The Colibrí Writers join the conversation, live, all the way from San Diego. We discuss Collective Transformation Through Oral Traditions. Our guests from Colibrí Writers, for this episode are: Karla Cordero, Angélica M. Yañez , Gracie Azua, Raquel Reyes Lopez, and Jackie Robledo.
Colibrí Writers (establish in Spring 2024) is a collective of Latine, Chicanx and Indigenous educators, storytellers, cultural workers, ARTivists, published award-winning authors and art curators that aim to create spaces that honor multilingual artistic expression, community building, mentorship and shared resources in performance and publishing to uplift and inspire San Diego BIPOC Voices.
Oral traditions are more than acts of poetry and storytelling, such as spoken word and song. Oral traditions are gifts and lessons from our elders and ancestors. Connecting us to our familial and communal roots, like a forest nourishing old tree stumps and young saplings. Oral traditions are our witnessed communal and universal truths, which help prevent cultural and ancestral erasure. Oral traditions are acts of healing. Listen how oral traditions impact the lives of cultures, the witness (community), and the witnessed (performer).
Listen in on The Collective for poetry and more, this Sunday on @kqbhla, 3-4pm PST, on 101.5fm in Los Angeles area, world wide on kqbhla.com, or nationwide on the LPFM La app.
Replays and special After Dark episodes on Spotify and Substack, on The Collective by Gina Duran.
We are all a significant part of society—the collective. The Collective is about the people in our communities all around us that make an effort to make positive change, but it’s also about the Earth, its animals, and its plants. We all make this world thrive and communication is important in the process of healing and creating positive change that benefits all living beings.
Did you know that the practice of oral tradition not only benefits the performer, but the audience members as well?
Have you practiced in your culture’s form of oral tradition?
What is your experience or knowledge with oral traditions?
Singing? Spoken word? Storytelling? Listening to a radio talk show or podcast?
Share this post