City of West Hollywood to Host the Second Annual Algonquin West Hollywood Awards at the Pacific Design Center on Saturday, September 27, 2008.Award to Honor Poet, Activist and Author Luis Rodriguez Luis Rodriguez or Luis Rodríguez can refer to different people:
WEST HOLLYWOOD West Hollywood A community of southern California northeast of Beverly Hills. It is mainly residential. Population: 36,600. -- The Second Annual Algonquin West Hollywood Awards will take place on Saturday, September 27, 2008 at 7 p.m. at the Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Avenue Melrose Avenue is a well-known Los Angeles street that starts from Santa Monica Boulevard at the border between Beverly Hills and West Hollywood and ends at Hoover Street in Silver Lake. Melrose runs north of Beverly Boulevard and south of Santa Monica Boulevard. . This year's honoree is poet, activist and author Luis Rodriguez. The purpose of the Algonquin West Hollywood Award is to connect the past and present by linking masterful literary voices from different generations. Proceeds from the event will go to PEN In the Classroom, a writing program of PEN USA for under-served high school students. Admission is $20 per person. In addition to the awards presentation, "The Big Read West Hollywood" will be kicked-off and will include free giveaways of the classic book "Bless Me, Ultima." The Big Read, is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Independent agency of the U.S. government that supports the creation, dissemination, and performance of the arts. It was created by the U.S. , and involves communities participating in the reading of one book as an exercise in building community and expanding literacy through the arts. A staged reading of "A Marvelous Party With Noel Coward Noun 1. Noel Coward - English dramatist and actor and composer noted for his witty and sophisticated comedies (1899-1973) Sir Noel Pierce Coward, Coward ," created by Michael Kearns and featuring the writings of Noel Coward will also be performed. "A Marvelous Evening with Noel Coward" will include snippets from his plays Blithe Spirit and Private Lives as well as correspondence between Marlene Dietrich and Noel Coward performed by Adrienne Barbeau, Martin Landau, Calpernia Adams, Maxwell Caulfield, Gordon Thomson, Derek Meeker, Ken Page, Liz Torres, Wayne Moore on Piano and the legendary Juliet Mills (who happens to be Noel Coward's goddaughter god·daugh·ter n. A female godchild. goddaughter Noun a female godchild Noun 1. ). Luis Rodriguez has emerged as one of the leading Chicano writers in the country with ten nationally published books in memoir, nonfiction, children's literature and poetry. Luis is best known for the 1993 memoir of gang life, Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. An international best-seller with more than 20 printings, around 250,000 copies sold - the memoir has also garnered a Carl Sandburg Literary Award, a Chicago Sun-Times Book Award, and was designated a New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Notable Book. Luis is also known for helping to start a number of prominent organizations including the Chicago Guild Complex, one of the largest literary arts organizations in the Midwest and the publishing house of Tia Chucha Press. He is also one of the founders of Youth Struggling for Survival, a Chicago-based not-for-profit community group working with gang and non-gang youth. He helped start Rock a Mole Productions which produces music and arts festivals, CDs and films in Los Angeles. Luis is also the cofounder co·found tr.v. co·found·ed, co·found·ing, co·founds To establish or found in concert with another or others. co·found of Tia Chucha's Cafe & Centro Cultural - a bookstore, coffee shop, performance space, art gallery and workshop center that opened in December 2001. For more information about the Second Annual Algonquin West Hollywood Awards, please call (323) 848-6460. For the hearing impaired, please call (323) 848-6496. |
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