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Episode 16: Rico Rodriguez | Stories Like Crazy

Episode 16: Rico Rodriguez | Stories Like Crazy

Released Monday, 29th January 2018
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Episode 16: Rico Rodriguez | Stories Like Crazy

Episode 16: Rico Rodriguez | Stories Like Crazy

Episode 16: Rico Rodriguez | Stories Like Crazy

Episode 16: Rico Rodriguez | Stories Like Crazy

Monday, 29th January 2018
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Rico shares his story about being the the caregiver role when a loved one is going through a crisis.Rico Rodriguez is an award winning storyteller and writer, an award winning Guidance Teacher, a drag performer as Chabuca La Grande, and a community activist. His major storytelling projects include LatinQueermerican, a series of fictional stories about Latinx LGBTQ people and T-Shirt Tales, a series of stories about T-shirts he wore throughout his life. He founded Queers in Your Ears, a collective of queer storytellers based out of Toronto, now in it 22nd year. Rico has performed in schools, conferences, theatres, pubs, festivals, living rooms, parks and on CBC, and PBS radio shows and through the World Wide Web. He served on the Board of the Storytellers School of Toronto and was Assistant Director to Listen Up!, the Annual Toronto Festival of Storytelling. Mostly recently Rico was the Coordinator of the Escondidos No More! collective which just presented an Exhibition about the History of the Latinx LGBTQ Community and produced a Gala Show with over 20 Latinx Drag performers at the 519 with the support of Myseum and the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives.
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