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SUMMARY:First Friday Art and Studio Stroll
DESCRIPTION:Garden City’s Surel L. Mitchell Live-Work-Create District is bustling with artists\, artisans\, and creative\, artisanal businesses. Come to our neighborhood on the river as much as you can\, but especially during our First Friday Art & Studio Stroll. You’ll find many locations open during the event\, including artist studios\, restaurants\, and businesses featuring art events. In addition\, there will be special events at many locations\, including exhibits\, readings\, and performances. \n\n\n\nMore information about the next First Friday\, is available at The LWC District First Friday Event Page on Facebook. \n\n\n\nSee below to view an interactive Google map of the First Friday participating venues.
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/first-friday-art-and-studio-stroll-5/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reading: Amanda Machado
DESCRIPTION:READINGAMANDA MACHADOThursday\, April 17th  |  7:00pm \n\n\n\nfree  |  venue is ages 21+rsvp at surelsplace.ludus.com \n\n\n\nat Oldspeak Bar: 3640 W. Chinden Boulevard in Garden City \n\n\n\nCome join us for an intimate evening with the current writer-in-residence at Surel’s Place – the talented author Amanda Machado at Oldspeak Bar. Amanda will be reading from one of their acclaimed essays followed by a discussion led by Cristina Houston. Amanda’s work has been published in The Atlantic\, Guernica\, The Washington Post\, Adroit Journal\, Slate\, The Guardian\, Sierra Magazine\, among many others outlets. In addition to their essay writing\, Amanda also is a public speaker and workshop facilitator on issues of justice and anti-oppression for organizations around the world. This is a unique opportunity to meet the author in person! Don’t miss out on this special event – mark your calendars now!BIOGRAPHY \n\n\n\nIn nearly a decade of their work\, Amanda Machado (CA) has focused on writing stories about travel\, outdoor adventure\, and sexuality that center the experiences of queer people and women of color. Recognizing the common erasure of those stories\, she has aimed to use her work\, as writer Matthew Salesses wrote\, to “take responsibility for absence.” \n\n\n\nAs a queer daughter of immigrants from Mexico and Ecuador\, Amanda has always felt split between many places. “I write stories that show how those of us — children of immigrants and displaced people\, queers\, gender-expansive folks — who grow up with our first experiences of home and desire and identity expanding past binaries\, ultimately become the kind of people who want to take in the world intimately\, who view travel as something we naturally must do.” \n\n\n\nAmanda has a BA in English Literature/Nonfiction from Brown University. In addition to their essay writing\, Amanda also is a public speaker and workshop facilitator on issues of justice and anti-oppression for organizations around the world. She is also the founder of Reclaiming Nature Writing\, a multi-week online workshop that centers the experiences of people of color in how we tell stories about the outdoors. \n\n\n\nThis programming is supported in part by Creative West and the National Endowment for the Arts.
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/reading-amanda-machado/
LOCATION:Oldspeak Bar\, 3640 W Chinden Blvd\, Garden City\, Idaho\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Writing Immigrant Queerness
DESCRIPTION:WORKSHOPWRITING IMMIGRANT QUEERNESSSaturday\, April 19th  |  1:00pm – 4:00pm \n\n\n\n$25 : Surel’s Place Sustaining Members$35 : General Workshop RegistrationPartial scholarships available on request to info@surelplace.org. \n\n\n\nPeople of color encouraged to attend\, but writers of all backgrounds and levels welcome. \n\n\n\nMax participants: 20 \n\n\n\nAges 15 & up \n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE \n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION  \n\n\n\nHow do you create a life you’ve never seen before\, and how do you trust that it honors those before you? In this workshop\, writer-in-residence Amanda Machado explores how queer writers and writers of color have used writing as a tool to define the future they desired but could not yet create. In particular\, the class will focus on writing from queer people of color from immigrant families. Through the inspiration of work from Audre Lorde\, Daisy Hernandez\, Ocean Vuong and others\, together we’ll write on prompts that help unearth stories about how queerness and the immigrant experience help us think differently about desire\, respectability\, “the American Dream\,” and family legacy. \n\n\n\nBIOGRAPHY \n\n\n\nIn nearly a decade of their work\, Amanda Machado (CA) has focused on writing stories about travel\, outdoor adventure\, and sexuality that center the experiences of queer people and women of color. Recognizing the common erasure of those stories\, she has aimed to use her work\, as writer Matthew Salesses wrote\, to “take responsibility for absence.” \n\n\n\nAs a queer daughter of immigrants from Mexico and Ecuador\, Amanda has always felt split between many places. “I write stories that show how those of us — children of immigrants and displaced people\, queers\, gender-expansive folks — who grow up with our first experiences of home and desire and identity expanding past binaries\, ultimately become the kind of people who want to take in the world intimately\, who view travel as something we naturally must do.” In this next chapter of their work\, she also wants to write more directly about the link between ancestry\, colonization and travel\, how women have used travel to gain agency over their own bodies\, escape violence\, create refuge for themselves\, and redefine who they are.  \n\n\n\nAmanda has a BA in English Literature/Nonfiction from Brown University. Their work has been published in The Atlantic\, Guernica\, The Washington Post\, Adroit Journal\, Slate\, The Guardian\, Sierra Magazine\, among many others outlets.  In addition to their essay writing\, Amanda also is a public speaker and workshop facilitator on issues of justice and anti-oppression for organizations around the world. She is also the founder of Reclaiming Nature Writing\, a multi-week online workshop that centers the experiences of people of color in how we tell stories about the outdoors. \n\n\n\nThis programming is supported in part by Creative West and the National Endowment for the Arts.
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/workshop-writing-immigrant-queerness/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reading: Lineages of Non Consent and Lineages of Pleasure
DESCRIPTION:AIR Amanda Machado will read excerpts from essays and a book project that explore how sexuality and desire connects her to the women of her lineage. In this project\, she explores both the lineage of non consent in her family\, as well as lineages of pleasure\, and the queer elements of all immigrant woman narratives when we think of queerness as an act of bodily autonomy\, rather than only a sexual orientation.  \n\n\n\nThese essays meditate on the question: How do you create a life you’ve never seen before\, and how do you trust that it honors those before you? \n\n\n\nThis programming is supported in part by Creative West and the National Endowment for the Arts.
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/reading-lineages-of-non-consent-and-lineages-of-pleasure/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
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SUMMARY:Flash Show: Body and Devotion
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Maiyan Linane\, Ashley Larson\, Kamryn Rose\, and Michael Candelaria.This Flash Show is in collaboration with Backyard Artists. Backyard Artists empowers emerging artists in Idaho’s Treasure Valley by providing professional opportunities through community-driven exhibitions\, literary events\, project grants\, and strategic partnerships. \n\n\n\nSchedule:Friday\, April 25\, Opening Reception\, 6pm – 8:30pmSaturday\, April 26\, Gallery Hours\, 12pm – 4pmSunday\, April 27\, Gallery Hours\, 12pm – 4pm
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/flash-show-body-and-devotion/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Flash Show: Body and Devotion
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Maiyan Linane\, Ashley Larson\, Kamryn Rose\, and Michael Candelaria. \n\n\n\nThis Flash Show is in collaboration with Backyard Artists. Backyard Artists empowers emerging artists in Idaho’s Treasure Valley by providing professional opportunities through community-driven exhibitions\, literary events\, project grants\, and strategic partnerships. \n\n\n\nSchedule:Friday\, April 25\, Opening Reception\, 6pm – 8:30pmSaturday\, April 26\, Gallery Hours\, 12pm – 4pmSunday\, April 27\, Gallery Hours\, 12pm – 4pm
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/flash-show-body-and-devotion-2/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
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SUMMARY:Flash Show: Body and Devotion
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Maiyan Linane\, Ashley Larson\, Kamryn Rose\, and Michael Candelaria. \n\n\n\nThis Flash Show is in collaboration with Backyard Artists. Backyard Artists empowers emerging artists in Idaho’s Treasure Valley by providing professional opportunities through community-driven exhibitions\, literary events\, project grants\, and strategic partnerships. \n\n\n\nSchedule:Friday\, April 25\, Opening Reception\, 6pm – 8:30pmSaturday\, April 26\, Gallery Hours\, 12pm – 4pmSunday\, April 27\, Gallery Hours\, 12pm – 4pm
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/flash-show-body-and-devotion-3/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
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SUMMARY:BFF Block Party for Idaho Gives
DESCRIPTION:IDAHO GIVES EVENT \n\n\n\nBFF BLOCK PARTY \n\n\n\nTuesday\, April 29th  |  4:00pm – 8:00pm \n\n\n\nat Lost Grove Brewing: 1026 S. La Pointe St. in Boise \n\n\n\nCome to Lost Grove Brewing in the Lusk District for the 7th Annual BFF Block Party for Idaho Gives. Surel’s Place will be there along with dozens of other Treasure Valley nonprofits. Lost Grove Brewing is donating the money from all beer sales to the Idaho Nonprofit Center\, helping fund future scholarships. Boise Rock School will be showcasing their talents on the stage all evening long. Come have a pint while celebrating community and the good work nonprofits are doing.
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/bff-block-party-for-idaho-gives/
CATEGORIES:Community Participation,Special Event
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