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The Geography Within Us: A Poetry Gathering on Place, Memory, and Belonging
Sat, Oct 17, 9:00 PMPerhaps home is not simply the place we come from. Perhaps it is a language in which our name sounds different. A kitchen where someone knows what we like to eat. A city whose streets our feet remember. A landscape whose seasons still live somewhere in the body. A person beside whom we do not have to explain ourselves. A song that returns us somewhere. Or a place where we arrived as strangers and, slowly, unexpectedly, learned to belong. We carry many geographies within us. The place where we were born. The neighborhood where we grew up. The cities we chose and the ones circumstance chose for us. The landscapes we left behind. The languages through which we learned to understand the world. The people who made unfamiliar places feel like home. Over time, these places become more than locations on a map. They enter our memories, our gestures, our food, our music, our language, even the ways we understand distance and belonging. Sometimes we leave a place and discover that it never entirely leaves us. And sometimes a place we never imagined belonging to becomes part of who we are. **The Geography Within Us** is **a gathering devoted to place, memory, and belonging, and to the many landscapes, languages, people, and journeys that quietly become part of our inner lives**. Together, we will explore not simply where we come from, but the more mysterious question of **what places have become part of who we are.** Across traditions, poets have carried entire worlds within their poems. Mahmoud Darwish carried Palestine through memory and language. Agha Shahid Ali recreated Kashmir across distance and longing. Derek Walcott explored the ways landscape, history, and identity become inseparable. Naomi Shihab Nye finds belonging in family, language, ordinary encounters, and the crossings between cultures. Joy Harjo writes of land, ancestry, memory, and our deep relationship with place. Their poems remind us that geography is not only something outside us. It can also become something we carry within. This gathering asks: **What places have become part of who we are?** **How do landscapes, languages, cities, and communities continue to live within us long after we leave them?** **And how do the places we discover unexpectedly change our understanding of where we belong?** We will read poems about childhood streets and adopted cities, familiar landscapes and distant homelands, kitchens and train stations, migration and arrival, language and memory, journeys and returns, and the unexpected places where belonging finds us. You are welcome to bring: * A poem about a place that has shaped you. * A piece connected to a city, landscape, language, neighborhood, or community you carry within you. * A poem about leaving somewhere, arriving somewhere, or unexpectedly finding a sense of belonging. * A song, photograph, recipe, memory, or passage that transports you to another place. * An original work about a geography, real or imagined, that has become part of who you are. We invite poetry from all languages and traditions. Together, we will read, translate, reflect, and listen, allowing the different geographies we carry to meet in the same room. As always with Kaavya Connections, the gathering may wander beyond the theme. We follow where the poems, memories, and conversations lead. Join us for an afternoon exploring the places that made us, the places that changed us, the places that surprised us, and the places that continue to live quietly within us. Bring a friend, a poem, a place, or simply come to listen. **Above all, bring the worlds you carry within you.** Please find more about us here — Kaavya Connections Website: [https://www.kaavyaconnections.com/](https://www.kaavyaconnections.com/?utm_source=chatgpt.com) Please also join the mailing list for upcoming gatherings and events: [https://www.kaavyaconnections.com/mailing-list/](https://www.kaavyaconnections.com/mailing-list/?utm_source=chatgpt.com) If you would like to volunteer to help organize future gatherings and performances, please email: [contact@kaavyaconnections.com](mailto:contact@kaavyaconnections.com) **Kaavya Connections**
FORT BAKER PAINT OUT! 🧑🎨🎨
Sat, Oct 17, 4:30 PM**[Fort Baker](https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/historyculture/fort-baker.htm)**! Join us for a morning of plein air painting surrounded by some of the Bay Area’s most beautiful sceneryjaker, Sausalito 🕤 9:30 AM–12:30 PM Bring your portable painting setup, stool or chair, and layers—the waterfront can be cool and breezy. Come paint, explore, and enjoy a beautiful morning with fellow plein air painters. All skill levels welcome! 🖌️🌿
Dock of the Bay Sketching
Sat, Oct 24, 5:00 PM**Back by popular demand, our next Marin Sketchers Meet Up takes us again to Sausalito to draw some wonderfully quirky and colorful houseboats on Saturday, October 24th at 10:00am.** **Location:** The entrance to the dock is next to [72 Liberty Dock](https://maps.app.goo.gl/gCevttsuCzqeKmCu9), which is off Gate 5 Rd., off Bridgeway. *[Here's a map.](https://maps.app.goo.gl/gCevttsuCzqeKmCu9)* Let's meet up at 10:00am and throw down sketches at noon. If you are traveling by car, there should be parking at 3030 Bridgeway. *[Here's a map.](https://maps.app.goo.gl/6mw64QHALaDNV4cP8)* **Bring:** • your preferred paper, sketchbook, color media and drawing materials • there are a few benches but bring your small chair for maximum comfort **Also:** • There's a Mollie Stone's Market nearby at 100 Harbor Dr., if you want to grab a coffee, tea or snack before or after sketching. • After our event post your favorite drawing on our MeetUp page. Also post and tag your sketches #MarinSketchers on Instagram. • Find more info at MarinSketchers.com • Call Bill at 415.846.1655, if you need any assistance.
FORT BAKER PAINT OUT! 🧑🎨🎨
Sat, Nov 14, 5:30 PM**[Fort Baker](https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/historyculture/fort-baker.htm)**! Join us for a morning of plein air painting surrounded by some of the Bay Area’s most beautiful sceneryjaker, Sausalito 🕤 9:30 AM–12:30 PM Bring your portable painting setup, stool or chair, and layers—the waterfront can be cool and breezy. Come paint, explore, and enjoy a beautiful morning with fellow plein air painters. All skill levels welcome! 🖌️🌿
Marin Community Recovery Oriented Spaces
Fri, Oct 23, 12:00 AM**Art, wellness, and zero pressure.** Come for the icebreakers, stay for the creative vibes, and leave your worries at the park bench. Recovery is better together! 🎨✨
Drink & Draw 21+ In San Francisco Every 3rd Thursday! FREE to join!
Fri, Oct 16, 1:00 AMGrab your art supplies and come join us for a community Drink & Draw at 540 Bar in San Francisco to join.21+ FREE TO JOIN (but please 2 drink boozy/not min to support our local only small businesses) All levels of skills are welcome! Every 3rd Thursdays 6-8pm 21+ RSVP to let me know you’re coming! These activities are free because we pay for them, please support by: Grabbing a beverage or few (boozy or not) to support the bar, who lets us use the space on the monthly! They’re a small business owned by a trio of Richmond neighbors 💕 This is a labor of love by me (Risa) Supplies and cost of running this event are out of pocket. If you liked the event and would like to donate please venmo @Risa-Culbertson much appreciated! I’ll keep this running for as long as i can! Follow us on IG @Risa_Iwasaki_Culbertson @540bar We’re small businesses/ local artists. Come hang!
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