The Northeast San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles is the second largest community of Mexicans and Central Americans in the United States with 500,000 people. Yet, until 2001 the Northeast Valley had no trade bookstores, movie houses, art galleries, or decent cultural spaces. That year Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural opened its doors, first as a cultural café, which in ten years has provided workshops in music, visual arts, dance, theater, writing, and indigenous cosmology--along with an art gallery, a poetry press, a youth empowerment project, and the only annual outdoor literacy and performance festival in the area, "Celebrating Words: Written, Performed & Sung."
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Tia Chucha Press
ISBN-10
1882688430
ISBN-13
9781882688432
eBay Product ID (ePID)
111804809
Product Key Features
Book Title
Rushing Waters, Rising Dreams : How the Arts Are Transforming a Community
Author
Luis J. Rodríguez
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
American / African American, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), American / Hispanic American