Poet Dan Butterworth
Gonzaga University Visiting Writers Series - Spokane
March 25 • 7:30pm in the Cataldo Globe Room
From the Gonzaga event webpage - Butterworth earned both his master's and doctoral degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has written one book of poetry, "The Radium Watch Dial Painters," as well as a non-fiction work, "Waiting for Rain: A Farmers Story," which is the biography of a farmer named Archie Clare. His academic areas of interest lie in contemporary and romantic literature and creative writing.
Gonzaga University 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.
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Filipino American National Historical Society

Poets Lorna Crozier and Oliver de la Paz
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.
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Whatcom Poetry Series

Three Home-Grown Poets - Anacortes
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

Northwest Folklife Film Series: City Folk - Seattle
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.
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