Saturday, September 9th, 10:00 a.m.
FREE! Via Zoom.
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The 9th Annual San José Poetry Festival presents, in partnership with La Raíz Magazine, a workshop by Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo!
This is Day Three of our four-day festival! Check out the complete list of events that are part of the 9th Annual San José Poetry Festival! Our festival pass will get you into all live events and online events. Visit bit.ly/pcsjtix.
This event is free to all.
This workshop is presented by Poetry Center San José, in partnership with La Raíz Magazine, facilitated by Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo.
Palabras & Poetry: Resisting for Self-Determination is a generative poetry workshop for writers of any level of experience. Participants will be guided to write poetry in an interactive workshop featuring three segments of sample poetry, a prompt, verse starters, and sample verses, and share outs. Everyone will be welcome to share their poetry aloud with the group and comment. The theme Roots of Liberation is inspired by the values of the EZLN Indigenous peoples of Chiapas, México.
Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo is a Xicana poet, visual artist, and facilitator. She served as 2021 Creative Ambassador of the San José Office of Cultural Affairs and has facilitated generative poetry workshops for universities and non-profit organizations. Elizabeth earned a BFA in Art and a BA in French from San José State University. She is a Board Member of Poetry Center San José and Editor of La Raíz Magazine. www.ejmontelongo.com
EJM - Facebook: @ejmontelongo Instagram: @elizabethjimenezmontelongo.
La Raíz Magazine provides culturally-relevant, generative arts engagement experiences and opportunities for the publication and public presentation of creative work, with an emphasis on promoting the expression of people of color, women of color, women & girls, and people whose heritage is rooted in areas that are now Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America, who may identify as: Indigenous, Raza, Chicana/o, from their country of origin, Latinx, or Hispanic.
La Raíz Magazine - Instagram: @laraizmagazine Facebook: @laraizmag
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COVID NOTICE: If a venue cancels, the San José Poetry Festival event will be broadcast to PCSJ’s Zoom channel. All ticket holders will receive a link to the Zoom. Refund requests for unattended individual events moved online due to a venue cancellation will be reviewed and considered.
San José Poetry Festival 2023 is presented by Poetry Center San José and is sponsored in part by: Festival and Cultural Affairs grants from the City of San José; a grant from SVCreates, in partnership with the County of Santa Clara and the California Arts Council and also supported in part by a SVCreates National Endowment for the Arts American Rescue Plan grant; support from the offices of San José City Council Members David Cohen (D4) and Peter Ortiz (D5); Literary Arts Emergency Fund supported by the Mellon Foundation; and with support from Anne & Mark's Art Party, Applied Materials Foundation, Brandenburg Family Foundation and Silicon Valley Community Foundation. We thank Four Points by Sheraton for hotel accommodations. We would like to acknowledge and offer our deepest gratitude to past and current venues worthy of your support: Art Boutiki, Books Inc., Caravan Lounge, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, First Unitarian Church of San José, History/San José, MACLA, Mama Kin, Recycle Bookstore, Tabard Theatre, Willow Glen Public Library and Works/San José. Please support these spaces however you can. And we thank all our volunteers whose time and effort make this festival possible.