Posted on Tuesday 17 October 2006
The festival is held in key Hispanic markets across the U.S., including San Diego, Phoenix, Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Chicago. But the travelling festivities are almost over for the year except for the 8th Annual Chicago Festival, which will take place November 11-12. The Festival will be held at Unity School, in the Town of Cicero, one of the most densely Latino populated suburbs in the Chicago area. This venue proved to be remarkably popular for the 2004 & 2005 festival events which brought in around 28,000 attendants both years.
Rueben Martin, a recent winnter of the MacArthur Foundation grant and a keen student of the Latino literacy scene, spoke at the 2006 Los Angeles Latino Book & Family Festival last Saturday and finished his inspiring speech with the motto "Read today, lead tomorrow."