Libros Schmibros Lending Library

THE DEAD (1987)

Bloomsday (June 16th) is a celebration of the life and work of the Irish writer James Joyce. Observed annually on June 16th and marking the exact date in 1904 that his modernist masterpiece Ulysses takes place. To celebrate Bloomsday in Boyle Heights we will be screening John Huston’s ethereal adaptation of Joyce’s 1914 short story “The Dead.” Huston’s final film, with a screenplay by his son Tony and starring his daughter Angelica, explores themes of love, memory, and mortality through the interactions of its characters during an Epiphany dinner party in Dublin

NACHO LIBRE (2006)

Nacho: “Precious Father, why have you given me this desire to wrestle and then made me such a stinky warrior?” Celebrating its 20th anniversary we will be screening Jared Hess’ 2006 cult classic Nacho Libre. Please join us for this absurdly funny and highly quotable film.

HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (2001)

Last, but certainly not least, we have another anniversary screening this summer. John Cameron Mitchell’s iconoclastic 2001 cult classic Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Join us as we celebrate the films 25th anniversary. Starring John Cameron Mitchell as the titular Hedwig, a gender-queer punk-rock singer from East Berlin who tours the U.S. with her band as she tells her life story and follows the former lover/band-mate who stole her songs.

ALL SCREENINGS ARE FREE!

Join us for a night of bilingual poetry in celebration of the publication of William Archila’s bilingual poetry collection Canícula/ Dog Days. Archila will read poems from the collection, and will be joined by poets Vickie Vertiz, Ramón García, Janel Pineda, and Luis J. Rodriguez.

From war-torn El Salvador to the streets of LA, Canícula / Dog Days is a bold, bilingual collection chronicling exile, memory, and resilience across borders.

William Archila’s Canícula/Dog Daysis a bilingual selection of his first two books of poetry, The Art of Exile and The Gravedigger’s Archaeology, two collections that chart the emergence of a newcomer in the chorus of Latine Poetry. Canícula, which means “dog days” in English, takes the reader on a poignant journey from the unrest in El Salvador in the 1980s to the urban landscape of the US immigrant, revealing the turmoil and memory of the disempowered, the impoverished, and the displaced who struggle back home in Central America. 

In lyrical and often harrowing language, Archila unearths the vestiges of war and the exile’s return in an elegy, the fragments of a myth, or a jazz riff. They come together like the bilateral symmetry of a volcano, and the result is the introduction to Archila’s poetry for the Spanish reader.

FREE EVENT!