Luis J. Rodriguez: Tia Chucha’s Cafe Cultural: Four Years and Going

“To celebrate means to solemnize, to commemorate, but it also has connection with accelerate, which means to speed up. To celebrate is to brake something in motion, as in “holding fast,” as a time to stop the speed of the world and pay attention, acknowledge and honor a moment, a place, a person, a people, or a thing.

Tia Chucha’s Cafe Cultural started more than four years ago in the working class community of Sylmar, CA””one of many communities in the mostly Mexican/Central American populated Northeast San Fernando Valley. Founded by my wife Trini, my brother-in-law, Enrique Sanchez, and myself, we have been going strong ever since, with barely a moment of rest, of long reflection or of “holding fast.” By celebrating our birth and our continued existence, we held the breath of our being to honor the community, the staff, resident artists and groups, the volunteers, and all those who have stepped up with their art, their ideas, their labor, and creativity to make Tia Chucha’s Café Cultural the cultural/political/social and spiritual gathering place it has become.”

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