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On Sept. 14th, Corazón del Pueblo, LA Eastside art space, will host a Floricanto Adelanto to welcome poets & writers in LA for the official Festival Flor y Canto: Yesterday • Today • Tomorrow. The reading will be styled after the recent Floricanto held at the Mission Cultural Center which doubled as the 40th Anniversary Celebration of El Tecolote newspaper, the Bay Area's community arts and literature publication. Poets & writers will be introduced briefly and given 4 - 5 minutes to share. There will be no features or headliners. Poets will be assigned slots on an alphabetical basis. Corazón del Pueblo is located at 2003 East 1st St., Los Angeles, CA 90033. We hope it will be an opportunity for younger writers and spoken word slingers from our communities across LA to become familiar with and be mentored by more established writers from across the state and the nation while stimulating the creation and development of an annual Eastside Festival de Libros y Letras.

Libros Schmibros, a community lending library and used bookstore located directly across the street from Corazón del Pueblo at 2000 East 1st, has graciously offered to provide space for book tables and signing opportunities for those writers who have books to sell or promote. Authors will be allowed to sell their own books at Libros Schmibros free of charge. Consignment sales opportunities for publishers will also be provided at the traditional rates. Writers and book vendors will be responsible for bringing their own tables.

Since space and time are limited, both the poetry/spoken word showcase slots and the book vending opportunities are being made available on a first-come, first-served basis. For local poets, priority will be given to those who have previously performed at Corazón del Pueblo.

The cut off date to sign up for the reading is Tuesday, September 7.

Participating poets/writers confirmed as of 9/1/10
Francisco X. Alarcon
Leon Arellano
Johnny Berrios
Sammy Carrera
Frank Escamilla
John Carlos de Luna
Reina Alejandra Prado
Abel Salas

Sincerely,
Corazon del Pueblo: Arts, Education & Action Collective
[email protected]

TO SIGN UP FOR THE READING, CALL 213.321.7115
TO RESERVE SPACE FOR BOOK VENDING/SIGNING, CALL 310.924.9821

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