Talakayan at Kapehan: The Power of the Written Word

Please join us for our next event in the Talakayan at Kapehan Series: The Power of the Written Word, cosponsored by NAFCON Portland and Whitenoise Project!

Did you know Clark County, WA, has a Filipino American Poet Laureate?

What is the tradition of our poets making art and building community in the Philippines and the diaspora, and why weren’t we taught about them in schools?

Join NAFCON Oregon and Whitenoise Project as we celebrate National Poetry Month, exploring these questions with local writers Armin Tolentino and Abigail Licad.

Our second #NAFCONTAK event of 2021 will feature a poetry reading and discussion about seizing the means of literary production and building alternate structures to the academy. There will be a community Q&A after the reading, all are invited.

Featuring:
Armin Tolentino
Abigail Licad

Pre-register for a 50% discount code for Armin Tolentino’s poetry debut, “We Meant to Bring it Home Alive”!
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Talakayan is a tagalog word that translates to discussion. This year’s theme aims to inspire our community to start the conversation on how we can build a strong and caring action-oriented network. Each talk story / discussion event, workshop, and panel will identify our next steps as a community, transforming dialogue to action.
Kapehan translates to coffee time which in the Filipino tradition is accompanied by pandesal. Symbolically we hope this workshop awakens our participants and provides the tools for sharpening our understanding and energy for continuous action.

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The Whitenoise Project has been a reading and discussion series in Portland, Oregon since 2017 aiming to center voices from underrepresented communities (Black, Indigenous, PoC, Queer, Femme, WoC and people with disabilities).