¡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
Friday Oct. 24 - People Organized in Defense of the Earth & her Resources (PODER) presents a platica (discussion) on Nature’s Pharmacy with La Capitana Helga Garcia-Garza Chonchero Azteca Chichimeca. The platica will bring awareness of our natural environment - nature’s pharmacy and its ability to heal us. Helga continues to practice our traditional ways of healing with mother earth’s healing plants and flowers. 7pm @ Resistencia Bookstore
For more information contact: Poder 512/472-9921 or email: Poder@austin.rr.com / www.Poder-texas.org
Saturday Oct. 25 - Festival de las Plantas: Honoring our Plants: Grandparents, Remedies, Family: 11am - 4pm
11 am Ceremonial Blessing with Danza Conchero
Danza Conchero, Workshop with Capitana Helga Garza: Traditional healing with plants
Kid’s arts & crafts and stroy-telling. Lunch served at noon.
Roy Guerrero Colorado River Park
800 Grove Blvd. (off E. Riverside Dr.)
Sponsored by PODER and Alma de Mujer/ Contact PODER: 472-9921 poder@austin.rr.com/ Alma de Mujer ph: 258-3380 fax: 258-1858
Saturday November 8 - Rose Twofeathers Hernandez, local native American artisan and lightworker will be offering a two hour workshop- The Healing Medicine of Feathers: A Workshop on Feather Medicine. 5pm
· Creating a personal feather duster or smudging tool using materials provided
· Learning techniques to cleanse the body’s auric field
· Practice on healing on other participants
The workshop includes one turkey feather, sewing materials, personal instruction, and special medicine for the feather’s quill. There is a fee of $20.00 which covers the cost of all materials and instruction. You are encouraged to bring your personal feathers to add to your tool. Rare Macaw feathers will be available at an additional fee. The intention of sharing this knowledge is to preserve traditions, to understanding the process and its use for everyday healing, and to spread the lightwork. Please call the bookstore to sign up to secure your place as there is limited seating. Phone # is 512-416-8885. For specific inquires, please call Rose @ 512-577-7595.
Rose Twofeathers has been a practitioner in crystal healing and lightwork for over 21 years, has made healing tools and jewelry for over 18 years, and has taught the technique of crafting for 8 years. She is Keeper of the Rock for her Mayan ancestors.
New & Recent Titles from Resistencia Bookstore
State of Exile: Poems by Cristina Peri Rossi/translated from Spanish by Marilyn Buck (City Lights Books)
Telling Tongues: A Latin@ Anthology on Language Experience edited by Louis G. Mendoza & Toni Nelson Herrera (Red Salmon Press/Calaca Press)
Conquest: Sexual Violence & American Indian Genocide by Andrea Smith (South End Press)
bloodbeats: vol. 2: the bootleg joints by ernest hardy (RedBone Press)
Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing & Prison in a Penal Democracy edited by Joy James (Duke Univ. Press)
where the apple falls: poems by Samiya Bashir (RedBone Press)
Prisoners of the War on Drugs by the real cost of prisons project (comic book)
Falling Angels: Cuentos y Poemas by Olga Garcia Echeverria (Calaca Press)
The First & Second Declarations of Havana by Fidel Castro (Pathfinder Press)
Voices from the Classroom by Ramon Moncivais
Resistencia Bookstore, casa de Red Salmon Arts, 1801-A S. First St., Austin, Tejas, 512.416.8885, E-mail: revolu@swbell.net
Red Salmon Arts is funded in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves deserves great art.
