SAT AUG 26@2PM Join Moved By Words & Frye Art Museum for New Voices Of Color 2023
Our Moved By Words fall event is coming up this weekend presented by the Frye Art Museum, if you have a minute please pass this information on! More information about our New Voices 2023 reading featuring Zaji Cox, author of 'Plum For Months' below (and for writers a chance to write with us in the beautiful Frye Art Museum on Saturday!)
MOVED BY WORDS: NEW VOICES OF COLOR READING — SAT AUG 26 2PM MORE INFO & FREE EVENT REGISTRATION FOR ATTENDEES: https://fryemuseum.org/calendar/event/moved-words-new-voices-color-reading
WRITE WITH US
We still have spots for writers and volunteers for this Saturday. Please reply ASAP if you would like to get early entry to the museum, sit with the writers, read with us during the event, and have a space to put your books or art after the show then give us a shout. There will be tables available and we will have time to spend as a writing community together. We are going to write one short piece on "Remixing Identity" based on the Kelly Akashi exhibition at the Frye Art Museum: https://youtu.be/3pxw5pJw-E8 VOLUNTEER TO HELP
If all you want to. do is come early and support, help set up tables, and do a general vibe check that's fine too—just reply to this email ASAP and tell us you are interested in volunteering. Otherwise we hope to see you at the show~!
MOVED BY WORDS: NEW VOICES OF COLOR READING — SAT AUG 23 2PM Join the Frye and Moved by Words as we celebrate 10 years of poetry project New Voices of Color with a special reading at the Frye Art Museum, honoring both a decade of emerging talent and the closing of current exhibition Kelly Akashi: Formations. Headlining the program, Zaji Cox will offer a special reading from her recently published book of essays Plums for Months, which explores life growing up mixed race in the outskirts of Portland, Oregon. Other participating artists include Maryam Imam Gabriel, Stacy D Flood, Prashant Kakad, and more special guests!
New Voices of Color invites emerging authors and poets to workshop, connect, share works, and get inspired. Participating poets will have spent the day at the museum with Moved by Words founder Skyler Reed, touring the galleries to absorb Akashi’s work. Their responses will be shared during the reading, highlighting the special symbiosis between the visual and literary arts.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
Zaji Cox wrote her first short story at age nine. A dancer, model, and artist, she has performed at the PDX Poetry Festival, Survival of the Feminist reading series, Corporeal Writing’s LOOP, and the Northwest Folklife Festival. She holds a bachelor's degree in English and her writing can be found in Pathos Literary Magazine, Entropy, The Portland Metrozine, Cultural Daily, CARE Covid Art REsource, and the anthology 2020: The Year of the Asterisk (University of Hell Press).
Skyler Reed (Skyler / Skylers / he / him / they / their) is a Sycan River Paiute (PIE-YOOT) artist, writer, and musician of the duo Lark & Raven currently living under the troll bridge in Sia’hl (SEE-AL-TH) on Duwamish (DOO-WAU-MISH) Tribal Lands. The founder of Moved By Words and a recipient of the Dean’s Residential Fellowship at the UW Information School, Skyler is the author of two chapbooks, And All Ampersands (2016) and Sex & Wikipedia (2017).
ABOUT MOVED BY WORDS
Founded by Skyler Reed, Moved By Words is a project dedicated to connecting new writers with writing workshops and community outreach. In 2020, Skyler hosted and organized the first ever free-of-charge women and queer folk of color writers' workshops and reading series, in community collaboration with the women and queer folk of Northwest Native Writers Circle and of the Whitenoise Reading Series community.
ABOUT KELLY AKASHI
Kelly Akashi: Formations is organized by the San José Museum of Art and curated by Lauren Schell Dickens, Chief Curator. The presentation at the Frye Art Museum is organized by Amanda Donnan, Chief Curator and Director of Exhibitions.
Major support for Kelly Akashi: Formations provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Fellows of Contemporary Art. Generous support for the Frye’s installation provided by the City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, the Frye Foundation, and Frye Members. Media sponsorship provided by The Stranger.
SKYLER REED
MOVED BY WORDS
