Poster image above features a black ink on white paper drawing by visual artist, Mary Hazboun. “Uprising” depicts a woman with arms stretched open with many small keys dangling from her keffiyeh underneath her arms. Her body in an embroidered dress, is in the shape of Palestine. The poster reads FLACC 2024: El Grito Por Thawra الثورة with red, green and black lettering.
FLACC 2024: El Grito por Thawra الثورة (A CRY FOR REVOLUCIÓN)
In its 11th revolution around the sun, the Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers (FLACC) is calling for “Revolution” (the only solution), with a transnational solidarity approach to art and resistance. El Grito por Thawra الثورة showcases eleven performances throughout the weekend of Nov. 8, 9, & 10, representing social justice issues that center local immigrant, queer, feminist and indigenous perspectives that extend to Palestine.
Its curatorial theme, El Grito Por Thawra الثورة (A Cry for Revolution) reflects the purpose of the festival and who is involved. “El Grito” (meaning "the scream, or cry" in Spanish) is referencing both a vocal call, commonly expressed by Mexican Ranchero singers, as well as the Historic speech given in 1810 by Miguel Hidalgo, a priest from Dolores, Guanajuato who sparked an indigenous-led Mexican revolution against the Spanish colonizers shouting “¡Viva Mexico!”. FLACC is reviving its 2020 El Grito curatorial theme which was also held during the previous U.S. election season four years ago.
The word “Thawra” translated in Arabic as “Revolution,” is a term and concept which gained momentum during the protests of the Arab Spring throughout the Middle East in the 2010’s. It was generated in a curatorial meeting with our Palestinian comrades at a local cafe last June.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, where diasporic communities live together and find solidarity in similar political struggles, the artists in FLACC 2024: El Grito por Thawra الثورة are sharing their stories, sorrows, dreams and hopes for communities impacted by the oppression of border walls, militarism, ecocide, loss of homelands, settler colonial agendas. With media censorship and police violence silencing victims of genocide and their supporters, it’s important for artists, academics and cultural workers from all backgrounds to come together for Palestine right now. Let your voice be heard with El grito por justicia, libertad y revolución! ¡Viva Palestina! ¡Viva Democracia! ¡Viva Los Bellas Artes!
Community Care--In addition to the performances, FLACC is hosting events led by local BIPOC artists meant to build and care for our community, learn from artists and scholars involved in revolutionary practices and engage in generative workshops that bridge activism with performance works.
Its curatorial theme, El Grito Por Thawra الثورة (A Cry for Revolution) reflects the purpose of the festival and who is involved. “El Grito” (meaning "the scream, or cry" in Spanish) is referencing both a vocal call, commonly expressed by Mexican Ranchero singers, as well as the Historic speech given in 1810 by Miguel Hidalgo, a priest from Dolores, Guanajuato who sparked an indigenous-led Mexican revolution against the Spanish colonizers shouting “¡Viva Mexico!”. FLACC is reviving its 2020 El Grito curatorial theme which was also held during the previous U.S. election season four years ago.
The word “Thawra” translated in Arabic as “Revolution,” is a term and concept which gained momentum during the protests of the Arab Spring throughout the Middle East in the 2010’s. It was generated in a curatorial meeting with our Palestinian comrades at a local cafe last June.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, where diasporic communities live together and find solidarity in similar political struggles, the artists in FLACC 2024: El Grito por Thawra الثورة are sharing their stories, sorrows, dreams and hopes for communities impacted by the oppression of border walls, militarism, ecocide, loss of homelands, settler colonial agendas. With media censorship and police violence silencing victims of genocide and their supporters, it’s important for artists, academics and cultural workers from all backgrounds to come together for Palestine right now. Let your voice be heard with El grito por justicia, libertad y revolución! ¡Viva Palestina! ¡Viva Democracia! ¡Viva Los Bellas Artes!
Community Care--In addition to the performances, FLACC is hosting events led by local BIPOC artists meant to build and care for our community, learn from artists and scholars involved in revolutionary practices and engage in generative workshops that bridge activism with performance works.
"Gaza" by Mary Hazboun
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