Interactive Workshops and Networking Opportunities
For Artists and Cultural Organizations

BBQ for Bloggers & Writers

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An Informal BBQ and networking event for writers and bloggers as part of a new initiative to develop and strengthen the art of writing in the borough of Queens.

Thursday, June 3, 2010, 6pm
LHaus, 1102 49th Avenue, Long Island City, Queens

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Quill: Queens in Love with Literature

Letters to our Mothers: Meera Nair, Arun Storrs, Amy T. Paul, Adhikaar’s Arts and Activism Group, performed by Megha and Shradha Lama

In Letters to our Mothers, five writers celebrate the multi-faceted voices of South Asian women in Queens and what it means to be heard across distance. This rare joint production curated by Adhikaar’s Executive Director Luna Ranjit, in collaboration with Queens Council on the Arts and The Asian American Writers’ Workshop, showcases readings by Asian American Literary Award and PEN/Amazon Award-winning fiction author Meera Nair and poets Arun Storrs and Amy T. Paul. Shardha and Megha Lama—theater members of Adhikaar’s Arts & Activism Program—will perform “I wish I could tell my Aama,” a theater piece incorporating dance and visual arts to tell bridge the difficult distances between mothers and daughters, asking “Aama did I ever tell you, I want to sing?”

Saturday, June 12, 2010, 6pm

TIME // VENUE CHANGE – NEW LOCATION: Jackson Diner, 3747 74th Street, Flushing, NY 11372-6337

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