by the El Reportero staff
People of the Harvest is part of a larger project, Living Under the Trees, that documents the lives of communities of indigenous Mexican farm workers in California, through documentary photographs.
The photographs in People of the Harvest were taken in 2009.
It’s no accident the state of Oaxaca is one of the main starting points for the current stream of Mexican migrants coming to the United States. Extreme poverty encompasses 75 percent of its 3.4 million residents.
The communities documented in this show are locacted in Arvin, Taft, Oxnard and Santa Paula, Santa Maria, Fresno, Greenfield, Watsonville and Marysville. They include Mixtecos, Triquis, Zapotecos, Chatinos and Purepechas. At the Asian Resource Gallery 310 Eighth Street at Harrison Oakland Chinatown, August through September 2009, Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. Reception Thursday, Aug. 27, 6 p.m.
Fundraiser for the Mission Cultural Center’s Youth Theater Program
It’s a family entertainment day, which will serve a good cause for our young people in our community.
Amoung the artists in attendance will be, El Mariachi “Nueva Generación” and theater performance by Hector Zavala & the MCCLA performance troupe.
On Sunday, Aug. 30, from 2 to 4 p.m. At 3239 22nd St @ Bartlett St, San Francisco.
Also at the MCCLA, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009, 6 – 10 p.m. at the new “Baobob Village” in San Francisco’s Mission District. Fundraiser for the Youth Program with live salsa. Music provided by youth salsa bands “Los Chiles Verdes” and “Futuro Picante” as well as Bay Area favorites, “Los Compas”. For more info please call (415) 821-1155.
Suggested Donation $20.00 (No one turned away for lack for funds). Nonstop and diverse music highlights Organic Planet Festival The Grammy-winning Del McCoury Band, hailed as the best bluegrass band on the face of the Earth, will fittingly headline the Organic Planet Festival’s day of nonstop and spectacular music on the Eureka waterfront.
Sharing the billing on the festival’s diverse musical lineup will be international reggae star Tanya Stephens, Humboldt’s own poet-songstress Lila Nelson, Oakland’s multicultural Latin fusion band LoCura and award-winning songwriter for kids, Peter Alsop.
The activities go nonstop from 10:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., and tickets are just $12 in advance or $15 at the gate, and on the festival website through InTicketing.
For more information, please visit www.organicplanetfestival.org or call CATs at 707-445-5100.
Juan R. Fuentes linocut (relief printmaking) workshop
Come and try your hand at carving your own design on a piece of linoleum and then pull a print by hand or on a small press. Materials will be provided and Juan has invited other relief printmakers to come and share the experience.
If you are not familiar with the process, here is your chance to learn and participate! Saturday, September 5, 3-5 p.m. Free. At the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts.
Also, check out 3 Worlds Myth, Bricks, Prints by Arias, Fuentes, and Banjo Aug. 14 – Sept. 19, 2009, at MCCLA Galleries, 2868 Mission Street, San Francisco.
