All-star female mariachi group, Mariachi Mujer 2000, will perform live followed by a discussion with the audience on Tuesday, September 20, at 7:30 p.m. in Garrison Theater, Scripps College Performing Arts Center. This event is free and open to the public.
This event is generously co-sponsored by the Alexa Fullerton Hampton Speaker Series: Voice and Vision, the Music Department at Scripps College, the Gender and Women’s Studies Department at Scripps College, the Intercollegiate Department of Women’s Studies, and the Intercollegiate Department of Chicano/a-Latino/a Studies.
With a decade of success behind them, Mariachi Mujer 2000 has continued to amaze audiences throughout the world, performing at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.
From its inception, the goal of Mariachi Mujer 2000 has been to demonstrate that women can compose, arrange, and perform some of the most challenging pieces in mariachi music. The group continues to be lead and directed by women, and they serve as role models to young women, keeping mariachi music alive and flourishing.
The Scripps College Humanities Institute Fall 2011 program is “Performing the Body Politic: Transgressions, Interventions, and Expressive Culture.” How does the exuberance and efficacy of performance invite new ideas about the body in its deconstructions and reconstructions? The seminar will explore these and other questions with scholars, performers, and activists in diverse fields through their lecture, film, and performance series. For more information, please contact the Humanities Institute at (909) 621-8237 or visit their website.