Icono de los derechos civiles de 93 años celebra chicano arte con tequila en Fresno

A night in the center of Fresno that mixed poetry and history with the horses of Tequila Herradura will end pronto for a Chicano icon of civil rights. Todo formed part of a meeting that lasted a year and that this 93-year-old woman wanted it to last until the early hours of the morning.

Dolores Huerta, icon of the film by los derechos civiles and co-founder of United Farm Workers together with César Chávez in 1962, attended Fresno last September 7 to participate in el ciclo de poesía Con Safos, que de art se la celebró del fellecido Chicano artist José Montoya.

The Poet Laureate of Fresno Joseph Ríos heard that Huerta was taken back to his room in the hotel after the multitudinaria muestra de arte y poesía en Arte Américas.

“Me dijo: ‘Oye, pero he oído que había una fiesta después'”, said Ríos. “Por qué no vamos a la fiesta?”.

The local artist known as Roeski Doeski, co-proprietor of the studio, was pleasantly surprised by Huerta at the party. It was more than 10 pm when, “por el rabillo del ojo, veo a una mujer mayor entrando por la puerta”, he said.

For Doeski, era como si entara la realeza, por todo lo que Huerta ha consigido. Sin embargo, ella tenía los pies en la tierra como nadie, she said, comiendo bolas de queso with her wine while playing the songs oldies y la music freestyle de los 80 del propio Timmy T de la ciudad vibraban and Hella Fresno.

Huerta -rodeada by the Poet Laureado of California Lee Herrick, Malaquías Montoya y Ríos – pidió más poesía. Huerta les reprendió por intentar parar antes de tiempo: “‘Saben, los de Nueva York se van hasta las 4 o 5 de la mañana'”, les dijo a los poetas.

“Cuando ella dice eso, más vale que te levantes y tengas tus pumas preparados”, said Ríos to The Bee.

Ríos recited his poem “Dear Buffalo, Dear Zeta or to a Few of My Dead or Nearly Dead Tíos” (Querido Búfalo, querida Zeta oa algunos de mis tíos muertos o casi muertos).

Although he was on his way back to Los Angeles this week, Richard Montoya said that his experience was “still riding in the vapors of Fresno”.

Huerta is a hero to many, because she defied gender norms to co-found a trade union movement in collaboration with Chávez in the Central Valley that ended up giving place to the formation of the United Farm Workers union. Chávez died in 1993. Huerta was vice president of the UFW until 1999.

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Dolores Huerta, the Chicano movement in Fresno

Richard Montoya is son of José Montoya, cofundador of collectivo artístico Royal Chicano Air Force and querido amigo de Huerta. José Montoya died in 2013, but he and Huerta were there in the apogee of chicanismo, the cultural consciousness of the Chicano Movement that impelled social justice.

Huerta helped organize in los trabajadores agrículos, y José Montoya writes poems about them. His poetic memory of the Primera Convención Constitucional de los trabajadores agrículos, celebrated in Fresno in 1973, exclaims:Farm workers! … No lifeless drivers. Not, even more strangely, pompous politicians!” (¡Trabajadores agrículos! … No ejecutivos sin vida. No, más extraño aún, ¡politicos pomposos!).

Traer a Huerta at the exhibition Resonant Valley de José Montoya and Arte Américas fue ma allá del ArtHop del centro. No template programs with a mujer in the works, but Richard Montoya was planning an era again with his padre.

The last time that Richard Montoya saw his father and Huerta together in the area of ​​Fresno could have been around 2010. Bailaban corridos and rancheras played with a guitar in the living room of a ranch house somewhere between the Parciliuder.

Caballitos de tequila with Dolores Huerta

Huerta, al igual que César Chávez, tiid alguien que se soltaba la melena cerca de artistas a los que queria de verdad, dijo Richard Montoya.

“Y cuando alguien te pregunta si quieres tomarte un caballito con Dolores Huerta, dices: ‘Claro que sí, quiero tomarme un caballito con Dolores Huerta'”, said Doeski laughing.

Richard Montoya said that his father and Huerta knew each other at a time when poetry and art were intertwined with social justice movements.

Conectaron a menudo en conferencias, y Huerta estuvo presente el lecho de muerte van José Montoya.

Arianna Paz Chávez, director of the Arte Américas, dijo que Huerta tiene una energía muy generosa. As host of the iconic activist, Paz Chávez no longer expected Huerta to sign autographs and take photos. El centro de arte received 400 people on Thursday for the night, but she said that Huerta still wanted to be able to interact with more people at the end of the night.

“Puede ser muy fácil sentirse abrumada, especially con un grupo grande de gente”, said Paz Chávez, “pero definitely ella no es así”.

“El chicanismo no va ninguna parte”

El jueves por la noche se rindió homenaje al primo de Richard Montoya, the late poet Andrés Montoya. También se hizo echo de un momento de la childhood: Ver a Luis Valdez y El Teatro Campesino interpretar el poema de su father “El Louie”, la historia de un sweet suiter and veteran of Fowler. Pero la noche fue más una continuation que una reminiscencia.

“El chicanismo no va a ninguna parte”, said Richard Montoya. “El movimiento nunca terminó para ellos. Se deceleró, se acceleró y tuvo un resurgimiento. Pero está marchando lentamente, como solián marchar los campesinos de Delano a Sacramento”.

The first iteration of José Montoya’s work – which includes thousands of pieces of drawings and napkins that represent the experience of La Raza – took place in Los Angeles in 2016.

With his return to Valle Central, “es maravilloso ver la vitality de Fresno”, said Richard Montoya. “Es importante para la vida del arte y para la vida del Valle”.

El proximo Ciclo de Poesía Con Safos will take place in Arte Américas on October 5 and will feature the presence of José Olivares, whose debut poem won the Poetry Prize of the Chicago Review of Books 2018. Resonant Valley, by José Montoya, will be able to verse Arte Americas until November 26.