There’s no room for boredom this week, what with a stacked itinerary including music from Feist, Lorde, and J Balvin, readings from Janelle Monáe, Jennifer Egan, and Neil Gaiman, and community events from Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month Celebration to the Seattle Erotic Art Festival.
MONDAY
READINGS & TALKS
A Conversation with Janelle Monáe and Yohanca Delgado
Janelle Monáe’s Afrofuturistic vision continues to unfold with The Memory Librarian, a short fiction collection that the tastemaking musician wrote in tandem with a group of collaborators. Alongside Alaya Dawn Johnson, Danny Lore, Eve L. Ewing, Yohanca Delgado, and Sheree Renée Thomas, Monáe brings the story behind her 2018 album Dirty Computer to the page; exploring themes of surveillance, totalitarianism, and technology. (Fans of Octavia Butler are in for a treat.) Monáe is joined in conversation by Yohanca Delgado, a lauded writer and 2021-2023 Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University.
(Town Hall, First Hill)
