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¡Poesía está en la calle!
Resistencia Bookstore
casa de Red Salmon Arts
1801-A South First St.
Austin, Texas
(512) 416-8885
revolu@swbell.net
Nov 9th, 2009 @ 1:51 pm
Nov 5th, 2009 @ 6:00 pm
Día de los muertos by Abelardo B. Delgado
Renacen los huertos,
también los muertos.
El día de los muertos
por siete minutos
podemos platicar
con los seres queridos fallecidos
I remember
tagging along
chasing my abuela
to el camposanto
to sell paper flowers
to make the somber tombs bright
That was back in Mexico
I was only seven years old.
Here in the U.S.
los muertos
are persona non gratas.
Here we do not wish
to hold dialogue
with los muertos
They remind us
we too
will eventually join them.
Here there is no luto
and there are no novenas
or puños de tierra
Here in the U.S.
the idea is to hide,
to ignore the dead
and to even avoid death
in our conversations.
in Mexico la muerte
is well known.
She’s la talaca, a feminine figure.
Our Puerto Rican
brothers and sisters
Call her “la flaca.”
Talking with the dead is necessary
to remind ourselves
to enjoy our lives
and not to go about
as if we already died
and no one said good-bye or cried.
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Resistencia Bookstore Fall 09 Featured Item No. 5
Nov 4th, 2009 @ 11:58 am
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Film Screening @ Resistencia this Friday!
7pm Friday November 6, 2009
CineResistencia presents ¡No Marcharan! :
documentary film screening & photo exhibit of The Day the Klan Marched (Sol Rojo Productions)
Original uncut documentary of the day the Ku Klux Klan marched to the Texas State Capitol Building in Austin, Texas on February 19, 1983. Includes footage of the Brown Berets call to action and the Austin City Council meeting vote giving the KKK permission to march.
The documentary also shows the violent response of the Austin Police Department to the engaging yet peaceful counter Anti-Klan march organized by a concerned black and brown citizens and organizations and their white allies. Along with documentary screening, photos of the KKK march and the Anti-Klan march taken by Gilberto Rivera will be on exhibit.
A discussion immediately following the screening will include participants in the counter march and the producers of the documentary, Jane and Gilberto Rivera of Sol Rojo Productions.
A SALMONROJO PRODUCTION.
4pm - 7pm Saturday November 14, 2009
AFTER THE FLOOD:
Benefit for Typhoon Victims in the Philippines
Join us in a cultural showcase featuring:
Baila Pacifica (Hawaiian dance group)
Bachata (Latin dance group)
DJ ROY (Duranguense, Guacharacas, Merengue, Cumbias)
DJ Mike Avila (Feel Good Muzik)
UT FSA (a Filipino dance group)
Laya Dance Collective (Filipina dance group)
& Spoken Word Performances, Filipino Food, and much more …@ the parking lot in back of Resistencia Bookstore
Suggested donation $10 / All donations graciously accepted / For more info contact: saiaolaya@gmail.com / 512-669-9248
7pm Friday December 5, 2009
CineResistencia presents
a documentary film screening of We Will Always Be Here (Sol Rojo Productions)
Juárez-Lincoln University, 715 East First Street, was founded in 1971 in Austin, Texas, as a Mexican American center of higher education. It was a direct out growth of the wider Chicano/amovement for civil rights, self-determination, & ethnic pride that took root & grew from the 1950s through the 1970s.
Eventually, Juárez-Lincoln was closed in 1979, when Antioch University withdrew its support. However, the Juárez-Lincolnbuilding continued to be used by local groups, including the League of United Chicano Artists and Mujeres Artistas del Suroeste. The building, with its mural by Raul Valdez employing pre-Columbian imagery, became a symbol for East Austin residents. When real estate developers announced in 1980 that the building would be demolished to make way for an office building (IHOP), neighborhood groups took the battle to court, hoping to turn the building into a neighborhood center. After litigation the building was demolished in 1983.
Memoir Writing Workshop
with ANA CASTILLO
Internationally Acclaimed Poet and Award Winning Author
In cooperation with Resistencia Bookstore
In memoir, the reader must be persuaded that the narrator is writing honestly, whether or not he/she is, is secondary. It doesn’t matter as much ‘what happened’ as what you make of what you remember may have happened. The workshop will consist of exercises, which help us to know how to get started when desiring to work on a memoir essay. We’ll talk, we’ll laugh, we’ll cry. We’ll vent. We’ll write from our hearts and our minds. And then, we’ll learn to get rid of all the sentimentality and leave on the page what is important for the reader to know about your memoir. Three hours with Ana Castillo, poet, novelist all around genre-jumper.
Persons interested must submit 1 pg writing sample to apply. 18 yrs. and up.
Ana Castillo will be available only at the workshop.
All queries and to apply: email: anacastilloworkshops@gmail.com
Cost: $175 per person/Limit only 15 per workshop ($125 for unemployed, seniors, and undergrads)
Application Deadline: November 12, 2009
Deposit Received No later than: November 20, 2009
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ON THAT SAME DAY, Saturday Dec. 5, 2009 …
A public reading & signing by Ana Castillo
7:30pm
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Resistencia Bookstore
1801 – A South First Street, Austin, TX 78704
Oct 28th, 2009 @ 3:18 pm
Resistencia Bookstore Fall 09 Featured Item No. 4
An international anthology published under the pseudonym Juanita Ramos, by Juanita Díaz-Cotto
Oct 27th, 2009 @ 12:24 pm
Reminder: Chicana Lives & Criminal Justice
Red Salmon Arts presents:
Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice: Voices from El Barrio:
Lecture, Book Signing, & Performance with scholar/activist Juanita Díaz-Cotto
(Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program at SUNY-Binghamton)
6:30pm Tuesday October 27, 2009
UT Austin Community Engagement Center, 1009 E. 11th St.
Red Salmon Arts presents a lecture and book signing on
Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice: Voices from El Barrio (UT Press) with Juanita Díaz-Cotto
This first comprehensive study of Chicanas encountering the U.S. criminal justice system is set within the context of the international war on drugs as witnessed at street level in Chicana/o barrios. Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice uses oral history to chronicle the lives of twenty-four Chicana pintas (prisoners/former prisoners) repeatedly arrested and incarcerated for non-violent, low-level economic and drug-related crimes. It also provides the first documentation of the thirty-four-year history of Sybil Brand Institute, Los Angeles’ former women’s jail. Through her oral histories, Dr. Díaz-Cotto has given women who rarely have a voice—either in their own communities or in academic literature—an opportunity to tell their stories on their own terms. Their reflections are haunting and deeply affecting. Dr. Díaz-Cotto specializes in grounding the experiences of Chicanas and female prisoners in the everyday, lived experiences of women across America.
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7pm Thursday October 29, 2009
Resistencia Bookstore, 1801-A South First St., 416-8885
Red Salmon Arts presents a performance reading of Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice: Voices from El Barrio featuring Juanita Díaz-Cotto, Lilia Rosas, las Xicana Chronicles (Erika González, Maribel Garza, & Luissana Santibañez).
Drawing on Dr. Díaz-Cotto’s research, Juanita Díaz-Cotto, Lilia Rosas, las Xicana Chronicles (Erika González, Maribel Garza, & Luissana Santibañez will breathe life into the oral histories in Chicana Lives, crafting a riveting performance from the life histories of incarcerated Chicanas.
Juanita Díaz-Cotto is the director of the Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program at SUNY-Binghamton and an associate professor of women’s studies and sociology. For the past 30 years, Dr. Díaz-Cotto, whose family emigrated from Puerto Rico to the U.S. when she was eight years old, has researched and written about the contours of gender, immigration, and ethnicity in U.S. society. Her books include Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice: Voices from El Barrio, Gender, Ethnicity, and the State: Latina and Latino Prison Politics, and Compañeras: Latina Lesbians, an international anthology published under the pseudonym Juanita Ramos.
*These events are made possible through the generous support of Humanities Texas, Alma de Mujer Center for Social Change, UT Austin Community Engagement Center (DDCE), and the Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS).*
A SALMONROJO PRODUCTION.
Oct 22nd, 2009 @ 5:36 pm
Resistencia Bookstore Fall 09 Featured Item No. 3
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Oct 19th, 2009 @ 1:43 pm
Red CalacArts Collective and Red Salmon Arts First raúlrsalinas Guerrilla Chapbook Poetry Contest
“Native American Joe Montoya Receives Award
And speaking of contests, from out Califas way come this news:
Calaca Press, the Red CalacArts Collective and Red Salmon Arts proudly announce that the winner of the First raúlrsalinas Guerrilla Chapbook Poetry Contest is New Mexico writer Vernon ‘Joe’ Montoya.
In a close contest, judged by University of Minnesota Chicano Studies professor Louis G. Mendoza, Ph.D, Red Salmon Arts Executive Director Rene Valdez and Calaca Press publisher Brent E. Beltrán, Mr. Montoya edged out runner up Jonathan Gomez of East Los Angeles. By winning the first raúlrsalinas Guerrilla Chapbook Poetry Contest Joe Montoya will have his work published in chapbook form by Red CalacArts Publications and Red Salmon Press, receive 100 copies of the chapbook, a $500 honorarium and travel to and from book release readings in San Diego, California and Austin, Texas.
Joe Montoya’s poetry reflects the heartbreaking realities of life on the rez. Though pain and loss are a recurring theme his work also presents the beauty and joy of being Native in 21st century America. ‘We are proud to have him join our Calacaverse,’ said Brent E. Beltrán of Calaca Press. ‘His voice is an important voice that needs to be shared with all.’ Vernon ‘Joe’ Montoya is a young Native American poet and short story writer born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and raised on the Santa Ana and San Felipe Pueblos. He was incarcerated on drug offenses and used his time in prison to read and write poetry. Joe has won several slam competitions and reads, lectures and teaches workshops in jails, prisons, juvenile facilities, middle and high schools. He is currently a student at the University of New Mexico and works with youth as a drug preventionist.
Calaca Press and Red Salmon Arts looks forward to publishing this talented young voice. The untitled chapbook will feature cover art by San Antonio, Texas artist Gerry Quetzatl Garcia. Stayed tuned for publication date and chapbook release reading information.
The raúlrsalinas Guerrilla Chapbook Poetry Contest was created to honor the lifework and interests of Xicanindio poet activist raúlrsalinas (1934-2008). By organizing this contest Calaca Press, the Red CalacArts Collective and Red Salmon Arts hope to inspire a new generation of activist writers to carry on the work of raúlrsalinas. The contest is supported in part by the Ford Foundation, JP Morgan Chase and Southwest Airlines through a grant from the NALAC Fund for the Arts. .
(Calaca Press is a Chicano family-owned small publishing house dedicated to publishing and producing unknown, emerging, and established progressive Chicano and Latino voices. With a commitment to social justice and human rights Calaca Press strives to bring about change through the literary arts.)”
via La Bloga: While Ramos is away, more books to giveaway!
