The Three Louies takes its show on the road to the Aspen’s Solazu Writers’ Conference on June 21, 2012.

This year’s festival, “Solazu”, will celebrate the rich literary heritage of our neighbors to the south: Latin America and the Caribbean. Traveling the spine, seas, and islands of the Americas, Aspen Summer Words 2012 will explore one of the most ancient and diverse regions on the planet. With leading Latin American and Caribbean authors at the helm, our festival will traverse vast distances, 14 millennia, 51 territories, 6500 miles, and more than 1000 languages to reveal the soulful stories that unite us all.

In many respects, The Three Louies are representative of the the arc of the Chicano experience in America. They were all distilled in the cauldron of strident activism of the 1970s. They all made their way through public schools that generally regarded Mexicans as somehow unworthy and incapable. They learned how to get the most out of education. And they all made a dent in the fields they entered, always remembering to smile and cause others to do the same.

More subtle than the Three Stooges, more bilingual than the Three Musketeers, and funnier than Manny, Moe and Jack — The Three Louies will make you laugh, will make you cry, will make you remember, and maybe provide just a tiny bit of insight into the wacky world that is the human condition. The Three Louies: An evening of fun and maybe even some frolic.

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