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KOBO Gallery at Higo
Japantown/International District
New Literary Voices Series
University of Washington - Visiting writers
Where & When
604 South Jackson Street
Seattle, Washington 98104
(206)381-3000
May/June 2010
Michelle Cruz Skinner
In
the Company of Strangers
Reading and book signing
Tuesday, May 18, 7 - 8pm
 Michelle Cruz Skinner is a Filipino American writer from Hawai'i who will
be reading from her new book of short stories entitled "in the company
of strangers" (bamboo ridge) on Tuesday, May 18 at 7pm. Reading & book
signing with a reception to follow. Skinner uses a sensitive eye to peer
into memory and our complex relationships with family, friends and
homeland.
- Alan Lau, International Examiner, Arts Editor
Sixteen deceptively simple stories comprise
Michelle Cruz Skinner's much-anticipated follow-up to Balikbayan and
Mango Seasons, many of them about Filipinos tongue-tied and alienated in
the motherland, or scattered across the map of heartaches and
homesickness in the company of strangers called countrymen, family,
lovers. A book of quiet gems definitely worth the wait. - R. Zamora
Linmark, author of Prime Time Apparitions and The Evolution of
a Sigh
The essential subject of these captivating stories is memory, but
memory filtered by what cannot-or even should not-be said. The corrosive
effects of a secret history, the burdens of understanding, are limned
through stories both spare and lyrical. In a way, these stories tell a
kind of love story: the love of a daughter for a heritage that, even
while suppressed or denied, can never be erased. - Marianne Villanueva,
author of Ginseng and Other Tales from Manila and Mayor of the
Roses: Stories
www.bambooridge.org
Lisa Linn Kanae
Islands Linked by Ocean
Reading and book
signing
Tuesday, June 1, 7 - 8pm In Lisa Linn Kanae's "islands linked by ocean" - the
characters, the sense of place and the rhythm of the
language all come together to offer a simmering stew
of real life on these islands removed from the tourist
brochure gloss of an island paradise. Instead these
are real people with real stories to tell. Kanae reads
on Tuesday, June 1 at 7pm. To hear an excerpt of
actress Stephanie Kong reading one of the stories from
the book on Hawai'i public radio, log on to www.hawaiipublicradio.org, Alan Lau, International Examiner, Arts Editor The stories in this collection are familiar, like family. And like
the father and daughter in the title story, the stories in ISLANDS
LINKED BY OCEAN are "told and retold until the words swim through the
listener's veins and turn into blood."
www.bambooridge.org
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Ikebana class by Megumi Schacher
Saturday, June 5, 1-3pm
Arranging for the Northwest summer.
$30/session, includes flowers and plants materials
Advanced registration required.Sign up as soon as possible. Classes fill on a
first-come, first-served basis. Students will be registered upon receipt of
full payment. Checks should be made out to Megumi Schacher.Spots are still available.
To register please call (206) 381-3000 or email us. |
