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You are all invited! Estan todos invitados! |
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Homeboy Press Presents :
An afternoon of poetry, with the
poets of Homeboy Industries
Saturday, March 20th, 2-4:00pm
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Homeboy Press and its literary magazine, The Homeboy Review, serves as a voice for the poets and writers of Homeboy Industries, as well as a forum to publish both under represented and established writers from around the globe. Join us in this afternoon of poetry presenting Robert Juarez, Joseph Holguin, Fabian Montes and other writers and contributors to the Homeboy Review. Special Guest Luis J. Rodriguez.
For more info: www.homeboy-industries.org
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Reelism Film Nights Presents:
Perfume de Violetas:
Nadie te Oye
Miércoles/Wed. Mar 24th, 7:30-9:30pm
(En Español con Subtítulos en Inglés)
(Film in Spanish with English Subtitles)
$3 donacion/ $3 suggested donation
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Yessica y Miriam, adolescentes de la ciudad de México,empiezan una amistad profunda en la secundaria. Las amigas comparten cuadernos, juegos, gustos, maquillajes y perfumes, hasta que Jorge y el Topi, violentos cómplices, secuestran a Yessica. La indiferencia y el egoísmo de los adultos rompen la amistad de las jovencitas y las orillan a la tragedia.
Based on a true incident, Perfume de Violetas is a coming-of-age story and a damning cultural critique. Yessica is an impulsive tomboy with a difficult home life. Miriam is a childlike, sheltered innocent. Though drastically different, the two girls form a close, idealized bond that contrasts sharply with the realities of life in their violent Mexico City neighborhood. Silenced by fear and shame, Yessica fails to seek help when she is sexually assaulted, confiding only in her young friend. It is a fearful silence that leads to tragic consequences.*Conducido por/hosted by Erick Iniguez
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Poetry Reading with Melinda Palacio
Folsom Lockdown
Saturday, March 27th, 1-3pm |
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Folsom Lockdown is that rare literary song that jars the heart, the memories, the pains, as well as what's good in all of us. Prison is not just that place far away where your loved ones may be--the razor wire structures have now reached into our homes, our thoughts, our feelings, our psyche. Somehow, we're all behind bars. And Melinda Palacio's poems are a welcome reprieve that dares to illustrate how poetry and art are the only real keys to all our liberations. This is a poet for our time, in hard times, when so many are doing time.
Her poetry book Folsom Lockdown won Kulupi’s 2009 Sense of Place cash prize and publication. Her work has been published in a wide variety of journals and anthologies.
For more info: www.melindapalacio.com |
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Noches Bohemias
Miércoles 8-10pm
(excepto cada 4to miércoles) |
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Las noches 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.
Invita do Especial:
Marzo 10, Carlos Díaz y su guitarra. Nativo de Mexico, extraordinario folklorista recopilador de todas las corrientes musicales de la república Mexicana. Venga a reír, llorar y a enamorarse de esta tan versátil guitarra de Carlos Díaz.
*Artistas invitados son bienvenidos. !Llamenos!*
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Open Mic:
Night of Music & Spoken Word
Every
Friday Night 8pm-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, participants sign up on arrival and donations are welcomed. *Hosted by Nery Boche
Open Mic is Proud to Present:
Featured L.A. Area poets for the
Month of March !
 
March 12th, William Archila, asks readers to engage with a subject seldom explored in American poetry: the unrest in El Salvador in the 1980s and its impact on Central American immigrants who now claim this country as home. In language that is poignant and often harrowing, the poet takes us on a journey from Santa Ana, El Salvador, to Los Angeles, California. Archila bridges race, class, metaphor, and reality with astuteness, mingling humor and pain with a skill that denigrates neither.
The Art of Exile is the recent winner of the Emerging Writer Fellowship Award from the Writer’s Center and is also currently featured in “First Things First: The Fifth Annual Debut Poets Roundup” — the Jan/Feb 2010 issue of Poets & Writers.
Womyn’s Herstory Month
March 19th, Jessie Dawson Wilson, this poetanthropologist, mission is simple: “To awaken a soul, To awaken another soul, is my goal.”
March 26. Xitlalic Guijosa, born and raised in Maywood, CA. Has been writing since the age of 7 and sharing her poetry for the past 5 years. She is also a featured poet in the Mujeres de Maiz Collective and The Sela Collective.
March 26. Cyn da’ poet focuses on taboo
subjects that our community hides behind. A woman who’s mission is to unite cultures and become the voice of those who have remained silent.
*Featured artists are always welcomed! Contact us!
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March
2009 Events |
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REELism
Film Nights presents:
Bomb
It with guest speaker
Chaz
Bojorquez
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THURSDAY
March 26th
6:30pm
to 9pm
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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.
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.
Chaz Bojórquez, featured in this
documentary, began his art career by spray-painting along
riverbeds. He attended an art school in Guadalajara, Mexico,
and at Chouinard Art Institute (now Cal Arts) the year before
graduating from high school in 1967. By the end of 1969,
Bojórquez had created a symbol that represented him
and the streets-a stylized skull called Señor Suerte
(Mr. Luck). It has become a gangster image of protection
from death.
Bojórquez continues to take old skool Cholo writing
further and further. He has come to be internationally known
and respected as one of the most influential graffiti artists
of our time.
This
film contains some explicit language.
$3
donation. No one turned away.
Read
more on Chaz Bojorquez on this month's Juxtapoz Magazine.
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Tia
Chucha's Open Mic
Night
of Music & Poetry |
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Every
Friday Night 8pm-10pm |
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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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