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Visiting Dallas

Author - Junot Diaz

Sunday, September 14, 2008

 

The Writer's Garret is very excited to announce that they are bringing Junot Diaz, a wonderful Dominican author and 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner, to Dallas for an interview and book reading in front of a live audience. His stories are all about his experiences as a Dominican-American immigrant. Let's have as many as we can attend. The general admission ticket price is $34, but they are offering our members a discounted rate of $20 per ticket. To get tickets, call (214) 828-1715 and mention the password "Palabra". See below for more information, and contact the Writer's Garret if you have any questions.

 

Also see their website information at: www.writersgarret.org

Jayna Wallach
Program Assistant
The Writer's Garret
Email: studio@writersgarret.org
Phone: 214-828-1715

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author JUNOT DIAZ
opens the highly acclaimed
WRITERS STUDIO SERIES at the DMA

JUNOT DIAZ, 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning author, is the featured guest at this season's opening of The Writers Studio, Sunday, September 14, 2:00 to 4:00 PM at the Horchow Auditorium of the Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 North Harwood Street, Dallas, Texas. Diaz gives a combination reading and interview presented by The Writer's Garret and hosted by Randy Gordon and Yolette Garcia.

About Junot Diaz
Junot Diaz (born in the Dominican Republic, raised in the USA) received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his debut novel, "The Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao."

He has written several short stories that have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Story, and has also been part of the anthologies "The Best American Short Stories" and "African Voices."
His short story collection "Drown," published in 1996, was a New York Times Notable Book, an ALA Best Book of the Year, and was one of The Village Voice's 25 Best Books of the Year.

Diaz has won several awards including the Eugene McDermott Award, the Lila Wallace “Reader's Digest Writers"  Award, the PEN/Malamud Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship, a U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Fellowship from the NEA, and most recently the Rome Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Let's go meet and welcome Junot Diaz to Dallas!

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2nd Annual Fiesta Latinoamericana
DFW International Community Alliance

Starting at 5:00 PM to ......

 

Saturday April 19, 2008

at the Amphitheatre at Oak Point,
2800 E. Spring Creek Parkway in Plano.

5 pm FREE Family Fiesta! with Latin American storytelling, folkloric dance workshops from Chile / Spain / Mexico, Capoeira (Brazilian martial arts), mimes and Afro-Latino drumming.

8 pm 2nd Annual Fiesta Latinoamericana! with dance, live music, theater, and film featuring MEXICO: Carlos Fuentes, SPAIN: Miguel Hernandez, CHILE: Victor Jara, and ARGENTINA: Horacio Quiroga.

Performances by:
Mexico 2000 Ballet Folklorico,
Mariachi Los Reyes de Dallas,
Daniel de Cordoba Bailes Espanoles,
Cantares Chilean Ensemble,
Danzas Folkloricas del Centro Argentino,
Voces y Danzas de Chile,
Orlando Salinas,
Lionel Felipe,
Francisco Divera
Loris Beckles, and other artists.

Parade of Nations (we were there!)
with flags and traditional costumes of
all the Latin American countries.

For more information contact:
Yamilec Calvario 972.661.2764
Director of Educational Programs
DFW International Community Alliance
yamilec@dfwinternational.org
www.dfwinternational.org

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