Herb Siguenza's STEAL HEAVEN Set for 2013 San Diego Jewish Arts Festival, 6/11

The 20th Annual Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival welcomes for one night only STEAL HEAVEN, written by and starring Herbert Siguenza of LA's Culture Clash. The staged reading will take place on June 11 at 7:30 p.m. Subscribers: $13.00; Seniors/Student Military: $15.00; Regular Tickets: $18.00. Click here to Buy Tickets.

Co-sponsored by North Coast Rep, and the Look and Listen Series of the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture.

Herbert Siguenza is a founding member of Culture Clash, which he started with Ric Salinas and Richard Montoya. Culture Clash has become the most prominent Chicano/Latino theater ensemble in the nation. Siguenza has co-written and performed the following Culture Clash works: The Mission, A Bowl of Beings, SOS, Radio Mambo, Bordertown, Nuyorican Stories, Mission Magic Mystery Tour, The Birds and Chavez Ravine andZorro in Hell! In 2003, he wrote Cantinflas!, a tribute to the Mexican comic film star.

Culture Clash is an Chicano American performance troupe composed of the writer-comedians Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, and Herbert Sigüenza. Their work is of a satiricalnature. Culture Clash was founded on May 10, 1984 at the Galería de la Raza in San Francisco's Mission District, by the writers José Antonio Burciaga, Marga Gómez, Monica Palacios, Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, and Herbert Sigüenza. The founding date is significant due to the importance of Cinco de Mayo to Mexican-Americans, the shared ethnicity of the majority of collaborators. Montoya and Sigüenza had both been involved in the Chicano art scene in the San Francisco Bay Area, Montoya being the son of Chicano poet, artist, and activist José Montoya, and Sigüenza having been involved in the art collective La Raza Graphics, which created works of graphic art to support campaigns of the Chicano Movement.