Las Maestras Center for Xicana Indegenous Thought and Art Practice will celebrate its opening this Friday from 3:30 to 6:00 p.m in South Hall 1415. Below is an excerpt from the founders of the center, Cherríe Moraga and Celia Herrera Rodríguez.

As UCSB is now a “Hispanic” serving Institution, we are enthusiastically responding in kind from a Xicana Indigenous perspective. Las Maestras Center’s purpose, as we see it, is to help Latinxs remember their origins through the act of art making and critical collective thought. In our many decades of teaching and art practice, we have witnessed over and over again, that through public pedagogy, young people become empowered to create a literature, a theater, a visual rendering and a daily social practice that counters the societal impoverishment and cultural amnesia of globalization. It’s the most and best that we, as teachers and artists, have to give.

- Cherríe Moraga and Celia Herrera Rodríguez

To get more information, as well as a full itinerary, visit:

http://www.english.ucsb.edu/events/las-maestras-center-xicana-indigenous...