Author/Creator
Gomes, Miriam, Briones, Claudia, Wetzler, Gray, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Hemispheric Institute Encuentro (6th : 2007 : Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Restrictions/Permissions
Access is open to all web users, Copyright holder: Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Contact information: 20 Cooper Square, Fifth Floor, New York, NY 10003, U.S.A., +1-212-998-1631 (business), +1-212-995-4423 (fax), hemi@nyu.edu, http://www.hemisphericinstitute.org
Filming or performance location
Interviewed in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on June 9, 2007, as part of the Sixth Annual Hemispheric Institute Seminar entitled Corpolíticas en las Ámericas / Body Politics in the Americas : formations of race, class and gender.
Credits
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, producer ; Centro Cultural Recoleta, producer ; Gray Wetzler, videographer.
Miriam Gomes, interviewee ; Claudia Briones, interviewer.
Notes
Interview with Miriam Gomes, conducted by Claudia Briones as a part of the 6th Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, celebrated in June of 2007 in Buenos Aires, Argentina under the title CORPOLÍTICAS en las Américas: Formaciones de Raza, Clase y Género / Body Politics in the Americas: Formations of Race, Class and Gender (http://hemi.nyu.edu/eng/seminar/2007/index.html). Miriam Gomes belongs to the Cape Verdean community, an African-descended community that has been in Argentina for over a hundred years. She takes part in different organizations for the defense and diffusion of African cultural values and is the Vice President of the Cape Verde Society in Argentina. Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
