Excavating the Boneyards
Conversation will last 45 minutes to 1 hour, after the performance of Degenerate Art Ensemble’s Skeleton Flower
Friday, June 17, 9:20pm
Following Friday night's performance, award-winning poet and artist Shin Yu Pai will lead a post-show conversation with Haruko Crow Nishimura and Joshua Kohl. Together, they'll engage in conversations about the healing and transformational possibilities of storytelling and a mutual appreciation for fairy tales and folk stories. Along the way, they'll talk about recovering the creative voice in the face of intergenerational trauma, racism, sexism and social inequality, to make a space that protects, values, and nurtures imagination, wildness, and joy for all.
Shin Yu Pai is the author of eleven books, including most recently Virga (Empty Bowl, 2021). In 2020, Entre Rios Books published Ensō, a 20-year survey of her work across creative disciplines including photography, book arts, public art, performance, personal essay and poetry. From 2015 to 2017, Shin Yu served as the Poet Laureate of The City of Redmond. She is a 2022 Artist Trust Fellow and was shortlisted in 2014 for a Stranger Genius Award in Literature. Her essays have appeared in Atlas Obscura, Gastronomica, ANMLY, Off Assignment, Zocalo Public Square, Tricycle, YES! Magazine, Seattle Met, and South Seattle Emerald. Her poetry films have screened at The Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin and Northwest Film Forum. Shin Yu is a three-time fellow of MacDowell and has been an artist in residence at Taipei Artist Village, Centrum, The Ragdale Foundation, and The Pacific Science Center. She hosts, writes, and produces The Blue Suit, a podcast for KUOW on Asian American stories that will launch in July 2022. She is represented by The Speakeasy Bureau.
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