City Department Event

Event Type
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description

Join Campo de Cahuenga Museum with writer and professor, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo in a community writing workshop!

Using knowledge and experience acquired as cofounder and director of Women Who Submit, an organization empowering woman-identifying and non-binary writers to submit work for publication, Bermejo will walk participants through the submission process one step at a time. She will also elucidate strategies for success, including a reframing of rejection as the cornerstone of a writing career.

This seminar will include writing exercises and discussion; bring your favored writing instruments! By the end of the seminar, each writer will walk away with a better understanding of how to personalize the submission process as well as resources for getting started.

Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo is the daughter of Mexican immigrants and author of Incantation: Love Poems for Battle Sites, and Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge. A former Steinbeck Fellow and Poets & Writers California Writers Exchange winner, Bermejo’s poetry and essays can be found at Acentos Review, Huizache, LA Review of Books, The Offing, [Pank], Santa Fe Writers Project, and other journals. She teaches poetry and creative writing with Antioch University, MFA and UCLA Extension and is the director of Women Who Submit.

Free snacks and beverages will be available!

Event Date
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Event Location

Campo de Cahuenga
3919 Lankershim Blvd.
Studio City, CA 91604
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.1395984, -118.3618624
Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
818.763.7651
Event ID
142135
Event Main Image
Event Type
Family Activity
Film
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description

Join the Campo de Cahuenga Museum in a FREE community screening of the historic film, Salt of the Earth (1954), Saturday, May 3, 2025, 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Free popcorn and beverages!

Considered the first feminist film in the United States film history, and first screened on March 14th, 1954 in New York City. Done in a similar fashion to the Italian Neorealist filmmakers after WW2, this film was created with a professional and unprofessional cast which included the leads Rosario Revueltas, a Mexican film actress, and Juan Chacon, a copper miner. The film’s aim was to showcase the everyday life and struggles of working-class people in a New Mexico zinc mine and their historic wins. Based on a true story, this film, while historic, is relevant and pertinent to today. 

Let the Campo de Cahuenga Museum know you’re coming, RSVP for Free at eventbrite.com/e/salt-of-the-earth-film-screening-at-campo-de-cahuenga-museum-tickets-1318102934359?aff=oddtdtcreator.

Campo de Cahuenga is located at 3919 Lankershim Blvd., Studio City, CA 91604

Please contact Campo de Cahuenga with your questions at (818) 623-4166 or rap-campodecahuenga@lacity.org.

 

Salt of the Earth is directed by Herbert J. Biberman and written by Michael Wilson. With: Will Geer, David Wolfe, David Sarvis, Mervin Williams.
RUN TIME: 94 min. USA. Black & White  

 

Event Date
-
Event Location

Campo de Cahuenga
3919 Lankershim Blvd.
Studio City, CA 91604
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.1395984, -118.3618624
Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
Free with an RSVP
Contact Phone
818.763.7651
Event ID
141629
Event Main Image
Event Type
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description

Join five LA writers at the Campo de Cahuenga Museum in a discussion and reading exploring the unique art form of the chapbook. Whether fiction, poetry, or nonfiction, the chapbook offers a distinct means to share curiosities with an audience. Between short readings, the authors will discuss writing, process, and “what are” and “why” writers create chapbooks. The reading and discussion will be followed by a Q&A at the end. Authors will be available for book sales and signing after the reading and discussion.

Featured Authors:

Tisha Marie Reichle-Aguilera,

Romaine Washington

Aruni Wijesinghe

Lisa Eve Cheby

Lauren Eggert-Crowe

We hope to see you there! Reception with light snacks & beverages to follow. Books will be available for sale.

This event is supported in part by Poets & Writers.

Event Date
-
Event Location

Campo de Cahuenga
3919 Lankershim Blvd.
Studio City, CA 91604
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.1395984, -118.3618624
Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
818.763.7651
Event ID
141336
Event Main Image