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APA Heritage Month program spotlights poet laureate, Sharaya Souza on Indigenous visibility and Sameh Dizon's film Hinga

San Francisco Board of Supervisors Budget and Appropriations Committee · June 29, 2021
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San Francisco's APA Heritage Month program at the Main Library featured conversations linking poetry, film and cultural activism: poet laureate Tongo Eisen Martin discussed community-centered programming; Sharaya Souza and Ralph Remington examined indigenous visibility and cross-community solidarity; Sameh Dizon presented the film Hinga and discussed collaborative, diasporic performance-making.

At a San Francisco Public Library program for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, the city's newly appointed poet laureate, Tongo Eisen Martin, joined City Librarian Michael Lambert to discuss plans to expand poetry programs across library branches and to use library spaces as stages for community work.

The event also featured a conversation between Sharaya Souza, executive director of the…

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