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Past Schedule of Readings and Appearances for Sergio Troncoso

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Readings in 2011

February 2-5, 2011---The Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, Discussion Panel with other authors from Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing, Washington, D.C.

 

June 1, 2011, 6 PM---Weiss Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Discussion Panel with other authors of You Don’t Have a Clue: Latino Mystery Stories for Teens, Jersey City, NJ.

 

June 13-17, 2011---Writing Program, George Caleb Bingham Academy, Independence, MO.

 

June 23, 2011, 11 AM---Family Reading Carnival, San Elizario, TX.

 

September 18, 2011, 11 AM---Brooklyn Book Festival, “The Good, the Bad, and the Family” in St. Frances McCardle Hall, 209 Joralemon, Brooklyn, NY.

 

September 23, 2011, 2 PM---San Elizario High School, 13981 Socorro Road, San Elizario, TX.

 

September 23, 2011, 4-6 PM---The Bookery, 10167 Socorro Road (just past the Socorro Mission), Socorro, TX.

 

September 24, 2011---El Paso Community College, Annual Literary Fiesta, El Paso, TX.

 

October 5, 2011, 5 PM---Weiss Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature, with other authors of You Don’t Have a Clue: Latino Mystery Stories for Teens, Jersey City, NJ.

 

October 8, 2011, 5 PM---National Endowment for the Arts Stage, Wordstock Book and Literary Festival, Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR.

 

October 16, 2011, 2 PM---The Writer’s Center, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, MD.

 

October 18, 2011, 6:30-8:30 PM---Collegiate School, Collegiate Book Festival’s Opening Reception, 260 West 78th Street, New York, NY.

 

October 21, 2011, 5-7 PM---The Twig Book Shop, 200 E. Grayson, Suite 124, San Antonio, TX.

 

October 22-23, 2011---Texas Book Festival (Saturday: 11:30-12:30 PM, “Stories from El Paso,” and Sunday: 1:30-2:30 PM, “Latino Mystery Stories,” and 3:00-4:00, “The Art of Personal Reflection”), Texas State Capitol, Austin, TX.

 

October 24, 2011, 4:30 PM---San Francisco Public Library, The International Center, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA.

 

October 25, 2011---Reedley College, 995 North Reed Avenue, Reedley, CA.

 

November 1, 2011, 7 PM---New Jersey City University, Weiss Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Jersey City, NJ.

 

November 3, 2011, 6:30 PM--Co-honoree (with Aubrey Hawes), for contributions to the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, Benefit Gala 2011, Mark Twain-on-Hudson, Tappan Hill Mansion, Highland Avenue, Tarrytown, NY.

 

November 4, 2011, 7:30 PM--University of Texas at El Paso, Quinn 212, El Paso, TX.

 

November 5, 2011, 9 AM---Keynote Speaker, Region 19-Education Service Center’s 14th Annual Parental Engagement Conference, Canutillo High School, 6675 South Desert Blvd. (Loop 375/Trans Mountain Road exit off I-10), El Paso, TX.

 

November 5, 2011, 2 PM---Barnes & Noble, 705 Sunland Park Drive, El Paso, TX.

 

November 5, 2011, 5 PM---Barnes & Noble, 9521 Viscount Boulevard, El Paso, TX.

 

November 6, 2011, 3 PM---Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande Boulevard NW, Albuquerque, NM.

 

November 17, 2011, 6:30-8:00 PM---Guild Literary Complex, Global Voices series at the International House, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

 

November 18, 2011, 11 AM-12:15 PM---National Council of Teachers of English, Panel with other authors of You Don’t Have a Clue: Latino Mystery Stories for Teens, Chicago, IL.

 

December 2, 2011, 12-3 PM---El Paso International Airport, Plaza News Shop, El Paso, TX.

 

December 2, 2011, 4 PM---The Bookery, 10167 Socorro Road (just past the Socorro Mission), Socorro, TX.

 

December 3, 2011---Keynote Speaker, Youth Leadership Conference, Ysleta Independent School District, El Paso, TX.

 

December 18, 2011, 2 PM---Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo Street, Santa Fe, NM.

 

December 22, 2011, 11 AM-2 PM---El Paso International Airport, Plaza News Shop, El Paso, TX.


Readings in 2010

February 25, 2010

Daniel A. White Fund Lecture, “Finding Our Voice: The Role of Latinos in the Cultural and Political Debates of the United States,” Northern Essex Community College, Lawrence, MA.

 

 

March 12-13, 2010

Juntos Art Association, Art and Literature Festival, El Paso, TX. (Sergio will be visiting his alma mater Ysleta High School on Friday morning, March 12, and will read at the Sunland Park Barnes and Noble later that afternoon at 4 PM.)

 

 

March 18, 2010 at 6-8:00 PM

Reading with other authors from stories in Sun, Stone, and Shadows: Twenty Great Mexican Short Stories, sponsored by El Museo del Barrio and La Casa Azul Bookstore, part of the NEA’s The Big Read Project, East Harlem Café, 1651 Lexington Avenue (104th Street), New York, NY.

 

 

April 7-10, 2010

The Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, Discussion Panel with other authors from Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery, Denver, CO.

 

 

April 14, 2010 at 7:00 PM

“Literature and Social Change,” a lecture sponsored by La Casa Cultural at Yale and Yale Hillel, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

 

 

June 14-18, 2010

Writing Program, George Caleb Bingham Academy, Independence, MO.

 

 

September 12, 2010 at 3-5 PM

Brooklyn Book Festival, Brooklyn Borough Hall, 209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY.

 

 

October 5, 2010 at 12:30 PM

Housatonic Community College, 900 Lafayette Boulevard, Bridgeport, CT.

 

 

December 5, 2010 at 4:30 PM

Reading with Rigoberto Gonzalez and Maria Melendez, from the anthology Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing (University of Arizona Press), Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, 300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow, NY.


Readings in 2009

May 14, 2009 at 6-8:00 PM

Reading with other authors from Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery, East Harlem Café, 1651 Lexington Avenue (104th Street), New York, NY.

 

May 21, 2009 at 6-8:00 PM

Reading with other authors from Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery, Mysterious Book Shop, 58 Warren Street, New York, NY.

 

May 30, 2009 at 3:30-4:30 PM

Book-signing with other authors from Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery, BookExpo America, Jacob K. Javits Center, New York, NY.

 

June 22-26, 2009

Writing Program, George Caleb Bingham Academy, Independence, MO.

 

July 12, 2009 at 4:30-6:00 PM

Reading with Carlos Hernandez and Richie Narvaez, authors from Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery, Que Chula Es Puebla Restaurant, 180 Valley Street, Sleepy Hollow, NY.  Event is sponsored by the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center.

 

November 1, 2009 at 1:30-2:30 PM

Texas Book Festival, Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery, a panel moderated by Sarah Cortez, with Lucha Corpi, Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, and Sergio Troncoso, Capitol Extension Room E2.026, State Capitol Building, Austin, TX.

 

November 7, 2009 at 2:00 PM

Barrio Book Club, El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue (at 104th Street), New York, NY.

 

November 10, 2009 at 6:30-8:30 PM

The Caribbean Culture Center and La Menta Collective, an evening of poetry, literature, visual art, music and dance, 408 West 58th Street (between 9th and 10th Avenue), New York, NY.

 

December 2, 2009

Mesa Redonda, “Literatura y Migracion,” Feria Internacional del Libro en Guadalajara, Mexico.

 

December 19, 2009 at 4:00-6:00 PM

Book-signing with other authors from Literary El Paso, Barnes and Noble, 9521 Viscount, El Paso, TX.  Read the review of Literary El Paso from the Texas Observer.


Readings in 2008

April 25-27, 2008

Newburyport Literary Festival, Newburyport, MA.

 

May 4, 2008 at 4:30 PM

Reading with other authors from the Westchester Review and Inkwell, Hudson Valley Writers' Center, 300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow, NY.

 

May 17, 2008 at 3:00 PM

Once Upon a Cuento reading at McNally Robinson Bookstore, Prince and Mott Streets, New York, NY.

 

June 16-18, 2008

Writing Program, George Caleb Bingham Academy, Independence, MO.

 

August 13, 2008 at 7:30 PM

Introducing poets Renato Rosaldo and Javier Huerta at the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, Sleepy Hollow, NY.

 

October 2, 2008 at 7:30 PM

“New Perspectives on Latino Literature and the Role of the Writer,” University of Arkansas, Giffels Auditorium at Old Main, Fayetteville, AR.


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.


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 3rd 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 106th and 107th), 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 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, 4th 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 3rd 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 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 34th Street), 8th Floor, New York, NY.

 

October 27, 2004 at 7:00 PM

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


Readings in 2003

March 6, 2003 at 4:00 PM

El Paso Public Library- Armijo Branch, 670 E. 7th 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 45th 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 86th Street (at 2nd 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 ), 2nd 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 113th 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.


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.