You’re invited to the San Francisco launch of the newly released oral history book, “Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives,” edited by Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Peter Orner and published by Voice of Witness and McSweeney’s Books. Series Editors: Dave Eggers and Lola Vollen.
Where: The Women’s Building in the Mission, 3543 18th Street, #18 (at Guerrero). San Francisco
When: Thursday, May 15, at 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Presenters and readers will include: Corinne Goria, Joell Halloway, David William Hill, and Mimi Lok.
Teachers from a school community in East Los Angeles have found a way to honor alumna Carmen Lomas Garza, the gifted artist behind a number of bilingual picture books for children. The Los Angeles Unified School District Board approved the community’s nomination of a name for their new primary school: the Carmen Lomas Garza Primary Center. The ten-classroom school serves approximately 200 pre-kindergarten through second grade students. The majority of the student population is of first- second- and third-generation Mexican Americans.
Congratulations to anthropology undergrad Jamie Lundy, who will represent San Francisco in Ireland’s Rose of Tralee Festival in August. Every year, 30 young women from major ports of Irish immigration are selected to represent their respective communities. One winner is picked out of these finalists, and is crowned the “Rose of Tralee.” Lundy tells me this “is not a beauty pageant, and is based on personality and speaking ability, as the overall winner will serve as a kind of Irish ambassador to the world. The Rose of Tralee is the largest and oldest event Ireland holds each year, steeped in tradition and culture…I am so proud to represent San Francisco’s community of Irish immigrants and hope to make San Francisco proud this August.”