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Inheritance: Ingrid Rojas Contreras & Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe
General Admission Pass required for entry
Captivating new memoirs exploring ancestry, art, and inheritance. Moderated by Rebecca Hoogs.
In The Man Who Could Move Clouds, a finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction, Ingrid Rojas Contreras interweaves family stories more enchanting than those in any novel, resurrected Colombian history, and her own deeply personal reckonings with the bounds of reality, Rojas Contreras writes her way through the incomprehensible and into her inheritance. The result is a luminous testament to the power of storytelling as a healing art and an invitation to embrace the extraordinary.
In Red Paint, Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices of the women in her lineage in this bold, contemporary journey to reclaim her heritage and unleash her power and voice while searching for a permanent home. Examining what it means to be vulnerable in love and in art, Sasha offers up an unblinking reckoning with personal traumas amplified by the collective historical traumas of colonialism and genocide that continue to haunt native peoples.
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