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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS & UPCOMING EVENTS

JUNE 2008

RebelArte is a monthly presentation series that I do in East Harlem. Join me each month for presentations on different themes. This month's presentation:

Bieké: Tierra de Valientes-
Saturday, June 14th, 3PM @ Cemi Underground/ El Barrio NYC
This month's charla will be a report-back and an update on my upcoming series dedicated to the Vieques struggle. This work is in preparation for an exhibition I will be doing in Vieques to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the passing of David Sanes Rodriguez who was killed when the US Navy missed its target and instead dropped a bomb on the observation post where he was working. The death of Sanes reignited the anti-Navy struggle with the demand "Ni una vida mas/ Ni una bomba mas" (Not one more life/ Not one more bomb). May 1st marked the five-year anniversary since the people were able to stop the Navy maneuvers in Vieques, however the land still belongs to the US government and as part of a so-called "clean-up" process, the US government is still detonating bombs, contamination is still spreading and the struggle continues...

Many thanks to the CUNY Caribbean Exchange Program/ The Center for Puerto Rican Studies and NALAC for their support of this project! !


Previous RebelArte presentations:
*Warrior Women *Dinga/ Mandinga: Black Blood of Boricuas * Soul Rebels-Revolutionary Musicians and Poets* Arte y Ache* O Yanqui o Puertorriqueño-Puerto Rican History & Identity * Archivos Subversivos




Previous RebelArte Presentation themes:
-Warrior Women
- Dinga/ Mandinga: Black Blood of Boricuas
- Soul Rebels, Revolutionary Musicians and Poets
- Arte y Ache
-O Yanqui o Puertorriqueño-Puerto Rican History and Identity
-Archivos Subversivos



Saturday, June 7th at the Brecht Forum:
6th Annual Warrior Womyn/Mujeres Guerreras Annual Cultural Celebration “A Brujas Brew”
A Recipe for Liberation
Womyn of Color stirring a pot of peace, health & justice!
A “Bruja’s Brew” will bring together womyn of color healers, curanderas, medicine

Womyn, storytellers, doulas, witches, herbalist, priestesses,organizers, activists, their energy, their politics, our ancestors, traditions, sacred rituals, arte, songs, dance, altars, and cultura and fuse them into a brew for social justice, human rights and world peace!

Featuring Mahina Movement /Honoring Yasmin Hernandez
Ancestral Opening by Bohio Atabei/ Closing with Danza Mexica “ Azteca”
Through her arte Yasmin will portray womyn freedom fighters, spiritual deities, warriors, & goddesses in their own right!

Together we will honor revolutionary womyn like Audre Lorde, Lolita Lebron, Assata, Luisah Tiesh, Phoolan Devi , Frida, Harriet Tubman, Ella Baker , Julia de Burgos, Dylcia Pagan, Las Hermanas Mirabales, Commandata Ramona, Sandra Hernandez, Aline Sitoe Diatta and many others…..

Supported by the Caribbean Cultural Center


CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

EDMONIA LEWIS CENTER FOR WOMEN AND TRANSGENDER PEOPLE-OBERLIN, COLLEGE

My February 2008 residency at the ELC at Oberlin went beautifully. If you're ever in the Cleveland/ Oberlin area, please stop by and check "Mothers of the Motherless" my tribute to revolutionary leaders of women and queer communities.


Realidades de quisqueya
permanent exhibition of works inspired by the Dominican Republic

Latino Studies Program Offices,
4th Floor, Rockefeller Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Sponsored by LSP, COSEP/MEA and a grant from the Cornell Council for the Arts


UPDATES


-Yasmin is in the process of researching the struggle of the Vieques community against the Navy in preparation for the next ARCHIVOS SUBVERSIVOS segment. These new works will debut at an exhibition at el Museo Fuerto Conde Mirasol in Vieques, Puerto Rico in 2009. Stay tuned for the new works and a special ARCHIVOS SUBVERSIVOS section of this website.

-In November of 2007 the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC) awarded Yasmin a grant from their Fund for the Arts in Support of Archivos Subversivos. This fund is also supported by the Ford Foundation and JPMorgan Chase.

-In the Summer of 2007, The CUNY Caribbean Exchange Program/ The Center for Puerto Rican Studies/ CUNY awarded Yasmin a research grant to expand on the ARCHIVOS SUBVERSIVOS project. Look out for an Archivos section of the website, as well as more paintings, more exhibits, and talks within the next year as the project growss.



PAST EVENTS



















ARCHIVOS SUBVERSIVOS


"Carpeta: Filiberto/ File: Filiberto", Yasmin Hernandez, Mixed media on file folder, 2007

"In order to appraise the caliber of leadership in the Puerto Rican independence movement, particularly as it pertains to our efforts to disrupt their activities and compromise their effectiveness…we must determine their capabilities of influencing others, capabilities of real leadership, why the intense desire for Puerto Rico's independence, what they expect to gain from independence and the support they have from other leaders and rank-and-file members. We must have information concerning their weaknesses, morals, criminal records, spouses, children, family life, educational qualifications and personal activities other than independence activities."

-FBI, COINTELPRO (Subversive Controls Section): MEMO, 1960

This new project explores the political repression suffered by the Puerto Rican independence movement, the government surveillance of its leaders and the secret government and FBI files kept on these individuals and organizations. The exhibit is also inspired by the holdings of El Centro's archives.

Extended through March 19th, 2007

Centro Gallery is located in The Centro Library and Archives
Third floor, East building at Hunter College
68th Street and Lexington Avenue

Gallery Hours:
Monday, Tuesday & Thursday, 9am –6pm
Wednesday, 9am-8pm
Friday & Saturday, 12pm-5pm



BASTA!
My most recent installation includes a military tent and a razor wire fence to reproduce a scene from Vieques, Puerto Rico.
It is a commentary on the continued struggle on that island who for the past 50 years 3/4 of it has been controlled by the US Navy and now half of that by the US Department of the Interior. It is part of a new series exploring the impact of militarization and industrialization on our communities. This work is part of the new exhibition entitled THE FIELD: Selections form JCAL'S Artist Registry at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, curated by Heng-Gil Han.

On view through March 24th.
Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday, 10am-5pm.

Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning
161-04 Jamaica Avenue
Jamaica, Queens, NY 11432
For info and directions:
www.jcal.org
718 658-7400 x123




Columbia University, Intercultural Resource Center
552 114th Street
Exhibition on View through the end of March


 

 

 


 


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