Anheim finally has the library “looks at home”

The crowd was inside the indescribable story in Anaim was ready to start the open night of the microphone last week, but there was no way to start it on time.

Whenever the owner Lizzette Barrios Gracián tries to approach the platform, someone pulled it away from a hug. Congratulations. recommendation. Thanks.

The library opened last year in an industrial part of the city to the extent that 911 was unable to the missionaries even though it quickly got loyal followers to focus on Bipoc books and allow activists to meet there without the need to buy anything, the site was not working, and Barrios Gracián was ready to close what was a long dream.

Then she found better, if she was smaller, placed in a commercial center near the city center, close to her home. The indescribable story was reopened a few weeks ago, and this was the first microphone night in the new place.

“Oh my God, what a difference of a difference he causes, Barius Grassian told me while people continued to advance on July 25.

Among the clients I spoke to that day: Toby from Florida. Nick from Kentucky who lives in Utah. A group of teenage girls in the city for the water championship. Anton Deopino of Ukraine, who was in Orange County to see a friend and told me that he is visiting libraries all over the world.

“This is really cute,” said Dubinco. “If you are locally, you will come here every week.”

Barrios Gracián finally reached the platform. It was 20 minutes later. Nobody cares.

“Thank you Muchaosos! “The 52 -year -old said in a noisy and warm tone that hints to her daily function as a history school in Gilbert Hi in Anaim.”Bienvenidos To our new site for the indescribable story, Chapter 2! Your work tonight is support, applause and give a lot of love. “

Over the following two hours, the audience picked up their fingers, applauded, applauded or shook his head while speakers poured their similar hearts in English, Spanish and Nahuatl. Local political blogger Verne Nelson tickled him on his electric keyboard to the Mexican children’s tune “El Ratón Vaquero” when adults and adolescents alike sang. Every time someone rises to perform, Barrios Gracián sat in his seat, because all others were busy.

“The biggest success in this library,” she said in conclusion.

Although tonight was officially ended, no one remains. They wanted to get away at the moment.

Vivian Lee, who organizes table games meetings in the library, said through its role as a coordinator of community participation in the coalition of the Orange County Society and the Pacific Islands community, said “welcoming spaces” can be difficult to find in its original city.

“People like Liz are very unbelievable. It’s a game for anything that helps society,” 30 years old told me.

Paula Guterres teaches dual -language hair lessons in the indescribable story. “When I first asked if she could sell my book, she said not only” Yes “but” We will promote you and help you. “How can I not say that I am free in everything you need?”

She referred to a huge sofa and laughed. “Liz needs me to move this amazing thing again? Let’s do that!”

I visited Barrios Gracián the next day when things were cooled. Informed story design is Boheimi Latinx. All matches and artworks are donated, including books shelves, huge mirrors, the Egyptian goddess Isis section, as well as a replica of Titanic over the used imagination section. Insulation isolated out of the roof tiles. A position next to the gift department provides free cleaning tools, canned and dried foods.

“We are going through difficult times,” said Barius Grassian, while Stereo Soda Argentine soda was gently playing with speakers. “I can’t give a lot, but I can give.”

How did you think about Open Mic Night?

“She was very successful for the first time here,” she replied. “You never know if people will follow you when moving.”

A client walked at.

“Hello, welcome!” Barrios Gracián shouted, the first of several times to do so while chatting. “Don’t be shy, you don’t have to buy!”

She was born in Guadalajara, and Barius Greisian came to her with her parents in the eighties of the last century without papers, eventually through the amnesty in 1986. He wrote from an early age, found a “safe space” when she was a teenager and a young man in long libraries such as Book Baron in Anheim (“I loved how he was organized”) and dual bilateral libraries Martinez in Santa Ana.

When the latter was closed in 2016, Barrios Gracián pledged to open a copy of it when her daughters were older. In 2021, she launched an indescribable story as a web site and a popup, aimed at opening a store front in her hometown.

She said, “It is only beer factories.” “This is the teacher inside me. There is nothing cultural for our youth – they should go to Santa Anna to find it, while [Anaheim] Let’s get crazy. “

The rent has proven to be exorbitant in most spaces. In other cases, potential owners will not provide a rental contract unless the unimaginable story is dropped about the critical race theory, which it refused to do.

“Those Barius Greisian said: everyone He needs to hear them. “

Benjamin Smith Junior received from Riferside, who read the day before and was now returning with poetry books.

“I can sell it, but we must only have an event for you, because people love to meet the author of the book they might buy,” said Barius Grassen Smith. He smiled.

Smith, 68, told me, “Liz gives people opportunities.” “I’m not famous, but look here now.”

Barrios Gracián maintains its work in Gilbert High, as she also presided over the parenting support program at the teenage school. In the indescribable story, you want to host the author’s signature and launch an oral history project for students to record the stories of Latin sheikhs in Anaim.

She said: “We are in a decisive moment in which our stories should be narrated from the past.” “Ellos Sobrevivieron, También Nosotros [They survived, we can as well]. It brings hope. “

One thing I suggested to work on the work side. Books are at a reasonable price – versatile copies of J Barrios Gracián training consists of a free business course through Anheim, which is a video by American book sellers. They talk to the owners of another library and Googling “How to open a library”.

I laughed.

She said: “I tell my students that we are learning through the fall and then back.” “If I can earn money, that’s great, but this is not the point here. It might seem crazy for businessmen, right?”

Magda Bourbon, the indescribable story director, said the numbers are “in the right direction.” “It is time to pay it” by working in the store.

Like me and many Anheimers, Borbon moved to Santa Anna, “Because I did not see myself culturally in Annim. Now I do.”

Parius Grassen’s excuse herself to salute more customers. I walked to a table in which a group of women covered books as part of the Book Club. It was the first time for everyone in the indescribable story.

“This is a large extension Liz,” said Angela Steker, who worked with Barius Grassian before. “She was talking about doing something like this for years, and it is great to see her to do it.”

“This is like something you see in San Francisco,” added Maria Zakarias, who grew up in Anaim and now lives in Santa Anna.

“You go to a book store, you feel you can’t touch anything because everything is very elegant,” said Liliana Mora. It waved all over the room with the flow of more people. “Here, it looks like the house.”