Sarah Hennessey and Friends Storytelling, Poetry, and Performance with Fishtrap’s Spring Writer-in-Residence

Fishtrap’s Spring Writer-in-Residence, Nimíipuu / Nez Perce artist Sarah Hennessey, leads an evening of storytelling, poetry, and more Friday, May 19 at Fishtrap. Special guests include participants in Sarah’s improvisation workshop, as well as students from some of the Wallowa County classrooms she visited during her five-week residency.
 
Sarah Hennessey is a poet, performer, playwright, and youth empowerment theater practitioner. From mid-April to mid-May Sarah is teaching in Wallowa County schools, leading an improv acting workshop, and spending time writing inspired by the landscape of her Nimíipuu / Nez Perce homeland. Sarah’s work highlights the symbiosis of storytelling and language reclamation. By integrating her penchant for literature and performance into her educational outreach, Sarah infuses her instruction with traditional and contemporary storytelling techniques. Her work has been published in literary journals such as Yellow Medicine Review and Pork Belly Press. Her first short play Weet’u Naqaacnim ‘iceyeeye’ (Not My Grandmother’s Coyote) was featured in Lewis-Clark State College’s Humanifest in Spring of 2021.
 
Fishtrap’s Writer-in-Residence program is sponsored in part by Kokanee Inn and Oregon Arts Commission.