by Amanda Ong
Final month Seattle Metropolis of Literature launched the Seattle Literary Map in print and digitally. The Literary Map is a information to the individuals, locations, companies, and organizations which have made necessary contributions to Seattle’s literary scene. Seattle is one in every of solely two UNESCO Cities of Literature in the USA. The Literary Map honors Seattle’s writers, poets, and literary locations, whereas inspiring residents and vacationers alike to find out about them. South Seattle residents will discover a plethora of spots proper of their neighborhood. The map is out there at native bookstores, libraries, and different factors of curiosity all through town.
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by Victor Simoes
The Sound Theatre Firm (STC) not too long ago introduced Shermona Mitchell would turn into its new co-artistic director. A multifaceted theater artist and the primary Black girl to guide the Sound Theatre board, Mitchell assumed the brand new place in January. Working with the founder and the opposite co-artistic director of the STC, Teresa Thuman, Mitchell will assist the corporate’s mission to uplift native actors, administrators, and audiences whereas bringing consideration to tales usually silenced by systemic oppression.
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by Saira B and NEVE
Welcome to our moon-synced film evaluate present, hosted by Saira Barbaric and NEVE. This duo of South Seattle creatives make multidisciplinary work collectively and individually. For this present, they’re ecstatic to hitch their love of astrology, ritual, and popular culture.
Stream this month’s podcast on the New Moon Film Overview official podcast web site.
I may need stated this earlier than, however I’ll by no means flip down a musical. After I heard that RRR was a standard Tollywood/Bollywood epic motion movie with elaborate, intricate musical numbers, I hit play with out hesitation. The film was past my expectations. The motion, the costumes, and (most important to this season) the romance had been layered and extraordinary. Many films try — and a few succeed — at capturing how intimacy and connection can look between two grownup males. None that I’ve seen hits the mark with as a lot reverence, playfulness, and historic fiction as RRR.
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Pongo Poetry Mission’s mission is to have interaction youth in writing poetry to encourage therapeutic and development. For over 20 years, Pongo has mentored poetry with youth on the Kids & Household Justice Middle (CFJC), King County’s juvenile detention facility. Many CFJC residents are Youth of Coloration who’ve endured traumatic experiences within the type of abuse, neglect, and publicity to violence. These incidents have been precipitated and exacerbated by group disinvestment, systemic racism, and different types of institutional oppression. In collaboration with CFJC employees, Pongo poetry writing affords CFJC youth a automobile for self-discovery and inventive expression that conjures up restoration and therapeutic. By this particular bimonthly column in partnership with the South Seattle Emerald, Pongo invitations readers to bear witness to the ache, resilience, and inventive capability of youth whose voices and views are too usually relegated to the periphery. To accomplice with Pongo in inspiring therapeutic and aid amongst youth dealing with psychological and emotional turmoil, be part of Pongo’s certification pilot program this spring!
Pricey Grandma
by a teenager, age 16
Pricey Grandma,
I simply thought it’s best to know what I’m doing now.
I’m completely satisfied
You’re the one that spends lots of time watching over me
And caring for me.
I simply thought it’s best to know
How I really feel about you.
I’m appreciative that
You gave us a spot to remain
As a result of we had nowhere else to go.
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by Amanda Ong
From March 23 to March 26, On the Boards will current the UN-[TITLED] Mission, a multi-site mission at Wa Na Wari and Inscape Arts to immersively have interaction with gentrification, displacement, group that means, cultural reminiscence, and therapeutic within the Central District and the Chinatown-Worldwide District (CID). The mission was conceived, created, and curated by Berette S Macaulay, with the partnership of the Black Heritage Society of Washington State, Vanishing Seattle, The Sankofa Theater, and Arte Noir. Though her background contains locations as numerous as her birthplace of Sierra Leone, the U.Okay., Jamaica, and Manhattan, Macaulay knew she needed to create a bit deeply rooted in native Seattle tales.
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The King County Library System (KCLS) and the South Seattle Emerald are teaming as much as convey you the “South Finish Scoop.” Dig into this community-centered column every month for nice e book, music, film, and occasion suggestions out of your native librarians.
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“This can be a individuals’s historical past,” says playwright Nikki Yeboah. “I would like us as a metropolis to carry this story.”
by Amanda Ong
From March 17 to March 19, Erickson Theatre will host a staged studying of eleventh & Pine, a brand new play in regards to the organizer expertise of the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP), introduced by Sound Theatre Firm. Initially referred to as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) earlier than being renamed to CHOP, the organized protest in opposition to police brutality held in Cal Anderson Park in 2020 was one of many longest and most sturdy protests Seattle has seen up to now. Written by Nikki Yeboah, a professor of playwriting on the College of Washington, and directed by Leah Adcock-Starr, eleventh & Pine was written along with oral histories from CHOP’s organizers.
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Pongo Poetry Mission’s mission is to have interaction youth in writing poetry to encourage therapeutic and development. For over 20 years, Pongo has mentored poetry with youngsters on the Youngster Research and Therapy Middle (CSTC), the one state-run psychiatric hospital for youth in Washington State. Many CSTC youth are dealing with extreme emotional, behavioral, and psychological well being challenges. Roughly 40% of youth arrive at CSTC having been court docket ordered to get therapy; nevertheless, by the top of their keep, most youth residents turn into voluntary contributors.
Pongo believes there’s energy in artistic expression and articulating one’s ache to an empathetic viewers. By this particular month-to-month column in partnership with the South Seattle Emerald, Pongo invitations readers to bear witness to the ache, resilience, and inventive capability of youth whose voices and views are too usually relegated to the periphery. To accomplice with Pongo in inspiring therapeutic and aid in youth dealing with psychological and emotional turmoil, be part of Pongo’s certification pilot program this spring!
How I Grew Up
by a teenager at CSTC
I at all times felt deserted
like a leftover shoe that nobody preferred
I at all times felt like my thoughts shattered like a glass bottle
I really feel like I’m the one one on this world that’s empty
I really feel like I’m a pet that’s been taken away from his mom
I at all times noticed the colour blue once I’m lonely
I really feel like a new child mouse that hasn’t opened his eyes
I name out my mom’s title however she’s not round
I at all times noticed shadows that nobody else sees
I really feel like I’ve the load of the world on my shoulders
I at all times felt like a discolored leaf, completely different from others
I do know I get by way of this however the query is how…
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by Amanda Ong
Final month, award-winning poet, visible artist, storyteller, and curator Shin Yu Pai was named the fourth Seattle Civic Poet. Pai involves the title as a earlier Poet Laureate for the Metropolis of Redmond.
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by Victor Simoes
Final Up to date on March 23, 2023, 9:37 am.
It’s March, spring is sort of right here, and Seattle’s artwork scene is blossoming with much more occasions than earlier months. From an Afrofuturistic sci-fi musical hybrid film and different movie festivals to Actual Change’s open home and a one-night-only burlesque present, this month has choices that attraction to nearly each style, temper, and sound.
Under, the Emerald compiled an inventory of artwork occasions all through the South Finish and past, so hold studying to search out what March has to supply.
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