Navigating With(out) Instruments: risk & vulnerability, reckoning and healing, creative excavation & collective joy

Join artivist, author, organizer, traci kato-kiriyama (they+she) in a reading from Navigating With(out) Instruments—poetry, micro essays, notes to self. tkk will read and speak on various themes from their book—from friendship & solidarity, to reclaiming pasts & visioning self-determined futures, to queerness & love, to creative process, and being director/co-founder of the longest running Asian American free public arts series in the country, Tuesday Night Cafe. tkk’s reading and talk will be followed by a conversation with graduate students and a Q&A with the audience. Books and signing will be available at the event. Hanging out afterward is encouraged!