About this Event
Come enjoy an afternoon with Palabras Literary Salon, a BIPOC-centered literary community event co-hosted with Latinx with Plants, in the open air greenhouse in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles.
We are honored to feature the inspiring (Nostalgia and Borders). Invited readers include a diverse roster of poets and writers. Curated guest readers list include: Lylliam Posadas, Alexa Vasquez ,Thabile Makue, Pallavi Dhawan, William Ramirez, Leslie Elizondo, James Evert Jones, Jose Rios, Frankie Tan, Henry Medina, and Jen Cheng (list subject to change). This salon features new work by poets and writers.
This salon's theme is "returning," celebrating stories of immigrants and migrants. From Sonia:
"As in returning to ourselves, to our community, to our homeland, to our culture. I am thinking about migrants and displaced people returning in all the forms we can."
- This event is volunteer-run and grassroots-driven.
- Please kindly help us with your early RSVP here to attend and join in the facilitated discussion. Previous events have sold out so please join the waitlist if the RSVPs are full - people do cancel! We are asking for RSVPs for priority entry due to limited capacity in the back greenhouse patio.
- Everyone is welcome. Drop-ins are welcome.
- Your donations help us get a headcount and pay for chair rentals and reception for this outdoor event. If you would like to bring cash donation to our event or send other payment, we gladly appreciate your support. *If you're challenged with limited funds and want to attend, please RSVP and join us.
- Please arrive by 1:45pm as we would like to start at 2pm and finish by 3:30pm to have time for community conversation and reception.
- Please budget for time to get your street parking in the neighborhood.
- Please message us if you would like to reserve seating for disabilities or other needs. There is a small ramp to get to the patio.
We are glad to have you celebrate with us on Sunday, July 28th at 2pm.
>>> If the "Donate at the Event" tix are sold out, please select the other tix and you can donate as little as $1 to get a tix. This mechanism was created to limit the number of no-shows and so we can get an accurate number for our chair rentals.
More about Palabras Literary Salon
With a mission to create intercultural community building, Palabras is a salon inspired by our elders of civil rights consciousness raising and Maya Angelou's salons in the Harlem Renaissance. Our facilitator, Jen Cheng, brings home-cooking and light snacks to the event as we build bridges by breaking bread together. We sit in a non-heirarchical circle, without a stage. This is not an open-mic. Talk-story and witnessing are ways we can build better understanding of our humanity. More about Palabras on Jen's website: www.jencvoice.com/palabras
This event is supported in part by Poets & Writers. www.pw.org
More about our featured writer
Sonia Guiñansaca is an internationally acclaimed poet, culture strategist, and activist who was born in Ecuador (Kichwa-Kañari), and at the age of five, migrated to the United States to reunite with their parents. Guiñansaca helped build some of the largest undocumented organizations in the U.S and co-founded some of the first artistic projects, writers retreats, and workshops for and by undocumented writers. As a writer and performer, they create narrative poems and essays on migration, queerness, and nostalgia, often collaborating with filmmakers and visual artists. Sonia self-published their debut chapbook, Nostalgia and Borders, and contributed to the new edition of the ColonizeThis! Anthology and Daughters of Latin America. They are the co-editor of the recent migrant anthology Somewhere We Are Human (Harpervia June 2022). Now residing in Los Angeles, they launched House of Alegria, a multi-fold project supporting and investing in emerging (un)documented Queer, Trans, Non-Binary artists.
Community and Healing Through Plants
Latinx with Plants is a woman of color owned business in Boyle Heights whose focus is to celebrate and uplift people of color in the plant world. While the shop began with an Instagram account that was at first dedicated to sharing fun memes, plant inspo, and plant parent goals, our community grew into something we never could have imagined. Our physical shop has been bouncing around Cesar Chavez Avenue for a couple of years, and in June of 2022, we relocated to our largest location yet. We hope that through plant parenthood, people will be able to deepen their connection with nature and the Earth, and tune into the healing that caring for plants can offer us. @latinxwithplants
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Graphic: @JenCvoice
Group photo below is from the July 2023 Palabras salon. Sonia's photo and book photo is from her website. Andi's photo is from the Latinx with Plants website.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Latinx with Plants, 2208 Cesar Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, United States
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