With support from the California Arts Council, La Pocha Nostra Intercultural Performance and Community Arts Projects will create a new live performance plus contracted fee-based and free performances, bi-monthly radio/spoken word projects, film and video festivals, and in-person workshops in performance pedagogy. Awarded funding will underwrite GOS expenses during the grant period.
Founded in 1993, LPN’s goal is to provide a home for a loose network of rebel artists from various disciplines, generations and ethnic backgrounds, who share our desire to move the “other” from the margins of storytelling to its center.
Projects range from performance solos and duets to large-scale multi-media performances created by changing combinations of the eight performance artists who currently comprise LPN’s performance troupe, along with guest artists from around the world. These collaborations reflect our desire to dissolve borders surrounding culture, ethnicity, gender, language, and métier. LPN’s most significant contribution to the contemporary arts field has been in the hybrid realm of performance/installation.

