Contact: Brent E. Beltrán, (619) 434-9036 or RedCalacArts@cox.net

Jimmy Santiago Baca to be Featured Poet at Anti-War Fundraiser
New Book ¿Under What Bandera? to Be Released Same Night

What: Calacas Contra la Guerra Poetry Reading
Who: Project YANO and the Red CalacArts Collective
When: Monday, April 19, 2004 @ 7:00pm
Where: Memorial Academy Auditorium 2850 Logan Ave., SD, CA 92113 (Barrio Logan)
Featuring poetry by: Jimmy Santiago Baca, Emmanuel Ortiz, Lorena E. Duarte Q., Olga Angelina García Echeverría, Raymond R. Beltrán, Sara Rebeca Durán Garibay, Mariajulia Arisiaga Urías, and Victor Payan
Cost: $5 General and $2 students (Proceeds go to Project YANO)

The Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities (Project YANO) and the Red CalacArts Collective presents Calacas Contra la Guerra: An Anti-War Fundraiser and ¿Under What Bandera? Book Release on Monday, April 19, 2004 at 7:00pm at the Memorial Academy Auditorium (2850 Logan Ave., San Diego, CA 92113) in Barrio Logan.

Calacas Contra la Guerra will feature poetry by renown New Mexico author, screenwriter, and American Book Award recipient Jimmy Santiago Baca. Plus poets from the newly released chapbook, "¿Under What Bandera? Anti-War Ofrendas from Minnesota y Califas." Including Olga Angelina García Echeverría, Raymond R. Beltrán, Sara Rebeca Durán Garibay, Mariajulia Arisiaga Urías, and Victor Payan of the Red CalacArts Collective. And from Minnesota Lorena E. Duarte Q. and Emmanuel Ortiz of Palabrer@s.

Jimmy Santiago Baca was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1952, was incarcerated at twenty-one and served six years on drug charges. While in prison Baca taught himself to read, write, and compose poetry. Since his release Baca has conducted countless writing workshops at schools, reservations, community centers, housing projects, and correctional facilities from coast to coast. His many awards include the National Endowment Poetry Award, National Hispanic Heritage Award, Pushcart Prize, Southwest Book Award, American Book Award, and the International Prize. He wrote the screenplay for the movie Bound by Honor (Blood In, Blood Out) and is the author of the books A Place to Stand, Black Mesa Poems, and Immigrants in Our Own Land to name a few.

¿Under What Bandera? Anti-War Ofrendas from Minnesota y Califas is a collaboration between poets from San Diego's Red CalacArts Collective and the Minneapolis, MN based Palabrer@s. Recognizing the need to oppose militarism these two arts activist organizations have teamed up to provide a collective shout out against U.S. imperialist aggression.

The Red CalacArts Collective, a project of the independent Chicano literary publisher Calaca Press, is a not for profit multidisciplinary arts and activist organization that focuses on creating, publishing, producing, and presenting Chicano, Latin American and indigenous related art focusing on issues dealing with human rights and social justice.

The Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community organization that provides young people with an alternative point of view about military enlistment. Project YANO focuses on youths in San Diego County and helps to provide resources and advice to similar groups across the country.

For more information contact:
Project YANO, P.O. Box 230157, Encinitas, CA  92023
(760) 634-3604 ProjYANO@aol.com www.projectyano.org

Red CalacArts Collective, P.O. Box 620786, San Diego, CA 92162
(619) 434-9036 RedCalacArts@cox.net redcalacartscollective.org

This event has been made possible with the help of the UCSD Chicano/a~Latino/a Arts and Humanities Program.

This event is part of Razafest a (continuing) goodwill series celebrating 34 years of Chicano art, culture and activism. For more info visit http://saveourcentro.org or email centrowatch@aol.com.