About Liliana Herrera

Liliana produced San Francisco’s First Symposium on Culture & Language Justice in the fall of 2022. This immersive gathering engaged community members and leaders in rich dialogue and cultural exchange in three languages.

“A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with its words.”

- Millington Synge

¡La Golondrina!

 ¡Golondrina! 

A grant recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts, Liliana was artistic director and composer of Golondrina: Wanderings through California - a musical storytelling of California’s rich history tracing back to pre-colonial times; honoring native resistance/resilience, interwoven with familial anecdotes and songs from the majestic wanderings of the migrating Swallow, La Golondrina–to be reprised, May 2024

Oratorio de San Juan by Daniel Valdez at El Teatro Campesino
  • Music

  • Late Night Taco Stand Music EP Candelaria, Norte del Rio Omar Sosa & Greg Landau, Day Off Santero

  • Voice Over

  • Orozco: Man of Fire documentary (Spanish) Priced Out (animated series)

Honoring Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) at Gregangelo Museum, San Francisco CA

my family fleeing violence from the revolution, worked the borderlands to avoid destitution...

My family, fleeing violence from the revolution, worked the borderland to avoid destitution…

Beloved Matriarchs!