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Unmasking Hercules

Introducing Hercules’ new webpage! Prayers for it’s next journeys and gratitude for Ancestors who guided me and the Artists who embodied the story.

The quality of the copy of this important film by John Huston currently on YouTube isn't very good, so I found a better one and tweaked it with digital image...

Read about this documentary in a book I’m reading about trauma, “The Body Keeps the Score,” I couldn’t stop it, watched the whole thing. So intrigued by the loss of a friend, fellow solider, not that I don’t understand it but how it connects to the need for all people, men included, for relationships, for connections, from the perspective of my work, ‘hermanidad.’ When the loss happens so tragically and violently, trauma stays in the body. So heartbreaking to see the how the violence they experienced affected them, also speaking to the need for expression when trauma occurs.

#hermanidad

“First rehearsal of Unmasking Hercules!!!!”

Unmasking Hercules Reading

Happy to announce a reading of my play, "Unmasking Hercules!"

Unmasking Hercules Reading is back on!

Writer and blogger Robert Jones, Jr. (AKA Son of Baldwin) gets Facebook trolls freaking out about the perceived "gayness" of the above photo of Michael B. Jordan and his Creed director Ryan Coogler all the way together in a piece for The...

Image of Counter Narrative of Masculinity

Applied Theater Educator/Artist, Restorative Justice practitioner, Writer, Circlekeeper. Gilbert Salazar is an Educator and Applied Theater Artist living in Los…

New Updated Vimeo Page!

Kieran “word-spitting” Gopaul and Gilbert “your host” Salazar first wrote and performed Hermandad: Speaking the Unspoken during their graduate program in Applied Theatre Arts at University of Southern California. With Professor Laura Vena’s support, Kieran and Gilbert used a creative writing process to explore and express the depths of their relationship to themselves and each other as men, which resulted in this spoken word piece on masculine identity.

Hermandad: Speaking the Unspoken was first performed live by Gilbert and Kieran in the Spring of 2013 for Professor Laura Vena’s graduate course on Writing Culture, and once more in the Summer of 2013 at Cafeina Galeria in Silver Lake, Los Angeles. Subsequently, Gilbert adapted the piece for a solo performance during Naked Stage Nights at Real Women Have Curves Studios in January, 2014 (see video).

This spoken word piece was devised to open a dialogue with young men on their relationship to themselves and other men. A central question to consider while watching this spoken word piece is:

"What codes and masks do I use as a man when I am with myself and other men?"

For more information please visit:

-Gilbert Salazar’s Unmasked Education website:

http://www.gilbertsalazarunmaskededucation.com

-Kieran Gopaul’s Participatory Approach to Youth and Community Development online project:

http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/129517/A-Participatory-Approach-to-Youth-Community-Development/

Follow @UnmaskGilbert @GoKieran

#unmaskeducation #newmasculinities #youthdevelopment #criticalconsciousness #community

#Vimeo #hermanidad #masculinity #masking

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUPG8ZL1lMM)

Kieran “word-spitting” Gopaul and Gilbert “your host” Salazar first wrote and performed Hermandad: Speaking the Unspoken during their graduate program in Applied Theatre Arts at University of Southern California. With Professor Laura Vena’s support, Kieran and Gilbert used a creative writing process to explore and express the depths of their relationship to themselves and each other as men, which resulted in this spoken word piece on masculine identity.

Hermandad: Speaking the Unspoken was first performed live by Gilbert and Kieran in the Spring of 2013 for Professor Laura Vena’s graduate course on Writing Culture, and once more in the Summer of 2013 at Cafeina Galeria in Silver Lake, Los Angeles. Subsequently, Gilbert adapted the piece for a solo performance during Naked Stage Nights at Real Women Have Curves Studios in January, 2014 (see video).

This spoken word piece was devised to open a dialogue with young men on their relationship to themselves and other men. A central question to consider while watching this spoken word piece is:

"What codes and masks do I use as a man when I am with myself and other men?"

For more information please visit:

-Gilbert Salazar’s Unmasked Education website:

http://www.gilbertsalazarunmaskededucation.com

-Kieran Gopaul’s Participatory Approach to Youth and Community Development online project:

http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/129517/A-Participatory-Approach-to-Youth-Community-Development/

Follow @UnmaskGilbert @GoKieran

#unmaskeducation #newmasculinities #youthdevelopment #criticalconsciousness #community

In my unending search for just the right vintage images for our articles, I have looked through thousands of photographs of men from the last century or so. O

Unmasked Education now up and live!

Gilbert Salazar Unmasked Education is up live!

7/8/15 With much thought and long hours with technology, Gilbert Salazar Unmasked Education is up and live!

New research from Stanford shows that socio-economic stress affects men more than women.

Breaking traditional gender norms, one song at a time.

#flipped

Description of how “Unmasking Hercules” relates to Latino/Hispanic American culture

Just submitted “Unmasking Hercules” to Nuestras Voces for MetLife Nuestras Voces National Playwriting Competition with Repertorio Español: this was my description of it’s connection to Latino culture:

“Unmasking Hercules” relates to the Latino community in its experience of masculinity as Hercules and Eros and all the characters navigate their masculine and gender identities in relation to each other. The theme of hermanidad relates to a topic not seen often in Latino media and stories, due to the tight restrictions and greater awareness of machismo. This socialized system of gender for many Latino cultures can restrict the relationships of men, particular the relationships and perceptions of gay Latino men. The issue of homophobia is uncovered in “Unmasking Hercules” as the topic of machismo as it’s metaphor and magic surrealist device, also harkening to Latino literature, of the mask is used throughout the play. Other symbols used related to Latino experience is the symbol of the bridge relating passageway and journey, also common elements of the Latino immigrant experience, in this case depicting not just the cultural backgrounds of the mostly Latino characters but the journey of gender and masculinity.

#hermanidad #latinotheater

An image from the play “The Brother’s Size” taken at Actor’s Theater in Louisville.

#hermanidad brother

Spoiler alert: kinda weird, but also awesome.

Example of “hermanidad” and unmasking true brotherhood.

#hermanidad #brotherhood #unmask

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