FREE
Black History Month Reading & Open Mic
Don’t miss IWWG’s Black History Month special event Sunday, February 19 at 2pm eastern! We’re excited to feature a reading from Ladysitting with Lorene Cary, moderated by Dorothy Randall Gray. Q&A and Open Mic to follow.
Lorene Cary writes--memoirs: Black Ice, about attending St. Paul’s School in the 1970s, and Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century; novels: The Price of a Child, named One Book One Philadelphia; Pride; and If Sons, then Heirs. Plays: My General Tubmanat Arden Theatre in Winter 2020; Ladysitting, following a recital opera version, is under contract with Arden now. Also under contract: the libretto for Jubilee!, with composer Damien Geter for Portland Opera. Cary teaches Creative Writing at UPenn and directs #VoteThatJawnto bring Philly youth to the polls. Read more at www.lorenecary.com.
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Dorothy is author of the acclaimed bestseller, Soul Between The Lines: Freeing Your Creative Spirit Through Writing (Avon/HarperCollins.) She was recently appointed Los Angeles Poet-in-Residence, and has been a contributor to the NY Times, Conditions, Personal Journaling, Heart&Soul, Drum Voices, SisterFire, HealthQuest and many other anthologies and periodicals. www.dorothyrandallgray.com