Nomadic Press celebrates the release of its beautiful tarot deck with Tarot En Pandemia Y Revolution! Readings and performances by;
Poet and musician, Anais Azul
Poet, MK Chavez
Poet, Alejandro Murguia
Painter, Malik Seneferu
Painter, poet and creator of the Tarot, Adrian Arias
Peruvian first generation immigrant, Anaís Azul (they/them), is a California-based singer-songwriter, composer, and teaching artist. Described as “stunningly honest and vulnerable,” their artistry engages with music as a tool for community building, cross-genre collaboration, and collective healing. When the March 2020 lockdown began, Anaís started getting their tarot cards read nearly weekly by professional readers as well as students of tarot. This inspired them to connect to their intuition and study tarot, so they could have another tool to accomplish their mission of engaging in collective healing. Website: anaisazul.com
MK Chavez is a Black Latinx writer and educator. She is the author of Dear Animal (Nomadic Press) and several chapbooks. Chavez curates the reading series Lyrics & Dirges and is co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival. She is a recipient of the PEN Oakland Award and the 2021 San Francisco Foundation/Nomadic Press literary award. You can find her recent work at the Academy of Poets Poem-A-Day series and at Golden Gate Park among the trees with the Voice of Trees projects.
Website: www.mariakaylibchavez.org
Alejandro Murguía is a two-time winner of the American Book Award. Two of his books are available from City Lights Books: This War Called Love Stories and Stray Poems. He is the sixth San Francisco Poet Laureate and Professor of Latina/Latino Studies at San Francisco State University.
Website: alejandromurguia.org
Malik Seneferu was born in San Francisco, and is a prolific painter, muralist, illustrator, and sculptor. Seneferu’s work has been exhibited internationally and adorned book, magazine, and newspaper covers, as well as the walls of museums and galleries. He has several public art projects throughout San Francisco. His international shows include locations such as Haiti, Kenya, New York’s Schaumburg Center, Washington, DC’s Smithsonian, London, South Africa, and GOOGLE SF. Seneferu implements a wide variety of visual art techniques and genres. Website: www.maliksart.com
Adrian Arias is a visual artist, poet, performer, curator, activist, and cultural promoter, who brings together multidisciplinary artists in the San Francisco Bay Area to engage in community projects with messages of social justice, racial equality, climate change, peace, beauty, health, and hope.
He has participated in international poetry performances, including the poetic Nights of Struga, Macedonia, winning the prize for the best poem of the festival, and is one of the founders and creators of MAPP (Mission Arts Performance Project). He is also creator of festivals, such as: VideoFest, Luna Negra, and ILLUSION show. During this pandemic (2020-2021), Adrian has been commissioned to create a series of pieces related to both the BLM movement and his personal vision of freedom. This includes BLM on the pavement of the Petaluma Regional Library and the altar dedicated to George Floyd in Somarts, among others. Adrian uses his dreams as creative initiatives, which he makes come true in performances and community projects. Emeritus Poet Laureate of SF, Jack Hirschman, called Arias, “the ever brilliantly inventive poet of the gesturing Word.” Website: http://adrianarias.com
NOTE; This event will be live streamend on the Medicine For Nightmares Facebook page