Wendy Angulo Productions is the proud recipient of the City Artist Corps Grants. With this grant, we will be able to host a new ensemble of our renowned event “Canvas of Words: An Art and Poetry Festival”. This year’s theme is “Your Pandemic Story: What We Witness & What We Carried” to showcase the vitality and resilience of immigrant students from NYC during ... Read More »
Author Archives: wendyang
Yes, You Actually do Know by Jose Luis Vilson
In my time, I’ve been fortunate to speak in numerous spaces about my experiences as a Black Latinx male educator who teaches in Washington Heights. With those stories, people across the country extrapolate tales from my classroom, connecting to elements of me that span more than a decade of teaching over a thousand students, mostly under-served and marginalized. I’ve spoken ... Read More »
After the Dust Settled… Unlearning and Breaking Cycles by Anthony Otero
I truly believe that no one gets married to end up divorced and yet we see such high rates of divorce without understanding the context nor the deep-rooted shame that comes with it. I am a child of divorce. I’ve seen the end of my parents’ relationship and as much as I hated to admit it when I was a ... Read More »
On what Violence Triggers and Tenderness Can Look Like by Lupe Mendez
On the plane ride to Portland, the first leg, HOU to SEA, I am seated by a woman with a 13-month-old boy – he sleeps, his strawberry blond cheeks puffed with air – he breathes. She says she will not arrive in Alaska until 7 a.m. He is impressive – sleeps almost the whole way to Seattle. He is tiny ... Read More »
Today is the most powerful remix of previous years’ failures by Anthony Morales
Dear Shame, Dear Doubt, Dear Regret, Dear Second Guessing, Dear Sadness, Dear Grief, Dear Misery, Dear Loneliness, Dear Rejection, Dear Anxiety, Dear Depression, Dear Not Taking Chances: You will not win. I have already won. I am alive. The victory is in my heartbeat. This body has survived. Despite however many triumphs, the trauma of being stopped and frisked is ... Read More »
You Can’t Half-ass Vulnerability by Jason Rosario
You can’t half-ass this vulnerability shit. You are either all the way in or all the way out. Sinverguenza Back before Facebook and Instagram replaced our basic needs for water and sleep, I was voted “Member of the Month” on the social networking site, MiGente.com. A popularity contest at best, and a hook-up site at worst, I chose my ... Read More »
Wendy Angulo joins ALSO US Art Program of Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma America as one of its Experts
Our founder, Wendy Angulo has joined the ALSO Us Program from Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma America as one of its experts. The program is designed to help raise awareness of the challenges young people face when a family member is diagnosed with ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a progressive degeneration of nerve cells that ... Read More »
Wendy Angulo at OPEN Fridays with Rhina Valentin (BronxNetTV)
This past Friday, May 3, our founder sat with Rhina Valentin for her Open Friday show at BronxNetTv for her first tv appearance to talk about our company, her new role as Interim Program Director for VONA and her upcoming podcast with Mariela Regalado: Trailblazers. Read More »
Writing what We Witness, Interview with Author: Elmaz Abinader
Mi Gente! Welcome to our Spring Interview Series! Super excited to share with you my conversations with Creatives and Entrepreneurs I admire and been blessed and privilege to work with. Today, I have the absolute honor to share my conversation with Elmaz Abinader, author and performer, Co-founder and former Program Director of VONA (Voices of Our Nations and Arts Foundation), ... Read More »
Trailblazers: Meet the Creatives Episode 9: Illfamed, Emcee and Poet
Mi Gente Happy Sunday! After a quick break today we drop the last episode of Trailblazers: Meet The Creatives featuring Illfamed, Chilean-Peruvian emcee, storyteller, and poet who attended the Business of Art Workshop and while juggling family and her creative work has stay focused and determined to complete her album: Sangre, Corazon y Rimas, Today, exclusively in this interview she shared ... Read More »