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  • Moonstone December Poetry 2014

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    Wednesday December 3, 7pm – Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub (1214 Sansom Street) Ivan Taub and notable Philadelphia actors: Mark Knight, Gina Martino, and Ethan Lipkin, will read poems from the collection Speed Limit 225 ($14.95 Moonstone), and if the stars are favorably aligned that night, perform a section (or two) from Taub’s newest play The…

  • SOS-Calling All Black People: A Black Arts Movement Reader

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    Sunday November 2, 2014-3pm Brandywine Workshop, 728 S. Broad Street Join John H. Bracey Jr., Sonia Sanchez and James Smethurst the editors for the Philadelphia launch of SOS-Calling All Black People: A Black Arts Movement Reader This volume brings together a broad range of key writings from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and…

  • Stories from the Underground Railroad: A Family Program

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    Saturday October 18, 2014 11am & 12 noon – Independence Seaport Museum 211 South Christopher Columbus Boulevard Stories from the Underground Railroad: A Family Program Free with Museum Admission The inspiring story of brave people compelled to act in the face of injustice, risking their livelihoods, their families, and their lives in the cause of…

  • The Underground Railroad, the Civil Rights Movement & Today

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    Wednesday October 15, 2014 7:00pm – Brandywine Workshop, 728 S. Broad Street The Underground Railroad, the Civil Rights Movement & Today   The Emancipation Proclamation was issued on January 1, 1863 but that was just the tipping point. Emancipation was the result of a grass roots mass movement of more than thirty years and hundreds…

  • Ruthanne Lum McCunn: Chinese Yankee – A True Story

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    Chinese Yankee A True Story from the U.S. Civil War by Ruthanne Lum McCunn Thursday October 30, 2014   7 pm – Brandywine Workshop, 728 S Broad Street   The true story of Hong Kong born Thomas Sylvanus (Ah Yee Way), an orphan brought to America for schooling in the mid-1850s, but enslaved in Baltimore.…

  • Phong Nguyen, Kevin Grauke & Hilary Plum

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    Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street.    Wednesday June 4, 2014 – 7pm Phong Nguyen is the author of Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History (Queen’s Ferry Press, 2014) and Memory Sickness and Other Stories (Elixir Press, 2011), and Editor of Pleiades and Pleiades Press, for which he edited the volume Nancy…

  • Mentor & Mentored with Jeffrey Ethan Lee with Lori-Nan Engler

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    Moonstone Poetry Series Presents Mentor and Mentored An intergenerational poetry series that presents both the mentor and the mentored: how does poetry travel from generation to generation, what are the themes, the sounds, what changes and what stays the same. Filmed with a live audience at the PhillyCAM Studio, the program will be edited and…

  • An Evening with Dr. Ja A. Jahannes

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    Moonstone Poetry @ Brandywine Workshop 728 S. Broad Street www.moonstoneartscenter.com – 215-735-9600   Monday May 5 2014, 7 pm An Evening with Dr. Ja A. Jahannes Presented by Moonstone Arts Center, Brandywine Workshop, The Brothers Network & Lincoln Alumni Association   Ja A. Jahannes latest book is Truthfeasting, he is a novelist, poet, playwright, essayist,…

  • Poetic Quid Pro Quo

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    Wednesday May 7, 2014 – 7pm – Poetic Quid Pro Quo? Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street Another poet reads your poem, then you read it. How does it sound, does it say what you wanted it to say? Then you read someone else’s poem – Elijah B. Pringle, III host

  • MARGENTO & Martin Woodside

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    Moonstone Poetry @ Brandywine Workshop 728 S. Broad Street. Saturday April 5 – 7pm  Athanor & Other Pohems by Romanian poet Gellu Naum,  Translated & Performed by MARGENTO  and Martin Woodside   MARGENTO (Chris Tanasescu) is a poet, academic, translator, and poetry performer whose pen-name is also the name of his poetry/action painting/jazz-rock band. Chris…