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Alegria Bilingual Bookstore & Arts Collective

Grant Year

2023-24

Grant Program

Impact Projects

Award Amount

$21,250.00

Project Description

With support from the California Arts Council, Alegria Bilingual Bookstore & Arts Collective (Alegria) will implement a series of free bilingual poetry workshops and open mics for the L.A community entitled Healing Together Through Poetry. This project will use poetry as a tool to educate, transform and uplift our community, throughout the grant period.

These writing workshops and open mics will be facilitated by our credited Latinx and Afro Latinx poets. The workshops and open mics will go together and will happen once a month. Our writers will first workshop their poems then share their work with a trusted community. Each month we will facilitate a workshop and open mic that touches on different community needs. Grant funds will mainly be used to compensate poets for their research and work, marketing, space rental, and writing materials.

Organization Summary

Alegria Bilingual Bookstores & Arts Collective (Alegria) published a full roster of Latinx and Afrolatinx writers through our publishing press. Latinx stories only makeup 6% of the literature industry, which is why it is crucial for us to continue to illuminate and amplify the voices of these artists. We also bring essential literary resources and poetry workshops in both English and Spanish to underserved communities throughout Los Angeles. Our mobile bookstore allows us to directly serve our target population of BIPOC, Latinx and immigrant communities in Los Angeles. To these communities, Alegria brings our Latinx and Afrolatinx poets to present spoken word poetry events, where audiences get to hear stories all across the Latinx diaspora. Alegria also hosts writing workshops for these communities in both English and Spanish to provide them a space to engage with poetry and begin to writer their own stories. Lastly Alegria brings bilingual literature resources such as short story and poetry books for our communities to read and engage with.

Organization

Alegria Bilingual Bookstores & Arts Collective

Address

1029 Vía De La Paz

Los Angeles

90272

County

Los Angeles

Region

South – Los Angeles & Orange

Phone

(305) 450-5756

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