Rushing Waters, Rising Dreams: How the Arts Are Transforming a Community
- 作者:Denise M.,Luis J. (EDT),Ph.D. (EDT)/ Rodriguez,Sandoval
- 出版社:Tia Chucha Pr
- 出版日期:2012-04-30
- 語言:英文
- ISBN10:1882688430
- ISBN13:9781882688432
- 裝訂:平裝 / 22.9 x 22.9 x 0.3 cm / 普通級
The Northeast San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles is the second largest community of Mexicans and Central Americans in the United States with 500,000 people. Yet, until 2001 the Northeast Valley had no trade bookstores, movie houses, art galleries, or decent cultural spaces. That year Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural opened its doors, first as a cultural caf矇, which in ten years has provided workshops in music, visual arts, dance, theater, writing, and indigenous cosmology��long with an art gallery, a poetry press, a youth empowerment project, and the only annual outdoor literacy and performance festival in the area, ��elebrating Words: Written, Performed & Sung.���BR>