MEMORANDUM
DATE: April 26, 2011
TO: All Puerto Rican/Hispanic Civic, Social and Community Organizations
FROM: Teresa A. Santiago, Chairperson, Comité Noviembre
SUBJECT: First Annual The Word/ Festival de la Palabra in NY
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Comité Noviembre, CN. To celebrate and commemorate this very important milestone in our history CN will be hosting, co-sponsoring, and participating in a series of events beginning in May and culminating next year in November of 2012. Our first such event is The Word/Festival de la Palabra.
Comité Noviembre and the Institute for the Puerto Rican/Hispanic Elderly, Inc., in co-sponsorship with Salón Literario LibroAmérica de Puerto Rico invites you to the official launch and kick-off press conference of The Word/Festival de la Palabra on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at the Institute for the Puerto Rican/Hispanic Elderly, 105 East 22nd Street – 4th Floor in Manhattan at 1PM.
I urge you to attend and support this important event the first The Word/Festival de la Palabra in New York the only festival of its kind in the world that begins in one city and ends in another, featuring poets and writers from the Caribbean, South America, Europe, and the United States.
The 2011 festival will begin in San Juan, Puerto Rico on May 4, 2011 and will end in New York on May 12, 2011. I hope that you will celebrate the power of the word with us and enjoy the sophistication, beauty and lyrical legend of Puerto Rican words and of the world, as they deserve to be celebrated.
The Word/Festival de la Palabra will take place on May 10th, 11th, and 12th in various venues throughout Manhattan. See schedule below or visit: http://www.festivaldelapalabra.net/puerto-ricos, for more information and festival schedule.
THE OFFICIAL PRESS CONFERENCE:
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 @ 1PM @ Institute for the Puerto Rican/Hispanic Elderly, 105 East 22 Street - 4th Floor, NYC,
Contact: Angel Santini 212 677-4181 and Teresa A. Santiago 914 263-6599
Participating Writers
Moisés Agosto, (Puerto Rico)
Miguel Algarín, (Puerto Rico)
Yolanda Arroyo, (Puerto Rico)
Josefina Baez, (Dominican Republic)
Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé, (Puerto Rico)
Joao Paulo Cuenca, (Brazil)
Tere Dávila, (Puerto Rico)
Martín Espada, (USA)
José Manuel Fajardo, (Spain)
Juan Flores, (Puerto Rico/USA)
Francisco Font Acevedo, (Puerto Rico)
Santiago Gamboa, (Colombia)
Magali García Ramis, (Puerto Rico)
Jessica Hagedorn, (Phillipines/USA)
Guillermo Irizarry, (Puerto Rico)
Karen Jaime, (USA)
Eduardo Lago, (Spain)
Elvira Lindo, (Spain)
Valter Hugo, Mãe (Portugal)
Vanessa Martir, (USA)
Ana María Matute, (Spain)
Lina Meruane, (Chile)
Juan Moreno, (Puerto Rico)
Antonio Muñoz Molina, (Spain)
Andrés Neuman, (Argentina)
José Manuel Prieto, (Cuba)
Claudio Remeseira, (Argentina)
Charles Rice-Gonzalez, (Puerto Rico/USA)
Raquel Rivera, (Puerto Rico)
Bonafide Rojas, (USA)
Mayra Santos Febres, (Puerto Rico)
José Carlos Somoza, (Spain)
Karla Suárez, (Cuba)
Charlie Vázquez, (USA)
David Unger, (Guatemala)
Alfredo Villanueva, (Puerto Rico)
DATE: April 26, 2011
TO: All Puerto Rican/Hispanic Civic, Social and Community Organizations
FROM: Teresa A. Santiago, Chairperson, Comité Noviembre
SUBJECT: First Annual The Word/ Festival de la Palabra in NY
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Comité Noviembre, CN. To celebrate and commemorate this very important milestone in our history CN will be hosting, co-sponsoring, and participating in a series of events beginning in May and culminating next year in November of 2012. Our first such event is The Word/Festival de la Palabra.
Comité Noviembre and the Institute for the Puerto Rican/Hispanic Elderly, Inc., in co-sponsorship with Salón Literario LibroAmérica de Puerto Rico invites you to the official launch and kick-off press conference of The Word/Festival de la Palabra on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at the Institute for the Puerto Rican/Hispanic Elderly, 105 East 22nd Street – 4th Floor in Manhattan at 1PM.
I urge you to attend and support this important event the first The Word/Festival de la Palabra in New York the only festival of its kind in the world that begins in one city and ends in another, featuring poets and writers from the Caribbean, South America, Europe, and the United States.
The 2011 festival will begin in San Juan, Puerto Rico on May 4, 2011 and will end in New York on May 12, 2011. I hope that you will celebrate the power of the word with us and enjoy the sophistication, beauty and lyrical legend of Puerto Rican words and of the world, as they deserve to be celebrated.
The Word/Festival de la Palabra will take place on May 10th, 11th, and 12th in various venues throughout Manhattan. See schedule below or visit: http://www.festivaldelapalabra.net/puerto-ricos, for more information and festival schedule.
THE OFFICIAL PRESS CONFERENCE:
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 @ 1PM @ Institute for the Puerto Rican/Hispanic Elderly, 105 East 22 Street - 4th Floor, NYC,
Contact: Angel Santini 212 677-4181 and Teresa A. Santiago 914 263-6599
Participating Writers
Moisés Agosto, (Puerto Rico)
Miguel Algarín, (Puerto Rico)
Yolanda Arroyo, (Puerto Rico)
Josefina Baez, (Dominican Republic)
Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé, (Puerto Rico)
Joao Paulo Cuenca, (Brazil)
Tere Dávila, (Puerto Rico)
Martín Espada, (USA)
José Manuel Fajardo, (Spain)
Juan Flores, (Puerto Rico/USA)
Francisco Font Acevedo, (Puerto Rico)
Santiago Gamboa, (Colombia)
Magali García Ramis, (Puerto Rico)
Jessica Hagedorn, (Phillipines/USA)
Guillermo Irizarry, (Puerto Rico)
Karen Jaime, (USA)
Eduardo Lago, (Spain)
Elvira Lindo, (Spain)
Valter Hugo, Mãe (Portugal)
Vanessa Martir, (USA)
Ana María Matute, (Spain)
Lina Meruane, (Chile)
Juan Moreno, (Puerto Rico)
Antonio Muñoz Molina, (Spain)
Andrés Neuman, (Argentina)
José Manuel Prieto, (Cuba)
Claudio Remeseira, (Argentina)
Charles Rice-Gonzalez, (Puerto Rico/USA)
Raquel Rivera, (Puerto Rico)
Bonafide Rojas, (USA)
Mayra Santos Febres, (Puerto Rico)
José Carlos Somoza, (Spain)
Karla Suárez, (Cuba)
Charlie Vázquez, (USA)
David Unger, (Guatemala)
Alfredo Villanueva, (Puerto Rico)
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