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Cynthia Dewi Oka
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2016 Art and Change Grant – $2,500
- Neighborhood: Collingwood
- Change Partner: Asian Arts Initiative
- Discipline: Literary Arts, Performance
- Social Change / Intent: Displacement / Migration / Immigration
Cynthia Dewi Oka designed and facilitated Sanctuary: A Migrant Poetry Workshop for immigrant poets in Philadelphia. The workshop series exposed participants to poetic traditions arising from contexts of displacement and communities of color, equipped them with foundational and critical elements of the craft, and fostered a mutually supportive, collaborative community of poets. Graduates of the workshop series, the Sanctuary Poets, have continued to organize, create, and perform together.
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