OPEN MIKE NIGHT AT THE SPACE BAR INTERNET CAFÉ APRIL 28 IN LA MESA

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April 28, 2011 (La Mesa) – You’re invited to express yourself in public through the spoken word, poetry, song or dance at the Space Bar Internet Café at 7454 University Avenue in La Mesa tonight from 7:30-10:00 p.m.  The event, hosted by Jim Moreno, will feature author, poet and musician Lalo Velasco, recipient of a California Arts Council Grant. Refreshments are available.

 

"We've got a conga player from Cuba, and a percussionist from Ghana, and another from Zimbabwe that make the evening an interesting combination of music and spoken word," Moreno said.

 

Velasco’s short stories have appeared in the East Side Journal Publications Group and for Consafos Literary Magazine. He has published poems with the Mosaic Multicultural Foundation Newsletter. As a social work intern he wrote advice column letters for Low Rider Magazine's the now defunct Tia Chucha column. Velasco has acted and written for Chicano Teatros, performing actors that support union organizing drives, bilingual education and pro immigration legislation. Lalo is also Mariachi who sometimes performs poetry while playing his guitaron.

 

Lalo Velasco is the pseudonym for Edward V. Carrillo, a part-time lecturer and field instructor for the USC graduate School of Social Work, specializing in domestic violence, PTSD and homeless veterans from 2004 to the present. He works full-time as an outreach social worker at the Department of Veterans Affairs, striving to end homelessness among veterans. As team leader for the East Los Angeles Vet Center, he organized two literary programs promoting the art of writing as an exercise in healing the wounds of war.
 


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