Saturday Storytelling at City Hall

By Ed Fuentes
Published: Sunday, June 03, 2007, at 09:37PM

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DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — If it weren’t for the blocked street, the 5th Annual Feria Del Libro (Family Book Fair) might have slipped entirely under the radar of Downtown residents. Still, a few locals made their way down to the streets around City Hall and found that the event heavily marketed to serve the Latino community had a lot to offer everyone. “I had my two kids here for the weekend, and we were about to go to City Walk for the 100th time,” said Jim Richmond, a recently divorced accountant manager who just moved to Downtown. “While most the presentations are in Spanish, there’s a good crossover of things for us to enjoy.”

More after the jump.

Feria Del Libro is a partnership between the City of L.A., LAUSD; and sponsors including Disney, Target, La Opinion and Telemundo. Hopefully event planners will reach out to the non Spanish speaking crowd and Downtown residents in 2008. Anyone with kids should keep Feria Del Libro on their radar next year because there were a lot of stories to be found Saturday.

Photos/EF



Comments

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David Kennedy writes:

I wish I’d known about this event. However, my kids are out of the country right now. So the event was moot for me. Still, I wondered why I saw none of the marketing effort. I suspect downtowners were not targeted. Maybe I’d have seen something about it if my daughter was still in daycare.

# on Jun.03.2007 AT 10:19 PM

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