Performance Theme Examines Fear and Fearlessness in Times of War

DePaul will present “Toward a Chicana Arts Aesthetic: History, Memory and Vision,” featuring author and activist Cherrie Moraga and artist Celia Rodriquez at 7 p.m. Feb. 20 in the Schmitt Academic Center (SAC), 2320 N. Kenmore Ave.

Moraga will perform “Notes from the Colony: (Still) Loving in the (Still) War Years,” a meditation that examines questions of fear and fearlessness in times of war. Moraga is an internationally recognized playwright, poet, essayist and activist.

Rodriguez will present a performance art piece entitled “Cositas Quebradas” (“Little Broken Things”). A painter, performer, storyteller and installation artist, her work reflects a full generation of dialogue with Chicano, Native American, Pre-Columbian and Mexican thought.

The program is part of a weeklong residence, Feb. 15 – Feb. 23, at DePaul in which the two women will lead workshops for students, speak to classes and perform for the university community.

Moraga, author of “Loving in the War Years” and one of the Chicana community’s first openly lesbian authors to publish her work, will deliver the keynote address at the DePaul Humanities Center winter conference, “Institutionalizing Multiculturalism at DePaul,” Feb. 15 at 11 a.m. The daylong conference will be held in Cortelyou Commons, 2324 N. Fremont St., and is free and open to the public.

Rodriguez’s artwork will be featured at DePaul’s Humanities Center, 802 W. Belden St., from Feb. 20 – March 20. The exhibition is free and open to the public. “ Chicana Arts Aesthetic: History, Memory and Vision” is sponsored by Celebracion de Nuestra America consortium of the Latin American and Latino Studies and Modern Languages departments, the Center for Latino Research and the Humanities Center.

For more information about these programs, call 773/325-4818.