Marco Saavedra
Artist & host Marco Saavedra was born in San Miguel Ahuehuetitlán in the indigenous Mixteca Baja region of Oaxaca. Due to poverty, hunger, and free trade agreements, his family was displaced into the United States. He has fought deportations, reported on immigration abuses, and secured the release of dozens of detainees that were denied due process, depicted in the Sundance award-winning docu-thriller The Infiltrators and Eclipse of Dreams (2007). In 2021, he was granted political asylum, setting a precedent for immigrant advocates who face disappearance and death for their work in Mexico. During the pandemic, his family’s Michelin-listed Oaxacan restaurant, La Morada, began a mutual aid kitchen where they have been providing 650 free community meals daily. In collaboration with Ale Delano’s haikus Marco is adding his allée painting series to build a treescape for 2023 and on. He is co-author of Shadows Then Light and “Make Holy the Bare Life”: Theological Reflections on Migration Grounded in Collaboration with Youth Made Illegal by the United States.
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Events
Book Launch & Conversation
This is an Archive in Common: The Book of Beans by chef Natalia Méndez
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Book Launch
Celebrating The Sisters of the Milpa: Longing for the Corn / Celebrando Las hermanas de la milpa: la añoranza del maíz by chef Natalia Mendez of La Morada Mutual Aid Kitchen
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Conversation & Screening
Fighting Back Racism and Food Injustice Thru Green Spaces
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Conversation
The Undocumented-Led Struggle for Freedom: A Conversation with the Authors of Eclipse of Dreams
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