Petaluma Poetry Walk At The Museum 2023
September 17, 2023 @ 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The Petaluma Poetry Walk Returns!
Sunday September 17, 2023 at 5:00 pm
The Petaluma Historical Library & Museum is thrilled to host the 5:00 reading. We are excited to welcome Tony Aldorando, Georgina Gabriela Tello Bugarin and Ernesto M. Garay
Petaluma Poetry Walk 2023
Petaluma Historical Library & Museum
20 4th Street, Petaluma – (Corner of 4th & B St.)
5:00 PM
Tony Aldarondo has performed music and poetry in venues throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, overseas, and once, while standing up on a JetBlue airplane! He is an actor and a voiceover artist. He toured with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival for two seasons and studied theatre at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. He attended San Francisco State University and studied dramatic arts and poetry at Cal State East Bay in Hayward, California. Tony is the author of two poetry books: Big Heart Poet and We Are Poets, both published by Hummingword Press. He has taught poetry and theatre workshops throughout the Bay Area. His favorite thing in the world is being the best dad he can be to his two kids.
Georgina Gabriela Tello Bugarin was born in Xichu, Guanajuato, Mexico. She attended Santa Rosa Junior College, where she completed ESL (English as a Second Language). Subsequently, she obtained an AA in Paralegal Studies, an AA in Social and Behavioral Science, and a Child Development Certificate. Georgina works as a Bilingual Sexual Assault Advocate at Verity, the Sonoma County Rape Crisis, Trauma, and Healing Center. In her free time, she writes poetry. Georgina writes her poems in Spanish and then translates them into English. Her poem “Between Tears” was published in English in California’s Best Emerging Poets (2020), an anthology compiled and edited by Z Publishing House. Currently, she lives in Petaluma, California, with her family.
Ernesto M. Garay’s writings have appeared in the DI-VȇrRSέ-City Anthology 2020, Redwood Writers 2016 Poetry Anthology, Pterodáctilo, and Ethnic Studies Journal. Garay is the author of a collection of poetry titled Reverberating Voices. He was “La Revista Bilingüe: La Voz’s “Person of the Month” in Sonoma County for March 2020, a 2019-2020 Sonoma County, California, Discovered Award Recipient in Literary Arts, and a Full-Time CHicano Ethnic Studies Instructor at Sierra College. Garay currently resides in Davis and is the proud father of Pakal, his son.