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Lunada Literary Lounge
October 6 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Save the date for Lunada Literary Lounge! 🌕
Join Galería de la Raza on Monday, October 6 at Studio 24 for the second installment of Lunada Literary Lounge this season! Returning to host and curate our Fall lineup is Mission homeboy and writer Norman Zelaya.
This month we are featuring writer Carribean Fragoza!
Open Mic is available on a first come first serve basis, sign ups will be at the door. Don’t be shy and share your work.
Free admission.
About the Feature
Carribean Fragoza is a fiction and nonfiction writer from South El Monte, CA. Her collection of stories Eat the Mouth That Feeds You was published by City Lights and was a finalist for a 2022 PEN Award. She has edited two compilations of essays, Writing the Golden State: The New Literary Terrain of California (Angel City Press) and East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte (Rutgers University Press). She has published in Harper’s Bazaar, The New York Times, Zyzzyva, Alta, BOMB, Huizache, the Los Angeles Review of Books, ArtNews, and Aperture Magazine. She is the Prose Editor at Huizache Magazine. Fragoza is the founder and co-director of South El Monte Arts Posse, an interdisciplinary arts collective. She is a Whiting Literary Award recipient and Creative Writing faculty at California Institute of the Arts.
About the DJ
Margarita Azucar originally hails from Chicago, and became a California transplant in her teen years. Eventually she returned to the Midwest to pursue a doctoral degree in clinical psychology at the University of Michigan. She’s had brief stints in Mexico City, Jamaica, Brazil, and Paris, but spent much of the last 20 years in San Francisco.
She has a range of musical influences: her older siblings exposed her to everything from hard rock, metal, to new wave, punk, and reggae when she was a kid; the streets of Chicago brought house music and Caribbean Latin American sounds; while family parties brought the rancheras, polkas, and Mexican rockabilly. She looks for lyrics and their meaning, but also appreciates the music’s ability to bring about spiritual elevation.
When she isn’t curating playlists (she’s evolved from mix tapes and CDs) and radio hosting, Margarita leads diversity and inclusion strategic initiatives at a local university. She spent most of her career developing trauma-informed interventions for children, youth, and families and continues to approach her DJing and work through a lens of social justice and community healing.
