Todo es posible: Poesía de Chinook
Welcome to Todo es posible: Poesía de Chinook, produced by Chinook Middle School students and Jack Straw Cultural Center during the winter and spring of 2023, in tandem with our program at Denny International Middle School in Seattle. This webpage and our audio recordings and anthology of the students’ poems are the culmination of a project with Jack Straw artists and students from the seventh grade Dual Language Spanish Immersion program at Chinook Middle School in SeaTac, Washington. In this project, students in Cassandra Garcia-Stokes’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. This is our first year working with students at Chinook 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 Todo es posible: Poesía de Chinook, producido por los estudiantes de Chinook Middle School y el Centro Cultural Jack Straw durante el invierno y la primavera de 2023, en conjunto con nuestro programa en Denny International Middle School en Seattle. 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 ChinookMiddle School en SeaTac, Washington. En este proyecto, los estudiantes de la clase de Cassandra Garcia-Stokes 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. Este es nuestro primer año trabajando con los estudiantes de Chinook para ayudarlos a crear y compartir sus
Además de estas grabaciones de audio, publicamos una antología de los poemas de los estudiantes, tanto en español original como traducidos al inglés.
Todo es posible: Poesía de Chinook was produced by Chinook Middle School students and Jack Straw Cultural Center with the generous support of the Washington State Arts Commission, ArtsFund, 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. Chinook student Janelly Altamirano Hernandez created the cover art. Special thanks to the students of Chinook’s seventh grade Spanish dual language program and Chinook staff. We especially want to thank our partner teacher Cassandra García-Stokes, as well as these poets’ previous dual language teachers. We would also like to thank Office Managers Nikki Ashe and Jennifer Hirayama, Receptionist Lesley Wagner, Assistant Principal Tim Depue, and Principal Karin Jones, who helped make this project possible. Special thanks to Denny International Middle School dual language teacher Liz Barry.
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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