About this Event
The Free Black Women's Library is a literary hub, reading room, Black Feminist archive, and community care space that features a free store, period pantry, backyard garden, reading club, weekly book swap, and a wide array of free public programs, as well as a collection of over 5000 books written by Black women and Black nonbinary authors.
This social art project was created by artist and cultural worker OlaRonke Akinmowo in 2015, and is funded by merchandise sales and direct donations.
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*What Divides or Unites Us: A Storytelling Workshop is a 90-minute lecture and writing workshop that educates attendees on the forces that sow division in our communities. Following the lecture presentation, attendees will be instructed to pair up with someone they don't yet know and move through short order poetry exercises with their partner.
Through the workshop, the attendees will exercise their muscles in deep listening, effective and sincere communication, and artistic transformation of everyday narratives.
The attendees will ideally leave the event stronger poets and better neighbors.
Bio:
Ashley-Devon Williamston is an anthropoetic storyteller dividing their time between applied social research and their contemporary storytelling incubator, Sprouted Seeds Media. Through creative writing, they illuminate the nuances of the human experience. Their writing appears in the Sprouts Substack, Brooklyn Poets, Oroboro, Transforming Anthropology, African-American Review, The Rumpus, and beyond.
Event venue & nearby stays
The Free Black Women's Library Reading Room, 226 Marcus Garvey Blvd, Brooklyn, United States
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