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Tommy Domino is the poetry instructor for the Long Beach Chapter for the Community Literature Initiative and has helped over 50 + authors publish books. He is a member of the Still Waters Writers Collective. He curates the longest open mic in Long Beach, The Griot Café at Shades of Afrika with the collective Dub-6. He curates 2nd Sundays at BLU Art & Wellness Center. He produced/hosted The Long Beach Poetry Slam, Clash of the Titans II. He produced/performed at the tribute to Nikki Giovanni at the Kwanzaa Celebration at the AACCLB. He is a member of the renowned group NeverSpeakLB. He has two published spoken blues books: Switches, Hot Wheel Tracks, & Extension Cords 2018 (World Stage Press) and Closer In The Rearview 2025 (A Big Six Joint). Recipient The Arts Council for Long Beach 2026 – Insight AwardGloria Enedina Alvarez embodies elegance and grace. her work examines life in all its turbulence and glory. Chicana poet, intermedia artist, playwright, librettist, translator, and curator, co-founder of many artists organizations, mentor to generations of artists, teaches creative writing, has won numerous awards, her poetry, librettos, and plays have been published and performed in us, Latin America, and Europe. publications include emerging en un mar de olanes, la excusa/the excuse, poetry collections in English and Spanish, and spoken word albums, centerground, between epiphanies, along with anthologies and periodicals.
Gregorio 'Goyo' Hernandez is a versatile, expressive guitarist and multi-instrumentalist artist, who takes an interdisciplinary approach to his practice; one that seamlessly blends social activism with community building. A veteran musician, his career spans decades of band collaborations to cinematic film scoring.
From 1997-2009 Hernandez was a co-creator of the LA Chicano band Mezklah, gaining the reputation as “one of L.A.’s most powerful and promising alt-Latino bands”, according to the
L.A. Times. Recently, in 2025, Mezklah was honored with other L.A. Chicana/o legacy bands in the exhibition “A Great Day in East LA” at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes. Hernandez is a consummate performer who has toured nationally and internationally, and who’s driven by a desire to expand and defy genre boundaries, and to continue to innovate and inspire others through music.
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