Community Calendar

Fri. Aug 8 and Sat Aug 9 at 7:30PM, experience "LOVE IN THE MIDST; Hints from the Mystics for Times of Change", for an unforgettable evening of poetry, music, dance, and artistic landscape, bringing to life the mystical works of 13th c. poet Jelaluddin Rumi and 14th c. poetess Lalla, with the translations of poet Coleman Barks. Prepare to be transported by this collaborative tapestry of ancient mysticism and dynamic artistry, created to nurture and inspire in these challenging times.
This performance features: Zuleikha, internationally renowned Storydancer and Founder of The Storydancer Project; Eugene Friesen, Grammy Award-winning cellist; Glen Velez, Grammy Award-winning master frame drummer and percussionist; Benny Wertheimer, Esraj virtuoso; Parisa Soultani, Rumi Spoken Word, filmmaker, Co-producer of "One Through Love", on Rumi

This is an SFCC event jointly sponsored by the SFCC Creative Writing program and the SFCC library.

Participants only need to register once and will be registered for every event in the series.
Register: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WriGenFall2025

All sessions will take place online and the URL for each session will be sent out the morning of each event. The events are free and are open to anyone who would like to attend.

Chip Livingston is the mixed-blood Creek author of six books: three collections of poetry, a novel, a nonfiction children’s book, and a story and essay collection. He’s also the editor of

Love, Loosha: The Letters of Lucia Berlin and Kenward Elmslie. His writing has appeared in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Poem-A-Day, and other literary journals. Chip teaches in the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He lives in Montevideo, Uruguay.

A short description of Chip Livingson’s writing:

Chip Livingston writes from the margins, mixing genres and forms with an aim to combine the best elements of poetry and prose to surprising results.

This is an SFCC event jointly sponsored by the SFCC Creative Writing program and the SFCC library. This event will take place over zoom.

Participants only need to register once and will be registered for every event in the series.
Register: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WriGenFall2025

All sessions will take place online and the URL for each session will be sent out the morning of each event. The events are free and are open to anyone who would like to attend.

Chip Livingston is the mixed-blood Creek author of six books: three collections of poetry, a novel, a nonfiction children’s book, and a story and essay collection. He’s also the editor of

Love, Loosha: The Letters of Lucia Berlin and Kenward Elmslie. His writing has appeared in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Poem-A-Day, and other literary journals. Chip teaches in the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He lives in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Creative session:

Chip Livingston will provide prompts and examples applicable to all genres (or mixing genres) in a creative session intended to provoke new approaches to lyric and narrative storytelling.

This is an SFCC event jointly sponsored by the SFCC Creative Writing program and the SFCC library.

Participants only need to register once and will be registered for every event in the series.
Register: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WriGenFall2025

All sessions will take place online and the URL for each session will be sent out the morning of each event. The events are free and are open to anyone who would like to attend.

September 17 & 24, 2025
Reading & Creative Session with Rowena Alegría

Rowena Alegría Artist Statement

Adopted at birth, inheritance and identity fascinate me. I knew the woman who gave me light only in the sharing of fluids and nutrients. For nine months, I experienced her tears, her rabia, her indecision. I heard her words in languages I would learn long afterward. I imagine her intimations wait like timed bombs in my consciousness and go off as whispered intuition. From her, I inherited a love of learning and a passion for words and justice. Surrendered at birth, I marvel at how I know so little of her in artifact or experience, as she walked on before my search, but how so much of her – learned from her poems and dissertation, from her survivors, those who loved her but didn’t know her well enough to know I existed – survives in my genes.

My work in progress, a novel titled “500 Springs,” takes a particular interest in these ideas coupled with the legacy of colonialism on the indigenous and mestizo peoples of what is now Mexico and the southwestern United States, which includes my home state of Colorado. The novel explores the potential of souls carrying over generations the unresolved pain of the past as well as unfulfilled love and promises.

Read more: http://www.RowenaAlegria.com

This is an SFCC event jointly sponsored by the SFCC Creative Writing program and the SFCC library.

Participants only need to register once and will be registered for every event in the series.
Register: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WriGenFall2025

All sessions will take place online and the URL for each session will be sent out the morning of each event. The events are free and are open to anyone who would like to attend.

September 17 & 24, 2025
Reading & Creative Session with Rowena Alegría

Rowena Alegría Artist Statement

Adopted at birth, inheritance and identity fascinate me. I knew the woman who gave me light only in the sharing of fluids and nutrients. For nine months, I experienced her tears, her rabia, her indecision. I heard her words in languages I would learn long afterward. I imagine her intimations wait like timed bombs in my consciousness and go off as whispered intuition. From her, I inherited a love of learning and a passion for words and justice. Surrendered at birth, I marvel at how I know so little of her in artifact or experience, as she walked on before my search, but how so much of her – learned from her poems and dissertation, from her survivors, those who loved her but didn’t know her well enough to know I existed – survives in my genes.

My work in progress, a novel titled “500 Springs,” takes a particular interest in these ideas coupled with the legacy of colonialism on the indigenous and mestizo peoples of what is now Mexico and the southwestern United States, which includes my home state of Colorado. The novel explores the potential of souls carrying over generations the unresolved pain of the past as well as unfulfilled love and promises.

Read more: http://www.RowenaAlegria.com