The Latino Book & Family Festival Newsletter, April 2004

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Noticias del Festival

Vol 2, #3: Festival News, Views, & Who's Who

April 2004

Contents

San Diego Festival Coming Soon

Open A Book

Your Support Is Welcomed

News About Our Producer

You Can Help

Everyone at the Latino Book & Family Festival appreciates your continued support of our efforts to reduce illiteracy and promote literary excellence while advancing the cause of reading in the Latino Community. This newsletter is being sent to you as a subscriber to the Latino Book & Family Festival mailing list. Look for new editions at this time every month.

San Diego Festival Coming Soon

The more we inspect, scrutinize, examine and measure the campus grounds at Southwestern College, the more we all feel very comfortable that the San Diego Latino Book & Family Festival has found an excellent new home.

We hope those of you in the Southern California area will join us this coming May 15-16 for the 5th Annual San Diego Festival. Southwestern College is located in Chula Vista at 900 Otay Lakes Road (click here for map) and boasts a truly multi-cultural student body. Of the 19,000 students, 58% are Hispanic with an additional 23% either African American, Filipino and/or Asian. For those of you considering exhibiting at this Festival there are still some great booth locations available. Look for the floor plan on the San Diego Festival City Page at www.lbff.us/home/schedule/san-diego/2004/index.htm or click here.

Attendees at this year's event will see the first of the Folklórico Challenge USA competitions that will be an integral part of all our Festivals. There are still some spots open for any interested group. Regulations and registration forms are available at the Folklórico Challenge USA web page at http://www.lbff.us/fcusa/index.htm or here.

Also scheduled for the event is Julian Nava, who will discuss his book, My Mexican-American Journey, a personal history of the first and only Mexican-American ambassador of the United States to Mexico. Additionally, Diana Guerrero, author and animal trainer will give a demonstration of her abilities.

Sponsor and Exhibitor Information

Open A Book

Open A Book is a scholastic project that provides classroom libraries to participating schools. At each of our Festivals, the area school with the highest Festival attendance over the course of the weekend, including students, parents and teachers, will receive seven classroom sets of the Latino Festival Family Library: a series of 12 award winning books that would make a great addition to any home or classroom.
Once a school has pre-registered, it is also very important for the students, teachers and parents of the participating schools to make sure and do an on- site registration at the Information Booth upon arrival at the Festival. Depending on the success of local book drives, many early arriving students will be given a free book as they register at each Festival.
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Your Support Is Welcomed

As many of you are aware the Latino Book & Family Festival is operated by Latino Literacy Now (LLN), a 501(c)(3) non profit organization. In order to help fund the literacy based programs operated by LLN, we have established a "Donations" page at http://lln.kintera.org/donations. Click here to be taken to that page.
On this page you can direct your tax deductible donations to fund such programs as Open A Book, Change Your Future; Folklórico Challenge USA; The Latino Book Awards; and the Latino Book & Family Festival General Fund.
Please join us in our work to reduce illiteracy, promote literary excellence and advance the cause of reading in the Latino Community. We appreciate your support in this endeavor as well as your spreading the word to your friends and business associates.
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News About Our Producer

The new season of American Family, starring Latino Book & Family Festival producer, Edward James Olmos, starts Sunday April 4th, on most local PBS stations. This season American Family - Journey of Dreams follows the Gonzalez clan as they celebrate the wedding of one son while confronting their worst fears as another goes off to war. Also starring Constance Marie, Yancey Arias, Jesse Borrego, Patricia Velasquez, Kate del Castillo and Raquel Welch, with special guest stars Esai Morales, Lynn Whitfield and Rachel Ticotin, and special appearances by Sonia Braga, the second season juxtaposes the Gonzalez family's story against the broad sweep of contemporary history. The story interweaves the Gonzalez' courageous escape from the Mexican Revolution to seek a better life in America with the sacrifices the family made in the 1990s to send their first-born son to medical school and the consequences of those sacrifices as seen through the prism of war in Iraq to reveal how their past informs their future.
American Family - Journey of Dreams was created by Gregory Nava and is produced by his company, El Norte Productions, and KCET/ Hollywood, in association with The Greenblatt Janollari Studio and Fox Television Studios. Underwriters: Johnson & Johnson, The American Legacy Foundation, Public Television Viewers, PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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You Can Help

Bring the cover page of this newsletter with you to the next LBFF in your area & receive 25% off all Festival merchandise available at the Information Booth.