The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum’s After Hours is this Friday
Join them with Raven Halfmoon Book Release with NDN Girls Book Club for a night of poetry reading, art and more
After Hours
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum • 258 Main St, Ridgefield, CT 06877
November 3, 2023 • 5 pm – 8 pm
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Join The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum for a special Aldrich After Hours with NDN Girls Book Club founder and poet Kinsale Drake and talented local Indigenous writers including Danielle Emerson (Diné), Lily Painter (Kiowa), and Lex Schultz (Cherokee), for an evening of poetry readings, art, and more in celebration of the catalogue release for Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers. The catalogue features an interview of Raven Halfmoon by Amy Smith-Stewart, an essay by Rachel Adams, and a poem by Kinsale Drake.
The galleries will be open late, there will be short tours of the exhibitions, and $6 wine and beer for sale. There will be an exclusive pop-up shop by Relative Arts, a brick-and-mortar community space, open atelier, and shop displaying contemporary Indigenous fashion and design. Relative Arts is Indigenous owned and operated by Korina Emmerich (Puyallup) and Liana Shewey (Mvskoke)and located in New York City’s East Village. Kiyani Botanics, founded by Miranda Mullett (Navajo), will also be selling plant-based body care products.
Vinyl sounds presented by The Pressing Plant, a collaboration by Semilla Cafe + Radio and Cafeteria Radio, that incorporates analog recordings to promote a sense of discovery and a shared communal experience for music lovers.
Kinsale Drake (Diné) is a poet, playwright, and performer based out of the Southwest. Her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Poets.org, Best New Poets, Black Warrior Review, Nylon, MTV, Teen Vogue, Time, and elsewhere. She recently graduated from Yale University, where she received the J. Edgar Meeker Prize, the Academy of American Poets College Prize, the Young Native Playwrights Award, and the 2022 Joy Harjo Poetry Prize. She was named by Time Magazine as an artist representing her decade “changing how we see the world,” and is the founder of NDN Girls Book Club.
NDN Girls Book Club hosts free community workshops for Native people, especially Native youth & girls, in poetry, zine-making, editing, book trading, Native literatures, talks, and more. NDN Girls Book Club also co-host events that aim to build community for Native art and literature!
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