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Francisca Garcia, thank you for inspiring us to become artists

Last year, a pillar of Seattle’s Mexican-American artist community passed away.Francisca Garcia was well known for making the annual Día de los Muertos ofrenda at El Centro de La Raza in Beacon Hill, as well as curating ofrendas for other events, like Folklife, and the opening of ...  Show more

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Love and self-discovery etched with pain, the journey of Seattle's Youth Poet Laureate

In 2020, Sah Pham was on a road trip with her mother through Vancouver Island. Along that journey, she recorded an audio piece about her mother’s passage across the ocean from Vietnam.That story originally aired about three years ago for KUOW's RadioActive. Since then, Pham has b ...  Show more

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