#labfest

[theluckylab]

Maggie + Scout = Happy Labs #scoutsfavplace #labfest @katiedeereese (at Home)

[theluckylab]

#labfest #scoutsfavplace (at Home)

[twentythreevoices]

A Moveable Feast of Words

I. On the Metro/In the Streets

  When poets on platforms spit convictions

When free expression necessitates defiance of the law

  Read on

Para la gente

  When sun shines on brows lost in concentration

When cool words drench hot, sweaty bodies

  Read on

Para la gente

  When city sounds threaten to drown the collective voice

When speaking up is to shout over the commotion of our souls

  Read on

Read on

Read on

Para la gente

  II. LAB*FEST

  Once submerged on the metro

they rise to second story glory

lean over wrought-iron balcony

strike poses, poised for delivery

stand as art pieces amongst canvases and books

project their souls to coffered wooden ceiling

drop truth bombs on unsuspecting “victims”

shrapnel words adding fire

to an already sweltering day.

  Stories of East L.A., robot boys, and comfort women:

This is the forecast

inside The Last Bookstore.

Let the words fall like rain.

[dtlab]

Call for Submission: A LAB•FEST Zine

If you were one of the 1000 people that attended (audience or presenter) LAB•FEST this past Saturday (9/7) at The Last Bookstore, we'd love to read you write or paint/draw about or inspired by the event and the opening of DT•LAB. 

Submit work for consideration to: [email protected]

Deadline: 9/30/13

[dtlab]

LAB•FEST @ THE LAST BOOKSTORE - SAT 9/7 - NOON-11PM

Writ Large Press presents: LAB•FEST Saturday - September 7th - Noon - 11PM @ The Last Bookstore

in celebration of the grand opening of DT•LAB [an independent art, literature, music, and creative space]

LUIS RODRIGUEZ! SESSHU FOSTER! CRYPTIK! SHARK TOOF! QUETZAL! JEN HOFER! MIKE THE POET! AND MORE!!! 

We here at Writ Large Press are throwing a party. No. A festival. A festival that is going to be annual. We are calling it LAB•FEST and it's going to be an amazing day of writers, musicians, painters, dancers, thinkers, explorers, makers, and other alchemists.

Mark you Calendars. Full line-up below:

• Noon -- A Writ Large Press welcome & a performance by Mike ThePoet Sonksen.

• 1PM -- INTERSECTIONS: A CONVERSATION. Sesshu Foster and Luis Javier Rodriguez. The two LA literary legends sit down on stage for a historic conversation about writing, social justice, Los Angeles, about the past, present, and future.

• 2PM -- HOLLYWOOD NOTEBOOK. Wendy C. Ortiz, Kate Crash, Anthony Miller and The Six Shooters.

• 3PM -- OUTSIDE IN: STREET ART 2013. CRYPTIK, Shark Toof, Andrew Hem, and Nathan Ota. A group book signing and a panel discussion moderated by Shana Nys Dambrot.

• 4PM -- New Blue Sun. The jazz band releases their new album, Hope: In the Epoch of Chaos

• 5PM -- TRANSIT. Poesia Para La Gente, Steve Abee, Sam Dufelmeier, and Ariana Evans.

• 6PM -- LA WRIT LARGE. Melora Walters, Kim Calder, Andrew Choate, Khadija Anderson, Billy Burgos, Chris Kerr, Traci Akemi Kato-kiriyama, and Chiwan Choi.

• 8PM -- EMERGING VOICES. A line up of current and former PEN USA Emerging Voices fellows. Kima Jones, Lauren Marks, Azarin Sadegh, Cara Chow, and Reyna Grande. Hosted by Lilliam Rivera.

• 9PM -- Inner Ecstasy

• 10PM -- Quetzal, the Grammy Award winning band from East LA.

• 11PM -- El-Haru Kuroi

ALSO HAPPENING:

• 1-5PM -- CACHE BAR. Jen Hofer and Erik Shveima, in true acts of alchemy, will deconstruct and transform printed work into new works of art. In conjunction with PUBLISH!, the underground publishing project from Writ Large Press.

• 5-8PM -- POEM STORE. Jacqueline Suskin brings her typewriter for some poetry on demand!

• ALL DAY -- a JT Steiny Treasure Hunt. The much loved artist will be hiding various works in the bookstore for unsuspecting attendees to discover.

• Throughout the day -- There will acoustic sets inside the intimate DT•LAB space, beatmakers, and other FUN activities!

MORE UPDATES TO COME!!!

[dtlab]

Featuring at the 1st Annual LAB•FEST:

SESSHU FOSTER • LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ

The two legendary Los Angeles authors will be on stage and in conversation about this city, about writing, about social justice, about where we have come from, where we are now, and where we are headed.

A truly historic conversation.

Saturday 9/7 • 1PM @ The Last Bookstore