Tía Chucha’s Holiday hours:

Thanksgiving Day: Thursday/Jueves, Nov. 24, 2011 CLOSED/CERRADO

Friday/Viernes, Nov. 25, 2011 OPEN/ABIERTO: 5:00-10:00PM

Folk Art Everywhere Fifth artwork showing at Tia Chucha's from August 5 - December 3, 2011

For more info: www.folkarteverywhere.com

“Art Transforms Communities” Concert Fundraiser
Saturday, November 19, 2011 7-9pm
*Donation at the Door $5 & up

The Cochino Daddy Band will be presenting a night of music in efforts to help Tia Chucha’s current, “Art Transforms Communities” documentary/book project that will document the cultural arts history in the Northeast San Fernando Valley.

The Cochino Daddy Band is a SFV home grown group, whose music is a blend Soulful R & B/ Latin/African/jazz and country with a splash of blue grass! Members are: From Pacoima, Valentin Barcenas, song writer, arranger, vocals, harmonica, flutes, conga, guitar and Martin Soza on conga and back-up vocals. Along with Mike Powelson, song writer, vocals, guitar and violin from swampy Louisiana.

IT CALLS YOU BACK

An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing

 Encore Reading & Book Signing

Meet Author LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ

Sunday, November 20, 2011 from 5-7pm 

 

 

We are proud to present award-winning author Luis J. Rodríguez and his latest book It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing. At the request of people unable to attend last month’s standing-room-only book release event at the Centro, Rodriguez agreed to do a second book reading and signing. Copies of the book will be available for sale. The event is free and open to the public.

 

It Calls You Back is the long-awaited sequel to Rodriguez’s memoir Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A., a national bestseller from Touchstone Books/Simon & Schuster. It Calls You Back details Rodriguez’s intense struggles as a writer, father, husband, revolutionary, and healer, including dealing with addictions, family abuse, and a son who did a total of fifteen years in prison. Sandra Cisneros, author of Caramelo and The House on Mango Street, says of the new book: “Rodriguez’s life story is astonishing…It takes a heart broken open by a lifetime of sorrows to write with this wisdom and compassion. It takes a visionary to use this knowledge in service to those the world despises—troubled youth, the homeless, the incarcerated, the poor, the migrant—to be called back for those you love.”

For more info check out Luis J. Rodriguez website!

****PRESS RELEASE****

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!*

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. Participants sign up on arrival. Donations are accepted. *Hosted by Nery Boche

Open Mic is Proud to Present:
Featured Artists for the Month of November!

James Mihaley

November 4, 2011

James Mihaley is a poet, novelist and a professional jazz and hip hop dancer.  He has a novel for children forthcoming from Macmillan in April 2012.  It’s called ‘You Can’t Have My Planet But Take My Brother, Please’.  The thirteen year old protagonist of the book is a poet.  He has a spaceship that runs on rhyming.

For more info check out his website!

Kristy Lovich

November 11, 2011

Kristy Lovich is a Los Angeles based inter-disciplinary artist whose work explores how power, identity, and creativity impact the human experience, in an attempt to bridge the deeply personal to the political by way of performance, installation, image-making, and poetry; through both individual and collective art making practices.

For more info check out her website!

David A. Romero

November 18, 2011

David A. Romero is a spoken word artist, activist and male model. Romero is the author of Diamond Bars: The Street Version and Fuzhou, two collections of poems released by Dimlights Publishing. His work has been praised by writers and poets such as the Tony Award winner Poetri, the author of Up the Street Around the Corner Besskepp, and the West Coast Editor of Rock & Rap Confidential Lee Ballinger.

He has opened for Latin Grammy winning artists Ozomatli and has performed at numerous high schools and colleges. Romero was the host of Diamond Bars Open Mic in Diamond Bar and was also the host of Flowers of Fire Open Mic at Corazon del Pueblo in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles.

Romero is an artist affiliate of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC) and a member of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade (RPB).

He is a graduate of the University of Southern California, a double major in Film and Philosophy.

For more info check out his blog, "The Mexi-Asian Perspective: A Mexican's Guide to All Things Latin, Asian, or Both,"

Visit his website!     

Meow Fest:

Music Benefit Show
Thursday, November 10, 2011 @ 6-8pm

There will be three or four performers playing mellow electronic music and acoustic music. Come to enjoy each other’s company, listen to live music and raise money for a good cause! Proceeds will be donated to Heaven on Earth Society for Animals a local cage free non-kill cat sanctuary in Van Nuys.

For more info check out the website

and add them on facebook!

Film Screening:

The Last Musketeer

with Director Q&A
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 @ 7:30-10pm

After losing another job due to drinking, Joe Souza (Art Zapata) promises to quit. While sober he gains back the love and respect of his family as well as a job working for the city. Just when everything is going right, Joe falls off the wagon, only this time it is different. When his wife, Christine, leaves Joe for the first time. Eventually the pain and isolation brings Joe to his knees prompting him to see professional help for his alcoholism. Not knowing what to think of his parents’ problems, Johnny fantasizes he is the Musketeer D’Artagnan after seeing the movie The Three Musketeers, in hopes of saving his family. The Last Musketeer is loosely based on a true story.

Writer, producer and director Art Zapata will be present for Q&A after the film.

For more info check out the website!

Sacred Sites:

The Secret History of Southern California

Author Reading & Book Signing

with Susan Suntree

Saturday, November 19, 2011 @ 1-3pm

Los Angeles possesses a remarkable secret. Though it is usually characterized as a place without a past, our region has a remarkable ancient history hidden behind the Hollywood exterior.  Equal parts science and Native American mythology, Sacred Sites tells a dynamic and poetic tale about the Southern California landscape, reflecting the riches of both Native knowledge and Western scientific thought.

Susan Suntree is a poet, performer, and teacher whose work investigates the dynamics of science, art, and spiritual philosophies as they engage contemporary life. Her performance work includes street theatre, featuring giant puppets and masks, focused on threats to our local environment and indigenous sites. An environmental activist and a long-time Zen student, she teaches at East Los Angeles College.

****PRESS RELEASE****

Film Screening

If A Tree Falls:

The Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 @ 7:30-10:00 pm

This film tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of this ELF cell, by focusing on the transformation and radicalization of one of its members.

Part coming-of-age tale, part cops-and-robbers thriller, the film interweaves a verite chronicle of Daniel on house arrest as he faces life in prison, with a dramatic recounting of the events that led to his involvement with the group. And along the way it asks hard questions about environmentalism, activism, and the way we define terrorism.

Drawing from striking archival footage -- much of it never before seen -- and intimate interviews with ELF members, and with the prosecutor and detective who were chasing them, IF A TREE FALLS explores the tumultuous period from 1995 until early 2001 when environmentalists were clashing with timber companies and law enforcement, and the word "terrorism" had not yet been altered by 9/11.

Watch the trailer!

SAVE THE DATES
Tía Chucha’s Holiday hours:

Thanksgiving Day: Thursday/Jueves, Nov. 25, 2010 CLOSED/CERRADO

Friday/Viernes, Nov. 26, 2010 2-6:00pm *(No Open Mic)

Antonio Sacre Children’s Author Reading

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010 at 6-8pm

Antonio Sacre, born in Boston to a Cuban father and Irish-American mother, is an internationally touring writer, storyteller, and solo performance artist based in Los Angeles. He will be presenting from his new book, La Noche Buena: A Christmas Story.

Sprinkled with Spanish words, this book introduces readers to the preparations for a Cuban-American family's Christmas Eve feast. Nina goes to visit her paternal grandmother in Miami's Little Havana, where she learns the tradition’s of her father’s side of the family. She helps prepare for the evening and takes part in all their traditions—the intricate cooking for the feast, the dancing, the music, and the gathering of relatives and neighbors. It all comes together for a Noche Buena that Nina will never forget.

*All ages welcome.

*FREE!

 For more info. check out:

www.antoniosacre.com

Bryan Chan & Friends

SATURDAY Nov. 6th, 2010 at 1-4pm

Bryan Chan and Friends will be out and about on Saturday Nov. 6th 1pm to 4pm at Tia Chuchas. Tia Chuchas is a big supporter of the arts whether they are visual or musical.

Here is the line up:

1:00 to 1:35-------Lalow

1:35 to 2:10-------Mark Brainard

Mark was born into music. His father was a big band musician who played with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. Mark has played in a classic rock band for 30 years around the L. A. area, and is also a singer songwriter who loves a good hook.  He released a folk pop CD “Life In Java” in 2005 with duet partner Tim Russell.  He has now just authored his first book “A Musician’s Son” (lyrics, poems, and memoirs) and will be sharing songs and stories close to his heart. Think British folk meets Southern California.

For more info go to: www.markbrainard.com

2:10 to 2:45-------Bryan Chan (slide/blues)

Playing in the Delta Blues style with his own thought processes involved. Always trying to achieve the goal of giving blues music the heart, soul and respect it deserves. Competed at the International Blues Challenge 2009 in Memphis Tn.

For more info go to: www.scvblues.org
or check out the this video!


2:45 to 3:20-------Randy Chance

Randy has a rich history of performing live and doing studio work. Was the lead guitar and harmony vocalist for Lovin Spoonful in the 90's and has worked with the Boxtops, Stephan Paul, James Holliston and many others. Singer/songwriter, producer, teacher are just a few of the hats Randy wears.

For more info go to: www.randychance.com

3:20 to 3:55-------Samantha Tart
A Los Angeles based singer-songwriter who started to sing at the young age of 3. Growing up, she loves to sing Barbara Streisand, Matt Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Whitney Houston, and Disney kinds of music and honed her skill by joining her school choir. 

Now she enjoys listening to all kinds of music ranging from Joss Stone, Alicia keys, Muse, Kings of Leon, Jack Johnson, Ray Lamontagne and Sting. 

For years, she wanted to give her music a try but was too afraid to sing in front of people. Her friends insisted on her to sing in karaoke bars to overcome her stage fright and sing Celine Dion and Mariah Carey songs to add up to the challenge.

In May of 2010, in places like West Hollywood and Glendale she started going to public karaoke until she’s brave enough to do her first singer-songwriter open mic. It was the last Thursday of August in 2010 at Crane’s Hollywood Tavern in Hollywood, CA hosted by Joseph Eid, when she sang her recently written songs “You Have To Go” and “So Inlove”. Alone in the stage just her sweet voice and guitar that she finally realized her dream to sing her own songs in front of people.

For more info go to: www.samanthatart.com

Reelism Film Nights Presents:

MEXICO: LA REVOLUCION CONGELADA

MEXICO,THE FROZEN REVOLUTION, 1970

Miercoles/Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010 at 7:30-9:30pm

Un profundo análisis de la realidad socio-política de México, dentro del contexto histórico de la Revolución Mexicana. Incluye material de archivo de los años 1910, entrevistas con campesinos, políticos, intelectuales, clase media, sindicalistas, etc. Escenas de la vida de una familia indígena en Chiapas, sus rituales religiosos, sus cultivos, juicios y escuelas bilingües. El film termina con la masacre en la Plaza de Tlatelolco en 1968, durante las infames Olimpiadas.

MEXICO, THE FROZEN REVOLUTION, 1970 by Argentine filmmaker Raymundo Gleyzer was banned both in Mexico and Argentina for more than twenty years. The documentary follows the presidential campaign of Luis Echeverría, and gives a powerful view of the politicization of the revolution and the fraudulent tactics used by the party in power PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institucional), to stay in power at the expense of revolutionary ideals. In 1976, Raymundo Gleyzer disappeared at the hands of the military dictatorship in Argentina. Mexican audiences did not get an opportunity to see the film until 2006

*Hosted by Erick Iniguez

*$3 Suggested donation

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!*

The 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
*All Artists are invited, contact us!*

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 of November:

Continuum

November 19, 2010

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).

Author Reading with

Randy Jurado Ertll

Hope in Times of Darkness: A Salvadoran American Experience

SATURDAY Nov. 7th 1pm-3pm

Hope in Times of Darkness focuses on social justice issues and contends that government, community-based organizations, elected officials, and community leaders can help create hope and opportunities for our youth, and thereby help improve our society.

The author, a Salvadoran American, lived in El Salvador as a child but grew up in South Central Los Angeles during the late 1970s and 1980s. He also lived in Rochester , Minnesota ; Washington , D.C. ; and Alexandria , Virginia . In each of these cities, he observed the dynamics and challenges of the Salvadoran community. He hopes his experience moves beyond those media driven images and gives readers—both youth and adults—a deeper understanding of the realities that many face

Con su nuevo libro, Hope In Times of Darkness (En tiempos de oscuridad hay esperanza), Randy Jurado Ertll cuenta la historia de la comunidad Latina y Salvadoreña en el Centro de Los Angeles. Su objetivo es promover un cambio social entre los jóvenes de nuestra comunidad.

*Free event! ¡Evento es Gratis!

http://randyjuradoertll.com/

Author Reading with Jesse Katz

The Opposite Field: A Memoir

SATURDAY Nov. 14th 1pm-3pm

The Opposite Field is a father-son story and a baseball story, framed by the four darkly comical years Jesse Katz spent reviving a broke-down Little League in the immigrant suburb of Monterey Park , California .

It is also "a story of the losing and finding of self, of sex and love and fatherhood and the joy of language, of death and failure and heartbreak, of Los Angeles and Portland and Nicaragua and Mexico and the shifting sands of place and meaning that can make up a culture, or a community, or a home." -Katz

http://www.byjessekatz.com/

Chicuelos! Come gather meet new people, and get a chance to get to know one of L.A.’s favorite upcoming bands La Santa Cecilia. Painting parties are an oportunity for everyone to express their artistic talents on one of LSC’s ever changing CD covers! All supplies will be provided just bring your positive energy and your creative ideas. ¡Vamos! ¡Vamos!

¡Chicuelos! Vengan a esta reunión a conocer a nuevas personas y al grupo musical de Los Angeles, La Santa Cecilia. Este evento les dará la oportunidad de ser parte de la creación artística de las cubiertas del disco del grupo LSC, que siempre varea en sus diseños. Todos los materiales serán proveídos.Solo se necesita su creatividad y energía positiva. ¡Vamos! ¡Vamos!

REELism Film Nights presents:

Sicko

WEDNESDAY/Miercoles Nov. 25 th 7:30-9pm

$3 donation/donacion sugerida $3

In English, Spanish Subtitles

The words "health care" and "comedy" aren't usually found in the same sentence, but in Academy Award winning filmmaker Michael Moore's movie “SiCKO,” they go together hand in (rubber) glove. “SiCKO” is a straight-from-the-heart portrait of the crazy and sometimes cruel U.S. health care system, told from the vantage of everyday people faced with extraordinary and bizarre challenges in their quest for basic health coverage.

This documentary looks at health care in the United States as provided by profit-oriented health maintenance organizations (HMOs) compared to free, universal care in Canada , the U.K. , France and Cuba . He examines why Nixon promoted HMOs in 1971, and why the Clintons ' reform effort failed in the 1990s. He asks of Americans, "Who are we?"

Las palabras “asistencia médica” y “comedia” generalmente no se encuentran en la misma oración, pero en “SiCKO,” película del director cinematográfico Michael Moore, se demuestra que van mano a mano. “SiCKO” muestra el sistema loco, y aveces cruel, de asistencia médica en los Estados Unidos, dicho del punto de vista de gente común que se enfrenta a desafíos extraordinarios y extraños para obtener cuidados de salud básicos. El documental compara el cuidado médico proveído por organizaciones basadas en las ganancias del mantenimiento a la salud en los Estados Unidos, con el cuidado universal en Canadá, el Reino Unido, Francia, y Cuba.

*Film followed by a communal discussion./Después de la película habrá una discusión hacerca del tema.

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, huapango, y más. ¡Todos están bienvenidos! Conducido por Alfredo Hidalgo. Entrada gratis; se aceptan donaciones.

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.