Poetry Workshop with Sherwin Bitsui hosted by Thin Air- NAU Literary Magazine
5:30-7:00pm
Registration required. Visit: https://coconinoarts.org/event/thin-air-nau-literary-magazine-poetry-workshop/
Sherwin Bitsui is the author of three collections of poetry, Dissolve, Flood Song, and Shapeshift. He is the recipient of a Whiting Award, an American Book Award, and the PEN Book Award. His poems have appeared in Narrative, Black Renaissance Noir, American Poet, The Iowa Review, LIT, and elsewhere. He is Diné of the Todích’ii’nii (Bitter Water Clan), born for the Tlizílaaní (Many Goats Clan), and has received fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and the Native Arts & Culture Foundation.
To register, visit: https://act.sierraclub.org/events/details?formcampaignid=701Po00001DfUwbIAF&mapLinkHref=https://maps.google.com/maps&daddr=Hike%20Red%20Butte@35.81693,-112.100986
Join the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter in hiking Red Butte within Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni National Monument. We will be discussing threats to the national monument, uranium mining concerns, viewing Pinyon Plain Uranium mine from afar, and exploring how people can get involved in defending this land!
Please review this description of the hike to be sure it is within your abilities. Red Butte Trail, Arizona - 248 Reviews, Map | AllTrails
Organizers:Mattea Goetz mattea.goetz@sierraclub.org, Sandy Bahr sandy.bahr@sierraclub.org
Rethinking Thanksgiving Annual Webinar
“Colonialism is the Problem, Solidarity is the Answer”
Sunday, November 23
4pm ET / 1pm PT
ASL, Spanish Interpretation & live captions in English
Register here
Our friends and partners are once again hosting “Rethinking Thanksgiving,” an event in which both Indigenous organizers and non-Native comrades speak about our current context and the work in the struggle toward decolonization, resilience and repair, from Palestine to Turtle Island to Aotearoa.
What is Sacred land to you? Session 1
December 3 & 10 (Please plan to be at both sessions)
6:00-7:30pm More information and registration at: bit.ly/writingwkshp
Explore your spiritual connection to the more-than-human world through community writing and sharing. Join us for two consecutive sessions of a decolonial writing workshop. We will write silently together, share in small groups with guided compassionate feedback, and reflect together on the process of engaging with the living world through writing. Free event! No writing experience needed! Bring a pen/pencil and a notebook/journal.
Our workshop will include time for meditation, quiet time writing together in response to offered prompts, and sharing in small groups what we've written with guided compassionate feedback. We will then spend a week between the two sessions journaling based on our observations and interactions with the more-than-human world and come together again for sharing and a discussion of our personal and spiritual insights that arise through the writing/journaling process.
Brought to you by Sacred Land Alliance and Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter.
What is Sacred land to you? Session 2
December 3 & 10 (Please plan to be at both sessions)
6:00-7:30pm More information and registration at: bit.ly/writingwkshp
Explore your spiritual connection to the more-than-human world through community writing and sharing. Join us for two consecutive sessions of a decolonial writing workshop. We will write silently together, share in small groups with guided compassionate feedback, and reflect together on the process of engaging with the living world through writing. Free event! No writing experience needed! Bring a pen/pencil and a notebook/journal.
Our workshop will include time for meditation, quiet time writing together in response to offered prompts, and sharing in small groups what we've written with guided compassionate feedback. We will then spend a week between the two sessions journaling based on our observations and interactions with the more-than-human world and come together again for sharing and a discussion of our personal and spiritual insights that arise through the writing/journaling process.
Coconino Center for the Arts (2300 North Fort Valley Road)
Stop the Mines! A conversation with Berta Benally 6pm
Sihasin concert 7:30pm
To learn more, visit: https://coconinoarts.org/exhibitions/shifting-topographies-extracting-the-landscape/
For more information, visit: https://coconinoarts.org/exhibitions/shifting-topographies-extracting-the-landscape/
SHIFTING TOPOGRAPHIES: Extracting the Landscape features projects by Carol Hartman (Red Lodge, MT), Jeff Schmuki (Stateboro, GA), and Klee Benally in memoriam (Diné, Black Mesa, Navajo Nation; Flagstaff, AZ). In a rapidly changing climate, we are witness to and complicit in irreversible scarring of the land. There are eight National Parks and Monuments within a 2-hour drive of Flagstaff that face potential threats to their preservation, due to the proposed federal reopening of protected sacred lands to mining. This timely and relevant exhibition theme—extraction—takes on a markedly different approach depending on the geographical and cultural perspectives of the represented artists. Hartman’s large-scale abstract paintings respond to the many phases of oil drilling and the environmental impact of fracking in the western U.S. Schmuki’s ceramic tableaus combine locally sourced clay and discarded porcelain figurines with glazes containing mine tailings and lithium oxide to portray the broader environmental impacts of mining including air, land, and water contamination along with deforestation and wildlife disruption. The late Klee Benally dedicated his unfortunately brief life to art and activism that expose the impact of uranium mining and waste on regional Indigenous communities. Benally’s work includes video projection mapping, banners, and activist performance that expose the degradation to the regional landscape and disproportionate impact on tribal communities.
Shifting Topographies: Extracting the Landscape, closing reception & discussion with Tó Nizhóní Ání.
To learn more, vist: https://coconinoarts.org/exhibitions/shifting-topographies-extracting-the-landscape/
Tó Nizhóní Ání, which we translate as “Sacred Water Speaks,” is a Diné-led nonprofit organization established in 2001. Our organization originates from the Big Mountain community on Dził Yíjiin (the Black Mesa region). It was formed in the spirit of the Diné elders who fought to protect Black Mesa.
