SIEMPrE VERDE @ Evergreen garden & other pandemic offerings

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Q & A with  Linda 

September 12, 2020   

(Leonard Peltier's 76th Birthday)

https://flojalife.tumblr.com

DJ Despeinada Presenta:

"Songs in the Key of SWU"  

Q & A with Kayla

September 26, 2020

(Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa's 78th Bday † )

Q & A with Isabel

September 4, 2020

(Beyoncé's 39th Birthday)

Q & A with Joe

October 21, 2020

(Celia Cruz's 95th Birthday † ) 

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. 

www.verythat.com

WFMU x Radio Row x DJ Despeinada

"Missing My Muertos" 

Q & A with Audrya

November 15, 2020

(Georgia O'Keeffe's 133rd Birthday †)

Q & A with Mary Agnes 

February 7, 2021

(Sandra Bland's 37th Bday †)

@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.

Welcome to The Last Parade:

Experimental Essay in Seven Parts

May 6, 2021

(The Last Parade's Official Bday)

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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.

Beto De León 

Siempre Verde: Music for Feeling & Healing #11 has  been a jubilant return to each other. Beto and I go way back to our San Anto Cultural Arts/El Placazo Barrio Newspaper days when I first got the coordinator job.

Instagram: @betotzin 

Behind the Collab

May 20, 2021

(World Bee Day)

Q & A with Sheila

March 4, 2021

(Berta Cáceres's 50th Birthday † )

Q & A with  Galileo.

February 18, 2021

(Audre Lorde's 87th Bday † ) 

After ten years DJ-ing professionally, prolifically, and with panache, I decided I needed an official logo. 

Linda was the obvious choice, and I am always so honored when she says YES to my commissions. 

Yet again, we worked so well together. She listened to my vision, made it her own, and then gracefully included my revision suggestions such as the cloudy sky motif on the vinyl record (it was gray at first). 

I had holographic stickers printed immediately. 

Instagram: @elpunoylamano

SHOP HER BIG CARTEL HERE. 

WFMU x Radio Row x DJ Despeinada 

"Love Came Here and Never Left" 

Behind the Collab with Karen

February 12, 2021

(Judy Blume's  83rd Bday)

Instagram: @la_asesina_por_aye

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. 

SAVE AS:

San Anto Archives, Altars, Art, & Autohistoria

in the Digital Age y Después.

or: Antidotes to Amnesia.

(my mom calls it “save in queso emergency”)

Bonnie Ilza Cisneros

Dr. Sylvia Mendoza

Mexican American Studies Research / Feminist Research Methodologies

University of Texas at San Antonio 

April 1, 2021

ZOOM / 6 PM - 7 PM

Pride in Peacock Alley

Poster Art 

(18 x 24, acrylic on canvas paper) 

by Ashleigh Garza, @malaensanquilmas33, 

commissioned in commemoration of DJ Despeinada’s debut at Centro San Antonio's Peacock Alley

Aretes in the Alley:

Music for Earring & Hearing 

Poster Art 

by Linda Monsivais 

Centro San Antonio's Peacock Alley Friyay Series ft. DJ Despeinada, Handmade Earring Vendors: El Puño y la Mano, Lenzy Mora, Phresh Baked, Very That, and Nopallady & La Botánica Cocktails Served by Denise Hernández. 

MUERTOS FEST 2021

San Anto, Texas

DJ Despeinada Presents:

Nicho Sonido

Música for Grieving & Healing

... a two-day ofrenda of all-vinyl sonidos to inspire ancestral memory and healing vibes at Muertos Fest 2021. 

The nicho installation, handmade by Sarah Castillo and crowned with plantita offerings by Evergreen Garden, was tucked on historic Hemisfair porch. Festival guests heard songs of love & death from all eras with roots in San Antonio, South Texas, and Latin America.

DJ Despeinada gathered a soundtrack for our lost loved ones called Missing Our Muertos community playlist published on Spotify for Muertos Fest 2021.