Join us in exploring the 3.5-acre Brays Bayou Wetland Partnership at Houston’s Mason Park through Pablo Neruda’s poem “The Book of Questions”.” Attendees will engage with bilingual writers, visual artists and environmentalists, as they meditate on the natural world around us. The Houston Audubon will provide a spotting scope at the wetland area and offer nature interpretation and bird identification. Houston Audubon will help attendees make connections between birds’ preferred natural features and their diets. Binoculars for people to borrow as they walk around will be provided. The art piece “The Red Chair” by Kristi Rangel will prompt attendees to “Be Here Now.” Latino Outdoors Houston will provide a child friendly family centered activity.
After the event the emerging Latinx writers with write about their Witness Series experience. Their pieces will be posted on the Grackle and Grackle Literary Services website with an interactive authors’ talk taking place somewhere in the East End at a later date.
Thank you to our partners at the East End Cultural District and Houston Parks Department.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS & PARTNERS
Grackle and Grackle Literary Services
Houston Parks & Recreation Department
“When you speak or write in your own voice you become subject rather than object. You transform your own destiny.”
—On the Meaning of Speaking in One’s Own Voice; Bell Hooks
View April M. Frazier’s Photos at Mason Park
Book list created by the African American History Research Center, Houston Public Library
Witness Series 2024 Part 3: "Meditations/Medicacions" Reading List
The Importance/Protection of Wetlands
Compiled by Sheena Wilson and Ingrid Grant,
African American History Research Center, Houston Public Library
· Shadows On The Gulf: A Journey Through Our Last Great Wetland, Rowan Jacobsen.
· National geographic atlas of wild America, Jon Waterman
· Biodiversity, Debra A. Miller, editor
