Category: Other Posts
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Underground Railroad in Philadelphia Schedule of Events
Monday, Sept. 29 William Still: Film & Discussion Tuesday, Sept. 30 William Still: Film & Discussion Thursday, Oct. 2 William Still: Film & Discussion Saturday, Oct. 4 William Still: Film & Discussion Sunday, Oct. 5 William Still: Film & Discussion Wednesday, Oct. 8 William Still: Film & Discussion Thursday, Oct. 9 William Still: Film &…
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Tour the Center City Underground Railroad Sites
Saturday October 25, 2014 Tour Center City Underground Railroad Sites This tour is an introduction to some amazing people, places and events. We will discuss the significance of each site as we drive to places where buildings stood and incidents took place. Gather at Mother Bethel AME Church, 419 S. 6th Street at 12:30pm, bus…
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Artists and Writers/ Words to Wall Collaborations
Moonstone Poetry @ Brandywine Workshop 728 S. Broad Street. Saturday April 12 – 7pm Lamont B. Steptoe on Jayne Cortez A Philadelphia Poetry Day Event Join Lamont Steptoe in discussing Jayne Cortez and other artists who have brought together the arts of language, visual art and music. Jayne Cortez was an African-American poet, activist, small…
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Afghanistan and Gender Equality: A Report from the Front Line
Afghanistan and Gender Equality: A Report from the Front Line with Budd MacKenzie Budd MacKenzie is founder of Trust in Education (TIE), a grass roots, non-profit, secular, people to people organization, returned recently from his fifteenth trip to Afghanistan, taken over the past 8 years. TIE has helped educate thousands of Afghan children, over 50%…
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MPS: April Linder w/ Angela Canales and Bernadette McBride
Tuesday, October 30, 7pm – Poetry Moonstone Poetry Series Presents Mentor and Mentored April Lindner with Angela Canales and Bernadette McBride April Lindner is the author of Jane, a contemporary retelling of the classic novel Jane Eyre, published by Poppy, and of Catherine, a Wuthering Heights retelling, due out in early 2013. She is also…
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Ben Taylor author of Apocalypse on the Set: Nine Disastrous Film Productions ($27.95 Overlook Press)
Sunday April 29, 2pm – Non-Fiction Ben Taylor author of Apocalypse on the Set: Nine Disastrous Film Productions ($27.95 Overlook Press) Describes the stories behind eight of the most calamitous movie productions in history, including The Adventures of Baron Munchauseen, The Twilight Zone: The Movie:, Apocalypse Now and Pulgasari, a North Korean monster movie conjured…
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David Buuck & Brian Teare-Poetry
Thursday February 23, 7pm-Poetry David Buuck & Brian Teare David Buuck author of The Shunt ($15 Palm Press) speaks on Occupy Oakland and Police Brutality. “David Buuck’s first book is exquisitely focused and honed in on the torment of being alive in the world we live in, a citizen of the evil state of America.…
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Brenda Dixon Gottschild author of Joan Myers Brown & The Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina
Saturday, January 14, 2pm – Non-Fiction Brenda Dixon Gottschild author of Joan Myers Brown & the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina ($27.00 Palgrave Macmillan) Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown’s personal and professional histories reflect both the hardships and the accomplishments of African…
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Ewuare Osayande author of Whose America?
Tuesday, January 10, 7pm – Poetry Ewuare Osayande author of Whose America? New and Selected Poems Writing in the socially-engaged poetic tradition of Langston Hughes and Walt Whitman, Ewuare X. Osayande unleashes his latest book of poems, Whose America?, that takes on the political climate of this country and garners the praises of two living…