FREQUENCY UPLIFT! _ FRI. 06.07.2024_First Friday’s poet LOURDES FIGUEROA + flor y canto + freedom + jazz

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 06.07.2024 First Friday’s poet LOURDES FIGUEROA, … in  reading and discussion, her poet’s playlist:  a Chicanx poet whose work is the dialogue of her lived experience when her family worked in el azadón—tilling of the soil under the blistering sun. Author of the chapbooks yolotl, Ruidos = Learn Speak, and Vuelta, and works in the Mexican journal Tierra Adentro. Lourdes continues to believe in your lung and your throat, celebrating our Pocha Marimacha Califa tongue     AND celebrating the return of the 2024 The International San Francisco Flor y Canto Literary Festival (6/21-23), to La Misíon, with her FLOR Y CANTO co-organizers JOSIAH LUIS ALDERETE, a full blooded Pocho, Spanglish speaking poeta, co-keeper of the Medicina Para Pesadillas portal,  and NORMAN ANTONIO ZELAYA, Nicoya-rooted Mission District homeboy, master storyteller and the masked luchador known as Super Pulga.  ALL reading  … for the culture of the City and La Misíon,     PLUS updates from the campaign to free Leonard Peltier and a feature set on old and new South African jazz,  groups Izithunywa and Dyertribe visiting the Bay this weekend , celebrating the 30th anniversary of the end of apartheid, …  and ALL broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.UPLIFT!