Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter - Softcover
Something Fierce - Winner of Canada Reads 2012- Nominated for the Charles Taylor prize and the BC Award for Canadian Non-Fiction On September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet led a violent coup that removed Salvador Allende, the democratically elected socialist president of Chile, from office. Thousands were arrested, tortured and killed under the repressive new regime. Six-year-old Carmen Aguirre and her younge... Full description
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Praise for "Something Fierce"
"Raw, courageously honest and funny; an insightful journey into the formation of a revolutionary soul." "The Globe and Mail "
"A coming-of-age story that blends birthday parties and puppy love with indoctrination in the tradecraft of subversion: how to arrange the delivery of secret documents, how to lose a police tail, how to lead a double life." "Toronto Star"
"A coming-of-age story that blends birthday parties and puppy love with indoctrination in the tradecraft of subversion: how to arrange the delivery of secret documents, how to lose a police tail, how to lead a double life." "Toronto Star
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"Raw, courageously honest and funny; an insightful journey into the formation of a revolutionary soul." "The Globe and Mail
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About the Author:
"Raw, courageously honest and funny; an insightful journey into the formation of a revolutionary soul." "The Globe and Mail "
"A coming-of-age story that blends birthday parties and puppy love with indoctrination in the tradecraft of subversion: how to arrange the delivery of secret documents, how to lose a police tail, how to lead a double life." "Toronto Star"
"A coming-of-age story that blends birthday parties and puppy love with indoctrination in the tradecraft of subversion: how to arrange the delivery of secret documents, how to lose a police tail, how to lead a double life." "Toronto Star
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"Raw, courageously honest and funny; an insightful journey into the formation of a revolutionary soul." "The Globe and Mail
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CARMEN AGUIRRE is a writer and theater artist who has worked extensively in North and South America. She has written or co-written 18 plays, including The Refugee Hotel, which was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for best new play in 2010. Aguirre has over 60 film, TV, and stage acting credits, including a lead role in the independent feature Quinceanera, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Something Fierce is her first book. The first chapter of the book was published in the prestigious literary non-fiction journal Brick in the winter of 2007. Her writing has also appeared in Crank magazine, TIME magazine, The Vancouver Sun, and Aquelarre Magazine.
Aguirre founded The Latino Theatre Group, and directed it for ten years, was playwright-in-residence at The Vancouver Playhouse from 2000 to 2002, where she produced the Voices of the Americas reading series, and was playwright-in-residence at Touchstone Theatre in 2004. She facilitates Theatre of the Oppressed workshops around the province of British Columbia, working with: YouthCo, Fort Nelson First Nations, OXFAM, The Vancouver School Board, Seton Lake Indian Band, The Women's Correctional Centre, The Purple Thistle Centre, Arts Umbrella, and the Kitsilano Community Centre, among many others.
She worked as a facilitator for Headlines Theatre Company from 1994 to 1998, facilitating and directing dozens of Forum Theatre plays, and has worked extensively with Puente Theatre, the Victoria based immigrant theater company that specializes in popular theater. Carmen has studied with Augusto Boal, the creator of Theatre of the Oppressed, in Brazil and the United States. Her direction of Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters at Studio 58 garnered rave reviews and landed on The Vancouver Courier's top ten plays of 2007 list.
She has served on the editorial board for Crank magazine, on The Playwrights Guild of Canada s Women s Caucus, on the Advisory Committee for The British Columbia Arts Council, on the jury for The Canada Council for the Arts, and on The Jessie Richardson nominating committee.
Aguirre founded The Latino Theatre Group, and directed it for ten years, was playwright-in-residence at The Vancouver Playhouse from 2000 to 2002, where she produced the Voices of the Americas reading series, and was playwright-in-residence at Touchstone Theatre in 2004. She facilitates Theatre of the Oppressed workshops around the province of British Columbia, working with: YouthCo, Fort Nelson First Nations, OXFAM, The Vancouver School Board, Seton Lake Indian Band, The Women's Correctional Centre, The Purple Thistle Centre, Arts Umbrella, and the Kitsilano Community Centre, among many others.
She worked as a facilitator for Headlines Theatre Company from 1994 to 1998, facilitating and directing dozens of Forum Theatre plays, and has worked extensively with Puente Theatre, the Victoria based immigrant theater company that specializes in popular theater. Carmen has studied with Augusto Boal, the creator of Theatre of the Oppressed, in Brazil and the United States. Her direction of Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters at Studio 58 garnered rave reviews and landed on The Vancouver Courier's top ten plays of 2007 list.
She has served on the editorial board for Crank magazine, on The Playwrights Guild of Canada s Women s Caucus, on the Advisory Committee for The British Columbia Arts Council, on the jury for The Canada Council for the Arts, and on The Jessie Richardson nominating committee.
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- PublisherSouth End Pr
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0896088146
- ISBN 13 9780896088146
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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