Hedreen Gallery Offers Free Lunch Friday
Image courtesy of Seattle U.
With a standing tradition of offering no-cost meals, served with a side of thoughtful, insightful, and generally delightful conversation with artists of many disciplines, the Hedreen Gallery is a beloved gathering space for an in-the-know multi-media crowd. And now that you're in the know, you can take advantage of the fact that lunch season, like school but more fun, is back in session.
Even if you're not a college student (and haven't been for years), you can still clear your calendar Friday from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. to be enjoy lunch with poets and musicians. The meal happens at the Hedreen's at Capitol Hill location, and is hosted by Nadine Antoinette Maestas and M. Thompson. Maestas (no relation to El Centro's Roberto that we know of) is a poet's poet, as well as an avid mountain biker who teaches at the UW and is active with SPLAB. She's also the the co-author of Beneath the Bright Discus (Potes & Poets Press, 2000), and basically exactly the kind of person you'd like to share lunch with.
Thompson suffers from severe wanderlust--he's a traveling musician who has previously worked in the south of France as an organic farmer, a working artist in Berlin, and a writer all over. He's the author of Unsaid, Everyday Genius, Used Furniture Review, Spork, and a collection of his work was shortlisted for NMP/DIAGRAM's Chapbook Prize.
With all that experience in the room (along with that of what is a pretty diverse group of Hedreen lunch regulars) it makes us think that this could be some of the best lunch conversation we've had in a while.
