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.
Our November edition of Palabras Literary Salon features Anaheim Poet Laureate Camille Hernandez and the theme “gathering.” From Camille: To gather is to be in tune with the ritual of presence. We gather with our people for special events. We gather our belongings when it's time to move. We gather in our communities to advocate for each other. We gather our memories when mourning a loved one. In this reading, we are exploring the different dimensions of gathering as ritual and relief.
Invited guest readers include Rae Lopez, Daniel Romo, Jenilee Migliorini, Shine Du, Henry Medina, Pallavi Dhawan, Ramy El-Etreby, Cecilia Caballero, James Evert Jones, and more to be announced.
- 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.
- Books are for sale after the event. Please support our authors.
We are glad to have you celebrate with us on Sunday, Nov 17th 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
More about our featured writer
is the Poet Laureate of the city of Anaheim. She is the author of the bestselling book The Hero and the Whore. Her poems are in So to Speak, FIYAH, Braving the Body, Spoken Black Girl Magazine, and Anaheim Poetry Review. She participated in AWP’s Writer to Writer Mentorship Program, was an inaugural fellow of Roots.Wounds.Words, and is a second year fellow of The Watering Hole.
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 is from July 2024 edition of Palabras Literary Salon . Camille's photo is from . 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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