“The more I live, the more I realize who I was supposed to be at the very moment of my conception.”  Jorge Luis Morejon

(Excerpt from Neither Here Nor There, a performance piece presented at the European Graduate School in Switzerland).

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There are questions about my condition as an exiled person that guide me through life in search for some ( Read more... )

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“To see calmly a crime is to commit it”

"Ver en calma un crimen es cometerlo"

Jose Marti

“Miami in the 1960s was not the jet-set mecca it is today. Civil rights laws had not quite caught on, and one of the first unpleasant shocks we had when looking for a place to live were the ( Read more... )

“Holidays reaffirm and celebrate the solidarity between individuals or groups that share the same culture; that is its main and most obvious function.  Also, as it happens with specific days, they are useful as markers of time; they divide it and make it part of other cultural orders such as the religious or patriotic and in this way link the ( Read more... )

"I am a brown man in a black and white country. All of my life I have listened to the black and white conversation, like listening to a quarreling couple through a thin motel wall. In the 1950's and 60's I watched in awe as the Negro Civil Rights movement forced the end of segregation. There, on my family's black and white television, I saw ( Read more... )

En octubre de hoja el campo se cubre (Refran espanol)

In October the country is covered by leaves (Spanish proverb)

Autumn Diary

Poco a poco

Little by little

Cual bailarina erotica

Like an erotic dancer

La ciudad se desviste,

The city undresses

Poquitito a poco

Very little by little

Sobre sus hojas

Over its leaves

Desplazo silente mis pasos

I silently ( Read more... )

                     Origins
                 The essential purpose of theatre and performance

September 11th, 2007, the all-student directed and performed Origins Project gave us students from Theatre and Theatre Studies Departments at York University’s Joseph G. Green Studio the opportunity to create together a memorable night of ritual and magic ( Read more... )

Pain of Cuba
body I am 
My orphanhood I live
                                                     Ana Mendieta

Oshun's Day: The Displacemnt of the Saints

The section on Scope of Forced Displacement: Facts and Figures of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ report documented in year 2005 that there are “39 million ( Read more... )

"Lo contenido pugnó, pugnó toda la noche"
   That which was contained, fought, it fought all night
                                                       Antonio Jose Ponte

Virgen of Charity

There are overpasses that intersect downtown,

Underneath, there is a ghetto and no-man’s-land,

Then, there is the ocean.

Which way to go?

To Eleggua

My soul ( Read more... )

Alone may describe the absence of others. Lonely is perhaps the realization of one’s own solitude and the pain that comes with it. Can one be alone and not lonely, and vice versa, can one be lonely and not alone?  Can one be among others and feel lonely?  Can one be alone and with others at the same time?  These questions may sound like the kind ( Read more... )