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October 6th, 2012Americas Latino Festival Preview Eventfeaturingbest-selling authors and music performances, including Denver Sound’sSlim Cessna’s Auto Clubconcert with Rocky Mountain PBSChannel 6 Facebook invite
Inanticipation of the new 2013 Americas Latino Festival to take place in Boulder, October, 2013,a preview event will be launched today, October 6th, 2012 on the University of Colorado Boulder campus.
The preview event features apresentation by festival director IreneVilar, a Guggenheim Fellow and Latino Book Award winner, and a talk bybest-selling author Luis J. Rodriguez,author of Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A., recognized asa major figure in contemporary Chicano literature.
The program includes a piano recitalof Musicacross the Americas, a musical intermezzo of the Colombian folkloricgroup Tucandirá, and a performanceof Denver Sound band Slim Cessna’s AutoClub. All events take place inside the Black Box theater of the ATLASInstitute building on campus. Events are free and open to the public, with theexception of the Slim Cessna’s Auto Club concert, which will be recorded forRocky Mountain PBS Channel 6 as part of the newly released Boulder Box Setseries. Tickets for that event can be purchased at $20/$50 through www.americaslatinofestival.org.For more info contact OlgaCorrell, 303-717-6619, olga@americaslatinofestival.org
The America for the Arts festivalwill take place October 3-6, 2013 at the University of Colorado Boulder. Over75 speakers in the areas of human rights and justice, conservation, science,literature, music, visual arts, and film will participate in this eventcommitted to promoting a panamerican consciousness and cross culturalunderstanding. The 2013 region: Mexico & the Caribbean. Theme: The Exhaustion of the Earth.
Among those confirming attendance for the 2013 event are: PulitzerPrize-winning writer Junot Diaz,best-selling authors Isabel Allende,Mayra Santos Febres, and Cristina Garcia,Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal, Guggenheim Fellow and International Literature AwardWinner Daniel Alarcon, author andfilm director Lucia Puenzo, Babelfilm director Alejandro GonzalezInarritu, The Future of Food producer Deborah Garcia, actorand film producer Benicio del Toro, GuggenheimFellow Laura Restrepo, PulitzerPrize winner playwright Nilo Cruz,Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and NPR Latino USA anchor Maria Hinojosa, Latin Grammy Award winnerNestor Torres, PBS NewsHour anchor Ray Suarez, and McArthur GeniusGrant fellows: installation artist PepeOsorio, percussionist Dafnis Prieto,jazz saxophonist and composer MiguelZenon, photographers Camilo JoseVergara and Susan Meiseles, andNobel Laureates Derek Walcott and Mario Vargas Llosa. PulitzerPrize-winning reporter Mirta Ojitowill cover the event for the national press.
For questions concerning donationsand sponsorship, contact: irene@americaslatinofestival.org.
For more information, go to: http://vilarcreativeagency.com/about/
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Bloguero authors in L.A.
Rudy Ch. Garcia will be joining fellow Blogueros Daniel Olivas, author of The Book of Want and children's books author René Colato Laínez (his latest, Let's Play Football / Juguemos al futból) at the Latino Book & Family Festival, next Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012, on the Calif. State University campus, Dominguez Hills.

Olivas' panels: Writing in Multiple Genres (10:00am) and How To Get Published (1:00, Garcia, too!). Laínez' panels: Using Multicultural Literature in the Home & Classroom (10:00am) and What's New in Children's Picture Books (1:00). Garcia will also be on the Great Young Adult Fiction panel (3:00). This year the event is being held in conjunction with La Feria Es El Momento - Edúcalos, presented by KMEX Univision. Check the program at the event for readings or signings.
If you don't make that, you can catch Garcia's Reading & Signing of his Chicano fantasy novel, The Closet of Discarded Dreams at Tía Chucha's Centro Cultural, 13197-A Gladstone Ave. in Sylmar, Califas, on Sunday Oct. 14, 2:00-3:00. Check here for other last-minute L.A. and Texas appearances.
After that, Garcia heads to San Anto, Austin & Houston, Oct. 25-31 on his book tour: River Oaks Bookstore, Fri. Oct. 26 in Houston; and Southwest Workers Union, Sun. Oct. 28 and Palo Alto College, Tue. Oct. 30 in San Anto.
Check Dan Olivas' and René Colato Laínez' websites for other appearances.