PHOTOS: My Austin Vida, Historias of Resilience Personal Essay Reading Event
Our essayists shared their experiences of identity, community, belonging, and Austin Latinidad through the lens of resilience.
We recently hosted our first personal essay reading event – Historias of Resilience – co-sponsored by Red Salmon Arts. Our gente gathered for an afternoon of historias, comunidad, and celebration! We enjoyed music by Frederico7, paletas by Mom & Pops All Natural Frozen and aguas frescas by Austin AF.
Mil gracias to our essayists Isadora Day, Kessly Salinas, Tomas Salas, y Liliana Valenzuela for sharing your stories, and of course to all of our Austin Vida familia for coming out to support us! All photos by Mari G. Hernandez for Austin Vida.
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