The Latino Book & Family Festival Newsletter, December 2004

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Noticias del Festival

Vol 2, #10: Festival News, Views, & Who's Who

December 2004

Contents

Thousands of Midwesterners Brave the Elements to Attend Chicago Festival

A Festival in a Mall - and It Works

Latino Literacy Now Can Use Your Car Donation

Latino Literacy Now Announces 2005 Festival Tour

You Can Help

We are pleased to present Issue 10 of Noticias del Festival. We hope you are enjoying these monthly (almost) newsletters. Latino Literacy Now appreciates your continued support of our efforts to reduce illiteracy and promote literary excellence while advancing the cause of reading in the Latino Community. Your comments and suggestions are welcome. Everyone at Latino Literacy Now wishes you a very happy and healthful holiday season.

Thousands of Midwesterners Brave the Elements to Attend Chicago Festival

With more than a little trepidation we headed into a brand new venue over a cold and snowing Thanksgiving weekend to put on the 6th Annual Chicago Latino Book & Family Festival. We are happy to announce a complete success all around. Great crowds (close to 30,000) came and stayed to enjoy four separate stages of entertainment, activities, seminars, speakers and dance competition. Unity School in Cicero proved to be a most accommodating venue and should be a great home for the Festival next year as well. Its spacious gymnasium, cafeteria and common areas adapted perfectly to our Festival needs. Our thanks to Cicero School District 99 and Cicero Town President Ramiro Gonzalez.

Festival Producer Edward James Olmos proved true to his word of visiting all the Festivals he missed last year, when filming on both Battlestar Galactica and American Family made travel impossible, by appearing at his third straight Festival after Los Angeles and Houston.

As always Festival hosts Rose and Zeke Montes of Tele Guia de Chicago and their team did an excellent job of coordination so the Festival ran smoothly for participant and attendee alike.

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A Festival in a Mall - and It Works

A typically warm Southern California mid-December weekend welcomed us to the Carousel Mall in San Bernardino for the 5th Annual Inland Empire Latino Book & Family Festival. The Folklorico Challenge USA provided large crowds as this exciting year-long competition drew to a close. Look for more information on the National Championships bringing together the regional winners from San Diego, Phoenix, Houston, Chicago and the Inland Empire to be held in Los Angeles in June in this newsletter soon.
Once again out thanks go out to the Inland Empire Hispanic Chamber of Commerce for their co-hosting job. It has always been a pleasure to put this event on in this growing, important and often over-looked Latino market.

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Latino Literacy Now Can Use Your Car Donation

With tax laws regarding writing off the charitable donation of your used vehicle changing after this month, there is no better time to donate that un-used vehicle to our non-profit organization. You get the write off and the dollars generated by the eventual sale of your vehicle helps fund our organization.
We have made it a very simple process. Log onto our home page and on the right hand side, please click on the "Donate A Car" logo. Once at the car donation site you will be directed to fill out an online form. At the bottom of that form please note the question: Would you like to participate in directing a portion of the proceeds from your donation to the charity of your choice? Please answer yes and then make sure to indicate "Latino Literacy Now" as your charity of choice.

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Latino Literacy Now Announces 2005 Festival Tour

Over the course of the past eight years we have been approached by numerous city officials, organizations and concerned citizens from across the country asking about holding a Latino Book & Family Festival in their community. In our zeal to accommodate these requests we have perhaps grown a bit too fast.
So in 2005 in order to do what we do well even better, we will be concentrating our efforts on our three large events in the key Latino markets of Houston, Los Angeles and Chicago.
However, future expansion is being planned with an eye to serving geographic sections of the country such as Northern California (San Jose/San Francisco) and the Northeast (New York City). Currently we are planning expanding into the Dallas/Ft. Worth market in the Spring of 2006 with Raiz Public Relations and the Cities of Dallas & Ft. Worth as our co-hosts.
2005 Schedule
Houston (4th Annual)
October 1-2
George R. Brown Convention Center
Los Angeles (9th Annual)
October 16-17
Venue: TBA
Chicago (7th Annual)
November 12-13
Unity School, Cicero, IL
And all authors and book publishers should mark June 3, 2005 on their calendars for the 2005 Latino Book Awards to be held in New York City (during Book Expo America). More information on submitting your book for consideration will be online soon. Meanwhile you can view the winners from this year's awards at http:// www.lbff.us/sponsors/press-room/latinobook/index.htm.

You Can Help

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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.