Read Out Loud! Family Literacy Festival-Nov. 3rd





I'm featuring along with other authors  for Morningside Alliance and Jumpstart's Read Out Loud literacy program for kids. I'm going to read from my first book of poetry, Shedding Light From My Journeys, as well as the poetry picture books I Live in Music by Ntozake Shange (with paintings by Romare Bearden) and A Giraffe and a Half by Shel Silverstein, for the kids.

The festival will take place in Harlem this Saturday November 3rd, from 11am - 3pm. So if you know anyone with young children this is an ideal literary program for them to participate in. There will be storytelling, poetry activities, art making and book giveaways for the kids!

See full info and participating orgs. below.

All the best,
DuEwa
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READ OUT LOUD! A Family Literacy Festival
PS 165 The Robert E. Simon School
234 W. 109th Street (bet. Broadway & Amsterdam Ave.)
Harlem, NY

ATTENDING LITERARY and/or EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Artists Reaching Out (ARO) – Community Impact/Columbia University
Cathedral of St. John the Divine – Education Department
Children’s Art Carnival
Center for Technology, Innovation and Community Engagement (CTICE)
Fu Foundation School of Engineering/Columbia University
DuEwa M. Frazier - Lit Noire Publishing
Jumpstart
New York Public Library
The School at Columbia
Teachers College – Teacher Opportunity Corps (TOC)
Bank Street College
Read to Me, Non-profit organization

ATTENDING AUTHORS/POETS/ILLUSTRATORS:
The Cheetah Girls, Deborah Gregory
Shedding Light From My Journeys, DuEwa M. Frazier
Mama’s Boyz (comics), Jerry Craft
Dana Rondel
Eric Velasquez, Grandma’s Records and others
La Shell Wooten, The Sharing Secret
Yangsook Choi, The Name Jar
Alex Simmons, The Raven League Series (Books #1 and #2), Black Jack
Bryan Collier, Rosa, Uptown, Martin's Big Words, Visiting Langston, Lift Every Voice and Sing

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