Events and Readings

Coming Back Tender Tour Fall 2016

•  (past) University of Washington at Tacoma
• Sept. 17 (Saturday) Jingletown Presents : Thea, Yaccaira, Marguerite, & Maya
   Reading & Open Mic Every 3rd Saturday of the Month, 3-5 pm
  Curated by harold terezón
  César Chavez Library, Oakland (Fruitvale BART accessible)
• Oct. 11 (Tuesday) Mills College TBA
• Oct. 17th  Women’s Center 30th Anniversary Fall Open House & Cardiff House Grand Opening  @ 4:00-7:00pm at the Cardiff House UCSC
• Oct. 20 DNA Hymn *East Bay Book Launch @Pegasus Books
  • *DNA Hymn’s East Bay Book Launch w/ Maya Chinchilla, Tha Hood Alkemist, Crystal Azul Barr & JDX! Performer bios coming soon! *Annah Anti-Palindrome’s debute book, DNA Hymn, is a collection of poems about rural, working-class, queer/femme, JewWitch, survivor identity. Pieces of this book will be performed through live, musical soundscapes made w/ a loop pedal, kitchen utensils, gas-masks, raw eggs, blood pressure cuffs, found objects, her body (mostly her throat), and more!
• Nov. 5 (Saturday) Featured Artist: Dedicated to Pulse
  • Dia de Los Muertos Closing Reception SOMARTS 6–9pm
• Nov. 8 Guest Lecture UC Irvine (time TBA)

 

 

Fall 2015

• • Sept. 25 Culture Fuck Oakland, CA
  • Oct. 1 & 2 University of Maryland/D.C.

• Oct. 5 MC /Charla con Rebecca Lane Guatemalan Rappera
• Oct. 12 The Center for Political Education San Francisco, CA
• Oct. 16 w/ Dulce Garcia at University of Arizona Tucson, AZ
• Oct. 17 “Buscando Queer In Central American: Chapina Femmes in dialogue”AJAAS Phoenix, AZ
• Oct. 17 Lit Crawl San Francisco, CA
• Nov.2 Contra Costa College
• Nov. 5 Featured Speaker UT Austin, Tx
• Nov. 7 Resistencia Books
• Nov. 12 Claremont Colleges, CA

 

Winter and Spring 2015

• Jan. 29 6pm UCSC Living Writers Series
   Remembering Gloria Anzaldúa with Maya Chinchilla
   UC Santa Cruz, CA
• Feb 12 Class Lecture, New York University Dept. of Social and Cultural Analysis
• Feb 14 CCA conference
  “Contemporary Art of Central America and Its Diaspora”
  Chairs: Kency Cornejo, University of New Mexico; Tatiana Reinoza, University of Texas at Austin
  9:30 AM—12:00 PM
  Location: Hilton New York, 2nd Floor, Regent Parlor
• Feb 15 The Cha Cha Files from Oakland to New York City at La Casa Azul Bookstore
  with special guests Sabina Ibarrola, Mariama Lockington, Liz Latty and Ynanna Djehuty
• Feb 18 Lyrics and Dirges
  with Miah Jeffra, Lisa Ortiz, Marvin K. White, Joël Tan, Maya Chinchilla and Sharon Coleman
  at Pegasus Books Berkeley, CA
• February 27 RADAR Banned Books Series 
• at Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
• March 8 Mujeres de Maiz at Legacy LA 6-8pm
• March 9 Class Visit, Central Americans in the U.S in Chicano/a Studies
  at UCLA
• April 2-3 Performance Keynote Annual Spanish Matters
  Queer Geographies: Remapping Hispanic Studies
  at the University of Puget Sound
• April 23 Special Guest Modern Times Books, San Francisco CA
• May 5 Reading from The Cha Cha Files 
  Sponsored by RADAR @ The San Francisco Library

 

2014

• March 8- MCCLA’s International Women’s Day Celebration on March 8
• April 4 San Francisco Jazz Festival
• April 12  Bay Area Latino Poetry Festival April
• Cipactli Literary Journal published by SFSU’s Latina/o studies department
• June 4 The Cha Cha Files: A Chapina Poetica, Kórima Press debut book release (!) at SF Mission Cultural Center for Latino/a Arts, 7pm
• Oct. 5 The Avid Reader at Tower Book Store Sacramento, CA
• Oct. 10-12 Letras Latinas
• Oct. 18 Voz sin Tinta Litquake event
• Oct. Syracuse TBA*
• Oct. 21 SUNY Oneata upstate New York
• Oct 23 Colgate University Hamilton New York*
• Oct. 25 La Casa Azul Bookstore Spanish Harlem NYC
• Nov. 15 Studio Grand Oakland, CA
• Dec. Seattle *TBA
• Dec. 21 5pm Hitched Beyond Baroque LA, CA

2013

Our Mission, No Eviction” at the Brava Theater

the San Francisco Lit Crawl

Featured Poet, the “Lunada Literary Lounge” at Galeria de La Raza

Past Performances:

List of Presentations and lectures

• Maya reading at Center for Race and Gender: Catalyzing Knowledge