AN ONLINE COMPANION ISSUE TO PCC INSCAPE CHAPBOOK No.6 - SPRING 2022
A Collaboration with the PCC C.O.R.E. Program
Web Companion Issue, Healing Arts Chapbook No.6 - Consuelo Rios and Jasmin Lopez
ABOUT THE ISSUE
This web-companion features additional artwork and writing not included in its print companion, PCC Inscape's Chapbook No.6 "Healing Arts" project. This chapbook was conceived and edited by students in Pasadena City College's C.O.R.E. Program (Community Overcoming Recidivism through Education) to amplify the voices and experiences of incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, and system impacted students as well as others in our community and beyond. The work in the print issue and web companion is raw, vulnerable, and startling with themes of oppression, freedom, and ultimately self-love and acceptance. No doubt readers will come away changed and likely moved into allyship and action.
On behalf of our student editorial team - Jessica Leeth Young, Jasmin Lopez, Jocelyn Chau-Goh, Anthony Mondragon, and Consuelo Rios, you're invited to experience this online companion issue.
We also hope you'll join Pasadena City College students and community members on Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at the CORE-sponsored Healing Arts day from 1-5pm at the Jameson Amphitheater in celebration of the power of Art and Writing to Heal Trauma, which will feature poet and activist Iris DeAnde, who will read from her work and facilitate and Open Mic. We are lucky to feature Iris DeAnde's work in this online companion issue as well.
You can click the button bar below to learn more about CORE at PCC.
ONLINE CONTRIBUTORS |
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Consuelo Rios Let's Heal
Jasmin Lopez The Art of Healing
Carlos Gonzalez Live Life
Laura Hayes Choreography - 16 Counts to Community
Robert Villanueva My Story
Oscar Diaz Between the Sun and Earth
G. Martinez Photo Series Lost Souls and En Las Calles
Shyann Ridgley One Day
Angela Gonzalez Cactus Cover Art
Healing Arts Day Featured Guest Poet and Activist Iris DeAnda
Photo lapoetsociety.org
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About Iris De Anda
Iris De Anda is a writer, activist, and practitioner of the healing arts. A womyn of color of Mexican and Salvadorean descent. A native of Los Angeles. She believes in the power of spoken word, poetry, storytelling, and dreams.
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Las Tierras cerca del Cielo
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Ladybug comes through in phases
Allows access to spaces Includes community in open hills The Flat Top is unity Dispensa madre tierra Coma la nueva vanguardia Explota tus venas Remember the land of ancients The memory of Tongva relations Despierta porque el planeta No tiene tu plata, la neta Selling sunsets to the masses Working classes provide Upper class dismisses the most shifts The seeds that plant the verses of truth There is no new earth Cause the curse is reversed Spit the music of medicine Give this generation their spin Following the waves of old school Blood spilling Induced by the choice of choosing Capitalist fools be slippin Sippin on some fine imperial Sleeping on the ones that are the real tho Skip through the tasks of stories Emerald minds City of Quartz recording the message The vessel is constant No trespassing through the ancestors medium Deliver a sign to the new emporium Delirium I see you then as I see you now Devour the spirit which brings it forth somehow |
Allow for the rise of sixth sun
Respecting the one People of the sol Coming forth with deliverance Verdad, over the new precedence La Vida repite lo que en tus sueños dijiste Existe, no miento Como yo siento todo lo que quieres ver Tu ser una flor en el vidrio de ayer Recuerda tu ser, viniste a vivir verdad Es la realidad Reality speaks to humanity Love more be free Release the limits of the roots Semillas the seed The mud The monarch The orange tree The hummingbird The suckle The evening glow Our spirit The kiss Experiment of blue Sinking the growing of memoria Rain grounds the land Seeps crimson musk over sunrise You've witnessed in dreams Cempasuchitl whispering Bulbs of mixed feelings Of rising tomorrows Of flowing lakes into palm trees This is our Los Angeles Our skin pressed upon a grass Pinned over masked tents Throw a pebble into water Watch the ripple of rough yesterdays & blooming manañas |
Print Issue |
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Preview some of the contents of the print issue by clicking on underlined pieces. You can pick up your print issue at Pasadena City College C245 of visit our submittable page to request a FREE copy.
Edgar Archila Incarceration Has Affected Me
Jonathan Avila Incarceration Has Directly Affected My Loved Ones
J. Chau Belong
Chavez Before I Went to Prison
Dan Fitzgerald Three Poems
Areeanna Flores Reflections of an Incarcerated Mother
Anthony Francoso Love Letter
Christian Garibay My Name is Christian Garibay
Adolfo Angel Garcia Familyarity
Natalia Garcia An Elegy for the Tia I Never Knew
Angela Gonzalez I Know I'll Be Ok
Jazz The Art of Healing
James M. I Can Remember
David Moore The Effects of Incarceration and the Process of Healing
Anthony Mondragon To Whom it May Concern
Justin Perez Only Hope
Royce Provost She Echoes
Consuelo Rios Hurt As A Child, Healing As An Adult
Jose Rivas All You Have to Do . . .
Mr. Tezozomoc Tezozomac
Gabriel Villalobos Untitled
Damien Williams The Stories Are True
Jessica Leeth Young Dear Juvenile Hall - and - The Woman I Was
About the PCC CORE Program
The Community Overcoming Recividism through Education (CORE) program and student organization, and the Formerly Incarcerated Radical Scholars Team (FIRST) club, both focus on building community on and off PCC’s campus, that will serve as a means of social, emotional, and academic support for students impacted by incarceration. FIRST board members Laura E. Hayes and Gabriela Vaquerano-Solorzano fostered a strong foundation for these programs to flourish by inspiring students, faculty, and staff with their non-hierarchical philosophy and holistic outlook. After two years of program success, the advocates and student leaders extended the outreach of FIRST by establishing CORE with a commitment to liberation and a commitment to healing people suffering the lasting impacts of incarceration.
Some of the support services that CORE provides are assistance with college enrollment, transfer empowerment, and community leadership opportunities. The program has an established success rate. Previous scholars have gone on to UC Berkeley, UCLA, and Pepperdine, among other four-year institutions.
The Healing Arts Initiative has been student-centered and led in efforts to foster collective liberation through creative expressions. This Inscape Special Publishing Project will amplify untold stories from currently incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, and system impacted people. Commitment to this program outlines abolitionist efforts in cultivating safe communities and empowering environments in the academic setting. Find out more information on our program by visiting pasadena.edu/CORE or follow us on Instagram: @corepcc