Tia Chucha's

featured Artist:

Herman Jimenez

Photography Exhibit

Dec. 22, 2009 – Jan. 21, 2009

For more info. visit: www.hermanjshots.com

H.I.P., Hollywood Institute of Poetics
Presents an eclectic-& electric-

afternoon of local & out-of-state poets!
Saturday Jan 9, 1-3pm

 

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

Bryan Chan &

Friends Music Concert
Saturday, Jan 16th 1-4pm

($5 Donation)

 

 

Panel Discussion on Prisons Featuring books by Incarcerated Writers & Experts

Saturday, Jan 23rd 1-3pm *Free Event!

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)

Reelism Film Nights Presents:
Born Into Brothels
Wednesday, Jan 27th 8-10pm
$3 suggested donation (No subtitles)

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Concierto de Primer Luna Llena
Sábado/Saturday, Jan 30th 1-4pm

Open Mic:
Night of Music & Spoken Word
Every Friday 8-10pm

 

 

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. 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