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November 4, 2009
...Film Screening @ Resistencia this Friday!
7pm Friday November 6, 2009
CineResistencia presents ¡No Marcharan! :
documentary film screening & photo exhibit of The Day the Klan Marched (Sol Rojo Productions)
Original uncut documentary of the day the Ku Klux Klan marched to the Texas State Capitol Building in Austin, Texas on February 19, 1983. Includes footage of the Brown Berets call to action and the Austin City Council meeting vote giving the KKK permission to march.
The documentary also shows the violent response of the Austin Police Department to the engaging yet peaceful counter Anti-Klan march organized by a concerned black and brown citizens and organizations and their white allies. Along with documentary screening, photos of the KKK march and the Anti-Klan march taken by Gilberto Rivera will be on exhibit.
A discussion immediately following the screening will include participants in the counter march and the producers of the documentary, Jane and Gilberto Rivera of Sol Rojo Productions.
A SALMONROJO PRODUCTION.
4pm - 7pm Saturday November 14, 2009
AFTER THE FLOOD:
Benefit for Typhoon Victims in the Philippines
Join us in a cultural showcase featuring:
Baila Pacifica (Hawaiian dance group)
Bachata (Latin dance group)
DJ ROY (Duranguense, Guacharacas, Merengue, Cumbias)
DJ Mike Avila (Feel Good Muzik)
UT FSA (a Filipino dance group)
Laya Dance Collective (Filipina dance group)
& Spoken Word Performances, Filipino Food, and much more …@ the parking lot in back of Resistencia Bookstore
Suggested donation $10 / All donations graciously accepted / For more info contact: saiaolaya@gmail.com / 512-669-9248
7pm Friday December 5, 2009
CineResistencia presents
a documentary film screening of We Will Always Be Here (Sol Rojo Productions)
Juárez-Lincoln University, 715 East First Street, was founded in 1971 in Austin, Texas, as a Mexican American center of higher education. It was a direct out growth of the wider Chicano/amovement for civil rights, self-determination, & ethnic pride that took root & grew from the 1950s through the 1970s.
Eventually, Juárez-Lincoln was closed in 1979, when Antioch University withdrew its support. However, the Juárez-Lincolnbuilding continued to be used by local groups, including the League of United Chicano Artists and Mujeres Artistas del Suroeste. The building, with its mural by Raul Valdez employing pre-Columbian imagery, became a symbol for East Austin residents. When real estate developers announced in 1980 that the building would be demolished to make way for an office building (IHOP), neighborhood groups took the battle to court, hoping to turn the building into a neighborhood center. After litigation the building was demolished in 1983.
Memoir Writing Workshop
with ANA CASTILLO
Internationally Acclaimed Poet and Award Winning Author
In cooperation with Resistencia Bookstore
In memoir, the reader must be persuaded that the narrator is writing honestly, whether or not he/she is, is secondary. It doesn’t matter as much ‘what happened’ as what you make of what you remember may have happened. The workshop will consist of exercises, which help us to know how to get started when desiring to work on a memoir essay. We’ll talk, we’ll laugh, we’ll cry. We’ll vent. We’ll write from our hearts and our minds. And then, we’ll learn to get rid of all the sentimentality and leave on the page what is important for the reader to know about your memoir. Three hours with Ana Castillo, poet, novelist all around genre-jumper.
Persons interested must submit 1 pg writing sample to apply. 18 yrs. and up.
Ana Castillo will be available only at the workshop.
All queries and to apply: email: anacastilloworkshops@gmail.com
Cost: $175 per person/Limit only 15 per workshop ($125 for unemployed, seniors, and undergrads)
Application Deadline: November 12, 2009
Deposit Received No later than: November 20, 2009
**************************************************************************************ON THAT SAME DAY, Saturday Dec. 5, 2009 …
A public reading & signing by Ana Castillo
7:30pm
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Resistencia Bookstore
1801 – A South First Street, Austin, TX 78704
