AndNow 2019 Keynote Performance by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
Channel: &Now Festival of Innovative Writing
Date: 08/10/2019

&Now Festival of Innovative Writing 2019
Points of Convergence
September 19-22, 2019
andnowfestival.com

Opening night keynote performance by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, introduced by Ching-In Chen
Opening remarks by Amaranth Borsuk and Ted Hiebert

Video by Allison Morton
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Sponsored by the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics, UW Bothell, The Simpson Center for the Humanities, and the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Bothell
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A writer, vocalist and sound artist, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs is the author of TwERK (Belladonna, 2013). Her interdisciplinary work has been featured at the Brooklyn Museum, the Poesiefestival in Berlin, Museum of Modern Art, the QOW conference in Slovakia, the International Poetry Festival in Bucharest,  the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, the 56th Venice Biennale and Beijing.  As a curator and director, she has staged events at BAM Café, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, The David Rubenstein Atrium, The Highline, Poets House and El Museo del Barrio. LaTasha is the recipient of numerous awards; of them include New York Foundation for the Arts, Barbara Deming Memorial Grant, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, the Japan-US Friendship Commission, Creative Capital and the Whiting Foundation Literary Award. She lives in Harlem.