Magdalena Gomez.
Award-winning Performance Poet, Playwright, Art Educator, Columnist, and Inspirational Speaker
 
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        A Bronx native, Magdalena Gomez is best known as a poet and performer; a vanguard member of the Nuyorican Literary Movement in the 1970's. Magdalena is also a playwright, a national teaching artist, producer, director, and journalist. In a 2006 conversation with the Co-President of the Latino Breakfast Club in Springfield, Massachusetts, H. Edgar Alejandro, telling him (a total stranger) of her vision to begin the first and only Latino theater in Springfield, MA. That was the beginning of Teatro Vida (the other TV), where Gomez is co-founder and artistic director.

NOTE: See more about Teatro Vida, The Other TV in the clip at the bottom of this section.

        Magdalena Gomez was the recipient of the 2010-2011 American Master Artist Award, awarded by National Endowment for the Arts American Masterpieces Presenters, Pregones Theater, New York City.

        Encouraged in her youth by poets Sandra Maria Esteves, El Reverendo Pedro Pietri, José Angel Figueroa, Emilie Glenn, Barbara A. Holland, Richard Spiegel and Louis Reyes Rivera, she now mentors young poets despite a demanding travel schedule.

        Magdalena Gomez performs internationally and her motivational keynote presentations are tailored to event themes with a focus on Latino/a Identity, culture, history, and social change. She has worked for over 30 years with a broad spectrum of participants and venues including: prisons and other correctional facilities, theaters, libraries, concert halls, universities, elementary through high schools, radio, television, non-profits, corporations, CBO's, monasteries and public spaces. She has been a featured reader and keynote in venues such as Lincoln Center, St. John the Divine, Hunter College, Vanderbilt University, The Massachusetts State House, BAM Café, Latina Letters Conference, BAAD! Ass Women’s Festival, APSAC national conference, The Donnell Library, and the Smithsonian Institute.

Additionally, Gomez offers creativity workshops for personal growth and a 2-day writing and performance intensive for girls and women: Writing from the Belly, her successful series developed in collaboration with the Women of Color Leadership Network at the University of Mass, Amherst.

 To book Magdalena Gomez for your upcoming event: Call 310-937-2789.
Email speakers@bestkeynotes.com

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