Members of the 'Back Alley Poetry Club' unveil their new public art project, “Memoria Terra,” on Saturday.
There are more than 800 pieces of public art in the city of San Diego, and hundreds more across the rest of San Diego County. The region received more than $10 million in state and federal grants for public art in the last five years.Poet Samira Hassan lays down letters to be burned onto the pavement of a City Heights alley on Tuesday, June 18, 2024.Samira Hassan’s poem “Land Displacement” surrounds her feet as she recites: “The Spaniards now wear blue and black, their faces still white ...
Hassan is one of five young City Heights participating poets — second generation Cambodian, Somalian and African American immigrants, a project spokesperson said.“My poems and poems that describe me, my community, my womanhood, my Blackness, and aspects of my dreams, literally plastered, permanently plastered on this walkway,” she said. “It’s been a lot of tears. A lot of happy tears.
This public art installation, “Memoria Terra,” has been in the works since last year, led by artist Shinpei Takeda and the AjA project.
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