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Culture Clash
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Culture Clash is a Chicano/Latino performance troupe. At its founding on May 5, 1984, Culture Clash included the writers José Antonio Burciaga, Marga Gómez, and Monica Palacios in addition to the remaining core members Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, and Herbert Sigüenza. Montoya and Sigüenza had both been involved in the Chicano art scene in the San Francisco Bay Area, Montoya being the son of Chicano poet, artist, and activist José Montoya, and Sigüenza having been involved in the art collective La Raza Graphics, which created works of graphic art to support campaigns of the Chicano Movement.
Culture Clash's works range from comedic sketches to full-length plays and screenplays, all of which feature political and social satire. The troupe's members have appeared separately and together in several films and received numerous awards, commissions and grants. In 2006 they premiered two new full-length plays, the comedy Zorro in Hell and the drama Water and Power. Their works have been collected in two volumes, Culture Clash: Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy and Culture Clash in AmeriCCa: Four Plays. Their papers are housed at the California State University, Northridge (CSUN) Oviatt Library's Latino Cultural Heritage Digital Archives.
- Official site
- "20 Years of Culture Clash", a virtual exhibit from the Latino Cultural Hearitage Digital Archives at CSUN
- Culture Clash collection at the Latino Cultural Heritage Digital Archives at CSUN