Leadership and Art Careers Seminar 2007

Saturday, March 24, 2007 10:00 A.M. TO 6:00 P.M.
Zachary Scott Theater, 1510 Toomey Rd., Austin, TX 78704

Austin, Texas- Latinas Unidas Por El Arte (LUPE Arte) holds its Leadership and Art Careers Seminar on March 24, 2007.  The workshop-style event is free to the first 60 young women between the ages of 12 and 16 to register and features four leading artists in the fields of Leadership, Film, Theater and Dance.

“These young women simply need to become aware that they can be leaders and that the arts are accessible to them if they know how to seek and find the right resources”, said Marita De La Torre, Executive Director of LUPE Arte.

LUPE Arte will have Master Presenters: Naiti Gamez (Film) graduate film student from the University of Texas and recent winner of the Texas Filmmaker’s Production Fund Grant for her effort “Sadie”.  Erica Saenz (Theater) co-founder of the Latino Comedy Project, UT Theater graduate and currently in UCLA’s MFA Playwriting program while coaching acting and writing with East LA Classic Theater’s youth programs. Austin Critics Table Award winner Sharon Marroquín will present in dance; Sharon was listed as one of the top ten dance events for 2006 by the Austin Chronicle and teaches dance at Tapestry Dance Company. A Leadership workshop will kick off the Seminar headed by Jeanniffer Burnes, graduate from the International Business program of the University of Monterrey. By partnering with the Austin Public Library LUPE Arte will serve students from Keeling Middle School and other area young women.

An inspiring closing of the event will be provided by the presentation of the stage play, “She Flies” adapted for the stage by playwright, Mike D. Garcia from a short story written by award winning author, David Rice.  Singer Song-Writer Myrna Cabello will be in attendance to speak to the group and introduce the play.  LUPE Arte re-unites Mike D. Garcia, Founder of Nushank Theater Collective and the rest of the Nushankers in Austin to present “She Flies” for the Seminar.  This play about a young woman who overcomes the obstacles of socio and economic disadvantages to get into an Ivy League school has toured the country in the last four years reaching over 10, 000 students nationwide in areas such as The Rio Grande Valley and Austin, Texas, Albuquerque and Las Cruces New Mexico, Miami, Florida and Washington, D.C.  A question and answer with the playwright Mike D. Garcia and short story author, David Rice and the rest of the cast members will follow the presentation of the play.

For more information, contact:
Marita De La Torre
Executive Director: Latinas Unidas Por El Arte
(512) 241-9799
marita@lupearte.org

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