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Humanities Washington and Brave New Words Proudly Present
The Poetry and Music of Ancient Mexico Saturday, March 27, 7 PM Admission to this Brave New Words production is by donation. All donations will go to benefit the Whidbey Island Writers Conference. A live performance of Aztec-styled poetry and music, this collaborative performance engages in a haunting dialogue with “the ones who have gone before.” The presentation features a series of poems written in the mythic voices of Nahua poet-princes and princesses accompanied by Mexican indigenous music.
Musical virtuoso Gerardo Calderon performs Mesoamerican rhythms on water drums, turtle shells and butterfly cocoon rattles, and otherworldly melodies on clay flutes and wind whistles, to transform Cindy Williams Gutierrez's poems into the “flower and song” of the ancients. Originally from Mexico, Gerardo Calderon studied classical guitar at the Escuela Superior de Musica in Mexico City and theory and composition at Portland Community College. He plays a variety of Latin stringed instruments, as well as pre-Columbian instruments such as clay flutes, silvato de viento, teponaztles, huehuetl, tambores de agua and tenabaris. Gerardo is the musical director of Grupo Condor Latin American Folk Music and has toured all over the United States, Canada and Europe. Cindy Williams Gutiérrez is a poet-dramatist who collaborates with artists in theatre, music, and visual art. Her Aztec-inspired poems have been published in a number of fine journals. She recently released a CD, Emerald Heart, with Gerardo Calderón. Three of Cindy¹s plays have been produced by the Miracle Theatre Group and the Insight Out Theatre Collective in About the Inquiring Mind Speakers Bureau: Inquiring Mind is a program of Humanities Washington and brings Washington¹s finest scholars, authors, musicians and actors to local communities for engaging public presentations. Brave New Words operates under the auspices of Greenbank Farm, a qualified 501 C-3. |
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Photos by Bob Richardson
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