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Building/Room #: Padelford Parking Garage Lot N21 Neighborhoods: University District Event Types: Arts,Community,Ethnic/Cultural,Party Audience: All Sponsoring Organization: Simpson Center for the Humanities Contact: Daniel R. Smith Contact Phone: 206-617-9761 Contact Email: dancemyth9@gmail.com Pre-Register: No Cost: Free Registration Details: N/A Link: https://tinyurl.com/SpotRezOct30 Spot Reservation features free, costumed photo portraits in a tiny forest (aka "nanoforest") installed in the depths of the Padelford Parking Garage, Level N21, on the east side of campus. Iranian photographer Saina Heshmati, co-founder of Antipode Gallery, will capture and distribute portraits of participants.
Costume elements, including “wearable taxidermy” will be provided, but the public is also encouraged to come in costume. Joe Seymour (Squaxin/Pueblo Acoma) will emcee and host an open mic for singing, drumming, and reading, including an appearance by poet Mateo Quispe (Red River Métis/Little Shell Chippewa). Seattle’s Off the Rez food truck will provide free fry bread tacos while supplies last.
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The Falconer will demonstrate live birds of prey and offer opportunities to hold birds. “Aunty Cedar Log Lady,” a Lynchian character devised by Tessa Rose Campbell (Tulalip/Tlingit), will be a wandering channeler of the forest. Spot Reservation is a Visiting Artist Residency, part of Not Apart: Indigenous Knowledges and the Art of University-Community Repair, a collaboration between the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies; the Department of American Indian Studies; the Department of Comparative History of Ideas; UW Bothell’s School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences.
Spot Reservation will be reprised Nov. 5th, 11am – 3pm, on the UW Bothell Campus: tinyurl.com… Smith will give two artist talks: The first at wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ (the Intellectual House) on the UW Seattle campus, Oct. 26th, 11am – 12pm.
The second will be at LB1-205 in the Library on the UW Bothell campus, Nov. 2nd, 1:30pm – 2:30pm.
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