About this Event
WHO & WHAT: Join Rep Club for a discussion on with author Lauren Morrow & moderator Dominique Clayton.
WHEN: Doors at 6:30pm, event promptly at 7pm.
WHERE: Reparations Club, 3054 S. Victoria Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90016
HOW:
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About the Book:
A PAGE-TURNING, TENDERHEARTED DEBUT ABOUT A BLACK WOMAN WHO IS FINALLY GIVEN A CHANCE TO PURSUE HER DREAM OF BECOMING A RENOWNED CHOREOGRAPHER, ONLY TO FIND THAT IT COMES AT A TREMENDOUS PERSONAL COST
Layla Smart was raised by her pragmatic Midwestern mother to dream medium. But all Layla’s ever wanted is a career in dance, which requires dreaming big. So when she receives a prestigious offer to be the choreographer-in-residence at Briar House, an arts program in rural Vermont, she leaves behind Brooklyn, her job, her friends, and her husband to pursue it.
Navigating Briar House and the small, white town that surrounds it proves difficult—Layla wants to create art for art’s sake and resist tokenization, but the institution’s director keeps encouraging Layla to dig deep into her people’s history. Still, the mental and physical demands of dancing spark a sharp, unexpected sense of joy, bringing into focus the years she’d distanced herself from her true calling for the sake of her marriage and maintaining the status quo.
Just as she begins to see her life more clearly, she discovers a betrayal that proves the cracks in her marriage were deeper than she ever could have known. Then Briar House’s dangerously problematic past comes to light. And Layla discovers she’s pregnant. Suddenly, dreaming medium sounds a lot more appealing.
Poignant, propulsive, and darkly funny, Little Movements is a novel about self-discovery, about what we must endure—or let go of—in order to realize our dreams.
LAUREN MORROW is the author of the novel Little Movements, which was named a Best Book of the Fall by People, Oprah Daily, Ebony, Los Angeles Times, Bustle, and more. She studied dance and creative writing at Connecticut College and earned an MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writers' Program. She was a Kimbilio Fellow, an Aspen Words Emerging Writer Fellow, and the recipient of two Hopwood Awards, among other prizes. Her writing has appeared in Ploughshares and the South Carolina Review. She worked in publicity at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and is now a publicity manager at Dutton, Plume, and Tiny Reparations Books. Originally from St. Louis, she lives in Brooklyn.
DOMINIQUE CLAYTON is an arts consultant, writer, and gallerist born and raised in Los Angeles. Clayton is the founder of Dominique Gallery, a storefront and pop-up exhibition and online program which showcases and advises emerging artists, marginalized artists and artists raising families. In addition to the gallery, Clayton often serves as a guest curator, most recently organizing the group exhibition Ode to Dena: Black Artistic Legacies of Altadena now on view at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles and the current exhibition Giving You The Best That I Got on view at Art + Practice. Clayton also serves on the curatorial and programming committee of Destination Crenshaw, a forthcoming outdoor art museum and arts program based in the historic Crenshaw community of Los Angeles. Clayton previously worked as Manager of the Founding Director’s office at The Broad and later as an interim director at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery. Her arts management journey started at the Brooklyn Academy of Music where she oversaw a global array of multi-disciplinary talents. Her arts writing has been featured in publications including Cultured Magazine, LALA Magazine, Artsy, Sugarcane Magazine, and her own forthcoming publication.
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Reparations Club, 3054 South Victoria Avenue, Los Angeles, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 34.73
