BARRIO BOOKFEST 2004
Liberation through Media and Cultural Expression

May 14-15, 2004

Memorial Academy Charter School
2850 Logan Ave. (Barrio Logan)
San Diego, CA 92113

Friday, May 14 - 7pm - BARRIO BOOKFEST 2004 Night of Poetry
Saturday, May 15 - 10am-5pm - BARRIO BOOKFEST 2004

The Barrio BookFest is free and open to the public.

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The Raza Press Association and the Red CalacArts Collective are co-organizing BARRIO BOOKFEST 2004 on May 14-15 at Memorial Academy Charter School in San Diego, California. This free first annual grassroots activist book festival will focus on issues related to social justice and human rights from a Chicano perspective.

On Friday May 14 at 7pm there will be an evening poetry program with work by socially conscious poets featuring Chicano poetry legend raúlrsalinas (Un Trip through the Mind Jail y otras Excursions and Beyond the BEATen Path) with musical backup by Mikey Figgins and Kevin P. Green, plus Miguel-Angel Soria (co-founder of the Taco Shop Poets) and members of the Red CalacArts Collective: Olga Angelina García Echeverría, Mariajulia Arisiaga Urías, Sara Rebeca Duran Garibay, Raymond R. Beltrán and host Victor Payan.

Saturday May 15 from 10am until 5pm the book festival will take place featuring performances, readings, panel discussions, a poetry workshop, book signings, publishers, bookstores, community organizations, children's art workshop, and more.

The featured author for Saturday will be poet, activist, and co-owner of Tia Chucha's Cafe Cultural in Sylmar, Luis J. Rodriguez (Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in LA and Republic of East LA). Other authors, presenters and performers scheduled to appear on Saturday include: Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez (Decolores Means All of Us and 500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures), Rosaura Sánchez (He Walked in and Sat Down and Other Stories), Marta A. Lomeli (Cuentos from the House on West Connecticut Avenue), Able Minded Poets, Sandra C. Muñoz (Free Metal Woman), Cesar A. Cruz (Teolol) of the END-Dependence Collective, Ariel Robello (forthcoming: My Sweet Unconditional), Michael Heralda's Aztec Stories, Danza Mixcoatl, Caballero Verde Quinteto Latin Jazz and others.

Confirmed vendors include: AK Press, Burnt Tortilla Creations, Calaca Press, Casa del Libro, Groundwork Bookstore, La Verdad Publications, Mayazteca, Motivational Designs, Resistencia Bookstore/Red Salmon Press, Tia Chucha's Cafe Cultural, Mil Cosas, International Action Center, 5th Battallion, Project YANO, California Teachers Association, Media Arts Center San Diego, and others.

For media requests please contact Brent E. Beltrán (619) 434-9036 or BarrioBookFest@cox.net or visit www.barriobookfest.org.

BARRIO BOOKFEST 2004 is organized the Raza Press Association and the Red CalacArts Collective and endorsed by the following:
Calaca Press | Committee on Raza Rights | National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies | Project YANO | Raza Rights Coalition | Red Salmon Press | Resistencia Bookstore | Save Our Centro Coalition | UCSD Chicano/a~Latino/a Arts and Humanities Program | Unión del Barrio | Voz Fronteriza