For immediate release — May 18, 2010
(DALLAS) — A free, family-friendly event presented by the Dallas County Community College District’s African American Read-In will give community members and residents of South Side on Lamar a chance to meet and visit with a variety of writers, poets and artists on Saturday, May 22, from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. The event — which features local authors, plus performance and visual artists — will be held in the Jeanette Kennedy Gallery, South Side on Lamar, 1409 S. Lamar St., in Dallas. The general public is invited to attend.
During a writers’ walk, authors literally take a walk through a room or across stage, stopping along the way to tell audience members about their works and the stories behind their writing.
DCCCD WritersWalk participants will include:
- Dr. Cordell Adams, “Light Bread”;
- Dr. Njoki McElroy, “1012 Natchez: A Memoir of Grace, Hardship and Love”;
- Michael Guinn, nationally acclaimed performance poet,
http://www.mikeguinn.com;
- Sarah Mainor (daughter of the late Texas poet laureate Rayfer Mainor), “Mammoth Melting Sugar” (a book of poetry);
- D.T. Pollard, “Obama: Guilty of Being President While Black,”
http://www.dtpollard.com; and
- Derron Strickland, “Foundations,”
http://www.dsfoundations.com.
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The featured exhibition, titled “Dallas: Living, Dreaming and Rebuilding,” shares photos and art inspired by the lives of residents from Dallas’ South Side neighborhood; proceeds from a May 27 reception will benefit Rebuilding Together Greater Dallas. Visit http://www.rebuildingdallas.org for more information about that effort.
Participants will include photographer April Cotton, vocalist Ande and self-taught musician-songwriter William Hibler.
Light refreshments will be served by Texas Caribbean Foods. For more information, contact Allison Neal in the DCCCD office of outreach, recruitment and community engagement at (214) 378-1722.
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Press contact: Ann Hatch
214-378-1819;
ahatch@dcccd.edu
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