Generaciones: Virginia Grise

Riding the Currents of the Wilding Wind

Performance lecture featuring the playwright and producer Virginia Grise, who has undertaken a theatrical adaptation of Their Dogs Came With Them. Grise will speak about the process of adapting Viramontes’ novel and also about her recent collaboration with musician Martha Gonzalez, a concept album and concert entitled Riding the Currents of the Wilding Wind. The lecture and staged reading will be interwoven with excerpts from the novel and songs from the album. 

Co-sponsored by Theaters and Performance Studies, El Centro Chicano y Latino Cent for Latin American Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, African and African American Studies, English, Creative Writing, and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

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