2018, the hollywood hotel

THE TABLE presents: create nurture sustain
::a reading & conversation

ft. Angelina Sááenz, Art Currim, Audrey Kuo, Brian Dunlap, Cynthia Alessandro Briano, Elmast Kozloyan, Jessica V. Castillo, Jessica M. Wilson (Cardenas), Kelly Grace Thomas, liz gonzález, Luis Antonio Pichardo, Mike Sonksen, Natalie Patterson, Sarah Thursday, Wyatt Underwood

This zine was produced for a THE TABLE reading series event held on January 21st 2018 at The Hollywood Hotel. The event was produced and hosted by Jessica Ceballos y Campbell and Karineh Mahdessian, and welcoming Angelina Sáenz. This event invited 14 LÁ literary hosts, curators, event producers, who are also poets, to share their work, and to discuss what it means to create, to nurture, and to sustain the many literary communities of Los Ángeles. “The Table Reading Series is a collection of twelve reading events. Held once per month, for twelve months, each event will be as diverse as the writers who host and imagine them.

Executive produced by Natashia Deón, series’ hosts will be invited to create and curate a reading event that will consists of no more than six readers and will be as diverse in subject matter as it is in contributors. The hosts will be given an event space and will create a theme for their assigned evening. Curators who are new to planning readings, will be mentored through the process from time management, budgeting and basic costs, to creating promotional materials, inviting readers and guests, working with volunteers, and more.

The goal of The Table is to help raise up the next generation of writers and readers to be actively engaged in the writing community; to invest in them, give them a space to begin, to reach new or estranged writers in Los Angeles, and to provide fresh outlets for writers and fans to engage and contribute to the vibrancy of the Los Angeles literary community.”