Justseeds member Jess X. Chen, and Diné artist Demian Dineyazhi, are going on an eco-feminist poetry tour across America between May 5-May 17th 2016! Stops include: Los Angeles, Tucson, Gallup, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Oklahoma City, St. Louis, Chicago, Pittsburgh and NYC! Catch them at a show along the way. They will be sharing poems and selling migrant & indigenous prints and merch.
SOLASTALGIA: (n.) The pain experienced when the place where one resides or one loves is under immediate assault.
SOLASTALGIA: a queer eco-feminist poetry tour featuring the transdisciplinary works and performances of Chinese-American migrant artist Jess X. Chen and Indigenous Diné artist Demian DinéYazhi founder of RISE: Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment. Their work is a reclamation of inherited lands, ancestors, and cultures lost to post-apocalyptic colonial violence. Through poetry they create indigenous and immigrant futures in the time of our current ecological collapse. Join us for an evening of time travel, queerness, love, trauma, fantasy, and survivance.
Read our interview in the Alibi here.
contact jess@jessxchen.com for booking a future show or more information.
TOUR DATES & SHOWS
May 6th – Tucson, AZ
7PM: Story Land Tucson
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May 7th – Gallup, NM
7PM: Gallup Coffee Company
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May 8th – Santa Fe, NM
2PM – Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA)
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May 9th – Albuquerque, NM
7PM: The Tannex, w/ DISCOTAYS
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May 10th-11th – ?
May 12th – St. Louis, MI
7:30PM: Westminster Press, w/ Joss Barton
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May 13th – Chicago, IL
6:30PM: City Lit Books, with Emily Yoon and TBA
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May 14th – Pittsburgh, PA
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May 15th – Peekskill, NY
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art
Visions From The Inside Opening
May 17th – New York City
7:30pm at the Asian American Writers Workshop with Sonia Guinansaca and Kay Ulanday Barrett and more
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