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How
the Arts Transform Communities: Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural
& Bookstore received a Create/Cultivate grant from the Los
Angeles County Arts Commission to do a film and book project
with the theme of how the arts transform communities. It
will focus on twenty years of arts development in the Northeast
San Fernando Valley, where Tia Chucha's has been located
for the past ten years. This film and book will also have
national significance since we need arts training as well
as cultural spaces, independent bookstores, theaters, and
public art projects more than ever in this country, particularly
in poor and neglected areas. The
book editors are Denise Sandoval, a writer and professor
at California State University, Northridge, and Luis Rodriguez,
a writer and cofounder of Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural.
The
film is being made by film maker John Cantu. The project
is being coordinated by musician/performance artist Ruben
"Funkahuatl" Guevara. We need to raise funds to double this
grant and to get this film and book created and published
by mid-2012. Please consider donating by going to www.tiachucha.com
and hitting the donation button on the top right of the
home page. Donors who give over certain amounts will be
listed as investors in the book and film. Please enjoy the
above trailer so you can grasp the amazing ideas and work
we are trying to promote and cultivate.
The
Spotlight with Leila Feinstein of Los Angeles television
station KTLA, featured this segment on Tia Chucha's Centro
Cultural with Luis J. Rodriguez
Luis
Rodriguez reading his poem "My Name's Not Rodriguez" during
the singing of "La
Llorona" by Perla Batalla and her band at the Border
Book Festival, Mesilla, New Mexico, April 18, 2009.
