For more than 12 years Michael Reyes, has brought innovative and engaging performance to audiences across America and internationally! Reyes is a Chicano /Mexicano poet, emcee, actor, playwright, artist and community organizer (specializing in youth development).
His combination of hip-hop, poetry and spoken word create a unique blend, where his narratives are infused into a rhythmically crowd pleasing performance. As a hip hop artist his work is a synthesis of radical soul, raw lyrical hip-hop, fresh beats and poetic style.
A leading voice in progressive and radical music, Reyes combines cultural stories of resistance, raw hip-hop and inspiring poems, to reach youth and elders alike. His work challenges and confronts the many social ills faced by communities of color.
He has shared the stage nationally and internationally with many poets, artists and activists such as historical figures: Lolita Lebrón and Delores Huerta; poets: Tato Laviera, Pedro Pietri and La Bruja; and musical artists such as: Roy Brown, Dead Prez, Boca Floja, Siete Nueve, and Grammy Award winner Malik Yusef.
As a poet and an artist he has been featured on HBO Latino’s Habla Series, nationally on Latin Nation and the PBS documentary Dream Makers. He has released three novels of poetry and three performance CDs. His work has also been featured nationally in many magazines, anthologies and newspapers. Reyes has additionally worked with established institutions including: Chicago Public Radio, the United States Hispanic Leadership Institute, the National Museum of Mexican Art, the Museum Of Contemporary Art and the Poetry Center of Chicago.
As an actor, his credits include roles in Miguel Piñero’s famed play, The Sun Always Shines for the Cool, Urban Poet, Why Are U Running? Chicago Boricua, Public Theater’s 365 Project written by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks and the feature film Nothing Like the Holidays starring John Leguizamo and Debra Messing.He has worked directly with famed NuYorican poet Tato Laveria on three productions titled The Spark, Chupacabera and the 1977 Division Street Riots; as part of his work with Laveria,
Reyes has served, both as an actor and a director.
Currently Reyes is touring the country with his play Crime Against Humanity, co-wrote by former Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Luis Rosa. Multitalented Reyes has played the role of actor, writer and director for the play. Crime Against Humanity has received tremendous community support and has completed several tours in the past year. He is also touring with his latest mixtape titled My Word Is My Weapon taking him as far as Spain
Glenn Holtzman
Glenn Holtzman is a philospher, social scientist, composer and performer in the discipline of Music. Glenn is currently and Adjunct Professor completing his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania and will graduate as an Assistant Professor in May 2013. To date he has been conducting research on the "Coloured" community of Cape Town, South Africa. In his doctoral dissertation titled: "Coloureds Performing Queer, or Queer Coloureds Performing?: Asserting Belonging Through Queer Behavior in Cape Town, South Africa", Glenn is concerned with the Psychological Basis of Behavior that he argues is induced by music within this mixed race community. His claim is that music is functioning as mental medicine within the psyche of socially and sexually "Queer" communities across the globe, and seeks to engage theories and discourses in Psychomusicology and Mixed Race Studies. Glenn's scholarship has been advanced by Grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation, The Social Science Research Council and the School of Arts and Sciences here at Penn. He is also the recipient of the School of Arts & Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching and has won prizes for Competitive Ballroom and Latin American Dancing as well as music composition. Some of his intellectual interests include the "Social Psychology of Music", the Study of the Socialized Body and Musical Gestures, Sexuality and Post-Colonial Identity across the world. In his workshop for this conference, he will be using a framework of kinesthetia - feeling the body move - and together, we will examine the impact of social conditioning on the Latino body, consciousness of self and society, and how youth cultures in this community continue to invent surprising new ways of using music to alter the inscribed stereotypes they are called on to perform by society at large.
Grupo Quisqueyano
Grupo Quisqueyano (Dominican Student Association) was established for the purpose of serving the interest of the Dominican population at the University of Pennsylvania uniting Dominican students and those interested in the Dominican culture. We promote Dominican heritage and culture through the sponsoring of informative and social events.
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