FLiCX: Chavela
Wednesday, Oct. 25
5:45 p.m. – 7:45 p.m. 聽
Belcourt Theatre
2102 Belcourt Avenue, Nashville, TN
Dir. Catherine Gund, Daresha Kyi聽触听鲍厂础听触听2017听触听90 min.聽触听狈搁听触听DCP | Spanish with English subtitles
Post-screening discussion in the second-floor Jackson Education and Engagement Space (seating is limited) with Edward Wright-Rios, professor of history at 国产传媒.
Participants聽who commit to checking in with the FLiCX administrator by no later than 5:45 p.m., and to聽making an effort to attend聽the discussion, may RSVP on for tickets purchased by the聽Dean of Students聽office.
Since seating is limited, we must remind participants of the following:
- that if you RSVP in the affirmative, and your plans change, you are expected to log back in and change your status to 鈥渘ot attending;鈥
- 迟丑补迟听国产传媒 participants must RSVP for themselves, and may not be 鈥済uests;鈥 and
- that non-国产传媒 guests are聽limited to one聽per participant.
Chavela聽is a captivating look at the unconventional life of beloved performer Chavela Vargas, whose passionate renditions of Mexican popular music and triumphant return to the stage late in life brought her international fame. Born in Costa Rica in 1919, Chavela Vargas ran away to Mexico City as a teenager to sing in the streets. By the 1950s, she was a household name in her adopted country, delivering performances with a raw passion and unique voice. Just as influential were her cultural contributions鈥擟havela was a bold, rebellious sexual pioneer, known for having many female lovers at a time when being out in Mexico was dangerous. Chavela聽centers around a 1991 interview鈥攖he singer’s first public appearance after 15 hard years lost to alcoholism and heartbreak. In the final years of her life, Chavela openly comes out as a lesbian and rises into her momentous third act, becoming a muse to filmmaker Pedro Almod贸var, earning a Lifetime Achievement Grammy, and selling out performances at prestigious concert halls around the world.
鈥淯nmissable . . . The songs are wonderful, testimony to a pioneer who is probably Donald Trump鈥檚 ultimate nightmare鈥攁 Mexican lesbian diva who can wring your very soul.鈥 鈥擩onathan Romney, The Guardian