Culture Clash (performance troupe)

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Culture Clash (performance troupe)

Culture Clash is an American

United States

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performance troupe composed of the writer-comedians Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, and Herbert Sigüenza. Their work is of a satirical

Satire

Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre; although, in practice, it is also found in the graphic arts and performing arts. In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, or other methods, ideally with the intent to bring about improv...
nature.

Culture Clash was founded on May 5th, 1984 at the Galería de la Raza

Galería de la Raza

Galer?a de la Raza is a non-profit art gallery and artist collective that serves the heavily-Latino population of San Francisco, California's Mission District, San Francisco, California....
in San Francisco's Mission District, by the writers José Antonio Burciaga

José Antonio Burciaga

Jos? Antonio "Tony" Burciaga was a Chicano artist, poet, and writer who explored issues of Chicano identity and United States society....
, Marga Gómez, Monica Palacios, Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, and Herbert Sigüenza. The founding date is significant due to the importance of Cinco de Mayo to Mexican-Americans, the shared ethnicity of the majority of collaborators.

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Culture Clash is an American

United States

Satire

Galería de la Raza

José Antonio Burciaga

San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, or the Bay, is a metropolitan region that surrounds the San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay Bays in Northern California....
, Montoya being the son of Chicano poet

Chicano poetry

Chicano poetry is a branch of American literature written by and primarily about Mexican-American and the Mexican-American way of life in the society....
, artist, and activist José Montoya

José Montoya

Jos? Montoya is a poet and an artist from Sacramento, California, California. He is one of the most influential Chicano bilingual poets. He has published many well-known poems in anthologies and magazines....
, and Sigüenza having been involved in the art collective La Raza Graphics, which created works of graphic art

Graphic design

The term graphic design can refer to a number of artistic and professional disciplines which focus on visual communication and presentation. Various methods are used to create and combine symbols, images and/or words to create a visual representation of ideas and messages....
to support campaigns of the Chicano Movement

Chicano Movement

The Chicano Movement of the 1960s, also called the Chicano Civil Rights Movement, also known as El Movimiento, it is an extension of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement which began in the 1940s with the stated goal of achieving "social liberation" and Mexican American empowerment....
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Culture Clash's works range from comedic sketches to full-length plays and screenplay

Screenplay

A screenplay or script is a written work especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing works....
s, all of which feature political satire

Political satire

Political satire is a significant part of satire that specializes in gaining entertainment from politics; it has also been used with subversive intent where political speech and dissent are forbidden by a regime, as a method of advancing political arguments where such arguments are expressly forbidden....
and social satire. The troupe's members have appeared separately and together in several films and received numerous awards, commissions and grants. In 1993 they filmed 30 episodes of a sketch comedy television series, also called Culture Clash. Some of them were aired on Fox

Fox Broadcasting Company

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affiliates. In 2006 they premiered two new full-length plays, the comedy Zorro in Hell
Zorro in Hell

Zorro in Hell is a the first theater production of the legendary hero Zorro. Culture Clash the performance troupe featured in the production....
and "SF: The Mexican Bus Mission Tour with CC!" Their works have been collected in two volumes, Culture Clash: Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy and Culture Clash in AmeriCCa: Four Plays. Their papers are housed at the California State University, Northridge

California State University, Northridge

California State University, Northridge is a public university in the San Fernando Valley, within the city limits of Los Angeles, California, United States....
(CSUN) Oviatt Library

Oviatt Library

The Oviatt Library serves the California State University, Northridge campus. The library is named for Delmar T. Oviatt who was instrumental in the founding of CSUN....
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External links

, a virtual exhibit from the Latino Cultural Hearitage Digital Archives at CSUN
at the Latino Cultural Heritage Digital Archives at CSUN