Join us for a weekend of events, A Celebration of Chicana Feminism and the Work of Helena María Viramontes, October 20 - 21, 2023 at Cornell University.
Created in collaboration with musical director Martha Gonzalez and writer Virginia Grise, Riding the Currents of the Wilding Wind is a theatrical concert about what happens to a community when six intersecting freeways are built right through the heart of a neighborhood. Inspired by Helena María Viramontes’s novel, Their Dogs Came with Them, the concert directed by Kendra Ware features stories interwoven with songs about sharp shooters and earthmovers, roaming dogs, helicopters in the sky, quarantines and men that fly.
With an introduction by Michelle Habell-Pallán (University of Washington), the performance at Cornell University will be the first in progress showing of the work before it premieres at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco April 2024.
