VOLUNTEERS
NEEDED!!!
We
are looking for people who are interested in volunteering
some of their time to help support their community. Whether
it be for 2 or 20 hours a week we need your help!
If
interested please contact :
Tia
Chucha's: (818)898-1479
centroemail@aol.com
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Centro
Cultural's Mission Statement:
Tia Chucha's Centro
Cultural is a not-for-profit learning and cultural arts
center. We support and promote the continued growth,
development and holistic learning of our community through
the many powerful means of the arts. The Centro provides
a positive space for people to activate what we all share
as human beings: The capacity to create, to imagine and
to express ourselves in an effort to improve the quality
of life for our community.
Objectives
and Purposes:
(A) The primary
purpose for which Tia Chucha's Centro is organized is to
provide a cultural space with arts and media workshops,
presentations, readings, family events, performances, computer
literacy, and healing/talking circles that draw on and enrich
the creative spirit inherent in each person, family and
community.
(B) We will cultivate
the practice and discipline associated with writing, visual
art, music, dance, theater, performance, film, radio, TV,
publishing, sound production, and computer graphics and
technology in the large Chicano/Mexicano/Central American
communities of the greater Los Angeles area, in particular
the Northeast San Fernando Valley.
(C) We actively
support and promote existing organizations and individuals
through programming involving individual artists and group
residencies; invited artists and groups; and international
artists and groups that tap into the intrinsic energies,
aspirations and needs of our community.
Short
History:
We opened Tia
Chucha's Centro Cultural in June of 2003 by leasing a space
next door to the Café/Bookstore. Arts, music, theater,
film, literature, and community workshops will be organized
through the Centro. We will also raise funds through benefits,
donations and grants to support the artists and develop
these workshops and other community arts and media projects.
So far we've signed
a number of resident groups and artists such as the E.A.R.Th.
Theater Company; Elusive Minds Film Productions; Tonantzin
del Valle, a women's natural healing circle; Jovenes Nobles,
a young man's healing circle; Danza Azteca dance group;
Chusma, a Xicano comedy theater group; Hazze Hip Hop Dream
Center's Cultural workshops; and artist/poet/musician Juan
Pueblo and musician Alejandro Laborde. We've also had invited
artists like poet/performance artist Ariel Robello, theater
artist Joe Luis Cedillo, paper maché artist/poet
Marisol Torres, and flutist/guitarist Luis Ruan.
Our Board of Directors
presently consists of Angelica Loa, musician and ,student
at USC with a dual masters in Public Art Studies and Urban
Planning; Victor Mendoza, of Xicano Records & Film and
El Vuh, a conscious Xicano Hip Hop group; and Luis J. Rodriguez.
Mateo Hernandez
of the E.A.R.Th. Theater Company and our resident Danza
Azteca group is the Centro's Community Coordinator.
-Started in 1989
by Luis J. Rodriguez in Chicago, Tia Chucha Press has published
(as of February 2004) around 35 poetry books and a CD. Since
1991 it has been a project of Chicago's Guild Complex, one
of the largest multi-arts presentation organizations in
the country. Our previous authors have included award-winning
poets such as Elizabeth Alexander, Terrance Hayes, Patricia
Smith, David Hernandez, Diane Glancy, Michael Warr, Kyoko
Mori, Anne-Marie Cusac, Tony Fitzpatrick, and others. Starting
in 2004, Tia Chucha Press will produce beautifully designed
full color, permanent bound poetry books out of Los Angeles
while chapbooks of Chicago poets will be produced in Chicago.
Patricia
Spears Jones -
Femme du Monde
Tia Chucha Press books are available wherever good books
are sold. We have been around for almost 18 years. Since
2005, we have published the works of ariel robello, Patricia
Spears Jones, Alfred Arteaga, and an anthology of our Tia
Chucha Press poets called "Dream of a Word: The Tia Chucha
Press Poetry Anthology," edited by Quraysh Ali Lansana and
Toni Asante Lightfoot. In the spring of 2007, we are publishing
"What Yellow Sounds Like" by Linda Susan Jackson.
Tia Chucha Press
Publishes New Poetry Anthology
Tia Chucha Press,
housed at Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural in Sylmar, CA is
proud to present “Dream of a Word: The Tia Chucha Press
Poetry Anthology,” edited by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Toni
Asante Lightfoot , with foreword by Luis J. Rodriguez (ISBN
1-882699-30-9).
Included are 40
poets who have been published by Tia Chucha Press since
we began in 1989. In addition, we've included a list of
all our published books, chapbooks, and CDs.
And we also have
a study guide with questions for each poem, especially to
be used by teachers of writing in high school, colleges,
universities, and workshops.
Authors include
Elizabeth Alexander, Terrance Hayes, A. Van Jordan , Partricia
Smith, Luis J. Rodriguez. Rohan B Preston, Sterling D. Plumpp,
Michael Warr, Angela Shannon, Marvin Tate, Cin Salach, Carlos
Cumpian, Mary Kathleen Hawley, Jean Howard, Dwight Okita,
Tony Fitzpatrick, Nick Carbo, Kyoko Mori, and many others.
This project was partially funded by the National Endowment
for the Arts.
Founded by Luis
J. Rodriguez, Tia Chucha Press is one of this country's
leading small poetry presses. Begun in Chicago , we later
became part of the not-for-profit multi-arts presentation
organization, the Guild Complex. The prestigious Northwestern
University Press is our national distributor to bookstores,
libraries, schools, and other institutions. In 2005, we
moved our operations to the San Fernando Valley to join
the Tia Chucha Cafe & Centro Cultural complex.
To order, please
contact NUP at 1-800-621-2736 or click on the Tia Chucha
Press logo below
VISIT
TIA CHUCHA'S PUBLISHED BOOKS
You can also order
the book through Tia Chucha's Cafe Cultural or any major
bookstore and Amazon.com.
--Started in 2002
by Luis J. Rodriguez and Ernie Perez of Rock A Mole Productions
and Cha Cha Rose Productions, we plan to produce quality
CDs of poetry and music from and for the community. Our
first CD in 2002 was "My Name's Not Rodriguez" by Luis J.
Rodriguez and Seven Rabbit.
Buy
CD Here
--Created out
of Tia Chucha's Café Cultural with community artists,
writers and organizers such as
Sergio Hernandez, Diane Hernandez, Hector Gonzalez, Lava
Gonzalez, Jim Rentana, Alisha Rojas, Rubi Mendoza, Mark
Vallen, Jim Velarde, Luis Rodriguez and others.
We are an exciting new on-line magazine with plans to
become a hardcover publication in the near future. Although
non-exclusive, we will be geared to the large Xicano population
in the United States, which today numbers in the millions.
Donating
to The Centro:
In
July of 2004, Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural received its
501 (c) (3)
(#
470919488) federal tax exempt status. This allows us to
ask for and receive donations and grants for our wonderful
workshops in all the arts--as well as our special media
projects of Tia Chucha Press, Dos Manos Records, and Xispas
Magazine.
Please consider donating so that the arts can permeate,
unite and enhance our communities. No amount is too little--but
if you can give more, please do. Presently, we need funds
to pay artists to do workshops in all the arts, including
music, theatre, literature, dance, sculpture, film, radio,
and more.
We also need funds to continue publishing quality full-color
poetry books of emerging and well-known poets. Last April,
we published" My Sweet Unconditional" by Ariel
Robello, a fantastic and textured poetry collection from
one of LA's leading performance artists. We also want
to produce CDs of poetry/music collaborations through
Dos Manos Records. And we need more support for the growing
Chicano online magazine, Xispas, which features interviews,
history, reviews, opinions, cartoons, artworks, poetry,
fiction, and more.
To send checks or find out more contact, Tia Chucha's
Centro Cultural at:
10258 Foothill Blvd.,
Lake View Terrace, CA 91342
You can also contact us by e-mail at info@tiachucha.com
Donations are tax deductible.
Thanks for your continuing support!
