This month we're proud to present three very talented writers at homo-centric for Between Type and Tipos: Letras Queer de Rich, Charlie y Ricardo
An evening featuring poetry, fiction, essay and playwriting by Ricardo A. Bracho, Charlie Vázquez, and Richard Villegas, Jr.
Playwright Ricardo A. Bracho has led queer and trans* youth workshops for 25 years. He was Assistant Director to Cherrie Moraga’s DramaDIVAS, a writing/performance group for queer youth of color. He has also taught worksh...
This month we're proud to present three very talented writers at homo-centric for Between Type and Tipos: Letras Queer de Rich, Charlie y Ricardo
An evening featuring poetry, fiction, essay and playwriting by Ricardo A. Bracho, Charlie Vázquez, and Richard Villegas, Jr.
Playwright Ricardo A. Bracho has led queer and trans* youth workshops for 25 years. He was Assistant Director to Cherrie Moraga’s DramaDIVAS, a writing/performance group for queer youth of color. He has also taught workshops at The Center on Halsted, Casa 0101, UC Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz. His writings for the stage which include The Sweetest Hangover, Sissy, Puto and When the Chunt Comes have been produced in Los Angeles, the Bay Area and New York. He has also taught, been in residence and lectured at UC Berkeley, Santa Cruz, Riverside, Davis and San Diego campuses; Ohio University, Stanford University, Vassar College, and Willamette University, among many others. He currently lives in Los Angeles.
Charlie Vázquez is the author of five books of fiction and poetry, the Director of the Bronx Writers Center at the Bronx Council on the Arts and the New York City Coordinator for Puerto Rico's Festival de la Palabra, where he works with poets and authors from the Caribbean and Latin America. He is also the co-editor of From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction (Lethe Press, 2011), alongside author and cultural producer Charles Rice-González. He was born and raised in the Puerto Rican barrios of the Bronx, where he currently lives and mentors young writers.
Richard Villegas Jr. hails from Los Angeles with a voice that can be described as "Angelic" after having lived and worked in East Los, Korea-wood, The Westside, Santa Monica, and Echo Parq all his lived long days. He's a righter bent on describing and plotting the funny-sad, meet-cutes of class, race, sexuality, and schoolteaching erupting all over the polyglot megalopolis. Balanced on the faultine of the end of the Western World, the edge of the Pacific Rim, and El Norte, he can't help but be the quiet brown boy looking around and writing down all the madness swirling about and in him. He likes tacos de lengua, the music of Goran Bregovic, pictures of rugby players, and the gazpacho at Le Pain.
Please join us Thursday August 20th at 7:30pm at Stories Books & Cafe in Echo Park. Stories is located at 1716 Sunset Blvd. between Le Moyne and Logan. Metered parking is available in the lot behind the store on Le Moyne St. Map and directions are on the link of this event.
Stories is a very cool bookstore so come early and support the store & cafe!
* Order a coffee or tea & have a sandwich.
* Hang out & meet writers & other lit types.
* Wander the aisles & buy a book.
Remember--we depend on the word of mouth so tell a friend, bring two or three.