KATHERINE BARDALES

Katherine Bardales, Chicago-born Latina raised in Peru for six years; the inspiration for much of her bicultural and bilingual writing and video. She's featured at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Insight Arts, Wright College, Columbia College, the Guild Complex, the Hothouse and Funky Buddha Lounge. She was a finalist for the 2002 Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award and a winner of the 2003 Her Mark Calendar Poetry Contest. She was selected for publication in the Friends of Community Public Art book. With Video Machete she co-produced "Nuestras Voces,Nuestras Luchas", a documentary about Latina/o life in Chicago. She won an Illinois Arts Council Ethinic Arts grant in 2002 and since then has been co-directing the Peru Profundo Dance Company, a non-profit dance company that performs locally and nationally.