Our Stories Ourselves Writing Workshop: Sherrie Fernandez-Williams
Description: Throughout our lives, we grieve many sorrows – a world in crisis, a chronic illness, a loss of a job, a dream, a loved one – and search for...
Description: Throughout our lives, we grieve many sorrows – a world in crisis, a chronic illness, a loss of a job, a dream, a loved one – and search for...
Join children's authors Mélina Mangal and Sarah Warren in an online conversation about why they write for children, how their biracial backgrounds influence their work, and the challenges and joys of writing fiction and nonfiction. Q&A session to follow. Register Here:https://bit.ly/w2wjan2024 Writer to Writer is a series featuring conversations between Black, Indigenous writers and...
Join artists, educators, activists, and mothers, elder Amoke Kubat and elder-in-the-making, Wisdom Young (Mawusi) as they share, build, and heal about their journeys as Black girls, women, and...
An African proverb says “if you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” This Embracing our Roots event will focus on two...
Join award-winning writers Hawona Sullivan Janzen and Antonio Duke in a conversation on Blackness, history and writing for the stage. As writers, historians, playwrights, actors and scholars, Janzen and Duke believe writing is the only thing that can save us from ourselves. They will discuss their inspirations from the Black spiritual canon...
Please RSVP by email to: wendy@thefriends.org (please specify which workshop you will be attending)
*This is an in-person event* Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/embracing-our-roots-rooted-and-rising-a-conversation-with-dr-yolanda-will-tickets-958655222577?aff=oddtdtcreator Panelist bios: Rev. Yolanda Y. Williams, Ph.D., is a performer, educator, scholar, and pastor. Yolanda performed soprano and mezzo-soprano repertoire with Vocalessence,...