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Deep Vellum Music & Literature Festival: Friday+ Pass

Voices on Latin American translation
Date
Friday
July 10, 2026
Time
Doors 6:00pm
Showtime 7:00pm
Location
RUINS (map)
2653 Commerce street
Dallas TX 75226

Access to the Friday Night Kickoff event at Ruins, sponsored by the Southwest Review, featuring a panel on Latin American literature in translation with Carmen Boullosa, Rodrigo Hasbun, and Robin Myers, followed by music performances by Ceci Ceci and Cayuga All-Stars.

This pass also comes with access to all writer panels, readings, and music performances at venues throughout Deep Ellum on Saturday July 11 and Sunday July 12.*

This pass does not include access to the Saturday Night Headliner Show with Hanif Abdurraqib and Jamila Woods at Sons of Hermann Hall on July 11.

LITERATURE (Voices on Latin American translation)

Rodrigo Hasbún is a Bolivian writer and screenwriter. He is the author of eight works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novel Affections (Simon & Schuster), which received an English PEN Award and has been translated into twelve languages. Named one of Granta’s Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists in 2010, Hasbún’s short stories have appeared in Granta, McSweeney’s, Zoetrope: All-Story, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. He lives and works in Houston.
 
Carmen Boullosa is one of Mexico's leading novelists, poets, and playwrights. She has published over a dozen novels, two of which were designated the Best Novel Published in Mexico by the prestigious magazine Reforma—her second novel, Before, also won the renowned Xavier Villaurrutia Prize for Best Mexican Novel; and her novel La otra mano de Lepanto was also selected as one of the Top 100 Novels Published in Spanish in the past 25 years. Her most recent novel, Texas: The Great Theft won the 2014 Typographical Era Translation Award, was shortlisted for the 2015 PEN Translation Award, and has been nominated for the 2015 International Dublin Literary Award. Boullosa has received numerous prizes and honors, including a Guggenheim fellowship. Also a poet, playwright, essayist, and cultural critic, Boullosa is a Distinguished Lecturer at City College of New York, and her books have been translated into Italian, Dutch, German, French, Portuguese, Chinese, and Russian.
 
Robin Myers is a poet and Spanish-to-English translator. She won the 2025 National Book Award in Translated Literature and is longlisted for the International Booker Prize with We Are Green and Trembling, by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara. A 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow, she was also shortlisted for the 2025 National Translation Award in Poetry and for the 2024 Reina Sofía Translation Award. Recent book-length translations include Pedro the Vast by Simón López Trujillo, Death Takes Me by Cristina Rivera Garza (co-translated with Sarah Booker, 2025), A Father Is Born by Andrés Neuman (2025), What Comes Back by Javier Peñalosa M. (2024), and The Brush by Eliana Hernández-Pachón (2024). Other translations have appeared in Granta, The Baffler, Kenyon Review, The Common, Harvard Review, Two Lines, Waxwing,  and elsewhere. As a poet, Robin is the author of the forthcoming Centro (Coffee House Press, 2027). Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2022, Guernica, The Drift, Poetry London, Yale Review, Denver Quarterly, Annulet Poetry Journal, Massachusetts Review, and other journals.
 
 
MUSIC

Cayuga All-Stars is a Latin Band from Dallas Tx founded by Cesar Vargas with the help of Champ Cantu and Jorge Salas. Eventually the band grew bigger and now have up to 8 members all coming from different bands from the DFW area. The band started in 2020 and became active in 2021. Cayuga came from doing diy shows in the barrio to playing big stages and festivals. Voted for best traditional latin act and best latin song by the Dallas entertainment awards. They have opened up for big acts such as Explosions in the sky, Ryan Bingham and Sonido Gallo Negro.

Ceci Ceci is a Nicaraguan–Ecuadorian singer-songwriter whose music bridges modern Latin pop with raw emotional depth. Known for her commanding stage presence, she brings intention to every lyric and electricity to every performance.

*Some venues might reach capacity during peak times. If a venue reaches capacity, patrons will be let in on a one in/one out basis.

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