Support The Historic Afrikan Poetry Theatre At Prologue: A Dedication, Reading and Ritual

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Help Raise Funds To Restore The Afrikan Poetry Theatre

Organized as part of the inaugural Southeast Queens Biennial: A Locus of Moving Points, Prologue honors the history of Southeast Queens and holds space for the future of the region’s literary community.

 Poets Amber Atiya, Desiree C. Bailey, Sherese Francis and Bob McNeil will read work engaging with Black diaspora and ancestry, intersectionality, and the personal and collective histories coming out of Southeast Queens.

Artist Damali Abrams the Glitter Priestess will perform a tea ritual for healing at intermission. The program is presented by the 2017 No Longer Empty Curatorial Lab (NLE Lab) in partnership with J. Expressions, a Southeast Queens Pop Up bookshop and mobile library project founded by Sherese Francis.

Prologue is dedicated to the Afrikan Poetry Theater in Jamaica, Queens, which recently suffered a devastating fire.

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The Afrikan Poetry Theatre is a cultural anchor in Southeast Queens: a non-profit co-founded by the late Yusef Waliyaya and the late John Watusi Branch that has been serving the Jamaica, Queens community and beyond for over 40 years. The APT provides a range of cultural activities and serves as a gathering place for people of all ages and cultural backgrounds, offering a safe haven for young people to socialize, study and build skills. This event is free. Registration is required.

Date: April 7

Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Cost: Free

Event Categories: Arts/Entertainment, Poetry / Spoken Word

Website: https://www.nolongerempty.org/event/prologue-dedication-reading-ritual/

Venue: Chapel of the Three Sisters York College Campus Jamaica, NY 11433 United    

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