Common Ground: Land

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Common Ground: Land—A Songwriting and Digital Art Workshop by Community Power Collective

Drawing from Community Power Collective’s arts activism with workers, musicians, and youth in Boyle Heights, artists Quetzal Flores, Martha Gonzalez, and USC history graduate student Yesenia Hunter will guide participants through a collective songwriting and digital artwork workshop, followed by a discussion centered on the relationship between land and power.&quot;Common Ground: Land—A Songwriting and Digital Art Workshop by Community Power Collective” is part of Common Ground, an original series of events that showcases Los Angeles artists and organizers who are deconstructing and reimagining America’s relationship to itself—the interplay between the nation and the actual landmass on which it depends. Bios:Growing up in grassroots movements as the son of labor-union organizers, Quetzal Flores inherited an undying accountability to community struggles. From land struggles with South Central farmers, immigration reform, supermarket workers union strike, and the indigenous Zapatista struggle, to the everyday community struggles in East Los Angeles, he has been active with music in hand. Since 1993, he has worked as the musical director for the East Los Angeles–based rock group Quetzal.Martha Gonzalez is a Chicana artivista, musician, feminist music theorist, and professor in the Intercollegiate Department of Chicana/o Latina/o Studies at Scripps/Claremont College. A Fulbright, Ford, and Woodrow Wilson fellow, her academic interests have been fueled by her own musicianship as a singer, songwriter, and percussionist for the Grammy Award–winning band Quetzal.Yesenia Hunter is a graduate student at USC working on her PhD in history. She is interested in how immigrant, migrant individuals use material practices to evoke memory and make place. Her research focuses on history of the West, migration and movement in the Pacific Northwest, memory studies, and questions of space and place making. Her current public history project, Fingerprints and Landscapes, explores place making through stories and art.Presented by Arts in Action, part of USC Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative.

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