BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hugo House - ECPv6.3.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Hugo House X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hugohouse.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Hugo House REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181004T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181004T203000 DTSTAMP:20240329T002348 CREATED:20181003T040400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181003T040400Z UID:248911-1538681400-1538685000@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Ekiwah Adler-Beléndez: Lifting the Veil DESCRIPTION:“I write to undress myself\nTo lift the veils\nThat separate me\nFrom this world”\n—Ekiwah Adler-Beléndez \nSponsored jointly by Hugo House and L’Atelier Théâtre\, Ekiwah Adler-Beléndez\, a disabled Mexican poet and playwright praised by Mary Oliver and others\, will read his poetry in both English and Spanish. \nEkiwah\, which means Warrior in the language of the Purepecha\, is an appropriate appellation. He has been battling cerebral palsy since birth-born ten weeks early and weighing less than two pounds. Ekiwah writes\, “I cannot walk by myself\, yet in my poems I not only walk\, but give myself license to have eight legs and experience movement. When I read a poem\, on an ephemeral level I go to the places the poet describes.” His warrior nature also allows him this wisdom: “I don’t feel my cerebral palsy is a battle I have to win. I don’t battle more or less than anyone else-my cerebral palsy is simply there. For me the connection of my name with my struggle has to do with the fact that I fought in my birth to live.” \n\nBorn in Morelos\, Mexico\, in 1987\, Ekiwah Adler-Beléndez is the author of Soy (I Am)\, Palabras Inagotables (Never-ending Words)\, Weaver\, and Love on Wheels. Ekiwah is a graduate of Bard College at Simon’s Rock and Hampshire College\, where he studied poetry\, theater\, and world religions. His life story and poetry have been featured on NBC Dateline\, he was awarded an Honorable Mention for the contest Premio Nacional de la Juventud (National Prize for the Youth)\, and he was twice granted a six-month scholarship by the FONCA (the National Institute for Support of the Arts). Ekiwah has given numerous talks\, readings\, and workshops at colleges\, high-schools\, and festivals in both Mexico and the United States. \n\n\n\n\nAll events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/ekiwah-adler-belendez-lifting-the-veil/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR