Navigating With(out) Instruments
A Bay Area book event with traci kato-kiriyama
Saturday, March 12, 2 pm
“traci kato-kiriyama’s Navigating With(out) Instruments will expand your heart and spirit in all directions – in the marrow of your bones, deep into the earth, out into the streets, and into the stars and beyond where our collective radical imagination and our ancestors of past, present and future beckon us to listen more, ask more questions, stoke our hunger for justice, and love in ways that crack us open beyond what we believed possible.” Yumi Sakugawa; author of Your Illustrated Guide to Becoming One with the Universe
In Navigating With(out) Instruments, traci kato-kiriyama uses her present—political unrest, family love and loss, her own cancer diagnosis—to bridge the traumas of the past generations with the hope of the future ones. Often seamless, often with a loud bang, kato-kiriyama moves from genre to genre, from poetry to prose, essay to monologue to letters—framed by US colonialism and war mongering alongside the intimate navigation through memory, death, and transformation—to urge readers to protect and to share their legacies, both personal and communal, as a means of global survival.
Join us for an engaging and inspiring time at this Bay Area release celebration with traci kato kiriyama. The event is co-presented by Omusubi and J-Sei.
traci kato-kiriyama (they+she) is an award-winning multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary artist, recognized for their work as a writer, performer, theatre deviser, cultural producer, and community organizer.
Join us for a hybrid book event with an online reading, followed by a Meet the Author book sales and signing to follow at J-Sei, 1285 66th Street, Emeryville (near Hollis St).
RSVP on Eventbrite for the ZOOM link.