3er Aniversario Festival de Artes Literarias LibroMobile

LibroMobile está celebrando más de 4 años de cultivar la diversidad a través de libros en SanTana y 3 años de nuestra pequeña librería colaborando con locales y diversos artistas invitados en la presentación de lecturas en vivo GRATUITAS, talleres y artes literarias en el callejón.
Nuestro Festival de Artes Literarias unirá locales y visitantes de artistas de POC, vendedores de arte, comida local de BIPOC y todos los amantes de los libros. La jornada incluirá lecturas en vivo, actuaciones colaborativas y musicales y culminar con la entrega del premio Modesta Avlia!
Únase a nosotros el 23 de enero de 2021 para nuestro
Tercero Aniversario del Festival de Artes Literarias LibroMobile
presentado virtualmente en y más allá de Santa Ana!
Horario tentativo: 12-8pm
12-2pm Apertura virtual de la pequeña librería
2 pm Drag Queen Story Time con intérprete Elektra Wolfe
3:30 pm SanTana Poets y Más
4:30 pm VAALA y amigos
5:30 pm Escritores de prosa de OC
6:00 p. M. Premio Modesta Ávila y orador principal: David Lopez
6:30 pm Apollo Bebop
¡Más por anunciar!
Todas las horas están en hora estándar del Pacífico.
LibroMobile presenta: El premio Modesta Ávila
Es un gran honor anunciar a nuestro ganador del Premio Modesta Ávila y orador principal en nuestro Aniversario del Festival de Artes Literarias LibroMobile en enero, todos los años desde que abrimos nuestra pequeña librería en 2018.
Elegimos este título de premio por muchas razones, pero principalmente porque Modesta Ávila ha sido pasada por alto en la historia, no solo como mexicoamericana sino también como mujer. A fines de la década de 1880, Modesta defendió a su familia y su tierra en contra del desarrollo del ferrocarril, y por eso fue etiquetada como una manifestante y una delincuente. Sin embargo, solo en las últimas dos décadas ha ganado reconocimiento y ahora más de nosotros volvemos a contar su historia.
¡Igualmente decisivos para liderar nuestra comunidad a través del empoderamiento cultural, el orgullo y la defensa literaria son nuestros galardonados anuales!
Dwayne "BH" Shipp
OCHC is a nonprofit organization that has taken the leadership of carrying on Mrs. Helen M. Shipp’s legacy of the Annual Orange County Black History Parade and Unity Festival with Mrs. Shipp’s youngest, Dwayne (BH) Shipp as the president.
The annual parade and faire are always held the 1st Saturday in February, which has been designated nationally as Black History Month. Both events are currently held in Anaheim, CA and will be celebrating it’s 42nd Year come February 5, 2022, with the parade stepping off at 10am. The theme for this year’s event is “Our Heritage: Reflecting, Advancing, Uniting.” With the Orange County Heritage Council motto: “The Legacy Never Ends...New Vines Grow from Strong Roots” the legacy continues.
2022 Awardee
David Lopez
David Lopez is a queer Latino writer and award-winning librarian from Santa Ana, CA. He aims to elevate BIPOC and LGBTQ+ narratives through his writing and reporting. His work has appeared in the Orange County Register, OC Weekly, La Bloga, Rio Grande Review, and is a contributing writer for Instinct Magazine. David has been a Libromobile supporter since inception and has curated the Drag Queen Storytime for the Literary Arts Festival each year. As a professional librarian his mission is to bring necessary resources to underserved communities and to build connections and equity for communities of color in historically intimidating institutions. David is part of the executive board of REFORMA, the National Association to Promote Library & Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking as well as a former councilor for the American Library Association.
2021 Awardee
Iuri M. Lara
Iuri M. Lara is a MeXicana-Indigena poet, a High School English Language Arts teacher, and a mother from Santa Ana, CA. She holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of California in Riverside. Her poetry has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Academic Journal for MALCS, Mujeres de Maize Zine, Bozalta Literary and Arts Zine, Open Doors Poetry Anthology, Recycled Languages Cartonera Zine, Seeds of Resistance Zine and La Bloga’s Poets Responding to SB1070. Her first poetry chapbook titled “Trece Poemas” was self-published in 2012, “Xicanx Affirmations” is her second poetry chapbook (2018) published by Libromobile. website: www.iurimlara.com
2020 Awardee
Emmy Pérez
Emmy Pérez, Texas Poet Laureate 2020, was raised in Santa Ana and has lived in the Texas borderlands for the past twenty years. She is the author of With the River on Our Faceand Solstice. A collection of her new and selected works is forthcoming by TCU Press. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Academy of American Poets. Over the years, she has led writing workshops in detention centers and community spaces. In 2017, she co-founded Poets Against Walls collective in the Rio Grande Valley.
She is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, where she teaches in the MFA and undergraduate programs. She also serves as Associate Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies.
2019 Awardee