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FROM THE EARTHWORM TO THE NIGHT
About the show:
Utilizing animations and shadow projections Jess X Chen will perform poetry and read from her first manuscript of poetry, From The Earthworm To The Night. Using poetry, paper cut outs, and shadows, From the Earth Worm To The Night intimately extricates Asian-American narratives of colonial trauma, sexuality, ecological collapse and diaspora. Through poetry and shadows, the evenings' narrative will focus on the stuttering voice of the diasporic daughter-poet, and then turn an ear to the silenced voices of Tiananmen Square protesters, the honeybees suffering from colony collapse disorder, and the ghost town speaking back to the civilians who left it behind. A constellation of violence will be connected from the female body to the landscape of the colonized Earth. How can we embark on the impossible task of healing from these geological scars? How can we look violence in the eye, speak truth to power, and then embrace the comfort of the stardust we will one day become?
About the artist:
JESS X CHEN is a Chinese American multi-disciplinary poet, artist, and filmmaker, and the author of chapbook, From the Earthworm To The Night. Her work has been included or is forthcoming in Beasts of the Southern Wild, Asian American International Film Festival, Yale Environmental Film Festival, the Wing Luke Museum and more. She is a member of Justseeds, an national collective of socially-engaged artists. She holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and coached the 2013 Brown University Poetry Slam team who was awarded Pushing The Art Forward. She is currently working on a feature film under the production house, LoveHoldLetGo.
Please note: This special event is not part of Northwest Puppet Center's season subscription and not intended for young children. If you have any questions, please contact Northwest Puppet Center: info@nwpuppet.org (206)523-2579
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LocationNorthwest Puppet Center (View)
9123 - 15th Ave. NE
Seattle, WA 98115
United States
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| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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