Messages to Our Muertxs: A Writing and Art Workshop​

Event Date(s): Monday, October 17, 2022, 7:00 p.m. 
Location: Room 204 & 205, Utah Cultural Celebration Center 
Free Admission 
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Join Plumas Colectiva for a poetry and art workshop dedicated to our antepasados.

Willy Palomo will lead a workshop on writing elegies for our loved ones.

​Willy Palomo (he/they/she) is the son of two immigrants from El Salvador. In 2018, he graduated with an MA in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and an MFA in Poetry from Indiana University. In 2017, he received the City of Bloomington Latino Leadership Award and the MLK Building Bridges Graduate Student Award for his work serving undocumented communities in Indiana. He has taught literature, creative writing, and the Poetics of Rap in universities, juvenile detention centers, community centers, and high schools. He has performed his poetry nationally and internationally at the National Poetry Slam, CUPSI, and V Festival Internacional de Poesía Amada Libertad in El Salvador. His creative writing have been featured in Best New Poets 2018, Latino Rebels, Antologia de Posguerra, The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States, and more. He is a founding member of Plumas Colectiva, a literary and art collective of Latinx creators in the 801. He is the director of the Utah Humanities Book Festival.

This event is made possible with support from Plumas Colectiva, West Valley Arts, and the Utah Cultural Celebration Center. 

Join us at the Día de los Muertos Celebration This Fall!

West Valley Arts presents Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). The event features traditional Mexican dance & musical  performances, traditional food, a beer garden, and a variety of complimentary hands-on activities for the whole family. Plus a chance to win prizes in our Catrina/Catrin dress-up contest!

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