SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 20
 
SILVIO & EL PODER DE A LA PALABRA
A Tribute to the legendary Silvio Rodriguez
 


 
Sunday, September 20  
starting at 5pm Pacific | 7pm Central |8pm Eastern


the program will repeat so viewers in time zones overseas can view 
 
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LINKS TO WAYS TO WATCH  

 

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MAESTRA Español
MAESTRA Español
 
Catherine Murphy (director)
is a SF-based filmmaker whose work has largely focused on social documentaries. Her film MAESTRA has been translated into five languages and enjoyed wide distribution since release in 2012. For more information on the film or Murphy:
 
 
 
a non-profit organization founded by Catherine Murphy in 2005, is a documentary oral history project that collects personal testimonies about literacy. "Our work lifts up the stories of those who are teaching literacy or are struggling to achieve literacy," says Murphy. The Literacy Project operates on the belief that literacy is a fundamental social justice and human rights issue, essential for a healthy and dignified society and a fully functioning democracy. Of special concern is the intersection of race and gender as it relates to literacy. Through a variety of media and documentation methodologies, an archive is being created of personal stories related to literacy and social justice movements throughout the Americas.  
 
The Literacy Project films include: Silvio Rodriguez: Mi primera tarea (2020);They Say I'm Your Teacher (2019); Maestra (2012) ;Cruzada (in production);Teach (in production);Lxs Hijxs de Paulo Freire (indevelopment). Visit their YouTube Page  for a collection of their  archived films . The English language version of Maestra is distributed by Women Make Movies, link here. 







 
Print out this handy guide for the English language versions of the song lyrics and introductory remarks by the artists who will be performing in the Tribute to Silvio
This event and the companion links are part of a collective effort to enrich this special occasion while stimulating the practice of popular education
 
 Throughout the world we see the effects  
of the deliberate manipulation of ignorance and the stoking of the flames of hate  
we see the absence in whole parts of this country  
of centers for culture and creativity
we see eroded common resources and cynical contributions to the kinds of manufactured illiteracy that breeds only degenerate forms of popular expression  
while the infrastructures that stimulate robust human development are increasingly only found only accessible to fewer and fewer people 
while the degradation of humans and the planet has accelerated at a truly frightening pace   
we have long stood against these decrepit sins and are committed to work against these trends as we continue to build community through our powerful voices 
and together we shine our bright lights and go forward out of darkness  
 
  Thank you to Estelle Schneider, Angelica Salazar, Kimberly Waller, Micaela Marquez, Johan Misler and Catherine Murphy for collectively working on developing the popular educational tools for this event
 
Kimberly Waller on Literacy

Noted Scholar Kimberly Waller discusses the pandemic of illiteracy facing communities of color in the US

BONUS TRACKS

make the concert viewing a family learning event

EXPLORE NUEVA CANCION VIA SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS


Visit the online lesson plan to create a study opportunity around the use of music and poetry as an expression of protest


CREATE YOUR OWN NUEVA CANCION !
 Record your own original protest song - upload your video submission to our contest and the winning clip will appear in our 50-50 GOTV Concert in OCTOBER- must be submitted by Sept. 27 ..... a star is born!
Bernice Johnson Reagon



While nueva cancion/nueva trova is primarily a movement that emerged in Latin America, protest songs in the US infused the multiplicity of African- American traditions - from ring shouts to spirituals - griot traditions in performance poetry layered with experimental soul, funk and jazz. Classics like 'A Change is Gonna Come" "What's Going On?" and "Wake Up Everybody" are now ubiquitous soundtracks that stand in for that time. 


Audre Lorde



CONTINUE TO EXPLORE
WORLD WIDE
CANCION PROTESTA


 
recursos curriculares en español

La Nueva Canción en Puerto Rico - the Puerto Rican tradition  
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