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Pop-up: Los Porteños presents Cindy Williams Gutiérrez & Juan Antonio Trujillo

Sat, Nov 5, 2022 from 3:00 pm - 3:20 pm PDT

General Admission Pass required for entry

Cindy Williams Gutiérrez & Juan Antonio Trujillo pop-up in the Portland Art Museum galleries.

Williams Gutiérrez and Trujillo are paired with the artwork For the Love by Isaka Shamsud-Din; found in the Northwest Art gallery, on the 3rd floor of the Portland Art Museum. Please reference the Portland Art Museum Map or the Portland Book Festival print program to find this location.


Los Porteños is a well of Latinx writers dedicated to raising their voices in the Portland community and to raising awareness of their diverse languages, canons, stories, and cultures.


Portland Book Festival General Admission Passes are required for entry into all events. Passes are $15 in advance and $25 day of Festival. Youth 17 & under, or with a valid high school ID get in FREE. All full-priced General Admission Passes include a $5 book fair voucher and entry into Portland Art Museum. Passes admit attendees to the Festival; individual events are first-come, first-served. More info here.

Cindy Williams Gutiérrez

Poet-dramatist Cindy Williams Gutiérrez was awarded the 2018 Willow Books Editor’s Choice Poetry Selection and a 2016 Oregon Literary Fellowship for Inlay with Nacre: The Names of Forgotten Women. Cindy was selected by Poets & Writers Magazine as a 2014 Notable Debut Poet for the small claim of bones (Bilingual Press), which placed second in the 2015 International Latino Book Awards. Her choreopoem In the Name of Forgotten Women recently enjoyed a sold-out run at CoHo. She received the 2017 Oregon Book Award for Drama for Words That Burn which premiered at Portland’s Milagro and was presented at the Linkville Playhouse in Klamath Falls.
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Juan Antonio Trujillo

Juan Antonio Trujillo (he/him, él in Spanish) is an independent scholar and artist whose autoethnographic exploration of intersectional queer and Latinx identities encompasses academic and creative writing in Spanish and English, photography, and experimental nonfiction film. A linguist by training, Juan Antonio’s work reflects deep curiosity about non-verbal languages we create around complex marginalized identities and desires. His creative writing has appeared in Feminist Formations and the Headcase anthology on queer mental health, and his short nonfiction film Topografías Eróticas exploring his own erotic geography within Portland’s queer spaces screened at Ethnografilm 2022 in Paris.
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