” es un fenómeno que se refiere a los estados alterados de conciencia que producen sonidos y fonemas más allá de la semiótica y lo inteligible, como el mentado ‘tecno-speak’ Hoy en día, es ‘lingua franca, poluta e disoluta,’ en el mentado “international poetry slam movement.” y los chicanos son la mera vanguardia sin proponérselo.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Ongoing performance salon series open to the public, solo performance premiere by Gómez-Peña and presentation of WE ARE ALL ALIENS border opera featuring Allison Lovejoy.

OSLO, NORWAY - La Pocha Nostra's annual return & residency partnership with the Norwegian Theater Academy.

OAXACA, MEXICO - Large Scale exhibition and International Winter Workshop

AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND - In collaboration with Public Act Theater

An International Summit of Live Art & Pedagogy

Two established international troupes - Vest & Page (Germany/Italy) and La Pocha Nostra (US/Mexico) have joined forces in the last three years to produce large-scale pedagogical and performative adventures with an international scope involving up to 50 artists, including “special guests,” instructors/tutors and alumnae always in dialog with the local arts and intellectual community. Currently seeking sites and co-producers for this project.

POSTPONED

Presentation of new solo performance WE ARE ALL ALIENS – And other tales of Radical Imagination (2020) with BALITRONICA GÓMEZ.

This event is free and open to to the public.