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SUMMARY:First Friday Art and Studio Stroll: PROUD
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-6/
LOCATION:Surel Mitchell Live-Work-Create District\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, Idaho\, 83714
CATEGORIES:Community Participation,Installations,Open Studios,Special Event
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SUMMARY:READING: Poetry and Pints
DESCRIPTION:READINGPOETRY AND PINTSTuesday\, June 10th  |  6:30pm \n\n\n\nat Oldspeak: 3640 W Chinden Blvd in Garden City \n\n\n\n21+ \n\n\n\nDonate to attend \n\n\n\nSpecial Event: Poetry and Pints \n\n\n\nSurel’s Place is partnering with The Lit Room and gaining special access to Oldspeak on Tuesday\, June 10th at 6:30pm for a private poetry reading from our next artist-in-residence Ivy Raff. Cozy up with a pint of Alliteration Beer (or other NA offerings) and absorb Ivy’s readings from both published and unpublished work in English and Spanish.  \n\n\n\nIvy will be reading from her book Rooted and Reduced to Dust published just last year from Finish Line Press. The book is included in some of the donation levels and Ivy will be available to sign them at the reading.  She will also read from What Remains / Que queda\, a bilingual English/Spanish collection that won the Alberola International Poetry Prize with publication pending. The reading will be followed by a discussion led by The Lit Room’s Cristina Houston. \n\n\n\nHeaven and earth conspire that everything which has been\, be rooted and reduced to dust. \n\n\n\n-Isaac Bashevis Singer \n\n\n\nSo begins Ivy Raff‘s debut poetry chapbook\, which plumbs the depths of movement\, of growth: from one generation to the next\, from Eastern Europe across America\, from sickness to health.  With braided fearlessness and vulnerability\, Raff bridges the past with the heartbreaking tenderness of today. \n\n\n\nObservant\, challenging\, sensuous\, glowing with an undercarriage of mystique\, Raff’s poems are torsos that twist to embrace the universe.  Every muscled line is taut\, knowing its desire and how to hold what it loves in its arms. \n\n\n\n–Jimmy Santiago Baca\, American Book Award-winning author of Martin and Meditations on the South Valley  \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-poetry-and-pints/
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Writing from the Bottom of the Mind
DESCRIPTION:In this full-day generative writing workshop\, Artist-in-Residence Ivy Raff guides participants to learn or hone the Zen approach to writing as instructed by Natalie Goldberg. With the primary objective of clearing mental clutter and writing from “the bottom of the mind\,” students will first learn the simple and effective concepts of Zen writing practice. We intersperse guided sitting and walking meditations with timed\, prompted writings in pairs. We reconvene the full group to read and listen uncritically to each other’s work. \n\n\n\nOpen to all levels of writers and aspiring writers. Newly-published or prolific\, casual\, or committed\, those who write only in private journals or carefully-crafted work emails…this workshop is perfect for anyone curious about expressing themself with the written word. \n\n\n\nMaterials.  Minimal.  Bring a notebook and fast-writing pen. A cushion for sitting meditation is optional and recommended. Select a boxed lunch from Roots as an add-on or bring your own.  \n\n\n\nWorkshop Schedule: \n\n\n\n\n11:00-11:30 AM – Welcome and introductions. How did you come to be here?\n\n\n\n11:30-11:45 AM – Explanation of Zen writing practice concepts\n\n\n\n11:45 AM-12:15 PM – Guided seated meditation\n\n\n\n12:15-1:15 PM – Break into pairs for a series of short timed writings\n\n\n\n1:15-1:45 PM – Lunch (Add-on available for a box lunch from Roots Zero Waste Market)\n\n\n\n1:45-2:45 PM – Full group reading/listening to each other’s work\n\n\n\n2:45-3:00 PM – Remarks and closing\n\n\n\n\nOptional Extension (available in add-ons for $20 after you register) \n\n\n\n\n3:00-4:00PM – Guided walking meditation on Boise River Greenbelt\n\n\n\n4:00-4:45 PM – Break into pairs for short timed writings\n\n\n\n4:45-5:45 PM – Full group reading/listening to each other’s work\n\n\n\n5:45-6:00 PM – Closing meditation and remarks\n\n\n\n\nPartial Scholarships available upon request to info@surelsplace.org  \n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE \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-from-the-bottom-of-the-mind/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Reading: WATER EYE
DESCRIPTION:The central focus of Ivy Raff’s residency at Surel’s Place has been revisions to her third poetry collection. The titular poem and others meditate on the slower\, more internal movements – like the small water that drips on a boulder for centuries before cracking it – that define our evolving relationship to family and community\, to individual and cultural bodies that live and die out. Much of the “source material” for these pieces root in her own experiences balancing her feminism and pro-Palestine activism with her Eastern European Jewish heritage and identity. Still\, the questions with which this work grapples are cross-cultural. How can those of us who are more of a pariah at home than in the world outside of it find belonging in the communities we forge? The answers loop through lifetimes; our personal struggles are indeed personal\, but not unprecedented. What can our culture’s forgotten past feed us\, when its present seems ill-fit? How can we name ourselves as part of its future? \n\n\n\nBIOGRAPHY  \n\n\n\nAfter writing poetry privately for two decades\, in 2021 Ivy Raff (Queens\, New York) left a long career in technology and public policy to focus solely on writing. Since then\, she’s written two poetry collections: Rooted and Reduced to Dust and What Remains/Que Queda\, a bilingual English/Spanish translation which won 2nd place in the Dolors Alberola International Poetry Prize. Her heritage threads through her poetry. The two collections explore how a Bolshevik-influenced Jewish immigrant family in Amerika moves across time. Their granddaughter is a pro-woman\, pro-Palestine writer working with complex individual and cultural histories of trauma\, abuse\, and healing. \n\n\n\nHer individual poems and translations have been published in such noted literary spaces as Ninth Letter\, International Poetry Review\, Electric Literature\, Atlanta Review\, and Aesthetica Creative Writing Award Annual\, among numerous others. Ivy serves creative communities as the Senior Systems Project Manager at MacDowell\, the United States’ first artist residency\, and as a member of the editorial staff at Seventh Wave Magazine. \n\n\n\nIvy holds an MPA in public policy from the City University of New York at Baruch College and a double Bachelors in economics and psychology from Fordham University.  She lives in Morelos\, Mexico with her partner\, the novelist and human rights attorney Jorge Ríos. \n\n\n\nThis programming is supported in part by Creative West and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:SUREL’S PLACE GARDEN PARTY FEATURING ANDREW NEMR
DESCRIPTION:SUMMER FUNDRAISING EVENTSUREL’S PLACE GARDEN PARTY FEATURING ANDREW NEMRSaturday\, June 28th \n\n\n\n6:00pm$145  |  Dinner + Wine + Show8:00pm$45  |  Show \n\n\n\nat Surel’s Place: 212 E. 33rd Street in Garden City \n\n\n\nSurel’s Place is honored to host Artist-in-Residence Alumnus ANDREW NEMR (2015) accompanied by local musician Justin Nielsen for an early summer evening performance in the back garden of Surel’s Place. Join us for a world-class tap dance performance or make it a combo – with dinner featuring delicious Puerto Rican food from our neighbors at Wepa and wine by Proletariat Wine Company. Summer in the back garden at Surel’s Place is always magical\, so we hope you’ll join us for this special performance. \n\n\n\nBIOGRAPHY \n\n\n\nMentored by Gregory Hines\, Andrew Nemr is an international artist\, teacher\, and speaker. His work has crossed music\, dance\, theatre\, film\, and the visual arts\, exploring art as a vehicle for storytelling and community building. Described as “A masterly tapper” by The New York Times\, Andrew is recorded on the Grammy nominated recording Itsbynne Reel by Dave Eggar\, and is the co-founder of the Tap Legacy(tM) Foundation\, Inc. (along with Hines.) Andrew’s work has been recognized with numerous awards\, grants\, fellowships\, and commissions and is the topic of the award-winning documentary short film Identity: The Andrew Nemr Story. He writes regularly at The Notes with Andrew Nemr and considers his highest personal achievement his ability to wiggle his ears. \n\n\n\nThank you to our generous sponsors for this event: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThank you to our generous garden sponsors: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGarden Party Digital ProgramDownload
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/surels-place-garden-party-featuring-andrew-nemr/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
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