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Tafadzwa Muzondo Curates the Inaugural Zimbabwe Human Rights Festival

Leave a Comment / Film, Fiction, Dance, Lifestyle, Visual Art / By Mbizo Chirasha

Machipisa in Highfeilds is a paradoxical African high density suburb in Zimbabwe. It gave birth to the both iconic song maestros and political heavyweights inclusive of the late George Nyandoro, Enos Nkala. Robert Mugabe, the late nationalist and former long serving president of Zimbabwe, resided in Highfeilds before his long trip to Mozambican jungles to …

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BOTSWANA SPEAKS GENDER ISSUES THROUGH POETRY

Leave a Comment / Fiction, Poetry, Discourse, Visual Art / By Mbizo Chirasha

The Botswana Poetry Festival project was born through a collaborative effort of the Gender Affairs Department office in Molepolole and the Maruping Poetry Organization to foster cohesion, community engagement and involvement through literatures and spoken word arts. The Gender Affairs Department believes arts are vehicle for both edutainment and infotainment. On the 31st July 2018, …

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Literary Alchemy:Time to Reboot

Leave a Comment / Community, Literature / By Chiwan Choi

For the past two years, Cultural Weekly has given me a place to write about the adventures of a tiny (tiny…tiny) publisher called Writ Large Press. My files say this is the 88th entry in my weekly column, Literary Alchemy, although I don’t know how accurate that is. Cultural Weekly gave me a chance to …

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#TBT: The End of #90for90

Leave a Comment / Community, Literature / By Chiwan Choi

#90for90. Tomorrow, we will wrap up our impossible and perfect DTLAB summer project. We will do it with a PUBLISH! event, to bring the entire endeavor—90 literary, musical, cultural events over 90 consecutive nights—back to whom it belongs: you. Join us at Traxx Bar for one final time and get published. There will be all …

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DTLAB: Bit of Perspective

Leave a Comment / Fiction, Lifestyle, Visual Art / By Chiwan Choi

#90for90 is not just historic. It’s revolutionary.

DTLAB: Almost Sixty

Leave a Comment / Fiction, Discourse, Lifestyle / By Chiwan Choi

Before I say anything else, Judeth and I wanted to say thanks to everyone who came out to our combo birthday/bon voyage party that marked the 50th night of #90for90. It was an incredible outpouring of love and care and joy. Judeth is now in Pittsburgh, starting her life at Carnegie Mellon and I am …

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DTLAB ❤’s Kristina Wong Kristina Wong ❤’s Jeremy Lin

Leave a Comment / Discourse / By Chiwan Choi

As you read this, DTLAB should be wrapping up our July schedule. Last event of July will be our 34th event. And the month will close beautifully with an Evening of Ramadan Poetry. The reading will consist of a dozen readers (at least), curated by Tanzila Ahmed and Naazneen Diwan. For the month of Ramadan …

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DTLAB: In Transit

Leave a Comment / Fiction, Lifestyle / By Chiwan Choi

Oh. Good. God. DTLAB – Take Three. No no. Not the triple take, and definitely not a quadruple take, although this video of Patrick Stewart is the single greatest video of all time: [embedvideo id=”XFMrBldVk0s” website=”youtube”] What I mean is, this happened: We had to move DTLAB to another location. Again. And we’re still alive. …

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DTLAB + WLP News

Leave a Comment / Fiction, Lifestyle, Visual Art / By Chiwan Choi

OK! Ass deep in our #90fo90 DTLAB project! But I wanted to fill you in on a couple of big news items and mention a few of the amazing events coming up at the LAB. 10! 10! 10! As the old saying goes, the first 10 events of a 90 events in 90 days is …

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DTLAB: First Week Recap

Leave a Comment / Fiction, Lifestyle, Visual Art / By Chiwan Choi

One week and 7 events of our 90 days/90 events DTLAB project.

DTLAB: Showtime

Leave a Comment / Fiction, Lifestyle, Visual Art / By Chiwan Choi

Anywhere and everywhere you can help us make people aware of the great events at DTLAB!

DTLAB: The Return

Leave a Comment / Fiction, Lifestyle / By Chiwan Choi

UPDATE: We have changed the location for the entire duration of DTLAB. It’s now at happening at Les Noces Du Figaro – 618 S. Broadway Ave., LA CA 90014 *** After just about half a year, give or take a few weeks, we are happy to announce: DTLAB IS BACK! Not only back, but back …

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PUBLISH!, DT•LAB, & the Start of Summer

Leave a Comment / Fiction, Lifestyle / By Chiwan Choi

There’s not much to report this week. Except to say things are brewing. Things are ready to be shaken up a bit. I guess we’re just getting ready for summer. We had a full weekend, with two events to take part in on Saturday: noon to 5pm at Richie Valens Park in Pacoima during the …

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Grand Park Downtown BookFest – Saturday, 3/29

Leave a Comment / Fiction, Discourse, Lifestyle, Visual Art / By Chiwan Choi

We are here! The 2nd Annual Grand Park Downtown BookFest has finally arrived. This Saturday, March 29th, between noon and 5pm, we will be celebrating another beautiful day in LA (Yes, it’s going to be a beautiful day. Doing beautiful weather dance right now…), and more importantly, we will be celebrating the literary heart of …

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AWP14 Recap: Part One

Leave a Comment / Fiction / By Chiwan Choi

Last week, we had our first experience at AWP. I had heard many stories from friends who’d attended before, most of them bad/nightmare/horror stories. And considering all the personal stuff I’d been dealing with last month or so, I was quite nervous about AWP14. Well, surprise, surprise. We had a fantastic and productive trip. And …

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Literary Alchemy

Tafadzwa Muzondo Curates the Inaugural Zimbabwe Human Rights Festival

BOTSWANA SPEAKS GENDER ISSUES THROUGH POETRY

Literary Alchemy:Time to Reboot

#TBT: The End of #90for90

DTLAB: Bit of Perspective

DTLAB: Almost Sixty

DTLAB ❤’s Kristina Wong Kristina Wong ❤’s Jeremy Lin

DTLAB: In Transit

DTLAB + WLP News

DTLAB: First Week Recap

DTLAB: Showtime

PUBLISH!, DT•LAB, & the Start of Summer

Grand Park Downtown BookFest – Saturday, 3/29

AWP14 Recap: Part One

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