2003-2007 Schedule of Readings for Sergio Troncoso (sergiotroncoso.com)

2003-2007 Schedule of Readings for Sergio Troncoso

To schedule a reading or appearance, send him an e-mail at STroncoso@aol.com. You may also join Yahoo Group: Sergio Troncoso, to receive periodic e-mails about upcoming readings, other appearances, and news.

Readings in 2003

March 6, 2003 at 4:00 PM

El Paso Public Library- Armijo Branch, 670 E. 7^th Avenue, El Paso, TX.

March 7, 2003, from 6:00 to 6:30 AM

Interview on KTSM, News Channel 9, El Paso, TX.

March 7, 2003 at 9:00 AM

Raymond Telles Middle School, 5209 Hercules Drive, El Paso, TX.

March 7, 2003 at 11:00 AM

Ysleta High School, 8600 Alameda, El Paso, TX.

March 7, 2003 at 2:00 PM

Bowie High School, 801 S. San Marcial, El Paso, TX.

March 8, 2003 at 11:00 AM

El Paso Public Library- Burges Branch, 9600 Dyer, El Paso, TX.

March 8, 2003 at 2:00 PM

El Paso Public Library- Main Branch, 501 N. Oregon, El Paso, TX.

April 2, 2003 at 6:00 PM

Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 5 Union Square West, New York, NY.

April 22, 2003 at 10:00 AM

Del Valle High School, 950 Bordeaux Drive, El Paso, TX.

April 22, 2003 at 4:00 PM

El Paso Public Library- Ysleta Branch, 9321 Alameda, El Paso, TX.

April 22, 2003 at 7:00 PM

El Paso Public Library- Westside Branch, 125 Belvidere, El Paso, TX.

April 26, 2003 at 12:15 PM

Día de los Niños/Día de los Libros, El Paso Public Library, Washington Park, El Paso, TX.

April 26, 2003 at 1:00 PM

The Bookery, 10167 Socorro Road (just past the Socorro Mission), Socorro, TX.

May 31, 2003 at 3:00 PM

Book Expo America, Los Angeles Convention Center, Table 20: Latino and Latin American Authors, 1201 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA.

May 31, 2003 at 6:30 PM

Tia Chucha's Café Cultural, 12737 Glenoaks Boulevard, #22, Sylmar, CA.

June 1, 2003 at 7:30 PM

Espresso Mi Cultura Books & Coffee, 5625 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA.

June 2, 2003 at 9:00 AM

Bon View Elementary School, 2121 South Bon View Avenue, Ontario, CA.

June 7, 2003 at 3:30 PM

Harvard Coop, 1400 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA.

June 12, 2003 at 7:30 PM

Barnes and Noble, 235 Union Street, Waterbury, CT.

June 19, 2003 at 7:30 PM

Hudson Valley Writers' Center, 300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow, NY.

June 26-27, 2003

National Association of Hispanic Journalists' Convention, Authors' Carousel, Marriott Marquis, 1535 Broadway (at 45^th Street), New York, NY.

July 10, 2003 at 7:30 PM

Barnes and Noble, 1076 Post Road East, Westport, CT.

July 15, 2003 at 7:00 PM

Barnes and Noble, 240 East 86^th Street (at 2^nd Avenue), New York, NY.

July 17, 2003 at 4:00 PM

Barnes and Noble Yale Bookstore, 77 Broadway, New Haven, CT.

September 18, 2003 at 7:00 PM

New York is Book Country Book Festival, Teatro LA TEA at Clemente Soto Velez Center, 107 Suffolk Street (near Delancey ), 2^nd Floor, New York, NY.

October 7, 2003 at 6:30 PM

Hispanic Scholarship Fund's Alumni Hall of Fame, Four Seasons Hotel, 2800 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

October 8, 2003 at 7:00 PM

Casa Cultural Julia de Burgos, Yale University, 301 Crown Street, New Haven, CT.

October 11-12, 2003

Latino Book and Family Festival, George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, TX.

October 16, 2003 at 7:00 PM

Atticus Bookstore Café, 1082 Chapel Street (at High Street), New Haven, CT.

October 19, 2003 at 4:30 PM

Hudson Valley Writers' Center (Reading of stories from Once Upon a Cuento, a new anthology for middle school students), 300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow, NY.

October 23, 2003 at 6:30 PM

New York Public Library- Morningside Heights Branch, 2900 Broadway (at 113^th Street), New York, NY.

October 25-26, 2003

Latino Book and Family Festival, Hall E in the Dallas Convention Center, Dallas, TX.

November 8-9, 2003

Texas Book Festival, State Capitol, Austin, TX.

November 29, 2003 at 2:00 PM

Barnes and Noble, 705 Sunland Park Drive, El Paso, TX.

November 29, 2003 at 5:00 PM

Barnes and Noble, 9521 Viscount, El Paso, TX.

December 20, 2003 at 6:00 PM

The Bookery, 10167 Socorro Road (just past the Socorro Mission), El Paso, TX.

Readings in 2004

January 17, 2004 at 9:00 AM

Barnes and Noble, 705 Sunland Park Drive, El Paso, TX. Reading from Once Upon a Cuento, and discussion with students.

January 17, 2004 at 12:00 PM

Keynote speaker at Border Literacy Conference, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX.

January 18, 2004 at 2:00 PM

Barnes and Noble, Mesilla Valley Mall, 700 S. Telshor Boulevard, Las Cruces, NM.

February 25, 2004 at 1:30 PM

Booker T. Washington Junior High School, 507 Avenue K, Conroe, TX.

February 25, 2004 at 7:00 PM

Nuestra Palabra: Latinos Writers Having Their Say, Talento Bilingüe de Houston, 333 S. Jensen, Houston, TX.

March 25, 2004, 2:30-4:00 PM

Latino Voices at Northwestern University Press, The Association of Writers and Writing Programs, 2004 Annual Conference and Bookfair, Palmer House Hilton Hotel, Chicago, IL.

March 25, 2004, 4:00-5:30 PM

Chicago Alliance of Latinos and Jews, Russian Tea Time Restaurant, 77 East Adams Street (a few blocks from the Palmer House Hilton Hotel), Chicago, IL.

September 12, 2004, 10:45 AM-12:00 Noon

"Beyond Aztlán: Chicano Literature Today," Yale University, Biennial Meeting of American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, William Harkness Hall, 100 Wall Street, New Haven, CT.

September 16, 2004 at 7:30 PM

La Paloma Sabanera Coffehouse and Bookstore, 405 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, CT.

October 5-7, 2004

The University of Findlay, 1000 North Main Street, Findlay, OH.

October 14, 2004 at 6:00 PM

University of Pennsylvania, Latino Heritage Month, Steinhardt Hall, 215 South 39th Street, Philadelphia, PA.

October 21, 2004 at 6:00 PM

Hispanic Scholarship Fund's Celebration of Achievement, City University of New York, The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34^th Street), 8^th Floor, New York, NY.

October 27, 2004 at 7:00 PM

The Mercantile Library, Latino Night at the Merc, 17 East 47^th Street, New York, NY.

Readings in 2005

January 16, 2005 at 3:00-5:00 PM

Creating an Advocacy Epidemic for Libraries, American Library Association's Midwinter Meeting, America North/Center Ballroom, Westin Copley Place Hotel, 4^th Floor, 10 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA.

March 7, 2005 at 8:00 AM

Keynote speaker at the Cesar E. Chavez Leadership Conference, University of Portland, Chiles Center, Portland, OR.

April 1, 2005 at 9:00-10:15 AM

The Sprinter Trains for a Marathon: From Short Stories to Novels, The Association of Writers and Writing Programs, 2005 Annual Conference and Bookfair, Hyatt Regency and Fairmont Hotel, Vancouver, British Columbia.

April 8, 2005

Keynote Speaker at Literacy Symposium for Local School Districts, Region 19 Education Service Center, 6611 Boeing Drive, El Paso, TX.

July 26, 2005 at 4:30 PM

Yale Bookstore, 77 Broadway, New Haven, CT.

September 27, 2005 at 9:00 PM

Nuyorican Poets Café, 236 East 3^rd Street (between Avenues B and C), New York, NY.

October 28, 2005 at 7:30 PM

The Writer's Center, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, MD.

Readings in 2006

February 28, 2006 at 8:00 PM

Sergio will introduce Jamaica Kincaid at a reading for the Hudson Valley Writers' Center at The Masters School, 49 Clinton Avenue, Dobbs Ferry, NY.

April 20, 2006, 6:30 to 8:30 PM

Benefit Reading for BorderSenses Literary Magazine, Centro de Salud Familiar La Fe, Cultural & Technology Center, 721 S. Ochoa (Rear Building), El Paso, TX.

April 21, 2006, 12:30 to 2:00 PM

Socorro High School, Auditorium, 10150 Alameda Avenue, El Paso, TX.

October 28, 2006 at 7:00 PM

Latino Students United: Hispanic Heritage Celebration, Adelphi University, 1 South Avenue, Garden City, NY.

November 2, 2006 at 2:45 PM

"The Wild Life of the Border and its Inspiration for Fine Fiction," panel discussion with Mary Helen Lagasse, Luis Rodríguez, and Jose Cuellar, as part of The Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society, Words and Music, Hotel Monteleone, Nouvelle Orleans Suite, Mezzanine West, New Orleans, LA.

November 7, 2006 at 7:00-9:00 PM

Reading with other writers from the anthology, Hecho en Tejas, Nuyorican Poets Café, 236 East 3^rd Street (between Avenues B and C), New York, NY.

November 8, 2006 at 7:30 PM

Pochisimo: Mexicano Americanos readings in Nueva York, with Christine Granados, Rich Yañez, and others, Carlito's Cafe y Galeria, 1701 Lexington Avenue (between 106^th and 107^th), New York, NY.

November 9, 2006 at 6:00-8:00 PM

Reading with Christine Granados and Erasmo Guerra, Night and Day Restaurant, 230 Fifth Avenue (at President Street), Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY.

November 12, 2006 at 4:30 PM

Sergio will introduce Christine Granados and María Melendez, in an event honoring University of Arizona Press's Camino Del Sol series, at the Hudson Valley Writers' Center (where Sergio is on the board of directors), 300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow, NY.

Readings in 2007

March 30, 2007 at 1:00 PM

Socorro High School, 10150 Alameda Avenue, El Paso, TX.

March 30, 2007 at 2:45 PM

Del Valle High School, 950 Bordeaux Drive, El Paso, TX.

March 31, 2007, 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM

El Paso Public Library, Main Library, Celebration of Hecho en Tejas anthology, 501 N. Oregon, El Paso, TX.

April 25, 2007 at 7:00 PM

Enfield Public Library, 104 Middle Road, Enfield, CT.

May 19, 2007 at 12:00 (Noon)

Keynote Speaker at Socorro Independent School District's Literary Anthology Luncheon, El Dorado High School, 12401 Edgemere Boulevard, El Paso, TX.

October 28, 2007 at 4:30 PM

Sergio will introduce Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Helena María Viramontes at the Hudson Valley Writers' Center (where Sergio is on the board of directors), 300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow, NY.

Read The Nature of Truth: The First Three Chapters, and click here for discussion questions.

Short stories: Angie Luna, The Snake, A Rock Trying to be a Stone, Espíritu Santo, and discussion questions for The Last Tortilla and Other Stories. "Angie Luna," "The Snake," "A Rock Trying to be a Stone," and "Espíritu Santo" are included in this book of short stories.

Essays: A Day Without Ideas, Latinos Find an America on the Border of Acceptance, Imagine Ysleta, and Terror and Humanity.