Contact: Brent E. Beltrán, (619) 434-9036 or RedCalacArts@cox.net
Acclaimed Chicano Author to Read from Works
Waging Peace through Poetry
to Feature Juan Felipe Herrera
What: Waging Peace through Poetry
Who: Juan Felipe Herrera, Miguel-Angel Soria, Los Able Minded
Poets,
Rod Ricardo-Livingstone and Marissa Raigoza
When: Friday January 28, 2005 @ 7:00pm
Where: Memorial
Academy Auditorium
2850 Logan Ave., SD, CA 92113 (Barrio Logan)
Cost: FREE
The Red CalacArts Collective and the UCSD Chicano/a~Latino/a Arts and Humanities Program presents Waging Peace through Poetry on Friday, January 28, 2005 at 7:00pm at the Memorial Academy auditorium (2850 Logan Ave., San Diego, CA 92113) in Barrio Logan. This event is free and open to the public.
Waging Peace through Poetry will feature acclaimed author and performance artist Juan Felipe Herrera. Plus, poetry by Miguel-Angel Soria (Taco Shop Poets), Los Able Minded Poets (their CD, Collectively Introspective, was voted best Hip Hop album by the 2004 San Diego Music Awards), Rod Ricardo-Livingstone (Campesino Fingerprints) and Marissa Raigoza (the Central Chakrah Project).
Juan Felipe Herrera is the author of over 20 books including: Love After the Riots (1996), Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream (1999), Crash Boom Love: A Novel in Verse (1999), and Notebooks of a Chili Verde Smuggler (2002) to name a few. His numerous awards include: the Ezra Jack Keats Award, the Hungry Mind Award of Distinction, the Americas Award, and the Focal Award. A former San Diegan, he currently resides in Fresno with his wife and children where he teaches creative writing at Fresno State.
This event is organized by the Red CalacArts Collective, a project of the independent Chicano literary publisher Calaca Press, and the UCSD Chicano/a~Latino/a Arts and Humanities Program. For more information visit: htp://redcalacartscollective.org and http://clah.ucsd.edu.
Donations will be accepted by the Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities. Project YANO is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community organization that provides youth with an alternative point of view about military enlistment. For more information visit www.projectyano.org
This event is part of Razafest a (continuing) goodwill series celebrating 35 years of Chicano art, culture and activism. For more info visit http://saveourcentro.org or email centrowatch@aol.com.