Reimagining Progress: The Power of Word

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As part of the public programming series for the exhibition Reimagining Progress: Production, Consumption, and Alternative Economies, the Brower Center and Acentos West will host an evening full of poetry, music, art, and inspiration. Fourteen acclaimed poets from across the U.S. will read their work addressing environmental health, social justice, and the notion of progress.

Poets include: four-time National Poetry Slam champion Patricia Smith, Oakland-based Culture Shift Fellow Josh Healey, Pushcart Prize nominee and two-time New York Foundation for the Arts fellow Willie Perdomo, BE BEAUTIFUL PROJECT Founder Denise Jolly, and Berkeley Grand Slam Champion Katelyn Lucas, as well as poetry luminaries Jason Bayani, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Paul Flores, Sandra Garcia Rivera, Javier O. Huerta, Raina J. Léon, Sonya Renee Taylor, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, and Alex Ustach. Music will be provided by DJ Dion Decibels and the Erik Jekabson Quartet, and Charles Ekabumi Ellik will showcase his recent artwork. Complimentary bites will be provided by The Mixing Bowl.

About Reimagining Progress
May 22-September 4, the David Brower Center presents Reimagining Progress, its third annual juried exhibition of works by San Francisco Bay Area artists. Selected from over 400 submissions, Reimagining Progress features 18 local artists powerfully critiquing our unsustainable status quo, exploring our society’s relationship to production, consumption, and waste while proposing alternatives that balance valuing people and planet with financial profit.

About Acentos
Founded in spring 2003, Acentos is a community-based organization fostering audiences for Latino/a literature through the discussion, promotion, teaching, performance, and publication of work by Latina and Latino writers. In its various incarnations, it has been a reading series (Acentos Bronx Poetry Showcase), a foundation (The Acentos Foundation), an online journal (The Acentos Review), and a poetry workshop (The Acentos Workshops).

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