Benefit for the Second Annual Children’s Poetry Festival of El Salvador Thursday, October 21, 2011 in the Nan and Miles Kennedy Art Center at Arts Collinwood 7:30pm-10pm
The event will be a Benefit for the Second Annual Children’s Poetry Festival of El Salvador. The festival is being organized by children’s book author Jorge Argueta and the Talleres de Poesia based in San Francisco and El Salvador with the collaboration of the Director of the National Library of El Salvador Manlio Argueta. It will be held in San Salvador during the week of November 6th. The festival is designed to promote literacy and culture among Salvadoran youth to help offset the legacy of a twelve year civil war, poverty, and the gang violence that continues to plague the country. The civil war left its mark on Cleveland by the rape and murder of Cleveland churchwomen Jean Donovan and Dorothy Kazel by members of the Salvadoran military. The war also resulted in the death of approximately 80,000 civilians and the exodus of over 2 million Salvadorans from the country. The theme of this year’s festival is the importance of reading and significance of peace for Salvadoran youth. Children who attend workshops in the capital of San Salvador and other cities in El Salvador will also have the opportunity to enhance their writing skills and learn techniques on how to write their experiences through poetry. The workshops will feature presentations by prominent artists including Maya Cristina González, ,Elli Simmons, Jack Hirschman, Jurgen Trautwein, Michael Roman, Cachi Cartagena, Romeo G. Osorio, ,Juan Fuentes,Mauricio Mejía,, Alex Aleph Sánchez, María Elena Palomo, and , Sandro Sardello.
Music will be provided by Cleveland area musicians John Dante and John McGrail. Local poets will share their work and read selected works of Salvadoran and latino poets. There will also be an auction and postcard by guests that will be delivered to the poetry festival to share with Salvadoran children. Food and beverage provided by Collinwood Café.
RSVP by October 18th –sent to Poetry Festival c/o Philip Althouse Attorney, 1185 E. 172nd St. Cleveland, OH 44119; cost per person is $25 and $30 dollars the day of the event. Make checks payable to Philip Althouse Attorney with “poetry festival” written on the check memo.
Event date and time: October 21st 7:30 to 10 PM.
Contact Philip Althouse at 216-383-0352// phil2495+talleres@gmail.com for more information
Festival promo in Spanish on youtube:
by Philip Althouse
Resident of neighborhood since 1956. Worked on East 185th street since 1970.