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The Taco Shop Poets

The Taco Shop Poets and Poesia Para la Gente June 14, 2012 by J. Huskey Avenue 50 Studio’s “Poesia Para Le Gente” was presented through “The Taco Shop Poets” at Taqueria My Taco on 6300 York Boulevard on May 26th, 2012. “Poesia Para la Gente” is a program under the Avenue 50 Studio’s monthly La …

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Watch Resurrected Histories

Resurrected Histories is a project funded by California Council for the Humanities, documenting Highland Park’s Chicano arts organizations during the 70’s. Aldama House /©2011 Atelier Visit. Resurrected Histories: Voices from the Chicano Arts Collectives of Highland Park From the late 1960s to the early 1980s Highland Park in Northeast Los Angeles was home to the …

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Resurrected Histories: Voices from the Chicano Arts Collectives of Highland Park

I have been working on a cool oral history project, “Resurrected Histories: Voices from the Chicano Arts Collectives of Highland Park” from a California Council for the Humanities grant. Kathy Gallegos from Avenue 50 Studio included me in the grant and we all have been working very hard to move it along. We partnered with …

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“Consecrated Offering ” by Peter Harris

Consecrated Offering (for Joseph Beckles) steel ripens into bird of paradise April smelted from gifts in the periodic table & sweat soaking a master drummer’s forearms insinuating tambourine stitches single dancers into a circle hissing with the alchemy of unlocking shackles shivering in the friction of transformation iron into sequin   slavery into jewelry forged from …

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