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13197-A Gladstone Ave.
Sylmar, CA 91342
Phone:(818) 939-3433
Fax: (818) 367-5600
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New
Hours!
Mon - Thurs 12 pm to 8 pm
Fri 2 pm to 10 pm
Sat - Sun 12 pm - 4 pm
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January
2012 Events |
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SAVE THE DATES
Tía Chucha’s Holiday hours:
New Years Day: Sunday/Domingo, Jan. 1, 2012 CLOSED/CERRADO
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Folk Art Everywhere Sixth artwork showing at Tia Chucha's from December 3, 2011-April 20, 2012
For more info: www.folkarteverywhere.com
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Noches de Canto y Poesia
Miércoles @ 8-10pm (Primer y Segundo miércoles)
Noches de Canto y Poesía son un tiempo dedicado a músicos, poetas y cantantes de la comunidad para que expresen su arte en español o con influencia Latina. Esto incluye pero no es limitado a boleros, baladas, rock en español, folklórico, latinoamericano, ranchera, trova, canto nuevo, jarocho, huapango y más. Todos están bienvenidos! Entrada gratis.
*Artistas invitados son bienvenidos. !Llamenos!*
Noches de Canto y Poesia
Wednesdays @ 8-10pm (1st & 2nd Wednesday)
Noches de Canto y Poesía is a time dedicated to musicians and poets that express their art in Spanish, with Latin influence. This includes, but is not limited to, boleros, ballads, Spanish Rock, folklorica, latin american, ranchera, trova, new song, jarocho, huapongo and poetry. Everyone is invited! Entry is always free, but we do accept your generous donations.
*All Artists are invited, contact us!*
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Tia Chucha's Open Mic
Night of Music and Spoken Word
FRIDAYS 8pm-10pm
Tía Chucha's Open Mic is a welcoming, creative sanctuary where people are encouraged to share their thoughts, feelings and talents through various styles of expression. Whether it be a poem, story, song, joke, freestyle, or just something they feel the need to express. Everyone is welcome to be themselves. Hosted by Nery Boche. Free, donations welcomed.
Featured Artists for the Month ofJanuary:
Radomir Luza
January 20, 2012
Radomir Vojtech Luza is a child of duty and courage. Radomir's love of politics and art, comes from his parents. Luza is the Theatre Critic and a Blogger for the North Hollywood-Toluca Lake edition of Patch.com, an online magazine. He also Co-Organizes and Hosts UNBUCKLED: NOHO POETRY, a Monthly Reading in North Hollywood.
Linda Alvarez
January 27, 2012
Linda Alvarez is a Southern California native- born in Los Angeles & raised in the San Fernando Valley. She is heavily involved in animal rescue. She also teaches at California State University Northridge and is working on completeing her doctoral degree in Political Science.
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City of LA New Draft Mural Ordinance
Friday, January 6, 2012 @ 6-8pm
UPPA (United Painters and Public Artists), is a grassroot collective that has come together, organized, and mobilized all public artists throughout the City of Los Angeles. UPPA has been in the forefront in writing the actual language of The Mural Draft Ordinance with the Department of Planning, which was presented on December 7, 2011. Deleting the action from non-profit organizations that had been mobilizing to lead a restrictive ordinance that favored non-profit industrial complex not individual grassroots community muralists.
UPPA is a collective that represents 75 muralists from all over the city of Los Angeles (Boyle Heights, Leimert Park, South Central L.A., Midcities, Highland Park, Wilmington, San Fernando Valley, East L.A.) It is a diverse group of muralists from all generations, styles, and locations.
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Enlace: No more immigrant detention centers!
Thursday, January 12, 2012 @ 6:00-7:30pm
Enlace is a national human rights organization that focuses on strengthening grassroots efforts for social change. We are involved in a national divestment campaign from the prison industrial complex, especially immigrant detention centers. Specifically we are targeting for protest on Jan 24 a national day of action against Wells Fargo and it’s shareholders for it’s financial support of private prison corporation The Geo Group and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). These banks and corporations have spent millions of dollars building and lobbying for prisons that detain and deport immigrants. They have also lobbied for harsher immigration legislation in order to increase the number of people who go to prison, thereby increasing their profits.
For more info check out the website!
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California Dreaming, A Forum on the CA Dream Act
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 @ 6:00-7:30pm
The San Fernando Valley Dream Team was founded in January of 2011 to be a safe space for undocumented youth and their supporters. We want to make visible the humanity of our community and abolish imposed stereotypes. We see our diversity as the key to forming a stronger united community where there is justice and equality for all. Our main focus is not only to be a support group for undocumented youth, but also guiding them through pursuing higher education by making available all the resources and information necessary.
To educate undocumented youth, their parents, allies and community members about the opportunities that will be given when the CA Dream Act becomes effective. Also, I would like to encourage youth to attend college, and inform them of the resources specifically for the undocumented youth struggle. |
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Folk Art Everywhere Presents:
Graffiti Workshop by Artist
Galo MAKE Canote
Sunday, January 22, 2012 @ 1:00-3:00pm
To learn about the history of street art culture and contemporary practices, and learn how to design your own lettering style.
Spend an afternoon with legendary LA graffiti artist Galo MAKE Canote and get a crash course in the art of lettering. Dive into MAKE’s creative process as he takes you on a journey into LA street culture and teaches you the fundamentals of letter structure and design. Participants will come away with their own lettering style and a deeper understanding of graffiti art in LA. This workshop is a part of the Folk Art Everywhere project of the Craft and Folk Art Museum.
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Film Screening:
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward
Wednesday, January 25th 2012 @ 6:30-10:00PM
The purpose of the screening is to introduce the public to the solutions advocated by The Zeitgeist Movement; additionally, a Q&A session will facilitate the understanding of the proposed Global Resource-Base Economic Model.
View the trailer &
for more info check out the website!
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****CANCELED***
LA Beyond Coal Campaign - Sierra Club
Thursday, January 26, 2012 @ 6:00-7:30pm
Los Angeles gets more of its electricity from two large and dirty out-of-state coal-fired power plants than any other electricity source. Combined, the plants emit as much climate-disrupting pollution as nearly six million cars. Whether it be mercury, smog, or climate-disrupting pollution, these plants are among the worst polluters in the country.
We have a choice. Los Angeles can continue to hand over its customers' checks to dirty out-of-state coal companies, or we can invest in local clean energy solutions here in Los Angeles that support family-wage jobs for Angelenos.
For more info check out the website!
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January
2011 Events |
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Tía Chucha’s Holiday hours:
New Years Day: Friday/Viernes, Jan. 1, 2011 CLOSED/CERRADO |
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Noches Bohemias
Miércoles/Wednesdays 8-10pm
Cada primer y segundo Miercoles del mes
Every 1st and 2nd Wednesday of the Month
Las Noches Bohemias son un tiempo dedicado a músicos y poetas que expresan su arte en español o con influencia Latina. Esto incluye pero no es limitado a boleros, baladas, rock en español, folklórica, latinoamericana, ranchera, trova, canto nuevo, jarocho, huapango y poesias.¡Todos están bienvenidos! Entrada es gratis; se aceptan donaciones.
*Conducido por Alfredo Hidalgo.
*Artistas invitados son bienvenidos. !Llamenos!*
Noches Bohemias is a time dedicated to musicians and poets that express their art in Spanish, with Latin influence. This includes, but is not limited to, boleros, ballads, Spanish Rock, folklorica, latin american, ranchera, trova, new song, jarocho, huapongo and poetry. Everyone is invited! Entry is always free, but we do accept your generous donations.
*Conducted by Alfredo Hidalgo
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Tia Chucha's Open Mic
Night of Music and Spoken Word
FRIDAYS 8pm-10pm
Tía Chucha's Open Mic is a welcoming, creative sanctuary where people are encouraged to share their thoughts, feelings and talents through various styles of expression. Whether it be a poem, story, song, joke, freestyle, or just something they feel the need to express. Everyone is welcome to be themselves. Hosted by Nery Boche. Free, donations welcomed.
Featured Artists for the Month ofJanuary:
David A. Romero
January 7, 2011
David A. Romero is an artist, activist and male model. Romero is the author of Diamond Bars: The Street Version, a collection of poems released by Dimlights Publishing. He has opened for Latin Grammy winning artists Ozomatli and has performed at numerous high schools and colleges. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California, a double major in Film and Philosophy.
Check out his blog, "The Mexi-Asian Perspective: A Mexican's Guide to All Things Latin, Asian, or Both," on ProjektNewSpeak.com.
Continuum
January 21, 2011
La Reina de Sylmar will be returning to Tia Chucha’s with her band, Continuum for a night of fun, sentimientos, and vintage 60’s R&R. La Reina (Tapia) has been a part of our music community since visiting us in July of this year, when she unveiled her original, Tex-Mex song, Sangron. Since the, she has been joined by Nick Krall on upright bass and Jim Rhodes on acoustic lead guitar, Come join the fun and share in some of their wit, wisdom and heartfelt harmonies and songs (sometime the heart can be pretty mad, so brace yourself).
For a peek at their music, go to www.reverbnation.com/tapia.
Inez Woods
January 28, 2011
Inez Woods felt her passion for music at an early age. She taught herself guitar to accompany her natural vocal ability, and to express herself through her songwriting. Currently Inez is a music teacher, mentor, and artist/songwriter who performs in the L.A. area. She believes…“Music transcends all…bridging the gap between ages, cultures & musical genres.”
Inez also teaches Guitar classes at Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural.
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Film Premiere of Better
January 12, 2011 6-8pm
With Q & A with Director after film.
"Better is the story of Lily, a folklorico dancer who faces the most difficult challenge of her life when she is diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, a disease which affects balance and movement.
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VISIONS OF AZTLÁN
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011 at
7-10pm
VISIONS OF AZTLÁN explores Chicano Art--a unique American art movement that flowered amid the confrontations and turbulent street demonstrations of the 1960s.
Directed by veteran Chicano filmmaker Jesús Salvador Treviño, produced by Armando Acevedo and featuring original music by composer Germaine Franco, VISIONS OF AZTLÁN introduces us to a generation of Mexican-American artists who were inspired by the Chicano Civil Rights Movement to portray Mexican American life at a time when the community was largely invisible in the popular culture. Using the rich images of the artists’ work, along with interviews and historical footage, VISIONS OF AZTLÁN also examines the artists’ struggles to achieve their own career success while depicting themes not easily welcomed in the conventional canon. The documentary tells the story of Chicano artists who forbore the allure of conventional careers to render their community’s urgent struggles and aspirations for social justice and equality. VISIONS OF AZTLÁN features the work of celebrated Los Angeles artists Carlos Almaráz, Judy Baca, David Botello, Barbara Carrasco, Harry Gamboa, Gronk, Wayne Healy, Gilbert Lujan, Frank Romero and John Valadez as well as artists from Northern and Southern California, Arizona, Texas and New Mexico.
*Film Screening and Q & A with Director Jesus Treviño
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REELism Film Nights Presents:
En el Hoyo / In the Pit
January 26, 2011 7:30-9:30pm
Una leyenda mexicana cuenta que el diablo pide almas para que los puentes al construirse no se caigan. Esta película sigue la historia de varios de los obreros que participan en la construcción de El Segundo Piso, en el periférico de la ciudad de México. La idea es la de acercarnos a la cotidianidad, a los sueños y a la extraordinaria dignidad de los obreros.
Mexican legend recounted that for every bridge being built, the devil would ask for one soul, so that the bridge never falls. This film tells the story of the workers who are participating in the construction of a second deck to Mexico City’s inner Periférico freeway. This second deck is about to transform the city, its landscape and the lives of its inhabitants.
*Hosted by Erick Iñiguez.
*En Español con subtitulos en Ingles
*Spanish with English Subtitles
*$3 Donación sugerida /$3 Suggested donation |
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Tia
Chucha's
featured Artist:
Herman
Jimenez
Photography
Exhibit
Dec.
22, 2009 – Jan. 21, 2009
For
more info. visit: www.hermanjshots.com
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Author
Reading & Book Signing with Silvio Sirias
Meet
Me Under the Ceiba
Wednesday/Miércoles, Jan 6th
6:30-8pm
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An
American professor of Nicaraguan descent spending
the summer in his parents’ homeland learns
of Adela’s murder and vows to unravel
the threads of the mystery. He begins the painstaking
process of interviewing the townspeople, and
it quickly becomes apparent that Adela, a hard-working
campesina who never learned to read and write,
and Don Roque had one thing in common: the beautiful
Ixelia Cruz. The love of Adela’s life,
Ixelia was one of Don Roque’s many possessions
until Adela lured her away. The story reveals
the lively community left reeling by her brutal
murder. *Free Event!
For
more info: www.silviosirias.com
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H.I.P.,
Hollywood Institute of Poetics
Presents an eclectic-&
electric-
afternoon
of local & out-of-state poets!
Saturday Jan 9, 1-3pm
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Featuring:
Deborah Aguilar Escalante: She
is an exciting rising superstar performer who
bends time and space, turning the written word
into a visual art.
Conney Williams: Is one of
the hosts of L.A.’s world famous World
Stage. A dynamic poet seamlessly mixing
Sy Hoahwah: Yappithuka Comanche/Southern
Arapahoe,bending emotion and passion into a
mesmerizing personal tour-de-force!
Jenifer Rae Vernon: Has charmed
audiences all over the USA, Spain,& Morocco.
*Hosted
by Rafael F.J.Alvarado & Brett-Candace
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El
Nido Family
Source Center
Open
House Celebration!
Saturday,
Jan 9th 10am-2pm
(off-site
at: 13460 Van Nuys Blvd,
Pacoima,
CA 91331) |
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Bryan Chan
&
Friends
Music Concert
Saturday, Jan 16th 1-4pm
($5
Donation)
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Panel
Discussion on Prisons Featuring books by Incarcerated
Writers & Experts
Saturday,
Jan 23rd 1-3pm *Free
Event!
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California
has the largest state prison system in the
country. It is a multi-billion dollar industry
at a time when schools are losing vital funding,
arts programs are being slashed, and people
are losing jobs and homes. It's a travesty
that the state continues to maintain this
system while young people are being pushed
out of colleges. Yet, the writing of men and
women behind bars are important. They hold
an important piece of the prison puzzle. We
need to hear what the incarcerated have to
say. These three books are recommended for
any library that addresses one of this country's
leading preoccupations: crime and what we
do about it. Please attend this panel made
up of experts in the field. Be prepared to
make comments and ask questions.
Panel
of Speakers:
Kathy
Murphy-Taylor is a former social
worker and co-author with husband, Jim Taylor's
Willow in a Storm. She will be discussing
issues that effected her husband's 40 year
experience in the criminal justice system
as an inmate and his road to redemption ...
Hugo
Machuca who served a 28 year sentence
for 15 years to life as an adolescent,
will speak on issues concerning
the
honor yard, life without parole, at-risk youth,
creating a healing society and his journey
of transformation.
Gloria
Killian was exonerated after serving
17.5 years at the California Institute
for Women (CIW). Come hear her compelling
story of living life inside for a crime she
did not commit, the lives of her fellow
inmates and her continued committment
to helping women inside as Executive Director
of Action Committee for Women in Prison (ACWIP).
Leslie
Neale is the award-winning documentary
film-maker of the films JUVIES and ROAD TO
RETURN. Leslie lends 30 years of
experience in the entertainment industry and
her dedication to criminal justice reform
. Through her advocacy work over the
years, she discovered that the public was
largely unaware, and therefore unconcerned,
about issues within the juvenile justice
arena. She is currently working on a
film about RESTORATIVE JUSTICE .
Moderator:
Luis J. Rodriguez
Featured
Books for this event:
Willow in a Storm: A Memoir
by James Peter Taylor & Kathleen Murphy-Taylor
Mother California: A Story of Redemption
Behind Bars by Kenneth E. Hartman
Honor Comes Hard: Writings from California
Prison System’s Honor Yard edited
by Luis J. Rodriguez and Lucinda Thomas
(a
Tia Chucha Press book)
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Reelism
Film Nights Presents:
Born Into Brothels
Wednesday, Jan 27th 8-10pm
$3 suggested donation (No subtitles)
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A
tribute to the resiliency of childhood and
the restorative power of art, BORN INTO
BROTHELS is a portrait of several unforgettable
children who live in the red light district
of Calcutta where their mothers work as prostitutes.
Zana Briski, a New York based photographer,
gives each of these youngsters a camera and
teaches them how to take pictures, simultaneously
causing them to look at their world with new
eyes. Together with Ross Kauffman, Briski
captures the magical way in which beauty can
be found in the most unlikely of places and
how a bright and promising future becomes
a possibility for children who previously
had no future at all.
Briski
spent years with these children and became
a part of their lives. Their photographs are
prisms into their souls, rather than anthropological
curiosities, and a true testimony to the power
of the indelible creative spirit.
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Concierto
de Primer Luna Llena
Sábado/Saturday, Jan
30th 1-4pm
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Peña
Cultural
Miércoles 8-10pm
(excepto cada 4to miércoles)
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Las
noches de Peña Cultural son un tiempo
dedicado a músicos y poetas que expresan
su arte en español o con influencia Latina.
Esto incluye pero no es limitado a boleros,
baladas, rock en español, folklórica,
latinoamericana, ranchera, trova, canto nuevo,
jarocho, huapongo y más. ¡Todos
están bienvenidos! Entrada es gratis;
se aceptan donaciones. *Conducido por Alfredo
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Open
Mic:
Night of Music & Spoken Word
Every Friday 8-10pm
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Tía
Chucha’s Open Mic is a welcoming, creative
sanctuary where people are encouraged to share
their thoughts, feelings and talents through
various styles of expression. This can be
a poem, story, song, joke, freestyle, or just
something they feel the need to express everyone
is welcome to be themselves. It’s FREE,
but donations are welcomed. *Hosted by
Nery Boche
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Night
of Spoken Word & Book Reading with BocaFloja
SATURDAY
Jan. 17th 7pm
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Hailing
from Mexico City, BocaFloja is a conscious MC using
Hip Hop as an educational tool in hopes of bringing
about real transformation within our communities.
His lyrics critically analyze the socio-political
aspects of our daily lives; addressing issues of oppression,
capitalism, imperialism and the universal suffering
of our people.
With four solo albums and the production of two compilation
albums, BocaFloja will share words from first published
book, Imarginación, a collection of experiences
in poetic form. He will also present a short documentary
Iconoclasta followed by a q&a dialogue.
Presentation will be in Spanish.
$5
Donation at the door.
(proceeds will go to Tia Chucha's and
featured artist)
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REELism
Film Nights presents: Bomb It
WEDNESDAY
Jan. 21st 7:30pm-10pm
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BOMB IT is the explosive new
documentary from award-winning director Jon Reiss
investigating the most subversive and controversial
art form currently shaping international youth culture:
graffiti.
Through interviews
and guerilla footage of graffiti writers in action
on 5 continents, BOMB IT tells the story of graffiti
from its origins in prehistoric cave paintings thru
its notorious explosion in New York City during
the 70's and 80's, then follows the flames as they
paint the globe. Featuring old school legends and
current favorites such as Taki 183, Cornbread, Stay
High 149, T-Kid, Cope 2, Zephyr, Revs, Os Gemeos,
KET, Chino, Shepard Fairey, Revok, and Mear One.
This cutting
edge documentary tracks down today's most innovative
and pervasive street artists as they battle for
control over the urban visual landscape. You'll
never look at public space the same way again.
"Graffiti belongs to everyone and no one. On
a section of a condemned wall, I put up a graffito...
a bank director stopped the construction work, had
my carving cut out as a fresco and inlayed it in
the wall of his apartment."
Pablo
Picasso
$3 donation
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20th
Anniversary Tia Chucha Press Reading with Luivette
Resto, Susan D. Anderson, &
Luis
J. Rodriguez
SATURDAY
Jan. 31st 2pm-4pm |
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Tia
Chucha Press
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Tia
Chucha Press was founded in 1989 by Luis J. Rodriguez
in Chicago. In 2005 Tia Chucha Press operations moved
to the San Fernando Valley to join Tia Chucha's Centro
Cultural & Bookstore complex. Today, it is one
of the country's leading small poetry presses. Join
us this day as we feature two L.A. based poets from
the press; Susan D. Anderson whom will feature her
latest book Nostalgia for a Trumpet: Poems of Memory
& History and Luivette Resto, whom will discuss
her book Unfinished Portrait.
“Resto
translates untranslated lives, which she recognizes
as the stuff of poetry: the immigrant, the farmworker,
the dancer, the unborn child.”
Martin Espada, author of The Republic of
Poetry and Alabanza: New and Selected Peoms 1982-2002
“A
wonderful book of lyric wisdom, inscribing not merely
the history of African-American soul in the 20 th
century plus eight years, but the geography of that
soul in many cities and towns lived in or inspired
by.”
Jack Hirschman, Poet Laureate of San Francisco
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Tia
Chucha's Open Mic
Night
of Music & Poetry
Friday
nights 8p.m.
Tia
Chucha's Open Mic is welcoming, nurturing and healing.
It is a creative sanctuary where people are encouraged
to share their thoughts, feelings and talents through
various styles of expression. Whether it be a poem,
story, song, joke, freestyle or just something they
feel the need to express. Everyone is welcome to
be themselves .
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