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SUMMARY:Spotlight on Community Voices: Asphalt Experiences by Ondine LaSa
 lle and frank kensaku saragosa
DESCRIPTION:Home Events Spotlight on Community Voices: Asphalt Experience
 s by Ondine LaSalle and frank kensaku saragosa\\nSpotlight on Community V
 oices: Asphalt Experiences by Ondine LaSalle and frank kensaku saragosa\\
 nAbout Asphalt Experiences:\\nOndine LaSalle\\, musician and writer\\, an
 d frank kensaku saragosa\\, local writer and theater-maker\\, are long-ti
 me friends\\, and they have both experienced homelessness and unstable ho
 using\\, but in very different ways. For this very special evening\\, Ond
 ine and frank kensaku worked with Diversionary’s Wilfred Paloma to shar
 e their art stories and explore what being unhoused looks like from the p
 erspective of people who have been there. LaSalle’s work will narrate h
 er childhood and young adulthood living through housing instability\\, an
 d the relationships she formed with others on the margins. saragosa’s w
 ork will spotlight his experiences as a queer man living unsheltered in d
 owntown San Diego. Life on the margins. Stories people don’t expect. We
  are not telling the story of homelessness\\, we are sharing our stories 
 to help create room for others to share theirs. Early development of sara
 gosa’s work was supported by the generosityy of the William Male Founda
 tion.\\nContent/ Trigger Warning: Frank depictions of homelessness\\, exp
 licit references to drugs\\, drug use\\, especially intravenous use\\, re
 ferences to sex work/ transactional sex\\, references to violence and sui
 cidal ideation.\\nAbout the Artists:\\nfrank kensaku saragosa is a queer 
 San Diego based writer whose work is rooted in his experiences of homeles
 sness\\, addiction\\, criminality and incarceration. He lost a lot of yea
 rs on the streets and behind bars\\, so that’s what he writes about\\, 
 because those years have to mean something\\, right? He has lived much of
  his life out of bounds\\, so he writes in experimental and hybrid forms 
 because he figures why color inside the lines now? Work he wrote in priso
 n won the PEN America Prison Writing Award\\, and since his release\\, he
  was named a LAMBDA Emerging Voices Fellow\\, an Anaphora Arts Fellow and
  won the Ragdale Foundation’s Wauld Fellowship for Formerly Incarcerate
 d Artists. As a theater-maker\\, he was named a Columbia University Assem
 bling Voices Fellow (with Jason Ritchie\\, as the San Diego Unhoused Coll
 ective)\\, a Write it Out! Playwriting Fellow. and has been supported loc
 ally by the William Male Foundation. He has been anthologized in Emerge 2
 023\\, PEN Prison Writing Anthologies\\, and published in Foglifter\\, Ex
 clamation Mark Literary Journal\\, Bicoastal Review\\, and GOAT pol and e
 lsewhere.\\nOndine LaSalle is a San Diego based singer songwriter and com
 munity artist. She was born and raised in the Bay Area\\, and she has bee
 n performing her original music in San Diego on and off over the last twe
 nty years. She has performed with her band at venues all over San Diego i
 ncluding The Holding Company in Ocean Beach\\, Amplified Studios in Carls
 bad\\, New Village Arts in Carlsbad\\, and The Garden Theatre Festival in
  Balboa Park. Ondine is the creator of Salon LaSalle\\, an artists’ sal
 on featuring San Diego’s finest musicians and writers. Ondine got her s
 tart publishing and performing poetry as a young girl\\, and she is curre
 ntly working on a memoir. She has lived experience with poverty\\, unstab
 le housing\\, and homelessness. She lives in North County San Diego with 
 her husband and two sons.\\n+ Add to Google Calendar\\n+ iCal / Outlook e
 xport\\nDate\\nDec 17 2026\\nTime\\n7:00 pm - 9:00 pm\\nMore Info\\nRSVP\
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