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Sundays- Online Comics Workshop: Stories I Would Tell A Million Times: Creating Comics Rooted in Activism and Personal Experience

Register: Email instructor Ellen Lindner at [email protected] In this online intermediate class taught by uptown cartoonist Ellen Lindner (The Black Feather Falls, Cranklet Chronicles), students will learn all of the skills necessary to take their comics-creation skills to the next level. Topics include book design, layout, storytelling structure, nonfiction reportage and more. This class…

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March 12- Word Up's Census Kickoff Party // Fiesta de inicio del censo en Word Up

March 12- Word Up’s Census Kickoff Party // Fiesta de inicio del censo en Word Up

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March 12th marks the beginning of the census! Join the Word Up collective for this once-in-a-decade event at the Word Up Census Kickoff Party. We’ll celebrate with free food and drinks, performances, book giveaways, and more. Admission is proof that you filled out the census—OR you can fill it out at the bookshop when you arrive!

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February 27- Kiskeya Ayiti: ReImagining Resistance, Revolution and Reconciliation Book & Video Club

February 27- Kiskeya Ayiti: ReImagining Resistance, Revolution and Reconciliation Book & Video Club

February 2020 Book: JACQUES VIAU RENAUD, Poesia Completa

Kiskeya Ayiti: ReImagining Resistance, Revolution and Reconciliation Book & Video Club –  Through book, film and panel discussions, we will dive deep into conversations to unlearn and decolonize healing individually and collectively from the traumas of racism.

Dominicans Love Haitians Movement is an art-based non-profit organization using…

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September 6- Stories I Would Tell a Million Times

September 6- Stories I Would Tell a Million Times

Come one, come all to an opening reception and live reading for “Stories I Would Tell a Million Times. A Show of Nonfiction Comics Narratives From Members of the Word Up Community”. We will celebrate the opening of this show with the participants in a recent class led by local teaching artist Ellen Lindner at Word Up Community Bookshop. Students will present their work in a live reading at 7:30!…

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July 18- No Ashes in the Fire: Darnell L. Moore in conversation with Mychal Denzel Smith When Darnell L. Moore was fourteen, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire.

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