Performances this Spring
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Natalie Goodnow
Feb 6, 2012, 6:08:31 PM2/6/12
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Hey everybody!
Written and performed by Natalie Goodnow
Directed by Dino Foxx and kt shorb
A Chicanita has it out with the Virgen de Guadalupe. This piece is a solo play unraveling the culturally complicated truths, lies and mythologies of women's spirituality and sexuality in contexts of violence and betrayal. Winner of the 2011 Jane Chambers Award, a national contest recognizing feminist plays and performance texts created by women writers.
"Mud Offerings" is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division.
"Guapa" by Caridad Svich, directed by Natalie Goodnow on Saturday, April 7 at 8pm
Teléfono Piece (para las veteranas, con respeto y amor)
A performance installation by Josh T. Franco and Natalie Goodnow at El Mundo Zurdo: An International Conference, University of Texas - San Antonio.
How many of us who engage Anzaldúa’s work are far from where we began geographically in the pursuit of our academic, intellectual, political, and cultural work? The telephone is meant to play on this distance, in order to both echo Anzaldúa’s and her colleagues’ experiences, as well as to probe the persistence of this wildly dispersed geography into today. It is a chance for Chicanas, Chicanos, People of Color, and other potential “protean beings” to investigate this ever present and pragmatic dimension of our lives and its bearing on our processes of becoming.
As hinted at in the title, this work is inspired by Yoko Ono’s Telephone Piece, hinting at her similar status of honored veteran for many. Like that work, it disrupts the white cube (physical and/or conceptual) of the exhibition space, as it also highlights the coevalness of Chicana/o activism in the US with post-war American Art (a euphemism that occludes the specificity of much of this work to a small number of metropoles, mainly New York).
My profiles: 
I've got an exciting spring lined up! I hope to see you soon!
Kickstarter backers, I know that I am officially overdue on delivery of your rewards! I will have them to you by the end of this month. Thank you so much for your patience, and please know that I am thinking of you, and that I appreciate you profoundly. I hope you'll think of your rewards as a sort of Valentine from me to you when you receive them later this month. Thank you, thank you, and thank you again for your support!
Abrazos a todos,
Natalie
The short version:
Appearing in a Performance Reading of "Digging Up the Dirt" by Cherríe Moraga
Saturday, February 11, 2pm at the MACC, Austin, TX
A 60-second solo performance in The Fusebox "60-in-60" Fundraiser
Wednesday, February 2, 8pm at ND @501 Studios, Austin, TX
My award-winning solo play "Mud Offerings" at my award-winning alma mater!
Tuesday, April 3, 5:30pm at Heather Hall, Fine Arts Center, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX
"Guapa" by Caridad Svich, directed by Natalie Goodnow, at the Austin Latino New Play Festival
Saturday, April 7, 8:00pm at the MACC, Austin, TX
"Teléfono Piece," a performance installation by Josh T. Franco and Natalie Goodnow
Thursday, May 17 at El Mundo Zurdo: An International Conference, San Antonio, TX
The long version:
Digging Up the Dirt
ProArts Collective along with its partners Austin Community College's Department of Arts and Humanities, the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center, University of Texas' Division of Diversity and Community Engagement and Teatro Vivo present a staged reading of Cherrie Moraga's "Digging up the Dirt"; directed by Austin based playwright and director Amparo Garcia Crow.
Join us for the reading and post performance talk with the acclaimed poet, playwright, essayist on Saturday, February 11, 2:00pm at Mexican American Cultural Center, 600 River Street, Austin, TX 78701.
Admission is free with donation of a non perishable item.
The story takes place, as Moraga writes, "inside the poet's head, somewhere in the fragmented Chicano nation of Atzlan." Here, as in most Moraga plays, the playwright uses the imagined landscape of the Southwest to poignantly explore Chicana lives. And, as in most Moraga plays, such depictions give all of us pause - regardless of race or gender or sexuality. This is especially the case in "Digging up the Dirt" where the plot thematically interweaves two murder stories. One is the tale of "Sirena Cantante's" murderer, "Zanzibar", serving a life sentence, while engaging in lesbian romances and being mercilessly visited by the probing "Poet". The second is an intimate account of the muder of "Amada", a Chicana lesbian killed by the hand of her own son.
Join us for the reading and post performance talk with the acclaimed poet, playwright, essayist on Saturday, February 11, 2:00pm at Mexican American Cultural Center, 600 River Street, Austin, TX 78701.
Admission is free with donation of a non perishable item.
The story takes place, as Moraga writes, "inside the poet's head, somewhere in the fragmented Chicano nation of Atzlan." Here, as in most Moraga plays, the playwright uses the imagined landscape of the Southwest to poignantly explore Chicana lives. And, as in most Moraga plays, such depictions give all of us pause - regardless of race or gender or sexuality. This is especially the case in "Digging up the Dirt" where the plot thematically interweaves two murder stories. One is the tale of "Sirena Cantante's" murderer, "Zanzibar", serving a life sentence, while engaging in lesbian romances and being mercilessly visited by the probing "Poet". The second is an intimate account of the muder of "Amada", a Chicana lesbian killed by the hand of her own son.
60-in-60
WHEN: February 22, 2012 8:00 pm
WHERE: ND @501 Studios (501 I-35, entrance on Brushy between 5th and 6th street)
It's back. 60 performances in 60 minutes.
Get your Fusebox motor running at this special event to benefit the 2012 Fusebox Festival. 60 of Austins finest performers, musicians, visual artists, filmmakers, thinkers, and community leaders (including Natalie Goodnow!) will line up to perform sixty solo pieces in 60 minutes.
This rip roaring event is crucial for funding our festival. We would love to have you join us. Be among the first to hear the festival line-up, get festival guides, and purchase discounted passes. Our hosts for this raucous event are none other than Jason Newman and Westen Borghesi.
More awesomeness:
Raffle to win a trip to Portland, OR with Ron Berry for TBA 2012
Silent auction curated by the masterful fellas from Rubber Repertory
Food/Drink specials, prize drawings, and other surprises
60-in-60 includes admission to after-party with surprise guest performance
It's back. 60 performances in 60 minutes.
Get your Fusebox motor running at this special event to benefit the 2012 Fusebox Festival. 60 of Austins finest performers, musicians, visual artists, filmmakers, thinkers, and community leaders (including Natalie Goodnow!) will line up to perform sixty solo pieces in 60 minutes.
This rip roaring event is crucial for funding our festival. We would love to have you join us. Be among the first to hear the festival line-up, get festival guides, and purchase discounted passes. Our hosts for this raucous event are none other than Jason Newman and Westen Borghesi.
More awesomeness:
Raffle to win a trip to Portland, OR with Ron Berry for TBA 2012
Silent auction curated by the masterful fellas from Rubber Repertory
Food/Drink specials, prize drawings, and other surprises
60-in-60 includes admission to after-party with surprise guest performance
Doors open at 7pm, VIP event begins at 6:30pm.
Be a Digestible Feats VIP:
Digestible Feats VIPs will receive a special, intimate, pre-party experience featuring 60 single serving appetizers and 60 single serving beverages curated by the Fusebox Digestible Feats Staff, and a presentation by Matt & Josh from Rubber Rep detailing the exciting adventures up for bid int eh silent Auction. There are 3,600 possible food/beverage pairings and you cannot eat/drink the same thing twice. Capacity is limited to only 20 VIPs.
BUY EVENT & RAFFLE TICKETS ONLINE HERE
Be a Digestible Feats VIP:
Digestible Feats VIPs will receive a special, intimate, pre-party experience featuring 60 single serving appetizers and 60 single serving beverages curated by the Fusebox Digestible Feats Staff, and a presentation by Matt & Josh from Rubber Rep detailing the exciting adventures up for bid int eh silent Auction. There are 3,600 possible food/beverage pairings and you cannot eat/drink the same thing twice. Capacity is limited to only 20 VIPs.
BUY EVENT & RAFFLE TICKETS ONLINE HERE
Mud Offerings
Directed by Dino Foxx and kt shorb
A Chicanita has it out with the Virgen de Guadalupe. This piece is a solo play unraveling the culturally complicated truths, lies and mythologies of women's spirituality and sexuality in contexts of violence and betrayal. Winner of the 2011 Jane Chambers Award, a national contest recognizing feminist plays and performance texts created by women writers.
"Mud Offerings" is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division.
Guapa
The Austin Latino New Play Festival
April 5 -7, 8pm at The Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center
April 5 -7, 8pm at The Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center
Teatro Vivo in conjunction with the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center and ScriptWorks will present the Austin Latino New Play Festival April 5 – 7, 2012. This second annual festival will showcase staged readings of three new plays (one per evening).
The plays selected this year from submissions are "Guapa" by Caridad Svich, "Cura" by Raul Garza and "Rosalia" by Arthur Marroquin.
The plays selected this year from submissions are "Guapa" by Caridad Svich, "Cura" by Raul Garza and "Rosalia" by Arthur Marroquin.
In a small Texas town, caught in the long history of class struggle & racism, live Roly, a single mother, and her makeshift family. Taken in by the family is a young woman named simply Guapa (Beautiful), who dreams of playing women’s soccer. This is a story about a working class community trying to make ends meet with magical dreams of sports, graffiti, birds in flight, indigenous history, trauma, recovery, and the viable possibilities of a better life.
A performance installation by Josh T. Franco and Natalie Goodnow at El Mundo Zurdo: An International Conference, University of Texas - San Antonio.
How many of us who engage Anzaldúa’s work are far from where we began geographically in the pursuit of our academic, intellectual, political, and cultural work? The telephone is meant to play on this distance, in order to both echo Anzaldúa’s and her colleagues’ experiences, as well as to probe the persistence of this wildly dispersed geography into today. It is a chance for Chicanas, Chicanos, People of Color, and other potential “protean beings” to investigate this ever present and pragmatic dimension of our lives and its bearing on our processes of becoming.
As hinted at in the title, this work is inspired by Yoko Ono’s Telephone Piece, hinting at her similar status of honored veteran for many. Like that work, it disrupts the white cube (physical and/or conceptual) of the exhibition space, as it also highlights the coevalness of Chicana/o activism in the US with post-war American Art (a euphemism that occludes the specificity of much of this work to a small number of metropoles, mainly New York).
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Natalie Goodnow
Teatrista, Teaching Artist, and Cultural Activist
PO Box 181222
Austin, TX 78718
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