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What We Lived Through: Dispatches from the Pandemic Years

This event has ended. It was scheduled for 3/1/2024.

Doors at 6:30 p.m; readings at 7 p.m. Friday, March 1

Seed Lab, 111 W. 6th Ave, Anchorage

In-Person Event

Former Seed Lab writer-in-residence, Julia O’Malley hosts a community storytelling event and Chatter Marks journal release about personal and collective Covid-19 pandemic stories. Issue 6 of Chatter Marks, a journal of the Anchorage Museum, collects original writings about Anchorage residents' experiences during the pandemic years, with a focus on human connections.

A collaboration between ADN and the Anchorage Museum, this issue of the magazine also contains a pocket zine made by artist Jimmy Riordan that publishes narrative freewriting by O'Malley, and participants in a year of free public writing workshops facilitated at Seed Lab. Free.

Contributors include: photographers Loren Holmes, Adan Hernandez, Marc Lester, Emily Mesner, Anne Raup and Bill Roth, and writers Sarah Freije, Jen Clark, Kate Ginsbach, Kirsten Merrell Kippen, Valerie Kern, Emily Mesner, Sonia Santaella and Brooke Norsted. 

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