Category: Special Events
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22nd Annual Poetry Ink – 2018 (reading schedule)
Sunday April 29, 2018 – 12pm 1199C, Hospital Workers Union Headquarters, 1319 Locust Street 22nd Annual Poetry Ink: 100 Poets Reading “Nowhere else in Philly do we get such a wonderful mix of people, voices, and generations. It is an experience in the varieties of personalities as much as in poetry and poetics –…
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The Bucket Cure by Little Sundance Productions
The Bucket Cure by Little Sundance Productions – Theater 10 dates from September 7 2012 – September 22 2012 The Bucket Cure is a tri-fold of different takes on the daily struggles of phobia-ridden characters. Peppered with humor and served along with the dramatic, the three acts of the Bucket Cure will make you laugh…
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Spring Celebration
Buy Tickets Online: For Program Details: Spring Celebration Program For a Printable Ticket/Donation Form: Ticket/Donation Form For Information About the Dinner With Sonia Sanchez: Dinner w/ Sonia Sanchez For Information About Donating for The Auction: Auction Donation Info
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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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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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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.…
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Journey of Mankind
Thursday, May 10 – 7pm Journey of Mankind First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia, 2125 Chestnut Street Screening of the film Journey of Man followed by a discussion on DNA and the myth of race How did the human race populate the world? A group of geneticists have worked on the question for a decade, arriving…