Irresistable Revolution

Washington, D.C.: THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 2010 @ 9:30 am
Split This Rock Poetry Festival

Writing from the Margins: Life, Survival, and Healing for Women of Color
(Facilitated by Alison Roh Park)
Thurgood Marshall Center-2

Too often women of color exist at the margins. With a higher likelihood of poverty, low wages, single parenthood, violence, and sexual violence, many women’s lives follow a trajectory of pain and survival without healing. Creative Writing, however, offers tremendous power to heal, by sharing our respective stories and creating dialogue. In this workshop, we will use freewrites, prompts and writing exercises specifically created to elevate the experience and realities of a ethnically, sexually, generationally, and otherwise diverse community of women of color.

Split This Rock Poetry Festival invites poets, writers, artists, activists, dreamers, and all concerned world citizens to Washington, DC, for poetry, community building, and creative transformation as our country continues to grapple with two wars, a crippling economic crisis, and other social and environmental ills. From March 10 through March 13, 2010, the festival will feature readings, workshops, panel discussions, youth programming, film, activism — opportunities to speak out for social justice, imagine a way forward, and celebrate the many ways that poetry can act as an agent for social change.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2010 @ 7:30 pm

Chili Third Thursdays
the monthly salon of food, arts, and celebrating Queens

77-12 35th Avenue, Apt. A12
Jackson Heights, NY 11372

TRAINS: E, F, 7, R, V to 74th Street – Roosevelt. Walk up Roosevelt to 78th Street.
Take left, pass 37th Avenue. Entrance is on the corner of 78th street and 35th ave

RSVP: chilithirdthursdays@gmail.com and
Please print a light food or drink item

This month, we welcome to the stage…

Sunny Knable
Alison Roh Park
Alison Ostergaard

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2010 @ 5 pm

Kundiman & Verlaine present
a night of poetry & libation with

Vijay Seshadri
Alison Roh Park
& Brian Carey Chung

Sunday, February 7
Reading begins at 5 pm
Open Bar, 4 – 5 pm
$5 suggested donation

Verlaine
110 Rivington Street
b/w Ludlow & Essex Sts.
[ directions: F to Delancey or V to 2nd Ave. ]

http://verlainenyc.com/

http://www.kundiman.org