Connect with your community through a hands-on writing workshop. Join Cedric T. Bolon and Kofi Antwi on Saturday, September 21st at 12:00 PM for Poetic Black Fusion writer’s workshop! Poetic Black Fusion is a writers’ workshop that provides access and opportunities to poets of the African diaspora living in Central New York. This program is a social outlet for community members to develop as writers, and express themselves from the page to the stage. This event is free and open to the community.
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The Right To Read Film Screening & Discussion
Join the Syracuse Onondaga County NAACP and Community Folk Art Center for a special screening and panel discussion of The Right To Read. This event is free and open to the public.
Thursday, February 22nd, 5:30 PM
Community Folk Art Center, Black Box Theater & Gallery
Guest panelists for the evening include, Dr. Katrina Allen-White, Principal, Syracuse City School District; Courtney Mauldin, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership in the Teaching and Leadership Department at the Syracuse University School of Education; Carin Reeve, Director of Literacy for the Oswego City School District; and Mary Curcio, New York State Representative for “Read to Them,” Vice President of the Literacy Coalition of Oswego County, member of the advisory board for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library for Oswego County, Executive Director of Victory Transformation, a men’s homeless shelter and former Superintendent, McGraw Central School District, The panel discussion and Q & A session will be moderated by Tanisha M. Jackson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Executive Director of the Community Folk Art Center.
About The Film: The Right To Read, shares the stories of an NAACP activist, a teacher, and two American families who fight to provide our youngest generation with the most powerful foundational indicator of life-long success: the ability to read.
CommuniVersity : Black-Arab Solidarities: A Brief And Interactive History
Wednesday, February, 7th
6:30 PM
Community Folk Art Center, Gallery
| This Event is FREE and Open to the Community
Discussing issues that impact our community – join us for a roundtable discussion hosted as part of CFAC’s CommuniVersity series. This open forum will provide an overview of the history of Black and Arab solidarities in both US national and transnational contexts. Speakers will present research they have conducted on archival resources that showcase a long history of struggle for liberation and justice shared across Black and Arab liberation movements. This event is generously funded by a three-year Mellon Foundation Higher Learning Open Grant.