Community Projects

Alex Avila will be performing October 1st at Cal State University, San Bernardino for the Afro-Latinx Open - Verse. Thursday from 12 pm to 1 pm. This is event hosted by Association of Latino Faculty, Staff & Students of CSUSB.

Alex Avila poet, writer, cinematographer, actor, public speaker, teacher, and community advocate.

Sweeney Art Gallery July 30 - August 8, 2009 Public performances will be from the Thursday through Saturday weekends of July 30, 31 and August 1, 6, 7, 8. Tickets are available now! To make reservations please RSVP. The gallery is closed to the public from June 13 to July 22 for rehearsals. In conjunction with UCR's Center of Hip Hop Theater, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery presents Uncovered: A Pageant of Hip Hop Masters, a dynamic collision of the traditional and the contemporary. Drawing from the spirit of the appreciation of art history embodied in the Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach, Uncovered will recreate, through the use of the tableau vivant, life-sized versions of classic album covers from several hip hop artists including: Run DMC, Queen Latifah, LL Cool J and Salt and Pepa. Live actors, dancers, and a DJ will turn the gallery into a stage where the unbridled creativity of one the most distinctive American cultural movements in this generation takes flesh, stands up, and is recognized. The recreations will be accompanied by a DJ's mix of songs from each album as well as dances that were popular during the album's release. Organized by UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, Hindsight Productions and curated by associate professor Rickerby Hinds with assistance of Sweeney Art Gallery assistant director Shane Shukis.

Alex Avila poet, writer, cinematographer, actor, public speaker, teacher, and community advocate. . Avila Production

PBS Interview, Alex Avila poet, writer, cinematographer, actor, public speaker, teacher, and community advocate.

Performance at San Bernardino Valley College for National Poetry Month . Avila Production

Avila Production

Sweeney Art Gallery July 30 - August 8, 2009 Public performances will be from the Thursday through Saturday weekends of July 30, 31 and August 1, 6, 7, 8. Tickets are available now! To make reservations please RSVP. The gallery is closed to the public from June 13 to July 22 for rehearsals. In conjunction with UCR's Center of Hip Hop Theater, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery presents Uncovered: A Pageant of Hip Hop Masters, a dynamic collision of the traditional and the contemporary. Drawing from the spirit of the appreciation of art history embodied in the Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach, Uncovered will recreate, through the use of the tableau vivant, life-sized versions of classic album covers from several hip hop artists including: Run DMC, Queen Latifah, LL Cool J and Salt and Pepa. Live actors, dancers, and a DJ will turn the gallery into a stage where the unbridled creativity of one the most distinctive American cultural movements in this generation takes flesh, stands up, and is recognized. The recreations will be accompanied by a DJ's mix of songs from each album as well as dances that were popular during the album's release. Organized by UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, Hindsight Productions and curated by associate professor Rickerby Hinds with assistance of Sweeney Art Gallery assistant director Shane Shukis.

Alex Avila poet, writer, cinematographer, actor, public speaker, teacher, and community advocate.

Young Leaders Incorporated (YLinc) is Youth Action Project's issues advocacy and communications firm, uniquely positioned to support the civic initiatives of our communities, while developing the next generation of leaders through entrepreneurial, social, and academic development. YLinc nurtures, empowers, and employs.

Celebrating the opening of the First People center which Black Scholars Matters and myself helped pioneer a couple of years back, Cal State University San Bernardino.

. Avila Production Project21Dance Brockus Dance Studio

YLINC hires, educates, trains, and supports opportunity youth who are working to overcome economic barriers. Through Ylinc youth develop tangible skills in advocacy, civic engagement services, communication strategies, policy research, and analysis for; governments, nonprofits, foundations, schools, and private businesses.

I will be reuniting performing with an amazing cast and director this Thursday night, at UCR. We put this production together for one of the youth I used to mentor named Tre (at CCLM - The Mission) who was murdered over a cellphone several years ago. While performing and touring this play in New York City, and at the Oregon Shakespeare (to name a few places) one of our cast members, Christopher “Cornbread” Jackson, was murdered at a party. These were young people we worked with who lived in marginalized and impoverished communities. This play is family appropriate, come join us at UCR, 7pm, this Thursday. Alex Avila See Less