DIVERSE DISCOURSE LECTURE: SONIA GUIÑANSACA, MANAGING DIRECTOR, CULTURESTRIKE
Join DiverseWorks on Thursday, March 28 for the Spring 2019 Diverse Discourse Lecture with Sonia Guiñansaca, Managing Director, CultureStrike.
Sonia Guiñansaca is an internationally acclaimed queer migrant poet, cultural organizer and activist from Harlem by way of Ecuador. Guiñansaca, a VONA/Voices and BOOAT Alumni, has performed at The Met, Brooklyn Museum, The Highline, Joe’s Pub, El Museo Del Barrio, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Lehmann Maupin Gallery and has been featured by NBC, PBS, Latina Magazine, Pen American, the Poetry Foundation, and the United Kingdom’s Diva Magazine to name a few. They have emerged as a national leader in the undocumented/migrant artistic and political communities. Guiñansaca was named as 1 of 10 Up-and-Coming Latinx Poets You Need to Know by Remezcla and is currently leading cultural equity work as the Managing Director of CultureStrike.
Diverse Discourse Studio Visits: Application Deadline March 18
Houston-area artists working in any media or discipline (including visual artists, performance artists, media artists/filmmakers, writers, dancers, and choreographers) may apply online for studio visits with visiting Diverse Discourse speakers.