How
would you use $100,000 to shape the future of Los Angeles? And how could
$100,000 help Tía Chucha’s “Arts Transforms Community” project become a
reality?
Spearheaded by the Goldhirsh Foundation, the LA2050 campaign invited the Los Angeles community to dream of the most
innovative and creative ways to tackle our city’s biggest problems. With
$1,000,000 in total grants, organizations have submitted applications for a
chance at $100,000 to make their ideas a reality in 2013.
Here’s how you can help: Luis J. Rodríguez (pictured
above with his wife Trini) has submitted a proposal on behalf of Tía Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore which reads, in part:
Poor communities are usually
portrayed as fonts of violence, stagnant thinking and deficit outcomes. But we
at Tía Chucha’s Centro Cultural see the poor as rich with talents, skills and
imaginations. Every person, even without outside resources, is by nature
regenerative. The concept behind arts-based healing workshops is to tap into
and draw out this abundant capacity to establish healthy lives, families, and
culture – even in a faltering economy. A new currency of restoring and
transforming from one's own gifts opens up a new imagination of how to relate
by giving and getting, with healing practices and disciplines. This is about
renewing community rooted in caring and sharing.
If, after reading the entire proposal, you wish to show
your support, please click on the “Vote” button. Don’t delay! The deadline for
voting is this Wednesday, April 17, at noon Pacific Daylight Time. VOTE HERE.
IN OTHER NEWS…
◙ The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books will be
celebrated at the USC campus on April 20 and 21. You may find all relevant
information (panels, ticketing, parking, directions, etc.) by going here. Here are some
festival events that La Bloga readers might be interested in:
• On Saturday, April 20, Tía Chucha’s Centro Cultural
will participate in Kaya Press’s Smokin’
Hot Lit Lounge (Booth 380), from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. where you may meet
authors and purchase books. From 11:00 to 11:30 a.m., enjoy “READINGS
FROM TÍA CHUCHA & FRIENDS featuring LUIS RODRÍGUEZ and DANIEL A. OLIVAS.”
•
The Festival of Books has a wonderful line-up of authors the entire weekend. I
have my tickets to a few events on Saturday, including this panel discussion:
“Writing American Identity” (Conversation 1134, 3:30 p.m.), with Reyna Grande,
Melinda Palacio, Luis J. Rodríguez and David Treuer, moderated by Hèctor Tobar.
• Check the Festival of Books' schedule for
other Lantin@ authors who will be participating. The line-up includes such
great writers as Alex Espinoza, Sherry Velasco, Gustavo Arellano, Pilar
Marrero, Steve Lopez and more!
◙
My interview with Melinda Palacio regarding her new poetry collection, How
Fire Is a Story, Waiting (Tía Chucha Press), appears in the Los
Angeles Review of Books. I note, in part, that her collection “is a mature
and deeply stirring work, one that explores Melinda Palacio’s identity as a
Latina, daughter, and writer in language that is as lyrical as it is candid.”
◙ Desperado:
A Mile High Noir (Arte Público Press) by Manuel Ramos, earns a rave
review in The Denver Post which calls it
“a dark and gritty novel set in Denver’s North Side that could have been
written only by someone who's been there.”
◙
Oh, I’m on Twitter now…become one of my followers @olivasdan. I will happily
Tweet your literary news.
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