{"id":56666,"date":"2018-07-24T22:00:32","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T22:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56666"},"modified":"2018-07-24T22:00:32","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T22:00:32","slug":"works-progress-austin-casta-by-adrienne-dawes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56666","title":{"rendered":"Works Progress Austin: Casta by Adrienne Dawes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/salvagevanguard.org\/productions\/2018\/works-progress-austin-casta-by-adrienne-dawes-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Works Progress Austin: <\/strong><\/em><strong>Casta <\/strong><em><strong>by Adrienne Dawes<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/salvagevanguard.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Salvage Vanguard Theater<\/a><br \/>\n110 Barton Springs Road<br \/>\nAustin, Texas 78704<br \/>\n2018-07-21<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"550\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/salvagevanguard.org\/productions\/2018\/works-progress-austin-casta-by-adrienne-dawes-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumb-image loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/50bbc16de4b05ce48945ec08\/t\/5b5348ef8a922d868ec6e16f\/1532184828682\/171222-casta-workshop-Ayala-1972.jpg?format=1000w\" alt=\" &amp;nbsp;Photo by Bonica Ayala. Pictured Jesus valles, Tarik Daniels, Linzy Beltran \" width=\"550\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/50bbc16de4b05ce48945ec08\/t\/5b5348ef8a922d868ec6e16f\/1532184828682\/171222-casta-workshop-Ayala-1972.jpg\" data-image-resolution=\"1000w\" data-position-mode=\"standard\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"5b5348ef8a922d868ec6e16f\" data-image=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/50bbc16de4b05ce48945ec08\/t\/5b5348ef8a922d868ec6e16f\/1532184828682\/171222-casta-workshop-Ayala-1972.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"2500x1667\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-type=\"image\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Photo by Bonica Ayala. Pictured Jesus valles, Tarik Daniels, Linzy Beltran<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Salvage Vanguard Theater invites you to attend a staged reading of <em>Casta<\/em> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adriennedawes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adrienne Dawes<\/a>, presented as part of Works Progress Austin. Launched in 2006, Works Progress Austin (WPA) provides playwrights with the resources they need to bring their work to life. Works Progress Austin has featured new works by Caridad Svich, Dan Dietz, and Sibyl Kempson.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WPA: <em>Casta<\/em> by Adrienne Dawes<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Aug 24 @ 7:30pm | Aug 25 @ 4 and 7:30pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ARTIST TALK after the 4pm performance August 25th.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Casta<\/em> is inspired by a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Casta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">casta paintings<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Miguel_Cabrera_(painter)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miguel Cabrera<\/a>, a mixed-race painter from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oaxaca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oaxaca<\/a>. Casta paintings were a unique form of portraiture that grew in popularity over the 18th century in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Spain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nueva Espa\u00f1a<\/a>\/colonial Mexico. The paintings depicted different racial mixtures arranged according to a hierarchy defined by Spanish elites&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/salvagevanguard.org\/productions\/2018\/works-progress-austin-casta-by-adrienne-dawes-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Works Progress Austin: Casta by Adrienne Dawes Salvage Vanguard Theater 110 Barton Springs Road Austin, Texas 78704 2018-07-21 Photo by Bonica Ayala. Pictured Jesus valles, Tarik Daniels, Linzy Beltran Salvage Vanguard Theater invites you to attend a staged reading of Casta by Adrienne Dawes, presented as part of Works Progress Austin. Launched in 2006, Works [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,21,459,8,103,20],"tags":[17878,27822,17880,27821],"class_list":["post-56666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mexico","category-usa","tag-adrienne-dawes","tag-miguel-cabrera","tag-salvage-vanguard-theater","tag-works-progress-austin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56668,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56666\/revisions\/56668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}