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La familia: Rafael Agustin & Ingrid Rojas Contreras [BILINGUAL]

Sat, Nov 5, 2022 from 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm PDT
1010 SW Park Ave Portland, 97205

General Admission Pass required for entry

Stories of the search to understand your family history—and your place in it—moderated by Lilly Gonzalez (San Antonio Book Festival).

Illegally Yours is a funny and poignant memoir about how as a teenager, TV writer Rafael Agustin (Jane the Virgin) accidentally discovered he was undocumented and how that revelation turned everything he thought he knew about himself and his family upside down. From Ingrid Rojas Contreras, the bestselling author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree, The Man Who Could Move Clouds is a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir reclaiming her family’s otherworldly legacy.

 

Historias de la búsqueda para comprender la historia de su familia, y su lugar en ella, moderado por Lilly Gonzalez.

Una memoria divertida y conmovedora sobre cómo, cuando era adolescente, el escritor de televisión Rafael Agustín (Jane la Virgen) descubrió accidentalmente que era indocumentado y cómo esa revelación puso patas arriba todo lo que creía saber sobre sí mismo y su familia. En El hombre que movía las nubes, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, la autora de La fruta del borrachero, nos entrega una deslumbrante historia caleidoscópica que recupera el legado místico de su familia.

Este evento es bilingüe, en español e inglés.


Portland Book Festival General Admission Passes are required for entry into all events. Passes are $15 in advance and $25 day of Festival. Youth 17 & under, or with a valid high school ID get in FREE. All full-priced General Admission Passes include a $5 book fair voucher and entry into Portland Art Museum. Passes admit attendees to the Festival; individual events are first-come, first-served. More info here.

Rafael Agustin

Rafael Agustin was a writer on the award-winning The CW show Jane the Virgin. He is a Sundance Fellow for his TV family comedy Illegal, based on his life as a formerly undocumented American. Agustin co-created and co-starred in the national touring, award-winning autobiographical comedy N*gger Wetb*ck Ch*nk, which received acclaim from the LA Times, New York Times, and Denver Post, and won awards for its advancement of social justice in the arts. He serves as CEO of the Latino Film Institute (LFI), where he oversees the Youth Cinema Project, the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF), and LatinX in Animation. In 2018, LA Weekly named Agustin one of the fifty most essential people in Los Angeles. In 2021, Agustin was appointed to the National Film Preservation Board at the Library of Congress. Agustin received his BA and MA from UCLA's School of Theater, Film & Television and is an alumnus of the CBS Diversity Comedy Showcase. His new memoir is called Illegally Yours.  
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Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree was the silver medal winner in First Fiction from the California Book Awards, and a New York Times editor’s choice. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Cut, and Zyzzyva, among others. She lives in California.
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Lilly Gonzalez

Lilly Gonzalez is the executive director of the San Antonio Book Festival. Born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley, in the under-developed colonias of Pharr, Texas, Lilly is the daughter of Mexican immigrants. Her first love was books and she has been reading ever since. Prior to moving to San Antonio, she spent 14 years living in Chicago, where she worked in public affairs at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She earned both her MFA in creative writing and BS in journalism from Northwestern University. Her favorite book is Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros.
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