Polis: Cultural Planning is co-hosting an event to honor Violeta Parra, the "Mother of Latin American Folk" on Saturday, October 21st at Prospero's Bookstore. Violeta Parra (1917 to 1967) was an exquisitely creative mind and passionate soul, as an ethnomusicologist who sought to preserve the music and traditions of Chile and Latin America. As a poet and songwriter, her words are remembered as the root of the 'Chilean New Song.' And as a visual artist became the first Latin A