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Art That Heals, Inc. is gearing up for a new (9th) season of Coffee Talk Series @ Jitterz Coffee Bar (1625 N. Conway Ave.) in Mission, Texas monthly on Second Saturdays from 8 to 10:30 p.m.. Coffee Talk Series was started in 2002 in Rio Grande City at The Art Shop as a program of Art That Heals, Inc., a nonprofit organization. The mission of Art That Heals is to encourage cultural literacy in the Rio Grande Valley by promoting the arts and to use art to help end the AIDS pandemic.
Emcees and entertainers/musicians are still needed. All sorts of writing genres encouraged. This is a family establishment and no cursing or inappropriate language is allowed. Please respect the policy.
For information about Art That Heals, Inc. visit www.athinc.org.
For information about Coffee Talk Series contact Daniel at poetmariachi@hotmail.com
For information about Jitterz Coffee Bar visit www.jitterzcoffeebar.com
Welcome to the 2nd Edition of the Puro Pinche Poetry Newsletter!
The Narciso Martinez Cultural Arts Center (225 E. Stenger St., San Benito) Writers Forum meets the first Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. for literary readings. Everyone is welcome. Sign up in person to read or just come check it out.
The Harlingen Arts & Heritage Museum hosts literary readings/open mic the first Friday of each month.
Anyone interested in helping to organize (not read) the inaugural Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival, scheduled for April 2008, is welcome to an organizational meeting with the founder, Daniel Garcia Ordaz, and other organizers on Monday, Aug. 13 at 7:30 p.m. at the Blue Onion Restaurant (423 S. International Blvd., Weslaco). For a menu, map, coupon request, etc. visit http://www.myblueonion.com/. For information on the meeting contact Daniel @ (956) 358-7211 or visit Valley International Poetry Festival 2008 www.elzarapepresss.com/vipf.html. (Note, the meeting was announced for McAllen, but they have limited space, so it'll be in Weslaco in the bar section.)
Poetry at CineSol: Organizers of the 14th Annual CineSol Film Festival that will be opening on August 31 – September 2 (Labor Day Weekend) at the South Padre Island Convention Centre are seeking to also include an art show and poetry segment. If you are interested in participating, please call Monica Solomon at 956-454-9846.
mischieviousIf you’re not already familiar, www.artsrgv.com is THE PLACE to send your calendar entries way in advance—from calls for submissions to readings, to movies, etc. Anything arts and culture is allowed. Run by Virginia Haynie Gause and George Gause—librarians at UT-Pan American. No registration necessary.
KGBT-4 Action 4 News allows online visitors to register and submit calendar entries at http://web.team4news.com/cgi-bin/suite/calendar/calendar.cgi. A great way to pass on event information.
Similar page: All the Rio Grande Valley’s Freedom Communications newspapers have gotten together to start www.theV247.com You need to register to help spread the word about arts events.
coolOctavio Quintanilla is in the Valley for the summer, taking a break from his studies at UNT in Denton, where he’s getting his Ph.D. in literature. His work was recently published in Versal: http://www.wordsinhere.com/framefiles/versal.html
flirtyPhotos of the inaugural Poetry Pachanga are now online. Many more to come. Visit http://www.elzarapepress.com/popafotos/ where you can add a comment and print out photos.
LitLine: info and links to small presses, journals, etc. http://www.litline.org/links/journals.html
Anthologies: Scroll down to “Writers Wanted” section: http://www.anthologiesonline.com/index.html
Information about the new Valley International Poetry (VIP) Festival:
http://www.elzarapepress.com/vipf.html
celebratoryComing off the heals of a very successful Poetry Pachanga in April 2007, the Rio Grande Valley poetry community is ready to hold a bona fide poetry festival of our own!
EL ZARAPE PRESS invites anyone interested, not in reading, but in organizing the inaugural Valley International Poetry Festival, is invited to an organizational meeting at which we will be identifying committee members and assigning duties. R.S.V.P. IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED. Information for poets who with to be involved is forthcoming.
THIS EVENT LOCATION IS TENTATIVE AND MAY BE MOVED DEPENDING ON PARTICIPATION. PLEASE CHECK AGAIN WITH EVENT ORGANIZER!! Tentative location: The Blue Onion restaurant in Weslaco (on FM 1015) at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 13, 2007.
If interested, contact Daniel García Ordaz, at wegotwords@hotmail.com or 956-358-7211.
For information on the VIP Festival, visit http://www.elzarapepress.com/vipf.html
loudJulian R. Rodríquez, owner of Mi Taller Pottery Studio in Mission is opening his doors to poets/writers to help end the “Summer Heat Series” he’s been hosting at his place. Next exhibit is July 6 at 7 p.m., but as far as readings go, Julian would like to have readers on August 3 during the “Valley Heat” group exhibition. Julian is a first-class potter.
400 N. Conway Ave., Mission. Doors open at 7 p.m. Readings at 7:30 p.m.
If interested, contact Daniel García Ordaz, at wegotwords@hotmail.com or 956-358-7211. Depending on who signs up we might move over to Jitterz Coffee Bar afterwards for a second reading to make the travel worth it. (About a mile down the road on Conway.)
a-okJuly 2, 2007
Dear fellow poets and friends:
Welcome to the inaugural issue of “Puro Pinche Poetry” Newsletter/Blog at http://www.elzarapepress.com/ppp
My hope is to use the newsletter to unite the Rio Grande Valley poetry community. Prose writers interested in poetry are welcome, of course.
The plan is to send out the PPP Newsletter on the first week of each month.
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