The Barco de Papel Cultural Center presented Triangle of Three Legs and a Hypotenuse, a poetry event aimed at preserving our language, promoting poetry as a crucial method of knowledge and human fulfillment, and, at the same time, reclaiming poetry … Continued
On May 14, the launch of César Pazos’s book The Community of Nations took place at the Barco de Papel Cultural Center. The book is a historical and dystopian thriller that spans from the 1st century BC to the 21st … Continued
El pasado 14 de mayo, se realizó el lanzamiento del libro “La Comunidad de las Naciones” de César Pazos en el Centro Cultural Barco de Papel. El libro es un thriller histórico y distópico que transita del siglo I A.C. … Continued
The second reading in person of the Spring season has hold on Saturday May 7 at Librería Barco de Papel. Anel Carmona (México), David Ornelas (México), Zaida Corniel (República Dominicana), Silvina López Medin (Argentina) shared their work and projects. Anel … Continued
After many months of isolation this was the first reading session in person at the beginning of the spring season. It Featured these writers who shared their work in progress: Braulio Nicolas Basilio (Chile) Roger Santibanez (Peru) Maria Argel (Colombia) … Continued
After isolation and virtual readings Centro Cultural Barco de Papel hosted the opening reading in person for the organization En Construcción. EN CONSTRUCCIÓN: New Works by Latin American Writers is a series of literary readings and workshops that aims to offer … Continued
Luis H. Francia, Bino A. Realuyo, and Ninotchka Rosca, three Filipino-American writers who live in Jackson Heights, Queens talked-story and presented literary works around Filipino “Halloween” themes: spirituality, pre-Hispanic supernatural mythology, Filipino rituals around death, and their own cultural response to … Continued
The Mujeristas’ Collective presented at the Barco de Papel Cultural Center its third printed publication with the open microphone “Things that I will never tell you” on Saturday, December 14, 2019. The open mic featured an online open call to … Continued
The LGTB literary expression returned on September 27 and 28, 2019 for the second consecutive year to the Barco de Papel Cultural Center with a selection of renowned authors. In the second edition of “LGTB Visibility in Literature” Barco … Continued
Elmhurst, NY-Centro Cultural Barco de Papel presented the “Wandering Art and Library” project that traveled the streets of Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, and Corona, Queens. “Cities are places of barter, not just merchandise, but also of words, wishes and memories.”—Italo Calvino Sponsored by … Continued