Honoring Gloria, reading Gloria, Seeing Gloria

Join us on May 16th in remembrance of the passing of Gloria Anzaldua as we gather to read, write and meditate. Bring your favorite passage of Gloria’s work or your own work sparked by la Mera Nepantlera’s work.
Noemi will be reading from her “Letters to Gloria” collection.
*Bring your letters to read them too, bring an extra copy or email them to noemi@hermanaresist.com if you want them included in the next issue of “This Bridge we call Home: Finding Gloria” zine.
Where: Hargill Cemetery, final resting place of Gloria Anzaldua.
When: May 16th, Friday
Time: 6:30PM.

**Here’s the newsletter from Esperanza Center in San Antonio dedicated to Gloria Anzaldua.
www.esperanzacenter.org/lavozpdfs2004/2004_07julyaugust.pdf

***if you want to figure out carpooling, leave a comment here:

The zine devoted to La Mera Nepantlera.

Nepantla, it turns out, is the name of a town in the state of Mexico. It is where Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was born. It was also the site of a small but significant massacre by the Mexican government against a radical movement. Twenty-one years ago, in November of 1974, a Napoleón Glockner and a Nora Rivera fingered a house full of members of the National Liberation Forces (FLN) in the town of Nepantla. Five people were killed in a government raid on the house. Nearly three years later, the FLN captured and executed the traitors Napoleón and Nora. The survivors of Nepantla dispersed and regrouped in the Lacandón jungle of Chiapas, emerging years later as the Zapatista National Liberation Army.

http://www.elandar.com/back/www-nov95/feature/feature.htm

*A zine created by the folks she influenced; from the place she grew up in-the borderlands.
How her writing helped shape Chicana feminism, created a new consciousness and gave voice to her generation and future generations and how this allowed others to find their voice and articulate through their bordered tongues.
Why do you write?
“Why am I compelled to write?… Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me. By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it. I write because life does not appease my appetites and anger… To become more intimate with myself and you. To discover myself, to preserve myself, to make myself, to achieve self-autonomy. To dispel the myths that I am a mad prophet or a poor suffering soul. To convince myself that I am worthy and that what I have to say is not a pile of shit… Finally I write because I’m scared of writing, but I’m more scared of not writing.”
Gloria Anzaldua
“Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers,” This Bridge Called My Back

Gloria on Nepantlera-ism:
“In gatherings where people feel powerless, la nepantlera offers rituals to say
goodbye to old ways of relating; prayers to thank life for making us face
loss, anger, guilt, fear, and separation; rezos to acknowledge our individual
wounds; and commitments to not give up on others just because they hurt us.
In gatherings where we’ve forgotten that the aim of conflict is peace, la
nepantlera proposes spiritual techniques (mindfulness, openness, receptivity)
along with activist tactics. Where before we saw only separateness,
differences, and polarities, our connectionist sense of spirit recognizes
nurturance and reciprocity and encourages alliances among groups working
to transform communities. In gatherings where we feel our dreams have
been sucked out of us, la nepantlera leads us in celebrating la communidad
sonada, reminding us that spirit connects the irreconcilable warring parts
para que todo el mundo se haga un pais, so that the whole world may
become un pueblo.

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CAFE Kids

This list is for the children of CAFE (Community Activist for Equality) and
children in the RGV, thier parents, caretakers, teachers and any one else
interested in radical child care. Including:
kids crafts
kid friendly activities around the valley
how childcare is necessary in activist communities
single parenting
recycling
art using found and recycled items
zines for and about kids
play dates
non gendered activities
vegan and vegetarian easy kid friendly food
discussion and talk on raising kids, radical parenting and all that good stuff.

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Remembering Gloria: A Night of Poetry

McAllen, TX, March 24, 2008 – Remembering Gloria: A Night of Poetry!

We invite the public to join us in a celebration of Gloria Anzaldúa’s legacy, as we present an evening of her poetry on Thursday, April 10, 7:00 PM at the Palm View Branch Library. Various people from the Valley will take a turn reading Anzaldúa’s poetry out loud. Afterward, share your thoughts on Anzaldúa during a reception with light refreshment.

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa was born in the Rio Grande Valley in 1942, attended Pan American University (currently UTPA) and became a major influence in redefining Chicano/a identity and language. Although she left behind an internationally acclaimed legacy, including books of poetry, essays, and fiction, she has been neglected in her own backyard – the Rio Grande Valley. This event is free. Bring your family and friends and find out about the Rio Grande Valley’s secret treasure!

For more information on Remembering Gloria: A Night of Poetry, contact the Palm View Branch Library at 956-688-3322.

Location: Palm View Branch Library; 3401 Jordan; McAllen, TX

El Rincon Del Diablo chapbook submissions

Collection of Mexican, Mexican American/Chicano ghost stories, myths and legends.

Accepting:
Nonfiction, fiction, artwork & photos.

If you live in the valley, send your stories about the Mission high school, the old Edinburg hospital, the railroad tracks, the churches and all that good stuff that we tell each other.

-if it’s folklore, does folklore imply a dying or dead culture?
-Should we try to keep so called folklore alive? How do we do that?

How to submit:

Submission being accepted until March 31, 2008.

Send submissions via email, either in text in the body of the email or attached in .txt format to noemi.mtz@gmail.com.
In the subject enter submission, followed by the zine title. Include a brief bio, your mailing address, website if any. Mention your zine or any upcoming projects you’d like mentioned.

Email any photos, artwork in the same format. If you want to submit something via snail mail, email me and fill me in on the details.

Payment is one copy of the chapbook.
This chapbook is being edited by Noemi “hermana resist” Martinez and will be distributed by csdistro.com as a fundraiser for CAFE Revolucion.

Café Revolucion List of Events

Café Revolucion
List of Upcoming Events

February 28 – March 1:  NACCS at STC Pecan Campus

March 1: “Viva La Mujer Chicana!” Noche Cultural @ McAllen Convention Center
**we will be doing a Special Gloria Anzaldúa Reading…

March 24 – March 29: Festiba @ UTPA  (not a CR Event, but we will be present)

March 31: “El Rincón del Diablo” Chapbook Call Outs End

April 2 – April 4: Sex Trafficking Conference (STC) (not a CR Event, but we will be present)

April 17: “A Shadow of a Man” Play by Cherrie Moraga (tentative) (not a CR Event, but we will be present)

April 24 – April 29: Valley International Poetry Festival (not a CR Event, but we will be present)

May 15: International Homenajes to Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa

Mujerfest chat

Mujerfest chat
Monday Times: 7:30PM or 9:30PM
This is great for folks out of town who can still do promotion in their areas
and who plan on coming down for Mujerfest. We’ll be using Gmail chat.
We’ll be talking about Mujerfest, locations and fundraising.

We pretty much have a busy first few months on 2008. June seems to be the month
where we won’t be doing anything or be involved in an event with someone else’s
event. If you’d like to organize one of the events that Lina posted about,
email Noemi or Lina.

Send me your email and I’ll send you an invite.

noemi @ hermanaresist dotcom.

Art Heals Communities Workshop

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Writing to Heal & Art Heals Workshops

CAFE Revolucion, and part of the Voices Against Violence project, has been conducting free Writing to Heal workshops and will start to have Art Heals Communities workshops too. Our first art workshop will be this Saturday from 2-6PM in Edinburg.
We are looking for donations of art supplies, “found objects”, and writing supplies. Email Noemi if you’d like to help out.

If you’d like to sign up for future workshops set to begin again in the summer, send your name, email, gender and a short paragraph about yourself to noemi.mtz@gmail.com

thanks

What we need from you:

* Any new, unwrapped art supplies - paints, brushes, papers, paste, etc. are all perfect
* Suggested items: craft kits, water colors, clay
* easels, acrylic paints or charcoals
*Markers, art paint, oil pastels, chalk pastels, conte crayons
*Beads, shells, jewelry, buttons, feathers
*Fabric, ribbon, sequins, glitter
*Glue, Modge podge
*Glue guns
*Paper cutters
*Needles, Thread, quilting needles

*Canvas
*matte board
*picture frames (used ok)
*milk crates
*old books, old school books for collages
* Rubber scraps
* Wood and trim
* Plexiglass
*new journals & diaries

**Reclaimed items-which came be old frames, jewelry boxes, wood-anything that can be a base for collages and paint.

**sewing machine (it can happen).

**manual or electric typwriters (in working condition)

**computers (In working order. that have at least Word, Wordperfect or notepad)

**printers (in working order)

***gift certificates to stores, art stores, hardware stores, grocery stores (we provide snacks & food at our workshops).

Thinking of mailing something in: Send it to:

Noemi Martinez

RE: CAFE Revolucion workshops

PO box 621

Edinburg, TX 78540.

Donations via paypal are also accepted to csdistro  at gmail dot com.

MUJERFEST 2008

Yes gente, we are organizing MUJERFEST 2008.
Details coming soon….