Radio Teco Cultura

Today we talk to legendary photographer and artist Joe Ramos

Joe talks to us about his impressive exhibition currently viewable at the Monterey Museum of Art titled Mixed Up - Connected.

This exhibition highlights years of people who have influenced Joe’s life including people from his mixed Filipino and Mexican heritage.

Make sure you visit the exhibition before April 21, 2024!

On today’s episode we have the privilege of speaking to Cuban born jazz musician Harold Lopez Nussa. 

Harold currently lives in France and joins us from a busy cafe in Paris, so please excuse the background noise.

Harold and I talk about his recent album Timba a la Americana, his family, and his love for the Bay Area  especially after a recent performance at Berkeley’s Freight and Salvage.

For 48 years, The San Francisco-based American Indian Film Festival has been a sort of sacred cinema space, celebrating and uplifting the experiences of Natives through film while also providing  Native filmmakers and actors with a platform to showcase their work. As the opening date for this year's Festival nears, we sit down with Mytia Zavala, the daughter of the festival’s founder, Michael Smith. Smith died suddenly in 2018, leaving Zavala to carry on her father’s legacy. Here is our conversation.

With El Tecolote celebrating another year around the sun we wanted to share with you another Radio Teco rewind as we go back to our conversation from last year with El Tecolote founder Juan Gonzalez.

Full Queer: Wrestling for Rights, is a safepace for camp and queerness in Pro Wrestling, and aims to affirm queer and marginalized identities in and out of the ring. 

And given the mainstream rise in queerphobia across the country, we wanted to learn more. Joining us on this episode are three folks involved in Full Queer. Mexican American rising wrestling star Brooke Havoc, and co producers Marco Rodriguez and Jetta Rae Robertson. 

On this episode Rebeca Abidaíl Flores, an artist and Cultural Arts Manager at Acción Latina hosts our Capturing The Moment: Photo Panel & Art Walk back in April 2023. Learn how legendary artists like Susan Cervantes, Juan Fuentes, Joe Ramos and Josué Rojas have influenced the art scene of San Francisco's iconic Mission District.

On this episode we have the privilege to talk to two leaders of the Latino community in the Pico neighborhood down in Santa Monica. Film director, actor, and founder of Good Omen pictures Frankie Garces and Alex Aldana the executive director of Pico Youth and Family Center.

Frankie and Alex talk to us about their upcoming short film En La Arena a film that covers how their neighborhood has dealt with gentrification through the years, something our community here in San Francisco can relate to.

On this episode of Radio Teco Cultura we speak to the CEO of Rising Rhythm Dance Company, Jessica Recinos. We talked about her upbringing in the Mission and how dance has always been a part of her life. Jessica also talked about how research on her families lineage became a delightful dance project.

On this episode of Radio Teco Cultura we are joined by the iconic Chicana artist and educator, Amalia Mesa-Bains. Despite being a mixed-media artist for the last five decades, Amalia’s first ever retrospective exhibition, titled “Archaeology of Memory,” opened at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) on Feb. 4. The show, which is a must see, will be on display until July 23, 2023.