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Updated 3/17/2020

Yara Liceaga-Rojas

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    MA

Institution/Business Type: Artist / Creative (Individual)

I am a queer Afro-Caribbean mother, poet, writer, performer, cultural worker, and educator, born in Puerto Rico, who currently resides in Cambridge, MA. My projects revolve around origin, gender, race, class, longing, loss, affective labor, and the visibility of marginalized subjects. In 2019 I became a Brother Thomas Fellow.

I'm the co-founder, curator, and coordinator of the multi-disciplinary artist performance series Poetry Is Busy, a project that has been supported by the Cambridge Arts Council, Kindle Project LLC and Municipio de San Juan and has been presented in the United States at the Democracy Center, in Cambridge, Villa Victoria Center for the Arts Gallery and the Boston Book Festival's Lit Crawl, in Boston, and Middlebury College in Vermont as well as multiple venues in Puerto Rico including the Museum of Contemporary Art. Poetry Is Busy gathers artists across disciplines (such as musicians, writers, performers, visual and audiovisual artists) and centers cis, trans, and gender-nonconforming women and femmes, and/or People of Color of various origins and indigenous folks, who are not usually given the space to perform our art.

I'm the author of five poetry books: Hacernos el adiós (Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 2019), Acentos espesos/Thick Accents (Taller Mujer Orquesta, 2018, recipient of the New England Foundation for the Arts' Creative City 2018 grant); Cielo Riel (Ediciones Alayubia, 2017); Época Opaca (Atarraya Cartonera, 2015); and El Mundo No Es Otra Cosa/The World Is None Other (La Secta de los Perros Editores, 2014). Most recently, my work has been published in the anthologies Puerto Rico en mi corazón (Anomalous Press, 2018) and Isla Escrita: Antología de la Poesía de Cuba, Puerto Rico y República Dominicana (Amargord Ediciones, 2018).

As an educator, I offer a variety of workshops in Spanish and English and have facilitated several for artists and writers with The Boston Foundation, Assets4Artists, and GrubStreet. 

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Yara Liceaga-Rojas
Job Title: Poet-Writer/Performer/Cultural Worker/Educator
Phone: 7876308856
Address:
Cambridge, MA 02139

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About

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Disciplines

Primary Discipline:

Multi-Disciplinary

Additional Disciplines:

  • Theater - Storytelling

Activities and Services

Activities and Services:

  • Arts Instruction / Lessons
  • Consulting - Curatorial Services
  • Funding
  • Performance / Concert / Reading
  • Professional Development / Training
  • Public Art Projects (In Free, Public Spaces)
  • Publishing
  • Writing Services
  • Workshops / Demonstrations / Master Class
Seasons Active: spring, summer, fall, winter
Events Per Year: 4

Communities

Populations Engaged:

  • Adults
  • Families
  • General Public
  • Immigrant Populations
  • LGBTQ Populations
  • Nonprofits
  • School Groups
  • Teens

Languages Available:

  • Spanish

Geographic Reach:

  • Town / City
  • County
  • State
  • National
  • International

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I Have Worked With

Affiliations and Accomplishments

Awards

Awards:

  • The Boston Foundation Brother Thomas 2019 Fellow
  • City of Boston Certified Artist
  • The Boston Foundation Live Arts Boston 2019 Grantee
  • 2019 Resident Artist at Run Off the Mills, Boston Center for the Arts' Mills Gallery
  • City of Boston Opportunity Fund 2020
  • Cambridge Arts Grant 2018
  • City of Boston Opportunity Fund 2018
  • Kindle Project LLC November 2018 Carousel Grant
  • Creative City Grantee/Alum Network

Awards

Awards:

  • The Boston Foundation Brother Thomas 2019 Fellow
  • City of Boston Certified Artist
  • The Boston Foundation Live Arts Boston 2019 Grantee
  • 2019 Resident Artist at Run Off the Mills, Boston Center for the Arts' Mills Gallery
  • City of Boston Opportunity Fund 2020
  • Cambridge Arts Grant 2018
  • City of Boston Opportunity Fund 2018
  • Kindle Project LLC November 2018 Carousel Grant
  • Creative City Grantee/Alum Network

Special Designations

Special Designations:

  • NEFA Grant Recipient

Artist Info

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • School / University

Ages Served:

  • Pre-Kindergarten-age
  • Elementary School-age
  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • College-age
  • Adults
  • Seniors

Subject Areas:

  • Arts Integration - Foreign Languages
  • Literature

Certifications and Training:

  • BA in Education, Major: Spanish

Fee range:

$150 - $500

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • School / University

Ages Served:

  • Pre-Kindergarten-age
  • Elementary School-age
  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • College-age
  • Adults
  • Seniors

Subject Areas:

  • Arts Integration - Foreign Languages
  • Literature

Certifications and Training:

  • BA in Education, Major: Spanish

Fee range:

$150 - $500

Touring Artist

NEST Eligible Artist

Technical Requirements:

  • Microphone
  • Sound System

Fee Range:

$500 - $3,000

State of Residence:

Massachusetts

Minimum Number of Performers:

1

Maximum Number of Performers:

8