When:
October 3, 2019 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
2019-10-03T16:00:00-07:00
2019-10-03T17:30:00-07:00
Where:
Sammamish High School
100 140th Ave SE
Bellevue, WA 98005
USA

The racial equity speaker series provides additional opportunities for learning about race, equity and inclusion. These 90-minute sessions feature experts on race, culture and schooling.

October 3rd, Daemond Arrindell

Daemond Arrindell is a poet, performer, playwright and teaching artist. He is a faculty member of TAT Lab: the Washington State Teaching Artist Training Lab; Freehold Theatre – leading poetry and theater residencies at Monroe Correctional Complex for men for over ten years; Adjunct faculty at Seattle University; Writer-In-Residence through Seattle Arts & Lectures’ Writers in the Schools Program and Skagit River Poetry Foundation. He has self-published two chapbooks, “Hungry for the Word,” and “Mission Statement”. Daemond has been repeatedly commissioned by both Seattle and Bellevue Arts Museums7.

Workshop: Imagery, Bias and the Stories We Tell

The human brain is designed to categorize and generalize, making us prone to bias. Using visual art, we will “interrupt” the stories our brains concoct and focus on analysis and detail. We will also draw connections between those stories and stereotypes and finally use the specific details we experience to tell new stories displaying the hidden beauty that was there the whole time.

The Bellevue School District acknowledges that we learn, work, live and gather on the Indigenous Land of the Coast Salish peoples, specifically the Duwamish and Snoqualmie Tribes. We thank these caretakers of this land, who have lived and continue to live here, since time immemorial.