3/19/2023 0 Comments Epic the tagger from san fernando![]() ![]() Like Homer’s “The Odyssey, “ he said, his L.A. “I have no doubt that Luis will run with this new role and take it to new heights.”Īs the city’s second poet laureate, he’ll be expected to hold six poetry workshops, six library readings, coordinate a National poetry Month festival each April near his new office at the Central Library, and compose a poem about the city of Los Angeles. ![]() “Luis Rodriguez is an example of how powerful an impact literature can have on young lives, and as poet laureate, he will impact youth across Los Angeles,” said Garcetti during a public ceremony. In his blogs, news columns, workshops and readings. While she will bear a torch for inter-personal transformation, her poet laureate husband will light Los Angeles with his words. “For the community, I would like to see an integrated arts, healing and discovery of the self.” “I want to change the circumstances of a young child like myself,” said Trini Rodriguez. Now as the unpaid operations director at Tia Chucha’s, the writer and former teacher remains committed to her working-class community - that it share quality children’s education, Latino political representation, public funding for the arts, and honors bestowed to its workers, warriors and women. Her moving out of the house to become the first woman in her family to attend college and graduate with honors from Cal State Northridge caused a rift with her parents that would last two decades. Trini Rodriguez, a straight-A student from Pacoima who’d once been accepted at Stanford, had bucked her parent’s traditional wish she buckle down, marry and have children. It was the center’s self-professed power to heal a community and its children that drew the attention of the city and the Latina civic group. Inside, it glows with vibrant paintings by Rah Azul, stringed jaranas from Veracruz, Mexico, a predecessor to the ukulele, and a cultural kaleidoscope of books. ![]() Outside, it shares a drab shopping center at Hubbard Street and Gladstone Avenue filled with the sound of booming zumba dance. It’s slogan: “Where Art & Minds Meet - For A Change.”įor the past eight years, their nonprofit corner cultural arts center has hosted a “Celebrating Words Festival: Written, Performed, and Sung” the only outdoor festival of its kind in the Valley. Thirteen years ago, the couple co-founded Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore, dedicated to empowerment through writing, painting, dance, theater, film and indigenous studies, with open mic nights in English, Spanish and for women only. Twenty-five years ago, her husband, Luis, founded Tia Chucha Press, publisher of such poets as Elizabeth Alexander, who recited her “Praise Song for the Day” for President Obama’s 2009 inauguration National Book Award winner Terrance Hayes and the Cuban-born Virgil Suarez. To playing music … It allows people to see another side of themselves.” “The amazing thing is, in offering workshops, presentations and exhibits, people are drawn to creating. “You establish a place like this, and the artists who exist finally have a place to meet each other, work with each other, and bring their gifts to the community. The community appreciates us,” said Trini Rodriguez, 61, with long black and silver hair cascading over a tropical top, scarf and turquoise skirt. “We’ve come to appreciate this community. ![]() On Thursday, Mayor Eric Garcetti named the noted author of “Always Running, La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A.” to a two-year term as Los Angeles’ official poet laureate and literary ambassador.Īt its annual gala Friday in North Hills, the Comision Femenil of the San Fernando Valley, a nonprofit dedicated to improving life for the Latina, her family and her community, named the co-founder of Tia Chucha’s one of its four 2014 Mujeres de Corazon.įor more than a decade, the civic group said, she’s helped thousands “tap into their inner power … and become what you were born to be.” I say I’m the luckiest man in the world.” ![]()
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