A Poetry Reading by Dunya Mikhail Author of The War Works Hard (New Directions, 2005)

Thursday, October 9, 5:30 p.m., Robertson Auditorium
Sponsored by the Cultural Enrichment Center | (713) 221-8295

Opening Night Antigone

Friday, October 31, 8p.m. Curtain
O'Kane Theatre
Main Building, 3rd Floor
University of Houston - Downtown
713.221.8118

South Park Mexican, Chingo Bling, and the Commodity Fetish in Houston Chicano Hip Hop

A Lecture by Marco Cervantes M.A., University of Texas at San Antonio B.A., University of Houston - Downtown

Wednesday, November 5, 1:00 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
Robertson Auditorium, 3rd fl. Academic Building

Cervantes will discuss the music and material culture of rappers South Park Mexican and Chingo Bling and explain how both artists managed to transcend the grip of corporate industry control, break into the mainstream, and create scattered communities globally.
Questions he'll consider:

• Do South Park Mexican and Chingo Bling enforce limited depictions of Blacks and Chicanos in Houston?
• In such a diversified city, why aren't there more varied representations of Houston hip hop in mainstream media?

Sponsored by the Cultural Enrichment Center | (713) 221-8295