Category: Moonstone Arts Center Events
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Elliott Levin & ASCHAK and Friends
Thursday, May 17, 9pm – Poetry & Music – BYOB – $5 Suggested Contribution Elliott Levin & ASCHAK and Friends Aschak, poet and artist, was born in Trinidad but has long been a Philadelphia resident. Besides writing and performing his poetry, he has organized readings and brought poetry to the schools. His paintings can be…
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Race in America: A Discussion with Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Clarence Page and Linn Washington
Thursday, May 3 – 7pm Race in America: A Discussion with Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Clarence Page and Linn Washington District 1199C Philadelphia Headquarters, 1319 Locust Street Erica Armstrong Dunbar specializes in 19th Century African American History and is author of A Fragile Freedom. Clarence Page is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist of The Chicago Tribune…
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Leroy “Satchel” Paige: Long Rifle – A one man performance by Cedric Liqueur
Saturday, May 5, 8pm – Theater – $3.50 ticket Leroy “Satchel” Paige: Long Rifle – A one man performance by Cedric Liqueur It is estimated that Leroy “Satchel” Paige was born on July 7, 1906. The mere idea that his birthday is an estimate provides perfect evidence to the mystery that was Satchel Paige. In…
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The Taller de Gráfica Popular
Sunday, May 6, 2pm – Exhibit, Film & Discussion The Taller de Gráfica Popular, El Sole Sale Para Todos, Aqui Estamos, Blue Corn Alianza & Cenzontle Cuicatl – Produced in cooperation with De Pueblo a Pueblo The Taller de Gráfica Popular (People’s Graphic Workshop) was an artist’s print collective founded in Mexico in 1937 by…
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An Evening with Tim Wise
Sunday, May 6 – 7pm – $10 Admission An Evening with Tim Wise District 1199C Philadelphia Headquarters, 1319 Locust Street Tim Wise author of Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority and White Like Me is among the most prominent anti-racist writers and educators in the United States, and Michael Eric Dyson has called, …
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Who Am I? The Poetry of Identity
Monday, May 7 – 7pm Who Am I? The Poetry of Identity Moonstone Arts Center, 110A S. 13th A Poetry reading by Sonia Sanchez, Lamont Steptoe, Daniel Abdah-Hayy Moore, Hanock Guy and open reading How do we identify ourselves? Others? By our ethnicity? Our gender? Our age? What makes us who we are? This is…
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Eduardo Bechara Baracat & Eduardo Bechara Navratilova
Tuesday, May 8 – 7pm – Poetry Eduardo Bechara Baracat & Eduardo Bechara Navratilova Eduardo Bechara Baracat was born in Deán Funes, Cordoba (Argentina) in 1975. He´s the son of a Syrian descendent father and mother, and has a bachelor in Business Administration (Universidad Blas Pascal), Cordoba, Argentina. During 2003 and 2004, he studied in…
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Martin R. Delany and the Birth of Black Nationalism
Wednesday, May 9 – 2:30pm Martin R. Delany and the Birth of Black Nationalism Paley Library Lecture Hall, 1210 Polett Walk A lecture by Molefi Kete Asante, professor, department of African American Studies at Temple University and author of over 70 books including 100 Greatest African Americans, Erasing Racism, and African American History: Journey of…
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An Afternoon with William Ayers
Wednesday, May 9 – 4pm An Afternoon with William Ayers Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce Street, Hall of Flags “To Teach represents a fresh breeze in the educational and social science research community.” Elliot Eisner, Professor Emeritus of Art, Stanford University For More Information: www.moonstoneartscenter.com/martindelany
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Martin Delany & The Politics of Identity
Wednesday, May 9 – 6pm Martin R. Delany & The Politics of Identity Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Panel with Molefi Kete Asante, historian, author of 100 Greatest African Americans; Alondra Nelson, sociologist, editor of Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DMA, Race, and History; William Ayers, educator, author of Race Course.…