Ricardo Gamboa and OPEN TV - beta team up to bring you BRUJOS, a web series following four gay, Latino grad students—that are also witches. Our protagonists will navigate magic, nightlife, relationships, sexuality and final papers all while trying to survive a witchhunt led by a secret society of descendants of the first New World colonizers.
Join us on the eve of all All Soul's Day ( 11/2 ) for a reading of Season 1 of BRUJOS in Chicago's Day of the Dead capital Pilsen at La Catrina Cafe for an evening of sexy, witchy counter-hegemonic fun. Tamales, pan dulce, sipping elixirs that'll make you tingle and haunting sounds by Sadie Wood will enhance counter-hegemonic, magical fun.
A part of Chicago Artist Month, the All Souls' Day celebratory reading of BRUJOS will feature notable Chicago actors and performing artists. Doors open at 6:30. Reading begins at 7:00.
Interested parties can look forward to the real of a BRUJOS graphic novel in February 2016. BRUJOS goes into production in August 2016 and its first season comprised of 12, 7-minute episodes will be released October 2016.
WHAT: BRUJOS, AN ALL SOULS' DAY GATHERING AND READING
WHEN: Sunday, November 1st, 6:30pm — 9:30pm. Doors open at 6:30, reading begins at 7:00pm
WHERE: La Catrina Café, 1011 West 18th Street, Chicago, Illinois
WHAT ELSE: Refreshments will be provided and you may also BYO.
OPEN TV is is a Chicago-based web platform for television by queer, trans and cis-women and artists of color, currently a research project by Aymar Jean Christian, assistant professor of communication at Northwestern University.
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Ricardo Gamboa is an artist, activist, and academic working in his native Chicago and NYC. Gamboa writes and directs plays and films as well as creates performance and media with, by, and for marginal communities. In Chicago, Gamboa is currently an artist-in-residence at Free Street Theater, member of Barrel of Monkeys and SIQ. In NYC, Gamboa was an EmergeNYC fellow at Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics and is a member of the NY Neo-Futurists. He is pursuing his doctoral degree at New York University's American Studies program.
