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Thursday, December 3, 7:00 pm

Presented By: Catamount Arts

Thursday, December 3, 7:00 pm

Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Join 560 Railroad Community Artist Ching-In Chen to experience Breathing in a Time of Disaster, a community-based performance, installation and speculative writing project exploring breath through meditation, health and environmental justice and imagining alternative stories for our shared airways and surrounding environments.

Admission: Free. Space is limited so please reserve a spot by clicking the “Find Tickets” button.

Donations are gratefully accepted. Supported in part by a grant from the Vermont Community Foundation.

Ching-In Chen is author of Shiny City, recombinant (2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry) and The Heart’s Traffic: a novel in poems as well as chapbooks to make black paper sing and Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters (Leslie Scalapino Finalist). Chen is co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities. They are a Kelsey Street Press collective member, Airlie Press editor and Nonfiction Coordinator for Best of the Net. They serve on the Governing Council of Seattle’s Cultural Space Agency, on the board of Seattle City of Literature and as the Pacific Northwest chapter co-lead for Kundiman and on the national Kundiman board. They collaborate on Breathing in a Time of Disaster, a performance, installation and speculative writing project exploring breath through meditation and environmental justice. They teach in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and the MFA program in Creative Writing and Poetics at the University of Washington Bothell.