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About the Event:
Join Sherrie Fernandez-Williams and Patti Kameya for an afternoon of stories, writing, and community connection. Sherrie and Patti will read from their recent work on immigrants, Indigenous peoples, and people of color finding home in a land that valued their labor and commodities while overlooking their shared humanity. Reading will be followed by an open mic, where you can contribute to a community poem and read your story or poem of finding home in a commodified life.
Sherrie Fernandez-Williams and Patti Kameya are fiscal year 2024 recipients of a Creative Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Meet the Readers:
Patti Kameya writes, edits, forages wild plants, and treats historical amnesia in the Dakota homeland of Saint Paul, Minnesota. Her writing appears in North Dakota Quarterly (2022), This Was 2020 by the Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project (2021), and elsewhere. She occasionally performs comedy with Funny Asian Women Kollective. Find her other work at pattikameya.com.
Sherrie Fernandez-Williams is the author of Soft: A Memoir and the book of poems Goddess of the Whole Self. She is a 2021-2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and a 2021 Black Voices in Children’s Literature winner. Writer of essays, poems, and fiction, her work has been published in New Limestone Review, Aquifer: The Florida Review, and Duke University's minnesota review, among others.
Learn more: https://www.xiagallerycafe.com/finding-home-reading-and-open-mic
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
XIA Gallery & Cafe, 422 University Avenue West, Saint Paul, United States
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