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Friday March 8th
9AM-10AM
Cafecito/Dulce Mingle & Mentor-Mentee Meet-&-Greet
10AM-10:45
Panel I: Cultivating BIPOC Art Spaces Through the Digital Humanities
Crear Studio: Sarah Rafael Garcia, Anaid Hernandez, Alexa Vasquez, Manuel G. Galaviz
Moderator: Gabe Garcia (Too Rad Comics)
Panel II: LASA​ High Does BIPOC PoP
Lili Xiong, Victor Martinez, Veronica Valencia-Serrano, Kamryn Reyes
Facilitator: Kevin Garcia
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11AM-11:45AM
Panel II: Justice & Joy in BIPOC Fantasy and Sci-Fi
Gabriela Damián Miravete (The Will Dream in the Garden), Professor Latinx (Labyrinths Borne), Scott Russell Duncan (“Bad Sun”), Dani Orozco (new critical/creative work)
Moderator: Christopher González (Big Scary Brown Guy; SMU)
Workshop IIa: Zine Making!
Facilitator: Cristina Casas (Zine Creator & Librarian, Austin Public Library)
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Workshop IIb: Creating Multimodal Classrooms
Facilitators: Joey Lopez (Texas A&M) and Anthony R. Ramirez (UofHouston, Downtown)
Noon-1PM
Lunch
Screenings I: Screenings of Animation Shorts
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1PM-1:45PM
Panel III: Performing Pop Cultura: Theories and Practice
Roxanne Schroder-Arce (UT Austin), Daniella Martinez (Amazon Daniella), Adrian Villegas (Latino Comedy Project)
Moderator: Bill Nericcio (SDSU)
Workshop III: Inspiring BIPOC Creativity Through Journaling, Doodling, and Stress Reduction.
Facilitators: Elvira Carrizal-Dukes, Ronnie Dukes
2PM-2:45PM
Panel IV: Teaching Latinx Comics: Activities, Challenges, and Beneficios
Fernanda Diaz-Basteris (OSU), E.C.-Dukes (DUKEScomics), Theresa Rojas (LCAF; Modesto Junior College), Katlin Marisol Sweeney-Romero (UC Davis)
Moderator: Christine Hines (TXST)
Workshop IV: “How to Draw Anything”
Facilitator: Kofi Bazzell-Smith
3PM-3:45PM
Panel IV: Otherwise Worlds and Ways on the Page: From Works in Progress
Domino Perez (“The Dreaming”), Daniel Justice (“Glimmer”), Ewan Cox (“A Third Son’s Unlucky Rise to Prominence”)
Moderator: Katlin Marisol Sweeney-Romero (UC Davis)
Workshop V: Hands-On Comics: A Creative Exercise
Facilitator: Mary Elizabeth Cantu (Art Educator)
4PM-4:45PM
Panel VI: New Gen UT BIPOC POP Scholars REPRESENT!
Anjana Bhat (UT Austin), Marianna Rooks (UT Austin), Ana Paula Cardenas (UT Austin), Izzy De La Cruz (UT Austin), Bibi Macias (UT Austin), and Cassandra Yatron (UT Arlington)
Moderator: Professor Latinx (UT Austin)
Workshop VI: Making Comics of our Past: Reinterpreting Historical Media
Facilitators: Rosaura Rodríguez & Omar Banuchi (Días Comic)
6PM-8PM
First Light Books Book Launch Event: Aldama & Garza for their book launch, Through Fences