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Growing in Place Artists Talk
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ONSITE | Friday, March 15, 5 - 6:30 p.m.
Instructors: Mildred K. Barya, Susan Patrice
Free | Suggested Donation $12
Limit: 30
How does place shape who we are? How do our encounters with our more-than-human "kin" change our fundamental understanding of belonging to a place rather than a place existing for us? A number of paradigms governing our views of nature haven been shifting in recent years, and we have a deeper appreciation for how humans are but one part of a vast, interconnected network. Join us for this generous evening with two artists exploring ideas of identity, interdependence, and place, setting the tone for a weekend of generative writing and contemplative photography workshops at the Arboretum. Poet Mildred Barya will read from her most recent poetry collection The Animals of My Earth School and from her recent essay “Rituals of Home.” Photographer Susan Patrice will share images from the Enveloping Landscape series and other projects that show loving eyes focusing on the lands we steward.
Susan Patrice is a documentary photographer, community artist, and founder of Makers Circle. She recently launched Kinship Photography Collective, a global community of practice designed to create rich visual conversations that explore the intimate connections between nature, culture and belonging. Susan's own photography and public installations focus primarily on the Southern Landscape and its people and feature intimate images that touch deeply into the questions of place, gender, and belonging. www.susanpatrice.com
Mildred K. Barya is a North Carolina-based writer and poet of East African descent. She teaches and lectures globally, and is the author of four full-length poetry collections, most recently The Animals of My Earth School published by Terrapin Books, 2023. Her prose, hybrids, and poems have appeared in New England Review, Shenandoah, Joyland, The Cincinnati Review, Tin House, Forge, and elsewhere. Her essay, “Being Here in This Body,” won the 2020 Linda Flowers Literary Award and is published in the North Carolina Literary Review. She serves on the boards of African Writers Trust, Story Parlor, and coordinates the Poetrio Reading events at Malaprop’s Independent Bookstore/Café. She blogs here: www.mildredbarya.com
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