Event Date: Thursday,
October 14, 2010
Time: Music
begins at 6pm, Readings begin at 7pm
Location:
ArtXchange Gallery, 512 First Ave S, Seattle, WA 98104
Phone: 206-839-0377
Email: info@lasalaseattle.org Website:
http://www.lasalaseattle.org/
Cost: Free and
open to the public
Recuerdos de las Mujeres/Women Remembering Women
Four local writers offer literary remembrances for Day
of the Dead
(Seattle, WA - August 10, 2010) On Thursday, October 14,
ArtXchange Gallery hosts a reading by four women writers from La Sala,
a collective formed to coalesce and mobilize the growing Latino/Latina arts community
of the Seattle area. Wendy Call, Catalina M. Cantú, Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs,
and Christina Montilla will read their prose and poetry in preparation for Dia
de los Muertos/Day of the Dead. Come enjoy literary remembrances and hear live
music by Japanese/Latin fusion duo Miho and Diego. Dia de los Muertos-related
activities, art and food will round out the event. Attendees are encouraged to
bring a photo (or photocopied photo) of a woman they would like to honor for a
remembrance altar. Music begins at 6pm, reading begins at 7pm.
Wendy Call's current writing project, a cycle of essays
about grief and loss, is supported by grants from 4Culture, American
Antiquarian Society, and Seattle's CityArtist Program, and inspired by six
weeks (in 2010) as Writer in Residence at the Harborview Medical Center and six
months (in 2006) caring for her mother when she was terminally ill.
Catalina M. Cantú writes essays, poetry, and prose, inspired
by her experiences in social justice, domestic relationships, and economic
survival. Since 2008, Catalina has been the Chair of Los Norteños NW Latino
Writers Group. In 2009, her work was seen at Seattle's Benham Gallery, and
heard at The Phinney Center's Dia de los Muertos. Currently, she is writing a
young adult adventure series.
Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs is a poet and Associate Professor
at Seattle University. Her publications
include A Most Improbable Life (Finishing Line Press, 2003), and poems in
Camino Real Journal: Estudios de Hispanidades Norteamericanas anthology;
Chicana Studies, a community college textbook; and The Red Wheelbarrow Literary
Magazine. Gabriella has given poetry readings in many countries, and throughout
the United States.
Christina Montilla received a 2010 Bryn Lunde Memorial
Scholarship to attend the Summer Fishtrap Writer's workshop in Eastern Oregon.
In 2009, she was an invited writer for the "Sustainability / Sostenibilidad"
visual and literary exhibit at the Benham Gallery in Seattle. Cities, her
family, and social justice have inspired her stories and poetry.
This event is part of Theater Puget Sound's 'Arts Crush,' a
month-long festival that connects artists and audiences with invigorating new
experiences at hundreds of events across the region.
Background Information
About La Sala Seattle
La Sala is a collective formed to coalesce and mobilize the
growing Latino/Latina arts community of the Seattle/Bellevue and surrounding
districts. Recognizing the booming diaspora and the scarcity of data, space,
presence and voice for this constituency, a committed consortium of arts advocates
embarked on this empowerment enterprise.
http://www.lasalaseattle.org/
About ArtXchange
Gallery
ArtXchange Gallery is a contemporary intercultural art
gallery that inspires cultural exploration, the expansion of global community
and the exchange of ideas through art. We exhibit art from around the world
that reflects the diversity of influences shaping the Seattle community and
contemporary global culture.
www.artxchange.org
About Arts Crush
This October, Theatre Puget Sound will present Arts Crush, a
month-long festival that connects artists and audiences with invigorating new
experiences at hundreds of events across the region. More than 200 arts
organizations and innumerable artists from all over the Puget Sound will come
together as a united arts community to share arts experiences with people of
all kinds.
http://artscrush.org/
