MOSAIC LITERARY CONFERENCE: BLACK UTOPIA Health • Art • Activism
Saturday, December 12, 2020, 3pm The
2020 Mosaic Literary Conference: Black Utopia will explore the idea of
how our futures can be explored through health, education, art, and
activism; and present a cohort of creative thinkers and scholars who
will share how we can envision, explore, and expand discussions around
urban environments, creative practice, and health & healing. | The
annual Mosaic Literary Conference presents a variety of topical,
historical, and culturally themed panels and workshops that connect to
our South Bronx community and reflect the issues that both elevate and
oppress local citizens --development, crime, and technology among other
subjects. MLC provides a platform for literature-based creative thinking
and knowledge sharing, and invites educators, parents, community and
arts organizations to take part in a series of programs that build
social engagement and develop education strategies. FREE EVENT
Go to www.MosaicLitCon.com to register. | GIVE TO THE LITERARY FREEDOM PROJECT For
20 years, the Literary Freedom Project has been committed to creating
spaces that center literature and explore cultural narratives that help
build pride for Black and Latinx culture. DONATIONS EQUAL FREEDOM.
Freedom to buy and distribute books, present programs, and support
alternative spaces. Your donation is crucial to sustaining our
independence. Please take a moment, and give what you can. Every and any
amount makes a difference. | Your donation will help One Book One Bronx,
the free community book club we started in 2018, expand to a third
location and continue a separate Zoom book club (assuming the quarantine
will end one day). Your gift will grow the Mosaic Literary Conference
and increase our ability to influence how educators can use our
socially engaged lessons to elevate community dialogues related to
social engagement, criminal justice, and women empowerment, among other
subjects. | Casita Maria Book Club: How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones DISCUSSION DATES
WEDNESDAYS 7-830p
November 18, 25, December 2, & 9, 2020
To purchase books visit www.bookshop.org/lists/one-book-one-bronx
Borrow the book through Libby or NYPL CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Through
a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American
landscape, Jones draws readers into his boyhood and adolescence--into
tumultuous relationships with his family, into passing flings with
lovers, friends, and strangers. Each piece builds into a larger
examination of race and queerness, power and vulnerability, love and
grief: a portrait of what we all do for one another--and to one
another--as we fight to become | UP NEXT
One Book One Bronx: The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle DISCUSSION DATES
TUESDAYS 7-830p
December 15, 22, & 29, 2020
To purchase books visit www.bookshop.org/lists/one-book-one-bronx
Borrow the book through Libby or NYPL CLICK HERE TO REGISTER In
the wake of the hit HBO sci-fi drama Lovecraft Country, One Book One
Bronx will focus on Victor LaValle's The Ballad of Black Tom. One of
NPR's Best Books of 2016, winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, the
British Fantasy Award, the This is Horror Award for Novella of the Year,
and a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, and Bram
Stoker Awards People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles
Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his
father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows
what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide,
and the curse written on his skin that attracts the eye of wealthy white
folks and their cops. But when he delivers an occult tome to a
reclusive sorceress in the heart of Queens, Tom opens a door to a deeper
realm of magic and earns the attention of things best left sleeping. A storm that might swallow the world is building in Brooklyn. Will Black Tom live to see it break? | All One Book One Bronx Zoom discussions are recorded and presented on YouTube. The sessions help extend our community. Click here to view. | BEYOND WORDS BOOK CLUB
Join Barbara Keihani as she leads her popular new book club through an exploration of Toni Cade Bambara's Gorilla, My Love Zoom dates: Tuesdays 7pm: 11/17, 24, 12/1, & 8
Click here to purchase or borrow the book To participate DM Barbara at bkld99@gmail.com In
these fifteen superb stories, written in a style at once ineffable and
immediately recognizable, Toni Cade Bambara gives us compelling
portraits of a wide range of unforgettable characters, from sassy
children to cunning old men, in scenes shifting between uptown New York
and rural North Carolina. A young girl suffers her first betrayal. A
widow flirts with an elderly blind man against the wishes of her
grown-up children. A neighborhood loan shark teaches o white social
worker a lesson in responsibility. And there is more. Sharing the world
of Toni Cade Bambara's "straight-up fiction" is a stunning experience. After hosting intelligent and intimate discussions of Toni Morrison's God Help the Child and Difficult Women by Roxanne Gaye, Beyond Words takes on another classic text. Join them! | All
Casita Maria Center for Arts & Education programs, exhibitions, and
events are family-friendly and welcoming to all communities. During the
Casita Maria Book Club, we ask that you refrain from using any
inappropriate language including curse words, derogatory slang, and
sexual innuendos as well as any language or actions that could be
interpreted as racist, sexist, anti-LGBTIQ, derogatory, ageist,
misogynistic, violent or that depict individuals under the influence of
drugs or alcohol. | One
Book One Bronx is a program of the Literary Freedom Project. Programs
are supported, in part, by the New Yankee Stadium Community Benefits
Fund, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, donations, Humanities New York, and Citizens Committee of New York City. In-kind support is provided by BronxArtSpace. | |
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