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Testimonios + Witness Writing as Social Action Workshop with jo reyes-boitel
Red Salmon Arts, Casa de Resistencia Books 2000 Thrasher Ln., Austin3:00-6:00 PM, Saturday 6 April 2024 Pay What You Can Suggested $40 or pay what you can Proceeds benefit Red Salmon Arts Followed by a closing reading by participants and the author at 5:30pm. Community Is Welcome! About the author jo reyes-boitel is a poet, playwright, and scholar. jo is also a queer, mixed-Latinx parent working in […]
xob: encuentro de maiz, día dos, 24 marzo 2024
Red Salmon Arts, Casa de Resistencia Books 2000 Thrasher Ln., Austinabout xob… For thousands of years, maiz has been a foundation of life, creation stories, ceremony as well the base of the diet and nutrition consumed by inhabitants of diverse lands throughout present-day occupied americas. Mesoamerica, (present-day) Mexico, and the subsequent cultures that have transformed, survived, and persisted would exist and can’t be understood without […]
UN TRIP raúlrsalinas & the Poetry of Liberation Screening at St. Edward’s University
St. Edward's University 3001 South Congress, AustinWednesday, March 20, 2024, 6:30-7:30pm John Williams Brooks South Carter Auditorium Rm 186 A Film by Award winning filmmakers: Anne Lewis & Laura Varela Up Trip documents the transformative journey of raúlrsalinas—Xicanindo beat poet and beloved maestro. The film is based on raúl’s poem “Un Trip through the Mind Jail,” in which he recalls his coming of age […]