Name: LA STORIES POETRY w/ CARRIBEAN FRAGOZA
Start: 2024-08-16T18:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-08-16T22:00:00-07:00
Location: Grand Performances

LA STORIES POETRY w/ CARRIBEAN FRAGOZA

Grand Performances

<a href="https://www.grandperformances.org/venue-info" title="https://www.grandperformances.org/venue-info" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">LOCATION, PARKING &amp; FAQ (Click here</a>)Join us for a special Friday night poetry show hosted by poet and writer Carribean Fragoza. What defines a sense of Home for you? Is it a place, is it a person, is it a feeling? LA has a complex, multilayered history that lives and evolves as a beautiful spectrum of culture and the arts, and with the help of carefully selected poets by Carribean Fragoza, we’ll explore the meaning of home from different perspectives. Whether one has indigenous roots to the land or is the descendant of immigrants, or finally discovered the feeling of home in LA, we’ll explore the idea and discover how deep ones roots can grow.

<h3>Carribean Fragoza</h3> Growing up in the peripheries of the Greater LA region and outside of Chicano communities of East LA that have largely come to define Chicano identity, including in culture and literature, has shaped my literary approach. Rather than sticking to usual tropes of Chicanx and Latinx writing, I break onto new thematic territory with unique character voices and perspectives. As a graduate of the Creative Writing MFA program at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), I push the boundaries of Chicanx literature using experimental approaches and devices and freely borrow from international queer and feminist literary movements. I have published fiction and poetry in publications such as BOMB Magazine, Huizache, Entropy, Palabra Literary Magazine and Emohippus.My arts/culture reviews and essays have been published in online national and international magazines such as the Aperture, Los Angeles Review of Books, L.A. Weekly, KCET, Culture Strike, and Tropics of Meta.I am also the founder and co-director of the South El Monte Art Posse (SEMAP), a multi-disciplinary arts collective.<a href="http://carribeanfragoza.com/" title="http://carribeanfragoza.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">website</a> <h3>Poets</h3><ul><li><a href="http://www.jenisemiller.com/" title="http://www.jenisemiller.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Jenise Miller</a> – <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jenisepalante/" title="https://www.instagram.com/jenisepalante/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.instagram.com/jenisepalante/</a> </li><li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/jorgebeest" title="https://www.instagram.com/jorgebeest" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">George Sanchez </a></li><li><a href="https:// https://www.pbssocal.org/people/marco-vera" title="https:// https://www.pbssocal.org/people/marco-vera" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Marco Vera</a> - <a href="https://url.avanan.click/v2/___https://www.instagram.com/marco_vera_video_editor___.YXAzOmdwczphOm86ZDA5MWZiMGJkZTU0NmQ1NTJkN2YxOGM4OTAzMDRmNGI6NjplMzQ2OmY4ZTcyMDAwNjQ0OTNkNjM0YWZhMDBhMTZiYmE4MmJkZGE5NjQyNzBkMGNjMjEyMTkxNDEwODkyOTAzODk0MmM6aDpGOk4" title="https://url.avanan.click/v2/___https://www.instagram.com/marco_vera_video_editor___.YXAzOmdwczphOm86ZDA5MWZiMGJkZTU0NmQ1NTJkN2YxOGM4OTAzMDRmNGI6NjplMzQ2OmY4ZTcyMDAwNjQ0OTNkNjM0YWZhMDBhMTZiYmE4MmJkZGE5NjQyNzBkMGNjMjEyMTkxNDEwODkyOTAzODk0MmM6aDpGOk4" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.instagram.com/marco_vera_video_editor</a></li><li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/atrojen" title="https://www.instagram.com/atrojen" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Jennifer Carr</a> </li><li><a href="https://journalists.org/profiles/tanzila-ahmed/" title="https://journalists.org/profiles/tanzila-ahmed/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Taz Ahmed </a>– &nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/tazzystar/" title="https://www.instagram.com/tazzystar/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.instagram.com/tazzystar/</a> </li><li><a href="https://creative-capital.org/artists/randa-jarrar/" title="https://creative-capital.org/artists/randa-jarrar/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Randa Jarrar</a> – <a href="https://www.instagram.com/rajarrar/" title="https://www.instagram.com/rajarrar/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.instagram.com/rajarrar/</a> </li></ul>&nbsp;<h3>Music by </h3>Angelo Yousef – <a href="https://www.instagram.com/angeloyousefsee/" title="https://www.instagram.com/angeloyousefsee/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.instagram.com/angeloyousefsee/</a>

This project was made possible in part by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture through the following programs: as part of Creative Recovery LA, an initiative funded by the American Rescue Plan, and the Organizational Grant Program; a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Supervisor Hilda Solis, The Green Foundation, The Norris Foundation, and with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit <a href="http://www.calhum.org/" title="http://www.calhum.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.calhum.org</a>.Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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