LAS GALLAS DANCE PARTY!!!

LAS GALLAS Dance Party
Saturday, March 22, 2014 

8:00-11:00 PM

featuring AfroTaino Productions' DJ Rahsaan! 

West Kensington Ministries, 2140 N. Hancock Street 

(corner of Susquehanna Ave.in Norris Square)

TICKETS $10.00

Join our dance party and help support our fundraising efforts to perform and lead a community workshop at the 14th Annual International Festival of Poetry in Havana, Cuba in May! 

This is a special invitation for Las Gallas as we continue to grow as artists following our performances at the Barnes Foundation and the First Person Arts Festival with Sonia Sanchez, Ana Castillo and Angela Davis. 

An evening with Las Gallas and friends fundraiser allowed us to meet our 1st goal of $3000. We have $4000. more to raise! 

As part of our continued fundraising efforts we invite you to join us for an evening of shaking your groove thing and having a funky good time with dancing beats from DJ Rahsaan and delicious Colombian food from La Costeña Catering!!!

PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS HERE! 

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SUPPORT LAS GALLAS!!! MAKE A DONATION!

Las Gallas have received a special invitation to perform and lead a community workshop at the 14th Annual International Festival of Poetry in Havana, Cuba in May!

This is a special invitation for Las Gallas as we continue to grow as artists following our performances at the Barnes Foundation and the First Person Arts Festival with Sonia Sanchez, Ana Castillo and Angela Davis.

In February, an evening with Las Gallas and friends fundraiser allowed us to meet our 1st goal of $3000. We have $4000 more to raise!

SHOW SOME SUPPORT AND MAKE A DONATION TODAY! 

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LAS GALLAS in Havana, Cuba!

Las Gallas have received a special invitation to perform at the International Festival of Poetry in Havana, Cuba in May!

This is a special invitation for Las Gallas as we continue to grow as artists following our performances at the Barnes Foundation and the First Person Arts Festival with Sonia Sanchez, Ana Castillo and Angela Davis.

As part of our fundraising efforts we are organizing an Evening with Las Gallas and Friends. Based on our Café con Leche series, this salon style evening will feature area dancers, singers, poets, visual artists and musicians including: Sonia Sanchez, Pablo Batista, Chuckie Joseph, Anthony Tidd, Arturo Stable and many more!!!

Please join us Wednesday, February 19th at 6:30-9:00 pm for an evening of art, passion and just a funky good time.

TICKETS ARE $25.00 PURCHASE THEM HERE: http://goo.gl/Wg7HQu

If you cannot join us please consider making a donation of $25 or more. DONATE HERE: http://goo.gl/1t18EE

Con mucho amor ,
Julia, Magda, and Michelle

Upcoming Performance at the Barnes Foundation

Friday, December 6, 2013 6-10 pm

The Barnes Foundation

2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway

The Barnes Foundation presents First Friday! Philadelphia Artist Spotlight. This event is an artistic exploration of Philadelphia’s talented musicians, dancers, poets, and performing artists.

Las Gallas will be performing along with other Philadelphia artists: Mr. Sonny James, Pattern is Movement, Team Sunshine Performance Corporation, and Yellow Rage. For more information and to purchase tickets click here. 

Las Gallas Perform at the First Person Arts Festival




(Pictured from left to right- Galla Julia Lopez, Ana Castillo, Angela Davis, Sonia Sanchez, Galla Michelle Angela Ortiz, and Galla Magda Martinez)


On Thursday, November 14th, 2013, Las Gallas opened for three amazing women- Ana Castillo, Sonia Sanchez, and Angela Davis.

What happens when words become weapons? Sonia Sanchez, Ana Castillo, and Angela Davis explored that question, drawing upon their own work as activists and authors, in this provocative literary event hosted by the First Person Arts Festival.

Over 200 people attended while we performed excerpts from Ghetto Bolero. Ghetto Bolero re-imagines the traditional Latin American boleros from a woman's point of view. The performance was accompanied by violinist Luigi Mazzochi and guitarist Patricio Acevedo.

Las Gallas on WHYY Radio!

Highlighting the shared stories and struggles of immigration and migration within the Asian and Latino communities, Illuminate Me is the multi-sensory culmination of a cross-cultural exploration through a series of community workshops in which participants shared personal histories and journeys through a range of text, sound and image-based storytelling activities. Lanterns created by workshop participants are featured in the exhibition alongside new mixed-media artwork by Las Gallas members Julia Lopez, Magda Martinez, and Michelle A. Ortiz accompanied by an original soundscape by Alex Shaw.

Click on the video below to listen to the the story on the installation by Peter Crimmins from WHYY Radio. Click here to see pictures and read the story.

Opening Reception: Friday October 19, 5 p.m.

Highlighting the shared stories and struggles of immigration and migration within the Asian and Latino communities, Illuminate Me is the multi-sensory culmination of a cross-cultural exploration through a series of community workshops in which participants shared personal histories and journeys through a range of text, sound and image-based storytelling activities. Lanterns created by workshop participants are featured in the exhibition alongside new mixed-media artwork by Las Gallas members Julia Lopez, Magda Martinez, and Michelle A. Ortiz accompanied by an original soundscape by Alex Shaw.
The opening reception of Illuminate Me on Friday October 19 coincides with the bi-annual convening of approximately 400 artists and representatives from member organizations of the National Association of Latino Arts And Culture (NALAC) which takes place in Philadelphia this October 17 - 21. 

Illuminate Me is the first in a series of projects that Asian Arts Initiative is presenting as part of our Neighborhood Spotlight Series, presented by PNC Arts Alive and The Knight Foundation. Our Neighborhood Spotlight Series  focuses on the neighborhoods of Chinatown (our home base) and South Philadelphia (where we offer after-school programming three public schools) and provides creative experiences and interactions in spaces such as public parks, plazas, storefronts, restaurants, and parking lots, allowing us to enliven our communities and engage diverse audiences.

Illuminate Me is made possible with generous support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight Arts Challenge, The PNC Foundation's PNC Arts Alive grant initiative and the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC).