Events & Residencies
MLK Community Conversation
Creating a More Just World Through the Arts
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January 17, 2022
2:45–4:15pm
Frederick Rehearsal Hall
Modlin Center for the Arts
Role —
Co-Facilitated with Alicia Díaz
Event Summary —
In this workshop facilitated by Dr. Alicia Díaz and Dr. Patricia Herrera from UR’s Department of Theatre and Dance, we explored personal histories and the ways embodied practices can help identify places of connection and difference with others. Using personal objects as an entry point to share stories, we explored the arts as a tool to foster conversation and creativity.
MLK Celebration —
This conversation was an event that was part of the University of Richmond’s (Bonner Center for Civic Engagement) Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration at the start of the UR spring semester 2022.
I Am / We Are
Narrating the Self through Bomba and Other Art Practices
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March 25, 2021
12:45–2pm
Zoom Roundtable Discussion
Role —
Co-organized with Alicia Díaz
Event Summary —
This roundtable discussion was the culmination of a 3-day residency with Lío Villahermosa along with residencies with Julia Gutiérrez. Gutiérrez shared excerpts of I am Julia and Villahermosa created Medianía.
Participants —
A conversation with Bomba practitioner Julia Gutiérrez and interdisciplinary artist Lío Villahermosa facilitated by Dr. Jade Power-Sotomayor.
Nuyorican Feminist Performance
A Celebration of Poetry and Performance
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February 23, 2021
7pm • Zoom
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Role —
Author, Organizer & Panelist
Event Summary —
A night of feeling, talking and thinking about Nuyorican feminist performance with the iconic poet Sandra Maria Esteves as well as Mariposa, La Bruja, and Aya de León in conversation with Patricia Herrera, Karen Jaime, and Wilson Valentín-Escobar.
Class Visits —
February 16 / Sandra María Esteves, The Formation of a Nuyorican Aesthetic
February 19 / Karen Jaime, Queer Nuyorican Performances
February 25 / Caridad de la Luz, From Performance Poetry to Hip Hop Theater
About the Book —
Nuyorican Feminist Performances: From the Café to Hip Hop Theater—the most recent work from Dr. Patricia Herrera—critically examines the work of female performance artists inspired by the Nuyorican Poets Cafe between 1973–2010.
The book is available through the University of Michigan Press. Use code UMNFPA for a 30% discount on the purchase price of the book.
Revolutions in Sound
Disrupting Oppression through Revolutions in Sound
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Symposium & Public Seminar
February 28, 2020
University of Maryland
Role —
Co-Organizer with Caitlin Marshall, Iván Ramos, and Dr. Marci McMahon
Event Summary —
The Revolutions in Sound symposium was a public humanities event and publication seminar that brought together scholars from across the Americas to examine how black and brown, LGBTQ+, indigenous, and crip communities instrumentalize sound in service of resistance, survivance, and radical world making.
Press —
Personality: Dr. Patricia Herrera
Richmond Free Press
UR Professor Wins National Award for Theatre Research
University of Richmond Newsroom
Pa’lante
Puerto Rico
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Fundraising Event
April 25, 2018
University of Richmond
Role —
Event Co-Organizer with Alicia Díaz, Mariela Méndez, and Karina Vazquez.
Initiative —
Puerto Rican Arts Initiative
Event Summary —
University of Richmond hosted Pa’lante, an educational opportunity for the Richmond community to learn about the history of Puerto Rico and a fundraiser supporting Puerto Rican artists impacted by Hurricane Maria.
It also featured the opening of a photography exhibition that documents Puerto Rico’s colonial past and the environmental destruction by Hurricane Maria created by local Puerto Rican photographers Tania del Carmen Fernández and Steven Casanova.
This event launches the residencies we would have in 2018-2020 with Julia Gutiérrez and Lío Villahermosa
Press —
University of Richmond Hosts Fundraising Event for Puerto Rican Artists Impacted by Hurricane Maria
University of Richmond Newsroom
Puerto Rico: After the Storm
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Residency Highlight —
Latino & Latin American Theatre & Dance Artist Residency Project
Alicia Díaz and I organized, co-curated, and produced the Latino & Latin American Theatre and Dance Artist Residency Project in 2016 for two primary reasons.
One —
To create a forum for cross-disciplinary dialogue between theater and dance majors and minors as well as students in the art and the general student body.
Two —
To promote work that is either, but not exclusively, created by Latin American or Latino artists and/or deals with these communities.
These residencies allowed artists to conduct masterclasses, workshops and showcase their work, and return to the UR community 2–3 times to establish stronger ties with students and faculty.
Residencies
Lio Villahermosa in Residency
March 16–23, 2021
Two interdisciplinary creative workshops and presentation of Medianía as a part of the Puerto Rican Arts Initiative.
Afro-Diasporicities: Memory, Resistance, and Healing in the 21st Century
January 29, 2020
A hybrid roundtable to historically ground Afro-diasporic practices as well as demonstrate in real time the embodied knowledges that have traveled throughout place and time.
Party People Salon
February 22, 2018
Part of the Tucker-Boatwright Festival of Literature and the Arts / The Political is Personal — The Personal is Political
UNIVERSES residency with performance with goals to encourage visitors to examine the ways in which the personal and the political are inextricably intertwined.
Hope in the Midst of Despair: James Baldwin’s Blues for Mister Charlie
March 23, 2018
Part of the Tucker-Boatwright Festival of Literature and the Arts / The Political is Personal — The Personal is Political
Dr. Soyica reflects on the importance of producing James Baldwin’s Blues for Mr. Charlie then and now at the University of Richmond.
Latino American Residency and Festival Project
March 31—April 1, 2016
Residency and performance curated by Alicia Díaz and Patricia Herrera that featured artistic work by dance artists and theatre practitioners whose work deals with themes relevant to the Latino and/or the Latin American communities.
Latino American Residency and Festival Project
April + October 2015
Master classes and class visits with Ñequi González, UNIVERSES, Steven Sapp, Mildred Ruiz-Sapp and William Ruiz once that served to deepen our understanding of their work, build new vocabularies, generate conversations about art making.
“The artists were chosen to invoke curiosity and push boundaries of the normative, as well as engage the campus community and the larger Richmond community in a dialogue of the intersections of the personal and political in all of our lives.”
Dr. Patricia Herrera
Speaking on artists selected for the Tucker-Boatwright Festival of Literature and the Arts