Freedom Rhythms

Saturday September 12 –  2PM to 5PM

Commodore Barry Arts & Cultural Center’s Program

6815 Emlen Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19119 • 215-843-8051

“THESE are the times that try men’s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: It is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to set a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated….”

Thomas Paine THE AMERICAN CRISIS, No. 1, 1776 Dec. 19, 1776 — America’s Forgotten Founding Father

Freedom 250 Years After America’s Revolution

What do poets have to say about this?

We’re hosting this event in collaboration with Commodore Barry Arts & Cultural Center’s Program, including a reading from our Freedom 250? anthology and readings from Philadelphia Poet Laureate and Montgomery County Poets laureates

Dr. Raina J. Leon

David Gines & Chad Frame

Free & Open to the Public