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FREE EVENT! CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH THROUGH LITERATURE

Saturday, February 26, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM (ET)

Corona, United States

Ticket Information

Type Remaining End     Quantity
Workshop 1: Writing Good Poetry by Louis Reyes Rivera   more info 64 tickets Ended Free  
Workshop 2: Community Publishing by Ron Kavanaugh   more info 65 tickets Ended Free  
Workshop 3: Writing for Young Readers is "Something Beautiful," Sharon Dennis Wyeth   more info 68 tickets Ended Free  
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Event Details

  

phati'tude Literary Magazine invites you to attend  

 an exciting day-long celebration that includes: workshops, panel discussion, poetry readings, musical performances, film premiere, book signings

AND the unveiling of the phat'tude Literary Magazine Winter Issue...

 

CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY THROUGH LITERATURE:
From the Harlem Renaissance Movement to Today
VOL. 2, NO. 4 Winter 2010-11 Issue

 edited by
Gabrielle David, Managing Editor
Jennifer Bacon, Associate Editor

 

JOIN US

February 26, 2011, 

10:00am to 4:00pm

at

The Langston Hughes Community Library & Cultural Center

100-01 Northern Boulevard
Corona, Queens, New York 11368
718.651.1100

 

REGISTER  FOR WORKSHOPS

(pre-registration required for all workshops)

  • The Key to Good Writing, Louis Reyes Rivera
  • Community Publishing, Ron Kavanaugh
  • African American Children’s Literature, Sharon Dennis Wyeth\

 

OTHER ACTIVITIES

 

Special Guest Speaker:  Tara Betts

Performance:  Urban Word NYC

Film Premiere:   DUST
a film produced and directed by Shane Book
based on his poetry collection, Ceiling of Sticks (Univ. of Nebraska Press)

winner of the 2009 Prairie Schooner Book Prize

 

Poetry Readings:  phati’tude writers

 

DON'T MISS THIS EXCITING FREE EVENT!

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The First Annual phati’tude African American Literary Festival is a program of the Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS) and is co-sponsored by Queens Library’s Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, with grants received from the New York State Council on the Arts, New York City  Department of Cultural Affairs, New York City Council Discretionary Grant from Councilmember Julissa Ferreras, Queens Library, Library Action Committee of Corona-East Elmhurst, Inc. and private donations and contributions.
 
The Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS) is sincerely grateful for its sponsors: National Writers Union (NWA), HarperCollins Publishers, Scholastic, Inc., Duke University Press, Pepsi Bottling Company of New York and  Frito-Lay, with funding made possible, in part, by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and private donations and contributions.

When & Where


100-01 Northern Boulevard
Corona, 11368

Saturday, February 26, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM (ET)


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phati'tude Literary Magazine, established in 1997, is an internationally-acclaimed magazineis published by The Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS), a NY-based nonprofit organization founded in 2000 to foster understanding of and respect for cultural diversity through literature and media literacy. To reach the broadest audience possible, the IAAS collaborates with artists, scholars and community organizations to advance the art of writing as essential to a good education and to promote literary talent and achievement.  Over the past ten years, the IAAS has built an enviable reputation for staging exciting and innovative literary programs that engage the public with issues and ideas from differing perspectives. The IAAS remains committed to introducing new and diverse literatures and multicultural literary resources into the public discourse.  For more information, visit our website at www.theiaas.org.