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February 26th @ 7:00pm
The Percolator Café, 217 N. Stanton St., El Paso, TX. 79902.
Featuring: La RaNa, and Musical Guests Mattox.
Special Guest Poet: La RaNa
Photo by Federico Villalba
Griselda Liz Munoz, or “La RaNa” is a poet and occasional playwright based out of El Paso, TX. She was the first place winner of the Rasquache Street Festival Poetry Slam in 2005, and has steadily been performing since. “I am La RaNa because I croak the injustice”, she has said. Ranita has performed countless times for community events, and has put on a one-woman show, ‘Mujer Corazon” in 2007, and written and produced a play, “Monios de Batalla, a Revolutionary Fairy Tale” in 2009. Performance highlights include poetry at the Border Book Festival in 2008, NALAC Conference 2008, The EPCC Literary Fiesta 2009, The Chicano Moratorium March in Los Angeles 2010, alongside Jimmy Santiago Baca at NMSU in 2010, special guest for Lalo Delgado’s Annual Birthday Celebration by the Metropolitan College in Denver 2010, Featured Poet at Café Cultura in Denver, 2010, and most recently, featured performer at “El Mundo Zurdo, An International Conference on the Life and Work of Gloria Anzaldua, UTSA 2010. Published poetry includes Mujeres de Maiz Anthology Editions “Cantando al Amanecer” 2007 and “La Sagrada” 2009, the upcoming Anthologies “Mussa” 2011 and “From Turtle Island to Abya Yala“, Malinalli Press, 2011. Her short story, “Spider Hole” can currently be found on UnlikelyStories.org.
“La RaNa’s performance poetry celebrates what it's to be Latina, and what it's to be human. Her words weave a tapestry of her history, her struggle, her hopes and self-determination into one Urban Vernacular. She’s a healer of lost souls.”- Bruce George, Co-Founder of Def Poetry Jam.
Musical Guests: Mattox
Mattox is a group based out of the El Paso/Juárez area. Their music travels through electronic mediums and they got Mauz (a master drummer) on the trap set. Their lyrics are poignant and meaningful, and basically they kick butt, that's why we're featuring them! You will not want to miss this performance. Find more info about Mattox at Mattoxlive.com or check out their Facebook at Facebook.com/mattoxlive. We posted some of their limited edition album artwork below, enjoy:
January 29th @ 7:00 pm
The Percolator Café, 217 N. Stanton St., El Paso, TX. 79902.
Featured Performers:
The Border Theater, The Smash & The Open Mic Community.Guest DJ: One Man Jazz.(See below for more info and performer bios).
The Border Theatre's Mission:
To initiate an inspiring interaction between performing artists and the community by producing and promoting cutting edge plays, with an emphasis on developing world premiere works that explore the human experience, and implement new ways to use the artistry of theatre to serve and educate the people of our unique border culture. Find more info @ http://bordertheatre.org/ or on Facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/bordertheatre.
The Smash:
"The Smash is a trio, composed of guitar, drums and bass. Our names are not important, what matters is the rock and roll we play, which is hard and fast. We don't take long to set up and before you know it we're rocking the audience, often leaving crowds in stunned disbelief, because we play loudly but briefly. We believe in leaving people wanting more, especially in an age where popular music is too self indulgent and excessive. We like to leave an impression on people and of course hope to leave ears ringing well after the show is done. Hold on to your women, the Smash is coming your way."
One man Jazz:
You might have seen him blaze and amaze the crowd at First Friday's La Parada @ the San Carlos building, but if you were sleepin' and missed it, the picture of the crowd above should give you an idea of how dope of a DJ One Man Jazz really is. Don't miss out on his wax wizardry, check him out at the Barbed Wire Open Mic Series!
Open Mic Community:
The Barbed Wire is an exciting multilingual event that celebrates free speech through the arts and that allows community members a platform from which they can express their poetic perspectives and unique voices. Whether you come out to perform, or to just enjoy the art, it’s FREE and fun for everybody!
October 30th @ 7:00 pm
Virtual Poetry Reading at The Percolator
(first ever and pilot event).
8:00 pm (Barbed Wire Open Mic Series).
The Percolator Café, 217 N. Stanton St., El Paso, TX. 79902.
Featured Performers: Slam Poet Nick R., Dj Ed Chálacy & the Open Mic Community (see below for more info and performer bios).
Nick R., at the age of ten, discovered he could make very loud noises. At age 20, he encountered Def Poetry Jam poets Asia and Benny Blaq - since then, he has traveled the universe, making occasional appearances at poetry readings in order to share his particular style of performance, "Slamjutsu," with unsuspecting audience members. He is currently learning how to write and is on the verge of being expelled from UTEP's Creative Writing department.
Dj Ed Chálacy, Barbed Wire's resident dejay, is one of El Paso's greatest musical alchemists. He spins wax like a true dejay should, and has genres of music that most people don't even know exist!
Open Mic Community:
The Barbed Wire is an exciting multilingual event that celebrates free speech through the arts and that allows community members a platform from which they can express their poetic perspectives and unique voices. Whether you come out to perform, or to just enjoy the art, it’s FREE and fun for everybody!
September Event:
@ 6:00 pm (for free coffee)
& 7:00 pm (showtime).
The Percolator Café, 217 N. Stanton St., El Paso, TX. 79902.
Featured Performers: Luna de Fuego, Secrete Levels, Dj Ed Chálacy (see below for bios).
Luna de Fuego is an experimental improv group with influences from gypsy-flamenco to afro-cuban music. The duo consists of guitarist César Iván and Mauricio Gonzalez {Mauz} on percussion.
Secret Levels is a hip hop crew out of El Paso, TX, by way of Kansas City, MO. They are also known as the UNDEAD. These guys love dope beats and milkshakes!
Dj Ed Chálacy is one of El Paso's greatest dejays. He spins wax like a true dejay should, and has genres of music that most people don't even know exist!
August 28th Event:
The Percolator Café, 217 N. Stanton St., El Paso, TX. 79902
Featured Reader: Diego Bustos Deaza
Featured Performers: Fresh N' Famous & Guest DJ: Ed Chálacy
Contact RAS for info: (806) 470-1583
February's Featured Readers:
 Lawrence Welsh's seventh book of poetry, Begging for Vultures: New and Selected Poems,1994-2009, is forthcoming from the University of New Mexico Press. A chapbook, Carney Takedown, will be published in April by El Paso's Unlikely Books.
 Carolina Monsiváis is a recipient of the Premio Poesia Tejana for her book, Somewhere Between Houston and El Paso. Her work is anthologized in Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry, Literary El Paso, U.S. Latino Literature Today, and a chapbook, Elisa’s Hunger, is forthcoming from Mouthfeel Press. A dedicated advocate/activist in the field of domestic violence and sexual assault, she currently teaches at El Paso Community College. She and her husband, Chicano writer Richard Yañez, are proud to be raising their son, Pablo, in their hometown.
 Richard Yañez--born and raised in Lower Valley El Chuco--is the author of El Paso del Norte: Stories on the Border. His work has been anthologized in Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas Mexican Literature, Literary El Paso, and When I Was a Loser: True Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School. He teaches at El Paso Community College, where he organizes diverse writing projects through the RIPPLES Literary Series. Currently, he is completing revisions on his novel, Cross Over Water, and beginning an auto-ethnography, Beyond Italics: A Chicano Writer’s Craft.
Photo by Yalov
 Born in autumn, José Ángel Valenzuela Palma grew up immersed in the bicultural environment of the Juárez-El Paso border community. He earned his BA in Graphic Design from the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, where he currently teaches in the Editorial Design field. Art, being one of his greatest passions (another one would be travel), he has explored with different disciplines such as visual arts and theatre. Although he is incapable of playing any instrument, he can’t imagine life without music. An avid reader, Ángel started writing at an early age, but it was only in 2006, after contributing on a couple of magazines and a blog, that he decided to write seriously. In 2007, he joined the literary workshop at the Museum of Fine Arts in Juárez, exploring short forms of fiction, which led him to publish his first book, Dosis Letradas, along with another two authors in 2008.
March Event:
The Percolator Café, 217 N. Stanton St., El Paso, TX. 79902
Writing Workshop W/ Silvana Ayala @ 5:30 pm
Featured Performers: The BorderSenses Crew & Friends
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