Saturday, April 19th, 3-4:30pm

Note: This event is free but registration is required. PLEASE SIGN UP DIRECTLY THROUGH THIS LINK.

All We Have to Save is the launch event in “Canary’s Song,” a powerful new series presented by Damascus Citizens for Sustainability, DVAA and Deep Water Projects. Writer and founding naturalist Laura Chávez Silverman and multilingual poet Fátima Vélez-Giraldo explore the intersection of art, nature and justice in this joint presentation and discussion.

Immerse yourself in poetry, songs and conversation about our shared future. Experience the delights of local flavors with wildcrafted refreshments from The Outside Institute, featuring flavors like sweetfern, knotweed, field garlic, magnolia, chaga, white pine and nettle.

Fátima Vélez-Giraldo is a writer, professor and cultural producer who has published the poetry collections Casa Paterna, Del Porno y las Babosas and Diseño de Interiores, as well as the novels Galápagos and Jardín en Tierra Fría. She co-founded the artist residency Residencia en la Tierra in Colombia’s coffee region. Fátima curated and produced the Latin American poetry series at ID Studio Theater in the South Bronx, New York. She is a member of Como un Lugar, a collective of Latin American poets based in New York that organizes parties, translates and publishes poetry books by poets from the Global South, and conducts residencies and writing workshops.