Working The Ancient Technologies: a night of poetry and ritual
Thu, Oct 31
|Seattle
Join us on Samhain/Halloween for a night of poetry and ritual featuring: Ching-In Chen, Meredith Quartermain, Jami Macarty, and CA Conrad
Time & Location
Oct 31, 2024, 7:00 PM
Seattle, 1634 11th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122, USA
About the event
The Cascadia Poetry Festival will be in town Nov 1-3 (buy tickets and get details at the Cascadia Poetics Lab website), and we've managed to snag a few of the performers to join us on October 31 at Hugo House for a night of poetry and rituals to ward off the many INTRUSIONS that keep us from being present and in our bodies, whether that be the circus show of a US Presidential election, the ongoing genocide on the other side of the world, or the endless string of snake oil cures, anti-culture War soapboxes, and faux life "hacks" that the artificial stupidity of Silicone Valley lobs at your attention every minute of the day.
US Halloween, while it can be a fun time to let off steam and play with identity, has appropriated and de-contextualized some of the practices of indigenous and other pagan cultures from around the globe.…