Events
Spring 2022 Presentation
EPCC-UTEP Mellon Humanities Collaborative Project Presentation
Tuesday, May 3, 5-6:30pm Mountain Time via Zoom
Join us for the culminating presentation of our 2021-22 Mellon Humanities Collaborative project. We will share our work creating three Soundwalk routes in El Paso, TX, exploring themes of carceral geography, settler colonization, and cultural memory. We will present the EPCC Library Guide that frames these experiential education tools, along with the Historical Narratives that accompany each of the walks.
Using an approach that is emergent and horizontal, our project has engaged broadly with academic communities at EPCC and UTEP, and we will reflect on the four creative writing workshops this project hosted, along with our collaborations with the UTEP Bilingual MFA in Creative Writing program, The Tumblewords Project creative writing workshops, the Jacket2 journal of poetics, a UTEP Community-Engaged Scholarship class, the UTEP Public History training certificate, and local and international artists and poets.
Public Soundwalks in April 2022
Airport Soundwalk: Boeing Dr., El Paso
Saturday, April 16, 2022 9-11am
A walking route beginning on Boeing Ave., exploring overlapping histories of ICE detention, deportation flights, colonial settlement, and NASA space exploration.
Duranguito Soundwalk: Overland St., El Paso
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 6-8pm
A walking route beginning at the Greyhound Bus Station, exploring cultural memory and community resistance to gentrification alongside development, displacement, and disappearance.
Downtown Soundwalk: San Jacinto Plaza, El Paso
Wednesday, April 20, 2022 6-8pm
A walking route beginning in San Jacinto Plaza, exploring entangled histories of settlement, immigrant criminalization, segregation and resistance in Downtown El Paso.
Spring 2022 Workshop
Counter Mapping: Documenting Place in Visual Poetry
Contramapeo: documentar el lugar con poesía visual
Contramapeo: documentar el lugar con poesía visual
with / con Giancarlo Huapaya
Saturday, March 5, 3-5pm (Mountain Time) and Saturday, March 12, 3-5pm (Mountain Time) via ZOOM
Please email hspicer at epcc dot edu if you would like to be informed of similar offerings in the future!
This is a two-part bilingual workshop conducted primarily in Spanish with English translation.
Readings, writing prompts, and resources for independent cartographic explorations in your locality will be shared, and participants' mapping projects will be discussed.
Workshop sessions will be held via Zoom. Workshop space is limited. Register by Thursday, March 3.
This workshop is free thanks to funding from the EPCC/ UTEP Mellon Humanities Collaborative.
Giancarlo Huapaya (Lima, Peru) is an editor, poet, translator and independent curator. He has published three collections of poetry, most recently Taller Sub Verso / Sub Verse Workshop. He is Founder and Editor of Cardboard House Press, a nonprofit publishing house for Latin American and Spanish literature in translation. His curatorial work focuses on the dialogue between poetry and the visual arts, archive and mapping, his most recent project was BirúPirúPerú, an exhibition of contemporary Peruvian visual and sound poetry, held at the University of Arizona Poetry Center. His work have been published in Periódico de Poesía de la UNAM, Tripwire, Action Books, ANMLY, Poesía, Jacket2, Buenos Aires Poetry, Otro Páramo, Temporales, Erizo, and OOMPH!, among others. He has translated into Spanish work by Muriel Rukeyser, C.D Wright, Susan Briante, Carmen Giménez Smith, and Alli Warren.
Taller bilingüe de 2 sesiones. Se facilitará principalmente en español con traducciones al inglés.
Se compartirán lecturas, ejercicios y recursos para exploraciones cartográficas independientes en su localidad, y se discutirán las propuestas de mapeo de los participantes.
Las sesiones del taller se llevarán a cabo a través de Zoom. Las vacantes son limitadas. Las inscripciones se cerrarán el jueves 3 de marzo.
Este taller es gratuito gracias a la financiación de la EPCC / UTEP Mellon Humanities Collaborative.
Giancarlo Huapaya (Lima, Perú) es editor, poeta, traductor y curador independiente. Publicó los libros de poesía: Estado y Contemplación/ Canción de Canción se Gana, Polisexual y Taller Sub Verso. Es fundador y editor de Cardboard House Press, proyecto dedicado a la publicación de literatura latinoamericana y española en traducción al inglés y a la creación de espacios bilingües en los EE. UU. Su trabajo curatorial se centra en el diálogo entre la poesía escrita y las artes visuales, el archivo y el mapping, su más reciente proyecto fue BirúPirúPerú, exposición de poesía visual y sonora peruana contemporánea, realizada en el University of Arizona Poetry Center. Sus poemas, ensayos y traducciones se pueden leer en el Periódico de Poesía de la UNAM, Tripwire, Action Books, ANMLY, Poesía, Buenos Aires Poetry, Jacket2, Otro Páramo, Temporales, Erizo, OOMPH!, entre otros. Como traductor literario, ha traducido al español el trabajo poético de Muriel Rukeyser, C.D. Wright, Susan Briante, Carmen Giménez Smith y Alli Warren.
Fall 2021 Workshops
Tumblewords Project Writing Workshop: Carceral Geography and Documentary Poetry, Part II
December 4, 2021, 1-3pm Mountain Time
Tumblewords Project Writing Workshop: Carceral Geography and Documentary Poetry, Part I
November 20, 2021, 1-3pm Mountain Time
Poetry Lab with Rosa Alcalá, Bilingual MFA at the University of Texas at El Paso, Guest
October 6, 2021, 3-6pm Mountain Time
Walk Listen Create: Soundwalk September Event
September 30, 2021, 2-3pm Mountain Time