The Maestro himself Carlos Baron will be reading from his new book “Poemario Semiurgente” . Carlos will be joined by poets and musicians Roque Baron, Damien Nunez, Ahkeel Mestayer, Francisco Ferrer and Mission Bohemia Trio for an unforgetable evening of musica and verse.

Carlos Baron was born in Chile, he has been living and doing theater in the SF Bay Area since the late sixties. Co-founder of “La Peña Cultural Center” (1976), of Berkeley, CA. Former Performing Arts Coordinator at Mission Cultural Center. (1978-1981). He has acted with the Berkeley Repertory Theater, The San Jose Repertory Theater, Thick Description, San Jose Stage Company, The One Act Theater Company, The Eureka Theater, among others.From 1978 until 2016 he worked at San Francisco State University. (SFSU)  He is now an Emeritus Professor in Theater Arts. He also taught in the College of Ethnic Studies and La Raza Studies Department (at SFSU). He founded Teatro Latino of San Francisco, (1977 to 1984) and the Rainbow Theater Company (1990-2015, part of his Multicultural Theater class). For Teatro Latino, he wrote “Pasión y Prisión de Lolita Lebrón” (1978-79), “Liz Estrada” (1982), “The Truly Needy Traveling Show” (1983), “Barriovisions” (1984). In 2006, he wrote “Poeta Pan”, (for Rainbow Theater) about the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, which toured to Chile, twice.  Most recently, he worked as a writer/performer in “Son de la Misión”, with his friend John Calloway. (2016). He wrote “La Posarela” in 2008, for the Community Music Center. He acted in the production for 8 years, as “El Diablote”. IN 2019 the Bay Area Theater Company (BATCO) produced  Barón’s “Death and the Artist”, staged at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, in the last 3 weeks of October, 2019. In 2019, the City of Berkeley declared October 29th as “Carlos Barón’s Day”He has written poetry for the last 50 years, using some of it in theater productions or in poetry readings, but he has rarely published his poetry. He is currently a regular columnist for “El Tecolote” (“The Devil’s Advocate”).