upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024

upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024

Leeway Co-Sponsors Desde el Fondo De La Tierra Concert

Friday, May 20, 2016 8:00 pm-12:00 am
[ 4634 Paschall Ave ]
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The Leeway Foundation in partnership with Girls Rock Philly, Son revoltura/Philly son jaracho, Casa Monarca and Juntos Co-Sponsors Desde el Fondo De La Tierra.  Performing artist include Mare Advertencia Lirika (MEX), Radio Jarocho (NYC/MEX), Precolumbian  [Chaska Sofia (LTA ’13, ACG ’11)] (PHL) and Interminable (PHL).

Mare Advertencia Lirika is a Mexican rapper, activist and feminist, and is a Zapoteca born in Oaxaca. She is an activist fighting for the rights of people in her community.

Radio Jarocho plays son jarocho music fashioned after the towns, musicians, and swampy countryside that created it in Veracruz, Mexico. They also write their own songs inspired by this popular genre and tailor them with assorted influences, creating a contemporary repertoire that captures the spirit of the traditional style. The band championed son jarocho by performing over the past decade in dozens of concerts and fandangos in several cities, including New York, Washington DC, Philadelphia, and Boston.

DJ Precolumbian, seeks to expand the cultural position of the DJ—not just playing records and throwing parties—but using the dance floor as a tool for community building and transcending borders. Through her work she re-contextualizes popular culture through an anti-oppression lens to create spaces for collective healing through movement and sound. As a cultural producer, Chaska aims to create spaces that are safe for womyn, queer, trans folks, and “other self-defined weirdos” to celebrate their bodies and genders without the fear of harassment.

Interminable are musicians coming from various diasporic experiences – The band takes cues from son jarocho (a regional music from Veracruz), jazz, classical, and electronic music, to create a new palette of sounds that are no longer a direct reflection of their sources, but rather of the musicians making them. 

Suggested Donation $8-15 

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