Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Aztec Calendar Coloring Book

From Juan Tejeda:

Camaradas:

Aztlan Libre Press is proud to present to you our second publication, an Aztec Calendar Coloring Book, that contains the 20 day symbols, or tonalli, of the tonalpohualli, day count of the sacred Aztec calendar, with their names in Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, Español, and English. We are very proud of this publication and for Christmas we are offering a special discount price. The book is regularly priced at $10 each, plus $2.50 for shipping and handling, but if you buy directly from our website at www.aztlanlibrepress.com through January 15, 2011, you can get two coloring books for $15, plus $2.50 shipping and handling (use the drop down menu).

We are very excited about this coloring book and feel that it is a fun, creative way to learn about our American Indian/Xican@ history, art, language, and culture. It makes a great Christmas gift for children of all ages and all colors. Happy Holidays to all of you and we wish you and your familias the best of health, heart, and art in 2011.

In tlanextia in tonatiuh/Que su sol sea brillante/May your sun be brilliant,
Maya Quetzalli, Anisa y Juan

For more info, find our press release here: www.aztlanlibrepress.com/press/

Monday, November 29, 2010

Meet Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez



The Society of Latino and Hispanic Writers is hosting New York Times bestselling author Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez for a discussion and book-signing on her recently released novel, The Three Kings: A Christmas Dating Story, at Barnes and Noble, San Pedro Crossing, Dec. 5 at 1 p.m.

The event is free and open to the public.

Valdes-Rodriguez is the author of The Dirty Girls Social Club and has more than one million books in print in 11 languages. Since her bestselling debut novel was published in 2004, Alisa has been named one of the 25 Most Influential Hispanics in the United States by Time magazine, “Woman of the Year” by Latina magazine, and a “Breakout Literary Star” by Entertainment Weekly.

Tamales, Comadres and Civilization

The following information is from Tres Rebecas
711 S St. Mary's
San Antonio, TX 78205
210-224-5733

Join us for a night of
Tamales, Comadres, and Civilization!
Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010
5:30-8:30 pm


Meet the authors and get the expanded second edition of San Antonio's delightful book about our favorite holiday food - tamales!

Affirming the fun, the flavor, and the 7,000 years of tamalada history throughout the Americas, "Tamales, Comadres, and the Meaning of Civilization" is a delightful collection of folk sayings, personal anecdotes, hints, recipes, a tamale corrido, humor, a blog duel, and the philosophy of women's collaborations.

Professor Ellen Riojas Clark and award-winning author Carmen Tafolla team up in this woman-led project to create a beautiful gift that wraps the culture of the community like a steaming tamal!

Paperback Edition
65 pages
$10.95
Support the Escuelitas Program and Hispanas Unidas with your purchases this evening!

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Sunday, November 28, 2010

The Three Kings: A Christmas Dating Story

Spent the weekend reading "The Three Kings: A Christmas Dating Story" by New York Times bestselling author Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez. It was a book I didn't want to put down! Alisa has captured lightning in a bottle again (The Dirty Girls Social Club) by writing a captivating and delightful story that goes well with the upcoming holiday season.

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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Josie Mixon update

From Josie Mixon:

My Dear Poetry Friends and supporters of poetry,

We are taking some time off for the Holidays from our venue at Barnes & Noble Ingram Festival and will be returning the first Wednesday of February, 2011. That was so weird to type. On behalf of Jim Brandenburg, Barnes & Noble and I (Josie Mixon), I want to wish everyone a wonderful holiday season. Be safe, compassionate and enjoy all the season has to offer. Keep writing!!!!!!

I check my email so don't hesitate to contact me.

Happy Holidays!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Merry Christmas!

Josie Mixon
Jim Brandenburg

Barnes & Noble, Ingram Festival
Every 1st & 3rd Wednesday
Poetry workshop 6pm
Open mic 7pm
Featured Guest 8pm

Monday, November 22, 2010

Reading at The Twig

READING AT THE TWIG BOOK SHOP

Pearl Brewery
200 East Grayson, Suite 124
San Antonio 78215
210.826.6411
Friday, December 3, 2010, 7:00 p.m.

STEVEN G. KELLMAN AND WENDY BARKER

Woody Allen and Diane Keaton? Well, no—just Steve Kellman and Wendy Barker in a rare spousal duet. Steve will read selections from his acclaimed biography of Henry Roth, Redemption, and from a couple of his award-winning essays, as well as (revealing that all along he has actually been a closet poet) a few of his own poems. Wendy, Poet-in-Residence at UTSA, will read from her newest collections, Nothing Between Us and Things of the Weather, in addition to brand new poems. Don’t miss the chance to hear Kellman and Barker together!


Floyd L. Lamrouex, J.D., M.B.A.
Attorney at Law
4147 Acorn Hill, Ste. 1
San Antonio, TX 78217
210-656-3131
lamrouex@sbcglobal.net

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Book Review: A Salute to our Heroes

Here is my book review of "A Salute to our Heroes: The U.S. Marines" that appears in today's San Antonio Express-News: REVIEW

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Friday, November 19, 2010

David Montejano Presentation



Thank you to everyone who attended last night's event featuring David Montejano at Barnes and Noble, San Pedro Crossing. The discussion and book signing drew a large crowd, with a lot of Society members in attendance, including our president, Lupe Gonzalez.

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Thursday, November 18, 2010

David Montejano at Barnes and Noble today!

I would like to invite you to attend an event at Barnes and Noble, San Pedro Crossing, on Thursday, Nov. 18 at 7 p.m. David Montejano will be discussing and signing his book, Quixote's Soldiers: A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966-1981.

Montejano is a native San Antonian and a professor Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His fields of specialization include community studies, historical and political sociology and race and ethnic relations. He is the autor of the award-winning Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986 and the editor of Chicano Politics and Society in the late Twentieth Century.

Don't miss this opportunity to hear Professor Montejano give us his insight into the Chicano Movement in San Antonio! Free and open to the public. Please help me spread the word and forward this email to everyone you know!!

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Vyjanthi Kashi

From Bihl House:

Visiting Indian Artist
VYJANTHI KASHI
in an Intimate Solo Dance Performance
THURSDAY, NOV. 18, 7 PM

Dear Friends of Bihl Haus Arts,

Please join us at Bihl Haus for an intimate evening of classical Indian dance by visiting artist Vyjanthi Kashi on Thursday, Nov. 18th, at 7 pm. Possessing an innate grace and seductive manner, Vyjanthi will move you with her haunting blend of passion, drama, and emotion. She performs in the ancient tradition of Kuchipudi, the classical dance form from the South-East Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, which is characterized by mercurial, animated movements and dramatic story telling. Vyjanthi will don the costume of the Kuchipudi dancer, which features brilliantly colored silks, a long pleated skirt panel, ornaments made of a light-weight wood called boorugu, dramatic eye makeup, and brass bell anklets.

Vjyanthi is known especially for two temple dances that are unique to Kuchipudi. In the Tarangam, Vyjanthi balances her feet on the raised edges of a brass plate and moves it in rhythmic patterns across the floor. In the Mayura Kauthvam, she ‘paints’ a picture of a lotus, peacock, or lion--vehicles of various Indian gods—with rhythmic footwork as she dances through colored powder spread on the floor.

Vyjayanthi Kashi is a performer, choreographher, therapist, teacher and dance researcher. Her works have been featured in several international festivals. She serves on the Arts and Cultural Committee of the Ministry of Tourism and Cultural, Government of India. Her film and television credits include documentaries and interviews in the broadcasting media. She is a regular motivational speaker and workshop leader, speaking on the arts and life, dance and yoga, therapy and body language, creativity and collaborations in the arts. With a vision to promote artistic and professional excellence, she founded Shambhavi School of Dance in 1993 and trained many dance aspirants. For more on Vyjanthi, including video dance performances, please go to http://www.vyjayanthikashi.com/index.htm

Hope we see you then!

Kellen

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

December's Cinco Minutos with You


NEW RULES FOR CINCO MINUTOS WITH YOU
HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA


Dr. Santiago Daydi-Tolson will be the Chairperson santiago.dayditolson@utsa.edu

For those who want to read at the Holiday Extravaganza on December 13, please:

a. Submit by email to Dr. Tolson what you want to read beginning today until November 28*

i. The work will be screened for the time limit of 5 minutes

ii. The work will also be screened for content

b. Writer will know by December 6 whether or not he/ she will be reading

*November 28 is the deadline, however, the sooner you submit your work, the better.

Thank you,
Lupe M. Gonzalez
President
Society of Latino and Hispanic Writers of San Antonio

Monday, November 15, 2010

David Montejano at Barnes and Noble, San Pedro, Nov. 18

I would like to invite you to attend an event at Barnes and Noble, San Pedro Crossing, on Thursday, Nov. 18 at 7 p.m. David Montejano will be discussing and signing his book, Quixote's Soldiers: A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966-1981.

Montejano is a native San Antonian and a professor Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His fields of specialization include community studies, historical and political sociology and race and ethnic relations. He is the autor of the award-winning Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986 and the editor of Chicano Politics and Society in the late Twentieth Century.

Don't miss this opportunity to hear Professor Montejano give us his insight into the Chicano Movement in San Antonio! Free and open to the public. Please help me spread the word and forward this email to everyone you know!!

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Steve Carter: Voice of a Mute Character


Steve Carter:
Voice of a Mute Character
Images captured through Pinhole Photography & Produced in Fine Art Prints
Opening Reception: Friday, November 19th
Exhibition Dates: November 19th- December 31st

StoneMetal Press Printmaking Center
1420 S. Alamo St. #101
210.227.0312
prints@stonemetalpress.com
StoneMetal Press is funded in part by grants from The Office of Cultural Affairs, City of San Antonio, The Texas Commission on the Arts, Texas Commission on the Arts, Humanities Texas and Alice B Kleberg Foundation.

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Friday, November 12, 2010

Greg Barrios at the Twig

From our President:

This is a good time to try and go as a group to support a Latino writer. Hope some of you can make it. I won't be able to this time. I'm going to West Texas to participate in an arts and crafts event at a museum. :) I'll be showcasing my book.

Gregg Barrios, La Causa will be at the Twig Book Shop, 200 E. Grayson, Suite 124, San Antonio, TX, on Friday, November 12, 2010 starting at 5 p.m.

Gregg Barrios' latest collection of poems La Causa is a fascinating interplay of the eras, voices, and regions of Aztlán, all in a simultaneous dialogue with each other. La Causa is an evolution in time, maturity, political sophistication, and expectation an invaluable document to any artistic or historical study of the soul of El Movimiento. The poems in this volume range from sonnets, concrete, songs, ballads, prose and narrative verse. It is a chronicle of the changes made in the aftermath of the Chicano Mexican American civil rights movement.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Playwright and poet Gregg Barrios comes to the arts after a successful career as a journalist for the Los Angeles Times, a book editor for the San Antonio Express-News, an editorial page editor for Rumbo, a Spanish language daily, and a teacher in Texas. Barrios has three previous poetry collections to his credit including Puro Rollo, The Air-Conditioned Apollo, and Healthy Self. His poetry has appeared in publications ranging from Hecho en Tejas, an anthology of Tejano literature, Latina magazine, and the UCLA anthology, Aztlán and Vietnam. More recently, his poem "Chale Guerra" was the only Latino contribution to the anthology Home Front: An America at War Reader.

Lupe M. Gonzalez
http://lmgonzalez.wordpress.com/
Writing stories by and about Latinas and their lives and loves.
Released Sep 23, 2009 - A Love for Eternity, TWRP, Vintage Miniature Rose
Too Late For Romance? (Debut Book, Jun 2008, The Wild Rose Press)

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Ruiz-Flores Book-signing, Nov. 20


Author Lupe Ruiz-Flores Booksigning
"The Battle of the Snow Cones"
Saturday, November 20, 2010 - 2 p.m.
Barnes & Noble - San Pedro Crossing
(Across from North Star Mall)
321 NW Loop 410, San Antonio, TX
Phone: 210-342-0008

Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Awaken the Sleeping Poet

A message from our friends:

Awaken the Sleeping Poet at the Twig on Tuesday, Nov. 9.

Valerie Martin Bailey and Carol Siskovic will be our
featured readers. Valerie is a grande dame of poetry
in San Antonio, Texas, and the Nation as a whole, and
Carol is an accomplished poet in her own right. Come
prepared to laugh and to have your emotions stirred by
these two exceptional Poets, this Tuesday night, November 9, at 7:00 p.m.

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Carol will begin at 7:00 p.m. followed by Valerie at 7:30. Open mic begins at 8:00,
so bring a poem to share, because Open Mic is where anybody in the audience can share their poetry.
Then, after open mic, our featured readers will close with an encore poem, each.

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The Twig Book Shop is the premiere poetry place in San Antonio.
Located at 200 E. Grayson, Ste. 124, San Antonio, TX in the
revitalized historic Pearl Brewery.

Bring yourself; bring a friend; bring a poem!
See you Tuesday night!

Host:
Floyd L. Lamrouex
lamrouex@sbcglobal.net
(210) 656-3131

Monday, November 08, 2010

SARA Meeting

San Antonio Romance Authors Meeting
Wednesday, November 17 – 6 p.m.
Grady's Bar-B-Q - in the party room around back
327 E. Nakoma

Order food first and meet in the party room around back. A general meeting will begin at 6:30 with a presentation on “How Medicine Changed the Way People Lived and Loved” to follow by SARA member Patricia Walters-Fischer, RN.

See the SARA website – www.sararwa.net – for more details.

Carol Kilgore
VP/Communications
San Antonio Romance Authors

Sunday, November 07, 2010

Monday's Meeting

Author Jordan Dane will be the guest speaker at the monthly meeting of the Society of Latino and Hispanic Writers of San Antonio at Barnes and Noble, San Pedro Crossing, on Monday, Nov. 8 at 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Jordan's books are "ripped from the headlines" and offer suspenseful, gritty plots that captivate your attention from the very first page! Please take this opportunity to learn from a master story teller and get tips on the writing process. I'm looking forward to seeing you there!

Friday, November 05, 2010

Xavier Garza at UTSA

Telling YOUR Stories
Crafting Family Legacies
Through Writing and Art
with author, artist and storyteller
XAVIER GARZA
Tuesday, Nov. 9 6 to 7 p.m.
UTSA
John Peace Library--Second Floor

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Thursday, November 04, 2010

Jordan Dane


Monday November 8, 2010
7:30 PM
Barnes & Noble Author Event
321 NW Loop 410 #104 (at San Pedro)
San Antonio, TX 78216
For more information, call: (210) 342-0008
Ripped from the headlines, Jordan Dane's gritty suspense plots weave a tapestry of vivid settings, intrigue and dark humor. Join us on Nov 8th as the Society of Latino and Hispanic Writers hosts her for a discussion and signing.

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