Deborah Ramos Features at Palabra!

Mark your February calendars for Palabra’s next feature!
We will be giving the spotlight to Deborah Ramos @debramospoeticart a long-time Palabra attendee and an integral artistic force in our community. Come be empowered and inspired with us.
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Thursday, Feb 26th 7pm
Bread & Salt
@breadandsalt_sandiego
1955 Julian Ave, San Diego CA 92113
FREE
open mic sign-up at 6:30pm
(more details on the open mic format at the top of our IG page @palabrasandiego)

Bio:
Deborah Ramos, is a San Diego poet and artist, emerged from the grassroots resistance of the 1960s and 70s. During the Viet Nam War, she joined local activists, setting railroad tracks on fire in Del Mar to halt the transport of weapons, and later advocated for women seeking safe abortions as part of the movement for reproductive freedom in California. Believing in alternative education, she taught art for the Ocean Beach Free School, holding classes outdoors at picnic tables. She went on to study art, textiles, and costume design at SDSU, and ultimately spent more than twenty years as an educator working with Special Needs students.
Deborah continues to voice her protest, passion, and reverence for the sacred through her art and poetry.
She is the author of from the earthen drum of my body, and her work explores the sacred feminine, primal desires, this crumbling earth, roadkill, and her cats. She co-curates the Electric Womb, an art collective supporting womyn creatives. Her artistic life weaves together travel, writing, the exhibition of her art and photography, and the hosting of Poets at the Grove reading series in Balboa Park.