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SPLAB! News
tenth annversary celebration! Literary Arts in Auburn first started as 19th Draft, in Auburns Best Cafe, on Thursday, October 26, 1995 and now happens as SPLAB! SPokenword LAB with our weekly Living Room happening Tuesday nights at the Global Voices Radio studios, in the Auburn Transit Center, at 110 2nd St. S.W. in suite 100. Friday and Saturday, October 21st & 22nd, 2005, SPLAB! celebrates ten years with Adrian Castro, Lisa Jarnot, Paul Hunter and other workshop facilitators. Admission to the Friday event is free. Saturday’s events are $50 in advance, $60 the day of the event and the reading alone is $10. ADRIAN CASTRO A Cuban-Dominican poet and Ifa priest from Miami, Adrian Castro writes as if “Chano Pozo were hitting the keys of a typewriter instead of the skin of a drum.” His debut collection of poems, Cantos to Blood & Honey, was an Academy of American Poets Eric Mathieu King winner and his poems have appeared in numerous anthologies. His second collection Wise Fish has just been released by Coffee House Press and will be available at the workshop and reading. LISA JARNOT Since the mid-1990s Lisa Jarnot has lived in New York City where she has been actively involved in the community of The Poetry Project at Saint Mark’s Church in the Bowerie. She is the author of three full-length collections of poetry. PAUL HUNTER Poet, teacher, performer, playwright, musician, instrument-maker, artist, editor, publisher, and grassroots arts activist. For the past eleven years Paul Hunter has produced fine letterpress books under the imprint of Wood Works. Recipient of the 1998 Pym Cup and the 1999 Nelson Bentley Award, he lives and works in Seattle.
SPONSORS: The City of Auburn, The Auburn Arts Commission, The King County Library System, The Friends of the Auburn Library, The Friends of the Muckleshoot Library, The Breneman Jaech Foundation, The Evergreen State College, Seattle Central Community College, 4 Culture, Cavanaugh Ace Hardware, Scarff Ford-Isuzu and Speakeasy Broadband.
 The Mission of SPLAB!
SPLAB is an intergenerational SPokenword Performance, Resource
and Outreach center dedicated to Poetry, Story-Telling, Conversation,
Debate, Consciousness and Building Community through shared experience
of the SPoken and Written word.
"Violence is the result of a loss of identity - the more
loss, the greater the violence."
--- Marshall McLuhan "It is the inner world that decides our needs and desires as they really are,
because our inner world is who we really are."
--- Tibetan Dur Bon Master Physician Christopher Hansard "They appeared to be on a suicide mission." Here at the SPLAB! we assist in the creation and/or healthy expression of identity. We are blurring the distinction between social services and the arts, and thus far visionary benefactors who have supported this approach include: The Breneman Jaech Foundation; The City of Auburn; The Seattle Foundation, Microsoft, The Kenneth and Marleen Alhadeff Charitable Foundation, 4Culture, King County Community Organizing Program, The Lannan Foundation, The Auburn Arts Commission, South King County Community Network and The Muckleshoot Tribe. Now we need your help. This website details the different ways in which we are using the art and practice of the written and spoken word as an in-road to healing and as an alternative to acting out in the words of poet/teacher Vicky Edmonds. Doesn't it make sense to include people who don't fit it and might be prone to violence? Please come to SPLAB!, see us at work, experience The Super Bowl of Poetry, The Visiting Poets Series or the weekly (in season) Living Room and make a donation. If kids are at risk, we all are. --- Paul Nelson, SPLAB! Co-Founder  
"Another village-building project of It Plays In Peoria Productions."
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