Visiones is a bold and exciting television series about Latino art and culture in the United States. Utilizing the talents and skills of Latino producers from around the country, Visiones presents an emotionally evocative journey into Latino art and culture.
Episode five highlights the Taco Shop Poets Southern California, early tent theater of the Southwest called Carpas, and performance art in San Francisco. The Taco Shop Poets is a group of artists devoted to creating community empowerment through the arts. The taco shops throughout the border and beyond are inherently flavored places of culture and of celebration, where all walks of life collide for a brief moment and the Taco Shop Poets wish to affirm this coalescence in an explicit manner,and contribute to it, in the most humble of ways, through their performances. |
