This Friday, May 1st, at Embargo Bar downtown FW, Tejas

mic + pOetry=SPOKEN WORD allowed-->PALABRAZOS 5/1/09

Da'Shade Moonbeam - an actual spoken word capoeirista, not a Manga character name...

Natasha Carrizosa - local long-tressed poet of romance and survival, with sabor del Caribe...

Mary Melisse Mier - ex-Caravan of Dreams Theater actress/director and now poet/playwright/director based in Santa Fe (once traveled on a Chinese junk--a ship, y'all--'round the world, performing classical theater works everywhere from Germany to Kathmandu..)...

Angelo Jaramillo - bard and theater performer, teen arts educator and published poet, also from Santa Fe...

Ernesto Abraham Garcia - San Antonio-based writer and emerging filmmaker, is in love with anarchy, netflix, and a baby boy named Samuel (his son)...

All of these folks AND a few others, AND their VIDEO POEMS,
will be presented to you, on Friday, May 1st, in our

2nd Annual PALABRAZOS festival of performance literature.


JOIN US ! BRING $$ FOR BOOKS, RAFFLE TICKETS, T-SHIRTS,
and mojitos/cervezas at the bar.

otherwise, this SHINDIGGITY is FREE of charge. o dollas admission.

love the poetry that unites us. spend a great evening w/ me...
and a few other talents of note.


[thanks to INOPE for the dope flyer design!]

2nd Annual PALABRAZOS Festival of Literary Performance - Friday, May 1st - FW, Tejas

The upcoming PALABRAZOS Festival of Literary Performance
will be taking place this coming Friday, May 1st, 2009,
at Embargo Bar - 210 E. 8th Street - downtown Fort Worth.

Free and Open to the Public.

This is the SECOND annual PALABRAZOS, and we are no less excited this year to present some of the most compelling performing poets of Texas and beyond.

Natasha Carrizosa and Joaquin Zihuatanejo, both based in the DFW Metroplex, will kick off the Festival with their poignant and riveting tales of bicultural life and urban tribulations.

We will also be featuring two poets from Santa Fe, New Mexico: Mary Melisse Mier and Angelo Jaramillo. They are both theater artists, playwrights, and poets.

As well, we are excited to be hosting Da'Shade Moonbeam, an award-winning nationally-ranked slam poet and hiphop performing artist.

Three video poems, by artists from San Antonio and Santa Fe, will be screened as part of the Festival.

We hope you will join us in this exciting display of contemporary performance literature.

PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD -- The event is free and open to the public.

*************

SPECIAL INVITATION!

In order to raise some needed funds to be able to produce
the PALABRAZOS Festival, we are hosting a benefit party
at

The Fox and Hound Pub and Grill
Upstairs Lounge
604 Main Street - downtown Fort Worth
6pm

on THIS COMING TUESDAY, April 28th!!

Come by for complimentary appetizers
and
the opportunity to hear about our
unique literary festival - the one and only
PALABRAZOS Festival of Literary Performance.

Your donations can help support a
grassroots project that encourages
literacy and showcases some of the
finest spoken word artists and
performing poets from Texas and beyond.

Join us this coming Tuesday, April 28th,
for our pre-festival fundraiser!!

Thank you very much for your kind consideration.

para palabras,

San Anto's CineFestival 2009 - call for entries - deadline Tomorrow!

31st Annual CineFestival Call for Entries
Deadline: Mon., Dec. 8, 2009


CineFestival en San Antonio, the nation’s oldest and longest-running Latino film festival, is seeking films for its 31st annual celebration, which will take place from February 5-8, 2009 at the historic Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio, Texas. The theme for this year's festival is “New World Onda: Building a Dynamic Media Society.”

CineFestival is seeking the best Latino features, shorts, documentaries, animation, experimental films and youth works for its 31th annual festival. The call for entries deadline is Monday, Dec. 8, 2008.

The four-day event, which kicks off on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009, will feature screenings, workshops, panel discussions, networking opportunities, gala celebrations and musical performances. Sunday will be a seniors and family-friendly film day. Innovative uses of new technology will also be highlighted through competitions, demonstrations of new cameras and software, and the involvement of youth filmmakers from video programs throughout San Antonio.

CineFestival will also feature the prestigious Premio Mesquite audience award and juried awards for Best Feature, Best Short, Best Experimental Film, Best South Texas First Film, and Best San Antonio Young Filmmaker.

CineFestival is ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS postmarked thru December 8th. For information on how to submit a film or to download the Call for Entries, visit the CineFestival Web site at cinefestivalsa.org. A link to the Withoutabox submission form can also be found at cinefestivalsa.org. For more information, contact Sandra Pena Sarmiento or Victor Payan at cine@cinefestivalsa.org.

The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center is 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1980 to preserve, promote and develop the arts and culture of the Chicano/Latino/Native American peoples for all ages and backgrounds through public and educational programming in six disciplines: dance, literature, media arts, theater arts, visual arts and music. For more information, visit www.guadalupeculturalarts.org or call 210-271-3151.


Links:

2009 CineFestival Homepage: http://www.cinefestivalsa.org
Downloadable Submission Form: http://www.cinefestivalsa.org/images/pdf/cf09_entry_form.pdf
Withoutabox.com Submission Page: http://www.withoutabox.com/login/6820