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Spring Literature Workshop
Presented by the Literary Freedom Project
April 12, 13, 15,
19, 20, & 22; 5:30-7pm
This 6-session professional-development workshop will give attendees the opportunity to
explore a wide variety of subjects.
Registrants will receive a complimentary
subscription to
Mosaic.
New York City Stories
A
historical look at the rich history of New York City's culture and
diversity, from the Civil War Draft Riots of 1863 to the World Trade
Center Attack.
Caribbean Writers
This workshop will explore immigration and alienation as recurrent
themes in literature from Caribbean writers.
African American Humanities
Educators will
discuss how to seamlessly integrate era driven literature and history to
strengthen students’ understanding of history.
Harlem Renaissance Poets
Artistic movement
spurring African American and Caribbean American thought post World War
I through the Great Depression
Dramatic Literature and Technology
Think
critically about character motivation, central conflict, setting, space,
and context.
African American Women Writers
The power of literacy, seeking independence and discovering “self” are
recurrent themes in writings of African American women.
Registration: $30
The workshop is limited to
15 participants
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/612912237
Location
Hostos Community College
450 Grand Concourse
Bronx NY 10451
Public programs are made possible, in part, with grants
from the Bronx Council on the Arts and Poets & Writers |
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seeks to restore the importance of reading books as
an essential tool for creating intelligent,
productive, and engaged young people.
Towards this goal, LFP publishes
Mosaic Literary Magazine; develops
literature-based lesson plans and
workshops; and hosts the
Mosaic Literary Conference, an annual
literature-education event.
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Tenth National
Black Writers’ Conference
And We Heard the
Thunder: Black Writers Reconstructing Memories and
Lighting the Way
Thursday, March 25 - Sunday, March 28 2010
Medgar Evers College,
The City University of New York
The Center for Black
Literature
Medgar Evers College, CUNY
1650 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11225
Phone: 718.804.8884
www.mec.cuny.edu/blacklitcenter
The 20th Annual Gwendolyn
Brooks Conference
for Black Literature and Creative
Writing
Builder of Positive Reality: A Celebration of the Lifelong
Achievements of Dr. Haki R. Madhubuti
Featuring the legendary
Nikki Giovanni
Also featuring: Angela Jackson, Jan Carew, John Fountain, Staceyann
Chin, Nnedi Okorafor, R. Dwayne Betts, Malik Yusef, Roger
Bonair-Agard and many others.
April 1-3, 2010
Chicago State University
Cordell Reed Student Union Rotunda
95th Street & King Drive
Chicago, Illinois 60628-1598
For schedule information, go to:
www.csu.edu/gwendolynbrooks.
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The Literary Freedom Project is
a 501(c)3 tax-exempt not-for-profit arts organization, established
in 2004, that supports the literary arts through education,
creative thinking, and new media.
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Towards this goal, The Literary Freedom Project publishes
Mosaic Literary Magazine; develops
literature-based lesson plans and
workshops; and hosts the
Mosaic Literary Conference, an annual literature-education
conference.
Mosaic is funded in part by the Bronx
Council on the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Public programs were funded in part by
Poets & Writers, Inc. through
public funds from the New York State Department of Cultural
Affairs. In-kind support provided by Google.
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