BREAKIN' THE CHAINS OF ILLITERACY!

Red Salmon Arts & Resistencia Bkstr. Calendar May 2007

Friday May 4 - Red Salmon Arts presents Cafe Libro, a bi-monthy open mike series, featuring Chandra Washington. Chandra is Austin born, D.C. bred. She calls herself a "performing artist." In addition to being a writer and performance poet, she began dancing at the age of 3, she writes songs and sings, and she plays percussion. Her latest spoken word/dance collaboration was with baritone saxophonist/composer/arranger Hamiet Bluiett (World Saxophone Quartet) called "The Healing Caravan." We invite poet/artistas to come share/enjoy the cantos & cuentos of emerging & established writers/musicians. Hosted by Carole Metellus. 7pm

Saturday May 12 - Resistencia Bookstore presents the Austin premier of Morristown: in the air & sun by local documentary filmmaker Anne Lewis. What effect is globalization – and the waves of immigration it often compels – having on communities? In this hour-long documentary, director Anne Lewis chronicles nearly a decade of change in Morristown, Tennessee, through interviews with displaced or low-wage Southern workers, Mexican immigrants, and workers and families impacted by globalization. The film shows how working-class people in Mexico and eastern Tennessee are caught in the throes of massive economic change, challenging their assumptions about work, family, nation and community. Free. 7pm.

Anne Lewis is a remarkable social action filmmaker whose career is rooted in the challenge of making films about, with and for people whose voices are not usually heard in mainstream media. She comes out a movement to make media that creates opportunity for social change. She has made documentary films - frequently with limited resources - since 1968. She believes in the power of telling the truth with all the understanding intellect can offer. Her intent is to create meaningful work, tell the truth about working class Americans, and contribute to the independent field. In 1982, she began an association with Appalshop of Whitesburg, Kentucky -- a national arts center described by Pat Aufderheide as "an unsentimental exercise in authenticity." She is a Film/Video/Multimedia Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation and a senior lecturer in editing and documentary filmmaking at The University of Texas at Austin. She is also a proud member of Local 6186 CWA-NABET and the Texas State Employees Union. To view a trailer of Morristown, go to www.annelewis.org.

Tuesday May 15 - Red Salmon Arts presents a reading and book signing with Carlos Cedillo author of Soul Kin Journal: A Personal Guide to Navigating the End Times Using the Mayan Calendar. In Soul Kin Journal, Carlos shares his journal of how he became a Shaman Daykeeper and his insight and understanding of the ancient Mayan 260-day Sacred Count - the tzolkin. His journal is a guide to navigating the rapidly accelerating energies as we approach the culmination of the Mayan calendar. Carlos Cedillo is an artist, classically-trained musician, and Daykeeper Shaman. His extensive travels through Mexico and Central America and his study of Mayan cosmology inspire his highly acclaimed artwork. He lives and teaches in Austin. Free. 7pm

**Con mucho orgullo, we are honored to announce the release of:
Telling Tongues:
A Latin@ Anthology on Language Experience
Edited by Louis G. Mendoz & Toni Nelson Herrera
(Calaca Press & Red Salmon Press)
With the cyclical waves of anti-immigrant bashing, Latin@s are regularly targeted & labeled as outsiders.
The writers in this collection speak against the simplistic notions upon which these public debates rely,
& demonstrate the complexities of life as manifested in language by Latin@s.

Big shout out to Louis "El Profe" Mendoza, Toni Nelson Herrera, & Brent Beltran for all the support & hard work.
For retail contact Resistencia Bookstore. For wholesale copies contact Red Salmon Arts. (see below)

New & Recent Titles from Resistencia Bookstore
Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology
Eating Fire, Tasting Blood: An Anthology of the American Indian Holocaust edited by Marijo Moore
Chican@ Art Magazine: issue no. 2
Cayetana: Poems by Frances Trevino
Telling Tongues: A Latin@ Anthology on Language Experience
Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Bullets & Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word/Poetery edited by emanuel xavier
Erzulie's Skirt by Ana-Maurine Lara
Santo de la Pata Alzada: poems from the queer/xicano/positive pen by

Children's Titles
Selavi: A Hatitian Story of Hope by Youme
Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years: Resources for teaching abouth the impact of the arrival of Columbus in the Americas
The Festival of Bones/El Festival de las Calaveras by Luis San Vicente
Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching edited by Deborah Menkart, Alana D. Murray, & Jenice L. View

Resistencia Bookstore
casa de Red Salmon Arts
1801-A South First St.
Austin, Tejas
512-416-8885

Red Salmon Arts is funded in part by the City of Austin under the auspices of the Austin Arts Commission & the Texas Commission.