Writ Large Press Opens at The Last Bookstore!

The Last Bookstore is very excited to be hosting LAB•FEST today to celebrate the opening of Writ Large Press's space in the Labyrinth. Things are happening all day, including a kick off from our friend Mike the Poet, Luis J. Rodriguez in conversation with Sesshu Foster, and music from Queztal to close the night.

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!!!