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May 12 at 7:00 p.m. May 13 at 6:00 p.m. May 20 at 6:00 p.m. All events are free and open to the public; for more information call (510) 549-3564, ext. 316. This series was funded by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Website Jeff Chang has written extensively on culture, politics, the arts, and music. He was a USA Ford Fellow in Literature and a winner of the North Star News Prize. He was named by The Utne Reader as one of "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World." His first book, Can't Stop Won't Stop, garnered many honors, including the American Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award. He is the editor of Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop. He is currently writing two new books, Who We Be: The Colorization of America (St. Martin's Press) and Youth (Picador Big Ideas/Small Books series). Jeff was a founding editor of ColorLines magazine and a senior editor/director at Russell Simmons' 360hiphop.com. He has written for The Nation, The New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Vibe, Foreign Policy, and Mother Jones, among many other publications. In 1993, he cofounded and ran the influential hip-hop indie label SoleSides, now Quannum Projects, helping launch the careers of DJ Shadow, Blackalicious, Lyrics Born, and Lateef the Truth Speaker. He has helped produce over a dozen records, including the "godfathers of gangsta rap," the Watts Prophets. He covered the 2000 presidential elections for 360hiphop. In 2007, he interviewed Barack Obama for the cover of Vibe. After being politicized by the anti-apartheid and anti-racist movements at the University of California at Berkeley, Jeff worked as a community, labor, and student organizer and as a lobbyist for the students of the California State University system. He received a bachelor's degree from Cal and a master's degree in Asian American studies from the University of California at Los Angeles and has published scholarly articles on culture and race relations in Hawai'i and Los Angeles. He has lectured at dozens of colleges, universities, festivals, and institutions in the U.S. and around the world. He was an organizer of the inaugural National Hip-Hop Political Convention and has served as a board member for several organizations working for change through youth and community organizing, media justice, culture, the arts, and hip-hop activism. In 2006, he was selected to participate in a conversation with Tom Hayden in the prestigious Mario Savio Memorial Lecture. Born of Chinese and Native Hawaiian ancestry, Jeff was raised in Hawai'i, where he attended 'Iolani School. He lives in California. He is a big fan of Japanese curry and poi, but not at the same time.
Website Performance artist/writer Guillermo Gómez-Peña resides in San Francisco where he is artistic director of La Pocha Nostra. Born and raised in Mexico City, he came to the US in 1978 to study Post-Studio art at Cal Arts. His pioneering work in performance, video, poetry, journalism, photography, cultural theory and radical pedagogy, explores cross-cultural issues, immigration, the politics of language, the politics of the body, "extreme culture" and new technologies. A MacArthur Fellow and American Book Award winner, he is a writer for newspapers and magazines in the US, Mexico, and Europe, a contributing editor to The Drama Review (NYU-MIT) and an active member of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics.
Rebecca Solnit is an activist, historian, and writer who lives in San Francisco. Her twelfth book, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster, came out in 2009. The previous eleven include 2007's Storming the Gates of Paradise; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender and Art; and River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). A contributing editor to Harper's, she also frequently writes for the political site Tomdispatch.com.
Website Juan Felipe Herrera is a poet, performer, writer, cartoonist, teacher, and activist. His experiences as the child of migrant farmers have strongly shaped his work. He is the winner of many awards, including the 2009 PEN/Beyond Margins Award and the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, both for his book Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems. He is the recipient of numerous other awards, including the Ezra Jack Keats award in 1997 for the children's book Calling the Doves, a Stanford Chicano Fellows Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Writers' Fellowship, and a Los Angeles Times Book Award Nomination. His publications include fourteen collections of poetry, prose, short stories, young adult novels, and picture books for children in the last decade, with twenty-one books in total.
Website Ruth Nolan, a former Bureau of Land Management California Desert District helicopter hotshot firefighter and inner-city high school teacher, is the editor of No Place for a Puritan: The Literature of California's Deserts and a contributor to Inlandia: A Literary Journey through Southern California's Inland Empire. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including Pacific Review, American Indian Review, and Askew. She is editor of the desert literary magazine Phantom Seed and an associate professor of English at College of the Desert, where she teaches creative writing and California desert and Native American literature, and advises the literary magazine Solstice. She has taught the Inlandia Writers Workshop since 2008 and is founder/editor of its annual participant journal, Slouching Towards Mt. Rubidoux Manor. She recently collaborated with the UCR-California Museum of Photography on a film, Escape to Reality: 24 hrs @ 24 fps, and she is also an avid photographer. She has published three collections of poetry: Wild Wash Road, Dry Waterfall, and Lava Flow Petroglyphs. Her blog, "Mojave Desert Word Walk," is published on the Heyday Books website and at http://ruthnolan.blogspot.com.
Susan Straight, professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, is a prolific writer who has published widely and won many literary awards for her work. Among these are the 2008 Edgar Allan Poe Award for her short story "The Golden Gopher," which appeared in the 2008 anthology Los Angeles Noir. She received a prestigious Lannan Foundation Award in 1999, the UCR Distinguished Humanist Achievement Lecturer award in 1998 for her writings about Riverside's Eastside neighborhood, a 1997 Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Gold Medal for Fiction from the San Francisco-based Commonwealth Club for her fifth novel, Highwire Moon, which was also a National Book Award finalist. Straight's other critically acclaimed fiction includes Aquaboogie, I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots, The Gettin' Place, and Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights. She has also written two children's books, Bear E. Bear and The Hallway Light at Night.
Tim Z. Hernandez is an award-winning writer from central California's San Joaquin Valley. His debut collection of poems, Skin Tax, received the 2006 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, and his debut novel, Breathing, In Dust was published in March of this year by Texas Tech University Press. He earned his BA in writing and literature from Naropa University and is currently pursuing an MFA from Bennington College in Vermont. He lives in Fresno, California, with his family.
Margarita Luna Robles is a performance artist, educator, author of numerous poetic works, and co-conspirator for Manikrudo (a program for emerging writers). She is the author of the poetry collection Tryptich: Dreams, Lust and Other Performances. She is committed to the collaborative path, frequently working with other writers, theater artists, musicians, dancers, and visual artists. She has been a dedicated teacher and mentor for young artists as a master teacher for California State University Summer Arts at Humboldt, Long Beach, and Fresno. She has also given writing workshops at the University of Iowa, Stanford University, and other venues.
Burlee Vang's poetry and prose have been published in Ploughshares, the North American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Massachusetts Review, Asia Literary Review, and the anthologies Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers and Highway 99, among others. He is the founder of the Hmong American Writers' Circle. He received his MFA in fiction from Fresno State. |
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