October grantee programs

Autumn Moon Festival – “Where are you from?”
Saturday, October 7
6:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Tucson Chinese Cultural Center – Tucson, AZ

Celebrate diversity and fight stereotypes under the Autumn Moon. The program features Asian Pacific American storytellers from around Tucson and is in collaboration with the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum – Arizona Chapter, and the South Mountain Community College Storytelling Institute. Enjoy light refreshments and mooncakes immediately following the conclusion of the program.

Women on th e Mother Road in Arizona: Route 66 

Thursday, October 12

6:00 p.m.

Museum of Northern Arizona – Flagstaff, AZ

Saturday, October 14

1:00 p.m.

Mohave Museum of History and Arts – Kingman, AZ

Called the “Mother Road” by author John Steinbeck, the iconic U.S. Route 66 stretches some 2,400 miles from Los Angeles to Chicago, and is symbolic of the mobility available to Americans, and an iconic highway for many travelers. Yet much of the historical perspective of the highway that passes through Arizona has primarily focused on men, often overlooking the experiences of women and girls. Please join us for a screening and conversation with project director Katrina Parks, historians Heidi Osselaer and Olivia Charest, and archivist Sean Evans, on Route 66 from a female perspective.

For more information contact filmmaker Katrina Parks atkatrinaparks@mac.com.

	Editors Dawn Lundy Martin and Erica Hunt

Kore Press Letters to the Future: Black WOMEN /Radical WRITING
Reading and Discussion at Thinking its Presence
Friday, October 20

2:00 p.m.
UA Poetry Center – Tucson Arizona

In October, Kore Press will host a series of community engagement events based on the forthcoming anthology “Letters to the Future: Black WOMEN / Radical WRITING.” This series will explore the formal and linguistically innovative late-modern and contemporary work by Black women from the United States, England, Canada, and the Caribbean.

Read more about Kore Press and the Thinking its Presence Conference.