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Friday, October 20 • 2:00pm - 3:50pm
Living Archives–Decolonizing Institutions, Cultivating Communities. Feat. Smithsonian APAC, KSMoCA, and The Unburden Project

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Living Archives–Decolonizing Institutions, Cultivating Communities is a participatory conversation and art experience that explores decolonization strategies for institutions. Feat. socially engaged art projects like KSMoCA (King School Museum of Contemporary Art) in Portland, OR and the Smithsonian APAC Culture Lab Manifesto. Participants are also invited to share in The Unburden Project (a somatic poetry installation co-authored by Taitano and Jarrett and first presented as part of 'Ae Kai--the Smithsonian APAC Culture Lab--on Oahu, Hawai'i in July 2017).

The Unburden Project is generously supported by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. 
Moderators
avatar for Prageeta Sharma

Prageeta Sharma

Professor/President of Thinking Its Presence, University of Montana
Prageeta Sharma was born in Framingham, Massachusetts. Her collections of poetry include Bliss to Fill (2000), The Opening Question (2004), which won the Fence Modern Poets Prize, Infamous Landscapes (2007), and Undergloom (2013). Sharma’s honors and awards include a Howard Foundation... Read More →

Speakers
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Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis

Curator, Editor, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
Curator (Asian Pacific American Studies), Smithsonian Asian Pacific American CenterEditor, The Asian American Literary Review
avatar for Lisa Jarrett

Lisa Jarrett

Assistant Professor of Community and Context Arts, Portland State University
Lisa Jarrett was born in 1977 in Morristown, New Jersey. Growing up as a Black American who moved with her family to various, often conflicting political climates in cities in Texas, Minnesota, and New York, the influences of her upbringing in a post-Civil Rights and increasingly... Read More →
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Lehua Taitano

Lehua M. Taitano, a native Chamoru from Yigo, Guåhan (Guam), is a queer writer and interdisciplinary artist. She is the author of A Bell Made of Stones (poems, TinFish Press) a chapbook of short fiction, appalachiapacific, winner of the 2010 Merriam-Frontier Award, and a chapbook... Read More →


Friday October 20, 2017 2:00pm - 3:50pm PDT
Poetry Center Conference Room 207 Poetry Center
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