Queer Arts Initiative: Live Storytelling with Juliana Delgado Lopera

From Cuenteros on the streets of Bogotá, to auntie gossip at the dinner table, to drag queens on stage. This artist talk/workshop asks, what makes a good storyteller? What elements of everyday life can we incorporate in our practice as storytellers?  What is live storytelling?”

Juliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer, speaker, historian and performance artist based in San Francisco. She’s the author of Quiéreme and ¡Cuéntamelo!, an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latinx immigrants, which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. Juliana has received the 2014 Jackson Literary Award, her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and she’s appeared in publications including: Eleven Eleven, Foglifter, Four Way Review, Broadly, and TimeOut. She’s the creative director of RADAR Productions, a queer literary non-profit in San Francisco. She recently presented a TEDx Talk. Follow her @julianadlopera. For more information visit https://www.julianadlopera.com/