Hugo House and Sound Transit present
Writing the City
Volume 1
(click Vol 1 for booklet or story title for pdf)Time for airport coffee
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| Maged Zaher |
Maged Zaher is the author of Thank You For the WIndow Office (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012), The Revolution Happened and You Didn’t Call Me (Tinfish Press, 2012), and Portrait of the Poet as an
Engineer (Pressed Wafer, 2009). Maged is the recipient of the 2013 Genius Award
in Literature from the Seattle weekly The
Stranger.
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| Deepa Bhandaru |
Deepa Bhandaru is an educator and writer in Seattle. She holds a
PhD in political theory from the University of Washington and works with
refugee youth in the South End.
Lisa Sturdivant is a consultant in Seattle. She likes
to think and write about cities and conducted Masters’ thesis research on
social housing design in Brazil.
Cheers of Beacon Hill
Ahamefule J. Oluo is a Texas-born, Seattle-raised musician, composer, writer, and stand-up comic. In his musical career, Oluo has collaborated with artists ranging from Brooklyn-based hip-hop trio Das Racist to orchestral indie-pop darlings Hey Marseilles and currently plays in Seattle jazz-punk quartet Industrial Revelation. As a writer and stand-up comic, Oluo was a semi-finalist in NBC´s Stand-up for Diversity Comedy competition and works in close creative partnerships with comic Hari Kondabolu and writer Lindy West.Volume 2
(click Vol 2 for booklet or story title for pdf)
A Story at 213 South Main Street
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| Charles Tonderai Mudede, Editor |
Simpson Park
Adrine
Arakelian is an urban designer and planner, currently researching the
application of process-based practices in design and planning. Born and raised
in Los Angeles, she learned to explore the city as a pedestrian, despite what
the song and all those mistaken people say.
Note:
This essay quotes from Buster Simpson’s park proposal as reprinted in the Frye
Art Museum Buster Simpson retrospective exhibition catalogue. |
| Cary Moon |
The Future of the Waterfront
Cary Moon is an urbanist and activist in Seattle. She believes in
revolutionaries, agitators, and the nexus of big ideas with small d democracy.
She is a former systems engineer with a masters degree in landscape
architecture and urban design.
J. Leroy Roby III
Negarra A. Kudumu is a Chicago born and Seattle based writer,
researcher and consultant in the areas of arts, culture and social impact. She
has a BA in Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies from Dartmouth
College and a MA in International Relations & Diplomatic from Leiden
University in the Netherlands. Most recently she has worked as the
Artist-in-Residence at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute and currently
runs Adult Programs at Frye Art Museum.
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Pick Up Volume 1 & 2 Essay Booklets at the Red Wall |
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| Lamar Lofton at Hugo House - Writing The City event February 24th |
