The Bridges & Borders Podcast

By: Roberto A. Rocha
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  • A podcast highlighting Latinos who excel in the areas of Art, Music, Writing, Poetry, Sports, Politics, and beyond.
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Episodes
  • Talking Theater: My Conversation with Virginia M. Blanco

    Talking Theater: My Conversation with Virginia M. Blanco
    Nov 8 2022
    Theater-maker, voice over and film actor, and Founding Artistic Director of the San Francisco based theater company La Lengua Teatro en Español. Originally from Argentina, she is a founding member of Drakma Grupo Teatral. Back in her country, she has performed in both classic and contemporary plays. Regional credits include Orinda Starlight Village Players, Oakland Theater Project (Ex Ubuntu), Shelton Theatre, TheatreFirst, Theatre of Yugen, and Cutting Ball Theater, along with several staged readings with Brava Studio Sessions, 3 Girls Theatre and La Lengua Teatro en Español. She was Catita in the radio play A Solid Home at MACT Mexican American Conservatory Theatre, Paulina in the live-streaming of La Muerte y la Doncella (Death and the Maiden), and Nora St. John in the radio play Adiós Robinson at La Lengua. Her local acting training is from Studio ACT, Berkeley REP Theatre School, and Shakespeare & Company. Virginia was nominated by BroadwayWorld SF for Best Leading Actress in a Play for the role of Young Woman in Knives in Hens at Anton's Well Theater Company (2019). She is an artist in residence at Brava Theater and was recently granted a TBA Arts Leadership residency in partnership with AlterTheater.  ​ ​
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    30 mins
  • Curanderismo and Brujeria: My Conversation with Erika Buenaflor

    Curanderismo and Brujeria: My Conversation with Erika Buenaflor
    Oct 23 2022

    Join our host, Rob Rocha, for this unique and interesting conversation with Erika Buenaflor.  She is one of the leading experts on Curanderismo (folk healing) and Brujeria, and is, herself, a practicing curandera for over 20 years.  She hails from a long line of curanderas and has written several books on the topic as well as teaching on the subject through classroom instruction, actual teaching from the pyramids in Mexico, and via her own YouTube channel.  Learn about her incredible journey that transitioned her from practicing Law to practicing health and healing through her amazing gift.  You don't want to miss this one!!
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    42 mins
  • They Call Him ”FREGON!” - My Conversation with Dr. David O. Bowles

    They Call Him ”FREGON!” - My Conversation with Dr. David O. Bowles
    Sep 19 2022

    Tune in to the latest episode in the Tejano Life y Cultura series of "The Bridges & Borders Podcast," for my conversation with Dr. David O. Bowles. He's a writer, poet, professor, translator of the Nahuatl (Aztec) language and has translated scripts for the Discovery Channel, Amazon/Amblin (with Steven Spielberg), and the Cartoon Network. We talk about all this and the success of his book, "They Call Me Guero," and the new release, his follow up titled, "They Call Her Fregona." DOWNLOAD IT NOW!
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    51 mins

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