by Brian Dunlap Los Angeles poet Matt Sedillo has won the 2017 Joe Hill Poetry Award. As stated on the Labor Heritage website the ” Joe Hill Award honors leaders and artists who have contributed to the successful integration of arts and culture in the labor movement, given every year at the Great Labor Arts Exchange is awarded to persons based on their dedication, participation, and promotion … Continue reading Los Angeles Poet Matt Sedillo Wins Poetry Award

90X90LA: Facilitating Spaces at Cielo Galleries/Studios

 

Facilitating Spaces 101: not ‘what’, but ‘where’ are we doing[?]

first comes the space
then comes facilitating
or
first comes facilitating
then comes the space

What draws us to particular spaces? What do we know about the space before and after we choose it? Who was here before us? Who is us? Where is us? What are we doing here?

Either way, the spaces we choose to hold our events in are determined by a number of factors, but are those factors aligned with equitable intentions? This workshop/discussion hopes to convince you, to persuade you, to con you, into thinking deeply about the space your program occupies.

We’ll run through the many components/factors/variables of operating in a space. Whether it’s a workshop, a classroom, a reading, an art exhibit, or a musical experience – we need spaces! Incorporating thoughtfulness and mindfulness will not only help to make your event more meaningful and engaging, but it also fosters inclusive practices that in the long run can build equity in art/communities.

This workshop/discussion is part one in the [equity in community building series] and facilitated by Jessica Ceballos y Campbell

Where: Cielo Galleries/Studios

Date: Monday the 14^th

Time: 7 pm

Address: 3201 Maple Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90011

Website:   http://90x90la.com/facilitating-spaces-101-equity-in-community-building-814-7pm/

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Fitzgerald’s I’d Die for You at Book Soup

Join us to hear editor Anne Margaret Daniel discuss and sign F. Scott Fitzgerald’s I’d Die for You, a collection of the last remaining unpublished and uncollected short stories by Fitzgerald, most of which were originally submitted to major magazines in the 1930s and accepted during his lifetime but never published. Some could not be sold because they departed from what editors expected of him. These stories provide a new look into his creative process and a new insight  into the arc of his career.

Where: Book Soup

Date: Monday the 7^th

Time: 7 pm

Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069

Website:   http://www.booksoup.com/event/editor-anne-margaret-daniel-discusses-and-signs-f-scott-fitzgerald%E2%80%99s-i%E2%80%99d-die-you

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by Brian Dunlap

Los Ángeles/Bell Garden’s Native Vickie Vertiz will be releasing her second book of poems Palm Frond With Its Throat Cut, next month (September). The Amazon jacket copy describes Vertiz’s book as a collection that “uses both humor and sincerity to capture moments in time with a sense of compassion for the hard choices we must make to survive. Vértiz’s poetry shows how history, oppression, and resistance don’t just refer to big events or movements; they play out in our everyday lives, in the intimate spaces of family, sex, and neighborhood. Vértiz’s poems ask us to see Los Angeles—and all cities like it—as they have always been: an America of code-switching and reinvention, of lyric and fight.”

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By Brian Dunlap

Exciting publication news coming out of the Los Angeles Literary community. Happy to announce that Erika Ayón’s first collection of poetry will be published by L.A. based World Stage Press in 2018!

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Teen Summer Reading Challenge at Exposition Park Regional Library–Teen Event

As part of “Reading by Design” Summer Reading Challenge: Teen Read, Rant & Rave, join us for a book discussion of I Believe in a Thing Called Love, by Marianne Goo.

Copies of the book are available to borrow at the Information Desk. Recommended for readers in grades 7-12.

Where: Exposition Park- Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Regional Library, LAPL

Date: Monday the 31^st

Time: 2 pm – 3 pm

Address: 3900 S. Western Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90062

Website:   http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/reading-design-summer-reading-challenge-teen-read-rant-rave-1

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by Priya Sridhar

From: Book Riot

NOTE: I just stumbled across this article from Book Riot. It was one of numerous posts they published in celebration of Octavia Butler’s  birthday back in June. Enjoy!

Women writers have interesting barriers. The Mary Sue and Tor.com have discussed how female SFF writers, and SFF female characters, can easily become overlooked or forgotten. We don’t receive as much coverage due to implicit bias in our culture. This is ironic since according to history women like Mary Shelley have created the science fiction and horror genres. Tor.com mentions that the women that leave a legacy are the Smurfettes of the world, the token female authors that are included to fill a social quota.

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Keeping Your Family’s Stories at Long Beach Arts Council

As part of our Incite/Insight Series, author liz gonzalez will give a presentation on Keeping Your Family’s Stories, Keeping Your Own, based on her what she’s learned from her own research and personal history and turning her stories into creative works. She will also share resources she has found, and examples of their use in different genres and in multimedia.

Where: Uptown Business District

Date: Monday the 24^th

Time: 6 pm – 7:30 pm

Address: 6082 Atlantic Ave., Long Beach, CA 90805

Website:   http://www.lizgonzalez.com/pages/appearances.html

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by Brian Dunlap The new issue of Angel City Review is now available online. This is a literary journal that is committed to bringing the cutting edge in fiction and poetry to a modern audience. Every issue will feature a couple of more established writers; however their main goal is to provide an outlet for new and emerging authors with an emphasis on writers based in Los … Continue reading Angel City Review Issue 5 Now Available

From: DSTL Arts

NOTE: DSTL Arts is is a Los Angeles nonprofit arts mentorship organization that inspires, teaches, and hires creative, at-risk youth, ages 16–21 years old. Read further to find out what new creative services and opportunities they want to bring to the Los Angeles community, especially its underserved youth.

Los Angeles, CA — July 20, 2017 — DSTL Arts, launches “Lowride 4 Lit (or Lowrider for Literature), a grassroots fundraising effort to bring art-making workshops in a mobile art vehicle to communities in East LA and South LA. Luis Pichardo, Executive Director and founder of the organization, will kick off the campaign by selling his father’s prized 1969 Chevy Impala as down payment.

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