Dear
Friends,
In
summer, 2011, I was awarded a prestigious DCA COLA (City of Los Angeles)
Individual Artist Fellowship for the 2011-2012 grant cycle to research and
start writing my novel-in-progress, Hexico. A re-envisioning of
the United States and northern Mexico, in Hexico, the Mexican-American
war was averted, the 1848 Mexican Cession of the southwestern states never
happened, and the present-day border between Mexico and the U.S. is the
continental divide—the border itself a strip of land presently war-torn,
ungovernable, mythically known as HEXICO, and where a beautiful ex-circus
sideshow strongman T-girl prostitute is on the run to after experiencing a natural,
biological auto-prodantry sex change and is impregnated by a chupacabra.
While this ambitious novel will remain in progress for a bit, for the closing of the COLA grant cycle I will be presenting an excerpt TONIGHT--Friday, June 29, 2012, 8:30pm (sharp!) at the one and only, the incredible and always FREE legendary summer concert series Grand Performances at California Plaza, downtown Los Angeles.
While this ambitious novel will remain in progress for a bit, for the closing of the COLA grant cycle I will be presenting an excerpt TONIGHT--Friday, June 29, 2012, 8:30pm (sharp!) at the one and only, the incredible and always FREE legendary summer concert series Grand Performances at California Plaza, downtown Los Angeles.
Friday, June 29, 2012, 8:30pm:
350 S. Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90071
Los Angeles, CA 90071
*followed by
performances by Paul Outlaw and Raphael Xavier!
Cheers,
Joseph
