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Sunday, October 13
 

7:00pm PDT

Celebrating Defiance, Resisting Silence
Sunday October 13, 2024 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
SAGRADA
Co-presented with 48 Hills

This dynamic event showcases writers driven by urgency, addressing pressing issues with narratives that explore the ignored, overlooked, and under-represented. Eirinie Carson, Christopher D. Cook, Sabina Khan-Ibarra, Jesus Francisco Sierra, and Rowena Leong Singerwill share stories of resilience and resistance and delve deep into identity, activism, and the pursuit of justice, offering powerful insights into how American culture and politics impact their daily lives as members of under-represented communities. Celebrating Defiance promises an afternoon of powerful storytelling, inclusivity, and the amplification of voices that challenge the status quo. FREE, $10–15 suggested donation

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Authors and Participants
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Eirinie Carson

Eirinie Carson is a Black British writer living in California. She is a mother of two children, Luka and Selah. A member of the Writers Grotto in San Francisco, Carson is a frequent contributor to Mother magazine, and her work has also appeared in LitHub, Mortal Mag, Electric Literature... Read More →
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Sabina Khan-Ibarra

Sabina Khan-Ibarra is a writer, poet, and teacher currently focused on completing her chapbook, New Vocabulary, and her novel, The Poppy Flower. Her work has been featured in various journals and anthologies, including Non-White and Women, Taboos and Transgressions. She is a member... Read More →
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Christopher Cook

Christopher D. Cook is an author and award-winning journalist based in San Francisco. He has reported and written on social and economic justice issues for many national publications, including Harper's, the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, The Economist, The Guardian, Mother Jones... Read More →
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Rowena Leong Singer

Rowena Leong Singer is a Chinese-Filipino writer who is published in The New York Times, Black Warrior Review, Narrative Magazine, and KQED’s Perspectives. She is the grand prize winner in literary fiction for the Book Pipeline Unpublished Contest, a semifinalist for the James Jones... Read More →
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Jesus Francisco Sierra

Jesus Francisco Sierra is a Cuban writer who settled in San Francisco and grew up in the Mission District. His work has appeared in Zyzzyva, Los Angeles Review of Books, Gulf Stream Literary Journal, The Bare Life Review, Solstice Literary Magazine, The Caribbean Writer, The Acentos... Read More →
Sunday October 13, 2024 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
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Friday, October 18
 

7:30pm PDT

The Ache for Ancestral Healing: The Roadmap Back
Friday October 18, 2024 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
SAGRADA
Co-presented with 48 Hills

To thrive in the present we must connect to the past, but when that past is fragmented by colonization, oppression, and the pressure to assimilate, how can we tap into the wisdom of the generations that came before us? What did our elders know that we are struggling to rediscover? Using traditions that range from curanderismo to community outreach, Sandhya Rani Jha, Alie Jones, Shanthi Sekaran, and Atava Garcia Swiecicki discuss the path before us and the answers within us. Moderated by SFSU professor of journalism Venise Wagner. This event opens and closes with a healing meditation offered by Sagrada Arts proprietor Rebecca Sanders. $25

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Moderators
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Venise Wagner

Venise Wagner has been a professor of journalism at San Francisco State University since 2001. Before her appointment, she worked 12 years as a journalist for a variety of California daily newspapers covering border issues, religion and ethics, education, and the Bay Area’s Black... Read More →
Authors and Participants
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Sandhya Jha

Founder and former director of the Oakland Peace Center, Sandhya Jha (they/them) is a twenty-year resident of Oakland and a decades-long community organizer and activist currently working on a PhD in Philadelphia. Inspired by what they learned about the sustaining power of ancestors... Read More →
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Alie Jones

Alie Jones is a self-care advocate, writer, artist, and Creole mermaid. She believes that the best writing spaces are generative and embodied. Jones is deeply inspired by scholars like bell hooks, Ntozake Shange, June Jordan, and Gloria Anzaldúa. As an educator, she explores the... Read More →
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Rebecca Sanders

Rebecca Sanders has been a practicing witch and intuitive healer for over twenty years. She has been a lifelong student of ceremonial and angel magic. Classically trained as a vocalist at The Colburn School, Rebecca loves using sound as a healing modality to transform the energetic... Read More →
avatar for Shanthi Sekaran

Shanthi Sekaran

Shanthi Sekaran is a novelist and television writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Salon. Her novel Lucky Boy was named an Indie Next Great Read, an Amazon Editor's Pick and a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Barnes & Noble, Library Journal... Read More →
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Atava Garcia Swiecicki

Atava Garcia Swiecicki is dedicated to remembering the healing traditions of her ancestors and supporting others to reconnect with their own ancestral medicine. She loves helping people build relationships with plants, whom she considers some of our greatest teachers and healers... Read More →
Friday October 18, 2024 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
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