HOLAfestival: Staged Reading of FIELD OF BLOOD by A.B. Lugo

HOLAfestival
Abrazo Interno Gallery
Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center
107 Suffolk Street, Second Floor
(between Rivington and Delancey streets), NYC

AN OFFICIAL EVENT OF THE
2011 NYC LATIN MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT WEEK
(OCTOBER 3-9, 2011).

FREE ADMISSION, BUT RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED
FOR MORE INFO OR TO RSVP, CALL (212) 253-1015

OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION
Monday, October 3, 2011 at 6pm

(Photos of HOLA member-playwright shown at right.)

Friday, October 7, 2011
Field of Blood
Written by A.B. Lugo
Directed by Arian Blanco

A young mother’s journey to reclaim her stillborn child’s body from a potter's field leads to an odyssey of bureaucracy and red tape. But a mother's love will not be denied.

A.B. LUGO is an actor, writer, director and producer. As a playwright, his works include Banjee, Branches, Geneva, Stardumb, Ramble, Cater Waiters, The Valley is Green, Manchild Machismo and Field of Blood. As an actor, he has appeared in numerous plays, films and TV shows. As a poet, he has performed all over the NYC metropolitan area, North Carolina and in Puerto Rico. His work has been published in the literary journals 99% More Free, Roots and Culture (published by Columbia University), The Smokin’ Word (Issue 5), Suspect Thoughts: A Journal of Subversive Writing (Issue 19), and, most recently in the poetry anthology Me No Habla With Acento (edited by Emanuel Xavier) published by El Museo Del Barrio and Rebel Satori Press. TSTQ

Abrazo Interno Gallery Hours: 3:30pm-10pm DAILY

Re-Imaginings Photo Art Exhibit
Curated by Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors (HOLA),
María F. Nieto and Luis Carle

Photography by Luis Carle
Concept and Styling by María F. Nieto
Makeup by Ura Yoana Sánchez and Ashton Pina

Re-Imaginings is a photographic art exhibit with the unifying theme of visualizing a world where Latinos were already more fully integrated into the mainstream entertainment culture. The photographic art exhibit would take iconic television cast images and "re-imagine" them, showing Latinos as part of the re-imagined cast. The photos would strike a visual chord of familiarity while also showing how seamlessly a Latino actor could be integrated into the shows' universal themes of the human experience.

[PHOTO: Makeup artist Ura Yoana Sánchez works on Débora Balardini for the Re-Imaginings photo shoot. Photo by A.B. Lugo.]