Siempre Verde: Group Art Exhibition & Zine Catalogue Release

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On 10/15/20,  Natasha Hernandez (DJ Heavyflow) and I presented at Northwest Vista College through Zoom on our processes of curating musical selections within the politics of identity, consciousness, and location. Here is a link to "Tejana Forever" my Spotify playlist curated to continue engagement beyond the presentation. Gracias to Dr. Lee Ann Epstein for inviting me to my FIRST academic panel ever. 

Heartfelt gratitude and love to Regina for dreaming up this artwork to commemorate our presentation!

Link to video coming soon! 

Category is:

Fruteria Puteria

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Almódovar Movie Poster Vibes

foto by Joan Frederick, 

Saluté International Bar, 

2012. 

@HelloReg closed out 2020 for us, 

and that is cause for celebration!

My grandmother had a set of four Alphonse Mucha posters in her home that my mom bought for her when she was a teenager. My grandma was very glamorous and smart and sometimes very troubled, but I see this commision as a nod to her influence on me artistically and a tribute to the idea of INHERITANCE, both what we choose to accept and what we choose to let go. 

That whole idea of intergenerational trauma vs. intergenerational joy?  This poster is a tribute to the joy part. 

For the 8th month of Siempre Verde @evergreengardentx I asked Lenzy Mora @penzlenz to reimagine the classic Agua de Florida bottle, South Texas style, to reflect what spinning records means to me: it’s a blessing, an offering, a sacred act. Bottled Agua de Florida anoints and refreshes and blesses, and in the 1800s, they advertised it as a perfume linked to the Fountain of Youth, but fuck that, I want a Fountain of Healing. Our beautiful borderlands, our magic Valley, our gorgeous San Anto. Healed.

Lenzy Mora is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in San Antonio, Texas.

This month Jose Sotelo made my salsa garden dreams come true with this poster arte. 

Salsa is a way to connect to our cultural/ancestral roots on a daily basis. 

Making salsa is medicinal. It's a ritual. It's magic. Its pica is a pleasure even when it burns too much. 

DJ Despeinada will spin all salsa records because she loves a theme.

Another Incarnation of

Siempre Verde:

Lunada for Feeling & Healing

September 10, 2022

From its inception in summer 2020, Siempre Verde has been a way we connect with community and cultivate creative collaborations amongst the beauty of Evergreen Garden. We are back at it celebrating the Harvest Moon in Pisces with a Lunada for Feeling & Healing  

ft. the all-vinyl soundscapes of DJ Despeinada, fresh vegan eats n' drinks of Chef Rebel Mariposa's La Botánica, 

ethereal poster art by Daryan Arcos, 

and a mercadito de arte starring 

El Puño y La Mano, Natazia Natazia, Frontera Pastelera, Corazón y Alma, Callejera Thrift & Prints, Monica Sosa, and Chula Dair.

Muertos Fest

& 

DJ Despeinada Present

Nicho Sonido: 

Música for Grieving & Healing, Vol. II

Plantita Offerings: Evergreen Garden

Featured DJs:

Sucia Q, Mexican Blackbird, SunnyBoy, ChaCha, XOEMIX

October 29-30, 2022

Hemisfair Park

Dedications/Ofrendas:

Jonathan Treviño

UVALDE, TEXAS

Migrants of the World

Reproductive Justice & Rosie Jimemez

Manuel Diosdado Castillo, Jr.

Siempre Verde XV:

Música para Sentir y Sanar

November 5, 2022

Sr. Edward Vela y Sra. Bonnie Cisneros cordialmente les invitan a celebrar Siempre Verde XV: Música para Sentir y Sanar 

Saturday as we celebrate our 15th edition, nuestra quince, with pop-ups by @labotanicasa (corn cups, agua de jamaica for sale & Go Down Easy y Modelo by donation) + @frontera.pastelera with yummy vegan pan dulce + a lil art mercado ft. @elpunoylamano @transcendental.creativeco @corazonyalma.tx & of course Evergreen’s lovely gift shop and plants plants and more plants!

Siempre Verde: Música for Holiday Feeling & Año Nuevo Healing 

ft. @labotanicasa & @frontera.pastelera + a lovely mercado de arte with @elpunoylamano @transcendental.creativeco @callejerathriftandprints @happyapple.tx @corazonyalma.tx @casarahcasarah @kingabels.satx , my mom with her cute crochet art, and the lovely Evergreen garden and gift shop.

We are also honored to welcome yerberx @betotzin who will be generously sharing their “Winter Remedios”—a hybrid workshop/demo/zine debut of tips, tricks, and wisdom for thriving & healing this season 

Poster arte by Josè Cosme, a painter and muralist from the Westside of San Anto, who has shown his work extensively and been at the helm of several @saca_mural_art projects over the years.

Siempre Verde: 

Music for Feeling & Healing 

Valentine's Mercado de Amor

February 11, 2023

Raisa Melendez @dura_pura_vida has this to say about her dreamy garden illustration/memory: 

“This flyer illustrates my little slice of heaven back in Puerto Rico.  This is mi Abuela Tato's house in Yauco. She is my mom's mom. Anytime I knew we were going to visit, my life would light up. I love my Abuela so much. So when we had to move to the United States, it was pretty much traumatic for me. I left behind everything I loved. When I think about my grandmas house I think about all the cousin's bdays and holidays we celebrated. The delicious food she would make for those occasions. Every morning she would wake up before anyone else and make cafe de olla. The coffee used was picked by her own hands, which she would bake in the sun on top of the house's roof, toasted then grinded for the family to enjoy. I hope one day to go back to visit and have another slice of heaven to add my memories.” 

Siempre Verde: 

Creative Ecosystem 

for Feeling & Healing 

in San Antonio, Texas. 

October 14, 2023

After ten years DJ-ing professionally and  prolifically,  Linda Monsivais Hernandez designed the logo of my dreams!  

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Instagram: @elpunoylamano

SHOP HER BIG CARTEL HERE. 

Frijoliz is the pseudoname for an illegalized person, propagandist/cultural worker who touches on themes of migration, motherhood, queerness and liberation. 

Digital portrait based on a photo by Sandra Garcia at Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, circa 2014. 

CENTRO SAN ANTONIO

DJ DESPEINADA x NATAZIA NATAZIA

present

CITRUS ZEST FEST

Officially joining creative forces for the first time, DJ Despeinada and Natazia Natazia curated a citrus-centric brunch in Peacock Alley celebrating the healing power of comadre cultura and ancestral remedies in San Anto, Texas. 

Local moms, m’ijas, señoras, tías, and besties have worked so hard for their familias during the pandemic, and they deserve to dress up and meet up downtown to experience a joyous mélange of zesty treats that includes:

Música. Aesthetics, Vegan Brunch,  

FREE hand-squeezed mimosas La Botánica, Art Market, Raffle, Regalitos bag curated thoughtfully with lots of love. 

CENTRO SAN ANTONIO

KLUB KOMADRE

presents:

TEJANA SUMMER JAM

ft. All-Vinyl Selections by
DJ Despeinada & DJ Heavyflow

+
Marfa Public Radio / Mi Tesoro Hour
DJ Despeinada Guest Show Listening Party! 

Vegan Eats & Creative Cocktail Mixers: La Botánica (sponsored alcohol is 21+)

Mini Market: Evergreen Garden, Callejera Thrift & Prints, Green Phoenix Rising, Transcendental Jewels

Flower Friends: Monica Sosa

FREE Pastry Art: Bec Flores

Foto Documentation: Karen Gutierrez

Flyer & FREE Postcard Arte: Daryan Arcos

Klub Komadre is a roving sanctuary featuring exquisite vinyl DJ sets, storytelling & chisme, Tejana soul and ambiance, remarkable markets, sips n' nibbles, and community workshops/talleres for feeling & healing!

JANUARY 9, 2022.

The first in a new outdoor DJ residency at Jaime's Place in the heart of San Anto's historic Westside. 

Zodiac-themed, each show features vinyl DJs and poster artists born under the astrological sign. A curated art market (pulguita/"little flea") and special themes and guests will appear throughout the one-year series. 

Poster Art: 

Lenzy Mora

@penzlenz

FEBRUARY 20. 2022

Poster Art:

Reg Morales

@helloreg

MARCH 13, 2022

Presenting! Style Files: Ancestral Aesthetics of South Texas—Ayer, Hoy, y Siempre, my latest guest lecture for Dr. Sylvia Mendoza’s class @utsa celebrating Women’s History Month 2022! The presentation morphed into my latest project to document and archive our South Texas ancestors, their style, and ourselves. 🧵 Please join me for an online lecture/presentation on Wednesday, 3/9, from 10-11:15 AM (link in comments) where I’ll be sharing research and telling stories about cultural expression, adornment as self-care, remixing thrifted textiles, and how we express beauty and joy in a long line of South Texas fashion plates. 🧵👗👠👢You are also invited to submit a photo of one of your stylish ancestors and have your portrait taken at Pisces SolDay Sunday @jaimesplace on Sunday, 3/13, from 2 - 5 PM where iconic photographer Antonia Padilla @studiolightsa will take your portrait (you can wear an item you inherited from an ancestor or something in homage to their style). Antonia has photographed Selena, so in a way you’ll be part of that legacy too. 📷 The photos will be published in an archival zine designed by AnaKaren Ortiz Varela @earthly.details who also designed this BEAUTIFUL poster of my dreams after so much thoughtful communication and beautiful collaboration over the past weeks. 🪡

Poster Art: 

AnaKaren Ortiz Varela

@earthlydetails 

APRIL 10. 2022

Poster Art: Cloud Cardona

@mexistentialism

Poetry Karaoke: 

Local Word Nerds/

Recite Poems/

that Live in their Bones.

ft. 

Viktoria Valenzuela, Laurie Ann Guerrero, Jonathan Treviño, SG Huerta, Jacinto J. Cardona. Bianca Perez, Rose Rodriguez, Scarlett Cerna, Eli. G. Rodriguez, Marilyse Figueroa, Miryam Bujanda, Marisela Barrera, Dennise Frausto, Linda Monsivais, Vincent Cooper, Marisol Cortez, Bonnie Cisneros, Cloud Cardona + (INSERT YOUR NAME HERE)