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| MOVING IN MY FATHER'S LAND Photo by Miluska Navarrete, Trujillo, Perú Chan Chan |
Her independent video work has lead her to collaborate with incredible artists like Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts, Amara Tabor-Smith, Paloma McGregor of Angela's Pulse, Josefina Lopez, Robyn Nisbet, and Patricia Zamorano (#MATRIARCHYshortfilm). She contributes her multimedia skills to Casa 0101 Theater as Board Member and Summer Teaching Artist for their Youth Film Program and with their Social Media content. Rosa has travelled to Brazil, Paris, New York, Salt Lake City, Massachusetts, Washington D.C., Per and Los Angeles with her camera in tow.
Her short plays and theatrical writing contributions have been shared with Urban Theatre Movement, Highways Performance Space, and Chicanas, Cholas Y Chisme Theater Festivals (2016, 2017, 2020). Her poem "I come from..." about my young days as an undocumented immigrant child in Los Angeles, was published in St. Sucia: A Zine Exposing What It Is to Be a Mujer in Contemporary Society, Issue IX Aquí Y Ahora (2017). Her essay Conchatumadre, my first baby, about being a pregnant womxn with a tomboy past, made an appearance in the recent Cansada Zine (2019). She has presented her writing in spaces like Fullerton Museum (2017-2020), Fresno LitHop (2017), and Shine Storytelling (2016). In 2019, she read for the Talking While Female: Promise series at Teatro Luna West. This year she revisited her essay and song titled “Calloused” at Project La Femme's 3rd Annual International Women’s Day Show titled Womxn Get Loud 2020; she was a representative for Chicanas, Cholas, y Chisme.
Her latest creative nonfiction essay "A Busted Window or My Observation of Luz Moreno, mi Tia Paty" was published in the online academic international e-journal, Label Me Latina/o Spring 2019 Volume IX and can be read here.
Rosa is also a theater and dance performer. In 2018, these skills were put to use when she worked with Angela’s Pulse in a year long community organized project titled Pittsfield Moves! funded by the Ford Foundation and supported by Jacob’s Pillow in Massachusetts (#PittsfieldMoves). You can learn more about that project on their website here.
Education: University of California, Berkeley with an English B.A and minors in Dance Performance and Creative Writing. Certification in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis (CLMA) with Integrated Movement Studies. Film and Production training with Inner-City Filmmakers. Serves on the Casa 0101 Theater Board.
Education: University of California, Berkeley with an English B.A and minors in Dance Performance and Creative Writing. Certification in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis (CLMA) with Integrated Movement Studies. Film and Production training with Inner-City Filmmakers. Serves on the Casa 0101 Theater Board.
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