| Sept. 28-Oct. 3, 2009 |
Perla Batalla Photo by Sherry Barnett
Sept. 28 - City College Room D121A/B12:45-2 p.m. Author Michael Ornelas, The Sons of Guadalupe 7-8 p.m. Author David Lucero, The Sandman Sept. 29 - City College Room D121A/B12:45-2:10 p.m. Author Reyna Grande, Dancing with Butterflies Sept. 30 - City College Room L1105:30-6:45 p.m. Author Cheryl Klein, Creative Writing Workshop Sept. 30 - City College Room D121A/B7-8:30 p.m. Author Cheryl Klein, Lilac Mines Oct. 1 - City College Room D121A/B12:45-2:10 p.m. Residency with Perla Batalla Oct. 1 - World Beat Cultural Center (Click for Directions)6:30-9 p.m. Director Terrence Stubbs, premiere: Nommogeneity Reception at 6:30 p.m. Screening at 7 p.m.
Oct. 2 - City College Saville Theatre7-8 p.m. Author Ella deCastro Baron, Itchy Brown Girl Seeks Employment 8-9 p.m. Author Ana Castillo, The Guardians 9 p.m. Concert with Perla Batalla Oct. 3 - City College Saville TheatreFull day of authors 10 a.m. Gustavo Arellano, Orange County; ¡Ask a Mexican! 11 a.m. Rodolfo Acuña, lecture, "Chicano Studies: from Activism to Mainstream" 12 noon Lavanderia: A Mixed Load of Women, Wash and Word., edited by Donna J. Watson. Lavanderia readings by Ella deCastro Baron, Chris Baron, Nancy Cary, Olga García Echeverría, Lucia Gbaya-Kanga, Nadia Mandilawi, D. Zenani Mzube, Michelle Sierra 1 p.m. Barry Sanders, The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism 2 p.m. William Powers, lecture, "Write to Make Change" 3 p.m. Marilyn Chin, Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen 4 p.m. Laurel Corona, Until Our Last Breath 5 p.m. Willie Perdomo, Where a Nickel Costs a Dime
Oct. 3 - City College Room C211 En español (reading in Spanish)4 p.m. P. J. Sáinz, Crónicas chúntaras. La música de la plebada |
Featuring:
| Cris Mazza |
 Cris Mazza is the author of 14 books, including novels, short fiction and a memoir. Her works include the critically notable Is It Sexual Harassment Yet? and psychological novels of place, Girl Beside Him and Waterbaby. Many of Mazza's books take place in San Diego and the surrounding county, including Homeland, Trickle-Down Timeline, Indigenous: Growing up Californian, and her new novel Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls, which looks at prostitute-slave trafficking in Southern California.
Mazza's first novel, How to Leave a Country,won the PEN / Nelson Algren Award for book-length fiction. Some of her other titles include Your Name Here: ___; Dog People; and Indigenous / Growing Up Californian. A native of Southern California, Cris Mazza grew up in San Diego County. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from San Diego State University and an MFA in writing from Brooklyn College. She has taught at Mesa College, Miramar College, and UC San Diego and is now a professor in and director of the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. |
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