When: Tuesday, October 25, 1-5 pm

Where: Evans Hall Lobby, followed by Red Square at 1:30 pm

Please join the Chilean feminist arts collective Ser&Gráfica and curator Marcela Soto Ramírez from Chile Woke, along with students, staff, and faculty in El Camino for “Open Plaza, Public Words: Por el derecho a soñar/ Plaza Abierta, Palabra Pública: For the Right to Dream.” 

• 1:00 pm, Evans Hall Lobby: talk by Marcela Soto of Chile Woke about graphic arts of the recent social uprisings in Chile, including an exhibition of posters from the social uprisings. 
• 1:30-5:00 pm, Red Square: hands-on silk-screening, art-making, and dreaming workshop with the Chilean arts collective SerYGrafica. 

We will be sharing visions of equity and social justice in our own communities through various art activities.  Materials will be provided, but if you’d like to silkscreen onto a clothing item or bag, bring it! 

Thanks to the Presidents Equity Fund, the Russ Fox Fund, Mellon Co-curricular Funds, academic programs “The Spanish-Speaking World” and “Teaching English Language Learners,” and the Academic Deans for financial support to make this event possible. 

About Guest Artists:

Chile Woke: based in Seattle, WA, Chile Woke is a curatorial platform that promotes graphic artists and photographers developing projects related to the 2019 Chilean social uprising and ensuing events. The project is created, curated, and produced by Chilean graphic designer Marcela Soto Ramírez with the goal of “raising awareness about police and state violence, denouncing human rights violations, and creating spaces for communities to talk and heal.” Bringing together graphic art pieces and street photography, Chile Woke also envisions itself as “an open window for Latinx artists on the Pacific Northwest and a space where social justice voices can grow stronger.” More information on its website: https://www.chilewoke.org/

Ser&Gráfica:​​​​The queer feminist duo Ser & Gráfica, Karine Hurtado and Drina Herrera, describe their work as “artivismo feminista” (feminist artivism) and “pedagogía insurrecta disidente” (insurrectional dissident pedagogy).  They set up encounters for active, participatory printmaking in public spaces (plazas, parks, schools, etc), drawing from modes of decades of resistance in Chile and beyond. Seeing public space as an extended collaborative classroom, they design their workshops to open conversations about dreams for a more equitable society, one that is more just, sustainable, loving, and joyful. For a selection of images, see Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/serygrafica/?hl=en