You're officially booked and busy on Thursday, August 17th! Join The Pulitzer Center (
@pulitzercenter ) at Las Fotos Project (
@lasfotosproject ) to view work from photographer Tara Pixley (
@tlpix ) and join an open mic hosted by Poet Vickie Vertiz!(
@vickievertiz )
“Tara Pixley, a photographer based in southeastern Los Angeles, was one of the Pulitzer Center’s 2022 Diversify Photo Eyewitness grantees. Her project complicates Sontag’s claim. “Gold in the Hills, but Not for Us” portrays corroded oil wells dotting urban cul-de-sacs and adjoining children’s play structures in Inglewood; refineries grating blue skies with their trusses and scaffolding in Wilmington; and the people—Black and brown activists, parents, and creators—who go on living. Pixley’s photographs reimagine, indeed repossess, the relationship between Los Angeles and the people living in it from poisonous and extractive to inviting and sustainable.
If you would like to write or read a poem for the open mic, consider “how we relate to the environment” as your prompt. You are more than welcome to select poetry that is not your own so long as you accurately attribute the work.”
Registration is free, but required. RSVP with the link in our bio!
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