Dia de Muertos READINGS!!

Los Porteños will present original works in honor of the DAY OF THE DEAD...

Join writers Frank Delgado, Cindy Williams Gutiérrez , Emma Oliver, Enrique Patlán , Olga Sanchez & Veronica Swehla for two special events:

Saturday, November 1, 2008 ~ 3pm
El Centro Milagro
525 SE Stark
Portland, OR 97214

El Dia de los Muertos Festival: LA CARPA DEL MAESTRO
at the Miracle Theatre Group!

AND

Thursday, October 30, 2008 ~ 7pm
Onda Gallery
2215 NE Alberta Street
Portland, OR 97211

Portland's Day of the Dead Procession ~ at Onda Gallery!

Regroup and Re-energize

We had a good if small meeting yesterday, with Enrique, Emma and me. Emma read the latest chapter of her novel which was great and we talked about how to make the meetings more effective. One thing is that since three of our group won't be available in May, that we move the next meeting to the 2nd Sunday in June, the 8th @ 1:30pm.
Also a few fun initiatives ~ we decided to introduce a theme for our next meeting, hoping it will inspire you to write (fiction, non-fiction, poetry) on the topic: "ON WRITING ~ the journey of becoming a writer". Enrique recommended a novel about the writer's journey, by VS Naipaul, "The Enigma of Arrival".
Everyone should bring one writing exercise to share, so we always have something to work on.
Also started talking about holding the next Los Portenos reading in September, on the theme of REVOLUTION.
Que vive!

Errato!

Have no idea if that's a word, but the point is there's an error (maybe two) and it's mine.

The date of the upcoming Los Nortenos reading is

February 16th ~ truly a Saturday!

Thank you for your patience...

Readings on Love

At our last meeting in January, we agreed that a reading to warm the heart might be just the thing to beat February's chill.

And so, Los Portenos is looking forward to presenting :

Amor de todos modos

Saturday, February 10th at 5pm
Milagro Theatre
525 SE Stark, Portland, Oregon 97214
Free

Los Portenos writers will read original works as well as inspiring works by masters, including Federico Garcia Lorca, Jaime Sabines and Sandra Cisneros... on the theme of love in all ways...

Join us!

Welcome to the New Year!

I finally figured out how to post to the Los Portenos blog, happily in time to announce our first meeting of 2008, Sunday January 13th at 1:30pm at El Centro Milagro.

A brief update, Los Portenos presented a terrific reading for Dia de los Muertos at El Centro Milagro on Saturday Nov 3rd (2007) that featured writers Joann Farias, Cindy Kirshner, Emma Oliver, Veronica Swehla, Olga Sanchez, Frank Delgado, Enrique Patlan and the work of Catalina Cantu as read by Danel Malan.

We're looking forward to the next, though we don't know when that will be, and so ~ next meeting!