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Outside the System: using blackout poetry to explore the relationship between motherhood, money, and capitalism
When: February 5, 2022 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am Where: Parable Tacoma, 3502 McKinley Ave, Suite A, Tacoma, WA 98404 Creative Colloquy presents The Writer’s Workshop Series Outside the System: Using blackout poetry to explore the relationship between motherhood, money, and capitalism with Christina Vega In this workshop, we’ll explore motherhood (as the non-gendered…
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Reflecting Our Whole Selves: a poetry workshop with Lydia K. Valentine
When: January 15, 2022 @ 11:00 am – 12:15 pm Where: VIRTUAL EVENT Standing in our complete intersectional truth is an act of resilience and resistance that is a part of self-care. Join Lydia K. Valentine, a Black autistic woman who lives with situational mutism, ADHD, anxiety, depression,[…]
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We Need a Reckoning Book Launch & Celebration
When: December 30, 2021 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Where: VIRTUAL EVENT Join Blue Cactus Press in celebrating the publication of We Need a Reckoning, an anthology of creative writing by women and non-binary people of color of the greater Tacoma area! We’re celebrating the arrival of[…]
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Creative Colloquy Crawl: 2021
When: October 10, 2021 @ 7:00 pm – October 12, 2021 @ 8:30 pm Where: VIRTUAL EVENT Traditionally our annual Crawl is a large scale literary event featuring dozens of wordsmiths and storytellers bridging genres and generations, demographics and experience levels. Due to Covid, this years festivities will be ONLINE and will[…]
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Arts at the Armory
When: October 17, 2021 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm Where: Tacoma Armory, 1001 South Yakima, Tacoma, WA 98405 90 Tacoma artists, working in all artistic disciplines and mediums, welcome you to the spacious Tacoma Armory for a unique interactive arts experience. Artists will be sharing their work and you will have an opportunity[…]
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Red Earth Book Launch & Reading
When: November 3, 2021 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Where: VIRTUAL EVENT Join Blue Cactus Press in congratulating author Esther Vincent Xueming on the publication of her debut poetry collection, Red Earth! The event will kick off with a few words from the publishers of Blue Cactus[…]
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Seismic Shift: a poetry workshop on giving voice to tremors of change
When: October 30, 2021 @ 11:00 am – 12:15 pm Where: VIRTUAL EVENT Join Blue Cactus Press for “Seismic Shift: a poetry workshop on giving voice to tremors of change” on October 30th @ 11AM, facilitated by BCP author and educator Gina Hietpas. The workshop will be virtual[…]
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Moss Covered Claws *Live*
When: September 12, 2021 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Where: Barn by the Pond, 4224 Johnson Point Rd NE, Olympia, WA 98516-2608 Blue Cactus Press is proud to announce a free, one-night only event in collaboration with Olympia author Jonah Barrett and the String and Shadow puppetry theater: Moss Covered Claws Live! A hybrid…
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Green River Valley Virtual Book Launch
When: June 11, 2021 @ 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm Where: VIRTUAL EVENT Join Blue Cactus Press in celebrating the publication of Robert Lashley’s newest poetry collection, Green River Valley, on June 11th! We’re excited to host this virtual book launch for such a talented, loyal, hardworking poet[…]
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Entangled Empathy”: Ecofeminism And the Intersectional Self in Poetry
When: June 17, 2021 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Where: VIRTUAL EVENT Blue Cactus Press invites you to participate in a FREE, virtual poetry workshop facilitated by BCP author Esther Vincent Xueming on June 17, 2021, at 7 PM (PST). In this workshop, we will examine Gaard’s[…]
