Monthly Archives: November 2011

Tounge and Groove Presents:

This Saturday         November 19, 2011

LA Plaza de Cultura y Artez                                                                                                           501 North Main Street                                                                                                                     Los Angeles, CA 90012                                                                                                             3:00pm – 4:30pm                                                                                                                                 (across the street from Olivera Street and the Pico House)                                          For more information about LA Plaza, visit: lapca.org 

Enjoy a FREE! reading at a new LA Cultural Center, the La Plaza.

Cuentos Del Pueblo a series of short fiction, story telling, poetry and music produced by the always ambitious Conrad Romo.

This month features Dagoberto Gilb, Before the End, After the Beginning, Susana Chavez-Silverman Killer Cronicas: Bilingual Memories,                               Sam Quinones Antonio’s Gun and Delfino’s Dream:                                                         True Tales of Mexican Migration,                                                                                                                                           Poet Karla Diaz,                                                                                                                                   and musical guest Charles De Castro.

Dagoberto Gilb was born in Los Angeles. He attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Gilb embarked on a career in construction, became a journeyman carpenter, and joined the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners in Los Angeles. Influenced by Raymond Carve he turned to short stories. He now has written six books and has been published widely including the New Yorker magazine and Harpers. He won the 1994 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award.

Sam Quinones is a journalist and author of two acclaimed books of nonfiction growing out of 10 years he spent in Mexico as a freelance writer. He teaches Tell Your True Tale writing workshops, and a storytelling experiment of the same name.

Susana Chávez-Silverman teaches courses on U.S. Latin@ and Latin American literature and culture at Pomona College in Claremont. The genesis of her book, Killer Crónicas: Bilingual Memories, was in bilingual, code-switching e-mails she wrote while living in Buenos Aires. She called these collective e-mail missives “crónicas” [chronicles], inspired by the rough-hewn, journalistic, often fantastic first-hand accounts of the so-called New World sent “home” by the early conquistadores. Her second book of crónicas, Scenes from la Cuenca de Los Angeles y otros Natural Disasters was published last year.

Karla Diaz is a writer, artist and educator born and raised in Los Angeles. She received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts. She has read her poetry, and exhibited art projects and put together shows in many local, national and international venues including MOCA, LACMA, Dab 717 Gallery in Cairo, Instituto Cervantez in Madrid to name a few. She is a former co-director of exhibitions at the New Chinatown Barbershop gallery in Los Angeles and a founding member of Slanguage Studio, an artist-run space in Wilmington where she currently runs exhibitions and programming.