Women Out Loud - Friday, June 26
CAROL NG-HE & MARCELA MORáN
Women Out Loud! the longest running open mic in Chicago is a nurturing space for women and women-identified writers and performers to share work. Following the open mic on June 26 are featured guests, performance artist Carol Ng-He and filmmaker Marcela Morán.
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Carol Ng-He is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist and art educator. She received a Master’s degree of Arts in Art Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Bachelor’s degree in Arts from Columbia College Chicago. Carol has exhibited and performed locally including Hyde Park Art Center, Jane Addams-Hull House Museum, Koehnline Museum of Art at Oakton Community College, Woman Made Gallery, Effe Leven Gallery, Mess Hall, Links Hall, and the Duncan YMCA Chernin Center for the Arts in Chicago. In her interdisciplinary art practices, Carol explores the hybridity of cultural life, and interactivity of human intellectual exchange across time, space, and imagination.
Carol is featured on Chicago Artists Resource. Her publications include Silk Road Theatre Project’s Alternative Cultural Education and Stepping In and Out: Performance Art in the Community College ESL Curriculum on Community Arts Network, as well as Reflection on the Role of Artists: A Case Study on the Hidden Visual Curriculum of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in Teaching Artists Journal (Volume 6, Number 4). She was a recipient of the Sumasil Foundation grant 2005-2006. As a teaching artist, Carol freelances at the Silk Road Theatre Project. Currently she teaches at Columbia College Chicago, Roosevelt University, and Oakton Community College.
Marcela Morán is an award-winning filmmaker and educator. She is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas and has been leading Media Del Monte, a summer youth media-training institute in rural South Texas, since 2007. Morán earned a BS in Radio/TV/Film from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MFA in Film from Ohio University. She is a border woman, raised on the US/Mexico border in Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, México where she currently resides. Her work deals with migration/immigration, border landscape and bicultural issues. She is currently working on two documentary projects dealing with a network of five immigrant shelters in Latin America, Casas de Migrantes, (three in Mexico and two in Guatemala), run by Scalabrini missionaries.
Morán's latest production, Audiencia, will be screened during Women Out Loud!
Synopsis:
Audiencia is a short film about the underground Lucha Libre scene in Laredo, Texas focusing on the audience's participation at the venues. Mexicans from both sides of the border speak passionately about their favorite sport and what it means to be part of the audience.
Come and share your words, and/or just take a break from the week’s work woes and listen to fabulous women writers/performers read/do spoken word/sing. As always, men are welcome to applaud and cheer! $5 suggested donation, $3 for open mic participants.
Women Out Loud!
Friday, June 26, 2009
7 to 9 PM
The Center for New Possibilities
1505 W Morse Ave
Chicago, IL 60626
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