The Pharr Literacy
Project & Cultural Arts Center is hosting a monthly gathering for
poets, lyricists, and story tellers alike. We invite you to come and
participate whether it is to perform or just to listen. This is our
first ever series and would like for it to grow into an annual event.
Help support Literacy and Cultural Arts. Amateurs and beginners are
welcome!
A Night of Poetry will be held every third Wednesday of the month.
April 17
If you are interested in performing please call (956) 783-7746 or email me at pmoreno@pharrliteracyproje
A little information about the Pharr Literacy Project & Cultural Arts Center:
PLP is a grassroots, faith based, community-driven program that is dedicated to providing literacy alternatives to those persons who, due to life circumstances, may otherwise find adult education an unrealistic goal. We are a 501 c3 organization, and funding is made possible through grants, individual contributions, business contributions, and fundraising events.
We do not discriminate anyone based on religion/race/gender/age.
A Night of Poetry will be held every third Wednesday of the month.
April 17
If you are interested in performing please call (956) 783-7746 or email me at pmoreno@pharrliteracyproje
A little information about the Pharr Literacy Project & Cultural Arts Center:
PLP is a grassroots, faith based, community-driven program that is dedicated to providing literacy alternatives to those persons who, due to life circumstances, may otherwise find adult education an unrealistic goal. We are a 501 c3 organization, and funding is made possible through grants, individual contributions, business contributions, and fundraising events.
We do not discriminate anyone based on religion/race/gender/age.
Friday, April 19th at the Echo Hotel, 7:30pm
We celebrate our 2-year anniversary in Edingburg with the poetry of Emmy Pérez. Emmy is the author of Solstice (Swan Scythe Press). She has received poetry fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her work has appeared in various publications, including The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry. She is an associate professor at the University of Texas-Pan American and also teaches creative writing in detention centers.centers.
To help us celebrate we welcome featured musicians: Mariachi Mariposas
Mariachi “Mariposas” was founded in the summer of 2012 in an effort to preserve and promote our Mexican music and Hispanic heritage through the views and musical expression of a female. In a male dominated genre, Mariachi Mariposas has united to form an all-female mariachi group who share the passion and the love for mariachi music and who are dedicated to being positive role models for our young student mariachis in schools across the United States.
Our featured artists will be announced soon.
Partial proceeds from this event will benefit the Gloria Anzaldúa Scholarship for Social Justice and Mexican American Studies.
One of our featured artists: Celeste De Luna
“My artwork seeks to validate Xicano/indigenous people’s experiences, my personal narrative in that experience, and strives to be aesthetically pleasing, even though some subjects may be disturbing. Common themes in my work include migrant/border experiences of women, children, and families, the experience of mixed documentation status families, the social effects of documentation status, and the spiritual struggle of conflicting identities, including “survivor’s guilt”. A migrant can be defined as a person who physically moves from one country to another. I see myself as a migrant moving back and forth through multiple conceptual worlds.” C. De Luna
Celeste De Luna is visual artist/art educator from lower South Texas. She has exhibited her work in various cities in the Rio Grande Valley, San Antonio, San Diego, and Chicago. De Luna is a part time instructor at South Texas College, continues her studio practice, and collaborative creative projects. You can reach her at litebluna@me.com
Featured artist: BEATRIZ GUZMÁN VELÁSQUEZ is an interdisciplinary artist born in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The border crossing of Reynosa-Hidalgo has seen her grow up slowly giving her sorrow and happiness. Writing and producing art, pauses her past to give her time to take in the hardships she has experienced and seen at the border.
April 25th
The public is invited to the opening reception for the 6th Annual Rio Grande Valley Int'l. Poetry Festival on Thursday, Apr. 25, 2013 at the Edinburg City Auditorium from 7 to 9 p.m. Come and mingle with the anthologized poets and featured poets.
Boundless will be published as a perfect bound edition and will be available on amazon.com. Editors are Katie Hoerth (your fantastically awesome professor), Ileana Garcia-Spitz, and Daniel Garcia Ordaz.
Previous editions include poets from across Texas, New York, Iran, India, Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Bangladesh, and England, etc.
We strongly prefer to communicate by e-mail: rgvipf@hotmail.com.
Copies of Boundless 2013 will be available for purchase.
April 26th
Schneider’s German Gasthaus & Beergarden, 5507 N. Ware Rd., McAllen, TX
Host: Edward Vidaurre
Youth Poetry Slam Contest: 6:15—6:45 p.m.
Featured Poet Reading: Emmy Pérez 6:45—7:05 p.m.
College/University Readings: 7:10—8:20 p.m.
Adult Poetry Slam featuring HBO Def Poet Amalia Ortiz, Lupe Méndez, : 8:20 – 10 p.m.
Note: All participants check in at the stage when announced.
See rules at www.vipf.org/slam.htm
*Note: If you'd like to READ a poem or story at this event, let me know asap! In place of an essay, you can turn in the creative piece you've read. Woot woot*
April 27th -- Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival Events
MORNING READINGS: 11 A.M. TO 12:15 P.M.
Jitterz Coffee Bar, 1625 Conway Ave., Mission, TX
Host:
Readers: Diana Dominguez, Vanessa Brown, Corey Mangan, Matthew Nolan, Shirley Rickett
Dustin Sekula Memorial Library, 1906 S. Closner Blvd., Edinburg, TX
Hostess: Letty Leija, Library Director
Readers: Emmy Pérez, Oscar Peña, María Guadalupe Perkins, Fred Rangel, Cesar De León, Celina Gómez, La Lupe, Meliton Hinojosa
Note: Café onsite.
Pharr Library, 121 E. Cherokee St., Pharr, TX
Host: Adolfo García, Library Director
Readers: Trevor Wainwright, Alan Oak, David Barcelona, Christopher Carmona, P.W. Covington, Hector Gómez, Peter Browne, Steve Vera
Note: Meet in the North Star Meeting Room—a free-speech space.
Weslaco Museum, 500 S. Texas Blvd., Weslaco, TX
Hostess: María Arrieta, Program Coordinator
Readers: Tammy Gómez, Mary Ann Escamilla, Katie Hoerth, Linda Romero, Rachel Udow, Yolanda López, Clare Nerio
Narciso Martinez Cultural Arts Center, 225 E. Stenger St., San Benito, TX
Hostess: Brenda Nettles Riojas, Founder, VIPF
Readers: Lupe Méndez, Mona Sizer, Edward Vidaurre, José Chapa, Daniel García Ordaz, James (Grizzy) Griswold
Galeria 409, 409 E. Elizabeth St., Brownsville, TX
Host: Mark Clark
Readers: Amalia Ortiz, Chip Dameron, Bryan Nichols, Gene Novogrodsky, Rudy García, Julieta La Poeta, Arturo Saldaña, Brenda Nettles Riojas
*Early Lunchtime Readings: 12:30—2 p.m.
Rio Grande Bar & Grill Restaurant, 417 W Van Buren Ave, Harlingen, TX
Host: Edward Vidaurre
Readers: Lupe Méndez, Mona Sizer, Mary Ann Escamilla, Katie Hoerth, Linda Romero, Rachel Udow, Edward Vidaurre, José Chapa, Daniel García Ordaz, James (Grizzy) Griswold
*Later Lunchtime Reading: 12:45—2:15 p.m.
Olivier’s Bakery, 1126 Pecan Blvd., McAllen, TX
Hostess: Olivier
Readers: Emmy Pérez, Tammy Gómez, Diana Dominguez, Yolanda López, Clare Nerio, María Guadalupe Perkins, Celina Gómez, Vanessa Brown, Corey Mangan, Matthew Nolan, Shirley Rickett, La Lupe
Leroy’s Chicken & Burgers, 408 W Santa Rosa Ave. (Hwy. 107) Elsa, TX
Hostess:
Readers: Oscar Peña, Fred Rangel, Cesar De León, David Barcelona, Christopher Carmona, P.W. Covington, Hector Gómez, Trevor Wainwright, Alan Oak, Peter Browne, Steve Vera, Meliton Hinojosa
Hueso de Fraile, 837 E. Elizabeth St. Suite D, Brownsville, TX
Hostess: Brenda Nettles Riojas, Founder, V.I.P.F.
Readers: Amalia Ortiz, Chip Dameron, Bryan Nichols, Gene Novogrodsky, Rudy García, Julieta La Poeta, Arturo Saldaña, Brenda Nettles Riojas
Afternoon Delights (Readings)
*2:45—4 p.m.
Eagle Bean Coffee, 2236 W Trenton Rd, Edinburg, TX
Hostess:
Readers: Emmy Pérez, Tammy Gómez, Diana Dominguez, Yolanda López, Clare Nerio, María Guadalupe Perkins, Celina Gómez, Vanessa Brown, Corey Mangan, Matthew Nolan, Shirley Rickett, La Lupe
*3—4:30 p.m.
Weslaco Museum, 500 S. Texas Blvd., Weslaco, TX
Hostess: María Arrieta, Program Coordinator
Readers: Oscar Peña, Fred Rangel, Cesar De León, David Barcelona, Christopher Carmona, P.W. Covington, Hector Gómez, Trev Wainwright, Alan Oak, Peter Browne, Steve Vera, Meliton Hinojosa
3:45—4:45 p.m.
Paragraphs On Padre, 5055 Padre Blvd., South Padre Island, TX
Hostess: Joni Montover
Readers: Lupe Méndez, Mary Ann Escamilla, Katie Hoerth, Linda Romero, Rachel Udow, Edward Vidaurre, José Chapa, Daniel García Ordaz, James (Grizzy) Griswold, Rudy García, Bryan Nichols
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