In this segment we talk with Nina Serrano about her novel, Nicaragua Way: An International Novel of Love and Revolution in the 1980s, which tells the fascinating story of the Bay Area's involvement in the Sandinista revolution. Nina also gives her take on the current crisis in Nicaragua.
What's really happening in Nicaragua? Is this a people's movement or a right-wing coup fomented by U.S. imperialism? Katia Cardenal, who in the eighties was one of the best known cultural ambassadors for the Sandinista-led government, as part of Duo Guardabarranco, says there is no question - the people are in the streets. She has marched with half a million people and watched snipers shoot them down. Cardenal will perform at La Pena on Saturday, July 14, in a benefit concert for the victims of violence; she will also give firsthand information. Kate's short conversation with her is a preview of what we will hear in more depth on Saturday night.
Canto a Nicaragua: Katia Cardenal Benefit Concert for Nicaragua
July 14 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
$25 General Admission / Kids Under 10 Free
Doors open at 6pm / Concert starts at 7pm
Since April, the situation in Nicaragua has been getting worse, and help is needed now more than ever! In response, Chavalos de Aquí y Allá are presenting Canto a Nicaragua, a Katia Cardenal Benefit Concert for Nicaragua. Special guests Nina & Sebastian will also be performing. There will be a folkloric dance performance and Nicaraguan food as well!
Spend this hour-long conversation with Nina Serrano, whose six decades of art and activism include being the first foreign woman to
travel with Fidel Castro and his army, making a teleplay with Roque Dalton, guerrilla fighter and poet laureate of El Salvador, cofounding
Mission Cultural Center, staffing the Free Chile Center and SF Poetry in the Schools, and of course, hosting La Raza Chronicles/Cronicas de la Raza and Open Book at KPFA.
Nina is also a widely anthologized poet, mother, grandmother and an award-winning filmmaker. Our conversation also touches on feminism, writing and the Beat scene (she is not now, nor was she ever, a Beat). This show features seldom-heard clips from two of Nina's films.
