August Watershed Reading

Schedule

Sat, 16 Aug, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Arts + Literature Laboratory | Madison, WI

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Join us on Saturday, August 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM for our August Watershed Reading. This special event—featuring writer adoptees and adopters—was curated by Team 2 of ALL's LAB4 Community Curators. Readers are Leah E. Cooper, LM Brimmer, and Elizabeth and Sylviah Seeliger.
Leah E. Cooper is a writer, director, producer, facilitator, and consultant, based in Saint Paul, MN, whose passion is to activate creativity and collaboration to empower individual and collective vision. She is also the co-Artistic Director for Wonderlust Productions, a multicultural, multidisciplinary performance ensemble that illuminates community stories through collaborative arts experiences, including epic plays, interactive rituals, online video series, a podcast, and most recently, the graphic novel In My Heart: The Adoption Story Project. Originally from Los Angeles, CA, where she was adopted in 1968, she has also been a software engineer, beach bum, and eternal outsider seeking connection. She is currently writing a memoir about imagination and survival.
LM Brimmer is an interdisciplinary artist living on Dakota land in Minneapolis, MN. Co-editor of the anthology Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose and Pride, their poetry has appeared in Colorado Review, Voicemail Poems, Impossible Archetype, Gasher Journal, The B'K', Quarterly West and is forthcoming from Sonora Review. Their book Imagined Child is forthcoming by the Bay Area's Kelsey Street Press. A Randolph College MFA alumni, they are Artistic Director of Queer Voices of Minnesota – a reading series that since 1993 has celebrated and supported queer lives and the writers living them. They teach at Century College and the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities.
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Arts + Literature Laboratory, 111 S. Livingston St. #100,Madison, Wisconsin, United States

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