We welcome you to join us for the second Café Libro of the season!
Please, come read a poem, sing a song, or sit back and enjoy the night with us and our fantastic feature poet, Ariana Brown.
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New Location: Resistencia Bookstore, casa de Red Salmon Arts
4926 East Cesar Chavez St., Unit C1, Austin, Tejaztlán 78702
(512) 389-9881 • revolu@resistenciabooks.com
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Please make sure to park in the rear of the lot and enter through the second door of the lime green house from the front.
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ARIANA BROWN is a spoken word poet, a quiet storm, mentor and performer from San Antonio, Texas. She founded her city’s youth poetry slam during her senior year of high school, the same year she discovered her voice. She was recently awarded the title of Best Poet at the 2014 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational, a national competition in which her team (Spitshine at UT Austin) took 1st place.

Ariana currently serves as the Director of Youth Engagement for They Speak Austin youth slam, leading writing and performance workshops and mentoring youth poets one on one. She is pursuing a bachelor of arts in English and African & African Diaspora Studies at UT Austin, where she co-founded Spitshine Poetry Slam in 2011. Ariana has performed and led workshops at various colleges and universities across the United States. Her interests include avocados, brown boys, and disapproving of most things. She is the author of three chapbooks and resides in Austin, TX. She believes in people and poetry.

This project is funded and supported in part by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division believing aninvestment in the Arts is an investment in Austin’s