What we know is this: storytellers are sacred, yet often we labor in silos of silence.
Too many of us spend more time chasing the means to create than we do creating. And though our region is steeped in a deep, undeniable literary tradition, there are too few spaces (like actual spaces owned by us), and too little funding (like who solely funds writers in our region?) for our genres, visions, and voices to harmonize and blend.
This evening, we gather to change that.
Join us for a sacred convening of word workers from playwrights and poets, screenwriters to novelists, essayists to truth-tellers — in a matchmaking of the literary minded. Together, we will explore wordwork as ritual and storytelling as holy and undeniable while listening to various drummers.
While we drink the drum by Batala & Karen Smith, enjoy the soft opening of our new cafe and local drummers of different backgrounds throughout the evening.
Hosted by Jeannine A. Cook, of Harriett’s Bookshop, as she kicks off her debut novel tour for Its Me They Follow w/ several special guests and friends.
Harriett's Bookshop
258 East Girard Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19125
Free admission
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