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Red Salmon Arts
Saludos desde el cora del South ‘Osten!
Friends, Community, and Supporters: We send you good energy as we enter el año nuevo. 2011 has been a happening year for us! Save Our Youth (SOY) is ON A MOVE, and continuing its work of utilizing the power of poetry, arts, and culture to empower, inspire, and liberate marginalized young people.
Your year-end , tax-deductible contribution helps Red...
Red Salmon Arts
December 2, 2011
Saludos desde el cora del South ‘Osten!
Friends, Community, and Supporters: We send you good energy as we enter el año nuevo. 2011 has been a happening year for us! Save Our Youth (SOY) is ON A MOVE, and continuing its work of utilizing the power of poetry, arts, and culture to empower, inspire, and liberate marginalized young people.
Your year-end , tax-deductible...
Calendar of Events December 2011
Thursday-Saturday December 1-3, 2011
The Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center presents
Flor de Nopal Literary Festival (Free and open to the general public.)
Thursday, December 1, 2011
7-9pm
The first night of the festival will feature 3 workshops on writing and creativity.
Facilitated by Scott Wiggerman, Jo Reyes-Boitel, and Moises S. L. Lara & ire’ne lara...
November 2011
5 posts
Calendar of Events December 2011
Thursday-Saturday December 1-3, 2011
The Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center presents
Flor de Nopal Literary Festival (Free and open to the general public.)
Thursday, December 1, 2011
7-9pm
The first night of the festival will feature 3 workshops on writing and creativity.
Facilitated by Scott Wiggerman, Jo Reyes-Boitel, and Moises S. L. Lara & ire’ne lara silva. Email...
October 2011
5 posts
September 2011
4 posts
August 2011
2 posts
July 2011
4 posts
WatchFeathered Serpent Bookstore Mural via salmonrojo
Café Libro Open Mike
7pm Friday July 22, 2011
Red Salmon Arts presents
Café Libro Open Mike
featuring Austin performer and writer kt shorb
Founder of the Generic Ensemble Company, kt shorb has trained in Suzuki Actor Training and Viewpoints with the SITI Company and Zen Zen Zo. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College Conservatory and a Master’s Degree from the University of Texas at Austin. She was...
June 2011
4 posts
Internationally acclaimed Latino Poets Naomi Ayala... →
please support the Resistencia Booktable at this CantoMundo Event!
Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 7 p.m. Free. Open to the public. Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Arts Center 600 River Street Austin, TX 78701
Award-winning poets Naomi Ayala and Benjamin Alire Sáenz will read from their acclaimed poetry collections at the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Arts Center at 7...
June 2011 Calendar of Events
7pm Friday June 10, 2011
Red Salmon Arts presents a DOUBLE Slough Press book signing and reading
With poet/writer Chuck Taylor (Texas A&M University)
author of the novel memoir Saving Sebastian: A Father’s Journey with His Son Through Drugs and
Chicano poet/writer Chris Carmona, author of the poetry collection BEAT: poems
Chuck Taylor teaches creative writing at Texas A&M...
May 2011
9 posts
Resistencia Bookstore Sp.11 Featured Item No. 4 →
“Raul Luis ‘Ruly’ Cruz is a young Mexican American who lives in El Paso, just across the Rio Grande from Mexico, home of his ancestors and some of his current relatives. As he grows from awkward adolescent to manhood, he negotiates the precarious borders of family, tradition, and identity trying to find his own place in the Chicano community and in the larger world. This is an...
Chicano writer Richard Yañez @ Resistencia this...
5pm Saturday May 28, 2011
Red Salmon Arts presents a book signing & reading of
Crossing Over Water: A Novel with Chicano author
Richard Yañez (El Paso, Tejaztlán)
Cross Over Water is a novel that illuminates the world of the Border in El Paso, Texas. Through a deeply-felt story, readers witness a Mexican-American boy, Raul Luis “Ruly” Cruz, negotiate a series of drowning moments. ...
Resistencia Bookstore Sp.11 Featured Item No. 3 →
“With a widely eclectic variety of protest art in mediums such as relief, lithography, collagraph, and photography, this major collection of contemporary politically engaged printmaking showcases art that uses themes of social justice and global equity to engage community members in conversation. Based on an art exhibition that has traveled to more than a dozen cities in North America and...
Resistencia Bookstore Sp.11 Featured Item No. 2 →
“COINTELPRO 101 exposes illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the U.S. government in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. “Cointelpro” refers to the official FBI COunter INTELligence PROgram carried out to surveil, imprison, and eliminate leaders of social justice movements and to disrupt, divide, and destroy the movements as well. Many of the...
“one thing i don’t need
is any more apologies
i got sorry greetin me at my...”
– ntozake shange, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf (via lalilster)
April 2011
6 posts
Resistencia Bookstore Sp.11 Featured Item No. 1 →
“Cultural Writing. Prison Abolition. Women’s Studies. Activism. In 1974, women imprisoned at New York’s maximum-security prison at Bedford Hills staged what is known as the August Rebellion. Protesting the brutal beating of a fellow prisoner, the women fought off guards, holding seven of them hostage, and took over sections of the prison. While many have heard of the 1971...
US court grants new sentencing for Mumia Abu-Jamal →
P.S. Mumia’s birthday was April 24th. Send him a note if you can: Mumia Abu-Jamal AM 8335 SCI Greene 175 Progress Dr. Waynesburg PA 15370
Highlight: 3rd Circuit Affirms its decision to overturn Mumia Abu-Jamal’s death sentence, orders DA to agree to life sentence or to hold a trial within six months (on just the sentence phrase) before a jury to decide life or death.
Ruling based on oral...
How YOU can help to help save Ethnic Studies in... →
Here’s a re-cap of the situation:
Mexican American/Chicano Studies is under a frontal attack by Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne and other Mexican haters. Ostensibly, HB 2281 outlaws the teaching of “ethnic studies” in Arizona, but in reality it targets SPECIFICALLY and ONLY the Mexican American Studies Department in the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD)—HB 2281 does not apply to any...
“The applause is distressing so would you hold that within yourselves. Thank you.”
– Audre Lorde as the first black poet presented in a solo reading by the American Academy of Poets. March 22, 1977 (via blackfeminismlives)
Resistencia Bookstore, casa de Red Salmon Arts
April 2011 Calendar of Events
7pm - 9pm Thursday April 21, 2011
Son en Movimiento: Talleres de Son Jarocho
Jarana
Verso y Poesia
Zapateado
$10 suggested donation: no one turned away due to lack of funds!
son en movimiento is a project focused on honoring our ancestral forms of healing through music, song & dance.
rooted in the resistance of african & indigenous slaves on the coast...
March 2011
5 posts
March 2011 Calendar of Events
7pm Friday March 25, 2011
Café Libro Open Mike
celebrates & honors the Woman Warrior Spirit
featuring
poets, writers, performers, organizers/activists:
Amanda Johnston
Kimberly Alidio
Erika González
Chandra Washington
Lisa Sweeney
We invite poet/artistas to come share/enjoy the cantos & cuentos of emerging & established writers/musicians.
Organized & hosted...
