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> Grant Funded Events > Inquiring Mind Presentations > Key Ingredients Exhibit |
Grant Funded Events
Filipino - Alaska Native Family Stories: Alaska Cannery Unions - Seattle
April 4 • 7pm • FANHS National Archive - 810 18th Avenue
Fred Cordova, Annaliza Torres and David Della will present research on the colorful history of the now defunct Alaska Cannery Union. Speakers will trace the union's idealistic beginning, problems, sucesses, sometimes voilents occurences and eventual closing in the early 1990s.
RSVP at 206.322.0203 or
Filipino American National Historical Society
April 4 • 7pm • FANHS National Archive - 810 18th Avenue
Fred Cordova, Annaliza Torres and David Della will present research on the colorful history of the now defunct Alaska Cannery Union. Speakers will trace the union's idealistic beginning, problems, sucesses, sometimes voilents occurences and eventual closing in the early 1990s.
RSVP at 206.322.0203 or
Filipino American National Historical Society
Shawn Wong
April 5 • 8:30am - 6pm • Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center - 104 17th Avenue South
Seattle Rainbow Bookfest is the first organized effort in the United States to bring authors of color together under one roof. Featured speakers will be Dr. Quintard Taylor - specialist in African American history in the West and author of African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000 - and Shawn Wong - National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship recipient, author of American Knees and former member of the Humanities Washington board of trustees.
Rainbow Bookfest
Lorna Crozier
Whatcom Poetry Series: The Poet As Art - Bellingham
April 5 • 7:30pm • Lucia Douglas Gallery - 1415 13th St. in Fairhaven
April 6 • Poetry Workshop - Call 360.398.7870 for details
One of the most celebrated Canadian poets, Lorna Crozier (Victoria, BC), will read with Bellingham poet Oliver de la Paz. Lorna Crozier received the Governor Generals Award, and Canadian Authors Association Award. Her book, The Blue Hour of the Day, was a selected by Londons Times Literary Supplement as a notable book of 2007. Oliver de la Paz was a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and was a winner of the 2000 Crab Orchard Award Series for his book, Names Above Houses.
Call 360.398.7870 or for more information
Whatcom Poetry Series
Community Study of the Classics - Walla Walla
April 3 • 7pm • Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, moderated by Brad La Fran
April 24 • 7pm • The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, moderated by Jon Stratton , PhD
The Walla Walla Public Library hosts a series of presentations on classic literature. Four instructors from Walla Walla Community College will each design and present a public program around one of their favorite books. Copies of the text will be available through the library to encourage community study and audience participation. Programs will be at the Walla Walla Public Library, 238 E. Alder St from 7:00 to 8:30pm. All events are free and open to the public. Call 509.524.4433 for details.
Walla Walla Public Library Calendar
April 3 • 7pm • Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, moderated by Brad La Fran
April 24 • 7pm • The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, moderated by Jon Stratton , PhD
The Walla Walla Public Library hosts a series of presentations on classic literature. Four instructors from Walla Walla Community College will each design and present a public program around one of their favorite books. Copies of the text will be available through the library to encourage community study and audience participation. Programs will be at the Walla Walla Public Library, 238 E. Alder St from 7:00 to 8:30pm. All events are free and open to the public. Call 509.524.4433 for details.
Walla Walla Public Library Calendar
April 13 • 3:30pm • Anacortes Public Library at 1220 10th Street
Washington State Poet Laureate Samuel Green (The Grace of Necessity ), Nancy Pagh (No Sweeter Fat ) and Rachel Rose (Notes on Arrival and Departure ) read from their collections as part of the Sunday at the Library series.
Poet Biographies
Asphalt, Automobiles, and America: Visions of the Road - Vancouver
April 15 • 4 - 6pm at Washington State University Vancouver - Firstenburg Student Commons
Join students from DTC 336, Design and Composition, in a multimedia presentation of readings and images about the road and automobiles in American society. Refreshments will be provided. Donations of canned food will be accepted for local food banks.
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April 15 • 4 - 6pm at Washington State University Vancouver - Firstenburg Student Commons
Join students from DTC 336, Design and Composition, in a multimedia presentation of readings and images about the road and automobiles in American society. Refreshments will be provided. Donations of canned food will be accepted for local food banks.
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April 19 • 7:30pm • Shoreline Community College
16101 Greenwood Ave. BLDG 1600 • $8 - $10
Washington State Poet Laureate Samuel Green, Peter Pereira, and Anna Maria Hong read and discuss poetry.
Shoreline - Lake Forest Arts Council | Event Flyer
Third Ward TX
May 2-5 • 7:30pm • SIFF Cinema at McCaw Hall • $10 or $36 for all four
Join Northwest Folklife for a series of four films that explore the creativity of urban communities. Three documentaries and one narrative film delve into how people and their environments shape one another in the modern city and how this process can result in cultural cohesion, social alienation or artistic innovation. Filmmakers and speakers will participate in post-film audience discussions at each film screening.
May 2 • Living the Hiplife (2007, 62 minutes) - Meet the founders of "hiplife," a new music mixing African American rap and hiphop beats with urban Ghanaian highlife rhythms. With filmmaker Jesse Shipley and local Senegalese hip hop artist Baay Bia.
May 3 • Four Sheets to the Wind (2007, 91 minutes) - A Sundance favorite! A Seminole-Creek man fulfills his father's dying wish and leaves the reservation in search of a more fulfilling life in the city. A special screening of youth films from the Native Lens program precedes the film. Post-film discussion with local urban Indian leaders.
May 4 • Third Ward TX (2007, 57 minutes) - Artists-turned-activists stave off gentrification through public art in a besieged black neighborhood. With special appearance by Rick Lowe, founder of Project Row Houses and arts planner for the downtown Seattle Public Library.
May 5 • Radical Jesters (2007, 75 minutes) - Pranksters, performers and provocateurs challenge the move towards private use of public space. With filmmaker Tim Jackson and local public art performers.
City Folk - tickets and info | Northwest Folklife
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