Nuestras Historias Contadas: Poesía de Denny 2023
Welcome to Nuestras Historias Contadas: Poesía de Denny, produced by Denny International Middle School students and Jack Straw Cultural Center during the winter and spring of 2023, in tandem with our program at Chinook Middle School in SeaTac. This web page and our audio recordings and anthology of the students’ poems are the culmination of a project with Jack Straw artists and students from the eighth grade Dual Language Spanish Immersion program at Denny International Middle School in Seattle, Washington. In this project, students in Liz Barry’s class worked with Jack Straw’s professional writer Raúl Sánchez, vocal coaches Brenda Arellano and Marco Voli, and audio engineers Daniel Guenther and Camelia Jade to write, perform, and record their own poetry. Jack Straw is honored to have worked with Denny students since 2012 to help them create and share their stories and poetry and build respect for each other’s experiences.
In addition to these audio recordings, we published an anthology of the students’ poems, both in the original Spanish and translated to English.
Bienvenido a Nuestras Historias Contadas: Poesía de Denny, producido por los estudiantes de Denny International Middle School y el Centro Cultural Jack Straw durante el invierno y la primavera de 2023, en conjunto con nuestro programa en Chinook Middle School en SeaTac. Esta página de internet y nuestras grabaciones y antología de los poemas de los estudiantes son la culminación de un proyecto con artistas de Jack Straw y estudiantes del octavo grado del programa de inmersión en español en Denny International Middle School en Seattle, Washington. En este proyecto, los alumnos de la clase de Liz Barry trabajaron con el escritor profesional de Jack Straw, Raúl Sánchez; los entrenadores vocales Brenda Arellano y Marco Voli; y los ingenieros de audio Daniel Guenther y Camelia Jade para escribir, interpretar y grabar su propia poesía. Jack Straw ha trabajado con los estudiantes de Denny desde 2012 para ayudarlos a crear y compartir sus historias y poesía y fomentar el respeto por las experiencias de los demás.
Además de estas grabaciones de audio, publicamos una antología de los poemas de los estudiantes, tanto en español original como traducidos al inglés.
Nuestras Historias Contadas: Poesía de Denny was produced by Denny International Middle School students and Jack Straw Cultural Center with the generous support of the Washington State Arts Commission, ArtsFund, the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture and The Creative Advantage, Seattle Public Schools International Education and the OSPI Heritage Language Grant, and individual donors.
The Jack Straw artist team included writer Raúl Sánchez, vocal coaches Brenda Arellano and Marco Voli, audio engineers Daniel Guenther and Camelia Jade, photographer Sherwin Eng, designer Levi Fuller, and Executive Director Joan Rabinowitz. Denny students Kazune Hansell, Sarah Guzmán, and Chava Cohen created the cover art using ideas from their classmates. Special thanks to the students of Denny’s eighth grade Spanish immersion program and Denny staff. We especially want to thank our partner teacher Liz Barry, as well as these poets’ previous Dual Language teachers, Paty Gómez and Leticia Clausen; Instructional Assistants and Student Recording Support Experts Herman García, Viridiana Maciel and Ceyla Santamaría; Administrative Secretary Mary Wilson; Principal Jeff Clark; Interim Principal Jeff Lam; Fiscal Specialist Hillary Fleener; and Seattle Public Schools International Education Administrator Dr. Thad Williams, who helped make this project possible.
Artists
Raúl Sanchez
Raúl Sanchez is the former City of Redmond Poet Laureate 2019-2021. He teaches bilingual poetry. He runs the Poetry in the Park bi-weekly readings at Meadowbrook Pond…
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Brenda Arellano
Brenda Arellano is a performer and devisor based in Oakland after almost a decade in Chicago. She was a company member with the Chicago Neo-Futurists and she recently performed…
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Marco Adiak Voli
Marco Adiak Voli is an actor, creator and collaborator originally from Nicaragua, now based in Brooklyn, NY. He has studied at Cornish College of the Arts (BFA in Original Works…
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