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Check out our Season 6 of Wattz Up! from Fall 2017. We celebrated our 20th birthday interviewing our Director, Vanessa Sanchez. Also, we presented deep conversations from boys perspectives to net neutrality; navigated through the Pop Culture world, the Day of the Death traditions to Little Village people stories. Wattz up! is produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth and broadcast live through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. (Yollocalli)

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Pop Up Youth Radio is a project of Yollocalli Arts Reach. PUYR is a youth-led, community-centered, pop-up Internet radio program. This show was recorded live at Crappy Suckentine's Day Condom Party 2017, on February 10th at the National Museum of Mexican Art. Great conversations about Project Elevate (STD prevention and transgender womem), teen's health, dating, relationship advice and MORE!

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Here is today's piece inspired by a prompt from the @yollocalli drawing idea generator. The prompt for this one was, “a freaky zombie in your favorite meme.” . I will be trying to do one of these from now up until Friday, and will be putting them up in the “Original Artwork” section of my Etsy shop (link in profile) if one really speaks to you. . You can experience the online prompt generator here: yollocalli.org/draw . #yollocalli #yollocallisaysdraw #zombie #meme #ermagherd #ermagherdgersbermps #brains https://www.instagram.com/p/B_3U05mjDD9/?igshid=16yh8nt45xtpq

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Chill Set 2019

  CHILL SET

6th ANNUAL TEEN NIGHT at the National Museum of Mexican Art!

  ** FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8th**

* * * * * * * 6-10 pm * * * * * * *

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART

1852 W 19th Street

PILSEN! (just a few blocks from the 18th Street Pink Line)

CLICK TO RSVP!!!!

  * * * * * * * FREE! * * * * * * * *

  Explore the NMMA galleries (including Day of the Dead), free workshops and activities, music, dancing, AND FOOOOOOD!

  * * * * * * * FREE! * * * * * * * *

Chill Set 2019 was originally published on Yollocalli Arts Reach

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Summer Internships in YSYW

Meet our extraordinary summer interns:Jennifer Galan, Gerardo Salgado, Oscar Perez, Emmanuel Ramirez and Emilio Gonzalez for Your Story, Your Way!

Jenny, Jerry, and Oscar are working on brilliant, outstanding stories, articles and reviews for Gozamos.com and for Little Village Community Portal. Meanwhile our magnificent Emmanuel and Emilio are learning all about radio pre and post production! They made possible for you to listen to our amazing jamz on Saturday’s Wattz Up! and for you to  listen to our show online at Mixcloud and Soundcloud. Check us out!!

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Characters for Characters: Exploring Character Development With Artist Jay Howell of Bob's Burgers

An interview with Jay Howell of Bob’s Burgers at House of Vans Chicago.

Written By: Oscar Perez

Did you know that in every episode of Sanjay and Craig (Nickelodeon) there is a pickle hidden somewhere? It is fascinating trying to spot them all! I enjoy this show and its engaging stories, comical dialogue and creative animation style. It’s undoubtedly one of my favorite cartoons and I could binge watch it for hours and that’s why I think that Jay Howell, inventor of the show, is a creative genius. I had the opportunity to speak with Howell before his presentation at Characters for Characters: Exploring Character Development at House of Vans.

At Character for Characters, Howell was straightforward and kept a laid back stance, starting the workshop with his personal story. He told us he attended the Academy of Art University at San Francisco, however, because he never really liked school he dropped out after two months. Afterward, he began to immerse himself in skateboarding, zines, snowboarding and DIY pop culture.

In 1994 Howell started making his own zines, and working from the coffee shop he managed, he gave those zines away to his customers. He wasn’t exactly living comfortably, barely enough to make ends meet, but that was all about to change. One day Howell received an email from a stranger who claimed to be an art school student and explaining how he had obtained a copy of Howell’s zine. The stranger managed to animate it and sent a copy along. To Howell’s surprise, the animation was astounding. Howell responded to the stranger, requesting they work together and create more animations.

The two began working together and soon an art showcase gave them an opportunity to present their work. This art showcase turned out to be momentous because soon after Howell was offered the opportunity to make his work into a television series. As you may already know, this turned into  the popular television show, Bob’s Burgers.

Once I had the chance at the workshop, I sat down with Jay Howell in a more private conversation.

How do you make a good character? Making a good character is generally about you drawing the best you can possibly draw and the funnest (as he said it like that) you can possibly draw and really loving your character, loving your artwork. If you don’t love it, nobody will love it. That’s very important.

I was astonished having heard that enchanting response. The passion Howell puts into his work is nothing short of amazing!

What goes into developing a character’s personality? A character’s personality solely comes from the creator of the character. In a lot of ways, if you look at all the Bob’s Burgers characters, all those characters were already comedy characters, before the show happened. Every single one of the actors on the show already had stand up material, that was basically those characters before. So, the creator found all these great different personalities and brought them all together, then we drew them based on their personalities.

Howell instilled in me that perseverance you need to face adversity. Much like a superhero, and as any other superhero, he came to me when I needed him most. Going from table to table at the workshop, he sketched in each of the participants’ notebooks.

In mine, he drew three versions of Tina from Bob’s Burgers. Then, when we took a photo together, I couldn’t help but feel like were best friends… best friends like Sanjay and Craig.

Oscar Perez is a young reporter from Little Village and a student of English Literature and Humanities at Northeastern Illinois University. He is currently part of Yollocalli’s radio and journalism program,“Your Story, Your Way!”

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This summer, the 2018 Audio and Storytelling Class “Your Story, Your Way” is slowly exploring different locations around Little Village. Stay tuned in order to hear sounds, interviews and stories of the exciting places we are traveling next! 

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Ruido Fest Recap 2018

By Gloria “Nine” Valle, Emilio González, Luz Zaragoza & Gerardo Salgado

For 2018’s Ruido Fest, a few of our crew and hosts of Yollocalli’s “Wattz Up!” Radio show, were invited once again to cover and explore the depths of Latin Alternative music and the great well known musical heritage that has been passed down by generations within our families. Artists like Panteón Rococó, Los Angeles Azules, Los Mirlos, Los Esquizitos, Los VooDoo Glow Skull Dolls, and the great Celso Piña, among others. Many of these artists have been a part of the youth’s music library. In our recap Wattz Up! show we presented Ruido Fest 18 coverage, filled with ecstatic interviews, live clips and vivid jams.

We were able to meet great and upcoming artist like Playa Gótica, Omar Apollo, CqqchiFruit, Reyno, Kinky P, and Quinto Imperio. Quinto Imperio recently won a “Battle of the Bands” tournament in which they were the first band to open up and start this years Ruido Fest. Besides, the crew of Wattz Up! interviewed Wrestlers from the community, Local Vendors from both Pilsen and Little Village, and some people from the audience. For the art enthusiasts, Chicago based artist Sentrock was happy enough to talk to us during a live painting session he held next to the Estrella Jalisco stage. 

As we covered this year’s Ruido Fest and collected all kinds of adventures, we cannot wait for the surprises that will unravel next year’s. Stay tuned for our 2019 Ruido Fest coverage!

Wattz up! is produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth and broadcast live through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago.