Workshop Flyers Now Ready for Our Back to School Party this August 25th

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I’m very happy to announce that today our workshop flyers, courtesy of Samanta Helou‘s and The Think Farm‘s support, and which each attendant in our workshops will receive a printed copy of upon registration, are finally ready for the big time!

NOTE: When my peers and I went to school in the area, we all qualified for lunch tickets. Tickets were a mostly yellow-orangeish background color with dark blueish interior. I like the idea of the flyer being like a “ticket” as well. One inspired by the free and open to the public essence that our lunch tickets signified.

It is happening Los Angeles,

J.T.

Workshops Now Ready for Our Back to School Party this August 25th

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Randy Ertll knows it’s going to be great!

Including:

Tenants’ Rights with the L.A. Tenants Union

Literature and Literacy with Salvadoran-American Author Randy Jurado Ertll

Book Publishing with Ponte las Pilas Press’s Viva Padilla

How to Start your own Company

Buy Back the Block on Branding & Apparel Making

Oral Histories/This Side of Hoover

Youth Summer Program Development

Women’s Self Defense with Peace Over Violence

Math Strategies

Live Art with Swayze

Y EN ESPANOL:

Derechos de Inquilinos con Los Angeles Tenants Union

Como Escribir Tu Propio Libro con escritor Salvadoreño-Americano Randy Jurado Ertll

Como Convertirse en un Publicador de Libros con Viva Padilla, de Ponte las Pilas Press

Como Empezar tu Propia Companía

Como Empezar tu Propia Línea de Ropa con Buy Back the Block

Historias Orales y Fotografía con This Side of Hoover

Como Crear Programas de Verano para Jóvenes

Defensa Personal Para Mujeres con Peace Over Violence

Estrategias Para Aprender Matemáticas

Pintura en Vivo con Swayze

Todo gratis para el pueblo! Or All free of charge and open to the pueblo! Saturday, August 25, 2018 at El Gran Burrito, 3 – 5 PM, Los Angeles, CA

J.T.

Sweet Dreams Los Angeles

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Rampart Village, Los Angeles, CA

Even with a bounteous affinity for The City, there’s still so much about it which is left for me to get to know; but at the same time, there is also more for Los Angeles to see from JIMBO TIMES. Although The L.A. Storyteller is in its fourth year now, there are certain other incarnations for ‘J.T’ which I’ve had in mind for nearly just as long.

I can assure readers and other supporters that I’m working on it. For example, how about a JIMBO TIMES ball cap for a more grassroots representation of L.A under the sun? Or for that matter, a shirt or sweater with art inspired by photography from yours truly of Los Angeles, the community? My interests in more for J.T. are not limited to just apparel, however.

Most recently, I’ve very much appreciated the NY Times‘s offering of articles by its staff in both Español and Chinese-Mandarin. The L.A. Times has also begun a multilingual publication process, though it’s still in the formative stages, and I know that for this little set of pages, it would be fantastic to publish in both English and Español. Sixty percent of the American continent comprises of Spanish speakers, and certainly over my last few visits to more of the pueblos throughout America, I’ve definitely got more gente I’d like to reach with the cuentos now.

In the same spirit, I’d like to know how JIMBO TIMES can go to print as a dual-language paper for circulation throughout L.A.’s neighborhoods, or for circulation among its student bodies. I am nearing on four years as a partner with The Plus Me Project, and though in the past I’ve been able to donate postcards and posters to different classrooms and their students following our ‘lectures’, I’m now interested in how I can leave them with some written material just as well.

Maybe it’s nostalgic on my part, but there is still nothing like the feel of a printed periodical or journal for a literary and visual journey through the world. Indeed, it’s what this website aspires to ‘recreate’ for readers and observers. To that end, of course I’ve got to find out how it gets out there for the people to grasp with their very own hands just as well.

I am working on all of it, and more, and while it’s a continual process, I also know that it’s such for good reason. Bear with me, Los Angeles. In the grand scheme of time, we are definitely nearly there.

J.T.